Rhymes for NEPHRIDIUM

• a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information

• the surrounding environment

• an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication

• (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms

• a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter

• (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed

• an intervening substance through which something is achieved

• a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position

• someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead

• (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public

• an occupation for which you are especially well suited

• around the middle of a scale of evaluation

• (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside

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

• an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores

• a white hard metallic element that is one of the platinum group and is found in platinum ores; used in alloys with platinum

• A protozoan, of the genus Cryptosporidium, that is an intestinal parasite of humans and other vertebrates; can cause diarrhea and other symptoms in cases of low immunity

• a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

• the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

• the style of a particular artist or school or movement

• an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

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

• 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

• a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

• a question raised for consideration or solution

• a source of difficulty

• a bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group

• a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

• (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

• any of numerous plants of the family Geraniaceae

• a radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium

• 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 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 tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals

• a hard brittle multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishing

• a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged

• suspension of an ongoing activity

• a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

• payment for insurance

• the amount that something in scarce supply is valued above its nominal value

• a fee charged for exchanging currencies

• a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc.

• payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military

• having or reflecting superior quality or value; having a higher price or cost

• 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

• 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)

• a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

• a span of 1000 years

• (New Testament) in the Book of Revelation it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness

• the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

• a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms

• a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys

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

• a publication containing a variety of works

• a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work

• a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons

• the middle muscular layer of the heart wall

• a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry

• 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

• the feeling of being bored by something tedious

• dullness owing to length or slowness

• a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite

• an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting

• an address to an academic meeting or seminar

• a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases

• pejorative terms for an insane asylum

• giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted

• the state of being welcome

• a greeting or reception

• accept gladly

• bid welcome to; greet upon arrival

• receive someone, as into one's house

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

• a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite

• multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds

• parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans

• 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

• genus of chiefly tropical American trees having fragrant wood and yielding gum elemi

• flask-shaped asexual structure containing conidia

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

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

• a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element

• state of violent mental agitation

• a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations