Words that rhyme with cretonne

• aileron 0
  n 1: an airfoil that controls lateral motion
• 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]
• axon 0
  n 1: long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron [syn: axon, axone]
• 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
• cabochon 0
  n 1: a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets
• canton 0
  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
• 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]
• chiffon 0
  n 1: a sheer fabric of silk or rayon
• 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]
• 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
• 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]
• decagon 0
  n 1: a polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles
• demijohn 0
  n 1: large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork
• 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
• graviton 0
  n 1: a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles
• hyperbaton 0
  n 1: reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love')
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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
• micron 0
  n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter [syn: micron, micrometer]
• moron 0
  n 1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard] 2: a city in Argentina, to the west of Buenos Aires
• nekton 0
  n 1: the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales
• neutron 0
  n 1: an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus
• nylon 0
  n 1: a thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers 2: a synthetic fabric
• on 0
  adv 1: with a forward motion; "we drove along admiring the view"; "the horse trotted along at a steady pace"; "the circus traveled on to the next city"; "move along"; "march on" [syn: along, on] 2: indicates continuity or persistence or concentration; "his spirit lives on"; "shall I read on?" 3: in a state required for something to function or be effective; "turn the lights on"; "get a load on" adj 1: in operation or operational; "left the oven on"; "the switch is in the on position" [ant: off] 2: (of events) planned or scheduled; "the picnic is on, rain or shine"; "we have nothing on for Friday night" [ant: cancelled, off]
• pecan 0
  n 1: wood of a pecan tree 2: tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts [syn: pecan, pecan tree, Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis] 3: smooth brown oval nut of south central United States
• phlogiston 0
  n 1: a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning
• photon 0
  n 1: a quantum of electromagnetic radiation; an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle
• piton 0
  n 1: a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold
• plantain 0
  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
• pompon 0
  n 1: decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat [syn: pompon, pom-pom] 2: dusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward [syn: pompon, black margate, Anisotremus surinamensis]
• proton 0
  n 1: a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron
• pylon 0
  n 1: a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race 2: a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines; "power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists" [syn: pylon, power pylon]
• radon 0
  n 1: a radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium; the heaviest of the inert gasses; occurs naturally (especially in areas over granite) and is considered a hazard to health [syn: radon, Rn, atomic number 86]
• salon 0
  n 1: gallery where works of art can be displayed 2: a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work [syn: salon, beauty salon, beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty shop] 3: elegant sitting room where guests are received
• scone 0
  n 1: small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle
• spawn 0
  n 1: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs v 1: call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn] 2: lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
• swan 0
  n 1: stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult v 1: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear] 2: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond] 3: sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the mountains"
• thereon 0
  adv 1: on that; "text and commentary thereon" [syn: thereon, on it, on that]
• threaten 0
  v 1: pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril] 2: to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police" 3: to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain"; "Danger threatens"
• wan 0
  adj 1: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid, wan, sick] 2: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: pale, pallid, wan] 3: lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile" n 1: a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network [syn: wide area network, WAN] v 1: become pale and sickly
• wonton 0
  n 1: a Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually served in soup [syn: won ton, wonton] 2: a soup with won ton dumplings [syn: won ton, wonton, wonton soup]
• yon 0
  adv 1: at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal); "the house yonder"; "scattered here and yon"- Calder Willingham [syn: yonder, yon] adj 1: distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal); "yonder valley"; "the hills yonder"; "what is yon place?" [syn: yonder, yon]
• breton 0
  n 1: a native or inhabitant of Brittany (especially one who speaks the Breton language) 2: a Celtic language of Brittany
• huron 0
  n 1: the 2nd largest of the Great Lakes [syn: Lake Huron, Huron]
• yuan 0
  n 1: the basic unit of money in China [syn: yuan, kwai] 2: the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368 [syn: Yuan, Yuan dynasty, Mongol dynasty]
• amman 0
  n 1: the capital and largest city of Jordan [syn: Amman, capital of Jordan]
• danton 0
  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]
• scranton 0
  n 1: an industrial city of northeastern Pennsylvania
• stanton 0
  n 1: United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902) [syn: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton]
• bonn 0
  n 1: a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989
• conn 0
  v 1: conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane
• kahn 0
  n 1: United States architect (born in Estonia) (1901-1974) [syn: Kahn, Louis Isadore Kahn]
• ceylon 0
  n 1: an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India 2: a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948 [syn: Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Ceylon]
• saigon 0
  n 1: a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina [syn: Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon]
• taiwan 0
  n 1: a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong [syn: Taiwan, China, Nationalist China, Republic of China] 2: an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea [syn: Taiwan, Formosa]
• chiton 0
  n 1: a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece 2: primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates [syn: chiton, coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle, polyplacophore]
• anne 0
  n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
• schwann 0
  n 1: German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882) [syn: Schwann, Theodor Schwann]
• pion 0
  n 1: a meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision [syn: pion, pi-meson]
• schliemann 0
  n 1: German archaeologist who discovered nine superimposed city sites of Troy; he also excavated Mycenae (1822-1890) [syn: Schliemann, Heinrich Schliemann]
• tucson 0
  n 1: a city in southeastern Arizona ringed by mountain ranges; long known as a winter and health resort but the population shift from industrial states to the Sunbelt resulted in rapid growth late in the 20th century
• yukon 0
  n 1: a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea [syn: Yukon, Yukon River] 2: a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s [syn: Yukon, Yukon Territory]
• amazon 0
  n 1: a large strong and aggressive woman [syn: amazon, virago] 2: (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively) 3: a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles) [syn: Amazon, Amazon River] 4: mainly green tropical American parrots
• babylon 0
  n 1: the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia
• magneton 0
  n 1: a unit of magnetic moment of a molecular or atomic or subatomic particle
• omdurman 0
  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]
• agamemnon 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War
• tibetan 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Tibet or its people or their language; "Tibetan monks" n 1: Himalayish language spoken in Tibet 2: a native or inhabitant of Tibet
• teton 0
  n 1: a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains [syn: Teton, Lakota, Teton Sioux, Teton Dakota]
• pluton 0
  n 1: large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth [syn: batholith, batholite, pluton, plutonic rock]
• balaton 0
  n 1: a large shallow lake in western Hungary [syn: Balaton, Lake Balaton, Plattensee]
• futon 0
  n 1: mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame
• bon 0
• forgone 0
• hereon 0
• upon 0
• whereon 0
• blanton 0
• branton 0
• glanton 0
• langton 0
• spanton 0
• atlantan 0
• vanzanten 0
• germiston 0
• suleiman 0
• anton 0
• neuston 0
• exciton 0

See also cretonne definition