7-letter words that end in us
- petrous — denoting the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- phallus — an image of the male reproductive organ, especially that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.
- phineus — a brother of Cepheus who was not brave enough to rescue his betrothed Andromeda from a sea monster and who was eventually turned to stone.
- phoebus — Classical Mythology. Apollo as the sun god.
- photius — a.d. c820–891, patriarch of Constantinople 858–867, 877–882.
- phrixus — a child who escaped on the back of a ram with his sister Helle from a plot against them. The fleece of the ram, which he sacrificed, was the Golden Fleece.
- piceous — of, relating to, or resembling pitch.
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- pileous — hairy or furry.
- piraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pitatus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 50 miles (80 km) in diameter.
- piteous — evoking or deserving pity; pathetic: piteous cries for help.
- plautus — Titus Maccius [tahy-tuh s mak-see-uh s] /ˈtaɪ təs ˈmæk si əs/ (Show IPA), c254–c184 b.c, Roman dramatist.
- playbus — a mobile playground
- plumous — having plumes or feathers
- pluteus — the free-swimming, bilaterally symmetrical larva of an echinoid or ophiuroid.
- polybus — a Corinthian king who was the foster father of Oedipus.
- pompous — characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance: a pompous minor official.
- postbus — (in Britain, esp in rural districts) a vehicle carrying the mail that also carries passengers
- priapus — Classical Mythology. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
- proclus — a.d. c411–485, Greek philosopher and theologian.
- proteus — Classical Mythology. a sea god, son of Oceanus and Tethys, noted for his ability to assume different forms and to prophesy.
- pulpous — soft and yielding
- pylorus — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- pyrrhus — c318–272 b.c, king of Epirus c300–272.
- qdjanus — A Janus-to-Prolog compiler by Saumya Debray <[email protected]>. It is meant to be used with Sicstus Prolog and is mostly compliant with "Programming in Janus" by Saraswat, Kahn, and Levy.
- quietus — a finishing stroke; anything that effectually ends or settles: Having given a quietus to the argument, she left.
- railbus — a bus-like vehicle for use on railway lines
- ramulus — a small branch or branchlet
- raucous — harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
- refocus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- regulus — (initial capital letter) Astronomy. a first magnitude star in the constellation Leo.
- rhabdus — a needlelike structure supporting the soft tissue in an invertebrate sponge
- rhamnus — a member of the Rhamnus genus of trees and shrubs known as buckthorn
- rhodous — of or containing rhodium (but proportionally more than something rhodic)
- rhoecus — flourished 6th century b.c, Greek sculptor and architect.
- rhombus — an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram; any equilateral parallelogram except a square.
- ricinus — the castor-oil plant
- riotous — (of an act) characterized by or of the nature of rioting or a disturbance of the peace.
- rivulus — any of several killifishes of the genus Rivulus, native to small streams of tropical America, often kept in aquariums.
- romanus — died a.d. 897, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 897.
- romulus — the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded.
- roscius — Quintus [kwin-tuh s] /ˈkwɪn təs/ (Show IPA), c126–c62 b.c, Roman actor.
- rubious — being of the color of a ruby; ruby-colored.
- ruinous — bringing or tending to bring ruin; destructive; disastrous: a ruinous war.
- sanctus — (italics). Also called Tersanctus. the hymn beginning “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts,” with which the Eucharistic preface culminates.
- sanious — characterized by the discharge of sanies.
- sarcous — consisting of or pertaining to flesh or skeletal muscle.
- sardius — sard.
- scyphus — a cup-shaped part, as of a flower.