Words ending in "-CIOUS"

Dr. Ravi P. Reddy (India)
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  1. atrocious
    shockingly brutal or cruel
  2. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
  3. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  4. autoecious
    of parasites especially rust fungi
  5. avaricious
    immoderately desirous of acquiring something
  6. bodacious
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
  7. capacious
    large in the amount that can be contained
  8. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  9. conscious
    having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts
  10. contumacious
    willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient
  11. delicious
    extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
  12. dioecious
    having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals
  13. edacious
    devouring or craving food in great quantities
  14. efficacious
    giving the power to produce an intended result
  15. fallacious
    containing or based on incorrect reasoning
  16. ferocious
    marked by extreme and violent energy
  17. fugacious
    lasting a very short time
  18. gracious
    characterized by kindness and warm courtesy
  19. heteroecious
    of parasites
  20. homoecious
    of parasites especially rust fungi
  21. inauspicious
    boding ill
  22. inefficacious
    lacking the power to produce a desired effect
  23. injudicious
    lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise
  24. judicious
    marked by the exercise of common sense in practical matters
  25. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  26. lubricious
    characterized by lust
  27. luscious
    having strong sexual appeal
  28. malicious
    having the nature of threatening evil
  29. mendacious
    given to lying
  30. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  31. minacious
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  32. monecious
    having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal
  33. monoecious
    having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal
  34. mordacious
    biting or given to biting
  35. nonconscious
    concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness
  36. officious
    intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
  37. oversuspicious
    unduly suspicious
  38. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  39. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  40. pertinacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  41. precious
    of high worth or cost
  42. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  43. predacious
    hunting and killing other animals for food
  44. prejudicious
    (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury
  45. pugnacious
    ready and able to resort to force or violence
  46. rapacious
    living by preying on other animals
  47. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  48. salacious
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  49. semiconscious
    partially conscious; not completely aware of sensations
  50. semiprecious
    used of gemstones having less commercial value than precious stones
  51. silicious
    relating to or containing or resembling silica
  52. spacious
    having ample room
  53. specious
    plausible but false
  54. subconscious
    just below the level of awareness
  55. suspicious
    openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
  56. synoecious
    having male and female reproductive organs mixed in the same gametoecium
  57. tenacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  58. tendencious
    having a strong bias, especially a controversial one
  59. unconscious
    lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception
  60. ungracious
    lacking charm and good taste
  61. unmalicious
    not malicious or spiteful
  62. unselfconscious
    not self-conscious
  63. unsuspicious
    not suspicious
  64. veracious
    habitually speaking the truth
  65. vicious
    having the nature of evildoing
  66. vivacious
    vigorous and animated
  67. voracious
    devouring or craving food in great quantities
Created on Thu Feb 21 11:31:52 EST 2013 (updated Thu Feb 21 20:10:07 EST 2013)

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