8-letter words that end in ous
- -androus — (in botany) indicating number or type of stamens
- -anthous — having flowers (of a specified kind or number)
- -carpous — (in botany) indicating a certain kind or number of fruit
- -chroous — coloured in a specified way
- -dromous — moving or running
- -florous — indicating number or type of flowers
- -folious — having (a specified number or kind of) leaves
- -iferous — containing or yielding
- -phagous — that eats (something specified)
- -philous — indicating love of or fondness for
- -phorous — bearing, producing
- -pterous — indicating a specified number or type of wings
- -sporous — (in botany) having a specified type or number of spores
- -stomous — having a specified type of mouth
- -tropous — indicating a turning away
- acarpous — (of plants) producing no fruit
- achelous — a river god who changed into a snake and a bull while fighting Hercules but was defeated when Hercules broke off one of his horns
- achroous — Colorless; achromatic.
- acoelous — not having a true digestive tract
- alcinous — (in Homer's Odyssey) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings
- amberous — of, relating to or resembling amber
- amourous — Alternative form of amorous.
- amyelous — congenital absence of the spinal cord.
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- anemious — (of a plant) Growing in exposed windy places.
- anginous — of, noting, or pertaining to angina, especially angina pectoris.
- angulous — angular or having angles
- anourous — anurous.
- anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
- antinous — the chief suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus upon his return from Troy.
- aphonous — without voice; voiceless
- aphthous — Of, or relating to aphtha.
- apterous — (of insects) without wings, as silverfish and springtails
- araceous — belonging to the plant family Araceae.
- araneous — resembling a spider's web
- arborous — relating to, or formed by, trees
- arsenous — of or containing trivalent arsenic
- arsonous — relating to arson
- asperous — Rough, rugged, uneven.
- atropous — growing straight, without inversion
- automous — Misspelling of autonomous.
- azureous — (zoology) of a fine blue color; azure.
- bibulous — addicted to alcohol
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
- caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
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