6-letter words containing io
- diobol — (in ancient Greece) a coin worth two obols
- diodes — Plural form of diode.
- dioecy — The condition of being dioecious.
- diotic — pertaining to or affecting both ears; binaural.
- dioxan — a colourless insoluble toxic liquid made by heating ethanediol with sulphuric acid; 1,4-diethylene dioxide: used as a solvent, esp for waxes and cellulose acetate resins. Formula: (CH2)2O(CH2)2O
- dioxin — a general name for a family of chlorinated hydrocarbons, C 12 H 4 Cl 4 O 2 , typically used to refer to one isomer, TCDD, a by-product of pesticide manufacture: a toxic compound that is carcinogenic and teratogenic in certain animals.
- doppio — Having two shots of espresso.
- dupion — a cocoon formed jointly by two silkworms.
- durion — Alternative form of durian.
- elliot — a masculine name
- embrio — Archaic form of embryo.
- ethion — a type of liquid pesticide
- ethiop — Ethiopian
- fangio — Juan Manuel [wahn man-wel;; Spanish hwahn mah-nwel] /ˈwɑn mænˈwɛl;; Spanish ˈʰwɑn mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1911–1995, Argentine racing-car driver.
- fanion — a small flag, originally carried by military brigades, used by soldiers and surveyors as a positional marker.
- fascio — an organized political group, esp in 19th-century Italy
- ferior — (slang) From inferior by dropping prefix in-, meaning the opposite of inferior, or excellent, superior.
- fiords — Plural form of fiord.
- fiorin — a temperate perennial grass, Agrostis stolonifera
- florio — John, 1553?–1625, English lexicographer and translator.
- folios — Plural form of folio.
- friode — (humour, electronics) /fri:'ohd/ (TMRC) A reversible (that is, fused, blown, or fried) diode. A friode may have been a SED at some time. See also LER.
- fusion — the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.
- gabion — a cylinder of wickerwork filled with earth, used as a military defense.
- galion — a city in N central Ohio.
- galiot — a small galley propelled by both sails and oars.
- giotto — (Giotto di Bondone) 1266?–1337, Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect.
- glioma — a tumor of the brain composed of neuroglia.
- gonio- — angle
- gonion — Craniometry. a point on each side of the lower jaw at the mandibular angle.
- gorgio — a word used by Gypsies for a non-Gypsy
- griots — Plural form of griot.
- hagio- — indicating a saint, saints, or holiness
- havior — (obsolete) behaviour; demeanor.
- helio- — indicating the sun
- helion — (physics) The nucleus of a helium-3 atom.
- helios — the ancient Greek god of the sun, represented as driving a chariot across the heavens; identified by the Romans with Sol.
- heriot — a feudal service or tribute, originally of borrowed military equipment and later of a chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant.
- hesiod — fl. 8th century b.c., Greek poet.
- ibibio — the Benue-Congo language of the Ibibio people, very closely related to Efik.
- idiocy — utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.: All this talk of zombies coming to attack us is pure idiocy.
- idioms — an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- idiota — (pejorative, slang) fool or imbecile.
- idiots — Plural form of idiot.
- inions — Plural form of inion.
- iodate — Chemistry. a salt of iodic acid, as sodium iodate, NaIO 3 .
- iodide — a salt of hydriotic acid consisting of two elements, one of which is iodine, as sodium iodide, NaI.
- iodine — a nonmetallic halogen element occurring at ordinary temperatures as a grayish-black crystalline solid that sublimes to a dense violet vapor when heated: used in medicine as an antiseptic. Symbol: I; atomic weight: 126.904; atomic number: 53; specific gravity: (solid) 4.93 at 20°C.
- iodise — (British) alternative spelling of iodize.
- iodism — poisoning caused by sensitivity to or overuse of iodine or its compounds.