8-letter words that end in us
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- miasmous — miasmal
- microbus — minibus.
- misfocus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- mittimus — a warrant of commitment to prison.
- modiolus — the central, conical axis of the cochlea of the ear.
- molossus — a type of foot in metre that contains three long syllables
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- motorbus — a passenger bus powered by a motor.
- mpegplus — (compression, algorithm) A non-ISO standard compressed audio file format derived from MPEG-1 Layer 2.
- mucinous — Of, pertaining to or containing mucin.
- muticous — Botany. having no pointed process or awn; awnless.
- mutinous — disposed to, engaged in, or involving revolt against authority.
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- nauplius — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
- nauseous — affected with nausea; nauseated: to feel nauseous.
- nautilus — Also called chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus. any cephalopod of the genus Nautilus, having a spiral, chambered shell with pearly septa.
- nebulous — hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
- nemorous — (rare) Forested; full of trees, dark with shady groves.
- nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
- nidorous — (literary) Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances.
- nodulous — having nodules.
- nubilous — cloudy or foggy.
- nucellus — the central cellular mass of the body of the ovule, containing the embryo sac.
- numerous — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- numinous — of, relating to, or like a numen; spiritual or supernatural.
- ocherous — any of a class of natural earths, mixtures of hydrated oxide of iron with various earthy materials, ranging in color from pale yellow to orange and red, and used as pigments.
- ochreous — ocher.
- octavius — a male given name.
- odourous — Misspelling of odorous.
- odysseus — king of Ithaca; son of Laertes; one of the heroes of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey: shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War.
- oestrous — estrous.
- olynthus — an ancient city in NE Greece, on the Chalcidice Peninsula.
- oogamous — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- opinicus — a heraldic monster having the head, neck, and wings of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the tail of a bear.
- oragious — stormy or tempestuous
- ordurous — dung; manure; excrement.
- orgulous — Archaic. haughty; proud.
- ovarious — belonging or relating to eggs, or consisting of eggs
- overplus — an excess over a particular amount; surplus: After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- pandanus — any plant of the genus Pandanus, having sword-shaped leaves arranged in a spiral, comprising the screw pines.
- pandarus — a Trojan who attempted to assassinate Menelaus, thereby violating a truce between the Greeks and the Trojans and prolonging the Trojan War: in Chaucerian and other medieval accounts, he is the procurer of Cressida for Troilus.
- patinous — patinated.
- patulous — open; gaping; expanded.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.