12-Letter Words Containing OU
We found 633 12-letter words containing OU. Common examples are ADVANTAGEOUS, AFORETHOUGHT, AFTERTHOUGHT, ANNOUNCEMENT. Bold words are common everyday words; the number shows Scrabble points.
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HOMOZYGOUSLYtop score (33 pts)
ADVANTAGEOUScommon word
12-letter words (633)
- advantageous17
- aforethought22
- afterthought22
- announcement16
- battleground16
- blabbermouth23
- breakthrough25
- continuously17
- counteroffer20
- discourteous15
- disingenuous14
- fountainhead19
- housekeeping22
- housewarming21
- journalistic21
- malnourished18
- meticulously19
- miraculously19
- mountainside15
- mysteriously20
- outrageously16
- preposterous16
- presumptuous18
- rambunctious18
- ridiculously18
- subconscious18
- surroundings14
- thoughtfully25
- tremendously18
- troublemaker20
- unscrupulous16
- abstemiously19
- accouchement23
- accouterment18
- accoutrement18
- acoustically19
- acousticians16
- adjournments22
- adscititious15
- adulterously16
- adventitious16
- altitudinous13
- ambidextrous24
- amentiferous17
- amphibiously24
- andouillette13
- anemophilous19
- anthophilous20
- argillaceous15
- ascomycetous21
- astoundingly17
- asynchronous20
- atheromatous17
- auspiciously19
- autoeciously17
- autogenously16
- autonomously17
- avariciously20
- backcourtman24
- backcourtmen24
- backgrounded23
- backgrounder22
- barrelhouses17
- beglamouring18
- bibulousness16
- bioacoustics18
- boisterously17
- boulevardier18
- bourgeoisies15
- bourgeoisify21
- boutonnieres14
- breechclouts21
- bromouracils18
- cadaverously21
- calamitously19
- calcareously19
- calumniously19
- camouflaging21
- canorousness14
- cantankerous18
- capriciously21
- captiousness16
- carbonaceous18
- cautiousness14
- cementitious16
- censoriously17
- chivalrously23
- circuitously19
- circumfluous21
- clangorously18
- closemouthed20
- cloudberries17
- cloudinesses15
- cocounseling17
- cocounselled17
- coffeehouses23
- coleopterous16
- collembolous18
- commodiously22
- complicitous20
- compoundable21
- compunctious20
- confoundedly22
- contagiously18
- contemptuous18
- conterminous16
- contiguously18
- contumacious18
- contumelious16
- coprophagous22
- coprophilous21
- cottonmouths19
- coulometries16
- councilmanic20
- councilwoman21
- councilwomen21
- counsellings15
- countability19
- countenanced17
- countenancer16
- countenances16
- counteracted17
- counteragent15
- counterargue15
- counterblast16
- counterblows19
- countercheck25
- counterclaim18
- countercoups18
- countercries16
- counterfeits17
- counterfired18
- counterfires17
- counterflows20
- counterfoils17
- counterforce19
- counterimage17
- countermands17
- countermarch21
- countermemos18
- countermined17
- countermines16
- countermoved20
- countermoves19
- countermyths22
- counterorder15
- counterpanes16
- counterparts16
- counterplans16
- counterplays19
- counterpleas16
- counterplots16
- counterploys19
- counterpoint16
- counterpoise16
- counterposed17
- counterposes16
- counterpower19
- counterpunch21
- counterraids15
- counterrally17
- countershots17
- countersigns15
- countersinks18
- counterspell16
- counterspies16
- counterstain14
- counterstate14
- countersteps16
- counterstyle17
- countersuing15
- countersuits14
- countertenor14
- countertrade15
- countertrend15
- countervails17
- counterviews20
- counterworld18
- countryseats17
- countrysides18
- countrywoman22
- countrywomen22
- courageously18
- covetousness17
- cryptogamous22
- cumbrousness18
- customhouses19
- customshouse19
- debouchments22
- decorousness15
- denouncement17
- desirousness13
- despiteously18
- devoutnesses16
- diaphanously21
- diatomaceous17
- disastrously16
- discountable17
- discouragers16
- discouraging17
- disputatious15
- dolorousness13
- doubleheader19
- doublenesses15
- doublespeaks21
- doublethinks22
- doubtfulness18
- doughnutlike21
- douroucoulis15
- dreadnoughts18
- droughtiness17
- dumbfounders21
- dumbfounding22
- encountering15
- endeavouring17
- endogenously17
- enormousness14
- erythematous20
- euphoniously20
- eurythermous20
- exiguousness20
- extraneously22
- fabulousness17
- factiousness17
- factitiously20
- fallaciously20
- famousnesses17
- fastidiously19
- felicitously20
- fictitiously20
- flagitiously19
- fluorouracil17
- foregrounded18
- forethoughts22
- fortuitously18
- foundational16
- fourdriniers16
- fuliginously19
- gallinaceous15
- gametogenous16
- gamopetalous17
- gelatinously16
- generousness13
- ghoulishness19
- glamourizing25
- glaucousness15
- gloriousness13
- gluttonously16
- gorgeousness14
- gourmandises16
- gourmandisms18
- gourmandized26
- gourmandizes25
- graciousness15
- gratuitously16
- gregariously17
- grievousness16
- groundbursts16
- groundfishes20
- groundlessly17
- groundmasses16
- groundsheets17
- groundswells17
- groundwaters17
- groupuscules17
- harmoniously20
- hebetudinous18
- heliolatrous15
- hellaciously20
- hematogenous18
- heteroecious17
- heterogamous18
- heterogenous16
- heterologous16
- heteronomous17
- heterozygous28
- homoiousians17
- homonymously25
- homozygously33
- horrendously19
- houseboaters17
- housebreaker21
- housecleaned18
- housedresses16
- housefathers21
- householders19
- househusband21
- housekeepers21
- housemasters17
- housemothers20
- housepainter17
- houseparents17
- housepersons17
- housesitting16
- humorousness17
- hygrophilous24
- hyperarousal20
- idolatrously16
- imperviously22
- impetiginous17
- impoundments19
- inauspicious16
- incautiously17
- incestuously17
- incommodious19
- indecorously18
- indigenously17
- infectiously20
- infelicitous17
- ingloriously16
- inharmonious17
- iniquitously24
- insalubrious14
- insouciances16
- insouciantly17
- interborough18
- intercountry17
- intercourses14
- interwrought19
- journalizers28
- journalizing29
- journeyworks29
- joyousnesses22
- langoustines13
- languorously16
- lasciviously20
- libidinously18
- licentiously17
- loquaciously26
- loudspeakers19
- lubriciously19
- lugubriously18
- luminiferous17
- luminousness14
- lusciousness14
- lustrousness12
- lymphomatous24
- macropterous18
- malodorously18
- mealymouthed23
- meetinghouse18
- membranously21
- mendaciously20
- meretricious16
- merrythought24
- mesophyllous22
- microsporous18
- microvillous19
- mispronounce18
- monadelphous20
- monogamously20
- monotonously17
- motherhouses20
- mountaineers14
- mountaintops16
- mountebanked21
- mournfullest17
- mournfulness17
- mousetrapped19
- mouthbreeder20
- mucilaginous17
- multicourses16
- multifarious17
- mutinousness14
- mycetomatous21
- myxedematous27
- nauseousness12
- nebulousness14
- necrophagous20
- neighbouring19
- neuropterous14
- nonambiguous17
- noncancerous16
- noncompounds19
- nonconscious16
- noncountries14
- nonfrivolous18
- nonglamorous15
- nonhazardous25
- nonpoisonous14
- nonreligious13
- nonunanimous14
- nourishments17
- numerousness14
- numinousness14
- nutritiously15
- obsequiously26
- obstreperous16
- odiousnesses13
- offscourings21
- oleaginously16
- oleoresinous12
- oligophagous19
- omnivorously20
- orchidaceous20
- orthotropous17
- ostentatious12
- outachieving21
- outbalancing17
- outbargained16
- outbreedings16
- outbuildings16
- outcavilling18
- outcompeting19
- outcroppings19
- outdatedness14
- outdelivered17
- outdesigning15
- outdistanced16
- outdistances15
- outgeneraled14
- outglittered14
- outgoingness14
- outintrigued14
- outintrigues13
- outlandishly19
- outmaneuvers17
- outnumbering17
- outorganized23
- outorganizes22
- outperformed20
- outplacement18
- outpoliticks20
- outpopulated17
- outpopulates16
- outpreaching20
- outproducing18
- outpromising17
- outrebounded16
- outreproduce17
- outrivalling16
- outsiderness13
- outsourcings15
- outsparkling19
- outspreading16
- outsprinting15
- outstretched18
- outstretches17
- outstripping17
- outthrobbing20
- outthrusting16
- outwrestling16
- overarousals15
- overcautious17
- overclouding19
- overcounting18
- overdiscount18
- overgenerous16
- packinghouse24
- parsimonious16
- pectinaceous18
- percutaneous16
- perfidiously21
- perilousness14
- peritrichous19
- perjuriously24
- perniciously19
- pertinacious16
- perviousness17
- phytophagous26
- polymorphous24
- polypetalous19
- polystichous22
- populousness16
- porcelaneous16
- porousnesses14
- portentously17
- porterhouses17
- posthumously22
- preannounced17
- preannounces16
- precancerous18
- precariously19
- preciousness16
- precociously21
- preconscious18
- previousness17
- prodigiously19
- profoundness18
- pronouncedly20
- propitiously19
- prosperously19
- proudhearted19
- pseudonymous20
- pugnaciously20
- quadrumanous24
- rambouillets16
- rampageously20
- ratatouilles12
- ravenousness15
- rebelliously17
- recontouring15
- rediscounted16
- reencounters14
- refoundation16
- rencountered15
- rendezvoused26
- rendezvouses25
- renouncement16
- reoutfitting16
- resoundingly17
- rigorousness13
- robustiously17
- rockhounding23
- roisterously15
- roughcasting19
- roughhousing20
- sacrilegious15
- salubriously17
- salutiferous15
- saprophagous20
- scabrousness16
- scandalously18
- scaramouches21
- schizogonous27
- schoolhouses20
- scoutmasters16
- scrupulously19
- scurrilously17
- sedulousness13
- seleniferous15
- semilustrous14
- seminiferous17
- semiprecious18
- sensuousness12
- sequaciously26
- silhouetting16
- silhouettist15
- simultaneous14
- slanderously16
- slaughterous16
- sleuthhounds19
- solicitously17
- sonorousness12
- soporiferous17
- soullessness12
- soundproofed19
- southeastern15
- southeasters15
- southernmost17
- southernness15
- southernwood19
- southwestern18
- southwesters18
- spaciousness16
- speciousness16
- springhouses18
- spuriousness14
- steatopygous18
- stertorously15
- stouthearted16
- stridulously16
- stringcourse15
- studiousness13
- stupendously18
- subcutaneous16
- succedaneous17
- sudoriferous16
- summerhouses19
- superabounds17
- supercilious16
- suppositious16
- surmountable16
- suspiciously19
- synonymously23
- thermocouple21
- thoroughbass21
- thoroughbred22
- thoroughfare22
- thoroughness19
- thoroughpins21
- thoroughwort22
- thousandfold20
- throughither22
- throughother22
- thundercloud19
- thunderously19
- timorousness14
- titaniferous15
- tortuousness12
- touchinesses17
- tourbillions14
- traitorously15
- transpicuous16
- trichotomous19
- troubleshoot17
- tumultuously17
- typefounders21
- typefounding22
- ubiquitously26
- ultraserious12
- umbrageously20
- uncensorious14
- unchivalrous20
- uncompounded20
- unconfounded19
- uncourageous15
- unctuousness14
- undercounted16
- undergrounds15
- unfastidious16
- ungenerously16
- ungraciously18
- unnourishing16
- unpronounced17
- unpropitious16
- unprosperous16
- unsuspicious16
- untouchables19
- uproariously17
- usuriousness12
- uxoriousness19
- vainglorious16
- vaporousness17
- venomousness17
- victoriously20
- vigorousness16
- villainously18
- virtuousness15
- viruliferous18
- viscountcies19
- viviparously23
- vociferously23
- voluminously20
- voluptuously20
- warehouseman20
- warehousemen20
- watercourses17
- wherethrough25
- withoutdoors19
- wondrousness16
- youngberries18
- youthfulness21
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Frequently asked questions
How many 12-letter words containing OU are there?
There are 633 12-letter words containing OU in our word list, for example ADVANTAGEOUS.
What is the highest scoring 12-letter word containing ou in Scrabble?
HOMOZYGOUSLY scores 33 points in Scrabble (before bonus squares) and 34 points in Words With Friends.