Words that rhyme with neutron

• canton 5
  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
• aileron 0
  n 1: an airfoil that controls lateral motion
• anon 0
  adv 1: at another time; "ever and anon" 2: (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while; "see you anon"
• anti 0
  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"
• 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
• boron 0
  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]
• 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]
• cretonne 0
  n 1: an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies
• croissant 0
  n 1: very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll [syn: crescent roll, croissant]
• cyclotron 0
  n 1: an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles
• deuteron 0
  n 1: the nucleus of deuterium; consists of one proton and one neutron; used as a bombarding particle in accelerators
• electron 0
  n 1: an elementary particle with negative charge [syn: electron, negatron]
• ephemeron 0
  n 1: anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form [syn: ephemeron, ephemeral]
• interferon 0
  n 1: an antiviral protein produced by cells that have been invaded by a virus; inhibits replication of the virus
• magnetron 0
  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 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
• neuron 0
  n 1: a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses [syn: nerve cell, neuron]
• omicron 0
  n 1: the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet
• oxymoron 0
  n 1: conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
• photoelectron 0
  n 1: an electron that is emitted from an atom or molecule by an incident photon
• positron 0
  n 1: an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation [syn: positron, antielectron]
• synchrocyclotron 0
  n 1: cyclotron that achieves relativistic velocities by modulating the frequency of the accelerating electric field
• synchrotron 0
  n 1: cyclotron in which the electric field is maintained at a constant frequency
• huron 0
  n 1: the 2nd largest of the Great Lakes [syn: Lake Huron, Huron]
• charon 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades
• calderon 0
  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]
• 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
• 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]
• peron 0
  n 1: Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974) [syn: Peron, Juan Domingo Peron]
• 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)
• acheron 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon [syn: Acheron, River Acheron]
• betatron 0
  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 0
  n 1: a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts
• elytron 0
  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 0
  n 1: any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron
• mesotron 0
  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 0
  n 1: a genus of Accipitridae [syn: Neophron, genus Neophron]
• operon 0
  n 1: a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene
• erigeron 0
  n 1: cosmopolitan genus of usually perennial herbs with flowers that resemble asters; leaves occasionally (especially formerly) used medicinally [syn: Erigeron, genus Erigeron]
• hadron 0
  n 1: any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles
• nephron 0
  n 1: any of the small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney [syn: nephron, uriniferous tubule]
• millimicron 0
  n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter [syn: nanometer, nanometre, nm, millimicron, micromillimeter, micromillimetre]
• styron 0
  n 1: United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925) [syn: Styron, William Styron]
• garonne 0
  n 1: a river that rises in the Pyrenees and flows northwest to the Bay of Biscay [syn: Garonne, Garonne River]
• bon 0
• dynatron 0
• ignitron 0
• whereon 0
• caron 0
• auberon 0
• kenotron 0
• megaron 0
• oberon 0
• thyratron 0
• diatessaron 0
• natron 0
• hebron 0
• fleuron 0
• pleuron 0
• heilbronn 0

See also neutron definition