6-Letter Words Containing: RIO

• religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress

• curved rodlike motile bacterium

• a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties

• an amount of time

• the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

• (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

• a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

• the end or completion of something

• the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

• a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

• The return of military equipment

• A payment made to a lord on the death of a tenant

• A tribute

• (virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses)

• a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)

• an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country

• something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

• (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system