9-letter words that end in us
- ingenuous — free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
- injurious — harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
- innocuous — not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- innoxious — harmless; innocuous.
- inodorous — not odorous; odorless.
- insidious — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
- insiduous — Misspelling of insidious.
- integrous — (rare) Having or characterized by integrity.
- introitus — (medicine) The entrance to a hollow organ or canal; often specifically the entrance to the vagina.
- invidious — calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful: invidious remarks.
- irriguous — well-watered, as land.
- isandrous — having the stamens similar to each other and equal in number to the petals.
- isanthous — having regular flowers.
- isodomous — (in Greek history) relating to isodomon
- isogamous — having two similar gametes in which no differentiation can be distinguished, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to heterogamous).
- isogenous — of the same or similar origin, as parts derived from the same or corresponding tissues of the embryo.
- isologous — (of two or more organic compounds) chemically related but differing in composition other than by n CH 2 .
- isomerous — having an equal number of parts, markings, etc.
- januarius — Saint, a.d. 272?–305? Italian ecclesiastic and martyr: patron saint of Naples.
- jasperous — Containing jasper, composed of jasper.
- judicious — using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or politic: judicious use of one's money.
- jumentous — Of, relating to, or smelling like horse urine.
- khus-khus — vetiver (def 2).
- kinkajous — Plural form of kinkajou.
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labourous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- ladislaus — Saint, c1040–95, king of Hungary 1077–95.
- langrenus — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 85 miles (135 km) in diameter.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- leavenous — containing leaven
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lemniscus — a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- leucippus — 5th century bc Greek philosopher, who originated the atomist theory of matter, developed by his disciple, Democritus
- leviticus — the third book of the Bible, containing laws relating to the priests and Levites and to the forms of Jewish ceremonial observance. Abbreviation: Lev.
- libellous — containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously defamatory.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- lilaceous — of or approaching the color lilac.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- literatus — singular of literati.
- litigious — of or relating to litigation.
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- longevous — long-lived; living to a great age.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- lucifugus — Misspelling of lucifugous.
- lucretius — (Titus Lucretius Carus) 97?–54 b.c, Roman poet and philosopher.
- ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- lusterous — Misspelling of lustrous.
- lustrious — Fantastic; amazing; splendid.