6-letter words with IU in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter IU is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of IU in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how IU in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| genius | 7 | unusual mental ability | - |
| medium | 11 | (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public | - |
| radius | 7 | the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere | - |
| sodium | 9 | a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt) | - |
| valium | 11 | a tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles; acts by enhancing the inhibitory actions of the neurotransmitter GABA; can also be used as an anticonvulsant drug in cases of nerve agent poisoning | - |
| helium | 11 | a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas) | - |
| podium | 11 | a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | - |
| atrium | 8 | any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart) | - |
| radium | 9 | an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores | - |
| tedium | 9 | the feeling of being bored by something tedious | - |
| barium | 10 | a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite | - |
| triune | 6 | being three in one; used especially of the Christian Trinity | a triune God |
| cesium | 10 | a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal | - |
| filius | 9 | - | - |
| qiviut | 18 | - | - |
| regius | 7 | - | - |
| sepium | 10 | - | - |
| telium | 8 | - | - |
| wikiup | 15 | a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States | - |
| xenium | 15 | - | - |
| tomium | 10 | - | - |
| ionium | 8 | - | - |
| kalium | 12 | - | - |
| labium | 10 | a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva) | - |
| lolium | 8 | darnel; ryegrass | - |
| medius | 9 | - | - |
| minium | 10 | a reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints and in glass and ceramics | - |
| modius | 9 | - | - |
| miurus | 8 | - | - |
| milium | 10 | a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland | - |
| oidium | 9 | - | - |
| odiums | 9 | - | - |
| ostium | 8 | - | - |
| osmium | 10 | a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known | - |
| oniums | 8 | - | - |
| omnium | 10 | - | - |
| opiums | 10 | - | - |
| indium | 9 | a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite | - |
| diuron | 7 | - | - |
| dolium | 9 | - | - |
| echium | 13 | a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae | - |
| erbium | 10 | a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium | - |
| folium | 11 | a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock | - |
| gonium | 9 | - | - |
| giusto | 7 | - | - |
| giusts | 7 | - | - |
| corium | 10 | the deep vascular inner layer of the skin | - |
| curium | 10 | a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei | - |
| cerium | 10 | a ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth group | - |
| cilium | 10 | any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | - |
| conium | 10 | small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock | - |
| bivium | 13 | - | - |
| aecium | 10 | fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores | - |
| allium | 8 | large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae as the type genus | - |
