8-letter words that end in us
- -androus — (in botany) indicating number or type of stamens
- -anthous — having flowers (of a specified kind or number)
- -carpous — (in botany) indicating a certain kind or number of fruit
- -chroous — coloured in a specified way
- -dromous — moving or running
- -florous — indicating number or type of flowers
- -folious — having (a specified number or kind of) leaves
- -iferous — containing or yielding
- -phagous — that eats (something specified)
- -philous — indicating love of or fondness for
- -phorous — bearing, producing
- -pterous — indicating a specified number or type of wings
- -sporous — (in botany) having a specified type or number of spores
- -stomous — having a specified type of mouth
- -tropous — indicating a turning away
- abaculus — abaciscus.
- abomasus — abomasum.
- academus — an Arcadian whose estate became a meeting place for Athenian philosophers.
- acanthus — any shrub or herbaceous plant of the genus Acanthus, native to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated as ornamental plants, having large spiny leaves and spikes of white or purplish flowers: family Acanthaceae
- acarpous — (of plants) producing no fruit
- accismus — (rhetoric) Feigning disinterest in something while actually desiring it.
- achelous — a river god who changed into a snake and a bull while fighting Hercules but was defeated when Hercules broke off one of his horns
- achroous — Colorless; achromatic.
- acoelous — not having a true digestive tract
- adrastus — a king of Argos and leader of the Seven against Thebes, of whom he was the sole survivor
- aedeagus — the phallus of a male insect.
- aegyptus — a king of Egypt and twin brother of Danaüs
- afflatus — an impulse of creative power or inspiration, esp in poetry, considered to be of divine origin (esp in the phrase divine afflatus)
- agaricus — any mushroom of the genus Agaricus, comprising the meadow mushrooms and a commercially grown species, A. brunnescens.
- aidoneus — a king of Thesprotia.
- alcinous — (in Homer's Odyssey) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings
- aloysius — Saint. full name Aloysius Luigi Gonzaga. 1568–91, Italian Jesuit who died nursing plague victims; the patron saint of youth. Feast day: June 21
- alveolus — any small pit, cavity, or saclike dilation, such as a honeycomb cell
- amaracus — a genus of herbaceous plant with fragrant flowers
- amberous — of, relating to or resembling amber
- americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
- ammianus — Marcellinus [mahr-suh-lahy-nuh s] /ˌmɑr səˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c325–c398, Roman historian.
- amourous — Alternative form of amorous.
- amplexus — the mating embrace of amphibians, particularly frogs and toads
- amyelous — congenital absence of the spinal cord.
- anconeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- anemious — (of a plant) Growing in exposed windy places.
- anestrus — in the breeding cycle of many mammals, the period of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus
- anginous — of, noting, or pertaining to angina, especially angina pectoris.
- angulous — angular or having angles
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- anourous — anurous.
- anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
- antinous — the chief suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus upon his return from Troy.
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