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E: 02/07 Win a crate of Carling (True or false)

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There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous". True or False?
Guess right and you could win a crate of Carling.
Can think of tremendous, hazardous, jeopardous, horrendous, can we count stupendous...?
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  • grannybiker
    grannybiker Posts: 12,128 Forumite
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    Crikey, even more here (all text C&Ped from that page)

    apodous
    hazardous
    horrendous
    iodous
    iridous
    jeopardous
    macropodous
    molybdous
    palladous
    phyllocladous
    podous
    stupendous
    tremendous
    vanadous
    • 1 year ago

    Asker's Rating: rating-3.gif Asker's Comment: Well... you took 14 shots... but you got all 5. The key is 5 COMMON words, which is why -podous answers and the like were disqualified.

    The 5 words were:
    Horrendous,
    Stupendous,
    Tremendous,
    Hazardous, and
    Jeopardous. Okay, I've stuck my foot in my mouth with this one. Annelidous is indeed a word ending with DOUS, but it is not the word I was originally looking for.

    So there are SIX common words that end in DOUS.

    However....
    Wiki answers , here and here reckons there's only 4!

    There are four. The words are tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

    Another very ambiguous one, so will let you make your own decision...
    Worse things will have happened in the world today...
    "The only thing that really matters, it to love and to be loved."
  • v6nat
    v6nat Posts: 4 Newbie
    edited 24 June 2010 at 9:33PM
    according to askoxford dot com forwardslash asktheexperts forwardslash faq forwardslash aboutwords forwardslash dous (sorry cannot post links) there are 5...


    Frequently Asked Questions

    Words
    What English words end in -dous?

    Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Also, the rare zoological word annelidous.
  • cobweblil
    cobweblil Posts: 15 Forumite
    Found this on answerbag . com...

    amadous apodous decapodous hazardous horrendous iodous nodous nonhazardous palladous stupendous tremendous ultrahazardous vanadous
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