The word I'm thinking of ends in '-ous'.

我想到的这个词以ous结尾。

《牛津词典》

One in every three marriages ends in divorce.

三分之一的婚姻都以离婚而告终。

《牛津词典》

There are some annoying loose ends in the plot.

情节中有一些令人烦恼、尚待弄清的东西。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The two sides have been negotiating a new treaty to reduce nuclear arms, to replace a treaty that ends in December.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

OK. Note, by the way, if I chase through each possible path, like there's some IFs in here, if there's some places to go, at least in this piece of code, every possible path through this code ends in a return. And that's a good programming discipline, to make sure that happens.

注意一下,如果我跟进每一条可能的路径，像是这里的，起码在这段代码中就有很多走向，这段代码中的每一条可能路径,在结尾都会返回一个值,这就是一条很好的编程定律，请确保这样做。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He is appointed or authorized to secure for the people the, in many ways, limited ends of peace and security.

他是由人民任命并授权,让他行使权力保卫人民的安全，保卫来之不易的和平。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The race will be run over 37, 000 miles and ends in St Petersburg next June.

BBC: Walker to set sail in Volvo race

"The opening begins in peace and harmony, and ends in incompleteness, " Mr. Goode explains.

WSJ: Plumbing the Depths of Beethoven | Richard Goode | Cultural Conversation by Stuart Isacoff

The rally begins and ends in the town of Rovaniemi in the Arctic Circle.

BBC: Hakkinen may do more rallies