12-Letter Words Containing OUS
We found 348 12-letter words containing OUS. Common examples are ADVANTAGEOUS, CONTINUOUSLY, DISCOURTEOUS, DISINGENUOUS. Bold words are common everyday words; the number shows Scrabble points.
348words
HOMOZYGOUSLYtop score (33 pts)
ADVANTAGEOUScommon word
12-letter words (348)
- advantageous17
- continuously17
- discourteous15
- disingenuous14
- housekeeping22
- housewarming21
- meticulously19
- miraculously19
- mysteriously20
- outrageously16
- preposterous16
- presumptuous18
- rambunctious18
- ridiculously18
- subconscious18
- tremendously18
- unscrupulous16
- abstemiously19
- acoustically19
- acousticians16
- adscititious15
- adulterously16
- adventitious16
- altitudinous13
- ambidextrous24
- amentiferous17
- amphibiously24
- anemophilous19
- anthophilous20
- argillaceous15
- ascomycetous21
- asynchronous20
- atheromatous17
- auspiciously19
- autoeciously17
- autogenously16
- autonomously17
- avariciously20
- barrelhouses17
- bibulousness16
- bioacoustics18
- boisterously17
- cadaverously21
- calamitously19
- calcareously19
- calumniously19
- canorousness14
- cantankerous18
- capriciously21
- captiousness16
- carbonaceous18
- cautiousness14
- cementitious16
- censoriously17
- chivalrously23
- circuitously19
- circumfluous21
- clangorously18
- coffeehouses23
- coleopterous16
- collembolous18
- commodiously22
- complicitous20
- compunctious20
- contagiously18
- contemptuous18
- conterminous16
- contiguously18
- contumacious18
- contumelious16
- coprophagous22
- coprophilous21
- courageously18
- covetousness17
- cryptogamous22
- cumbrousness18
- customhouses19
- customshouse19
- decorousness15
- desirousness13
- despiteously18
- diaphanously21
- diatomaceous17
- disastrously16
- disputatious15
- dolorousness13
- endogenously17
- enormousness14
- erythematous20
- euphoniously20
- eurythermous20
- exiguousness20
- extraneously22
- fabulousness17
- factiousness17
- factitiously20
- fallaciously20
- famousnesses17
- fastidiously19
- felicitously20
- fictitiously20
- flagitiously19
- fortuitously18
- fuliginously19
- gallinaceous15
- gametogenous16
- gamopetalous17
- gelatinously16
- generousness13
- glaucousness15
- gloriousness13
- gluttonously16
- gorgeousness14
- graciousness15
- gratuitously16
- gregariously17
- grievousness16
- 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
- inauspicious16
- incautiously17
- incestuously17
- incommodious19
- indecorously18
- indigenously17
- infectiously20
- infelicitous17
- ingloriously16
- inharmonious17
- iniquitously24
- insalubrious14
- joyousnesses22
- langoustines13
- languorously16
- lasciviously20
- libidinously18
- licentiously17
- loquaciously26
- lubriciously19
- lugubriously18
- luminiferous17
- luminousness14
- lusciousness14
- lustrousness12
- lymphomatous24
- macropterous18
- malodorously18
- meetinghouse18
- membranously21
- mendaciously20
- meretricious16
- mesophyllous22
- microsporous18
- microvillous19
- monadelphous20
- monogamously20
- monotonously17
- motherhouses20
- mousetrapped19
- mucilaginous17
- multifarious17
- mutinousness14
- mycetomatous21
- myxedematous27
- nauseousness12
- nebulousness14
- necrophagous20
- neuropterous14
- nonambiguous17
- noncancerous16
- nonconscious16
- nonfrivolous18
- nonglamorous15
- nonhazardous25
- nonpoisonous14
- nonreligious13
- nonunanimous14
- numerousness14
- numinousness14
- nutritiously15
- obsequiously26
- obstreperous16
- odiousnesses13
- oleaginously16
- oleoresinous12
- oligophagous19
- omnivorously20
- orchidaceous20
- orthotropous17
- ostentatious12
- overarousals15
- overcautious17
- overgenerous16
- packinghouse24
- parsimonious16
- pectinaceous18
- percutaneous16
- perfidiously21
- perilousness14
- peritrichous19
- perjuriously24
- perniciously19
- pertinacious16
- perviousness17
- phytophagous26
- polymorphous24
- polypetalous19
- polystichous22
- populousness16
- porcelaneous16
- porousnesses14
- portentously17
- porterhouses17
- posthumously22
- precancerous18
- precariously19
- preciousness16
- precociously21
- preconscious18
- previousness17
- prodigiously19
- propitiously19
- prosperously19
- pseudonymous20
- pugnaciously20
- quadrumanous24
- rampageously20
- ravenousness15
- rebelliously17
- rendezvoused26
- rendezvouses25
- rigorousness13
- robustiously17
- roisterously15
- roughhousing20
- sacrilegious15
- salubriously17
- salutiferous15
- saprophagous20
- scabrousness16
- scandalously18
- schizogonous27
- schoolhouses20
- scrupulously19
- scurrilously17
- sedulousness13
- seleniferous15
- semilustrous14
- seminiferous17
- semiprecious18
- sensuousness12
- sequaciously26
- simultaneous14
- slanderously16
- slaughterous16
- solicitously17
- sonorousness12
- soporiferous17
- spaciousness16
- speciousness16
- springhouses18
- spuriousness14
- steatopygous18
- stertorously15
- stridulously16
- studiousness13
- stupendously18
- subcutaneous16
- succedaneous17
- sudoriferous16
- summerhouses19
- supercilious16
- suppositious16
- suspiciously19
- synonymously23
- thousandfold20
- thunderously19
- timorousness14
- titaniferous15
- tortuousness12
- traitorously15
- transpicuous16
- trichotomous19
- tumultuously17
- ubiquitously26
- ultraserious12
- umbrageously20
- uncensorious14
- unchivalrous20
- uncourageous15
- unctuousness14
- unfastidious16
- ungenerously16
- ungraciously18
- unpropitious16
- unprosperous16
- unsuspicious16
- uproariously17
- usuriousness12
- uxoriousness19
- vainglorious16
- vaporousness17
- venomousness17
- victoriously20
- vigorousness16
- villainously18
- virtuousness15
- viruliferous18
- viviparously23
- vociferously23
- voluminously20
- voluptuously20
- warehouseman20
- warehousemen20
- wondrousness16
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Frequently asked questions
How many 12-letter words containing OUS are there?
There are 348 12-letter words containing OUS in our word list, for example ADVANTAGEOUS.
What is the highest scoring 12-letter word containing ous in Scrabble?
HOMOZYGOUSLY scores 33 points in Scrabble (before bonus squares) and 34 points in Words With Friends.