Words that rhyme with millimicron
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aileron
n 1: an airfoil that controls lateral motion -
anti
adj 1: not in favor of (an action or proposal etc.) [ant: pro] n 1: a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.); "the antis smelled victory after a long battle" -
boron
n 1: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn: boron, B, atomic number 5] -
cyclotron
n 1: an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles -
denouement
n 1: the outcome of a complex sequence of events 2: the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work -
deuteron
n 1: the nucleus of deuterium; consists of one proton and one neutron; used as a bombarding particle in accelerators -
don
n 1: a Spanish gentleman or nobleman 2: teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford) [syn: preceptor, don] 3: the head of an organized crime family [syn: don, father] 4: Celtic goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrhod; corresponds to Irish Danu 5: a European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov [syn: Don, Don River] 6: a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename; "Don Roberto" v 1: put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "He put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately robes"; "He got into his jeans" [syn: wear, put on, get into, don, assume] -
electron
n 1: an elementary particle with negative charge [syn: electron, negatron] -
ephemeron
n 1: anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form [syn: ephemeron, ephemeral] -
interferon
n 1: an antiviral protein produced by cells that have been invaded by a virus; inhibits replication of the virus -
john
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] -
magnetron
n 1: a diode vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons from a central cathode to a cylindrical anode is controlled by crossed magnetic and electric fields; used mainly in microwave oscillators -
micron
n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter [syn: micron, micrometer] -
moron
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 -
neuron
n 1: a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses [syn: nerve cell, neuron] -
neutron
n 1: an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus -
non
adv 1: negation of a word or group of words; "he does not speak French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not many"; "not much"; "not at all" [syn: not, non] -
omicron
n 1: the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet -
on
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] -
oxymoron
n 1: conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence') -
photoelectron
n 1: an electron that is emitted from an atom or molecule by an incident photon -
positron
n 1: an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation [syn: positron, antielectron] -
salon
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 -
spawn
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
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" -
synchrocyclotron
n 1: cyclotron that achieves relativistic velocities by modulating the frequency of the accelerating electric field -
synchrotron
n 1: cyclotron in which the electric field is maintained at a constant frequency -
wan
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 -
won
adj 1: not subject to defeat; "with that move it's a won game" [ant: lost] n 1: the basic unit of money in South Korea [syn: South Korean won, won] 2: the basic unit of money in North Korea [syn: North Korean won, won] -
yon
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] -
huron
n 1: the 2nd largest of the Great Lakes [syn: Lake Huron, Huron] -
nippon
n 1: a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building [syn: Japan, Nippon, Nihon] -
yuan
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] -
charon
n 1: (Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades -
mon
n 1: the second day of the week; the first working day [syn: Monday, Mon] 2: a member of a Buddhist people living in Myanmar and adjacent parts of Thailand 3: the Mon-Khmer language spoken by the Mon -
calderon
n 1: Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681) [syn: Calderon, Calderon de la Barca, Pedro Calderon de la Barca] -
xian
n 1: a city of central China; capital of ancient Chinese empire 221-206 BC [syn: Xian, Sian, Singan, Changan, Hsian] -
gabon
n 1: a republic on the west coast of Africa [syn: Gabon, Gabonese Republic, Gabun] -
milan
n 1: the capital of Lombardy in northern Italy; has been an international center of trade and industry since the Middle Ages [syn: Milan, Milano] -
oman
n 1: a strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula; the economy is dominated by oil [syn: Oman, Sultanate of Oman, Muscat and Oman] -
peron
n 1: Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974) [syn: Peron, Juan Domingo Peron] -
saigon
n 1: a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina [syn: Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon] -
sichuan
n 1: a populous province of south central China [syn: Szechwan, Sichuan, Szechuan, Szechwan province] -
taiwan
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] -
kazakhstan
n 1: a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991 [syn: Kazakhstan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakstan, Kazakh, Kazak] -
teheran
n 1: the capital and largest city of Iran; located in northern Iran [syn: Teheran, Tehran, capital of Iran, Iranian capital] -
anne
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) -
acheron
n 1: (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon [syn: Acheron, River Acheron] -
betatron
n 1: accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux [syn: betatron, induction accelerator] -
bevatron
n 1: a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts -
elytron
n 1: either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings [syn: wing case, elytron] -
hyperon
n 1: any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron -
mesotron
n 1: an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 [syn: meson, mesotron] -
neophron
n 1: a genus of Accipitridae [syn: Neophron, genus Neophron] -
operon
n 1: a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene -
erigeron
n 1: cosmopolitan genus of usually perennial herbs with flowers that resemble asters; leaves occasionally (especially formerly) used medicinally [syn: Erigeron, genus Erigeron] -
hadron
n 1: any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles -
nephron
n 1: any of the small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney [syn: nephron, uriniferous tubule] -
styron
n 1: United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925) [syn: Styron, William Styron] -
garonne
n 1: a river that rises in the Pyrenees and flows northwest to the Bay of Biscay [syn: Garonne, Garonne River] -
dynatron
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ignitron
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thereupon
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upon
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whereon
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whereupon
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cron
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jon
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juan
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baran
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caron
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hassan
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auberon
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kenotron
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megaron
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oberon
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thyratron
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diatessaron
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natron
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hebron
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fleuron
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pleuron
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heilbronn
See also millimicron definition and millimicron synonyms
