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10-letter words that end in ium

  • lenocinium — tacit encouragement of, or assent to, adultery committed by one's partner
  • locutorium — parlor (def 4).
  • lycopodium — any erect or creeping, mosslike, evergreen plant of the genus Lycopodium, as the club moss or ground pine.
  • meitnerium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element. Symbol: Mt; atomic number: 109.
  • mesovarium — the mesentery of the ovary.
  • millennium — a period of 1000 years.
  • miracidium — the larva that hatches from the egg of a trematode worm or fluke.
  • monopodium — a single main axis that continues to extend at the apex in the original line of growth, giving off lateral branches beneath in acropetal succession.
  • monosodium — containing one atom of sodium.
  • moratorium — a suspension of activity: a moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons.
  • myocardium — the muscular substance of the heart.
  • myometrium — The smooth muscle tissue of the uterus.
  • nasturtium — any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, cultivated for its showy, usually orange, red, or yellow flowers or for its fruit, which is pickled and used like capers.
  • natatorium — a swimming pool, especially one that is indoors.
  • neopallium — neocortex.
  • nephridium — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
  • neutronium — (physics) the supposed material composed entirely of neutrons that composes a neutron star.
  • notopodium — (zoology) The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium.
  • oceanarium — a large saltwater aquarium for the display and observation of fish and other marine life.
  • ommatidium — one of the radial elements composing a compound eye.
  • opprobrium — the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
  • osmeterium — a glandular process on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that emits a noxious odor to ward off predators.
  • osmiridium — iridosmine.
  • oxycalcium — pertaining to or produced by oxygen and calcium.
  • panaritium — a whitlow
  • pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
  • paramecium — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
  • parapodium — one of the unjointed rudimentary limbs or processes of locomotion of many worms, as annelids.
  • peridinium — a member of the Peridinium genus of marine- or freshwater-dwelling dinoflagellate organisms characterized by armoured plates
  • perigonium — the envelope of modified leaves surrounding the antheridia in mosses.
  • perimysium — the connective tissue surrounding bundles of skeletal muscle fibers.
  • phyllodium — phyllode.
  • plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
  • polemonium — a member of the genus Polemonium
  • praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
  • praetorium — (in Roman history) the headquarters or residence of a Roman official, governor or military commander
  • primordium — the first recognizable, histologically differentiated stage in the development of an organ.
  • principium — a principle.
  • procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
  • promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
  • proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
  • prostomium — the unsegmented, preoral portion of the head of certain lower invertebrates.
  • psalterium — the omasum.
  • puerperium — the four-week period following childbirth.
  • quadrivium — (during the Middle Ages) the more advanced division of the seven liberal arts, comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
  • quarkonium — a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.
  • sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
  • sanitarium — an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort.
  • sanitorium — a facility for housing patients with long-term illnesses
  • sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
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