| ACETONES | • acetones n. Plural of acetone. • ACETONE n. the simplest of the ketones; any ketone. |
| ACETONIC | • acetonic adj. (Organic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or producing acetone. • ACETONIC adj. of or pertaining to acetone, as, acetonic bodies. |
| BETONIES | • betonies n. Plural of betony. • BETONY n. a labiate plant of woodland. |
| CRETONNE | • cretonne n. A strong, heavy fabric of cotton, linen or rayon, used to make curtains and upholstery. • CRETONNE n. (French) a heavy cotton or linen cloth. |
| DEMETONS | • DEMETON n. an insecticide. |
| DETONATE | • detonate v. (Intransitive) To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust supersonically via shock compression. • detonate v. (Transitive) To cause to explode. • detonate v. (Intransitive, figurative) To express sudden anger. |
| DIKETONE | • diketone n. (Chemistry) any compound having two neighbouring ketonic carbonyl groups. • DIKETONE n. a compound used in dye manufacture. |
| HAQUETON | • haqueton n. Alternative form of aketon. • HAQUETON n. a stuffed jacket worn under mail, also ACTON, HACQUETON. |
| MAGNETON | • magneton n. (Physics) any of several units of magnetic moment of an atom, molecule or subatomic particle. • MAGNETON n. a unit of magnetic moment. |
| METONYMS | • metonyms n. Plural of metonym. • METONYM n. a word used in metonymy. |
| METONYMY | • metonymy n. (Rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify… • metonymy n. (Countable) A metonym. • METONYMY n. a type of figure of speech. |
| PHAETONS | • phaetons n. Plural of phaeton. • PHAETON n. (Greek) a light two-horse four-wheeled open carriage. |
| PRETONIC | • pretonic adj. That immediately precedes a stressed syllable. • PRETONIC adj. denoting the syllable before the one bearing the primary stress in a word. |
| SKELETON | • skeleton n. (Anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage… • skeleton n. An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. • skeleton n. (Figuratively) A very thin person. |
| SYNDETON | • syndeton n. (Grammar) a form of syntactic coordination of the elements of a sentence (conjuncts) with the help of… • SYNDETON n. in grammar, a syndetic construction. |