4K+ Words That Rhyme With IRIS-XIPHIUM

• a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite

• large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae as the type genus

• (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants

• a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles

• a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal

• spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore

• a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons

• a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium

• a radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium

• any of numerous plants of the family Geraniaceae

• the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised

• supreme authority; absolute dominion

• a radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium

• a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol)

• a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged

• suspension of an ongoing activity

• a radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor

• a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite

• a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite

• a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold

• a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite

• a vivarium in which selected living plants are kept and observed

• The membrane (or periosteum) which covers the outer surface of the skull.

• The head, skull; one's mind.

• a soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an ion-exchange process

• fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores

• the male sex organ of spore-producing plants; produces antherozoids; equivalent to the anther in flowers

• a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi

• a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms

• a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal

• genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum

• the univalent cation R-N:N- (where R is an aromatic hydrocarbon); found in salts that are used in manufacturing azo dyes

• a transuranic element with atomic number 105

• the muscle and aponeurosis and skin covering the cranium

• (rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse

• evergreen twining shrubs of Americas and southeastern Asia

• a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti)

• a transuranic element with atomic number 105

• a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 108

• a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host

• spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia

• the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae)

• a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 109

• the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae

• a soft grey ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbium

• a hard and corrosion resistant mineral that is a natural alloy of osmium and iridium (usually containing small amounts of rhodium and platinum); used in needles and pen nibs etc.

• genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin

• a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session

• the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant

• either of two thickened triangular layers of conjunctiva extending from the nasal edge of the eye to the cornea; it arises from irritation of the pinguecula

• flask-shaped asexual structure containing conidia

• a period of five years