Words that rhyme with canton

• abdomen 0
  n 1: the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn: abdomen, venter, stomach, belly] 2: the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm [syn: abdominal cavity, abdomen]
• aileron 0
  n 1: an airfoil that controls lateral motion
• airman 0
  n 1: someone who operates an aircraft [syn: aviator, aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer]
• alderman 0
  n 1: a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council); "aldermen usually represent city wards"
• an 0
  n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]
• anon 0
  adv 1: at another time; "ever and anon" 2: (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while; "see you anon"
• antiproton 0
  n 1: an unstable negatively charged proton; the antiparticle of a proton
• argon 0
  n 1: a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere [syn: argon, Ar, atomic number 18]
• artilleryman 0
  n 1: a serviceman in the artillery [syn: artilleryman, cannoneer, gunner, machine gunner]
• assemblyman 0
  n 1: someone who is a member of a legislative assembly
• axon 0
  n 1: long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron [syn: axon, axone]
• backgammon 0
  n 1: a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice
• badminton 0
  n 1: a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
• barman 0
  n 1: an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar [syn: bartender, barman, barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist]
• baton 0
  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
• bonbon 0
  n 1: a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate
• bondwoman 0
  n 1: a female bound to serve without wages [syn: bondwoman, bondswoman, bondmaid] 2: a female slave [syn: bondwoman, bondswoman, bondmaid]
• bowman 0
  n 1: a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow [syn: archer, bowman]
• brimstone 0
  n 1: an old name for sulfur [syn: brimstone, native sulfur, native sulphur]
• businesswoman 0
  n 1: a female businessperson
• cabochon 0
  n 1: a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets
• cacodemon 0
  n 1: an evil spirit [syn: cacodemon, cacodaemon] [ant: eudaemon, eudemon, good spirit]
• caiman 0
  n 1: a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly [syn: caiman, cayman]
• capstan 0
  n 1: a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails
• carillon 0
  n 1: set of bells hung in a bell tower 2: playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower [syn: bell ringing, carillon, carillon playing]
• catechumen 0
  n 1: a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist [syn: catechumen, neophyte]
• cavalryman 0
  n 1: a soldier in a motorized army unit [syn: cavalryman, trooper] 2: a soldier mounted on horseback; "a cavalryman always takes good care of his mount" [syn: cavalryman, trooper]
• chairman 0
  n 1: the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson" [syn: president, chairman, chairwoman, chair, chairperson] v 1: act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; "She chaired the department for many years" [syn: chair, chairman]
• chairwoman 0
  n 1: the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson" [syn: president, chairman, chairwoman, chair, chairperson]
• charwoman 0
  n 1: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman]
• chieftain 0
  n 1: the leader of a group of people; "a captain of industry" [syn: captain, chieftain] 2: the head of a tribe or clan [syn: headman, tribal chief, chieftain, chief]
• chiffon 0
  n 1: a sheer fabric of silk or rayon
• cistern 0
  n 1: a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid [syn: cisterna, cistern] 2: a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet [syn: cistern, water tank] 3: an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater
• clergyman 0
  n 1: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church [syn: clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth] [ant: layman, layperson, secular]
• committeewoman 0
  n 1: a woman who is a member of a committee
• common 0
  adj 1: belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; "for the common good"; "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community" [ant: individual, single] 2: having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap" [ant: uncommon] 3: common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor" [syn: common, mutual] 4: commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting" [syn: common, usual] 5: being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" [syn: common, vernacular, vulgar] 6: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed] 7: of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" [syn: coarse, common] 8: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar] 9: to be expected; standard; "common decency" n 1: a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, commons, common, green]
• con 0
  adv 1: in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.; "much was written pro and con" [ant: pro] n 1: an argument opposed to a proposal [ant: pro] 2: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn: convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird] 3: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam] v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con] 2: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con, learn]
• congresswoman 0
  n 1: a member of the United States House of Representatives [syn: congressman, congresswoman, representative]
• councilwoman 0
  n 1: a woman who is a council member
• countryman 0
  n 1: a man from your own country 2: a man who lives in the country and has country ways [syn: countryman, ruralist]
• countrywoman 0
  n 1: a woman who lives in the country and has country ways 2: a woman from your own country
• cowman 0
  n 1: a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd]
• crayon 0
  n 1: writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing [syn: crayon, wax crayon] v 1: write, draw, or trace with a crayon
• cretonne 0
  n 1: an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies
• crewman 0
  n 1: any member of a ship's crew [syn: sailor, crewman] 2: a member of a flight crew [syn: crewman, crew member] 3: a member of a work crew
• croissant 0
  n 1: very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll [syn: crescent roll, croissant]
• crouton 0
  n 1: a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads
• cyclotron 0
  n 1: an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles
• dacron 0
  n 1: a kind of polyester fabric [syn: Dacron, Terylene]
• daemon 0
  n 1: an evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon] 2: a person who is part mortal and part god [syn: daemon, demigod]
• dairyman 0
  n 1: the owner or manager of a dairy [syn: dairyman, dairy farmer] 2: a man who works in a dairy
• decagon 0
  n 1: a polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles
• deliveryman 0
  n 1: someone employed to make deliveries [syn: deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer]
• demijohn 0
  n 1: large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork
• demon 0
  n 1: an evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon] 2: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre] 3: someone extremely diligent or skillful; "he worked like a demon to finish the job on time"; "she's a demon at math"
• destine 0
  v 1: decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn: destine, fate, doom, designate] 2: design or destine; "She was intended to become the director" [syn: intend, destine, designate, specify]
• doorman 0
  n 1: someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary]
• doubleton 0
  n 1: (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player
• eastern 0
  adj 1: lying toward or situated in the east; "the eastern end of the island" 2: of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States; "the Eastern establishment" [ant: western] 3: lying in or toward the east; "the east side of New York"; "eastern cities" [syn: easterly, eastern] 4: relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world; "Eastern Europe"; "the Eastern religions" [ant: western] 5: from the east; used especially of winds; "an eastern wind"; "the winds are easterly" [syn: easterly, eastern]
• etymon 0
  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]
• famine 0
  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
• ferryman 0
  n 1: a man who operates a ferry
• fireman 0
  n 1: play in which children pretend to put out a fire 2: a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) [syn: stoker, fireman] 3: a pitcher who does not start the game [syn: reliever, relief pitcher, fireman] 4: a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires [syn: fireman, firefighter, fire fighter, fire-eater]
• foreman 0
  n 1: a person who exercises control over workers; "if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman" [syn: foreman, chief, gaffer, honcho, boss] 2: a man who is foreperson of a jury
• forewoman 0
  n 1: a woman who is foreperson of a jury [syn: forewoman, forelady] 2: a woman in charge of a group of workers
• fountain 0
  n 1: a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises 2: a natural flow of ground water [syn: spring, fountain, outflow, outpouring, natural spring] 3: an artificially produced flow of water [syn: fountain, jet] 4: a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water [syn: fountain, fount]
• freedwoman 0
  n 1: a person who has been freed from slavery [syn: freedman, freedwoman]
• freeman 0
  n 1: a person who is not a serf or a slave [syn: freeman, freewoman]
• gentlewoman 0
  n 1: a woman of refinement; "a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady" [syn: dame, madam, ma'am, lady, gentlewoman]
• graviton 0
  n 1: a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles
• highwayman 0
  n 1: a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it [syn: highjacker, highwayman, hijacker, road agent]
• horsewoman 0
  n 1: a woman horseman
• human 0
  adj 1: characteristic of humanity; "human nature" 2: relating to a person; "the experiment was conducted on 6 monkeys and 2 human subjects" 3: having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings; "human beings"; "the human body"; "human kindness"; "human frailty" [ant: nonhuman] n 1: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being, human]
• hymen 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the god of marriage 2: a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin [syn: hymen, maidenhead, virginal membrane]
• hyperbaton 0
  n 1: reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love')
• ichneumon 0
  n 1: northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs [syn: ichneumon, Herpestes ichneumon]
• infantryman 0
  n 1: fights on foot with small arms [syn: infantryman, marcher, foot soldier, footslogger]
• inhuman 0
  adj 1: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate] 2: belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"
• intestine 0
  n 1: the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus [syn: intestine, bowel, gut]
• ion 0
  n 1: a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons
• john 0
  n 1: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom] 2: youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216) [syn: John, King John, John Lackland] 3: (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation [syn: John, Saint John, St. John, Saint John the Apostle, St. John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, John the Divine] 4: a prostitute's customer [syn: whoremaster, whoremonger, john, trick] 5: the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament [syn: John, Gospel According to John]
• journeyman 0
  n 1: a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft [syn: craftsman, artisan, journeyman, artificer]
• juryman 0
  n 1: someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury [syn: juror, juryman, jurywoman]
• khan 0
  n 1: a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries 2: an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans [syn: caravansary, caravanserai, khan, caravan inn]
• kinswoman 0
  n 1: a female relative
• krypton 0
  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]
• lantern 0
  n 1: light in a transparent protective case
• lawman 0
  n 1: an officer of the law [syn: lawman, law officer, peace officer]
• layman 0
  n 1: someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person [syn: layman, layperson, secular] [ant: clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend]
• lectern 0
  n 1: desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer [syn: lectern, reading desk]
• lemon 0
  n 1: yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh 2: a strong yellow color [syn: gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow, maize] 3: a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit [syn: lemon, lemon tree, Citrus limon] 4: a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons 5: an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory [syn: lemon, stinker]
• lepton 0
  n 1: 100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece 2: an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0
• letterman 0
  n 1: an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport
• liveryman 0
  n 1: a worker in a livery stable
• lobsterman 0
  n 1: a person whose occupation is catching lobsters
• longshoreman 0
  n 1: a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper]
• lumberman 0
  n 1: a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack, logger, feller, faller]
• lumen 0
  n 1: a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions [syn: lumen, lm] 2: a cavity or passage in a tubular organ; "the lumen of the intestine"
• madwoman 0
  n 1: a woman lunatic
• micron 0
  n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter [syn: micron, micrometer]

See also canton definition and canton synonyms