5 Letter Words Ending in S

pious

Adjective : Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.

Adjective : Relating to religion or religious works.

Adjective : Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.

ethos

Noun : The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.

Noun : (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.

Noun : (art) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than emotional situations or individual character traits in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.

nexus

Noun : A form or state of connection.

Noun : (Canada, US, finance, law) The relationship between a vendor and a jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation, established for example by the vendor operating a physical store in that jurisdiction.

Noun : A connected group; a network, a web.

magus

Noun : A magician; (derogatory) a conjurer or sorcerer, especially one who is a charlatan or trickster.

Noun : (Zoroastrianism) A Zoroastrian priest.

abyss

Noun : Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.

Noun : (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.

Noun : Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.

focus

Noun : (countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.

Noun : (countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.

Noun : (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.

atlas

Noun : A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.

Noun : A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.

Noun : (chiefly in anatomy, especially of the human body) A detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its elements splayed so as to be presented in as discrete a manner as possible whilst retaining a realistic view of the whole.

aegis

Noun : (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A mythological shield associated with the Greek deities Zeus and Athena (and their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) shown as a short cloak made of goatskin worn on the shoulders, more as an emblem of power and protection than a military shield. The aegis of Athena or Minerva is usually shown with a border of snakes and with the head of Medusa in the center.

Noun : (figuratively) Usually as under the aegis: guidance, protection; endorsement, sponsorship.

Noun : (NASA) Acronym of Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science.

brass

Noun : (countable, uncountable) A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.

Noun : A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten: a monumental brass.

Noun : Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass.

nidus

Noun : An aggregate of neurons.

Noun : A nest for insects or small animals.

Noun : A place of infection in an organism.

crass

Adjective : Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or taste.

Adjective : Materialistic.

Adjective : Physically dense or thick.

argus

Noun : (Greek mythology) A mythical being, also called Argos or Argus Panoptes, with many eyes, a watchman who served Hera; his eyes were later transplanted to the peacock's tail.

Noun : A watchful guardian.

Noun : An alert, observant person.

cross

Noun : A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.

Noun : (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.

Noun : A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).

chaos

Noun : The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

Noun : Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

Noun : (mathematics) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.

oasis

Noun : A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.

Noun : (figuratively) A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle.

Noun : (figuratively) A place or situation of fruitfulness or abundance separated from surrounding barrenness or scarcity.

tress

Noun : A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.

Noun : A long lock of hair.

Noun : (by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers.

gloss

Noun : A surface shine or luster.

Noun : (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.

Verb : (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.

press

Noun : An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.

Noun : (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.

Noun : (uncountable) A crowd.

class

Noun : (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

Noun : (sociology, countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.

Noun : (uncountable) The division of society into classes.

negus

Noun : An English surname of unknown derivation.

Noun : A drink made of wine, often port, mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, spices and sugar.

Noun : (historical) A ruler of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the king of Ethiopia before 1974.

basis

Noun : A physical base or foundation.

Noun : A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.

Noun : An underlying condition or circumstance.

gross

Adjective : (of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive.

Adjective : (of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.

Adjective : (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.

apsis

Noun : (architecture) A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church; an apse.

Noun : (astronomy) Either of the points in the elliptical orbit of a planet, comet, or moon where it is closest or furthest from the body it orbits; examples are perihelion, aphelion, perigee, and apogee

alias

Verb : Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.

Verb : (law) Used to connect the different names of a person who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful

Noun : Another name; especially, an assumed name.

truss

Noun : A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.

Noun : (architecture) A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.

Noun : (architecture) A triangular bracket.

bliss

Noun : Perfect happiness.

Noun : An English surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname.

Noun : (rare) A unisex given name from English.

means

Noun : An instrument or condition to achieve a result.

Noun : (uncountable) Financial resources; wealth.

Noun : Substantial wealth.

bogus

Adjective : Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.

Adjective : (slang) Undesirable or harmful.

Adjective : (computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.

eaves

Noun : (architecture) The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building.

Noun : (by extension) Something that extends over or projects beyond.

Noun : A surname.

amiss

Adjective : (chiefly predicative) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.

Verb : (archaic) Wrongly; mistakenly

Verb : Astray.

manus

Noun : (formal) A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.

Noun : (obsolete, Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.

Noun : A surname from Irish.

amass

Verb : (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.

Verb : (transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.

Verb : (intransitive) To accumulate; to assemble.

dross

Noun : Waste or impure matter.

Noun : Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.

Noun : The impurities in metal.

glass

Noun : (usually uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).

Noun : (countable, uncountable, by extension) Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).

Noun : (countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.

dress

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.

Verb : (specifically) To attire (oneself or someone) for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.

argos

Noun : A city in the Peloponnese, Greece.

Noun : (Greek mythology) The dog of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.

Noun : A town in Indiana; named for the city in Greece.

metis

Noun : (Canada) One of three recognized Aboriginal peoples of Canada, descendants of marriages of Cree, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, and Menominee Aboriginal people with French Canadians, Scots and English.

Noun : (chiefly Canada, US) A member of one of these three Canadian Aboriginal peoples.

Noun : (chiefly Canada) A person of mixed European and Aboriginal descent.

penis

Noun : (anatomy) The male erectile reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse that in the human male and other placental mammals is also used for urination; the tubular portion of the external male genitalia (excluding the scrotum).

Noun : (zoology) A similar erectile sexual organ present in the cloacas of male amniotes.

torus

Noun : (geometry) The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line which lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g. like a ring doughnut).

Noun : (topology) A topological space which is a product of two circles.

Noun : (topology, in combination, n-torus, 4-torus, etc.) The product of the specified number of circles.

ictus

Noun : The pulse.

Noun : (medicine) A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.

Noun : (prosody) The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.

steps

Noun : a course followed by a person in walking or as walking

Noun : a flight of stairs, especially out of doors

Noun : (British) stepladder

woods

Noun : (usually with plural construction, sometimes with singular construction) A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.

Noun : (military, attributive) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).

Noun : A topographic surname from Middle English, variant of Wood. Possibly patronymic.

finis

Noun : Of a book or other work: the end.

logos

Noun : (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logical argument as the main form of persuasion.

Noun : (philosophy) In Ancient Greek philosophy, the rational principle that governs the cosmos.

Noun : (Christianity) The Word of God, which itself has creative power; a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.

mores

Noun : A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.

loins

Noun : (biblical, euphemistic) The pubic region.

Noun : The reproductive organs.

modus

Noun : (law, obsolete) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.

Noun : (law) A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, etc.

Noun : (law) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.

aspis

Noun : A type of round shield borne by ancient Greek soldiers

Noun : (archaic) An asp or generic venomous snake

Noun : (palynology) A prominent ring of thickened exine around a pore on a pollen grain

manas

Noun : (philosophy, chiefly theosophy) The mind; that which distinguishes man from the animals.

Noun : A county of Changji prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Noun : A town in Manas County, Changji prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

grass

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

Noun : (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

Noun : (uncountable) A lawn.

hades

Noun : (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.

Noun : (Greek mythology) The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.

Noun : In the Septuagint Bible, the Greek translation of Sheol.

kudos

Noun : Praise; accolades.

Noun : Credit for one's achievements.

Verb : (informal) To give praise or accolades.

roots

Noun : Ancestry.

Noun : Beginnings; origin.

Noun : (of hair) Grown-out hair, often of a grey or natural colour.

nisus

Noun : A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.

Noun : The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc.

Noun : The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine.

as is

Adjective : (idiomatic, of an object) as it is; in its present state or condition, especially as a contractual condition of sale.

orcus

Noun : (Roman mythology) The Etruscan and Roman god of the underworld.

Noun : (astronomy) A plutino and planetoid, possibly a dwarf planet; sometimes referred to as the “anti-Pluto”.

jeers

Noun : A mocking remark or reflection.

Verb : (intransitive, with at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.

corps

Noun : (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.

Noun : An organized group of people united by a common purpose.

Noun : A corps de ballet.

ideas

Noun : Ideas usually refer to a person's thoughts or a developed concepts.

Noun : a long-running scholarly radio documentary series on CBC Radio One, first broadcast in 1965.

malus

Noun : (business) The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.

Noun : (rare) A penalty or negative thing.

Noun : A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).

arsis

Noun : Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot

Noun : (music) The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.

Noun : (poetry) The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.

telos

Noun : The aim, purpose, or end goal.

perks

Noun : (informal) Perquisite.

Noun : (video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.

Verb : (transitive, informal) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.

moros

Noun : (uncommon) A dish of black beans and white riced cooked together; congri.

Noun : (Greek mythology) The personification of impending doom, who drives mortals to their deadly fate

keens

Adjective : (chiefly Commonwealth) Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.

Adjective : Fierce, intense, vehement.

Adjective : Having a fine edge or point; sharp.

acies

Noun : (obsolete) The full attention of one's sight, hearing or other senses, as directed towards a particular object.

Noun : (obsolete, botany) The edge or angle of certain stems.

virus

Noun : A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and that sometimes causes disease in the host organism (such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms).

Noun : A species thereof.

Noun : (occasionally proscribed) An individual particle thereof: synonym of virion.

locus

Noun : A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.

Noun : (mathematics) The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition.

Noun : (genetics) A fixed position on a string of DNA or RNA, especially a chromosome, that may be occupied by one or more genes.

talus

Noun : (anatomy) The bone of the ankle.

Noun : (geology) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.

Noun : (architecture) The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.

venus

Noun : (astronomy) The second planet in the Solar system, named for the goddess.

Noun : (Roman mythology) The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality;

Noun : A female given name.

floss

Noun : A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.

Noun : Raw silk fibres.

Noun : The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.

rebus

Noun : An arrangement of pictures, symbols, and/or words representing phrases or words, especially as a word puzzle.

Noun : (linguistics) A pictographic component of a compound character (e.g. sinograph) used to hint at the pronunciation of the compound.

Noun : (specifically, heraldry) An arrangement of pictures on a coat of arms which suggests the name of the person to whom it belongs.

crabs

Noun : (slang) Pubic lice.

Noun : (gambling, slang) A dice roll of two aces.

situs

Noun : (anatomy, botany) The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant.

Noun : (botany) The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged.

Noun : (law) The location of a property as used for taxation or other legal purposes.

doris

Noun : (Greek mythology) The daughter of Oceanus, who married Nereus and bore fifty sea-nymphs or nereids.

Noun : An ancient region of Asia Minor, modern Turkey, inhabited by the ancient Dorians.

Noun : An ancient mountainous region of Greece, the traditional homeland of the Dorians.

manes

Noun : The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the subjects of reverence, or of other deceased relatives.

rules

Noun : (informal) Australian rules football.

peers

Noun : A section of the British Houses of Parliament, the House of Lords, the House of Peers.

Noun : A male given name from Ancient Greek.

Noun : A surname originating as a patronymic.

mimas

Noun : (Greek mythology) A son of Gaia; one of the Gigantes.

Noun : (astronomy) The innermost of Saturn's classical satellites, marked by a giant impact crater (Herschel) on its surface.

lauds

Noun : a canonical hour of the Divine office.

ornis

Noun : (formal) A bird.

Noun : The birds collectively of a region; avifauna.

vitus

Noun : (historical) A male given name from Latin.

Noun : A lake in Alaska.

pangs

Noun : "Pangs" is the eighth episode of season 4 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Noun : PANGS are an electropunk group formed in 2015 in Nashville.

ploys

Noun : A tactic, strategy, or scheme.

Noun : (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.

Noun : (obsolete) Employment.

lotus

Noun : A kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae.

Noun : A water lily, genus Nymphaea, especially those of Egypt or India.

Noun : A legendary plant eaten by the Lotophagi of the Odyssey that caused drowsiness and euphoria.

balls

Noun : (vulgar, colloquial) The testicles.

Noun : (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.

Noun : (uncountable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, vulgar, colloquial) Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.

judas

Noun : (biblical) One of the twelve original Apostles of Jesus, known for his role in Jesus' betrayal into the hands of Roman authorities.

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew.

Noun : A traitor; a person not to be trusted.

pubis

Noun : The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.

arras

Noun : A tapestry or wall hanging.

Noun : A city, the capital of Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France, the historic centre of the Artois region

notes

Noun : Acronym of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery.

glans

Noun : The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.

Noun : (medicine) Synonym of goiter.

Noun : (gynaecology) Synonym of pessary.

tears

Noun : Viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting.

jones

Noun : An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name John.

Noun : A placename

Noun : A locality in Kenora District, north-west Ontario, Canada.

lines

Noun : (film, theater) Words spoken by the actors.

Noun : (fortifications) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.

Noun : (education) A school punishment in which a student must repeatedly write out a line of text related to the offence (e.g. "I must be quiet in class") a specified number of times; the lines of text so written out.

dregs

Noun : The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.

Noun : (figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.

folks

Noun : The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents

Noun : (US) People in general; everybody or anybody.

Noun : (US, slang, rare, southern Louisiana) The police.

forms

Noun : (heading, physical) To do with shape.

Noun : The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

Noun : A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.

acres

Noun : extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own us

saros

Noun : (history, Babylon) A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years.

Noun : (astronomy) A period of 223 synodic months (approximately 18 years 11 days 8 hours), after which the relative positions of the earth, sun and moon recur, used to predict eclipses.

tapis

Noun : A tapestry.

Noun : Carpeting.

Noun : (historical) The cover of a council table.

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