9-letter words containing iu
- hospitium — a hospice.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- impluvium — a basin or tank within a compluvium.
- iudgement — Obsolete spelling of judgement.
- januarius — Saint, a.d. 272?–305? Italian ecclesiastic and martyr: patron saint of Naples.
- joliotium — (chemistry, obsolete) A rejected name for dubnium.
- julius ii — (Giuliano della Rovere) 1443–1513, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1503–13.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- kiungchow — Qiongzhou.
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.
- kosciusko — Thaddeus (Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kościuszko) 1746–1817, Polish patriot: general in the American Revolutionary army.
- lixiviums — Plural form of lixivium.
- londinium — the Latin name for London when it was a Roman city
- lucius ii — (Gherardo Caccianemici dell' Orso) died 1145, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1144–45.
- lucretius — (Titus Lucretius Carus) 97?–54 b.c, Roman poet and philosopher.
- magnalium — an alloy of magnesium and aluminum, sometimes also containing copper, nickel, tin, and lead.
- magnesium — a light, ductile, silver-white, metallic element that burns with a dazzling white light, used in lightweight alloys, flares, fireworks, in the manufacture of flashbulbs, optical mirrors, and precision instruments, and as a zinc substitute in batteries. Symbol: Mg; atomic weight: 24.312; atomic number: 12; specific gravity: 1.74 at 20°C.
- manubrium — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- marrubium — Any of the genus Marrubium of bitter aromatic plants; hoarhound.
- marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
- martyrium — a place where the relics of a martyr are kept.
- mastigium — an extensible, lashlike, anal organ in certain caterpillars.
- mauritius — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- mazaedium — a fruiting body of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota in which there is a powdery mass of spores.
- menoetius — a Titan, the brother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas.
- mercurius — (Mercurius) died a.d. 535, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 533–535.
- mesangium — (anatomy) A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.
- methodius — Saint (Apostle of the Slavs) a.d. c825–885, Greek missionary in Moravia (brother of Saint Cyril).
- metridium — any sea anemone of the genus Metridium, common in cooler waters of the Northern Hemisphere.
- millenium — Misspelling of millennium.
- moscovium — a highly radioactive element, of which only a few atoms have ever been produced. Symbol: Mc; atomic no: 115; atomic wt: 289
- multiunit — a single thing or person.
- multiuser — (of a computer system) able to be used by a number of people simultaneously.
- mysterium — (chemistry, alchemy, now historical) Any of various unknown elements thought to make up existing forms of matter, or a substance seen as an elemental or pure form of something else.
- neodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element occurring with cerium and other rare-earth metals, and having rose-colored to violet-colored salts. Symbol: Nd; atomic weight: 144.24; atomic number: 60; specific gravity: 6.9 at 20°C.
- neptunium — a transuranic element produced in nuclear reactors by the neutron bombardment of U-238: decays rapidly to plutonium and then to U-235. Symbol: Np; atomic number: 93.
- nestorius — died a.d. 451? Syrian ecclesiastic: patriarch of Constantinople 428–431.
- nitronium — (inorganic chemistry) The univalent cation NO2+ derived from nitrogen dioxide.
- niuzhuang — former name of Yingkou.
- novaesium — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Düsseldorf: founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century ad. Pop: 152 050 (2003 est)
- ololiuqui — a woody vine, Turbina corymbosa, of the morning glory family, native to Central America, having seeds that are hallucinogenic and are used in some Indian rituals.
- ophiuchus — a large constellation lying on the celestial equator between Hercules and Scorpius and containing the dark nebula, Ophiuchus Nebula
- ophiuroid — any echinoderm of the subclass Ophiuroidea, including brittle stars, basket stars, and others, characterized by elongate arms radiating from the disk.
- opium den — 19th-century place of drug taking
- opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- ossuarium — ossuary.
- otoconium — (anatomy) An otolith or statolith.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- palladium — a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.