Words that rhyme with stanton
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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 -
cretonne
n 1: an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies -
crouton
n 1: a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads -
etymon
n 1: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes [syn: etymon, root] -
famine
n 1: an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine, shortage] 2: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death -
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] -
photon
n 1: a quantum of electromagnetic radiation; an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle -
piton
n 1: a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold -
plantain
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 -
proton
n 1: a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron -
amman
n 1: the capital and largest city of Jordan [syn: Amman, capital of Jordan] -
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] -
scranton
n 1: an industrial city of northeastern Pennsylvania -
schliemann
n 1: German archaeologist who discovered nine superimposed city sites of Troy; he also excavated Mycenae (1822-1890) [syn: Schliemann, Heinrich Schliemann] -
magneton
n 1: a unit of magnetic moment of a molecular or atomic or subatomic particle -
omdurman
n 1: a city of Sudan; located in the central Sudan on the White Nile opposite Khartoum 2: a battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese [syn: Omdurman, battle of Omdurman] -
pluton
n 1: large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth [syn: batholith, batholite, pluton, plutonic rock] -
langdon
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banton
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blanton
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branton
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clanton
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fanton
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glanton
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hanten
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langton
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manton
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panton
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spanton
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atlantan
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vanzanten
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germiston
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suleiman
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anton
See also stanton definition
