Words That End With: MI

• A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes.

• very thinly sliced raw fish

• Either of two large, ovoid structures of grey matter within the forebrain that relay sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex.

• The receptacle of a flower; a torus.

• A thallus.

• An inner room or nuptial chamber.

• A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses.

• Any such narrow part connecting two larger structures.

• An edge in a graph whose deletion increases the number of connected components of the graph.

• a Hindu religious teacher; used as a title of respect

• the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)

• one the Shinto deities (including mythological beings, spirits of distinguished men, forces of nature)

• Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954)

• a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter

• An edible freshwater fish of the family Osphronemidae.