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9-letter words containing iu

  • pentium 2 — Pentium II
  • pentium 3 — Pentium III
  • perradius — any of the main rays of a member of the Radiata group
  • petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
  • pistorius — Oscar (Leonard Carl), born 1986, South African sprinter in races for below-the-knee amputees; winner of six Paralympic gold medals (2004–2012); found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (1983–2013)
  • pius viii — (Francesco Saverio Castiglioni) 1761–1830, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1829–30.
  • plutonium — a transuranic element with a fissile isotope of mass number 239 (plutonium 239) that can be produced from non-fissile uranium 238, as in a breeder reactor. Symbol: Pu; atomic number: 94.
  • pollinium — an agglutinated mass or body of pollen grains, characteristic of plants of the orchid and milkweed families.
  • pomoerium — the space around a town within the city walls
  • potassium — a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. Symbol: K; atomic weight: 39.102; atomic number: 19; specific gravity: 0.86 at 20°C.
  • presidium — (in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries) an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers: the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
  • pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
  • procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
  • pterygium — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
  • purdonium — a type of coal scuttle having a slanted cover that is raised to open it, and an inner removable metal container for the coal
  • pycnidium — (in certain ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti) a globose or flask-shaped fruiting body bearing conidia on conidiophores.
  • qiu chuji — Ch'iu Ch'u-chi.
  • quinarius — a denomination of ancient Roman coinage, issued in silver or gold at various times and undergoing many changes of value.
  • reptilium — a building for the public exhibition of reptiles.
  • retiarius — a gladiator equipped with a net for casting over his opponent.
  • rhipidium — a fan-shaped arrangement of flowers on a plant
  • rhizobium — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Rhizobium, found as symbiotic nitrogen fixers in nodules on the roots of the bean, clover, etc.
  • ruthenium — a steel-gray, rare metallic element, belonging to the platinum group of metals. Symbol: Ru; atomic weight: 101.07; atomic number: 44; specific gravity: 12.2 at 20°C.
  • sacrarium — Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
  • sartorius — a long, flat, narrow muscle extending obliquely from the front of the hip to the inner side of the tibia, assisting in bending the hip or knee joint and in rotating the thigh outward: the longest muscle in humans.
  • semiurban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
  • sensorium — a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
  • septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
  • sergius i — died a.d. 701, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 687–701.
  • sertorius — Quintus [kwin-tuh s] /ˈkwɪn təs/ (Show IPA), died 72 b.c, Roman general and statesman.
  • sextarius — an ancient Roman measurement for volume
  • silverius — Saint, died a.d. 537, pope 536–37.
  • sisinnius — pope a.d. 708.
  • sporidium — a small spore produced on the basidia or promycelia of fungi, etc
  • stapedius — the small muscle in the inner ear attached to and controlling the stapes
  • strontium — a bivalent, metallic element whose compounds resemble those of calcium, found in nature only in the combined state, as in strontianite: used in fireworks, flares, and tracer bullets. Symbol: Sr; atomic weight: 87.62; atomic number: 38; specific gravity: 2.6.
  • suetonius — (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus) a.d. 75–150, Roman historian.
  • sulfonium — the positively charged group H 3 S + , its salts, or their substitute products.
  • sympodium — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
  • symposium — a meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, especially a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience.
  • synangium — a common vascular junction from which several arteries branch
  • syncytium — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
  • taruntius — a crater in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 38 miles (61 km) in diameter.
  • tellurium — a rare, lustrous, brittle, crystalline, silver-white element resembling sulfur in its properties, and usually occurring in nature combined with gold, silver, or other metals of high atomic weight: used in the manufacture of alloys and as a coloring agent in glass and ceramics. Symbol: Te; atomic weight: 127.60; atomic number: 52; specific gravity: 6.24.
  • tentorium — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
  • terrarium — a vivarium for land animals (distinguished from aquarium).
  • thalamium — thalamus (def 3).
  • trapezium — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
  • trapezius — a broad, flat muscle on each side of the upper and back part of the neck, shoulders, and back, the action of which raises, or rotates, or draws back the shoulders, and pulls the head backward or to one side.
  • triennium — a period of three years.
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