Words that rhyme with manton

n 1: a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly [syn: caiman, cayman]

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 evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon] 2: a person who is part mortal and part god [syn: daemon, demigod]

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

n 1: the friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC)

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: a native or resident of Alabama [syn: Alabaman, Alabamian]

n 1: pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866) [syn: Riemann, Bernhard Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann]

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]

n 1: United States photographer(1886-1958) [syn: Weston, Edward Weston]