Words ending with us

Abaciscus means: One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

Abaculus means: A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements.

Abacus means: A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.

Abacus means: A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

Abacus means: The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

Abacus means: A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.

Abacus means: A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard.

Abdominous means: Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied.

Abiogenous means: Produced by spontaneous generation.

Ablatitious means: Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force.

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.