Words that rhyme with blanton

n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]

n 1: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir [syn: baton, wand] 2: a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick, billy club] 3: a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority 4: a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette 5: a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race

n 1: a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port [syn: Guangzhou, Kuangchou, Kwangchow, Canton] 2: a small administrative division of a country v 1: provide housing for (military personnel) [syn: quarter, billet, canton] 2: divide into cantons, of a country

n 1: an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies

n 1: a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads

n 1: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes [syn: etymon, root]

n 1: an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine, shortage] 2: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

n 1: a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles

n 1: reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love')

n 1: a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air [syn: krypton, Kr, atomic number 36]

n 1: a quantum of electromagnetic radiation; an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle

n 1: a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold

n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally 2: a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics [syn: plantain, plantain tree, Musa paradisiaca] 3: starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics

n 1: a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron

n 1: the capital and largest city of Jordan [syn: Amman, capital of Jordan]

n 1: French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794) [syn: Danton, Georges Jacques Danton]

n 1: an industrial city of northeastern Pennsylvania

n 1: United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902) [syn: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton]

n 1: German archaeologist who discovered nine superimposed city sites of Troy; he also excavated Mycenae (1822-1890) [syn: Schliemann, Heinrich Schliemann]

n 1: a unit of magnetic moment of a molecular or atomic or subatomic particle

n 1: a city of Sudan; located in the central Sudan on the White Nile opposite Khartoum 2: a battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese [syn: Omdurman, battle of Omdurman]

n 1: large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth [syn: batholith, batholite, pluton, plutonic rock]