9-letter words that end in us
- burdenous — burdensome
- cabassous — Plural form of cabassou.
- calabogus — a mixed drink containing rum, spruce beer, and molasses
- calcaneus — the largest tarsal bone, forming the heel in man
- calculous — of or suffering from a calculus
- caliculus — calyculus (def 1).
- callippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- calyculus — a small, cuplike part, as a taste bud, or a cuplike depression, as in a coral skeleton
- cancellus — (in an early Christian basilica) one of a row of bars separating the clergy and sometimes the choir from the congregation.
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- cankerous — having cankers
- canonicus — c1565–1647, Narragansett leader: yielded Rhode Island to Roger Williams 1636.
- cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
- capacious — Something that is capacious has a lot of space to put things in.
- caratacus — died ?54 ad, British chieftain: led an unsuccessful resistance against the Romans (43–50)
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- carcajous — Plural form of carcajou.
- casadesus — Robert [rob-ert;; French raw-ber] /ˈrɒb ərt;; French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1899–1972, French pianist and composer.
- cautelous — crafty or cunning
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- cavillous — Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- cellarous — of, relating to or resembling a cellar
- cellulous — consisting of or filled with cells
- centaurus — a conspicuous extensive constellation in the S hemisphere, close to the Southern Cross, that contains two first magnitude stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, and the globular cluster Omega Centauri
- cepaceous — having an onion-like smell or taste
- cephalous — having a head
- ceraceous — waxlike or waxy
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- cetaceous — Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea.
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- chitinous — a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, related chemically to cellulose, that forms a semitransparent horny substance and is a principal constituent of the exoskeleton, or outer covering, of insects, crustaceans, and arachnids.
- cilicious — made of hair
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- clamorous — If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting.
- clearchus — died 401? b.c.; Spartan general
- cleobulus — flourished 560 b.c, Greek sage and lyric poet, a native and tyrant of Lindus, Rhodes.
- clianthus — any Australian or New Zealand plant of the leguminous genus Clianthus, with ornamental clusters of slender scarlet flowers
- cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
- coccygeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the pelvic wall, that in combination with the levator ani forms the pelvic diaphragm.
- columbous — niobous.
- comitatus — a retinue of warriors serving a leader, esp in pre-Christian Germanic cultures, such as Anglo-Saxon England and Viking Age Scandinavia
- complexus — a complicated whole made up of interconnected or related parts
- concensus — Misspelling of consensus.
- concentus — a concent
- conceptus — any of various products of conception, including the embryo, fetus, and surrounding tissue
- conductus — a style of medieval liturgical composition for up to four voices; these were composed in the 12th and 13th centuries