8-Letter Words Containing: _IU

• fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released

• a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength

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

• a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States

• (rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse

• spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia