Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 12 compound words that contain opus. The most common are listed below. Open opus in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- magnum opusA great or important work of literature, music or art, a masterpiece.
- Opus DeiThe Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization composed of a prelate, secular clergy and lay people, whose mission is to spread the Catholic teaching that everyone is called to become a saint; its lay members …
- opus spicatumHerringbone masonry.
- opus magnumAlternative form of magnum opus: A great or important work of literature, music or art, a masterpiece.
- opus anglicanumFine medieval English needlework, often using gold and silver threads on a rich velvet or linen ground.
- opus caementiciumSynonym of Roman concrete: A construction material used in ancient Rome, based on a hydraulic-setting cement added to an aggregate.
- opus incertumAn Ancient Roman construction technique, using irregular-shaped and randomly placed uncut stones or fist-sized tuff blocks inserted in a core of opus caementicium (Roman concrete).
- opus latericiumAn Ancient Roman construction technique in which coursed brickwork is used to face a core of opus caementicium.
- opus operatumThe spiritual effect in the performance of a religious rite which accrues from the virtue inherent in it, or by grace imparted to it, irrespective of the performer.
- opus quadratumAn ancient Roman construction technique in which squared blocks of stone of the same height were set in parallel courses, most often without the use of mortar.
- opus reticulatumA facing used for concrete walls in Ancient Roman architecture, with small pyramidal tuff embedded in a concrete core.
- opus sectileA form of pietra dura, popular in the ancient and medieval western world, in which materials are cut and inlaid into walls and floors to create images or patterns.
- opus vermiculatumA method of laying mosaic tesserae to emphasize an outline around a subject.
- opus operantisThe spiritual effect in the performance of a religious rite that is ascribed chiefly or exclusively to the disposition of the recipient.
Compound words 12
- opusculeA small or petty work.
- magnoperateTo magnify the greatness of (someone or something); to exalt.
- octopusAny of several marine molluscs of the order Octopoda, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
- CanopusA white bright giant, visually the second brightest star in the night sky, a part of the southern constellation of Carina.
- mucopusa mixture of mucus and pus
- kokopusplural of kokopu: Any of various fish of the genus Galaxias, endemic to New Zealand.
- pleopusAlternative spelling of pleopod: One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean.
- saltopusA small carnivorous dinosaur, Saltopus elginensis, which lived during the upper Triassic era.
- lagopusThe ptarmigan.
- opuscleObsolete form of opuscule: A small or petty work.