Words With OUS

4912 words containing OUS, from 3 to 15 letters. Pick a length to see its full list.

  • ous3

4 Letter Words With OUS

7 words, 1 common
  • sous4
  • fous7
  • lous4
  • mous6
  • nous4
  • oust4
  • yous7

5 Letter Words With OUS

26 words, 7 common
  • house8
  • joust12
  • louse5
  • lousy8
  • mouse7
  • pious7
  • rouse5
  • bouse7
  • bousy10
  • clous7
  • douse6
  • meous7
  • moust7
  • mousy10
  • noust5
  • ousel5
  • ousia5
  • ousts5
  • pousy10
  • roust5

6 Letter Words With OUS

108 words, 10 common
  • blouse8
  • cousin8
  • famous11
  • grouse7
  • housed10
  • houses9
  • joyous16
  • ousted7
  • porous8
  • spouse8
  • almous8
  • arouse6
  • aurous6
  • awmous11
  • bayous11
  • bijous15
  • blousy11
  • boused9
  • bouses8
  • cerous8

7 Letter Words With OUS

247 words, 27 common
  • anxious14
  • aqueous16
  • arduous8
  • arousal7
  • aroused8
  • callous9
  • copious11
  • cousins9
  • curious9
  • devious11
  • dubious10
  • envious10
  • furious10
  • heinous10
  • hideous11
  • housing11
  • jealous14
  • nervous10
  • obvious12
  • ominous9

8 Letter Words With OUS

392 words, 29 common
  • acoustic12
  • carousel10
  • cautious10
  • enormous10
  • fabulous13
  • famously16
  • generous9
  • glorious9
  • gorgeous10
  • gracious11
  • grievous12
  • humorous13
  • infamous13
  • jealousy18
  • luminous10
  • nauseous8
  • numerous10
  • perilous10
  • populous12
  • precious12

9 Letter Words With OUS

650 words, 57 common
  • acoustics13
  • ambiguous14
  • ambitious13
  • analogous10
  • anonymous14
  • anxiously19
  • atrocious11
  • cancerous13
  • clubhouse16
  • conscious13
  • courteous11
  • curiously14
  • dangerous11
  • deciduous13
  • delicious12
  • egregious11
  • erroneous9
  • farmhouse17
  • ferocious14
  • frivolous15

10 Letter Words With OUS

779 words, 45 common
  • amphibious19
  • auspicious14
  • autonomous12
  • cautiously15
  • contagious13
  • contiguous13
  • continuous12
  • courageous13
  • courthouse15
  • disastrous11
  • enormously15
  • fictitious15
  • generously14
  • graciously16
  • greenhouse14
  • harmonious15
  • horrendous14
  • households17
  • housemates15
  • housewives19

11 Letter Words With OUS

744 words, 24 common
  • adventurous15
  • anonymously19
  • consciously18
  • conspicuous17
  • contentious13
  • dangerously16
  • erroneously14
  • hilariously17
  • homogeneous17
  • housekeeper20
  • illustrious11
  • intravenous14
  • mischievous21
  • mountainous13
  • nervousness14
  • notoriously14
  • prestigious14
  • pretentious13
  • religiously15
  • seriousness11

12 Letter Words With OUS

705 words, 13 common
  • advantageous17
  • continuously17
  • housekeeping22
  • meticulously19
  • miraculously19
  • mysteriously20
  • preposterous16
  • ridiculously18
  • simultaneous14
  • subconscious18
  • suspiciously19
  • tremendously18
  • unscrupulous16
  • abstemiously19
  • acanthaceous19
  • achlamydeous23
  • acidophilous20
  • acoustically19
  • acousticians16
  • acrogenously18

13 Letter Words With OUS

549 words, 9 common
  • conscientious17
  • consciousness17
  • heterogeneous17
  • instantaneous13
  • miscellaneous17
  • righteousness17
  • spontaneously18
  • superstitious15
  • unconsciously20
  • accoustrement19
  • acotyledonous19
  • acrimoniously20
  • adventurously20
  • aeroacoustics17
  • allochthonous21
  • aluminiferous18
  • amarantaceous17
  • ambidexterous25
  • ambiguousness18
  • ambitiousness17

14 Letter Words With OUS

424 words, 1 common
  • simultaneously19
  • abstemiousness18
  • accoustrements20
  • actinomorphous23
  • actinomycetous23
  • adiathermanous20
  • adscititiously20
  • advantageously22
  • adventitiously21
  • aerenchymatous24
  • amaranthaceous21
  • ambidextrously29
  • amphibiousness23
  • anacardiaceous19
  • anarthrousness17
  • androcephalous22
  • androdioecious18
  • angiostomatous17
  • anisodactylous20
  • aquifoliaceous28
  • acrimoniousness19
  • adventurousness19
  • amaryllidaceous23
  • ambiguousnesses20
  • ambitiousnesses19
  • amorphousnesses22
  • analogousnesses16
  • andromonoecious20
  • anomalousnesses17
  • anonymousnesses20
  • anthropophagous26
  • antituberculous19
  • asclepiadaceous22
  • assiduousnesses16
  • atrabiliousness17
  • atrociousnesses17
  • audaciousnesses18
  • autochthonously26
  • bacteriophagous25
  • barbarousnesses19

Words With OUS: Questions

How many words containing OUS are there?

There are 4,912 words containing OUS in our dictionary, ranging from 3 to 15 letters long.

What is the longest word containing OUS?

ACRIMONIOUSNESS is one of the longest at 15 letters, which is as long as these lists run.

What are some common words containing OUS?

ACOUSTICS, AMBIGUOUS, AMBITIOUS are among the most familiar words containing OUS. Pick a word length to see the full list for that length.

Are these words containing OUS valid in Scrabble and Words With Friends?

Every word is drawn from a tournament word list, so most are playable everywhere. Open the list for a given length to filter it down to Scrabble US (NWL2023), Scrabble UK (CSW24) or Words With Friends.