| AUTOECIOUS | • autoecious adj. Pertaining to a fungus, most often a rust, completing its life cycle on one host. • AUTOECIOUS adj. of fungus, etc., passing through all life stages on same species of host, also AUTECIOUS. |
| AUTOGAMOUS | • autogamous adj. Self-fertilizing. • AUTOGAMOUS adj. self-fertilizing, also AUTOGAMIC. |
| AUTOGENOUS | • autogenous adj. Produced independently of an external cause or influence. • autogenous adj. (Anatomy) Developed from an independent centre of ossification. • AUTOGENOUS adj. self-generated. |
| AUTOLOGOUS | • autologous adj. Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than a different donor). • AUTOLOGOUS adj. involving a situation in which the donor and the recipient (of blood, skin, bone, etc.) are the same person. |
| AUTOMATOUS | • automatous adj. Obsolete form of automatic. • AUTOMATOUS adj. like an automaton. |
| AUTONOMOUS | • autonomous adj. Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently. • autonomous adj. Acting on one’s own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules. • autonomous adj. (Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent;… |
| AUTONYMOUS | • autonymous adj. Exhibiting autonymy; used as a name for itself (as of a symbol). • AUTONYMOUS adj. (of a word or words) appearing in its own form or directly quoted. |
| AUTOROUTES | • autoroutes n. Plural of autoroute. • AUTOROUTE n. a Continental motorway. |
| AUTOTOMOUS | • autotomous adj. Exhibiting or relating to autotomy. • AUTOTOMOUS adj. relating to autotomy. |
| CAOUTCHOUC | • caoutchouc n. Latex; natural rubber. • CAOUTCHOUC n. (Quechua) un-vulcanized natural rubber. |
| OUTDACIOUS | • outdacious adj. (Dated, nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of audacious. • OUTDACIOUS adj. (colloquial) audacious. |
| OUTHARBOUR | • outharbour n. (Canada) In Newfoundland and Labrador, any city, town, or village having a harbour, other than the main… |
| OUTRAGEOUS | • outrageous adj. Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront. • outrageous adj. Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate. • outrageous adj. Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative. |
| OUTSAVOURS | • OUTSAVOUR v. to exceed in savouring, also OUTSAVOR. |
| POUTASSOUS | • POUTASSOU n. a gadoid fish, aka blue whiting. |
| QUOTATIOUS | • quotatious adj. Tending to use quotations. • QUOTATIOUS adj. tending to quote. |
| ROUNDABOUT | • roundabout adj. Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary. • roundabout adj. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. • roundabout n. (Chiefly UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Australia and sometimes US) A road junction at which traffic… |
| ROUSEABOUT | • rouseabout n. (Australia) Alternative form of roustabout. • ROUSEABOUT n. (Australian) an odd-job man on a sheep station, also ROUSTABOUT. |
| ROUSTABOUT | • roustabout n. (Chiefly US) an unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship, 19th c. • ROUSTABOUT n. a casual or unskilled laborer, esp. on an oil rig, also ROUSEABOUT. |
| TROUBADOUR | • troubadour n. An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel. • TROUBADOUR n. (French) any of a class of poet-musicians flourishing esp. in southern France and northern Italy during the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. |