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Words ending with mus

4 letter words ending with mus

  • bmus — Bachelor of Music
  • dmus — Doctor of Music
  • emus — Plural form of emu.

5 letter words ending with mus

  • camus — Albert (albɛr). 1913–60, French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, noted for his pessimistic portrayal of man's condition of isolation in an absurd world: author of the novels L'Étranger (1942) and La Peste (1947), the plays Le Malentendu (1945) and Caligula (1946), and the essays Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) and L'Homme révolté (1951): Nobel prize for literature 1957
  • comus — (in late Roman mythology) a god of revelry
  • humus — the dark organic material in soils, produced by the decomposition of vegetable or animal matter and essential to the fertility of the earth.
  • lamus — a son of Hercules and Omphale.
  • momus — Also, Momos [moh-mos] /ˈmoʊ mɒs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. the god of ridicule.

6 letter words ending with mus

  • animus — If a person has an animus against someone, they have a strong feeling of dislike for them, even when there is no good reason for it.
  • cadmus — a Phoenician prince who killed a dragon and planted its teeth, from which sprang a multitude of warriors who fought among themselves until only five remained, who joined Cadmus to found Thebes
  • cormus — a corm
  • glomus — a small globular body.
  • hommus — An alternative spelling of 'hummus'.

7 letter words ending with mus

  • bulimus — any of a genus of terrestrial molluscs with elongated spiral shells, commonly found in tropical America
  • calamus — any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus, some species of which are a source of rattan and canes
  • decimus — (in prescriptions) tenth.
  • dedimus — a legal document or decree authorizing a person who is not a judge to act instead of a judge
  • erasmus — Desiderius (ˌdɛzɪˈdɪərɪəs), real name Gerhard Gerhards. ?1466–1536, Dutch humanist, the leading scholar of the Renaissance in northern Europe. He published the first Greek edition of the New Testament in 1516; his other works include the satirical Encomium Moriae (1509); Colloquia (1519), a series of dialogues; and an attack on the theology of Luther, De Libero Arbitrio (1524)

8 letter words ending with mus

  • academus — an Arcadian whose estate became a meeting place for Athenian philosophers.
  • accismus — (rhetoric) Feigning disinterest in something while actually desiring it.
  • chiasmus — reversal of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases
  • euonymus — A shrub or small tree that is widely cultivated for its autumn colors and bright fruit.
  • mandamus — a writ from a superior court to an inferior court or to an officer, corporation, etc., commanding that a specified thing be done.

9 letter words ending with mus

  • ballismus — a condition characterized by twisting, shaking, and jerking motions.
  • gaudeamus — a university students' gathering or merry-making
  • ginglymus — a joint in which movement is limited to one plane.
  • ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
  • mumpsimus — adherence to or persistence in an erroneous use of language, memorization, practice, belief, etc., out of habit or obstinacy (opposed to sumpsimus).

10 letter words ending with mus

  • amphinomus — Penelope's favorite suitor.
  • graecismus — (rhetoric, historical) Use of Greek words and examples.
  • hieronymus — Eusebius [yoo-see-bee-uh s] /yuˈsi bi əs/ (Show IPA), Jerome, Saint.
  • hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
  • hyoscyamus — the dried leaves, with or without the tops, of the henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, containing the alkaloids hyoscyamine and scopolamine, used in medicine.

11 letter words ending with mus

  • borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
  • epithalamus — A part of the dorsal forebrain including the pineal gland and a region in the roof of the third ventricle of the brain.
  • laryngismus — Laryngospasm.
  • longissimus — (anatomy) The muscle lateral to the semispinalis; the longest subdivision of the sacrospinalis that extends forward into the transverse processes of the posterior cervical vertebrae.
  • meningismus — Meningism without the presence of infection or inflammation.

12 letter words ending with mus

  • exophthalmus — Alt form exophthalmos.
  • hippopotamus — a large herbivorous mammal, Hippopotamus amphibius, having a thick hairless body, short legs, and a large head and muzzle, found in and near the rivers, lakes, etc., of Africa, and able to remain under water for a considerable time.
  • hypothalamus — a region of the brain, between the thalamus and the midbrain, that functions as the main control center for the autonomic nervous system by regulating sleep cycles, body temperature, appetite, etc., and that acts as an endocrine gland by producing hormones, including the releasing factors that control the hormonal secretions of the pituitary gland.
  • pigmy hippopotamus — a related but smaller animal, Choeropsis liberiensis
  • pygmy hippopotamus — a small hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis, of forests and swamps in western Africa.

13 letter words ending with mus

  • amphithalamus — (in an ancient Greek house) a room adjoining the thalamus.
  • archeptolemus — (in the Iliad) the son of Iphitus who served as a charioteer for Hector.

On this page, we collect all words that ending in MUS. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 94 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that ends in MUS that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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