Words that come from English “-ous”
400 words across 1 languages descend from English -ous — including curious, autonomous, humorous, aqueous, monotonous, momentous, fibrous, glamorous.
See the etymology of -ous itself →
English (400)
- curious
- autonomous
- humorous
- aqueous
- monotonous
- momentous
- fibrous
- glamorous
- vicarious
- specious
- idolatrous
- lustrous
- riotous
- luscious
- rapturous
- thunderous
- nitrogenous
- dexterous
- disadvantageous
- autologous
- humorously
- incestuous
- expeditious
- parsimonious
- autonomously
- vicariously
- expeditiously
- dexterously
- anhydrous
- fractious
- punctilious
- filamentous
- vacuous
- flirtatious
- slanderous
- phosphorous
- rapturously
- monotonously
- scrofulous
- sanctimonious
- tuberous
- saphenous
- albuminous
- rancorous
- cantankerous
- autochthonous
- tyrannous
- serendipitous
- gluttonous
- duplicitous
- treasonous
- felonious
- usurious
- gangrenous
- libelous
- edematous
- polygynous
- collagenous
- venturous
- humourous
- exogamous
- punctiliously
- orthologous
- riotously
- murmurous
- slumberous
- terrigenous
- mercurous
- feloniously
- heteronomous
- semiautonomous
- subaqueous
- caseous
- aphthous
- serendipitously
- unglamorous
- chitinous
- nonaqueous
- rivalrous
- platitudinous
- dicotyledonous
- pseudomembranous
- aluminous
- flirtatiously
- thunderously
- punctiliousness
- vacuously
- parsimoniously
- verminous
- manganous
- nacreous
- carcinomatous
- nonautonomous
- larcenous
- speciousness
- disadvantageously
- curiouser
- lusciously
- phosphite
- stuporous
- profilin
- sanctimoniously
- spiritous
- flirtatiousness
- sorcerous
- clangorous
- momentousness
- sacrotuberous
- viperous
- lusciousness
- sanctimoniousness
- goitrous
- phlegmonous
- fractiousness
- noncollagenous
- slanderously
- humourously
- lepidopterous
- intertriginous
- myxomatous
- glamorously
- momentously
- gluttonously
- lymphomatous
- sanious
- hydrogenous
- curiousness
- blusterous
- lustrously
- cretinous
- cankerous
- feverous
- hypophosphite
- heteronymous
- nonrivalrous
- dipterous
- coleopterous
- urinous
- vicariousness
- incestuously
- tyrannously
- idolatrously
- hypogynous
- arsenous
- rancorously
- slaughterous
- coleopteran
- splendorous
- vacuousness
- cobaltous
- monophagous
- nonnitrogenous
- hypogeous
- nonhumorous
- grumous
- cantankerousness
- rosaceous
- antimonious
- humorousness
- anarthrous
- peraluminous
- Droseraceae
- lichenous
- hypophosphorous
- pyritous
- uncurious
- duplicitously
- vagarious
- antonymous
- armigerous
- perigynous
- riotousness
- venturously
- overcurious
- oxygenous
- neotenous
- sarcous
- pustulous
- parautochthonous
- enantiomorphous
- slumberously
- oraculous
- bismuthous
- parsimoniousness
- achlorophyllous
- thundrous
- polychotomous
- murmurously
- polypetalous
- unhumorous
- peritrichous
- vulturous
- curiousest
- nonautologous
- xanthomatous
- expeditiousness
- nonfibrous
- tremorous
- incestuousness
- fractiously
- cantankerously
- monotonousness
- luciferous
- isonitrogenous
- illustrous
- roisterous
- exalbuminous
- nonmonotonous
- polypous
- hydrocephalous
- proterogynous
- vomitous
- feverously
- polygynously
- chlorophyllous
- monadelphous
- unicolorous
- usuriously
- heterostylous
- platitudinously
- polydactylous
- struthious
- cotyledonous
- rubious
- androgenous
- lustrousness
- treasonously
- ichthyophagous
- proteaceous
- nickelous
- splendrous
- multichotomous
- autochthonously
- diclinous
- nonorthologous
- nonglamorous
- carbonous
- myrtaceous
- nonfilamentous
- semiautonomously
- dexterousness
- didynamous
- brachydactylous
- clangorously
- malvaceous
- unmomentous
- bonhomous
- nidifugous
- unglamorously
- savorous
- glamazon
- metonymous
- adenocarcinomatous
- nonincestuous
- fibrocaseous
- isologous
- duplicitousness
- plumbous
- anisodactylous
- lycopodiaceous
- heterochromous
- monotrichous
- nonautonomously
- fibrously
- burdenous
- cirrous
- felonous
- microfibrous
- plumbaginous
- fibrousness
- bibliolatrous
- kerogenous
- nonedematous
- malodourous
- prelymphomatous
- sorcerously
- polyfidelitous
- hexapodous
- lophotrichous
- solitudinous
- sympetalous
- venturousness
- rivalrousness
- susurrous
- adelphous
- libelously
- ranunculaceous
- subaqueously
- aqueously
- polymerous
- polythalamous
- petalous
- prolegomenous
- gingerous
- imposturous
- metonymously
- polygonous
- vermiparous
- penumbrous
- autologously
- unrancorous
- platitudinousness
- proditorious
- pteridospermous
- quarrelous
- blusterously
- arthrous
- caryophyllaceous
- cycadaceous
- unlustrous
- humourousness
- xylariaceous
- antiscrofulous
- cyperaceous
- homomorphous
- larcenously
- nonmonotonously
- microfilamentous
- braggadocious
- flosculous
- rapturousness
- nonchitinous
- usuriousness
- antiedematous
- leguminaceous
- pseudocarcinomatous
- halogenous
- moliminous
- phyllopodous
- pilulous
- unmonotonous
- unhumourous
- cheiropterous
- homoneurous
- cretinously
- peritrichously
- tonitruous
- temeritous
- unhumorously
- annelidous
- blunderous
- fagaceous
- phycomycetous
- sublustrous
- endogonaceous
- abstentious
- blubberous
- chlorinous
- hexapetalous
- meliaceous
- polygonaceous
- scrofulously
- slumberousness
- verminously
- stuporously
- allonymous
- irregulous
- rivalrously
- glamorousness
- polycotyledonous
- dichlamydeous
- disadvantageousness
- lushious
- mesomorphous
- monoclinous
- pentapetalous
- pomiferous
- fidelitous
- nonalbuminous
- noncarcinomatous
- tremorously
- amphigenous
- caprifoliaceous
- chylaqueous
- diathermous
- homochromous
- pteropodous
- unidolatrous
- savorously
- interfibrous
- ultraglamorous
- idolatrousness
- viperously
- luciferously
- overcuriously
- touchous
- vomitously
- nongangrenous
- myxofibrous
- cheirolepidiaceous
- uncuriously
- agnathous
- boraginaceous
- cymous
- leavenous
- monodactylous
- primulaceous
- pyrophorous
- roisterously
- saxifragaceous