8-letter words that end in nus
- ammianus — Marcellinus [mahr-suh-lahy-nuh s] /ˌmɑr səˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c325–c398, Roman historian.
- bettinus — a crater in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (96 km) in diameter.
- cicinnus — a scorpioid cyme
- circinus — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere close to Centaurus and the Southern Cross
- comnenus — an important Byzantine family from which the imperial dynasties of Constantinople (1057–59; 1081–1185) and Trebizond (1204–1461) derived
- dardanus — the son of Zeus and Electra who founded the royal house of Troy
- eridanus — a long twisting constellation in the S hemisphere extending from Orion to Hydrus and containing the first magnitude star Achernar
- hemionus — (zoology, obsolete) A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
- inconnus — Plural form of inconnu.
- longinus — Dionysius Cassius [kash-uh s] /ˈkæʃ əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 213?–273, Greek philosopher and rhetorician.
- macmanus — Seumas [shey-muh s] /ˈʃeɪ məs/ (Show IPA), 1869–1960, Irish poet and short-story writer.
- pandanus — any plant of the genus Pandanus, having sword-shaped leaves arranged in a spiral, comprising the screw pines.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- picumnus — one of two ancient Roman fertility gods.
- pilumnus — one of two ancient gods of fertility.
- plotinus — a.d. 205?–270? Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.
- pulvinus — Botany. a cushionlike swelling at the base of a leaf or leaflet, at the point of junction with the axis.
- quirinus — an ancient Roman god of war, identified with the deified Romulus; a personification of the Roman nation.
- scalenus — any of three muscles on each side of the neck, the action of which raises the first and second ribs in respiration and assists in bending the neck to one side.
- silvanus — the god of forests and uncultivated land, later worshiped under three aspects, as the protector of the house, of the herds, and of the boundaries of the farm.
- stevinus — Stevin, Simon.
- subgenus — a category of related species within a genus.
- sylvanus — Silvanus.
- terminus — the end or extremity of anything.
- tithonus — the son of Laomedon of Troy who was loved by the goddess Eos. She asked that he be made immortal but forgot to ask that he be made eternally young. When he aged, she turned him into a grasshopper
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