Words that rhyme with lactone

n 1: the simplest ketone; a highly inflammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics [syn: acetone, propanone, dimethyl ketone]

v 1: make amends for; "expiate one's sins" [syn: expiate, aby, abye, atone] 2: turn away from sin or do penitence [syn: repent, atone]

adj 1: lower in range than tenor and higher than bass; "a baritone voice"; "baritone oboe" n 1: a male singer [syn: baritone, barytone] 2: the second lowest adult male singing voice [syn: baritone, baritone voice] 3: the second lowest brass wind instrument [syn: baritone, baritone horn]

n 1: green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood [syn: bloodstone, heliotrope]

n 1: bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building

n 1: an old name for sulfur [syn: brimstone, native sulfur, native sulphur]

n 1: a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings 2: a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color

n 1: a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination [syn: finishing touch, capstone, copestone] 2: a stone that forms the top of wall or building [syn: capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher]

n 1: small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino [syn: cherrystone, cherrystone clam] 2: a half-grown quahog [syn: cherrystone, cherrystone clam]

n 1: rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads [syn: cobble, cobblestone, sett] v 1: pave with cobblestones [syn: cobble, cobblestone]

n 1: a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination [syn: finishing touch, capstone, copestone] 2: a stone that forms the top of wall or building [syn: capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher]

n 1: the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone] 2: a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies 3: a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls

n 1: stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material

n 1: stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones [syn: flag, flagstone]

n 1: fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit

n 1: a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts [syn: gallstone, bilestone]

n 1: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem, gemstone, stone]

n 1: a stone that is used to mark a grave [syn: gravestone, headstone, tombstone]

n 1: a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools

n 1: small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm

n 1: a print obtained from photoengraving 2: an engraving used to reproduce an illustration [syn: halftone, halftone engraving, photoengraving]

n 1: the central building block at the top of an arch or vault [syn: keystone, key, headstone] 2: a stone that is used to mark a grave [syn: gravestone, headstone, tombstone]

n 1: a stone that forms a hearth

n 1: a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship v 1: scrub with a holystone; "holystone the ship's deck"

n 1: a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks [syn: hornfels, hornstone]

v 1: utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" [syn: tone, chant, intone] 2: recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer" [syn: chant, intone, intonate, cantillate] 3: speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone; "please intonate with sadness" [syn: intonate, intone]

n 1: a paving stone forming part of a curb [syn: curbstone, kerbstone]

n 1: a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm" [syn: anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin] 2: the central building block at the top of an arch or vault [syn: keystone, key, headstone]

n 1: a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals

n 1: a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically [syn: lodestone, loadstone]

n 1: stone post at side of a road to show distances [syn: milestone, milepost] 2: a significant event in your life (or in a project)

n 1: (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps; "she was an albatross around his neck" [syn: albatross, millstone] 2: any load that is difficult to carry 3: one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain

adj 1: of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value [syn: monotonic, monotone] [ant: nonmonotonic] 2: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" [syn: flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous] n 1: an unchanging intonation [syn: monotone, drone, droning] 2: a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

n 1: a transparent or translucent gemstone with a pearly luster; some specimens are orthoclase feldspar and others are plagioclase feldspar

n 1: a whetstone for use with oil

n 1: (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair" 2: a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency [syn: overtone, partial, partial tone]

n 1: any of various water-soluble compounds that form by hydrolysis in the digestion of proteins to amino acids

n 1: dark acid granitic glass

n 1: an imitation diamond made from rock crystal or glass or paste

n 1: a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)

n 1: a fine-grained sandstone of consolidated silt

n 1: a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments [syn: soapstone, soaprock, soap-rock, steatite]

n 1: a stone that is used to mark a grave [syn: gravestone, headstone, tombstone]

n 1: a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; "the schools comply with federal standards"; "they set the measure for all subsequent work" [syn: standard, criterion, measure, touchstone]

n 1: migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over stones in searching for food

n 1: a quiet or hushed tone of voice; "spoke in undertones" 2: a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning [syn: undertone, undercurrent] 3: a pale or subdued color [syn: undertone, tinge]

n 1: a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives

n 1: any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals

n 1: a paving stone forming part of a curb [syn: curbstone, kerbstone]

n 1: a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals [syn: sunstone, aventurine]

n 1: English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875) [syn: Wheatstone, Sir Charles Wheatstone]

n 1: any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) [syn: whinstone, whin]

n 1: a barbiturate used as a hypnotic [syn: barbital, veronal, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea]

n 1: a male singer [syn: baritone, barytone]

n 1: word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable

n 1: a tributary of the Missouri River that flows through the Yellowstone National Park [syn: Yellowstone, Yellowstone River]

n 1: word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable