Words That End With: EI

• The shield-shaped front part of an insect's head or a spider's cephalothorax.

• The official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snakes twined around it.

• A symbol (☤) representing a staff with two snakes wrapped around it, used to indicate merchants and messengers. It is also sometimes incorrectly used as a symbol of medicine.

• a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction

• the positively charged dense center of an atom

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail

• any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord

• the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex

• A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church

• The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms.

• The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.

• The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).

• One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.

• One of the several muscles of nates, which arises from a pelvis and inserted into a femur.

• Short for gluteus maximus, the large muscles in the human buttocks.