9-letter words containing ton
- brittonic — Brythonic
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- burrstone — buhrstone
- button up — to fasten (a garment) with a button or buttons
- cantonese — Cantonese means belonging or relating to the Chinese provinces of Canton (Guangdong in Mandarin).
- cantoning — Present participle of canton.
- cantonise — divide into cantons
- cantonize — to divide into cantons
- capstones — Plural form of capstone.
- cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
- cartonero — A person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
- cartonful — As much as a carton will hold.
- catatonia — a state of muscular rigidity and stupor, sometimes found in schizophrenia
- catatonic — If you describe someone as being in a catatonic state, you mean that they are not moving or responding at all, usually as a result of illness, shock, or drugs.
- centonate — having many pieces or patches
- charleton — a male given name.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- claytonia — any low-growing North American succulent portulacaceous plant of the genus Claytonia
- clintonia — any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia, having white, greenish-yellow, or purplish flowers, broad ribbed leaves, and blue berries
- cold tone — a bluish or greenish tinge in a black-and-white print.
- copestone — a stone used to form a coping
- cornstone — a mottled green and red limestone
- coshocton — a city in E central Ohio.
- cotton on — If you cotton on to something, you understand it or realize it, especially without people telling you about it.
- cotton to — If you cotton to someone or something, you start to like them.
- cottonade — a coarse fabric of cotton or mixed fibres, used for work clothes, etc
- cottoning — Present participle of cotton.
- covington — a city in N Kentucky, on the Ohio River.
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- crotonism — poisoning by ingestion of croton oil, characterized by burning of the mouth, severe diarrhea, and colic, with possible death from respiratory or circulatory failure.
- cryptonym — a code name or secret name
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- cut stone — a stone or stonework dressed to a relatively fine finish with tools other than hammers.
- daltonian — relating to John Dalton or his atomic theory
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- definiton — Misspelling of definition.
- detonable — able to be detonated
- detonated — Simple past tense and past participle of detonate.
- detonates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detonate.
- detonator — A detonator is a small amount of explosive or a piece of electrical or electronic equipment which is used to explode a bomb or other explosive device.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- dial tone — The dial tone is the same as the dialling tone.
- digitonin — a type of glycoside obtained from the foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used as a cleansing agent
- dolostone — Rock consisting of dolomite.
- doorstone — a stone serving as the sill of a doorway.
- doubleton — a set of only two cards of the same suit in a hand as dealt: The other player held a doubleton.
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.