Words that rhyme with danton

  • an
    n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]
  • antiproton
    n 1: an unstable negatively charged proton; the antiparticle of a proton
  • baton
    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
  • caiman
    n 1: a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly [syn: caiman, cayman]
  • canton
    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
  • contretemps
    n 1: an awkward clash; "he tried to smooth over his contretemps with the policeman"
  • cretonne
    n 1: an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies
  • crouton
    n 1: a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads
  • daemon
    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]
  • graviton
    n 1: a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles
  • hyperbaton
    n 1: reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love')
  • krypton
    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
    n 1: 100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece 2: an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0
  • nekton
    n 1: the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales
  • phlogiston
    n 1: a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning
  • photon
    n 1: a quantum of electromagnetic radiation; an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle
  • piton
    n 1: a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold
  • plantain
    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
  • proton
    n 1: a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron
  • wonton
    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]
  • breton
    n 1: a native or inhabitant of Brittany (especially one who speaks the Breton language) 2: a Celtic language of Brittany
  • amman
    n 1: the capital and largest city of Jordan [syn: Amman, capital of Jordan]
  • damon
    n 1: the friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC)
  • scranton
    n 1: an industrial city of northeastern Pennsylvania
  • stanton
    n 1: United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902) [syn: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton]
  • alabaman
    n 1: a native or resident of Alabama [syn: Alabaman, Alabamian]
  • chiton
    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]
  • magneton
    n 1: a unit of magnetic moment of a molecular or atomic or subatomic particle
  • teton
    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
    n 1: large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth [syn: batholith, batholite, pluton, plutonic rock]
  • balaton
    n 1: a large shallow lake in western Hungary [syn: Balaton, Lake Balaton, Plattensee]
  • riemann
    n 1: pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866) [syn: Riemann, Bernhard Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann]
  • compton
    n 1: United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and gamma rays and nuclear energy; his observation that X-rays behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of light (1892-1962) [syn: Compton, Arthur Compton, Arthur Holly Compton]
  • weston
    n 1: United States photographer(1886-1958) [syn: Weston, Edward Weston]
  • futon
    n 1: mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame
  • ammon
  • banton
  • blanton
  • brampton
  • branton
  • clanton
  • fanton
  • glanton
  • hanten
  • manton
  • panton
  • santon
  • spanton
  • tanton
  • atlantan
  • vanzanten
  • anting
  • anton
  • jarman
  • sharman
  • aston
  • swanton
  • heston
  • preston
  • beltane
  • neuston
  • exciton
  • ikhnaton

See also danton definition