Words That End With: EUS

• a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction

• the positively charged dense center of an atom

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail

• any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord

• the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex

• (Greek mythology) a prophetic god who served Poseidon; was capable of changing his shape at will

• type genus of the Proteidae

• the ossicle attached to the eardrum

• the environmental condition

• a stiff sharp-pointed plant process

• a sharp-pointed process especially a sting of a hymenopterous insect

• a large genus of fungi belonging to the family Pluteaceae; the shape of the cap resembles a roof; often abundant early in the summer

• any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh

• any of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers

• a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom