8-letter words containing iu
- indusium — Botany, Mycology. any of several structures having a netlike or skirtlike shape, as the membranous overgrowth covering the sori in ferns.
- ingenium — genius; talent
- ingenius — Misspelling of ingenious.
- inradius — the radius of the circle inscribed in a triangle.
- jiujitsu — a method developed in Japan of defending oneself without the use of weapons by using the strength and weight of an adversary to disable him.
- jiujutsu — Alt form jujitsu.
- julius i — Saint, died a.d. 352, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 337–352.
- kong qiu — personal name of Confucius.
- kwakiutl — a member of a North American Indian people of Vancouver Island and the adjacent British Columbian coast.
- lararium — (in an ancient Roman home) a shrine for the Lares.
- liberius — died a.d. 366, pope 352–366.
- liu pang — 247–195 b.c, Chinese emperor: founder of the Han dynasty 202 b.c.
- lixivium — the solution, containing alkaline salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes with water; lye.
- lucilius — Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), c180–102? b.c, Roman satirist.
- lucius i — Saint, died a.d. 254, pope 253–254.
- lutecium — a trivalent rare-earth element. Symbol: Lu; atomic weight: 174.97; atomic number: 71.
- lutetium — a trivalent rare-earth element. Symbol: Lu; atomic weight: 174.97; atomic number: 71.
- lygodium — (botany) Any of the genus Lygodium of climbing ferns.
- mamurius — a smith who made 11 copies of the Ancile to prevent thieves from recognizing the original.
- manutius — Aldus [awl-duh s,, al-] /ˈɔl dəs,, ˈæl-/ (Show IPA), (Teobaldo Mannucci or Manuzio) 1450–1515, Italian printer and classical scholar.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- masurium — technetium
- meconium — the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.
- motorium — the area of the brain or nervous system involved in movement
- multiuse — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- mycelium — the mass of hyphae that form the vegetative part of a fungus.
- nauplius — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
- nebulium — a hypothetical element once thought to be present in emission nebulae because of certain unidentified spectral lines, now known to be forbidden transitions of oxygen and nitrogen ions.
- nihonium — a highly radioactive element, of which only a few atoms have ever been produced. Symbol: Nh; atomic no: 113; atomic wt: 286
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- octavius — a male given name.
- oncidium — any of numerous tropical American orchids of the genus Oncidium, having clusters of flowers showing great variety in size, form, and color.
- onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
- oogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to oocytes.
- opiumism — the addictive use of opium as a stimulant or intoxicant.
- opsonium — any food used as a relish, such as chutney
- palatium — a palace, especially the palace of an ancient Roman emperor.
- patagium — a wing membrane, as of a bat.
- peculium — property that a father or master allowed his child or slave to hold as his own
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- peridium — the outer enveloping coat of the fruit body in many fungi.
- petavius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter from crest to crest.
- phormium — any plant of the New Zealand bulbous genus Phormium, with leathery evergreen leaves and red or yellow flowers in panicles
- pius iii — (Francesco Nanni Todeschini Piccolomini) 1439–1503, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1503.
- pius vii — (Luigi Barnaba Chiaramonti) 1740–1823, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1800–23.
- pius xii — (Eugenio Pacelli) 1876–1958, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1939–58.
- podetium — (in certain lichens) a stalk bearing an apothecium.
- polonium — a radioactive element discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898; Symbol: Po; atomic number: 84; atomic weight: about 210.
- polonius — the sententious father of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- polybius — c205–c123 b.c, Greek historian.