Words that come from English “-ous”
400 words across 1 languages descend from English -ous — including autonomous, advantageous, aqueous, synonymous, monotonous, endogenous, momentous, murderous.
See the etymology of -ous itself →
English (400)
- autonomous
- advantageous
- aqueous
- synonymous
- monotonous
- endogenous
- momentous
- murderous
- fibrous
- sensuous
- sagacity
- exogenous
- atrocious
- auspicious
- tenuous
- homogenous
- sagacious
- idolatrous
- lustrous
- fallacious
- ostentatious
- riotous
- luscious
- rapturous
- multitudinous
- thunderous
- nitrogenous
- horrendous
- cancerous
- clamorous
- disadvantageous
- homozygous
- felicitous
- ostentatiously
- incestuous
- expeditious
- heterozygous
- iniquitous
- parsimonious
- autonomously
- bulbous
- tuberculous
- acrimonious
- expeditiously
- cumbrous
- spinous
- sedulously
- fractious
- punctilious
- filamentous
- inauspicious
- flirtatious
- bounteous
- salubrious
- slanderous
- phosphorous
- ligamentous
- uproarious
- rapturously
- monotonously
- scrofulous
- sanctimonious
- omnivorous
- tuberous
- saphenous
- torturous
- albuminous
- rancorous
- cadaverous
- autochthonous
- unostentatious
- autogenous
- serendipitous
- synonymously
- malarious
- gluttonous
- heterozygosity
- duplicitous
- odoriferous
- uproariously
- treasonous
- exogenously
- felonious
- tendentious
- heterogenous
- endogenously
- usurious
- mucinous
- rambunctious
- sedulous
- gangrenous
- libelous
- edematous
- sensuousness
- auriferous
- carboniferous
- pseudonymous
- myelogenous
- fossiliferous
- euphonious
- cuprous
- bullous
- erogenous
- salubrity
- sensuously
- auspiciously
- fibrinous
- atrociously
- hematogenous
- collagenous
- felicitously
- venturous
- dioecious
- humourous
- exogamous
- punctiliously
- sagaciously
- parenchymatous
- tenuously
- orthologous
- riotously
- seminiferous
- murmurous
- slumberous
- precancerous
- unostentatiously
- tenuity
- mercurous
- stannous
- murderously
- atheromatous
- infelicitous
- feloniously
- clamorously
- semiautonomous
- sulfurous
- subaqueous
- caseous
- aphthous
- serendipitously
- fistulous
- nonsynonymous
- chitinous
- metalliferous
- duteous
- strumous
- nonaqueous
- rivalrous
- platitudinous
- dicotyledonous
- pseudomembranous
- insalubrious
- interspinous
- aluminous
- flirtatiously
- supersensuous
- thunderously
- emphysematous
- horrendously
- hypochlorous
- auspiciousness
- ligneous
- punctiliousness
- argentiferous
- verrucous
- parsimoniously
- verminous
- manganous
- ulcerous
- nacreous
- frugivorous
- apterous
- wonderous
- inauspiciously
- tenuousness
- carcinomatous
- sarcomatous
- acrimoniously
- migrainous
- noncancerous
- supraspinous
- prognathous
- nonautonomous
- fallaciously
- monocotyledonous
- croupous
- larcenous
- lactiferous
- burglarious
- homogenously
- disadvantageously
- pseudonymously
- tautologous
- lusciously
- iniquitously
- scirrhous
- hemizygous
- phosphite
- stuporous
- profilin
- sanctimoniously
- spiritous
- umbelliferous
- flirtatiousness
- tendentiously
- clangorous
- robustious
- momentousness
- fallaciousness
- sacrotuberous
- nanofibrous
- viperous
- antituberculous
- lusciousness
- sanctimoniousness
- goitrous
- phlegmonous
- hamartomatous
- haematogenous
- fractiousness
- sacrospinous
- uriniferous
- pyroligneous
- noncollagenous
- slanderously
- humourously
- lepidopterous
- floriferous
- torturously
- mammiferous
- odiferous
- somniferous
- myxomatous
- momentously
- gluttonously
- azygous
- murderousness
- molluscous
- sanious
- rumbustious
- ichorous
- hydrogenous
- nontuberculous
- blusterous
- lustrously
- cretinous
- cataractous
- cankerous
- feverous
- hypophosphite
- multitudinously
- heteronymous
- nonrivalrous
- dipterous
- coleopterous
- urinous
- tendentiousness
- incestuously
- parthenocarpic
- euphoniously
- stoloniferous
- idolatrously
- trichotomous
- hymenopterous
- cumbrously
- arsenous
- rancorously
- slaughterous
- fluorous
- capsuloligamentous
- symphonious
- cupriferous
- syncarpous
- diadromous
- splendorous
- gummatous
- uraniferous
- anemophilous
- vesiculobullous
- cobaltous
- titaniferous
- rampageous
- monophagous
- keratinous
- nonnitrogenous
- entomophilous
- heterocystous
- omnivorously
- globiferous
- grumous
- unfossiliferous
- fuscous
- calciferous
- diamondiferous
- rosaceous
- cumbrousness
- antimonious
- gypsiferous
- opacous
- stanniferous
- inhomogenous
- chlorous
- infelicitously
- veinous
- atrociousness
- peraluminous
- laticiferous
- manganiferous
- nectariferous
- triphyllous
- lichenous
- burglariously
- inauspiciousness
- garous
- chromous
- schistous
- biogenous
- cadaverously
- hypophosphorous
- advantageousness
- pyritous
- homophilous
- nonhomogenous
- proteinous
- selenious
- duplicitously
- omnivorousness
- vagarious
- basylous
- armigerous
- apetalous
- bounteousness
- nectarous
- hepatogenous
- duteously
- riotousness
- venturously
- gynodioecious
- oxygenous
- neotenous
- sarcous
- petroliferous
- pustulous
- seleniferous
- multitudinousness
- parautochthonous
- salubriousness
- entomogenous
- enantiomorphous
- hyponymous
- slumberously
- scarlatinous
- oraculous
- bismuthous
- gamopetalous
- ostentatiousness
- pyrogenous
- parsimoniousness
- achlorophyllous
- brachypterous
- monopetalous
- sedulity
- thundrous
- murmurously
- polypetalous
- ovuliferous
- peritrichous
- vulturous
- myrmecophilous
- nonsensuous
- condylomatous
- uranous
- xanthomatous
- rambunctiousness
- expeditiousness
- nonmucinous
- myogenous
- nonfibrous
- tremorous
- incestuousness
- fractiously
- pyritiferous
- murtherous
- fungivorous
- garnetiferous
- polleniferous
- orthognathous
- ascomycetous
- lymphogenous
- demeritorious
- monotonousness
- ossiferous
- sanguiferous
- aurous
- angiospermous
- heterosporous
- luciferous
- epipetalous
- nickeliferous
- gamosepalous