Words containing ous

Abdominous means: Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied.

Abiogenous means: Produced by spontaneous generation.

Ablatitious means: Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force.

Abnormous means: Abnormal; irregular.

Absentaneous means: Pertaining to absence.

Absonous means: Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.

Abstemious means: Abstaining from wine.

Abstemious means: Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.

Abstemious means: Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.

Abstemious means: Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.