Noun, : A few faithful friends formed the nucleus of the club.    From Dictionary.com. 

No protons, then no atomic nucleuses and no atoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Self-Creating Universe Based in Teleological Backward Causation] Reference

No, even that is a perspective-oriented approach: it's just a certain number of electrons flying round nucleuses of atoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [open source theology - Comments] Reference

Hall, Price, and Kelsey headed in with straggling wagons to form the nucleuses of their columns; but the morning wore on and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Covered Wagon] Reference

July 9th, 2010 at 8: 45 am artresh: your "theory" is lacking. how do you explain nucleuses without electrons, such as alpha particles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

It had been observed that patients with auto-immune diseases make antibodies to the proteins in their cell nucleuses but it was not known why.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

Going to Europe didn't hurt the Penguins or the Blackhawks, two teams that relied on their young nucleuses to win championships in back-to-back years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

The astronomers tell us that some of these comets have no visible nucleuses -- that the fixed stars are seen through their apparent densest parts, and that they can be nothing but luminous gases; while, on the other hand, others do betray dark compact bodies of more solid matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Europe] Reference

I mean I think the question is, that's the roll of the Zinc Finger nucleuses, which as you know cleaves within the CCR5 coding sequence to disrupt the expression of that gene and I think the mistake that's made here is to think that results in the presentation of a modified CCR5 protein.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

"steering" nucleuses in the various security and intelligence communities. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [POWs and Politics - Part 1] Reference

9-11 was a hit to the financial world as The Twin Towers were places where the nucleuses of the world’s financial markets were housed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinister Reasons For Wall Street Bailout] Reference

I have observed delicatessens, monsignors, virtuosos, rathskellers, kindergartens, nucleuses and appendixes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8. American Spelling. 6. The Treatment of Loan-Words] Reference