10-letter words containing IOU
Embark on an exploration of 10-letter words that contain the letter IOU. This segment uncovers the diverse range of words that incorporate IOU within this specific length, revealing the versatility and richness of language. Ideal for vocabulary enthusiasts and word-game aficionados.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| mysterious | 15 | of an obscure nature | the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms |
| suspicious | 14 | not as expected | suspicious behavior |
| previously | 18 | at an earlier time or formerly | she had previously lived in Chicago |
| contagious | 13 | (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | - |
| auspicious | 14 | auguring favorable circumstances and good luck | an auspicious beginning for the campaign |
| victorious | 15 | experiencing triumph | - |
| infectious | 15 | caused by infection or capable of causing infection | - |
| rebellious | 12 | discontented as toward authority | - |
| nutritious | 10 | of or providing nourishment | - |
| fictitious | 15 | adopted in order to deceive | a fictitious address |
| capricious | 16 | determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | a capricious refusal |
| precarious | 14 | not secure; beset with difficulties | - |
| graciously | 16 | in a gracious or graceful manner | he did not have a chance to grow up graciously |
| harmonious | 15 | exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | - |
| cautiously | 15 | as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact | she ventured cautiously downstairs |
| lascivious | 15 | driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires | - |
| precocious | 16 | appearing or developing early | precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias |
| impervious | 17 | not admitting of passage or capable of being affected | a material impervious to water |
| amphibious | 19 | relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | - |
| pernicious | 14 | working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | - |
| prodigious | 14 | far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | the young Mozart's prodigious talents |
| gloriously | 14 | with glory or in a glorious manner | where others had failed he had gloriously succeeded |
| fastidious | 14 | having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures | fastidious microorganisms |
| perfidious | 16 | tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | the perfidious Judas |
| obsequious | 21 | attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | - |
| gregarious | 12 | instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others | he is a gregarious person who avoids solitude |
| avaricious | 15 | immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | they are avaricious and will do anything for money |
| licentious | 12 | lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained | coarse and licentious men |
| propitious | 14 | presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success | propitious omens |
| salubrious | 12 | promoting health; healthful | the salubrious mountain air and water |
| fallacious | 15 | intended to deceive | fallacious testimony |
| ungracious | 13 | lacking social graces | - |
| pugnacious | 15 | ready and able to resort to force or violence | pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance |
| loquacious | 21 | full of trivial conversation | - |
| euphonious | 15 | having a pleasant sound | a euphonious trill of silver laughter |
| uproarious | 12 | uncontrollably noisy | - |
| mendacious | 15 | given to lying | a mendacious child |
| factitious | 15 | not produced by natural forces | brokers created a factitious demand for stocks |
| incautious | 12 | carelessly failing to exercise proper caution | an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs |
| preciously | 17 | extremely | - |
| studiously | 14 | in a studious manner | she examined the data studiously |
| inglorious | 11 | (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | inglorious defeat |
| robustious | 12 | noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | a robustious group of teenagers |
| nonserious | 10 | - | - |
| calumnious | 14 | (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | - |
| captiously | 17 | in a captious, carping manner | he was captiously pedantic |
| censorious | 12 | harshly critical or expressing censure | was censorious of petty failings |
| commodious | 17 | large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | a commodious harbor |
| curvacious | 17 | - | - |
| curiousest | 12 | - | - |
| deceptious | 15 | - | - |
| autoecious | 12 | of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host | autoecious rust fungi |
| behaviours | 18 | - | - |
| amatorious | 12 | - | - |
| abstemious | 14 | marked by temperance in indulgence | abstemious with the use of adverbs |
| hellacious | 15 | - | - |
| insomnious | 12 | - | - |
| goloptious | 13 | - | - |
| goluptious | 13 | - | - |
| graciouses | 13 | - | - |
| tortiously | 13 | - | - |
| trifarious | 13 | - | - |
| trioecious | 12 | - | - |
| tenebrious | 12 | dark and gloomy | - |
| tediousome | 13 | - | - |
| thiouracil | 15 | depresses the function of the thyroid gland | - |
| uxoriously | 20 | in a loving and uxorious manner | he kept deferring uxoriously to Mary |
| usuriously | 13 | to an exorbitant degree | - |
| perviously | 18 | - | - |
| preludious | 13 | - | - |
| predacious | 15 | hunting and killing other animals for food | - |
| preciouses | 14 | - | - |
| prolixious | 19 | - | - |
| procacious | 16 | - | - |
| quotatious | 19 | - | - |
| rampacious | 16 | - | - |
| reptilious | 12 | - | - |
| paroecious | 14 | - | - |
| perjurious | 19 | - | - |
| scabiouses | 14 | - | - |
| scurriours | 12 | - | - |
| sequacious | 21 | - | - |
| speciously | 17 | in a specious manner | - |
| spaciously | 17 | with ample room | the furniture was spaciously spread out |
| spuriously | 15 | in a false and spurious manner | the lawyer argued spuriously that his client knew nothing of the burglary |
| struthious | 13 | - | - |
| suspirious | 12 | - | - |
| synoecious | 15 | having male and female reproductive organs mixed in the same gametoecium | - |
| ruthenious | 13 | - | - |
| mordacious | 15 | capable of wounding | - |
| mollitious | 12 | - | - |
| monoecious | 14 | having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | - |
| multivious | 15 | - | - |
| nonobvious | 15 | - | - |
| odiousness | 11 | the quality of being offensive | - |
| outdacious | 13 | - | - |
| palladious | 13 | - | - |
| lusciously | 15 | so as to produce a delightful taste | - |
| lubricious | 14 | characterized by lust | eluding lubricious embraces |
| lugubrious | 13 | excessively mournful | - |
| marlacious | 14 | - | - |
| edaciously | 16 | - | - |
| exceptious | 21 | - | - |
| eximiously | 22 | - | - |
| factiously | 18 | - | - |
| fiddioused | 16 | - | - |
| fiddiouses | 15 | - | - |
| flagitious | 14 | shockingly brutal or cruel | - |
| dieciously | 16 | - | - |
