12-letter words that end in us
- indologenous — producing or causing the production of indole.
- infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
- inharmonious — not harmonious; discordant; unmelodious.
- inimicitious — inimical
- innutritious — (of food) lacking in nutrients; not nourishing.
- insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- interacinous — situated between the acini of a gland or lung.
- interosseous — composed of, containing, or resembling bone; bony.
- interspinous — located between spines, esp between the vertebrae
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- intraosseous — (medicine) within a bone.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- isostemonous — having stamens equal in number to the sepals or petals.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jelly fungus — any of various fungi of the order Tremellales, distinguished by gelatinous basidiocarp.
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- kneeling bus — a bus that can lower its body or entrance door to facilitate boarding by the elderly or people with disabilities.
- lapidicolous — living under stones
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- latitudinous — having latitude, scope, range, breadth, etc., especially of ideas, interests, interpretations, or the like: a Renaissance man of latitudinous outlook.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- limnophilous — (of animals) living in lakes or freshwater marshes
- litholatrous — of or relating to the worship of stones
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- lithophilous — (of animals and plants) inhabiting or growing in stony places
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
- logodaedalus — a person who uses words with skill or cunning
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
- macrocarpous — having large fruit.
- macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- magnus annus — the Great Year: a cycle of years, usually a thousand, that begins with a Golden Age, steadily deteriorates, and ends with a universal catastrophe, either a fire or a flood.
- mallophagous — of or relating to any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga
- matriclinous — Having mostly maternally-inherited characteristics.
- matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- media circus — excessive news coverage
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- meretricious — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
- mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- mesomorphous — mesomorphic
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
- metamorphous — metamorphic.
- microfibrous — Composed of microscopic fibres.