Words containing rious

Lapidarious means: Consisting of stones.

Ludibrious means: Sportive; ridiculous; wanton.

Lugubrious means: Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.

Lusorious means: Alt. of Lusory

Lutarious means: Of, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud.

Luxurious means: Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease.

Malarious means: Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria.

Materious means: See Material.

Meritorious means: Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.

Molendinarious means: Resembling the sails of a windmill.

Zootrophic means: Of or pertaining to the nourishment of animals.

Zootomy means: The dissection or the anatomy of animals; -- distinguished from androtomy.

Zootomist means: One who dissects animals, or is skilled in zootomy.

Zootomical means: Of or pertaining to zootomy.

Zootic means: Containing the remains of organized bodies; -- said of rock or soil.

Zoosporic means: Of or pertaining to zoospores; of the nature of zoospores.

Zoospore means: See Swarmspore.

Zoospore means: A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore.

Zoosporangium means: A spore, or conceptacle containing zoospores.

-sporangia means: of Zoosporangium