6-letter words containing iu
- latium — a country in ancient Italy, SE of Rome.
- lucius — (Ubaldo Allucingoli) died 1185, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1181–85.
- madiun — a city on E central Java, in Indonesia.
- marius — Gaius, c155–86 b.c, Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
- medium — a middle state or condition; mean.
- medius — the middle finger.
- milium — a small white or yellowish nodule resembling a millet seed, produced in the skin by the retention of sebaceous secretion.
- minium — red lead.
- miurus — a type of metre in poetry consisting of a hexameter with a short second last syllable
- mobius — August Ferdinand [ou-goo st fer-di-nahnt] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1790–1868, German mathematician.
- modius — a measure of capacity or quantity for dry substances that equates to about 9 litres
- niuean — of or relating to the S Pacific island of Niue or its inhabitants
- oidium — one of the conidia that are borne in chains by certain fungi.
- omnium — (cycling) A multiple race event in track cycling. Historically the omnium has had a variety of formats. Currently it consists of the following six events: flying lap, points race, elimination, individual pursuit, scratch race, and time trial.
- opiums — Plural form of opium.
- osmium — a hard, heavy, metallic element having the greatest density of the known elements and forming octavalent compounds, as OsO 4 and OsF 8 : used chiefly as a catalyst, in alloys, and in the manufacture of electric-light filaments. Symbol: Os; atomic weight: 190.2; atomic number: 76; specific gravity: 22.57.
- ostium — Anatomy, Zoology. a small opening or orifice, as at the end of the oviduct.
- paiute — a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
- piupiu — a skirt made from the leaves of the New Zealand flax, worn by Māoris on ceremonial occasions
- pius i — Saint, pope a.d. 140–155?.
- pius v — Saint (Michele Ghislieri) 1504–72, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1566–72.
- pius x — Saint (Giuseppe Sarto) 1835–1914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1903–14.
- podium — a small platform for the conductor of an orchestra, a public speaker, the recipient of a sports medal, etc.
- qiviut — the soft, dense, light-brown woolly undercoat of the musk ox, used in making fabrics.
- radium — Chemistry. a highly radioactive metallic element whose decay yields radon gas and alpha rays. Symbol: Ra; atomic weight: 226; atomic number: 88.
- radius — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- regius — of or belonging to a king.
- sirius — Astronomy. the Dog Star, the brightest-appearing star in the heavens, located in the constellation Canis Major.
- sodium — Chemistry. a soft, silver-white, metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in moist air, occurring in nature only in the combined state, and used in the synthesis of sodium peroxide, sodium cyanide, and tetraethyllead: a necessary element in the body for the maintenance of normal fluid balance and other physiological functions. Symbol: Na; atomic weight: 22.9898; atomic number: 11; specific gravity: 0.97 at 20°C.
- tatius — a Sabine king who, following the rape of the Sabine women, attacked Rome and eventually ruled with Romulus.
- tedium — the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness.
- telium — the cluster of spore cases of the rust and smut fungi, bearing teliospores.
- tomium — the cutting edge of a bird's bill.
- triune — three in one; constituting a trinity in unity, as the Godhead.
- uisliu — Uisnech.
- valium — Valium is a drug given to people to calm their nerves when they are very depressed or upset.
- wikiup — (in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats.
- xenium — A gift or offering.