8-letter words containing iu
- proprium — a nonessential property common to all the members of a class; attribute.
- psyllium — fleawort.
- puparium — a hard barrel-shaped case enclosing the pupae of the housefly and other dipterous insects
- pygidium — any of various structures or regions at the caudal end of the body in certain invertebrates.
- pyxidium — a seed vessel that opens transversely, the top part acting as a lid, as in the purslane.
- radium a — a substance, formed by decay of radon, that gives rise to radium B.
- radium b — an isotope of lead, formed by decay of radium A, that gives rise to radium C, which is an isotope of bismuth, from which radium D, radium E, and radium F, or polonium 210, are derived.
- radium f — an isotope of polonium: polonium 210.
- radiuses — 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.
- ranarium — a place for keeping or rearing frogs
- refugium — an area where special environmental circumstances have enabled a species or a community of species to survive after extinction in surrounding areas.
- risorius — a facial muscle responsible for smiling
- rosarium — a rose garden.
- rubidium — a silver-white, metallic, active element resembling potassium, used in photoelectric cells and radio vacuum tubes. Symbol: Rb; atomic weight: 85.47; atomic number: 37; specific gravity: 1.53 at 20°C.
- samarium — a rare-earth metallic element discovered in samarskite. Symbol: Sm; atomic weight: 150.35; atomic number: 62; specific gravity: 7.49.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- scholium — Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.
- sciurine — of or relating to the squirrels and allied rodents of the family Sciuridae.
- sciuroid — sciurine.
- scorpius — a large zodiacal constellation lying between Libra and Sagittarius and crossed by the Milky Way. It contains the first magnitude star Antares
- scrinium — a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.
- selenium — a nonmetallic element chemically resembling sulfur and tellurium, occurring in several allotropic forms, as crystalline and amorphous, and having an electrical resistance that varies under the influence of light. Symbol: Se; atomic weight: 78.96; atomic number: 34; specific gravity: (gray) 4.80 at 25°C, (red) 4.50 at 25°C.
- senarius — a Latin verse of six feet, especially an iambic trimeter.
- shangqiu — a city in E Henan province, in E China.
- sibelius — Jean (Julius Christian) [zhahn yoo-lyoo s kris-tyahn] /ʒɑn ˈyu lyʊs ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1865–1957, Finnish composer.
- silicium — silicon.
- silphium — an American flowering wild plant of the family Asteraceae
- simulium — a blood-sucking, tropical fly of the genus Simulium
- siricius — Saint, died a.d. 399, pope 384–399.
- sirius b — a very faint white dwarf star, companion to Sirius, the brightest star in the sky after the sun
- solarium — a glass-enclosed room, porch, or the like, exposed to the sun's rays, as at a seaside hotel or for convalescents in a hospital.
- solatium — something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss, injury, or the like; recompense.
- soralium — (in a lichen) a group of soredia.
- soredium — a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- splenium — a structure in the brain
- splenius — a broad muscle on each side of the back of the neck and the upper part of the thoracic region, the action of which draws the head backward and assists in turning it to one side.
- subilium — the broad, upper portion of either hipbone.
- sudarium — (in ancient Rome) a cloth, usually of linen, for wiping the face; handkerchief.
- syconium — a multiple fruit developed from a hollow fleshy receptacle containing numerous flowers, as in the fig.
- thallium — a soft, malleable, rare, bluish-white metallic element: used in the manufacture of alloys and, in the form of its salts, in rodenticides. Symbol: Tl; atomic weight: 204.37; atomic number: 81; specific gravity: 11.85 at 20°C.
- thespius — the founder of the city of Thespiae and the father, by Megamede, of 50 daughters, all of whom bore sons to Hercules.
- tiberius — (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar) 42 b.c.–a.d. 37, Roman emperor 14–37.
- tiselius — Arne [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–71, Swedish biochemist: Nobel prize 1948.
- titanium — a dark-gray or silvery, lustrous, very hard, light, corrosion-resistant, metallic element, occurring combined in various minerals: used in metallurgy to remove oxygen and nitrogen from steel and to toughen it. Symbol: Ti; atomic weight: 47.90; atomic number: 22; specific gravity: 4.5 at 20°C.
- topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
- trillium — any of several plants belonging to the genus Trillium, of the lily family, having a whorl of three leaves from the center of which rises a solitary, three-petalled flower.
- triumvir — Roman History. one of three officers or magistrates mutually exercising the same public function.
- triunity — Trinity (defs 4, 5).
- ununbium — copernicium.
- vanadium — a rare element occurring in certain minerals and obtained as a light-gray powder with a silvery luster or as a ductile metal: used as an ingredient of steel to toughen it and increase its shock resistance. Symbol: V; atomic weight: 50.942; atomic number: 23; specific gravity: 5.96.