Words That End With: DIUM

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

• a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

• a heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group; used in alloys; occurs in natural alloys with platinum or osmium

• 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)

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

• the feeling of being bored by something tedious

• dullness owing to length or slowness