| BATON | • baton n. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes. • baton n. (Music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances. • baton n. (Sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race. |
| CHATON | • chaton n. Collet, bezel (around a jewel, on a ring). • chaton n. (Watches) chaton (movement component: a circular piece of metal inserted in a round hole, in which a… • CHATON n. (French) the setting or stone of a finger-ring. |
| CRATON | • craton n. A part of the Earth’s crust that has survived the splitting and merging of continents. • CRATON n. (Greek) a large, relatively stable section of earth's crust, forming the basis of a continent or ocean. |
| GIGATON | • gigaton n. A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many billion tons of TNT would be needed… • gigaton n. One billion tons. • GIGATON n. a unit of weight, a thousand million tons. |
| MEGATON | • megaton n. A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many million tons of TNT would be needed… • megaton n. One million tons. • MEGATON n. a unit of explosive force. |
| NEGATON | • negaton n. (Physics) A normal, negatively-charged electron, especially in comparison with a positon. • NEGATON n. a hypothetical atomic particle with mass equal to that of a proton, but with a negative charge equal to that of an electron, also NEGATRON. |
| SABATON | • sabaton n. (Historical) A mediaeval armour (usually steel) covering for the foot; a flexible armour shoe. • SABATON n. (historical) a foot-covering as part of suit of armour. |
| SACATON | • sacaton n. A tufted perennial grass, Sporobolus airoides, grown in the southwestern United States and Mexico and… • SACATON n. (Spanish) a type of coarse perennial grass growing in alkaline regions of the southern US, also ZACATON. |
| ZACATON | • zacaton n. Alternative spelling of sacaton. • ZACATON n. (Spanish) a type of coarse perennial grass growing in alkaline regions of the southern US, also SACATON. |
| CICLATON | • CICLATON n. (obsolete) a costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages, also CICLATOUN. |
| APATHATON | • APATHATON n. (Shakespeare) an epitheton, an epithet, also EPITHET, EPITHETON. |
| AUTOMATON | • automaton n. A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions. • automaton n. A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion. • automaton n. A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton. |
| CHECKLATON | • checklaton n. Alternative form of ciclatoun. • CHECKLATON n. (Spenser) a kind of gilt leather, also SCHECKLATON, SHECKLATON. |
| HYPERBATON | • hyperbaton n. (Grammar) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect. • hyperbaton n. (Rhetoric) Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing… • HYPERBATON n. the use, esp. for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in 'Bird thou never wert'. |
| SHECKLATON | • SHECKLATON n. (Spenser) a kind of gilt leather, also CHECKLATON, SCHECKLATON. |
| SCHECKLATON | • SCHECKLATON n. (Spenser) a kind of gilt leather, also CHECKLATON, SHECKLATON. |
| MULTIMEGATON | • multimegaton adj. Of several megatons. • MULTIMEGATON adj. having an explosive power of many megatons. |
| TETRAGRAMMATON | • Tetragrammaton prop.n. The four Hebrew letters יהוה (in transliteration, YHWH or JHVH) used as the ineffable name of God in… • TETRAGRAMMATON n. a sacred word or acronym of four letters. |