Words That End With: IUMS

• 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 very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas)

• a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock

• a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known

• a ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth group

• a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite

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

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