Words that rhyme with photon
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anon
adv 1: at another time; "ever and anon" 2: (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while; "see you anon" -
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 -
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 -
chiffon
n 1: a sheer fabric of silk or rayon -
con
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
n 1: an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies -
croissant
n 1: very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll [syn: crescent roll, croissant] -
crouton
n 1: a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads -
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 -
piton
n 1: a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold -
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 -
danton
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] -
bonn
n 1: a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989 -
conn
v 1: conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane -
ceylon
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] -
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] -
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) -
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] -
futon
n 1: mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame -
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exciton
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ikhnaton
See also photon definition
