8-Letter Words Containing: DIU_

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

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

• The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacea, and certain insects.

• a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite

• a white hard metallic element that is one of the platinum group and is found in platinum ores; used in alloys with platinum

• any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers; often grown as houseplants

• a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite

• a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite

• a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes

• any plant of the genus Caladium cultivated for their ornamental foliage variously patterned in white or pink or red