Certain contact groups on iPhone?

I have 2 groups in my address book: "All Contacts" and "Cell"
With iCloud I have all the contact on my phone where I'd only like the "Cell" group. I can easily sort between groups in the Contacts app but it's very annoying when I'm sending a SMS or composing an email and every single one of my contacts begins to pop up as I begin typing.
Any way around this?

Or maybe asking it a different way it is possible to only sync certain groups between my Address Book on my Mac and iCloud?

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