Answer: ANKLES
Each of the words can be paired with another word, and a third element that is “in the middle” (chronologically, geographically, or canonically) can be written at the midpoint between the words.
Pair given | Middle word | Category | |
Mammalia | Leporidae | Lagomorpha | classification of animals order in middle of class and family |
Iapetus | Pyrrha | Epimetheus | in terms of greek mythos family tree |
Bromley | Newham | Greenwich | geographical boroughs of London |
Carbon | Germanium | Silicon | reading down periodic table |
Monrovia | Conakry | Freetown | capitals of adjacent countries |
Churchill | Macmillan | Eden | in order of being PM of Britain |
Newton Highlands | Waban | Eliot | green line stops |
Sui | Song | Tang | chinese dynasties |
Taking the first letters of the filled in words and reading left-to-right, top-to-bottom, one gets LEGSFEET. The thing in the middle of LEGS and FEET is ANKLES which is the answer.