11-letter words that end in us
- trobar clus — a complex and obscure style of writing adopted by some 12th-century Provençal poets.
- trolley bus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
- tuberaceous — belonging or relating to the order of fungi Tuberaceae, or specifically the truffle genus (Tuber)
- tuberculous — tubercular.
- tubiflorous — tubuliflorous.
- turing plus — Systems programming language, a concurrent descendant of Turing. Available from Holt Software Assocs, Toronto <[email protected]>.
- ulotrichous — belonging to a group of people having woolly or crisply curly hair.
- umbratilous — shadowy; faint
- umbriferous — casting or making shade.
- unambiguous — not ambiguous, or unclear; distinct; unequivocal: The object of the experiment was to reach an unambiguous conclusion about climate change.
- unambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- uncle remus — Roman Legend. See under Romulus (def 1).
- unconscious — not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
- uncourteous — impolite; discourteous.
- undangerous — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- undelicious — highly pleasing to the senses, especially to taste or smell: a delicious dinner; a delicious aroma.
- undexterous — skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body.
- unfrivolous — not frivolous
- unglamorous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- unhazardous — not hazardous
- unicolorous — (of antennae, head, body, etc) of one colour
- uninvidious — (of comparisons or distinctions) not unfairly or offensively discriminating
- unipetalous — having only one petal.
- unlaborious — not involving great exertion or long effort
- unluxurious — not luxurious; basic
- unmalicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- unmelodious — not musically pleasant to listen to; discordant
- unoblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
- unobnoxious — not unpleasant or offensive
- unofficious — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- unreligious — irreligious.
- unrighteous — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
- unsagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
- unslumbrous — not marked by sleep or sleepiness
- unstrenuous — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- untremulous — not tremulous or timorous; not characterized by trembling
- unveracious — (of a person) not veracious; not tending to speak the truth; untruthful
- uriniferous — conveying urine.
- uriniparous — producing or making urine, as of the tubes in the kidney
- urticaceous — belonging to the Urticaceae, the nettle family of plants.
- varicellous — of or relating to varicella or chicken pox
- ventriculus — the part of the food tract in which digestion takes place, especially the lower cavity of a compound stomach in insects.
- vermiculous — containing or resembling worms
- vermivorous — (of birds) feeding on worms, grubs, or insect vermin.
- vertebratus — (of a cloud) having elements arranged in a riblike pattern.
- vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
- vine cactus — the ocotillo, Fouquieria splendens.
- vortiginous — resembling a vortex; whirling; vortical.
- walking bus — a group of schoolchildren walking together along an agreed route to and from school, accompanied by adults, with children joining and leaving the group at prearranged points
- war surplus — equipment, supplies, etc., originally used by or manufactured for the armed forces, but disposed of cheaply as surplus or obsolete: He made his fortune in war surplus.