LITUUS

Definition: LITUUS

LITUUS

Noun

1. A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.

2. An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.

3. A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: Lituus

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Rhyming with "LITUUS"

Words rhyming with "LITUUS" (pronounced 'Lit"u*us'): Abaciscus, Abaculus, Abacus, Abdominous, Abgeordnetenhaus, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acanthus, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acarus, Accismus, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acinus, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous. (additional references)

Anagrams: LITUUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "i-l-s-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: list, lits, litu, lust, silt, slit, suit, sulu, tils, tuis, ulus.
	-3 letters: its, lis, lit, sit, til, tis, tui, ulu, uts.
	-4 letters: is, it, li, si, ti, us, ut.
	Words containing the letters "i-l-s-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: multiuse, nautilus, stimulus, thuliums, tubulins, uvulitis.
	+3 letters: botulinus, fauteuils, fistulous, glutinous, luteciums, lutetiums, multiuser, mutualism, mutualist, outbuilds, unruliest, utriculus, vulturish.
	+4 letters: botulinums, cautiously, disgustful, fulgurites, luxuriates, meticulous, multihulls, multitudes, mutinously, mutualisms, mutualists, mutualizes, nautiluses, outbullies, outsulking, plutoniums, quintuples, stridulous, studiously, telluriums, ultimatums, ululations, unluckiest, unsuitable, unsuitably, uvulitises, virtuously.
	+5 letters: apicultures, avicultures, botulinuses, bumptiously, cumulations, distrustful, duplicitous, dutifulness, funambulist, glutinously, gutturalism, illustrious, impetuously, mistrustful, multicampus, multicausal, multicourse, multiparous, multisource, muscularity, mutualistic, mutualities, outblushing, outhustling, outmuscling, punctilious, pustulation, quintuplets, sculpturing, sericulture, subluxation, submultiple, sulfureting, superfluity, tristimulus, tuberculins, undulations, uninsulated, unspiritual, ventriculus.
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