| alcapton | (noun) an acid formed as an intermediate product of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine | Synonyms: alkapton, homogentisic acid |
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| alkapton | (noun) an acid formed as an intermediate product of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine | Synonyms: alcapton, homogentisic acid |
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| antilepton | (noun) the antiparticle of a lepton | - |
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| antiproton | (noun) an unstable negatively charged proton; the antiparticle of a proton | - |
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| asyndeton | (noun) the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used | - |
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| automaton | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: golem, robot |
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| (noun) a machine that operates on its own without the need for human control | - |
| (noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | Synonyms: zombi, zombie |
| badminton | (noun) a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net | - |
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| baton | (noun) a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir | Synonyms: wand |
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| (noun) a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race | - |
| (noun) a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette | - |
| (noun) a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority | - |
| (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon |
| bellybutton | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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| button | (noun) a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes | - |
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| (noun) an electrical switch operated by pressing | Synonyms: push, push button |
| (noun) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism | Synonyms: release |
| (noun) any artifact that resembles a button | - |
| (noun) a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action | - |
| (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: clit, clitoris |
| (noun) a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment | - |
| (noun) any of various plant parts that resemble buttons | - |
| (verb) fasten with buttons | - |
| (verb) provide with buttons | - |
| canton | (noun) a small administrative division of a country | - |
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| (verb) divide into cantons, of a country | - |
| (verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: billet, quarter |
| carton | (noun) a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top | - |
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| (noun) the quantity contained in a carton | Synonyms: cartonful |
| chiton | (noun) primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates | Synonyms: coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle |
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| (noun) a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece | - |
| cotton | (noun) fabric woven from cotton fibers | - |
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| (noun) thread made of cotton fibers | - |
| (noun) erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers | Synonyms: cotton plant |
| (noun) soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state | Synonyms: cotton fiber, cotton wool |
| (verb) take a liking to | - |
| craton | (noun) the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian | - |
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| croton | (noun) tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil | Synonyms: Croton tiglium |
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| (noun) grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant | Synonyms: Codiaeum variegatum |
| crouton | (noun) a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads | - |
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| cytoskeleton | (noun) a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence | - |
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| doubleton | (noun) (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player | - |
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| endoskeleton | (noun) the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates) | - |
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| eschaton | (noun) (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives | Synonyms: crack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, Doomsday, doomsday, end of the world, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment |
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| exoskeleton | (noun) the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs | - |
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| futon | (noun) 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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| glutton | (noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: Gulo gulo, wolverine |
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| (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman |
| graviton | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles | - |
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| guncotton | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, nitrocotton |
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| haematohiston | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: globin, hematohiston |
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| halogeton | (noun) a coarse annual herb introduced into North America from Siberia; dangerous to sheep and cattle on western rangelands because of its high oxalate content | Synonyms: Halogeton glomeratus |
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| hematohiston | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: globin, haematohiston |
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| hyperbaton | (noun) reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love') | - |
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| kiloton | (noun) one thousand tons | - |
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| (noun) a measure of explosive power (of an atomic weapon) equal to that of 1000 tons of TNT | - |
| krypton | (noun) a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air | Synonyms: atomic number 36, Kr |
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| lepton | (noun) an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0 | - |
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| (noun) 100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece | - |
| magneton | (noun) a unit of magnetic moment of a molecular or atomic or subatomic particle | - |
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| megaton | (noun) one million tons | - |
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| (noun) a measure of explosive power (of an atomic weapon) equal to that of one million tons of TNT | - |
| mouton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mutton |
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| muton | (noun) the smallest unit of DNA where a mutation can occur | - |
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| mutton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mouton |
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| nanoplankton | (noun) microscopic organisms found in plankton | - |
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| nekton | (noun) the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales | - |
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| newton | (noun) a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes | Synonyms: N |
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| nitrocotton | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, guncotton, nitrocellulose |
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| phaeton | (noun) large open car seating four with folding top | Synonyms: tourer, touring car |
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| phlogiston | (noun) a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning | - |
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| photon | (noun) a quantum of electromagnetic radiation; an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle | - |
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| phytoplankton | (noun) photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae | - |
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| piston | (noun) mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion | Synonyms: plunger |
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| piton | (noun) a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold | - |
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| plankton | (noun) the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water | - |
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| pluton | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholite, batholith, plutonic rock |
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| polyptoton | (noun) repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence | - |
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| polysyndeton | (noun) using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy') | - |
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| potamoplankton | (noun) plankton that inhabit rivers | - |
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| proton | (noun) a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron | - |
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| psilophyton | (noun) any plant or fossil of the genus Psilophyton | - |
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| sabaton | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: solleret |
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| sexton | (noun) an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects | Synonyms: sacristan |
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| simpleton | (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simple |
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| singleton | (noun) the playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt | - |
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| (noun) a set containing a single member | - |
| (noun) a single object (as distinguished from a pair) | - |
| skeleton | (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, underframe |
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| (noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: frame, skeletal system, systema skeletale |
| (noun) a scandal that is kept secret | Synonyms: skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard |
| (noun) something reduced to its minimal form | - |
| soliton | (noun) (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance; does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate | Synonyms: solitary wave, soliton wave |
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| teraton | (noun) a measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many trillion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy. | - |
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| ton | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds | Synonyms: gross ton, long ton |
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| (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds | Synonyms: net ton, short ton |
| tripton | (noun) The inorganic particulate matter suspended in bodies of water such as lakes and seas. | - |
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| triton | (noun) small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia | Synonyms: newt |
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| (noun) tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells | - |
| unbutton | (verb) undo the buttons of | - |
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| wanton | (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish |
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| (adjective) occurring without motivation or provocation | Synonyms: motiveless, unprovoked |
| (noun) lewd or lascivious woman | - |
| (verb) behave extremely cruelly and brutally | - |
| (verb) engage in amorous play | - |
| (verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: luxuriate |
| (verb) spend wastefully | Synonyms: trifle away, wanton away |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton away |
| (verb) indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life | - |
| wonton | (noun) a Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually served in soup | Synonyms: won ton |
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| (noun) a soup with won ton dumplings | Synonyms: won ton, wonton soup |
| zooplankton | (noun) animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae | - |
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