6-letter words containing io
- oriole — any of several usually brightly colored, passerine birds of the family Oriolidae, of the Old World. Compare golden oriole.
- otiose — being at leisure; idle; indolent.
- pavior — a person that paves; paver.
- pedion — a crystal form having only a single face, without a symmetrical equivalent: unique to the triclinic system.
- pelion — Mount, a mountain near the E coast of Greece, in Thessaly. 5252 feet (1600 meters).
- period — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.
- pernio — chilblain.
- physio — physical therapy
- pinion — the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
- piniós — river in Thessaly, E Greece, flowing eastward to the Gulf of Salonika: 125 mi (201 km)
- piolet — an ice ax used in mountaineering.
- pioned — abounding in wild flowers
- pionic — relating to or involving a pion
- piopio — a New Zealand thrush, Turnagra capensis, thought to be extinct
- pioted — pied
- piozzi — Hester Lynch, Thrale, Hester Lynch.
- pleio- — pleo-
- porion — the most lateral point in the roof of the bony external auditory meatus.
- potion — a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers: a love potion; a sleeping potion.
- priory — a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey.
- radio- — denoting radio, broadcasting, or radio frequency
- ration — a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
- region — an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body: a region of the earth.
- riccio — David [Italian dah-veed] /Italian ˈdɑ vid/ (Show IPA), Rizzio.
- rioted — a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- rioter — a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- riotry — riotous behaviour
- rizzio — David [dah-veed] /ˈdɑ vid/ (Show IPA), 1533?–66, Italian musician: private foreign secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots 1564–66.
- ronion — a mangy creature.
- savior — a person who saves, rescues, or delivers: the savior of the country.
- scioto — a river in central Ohio, flowing S to the Ohio River. 237 miles (382 km) long.
- scipio — Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major [puhb-lee-uh s kawr-neel-yuh s,, af-ri-key-nuh s,, -kan-uh s,, -kahn-] /ˈpʌb li əs kɔrˈnil yəs,, ˌæf rɪˈkeɪ nəs,, -ˈkæn əs,, -ˈkɑn-/ (Show IPA), ("Scipio the Elder") 237–183 b.c, Roman general who defeated Hannibal.
- senior — older or elder (designating the older of two men bearing the same name, as a father whose son is named after him, often written as Sr. or sr. following the name): I'd like to speak with the senior Mr. Hansen, please. I'm privileged to introduce Mr. Edward Andrew Hansen, Sr. Compare junior (def 1).
- serlio — Sebastiano 1475–1554, Italian architect and painter, best known for his treatise Complete Works on Architecture and Perspective (1537–75), the first to set out the principles of classical architecture and to give rules for their application
- siouan — an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
- socio- — Socio- is used to form adjectives and nouns which describe or refer to things relating to or involving social factors.
- solion — Chemistry, Electricity. a low-frequency amplifying device that operates by controlling the flow of ions in solution: some types, as the micropump, accomplish this by means of electro-osmotic pressure.
- studio — the workroom or atelier of an artist, as a painter or sculptor.
- talion — lex talionis.
- tercio — a regiment of Spanish or Italian infantry
- triode — a vacuum tube containing three elements, usually anode, cathode, and control grid.
- triose — a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- turion — a small shoot, as of asparagus or certain aquatic plants, from which a new plant can develop.
- ultion — revenge; vengeance; retaliation
- ustion — the act of burning
- vaphio — an archaeological site in S Greece, in Peloponnesus.
- vario- — indicating variety or difference
- vibrio — any of several comma- or S -shaped bacteria of the genus Vibrio, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals.
- violer — a person who plays the viol
- violet — a female given name.