8-letter words containing ium
- scholium — Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.
- 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.
- silicium — silicon.
- silphium — an American flowering wild plant of the family Asteraceae
- simulium — a blood-sucking, tropical fly of the genus Simulium
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- velarium — an awning drawn over a theater or amphitheater as a protection from rain or the sun.
- venidium — any composite flowering plant of the S African genus Venidium
- vivarium — a place, such as a laboratory, where live animals or plants are kept under conditions simulating their natural environment, as for research.
- zooecium — a part of a polyzoan colony that houses the feeding zooids