9-letter words containing ton
- holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
- homotonic — of the same tone
- honkytonk — Alternative spelling of honky-tonk.
- hornstone — a variety of quartz resembling flint.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- hypotonia — An abnormal loss of muscle tone.
- hypotonic — Physiology. (of tissue) having less than the normal tone.
- hypotonus — Hypotonia.
- ice piton — a type of piton designed for being driven into ice
- ice tongs — a small pair of tongs for serving ice cubes.
- instanton — (mathematics, physics) A solution to the imaginary time nonlinear field equation of Yang-Mills field theory; carries information about quantum tunnelling.
- intonated — Simple past tense and past participle of intonate.
- intonator — a monochord
- ironstone — any iron-bearing mineral or rock with siliceous impurities.
- irvington — a town in NE New Jersey, near Newark.
- islington — a borough of N London, England.
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- jelutongs — Plural form of jelutong.
- jesselton — former name of Kota Kinabalu.
- kakebuton — a thin quilt or coverlet traditionally used when sleeping on a futon.
- kerbstone — one of the stones, or a range of stones, forming a curb, as along a street.
- ketonemia — the presence of ketone bodies in the blood.
- ketonuria — the presence of ketone bodies in the urine.
- keybutton — an object on a keyboard which, when pressed, causes the letter, number, or symbol shown on it to be printed in a document
- keystoner — a native or inhabitant of Pennsylvania (used as a nickname).
- keystones — Plural form of keystone.
- lamington — (Australia, obsolete) A Homburg hat.
- lexington — a town in E Massachusetts, NW of Boston: first battle of American Revolution fought here April 19, 1775.
- limestone — a sedimentary rock consisting predominantly of calcium carbonate, varieties of which are formed from the skeletons of marine microorganisms and coral: used as a building stone and in the manufacture of lime.
- littleton — Sir Thomas, c1407–1481, English jurist and author.
- loadstone — a variety of magnetite that possesses magnetic polarity and attracts iron.
- lodestone — a variety of magnetite that possesses magnetic polarity and attracts iron.
- lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
- luton hoo — a mansion near Luton in Bedfordshire: built (1766–67) for the 3rd Earl of Bute by Robert Adam; rebuilt in the 19th century: houses the Wernher Collection of tapestries, porcelain, and paintings
- lymington — a market town in S England, in SW Hampshire, on the Solent: yachting centre and holiday resort. Pop: 14 227 (2001)
- lyttelton — Humphrey. 1921–2008, British jazz trumpeter and band leader who influenced the British revival of New Orleans jazz
- maidstone — a city in Kent, in SE England.
- marlstone — an indurated marl.
- megatonic — one million tons.
- melatonin — a hormone secreted by the pineal gland in inverse proportion to the amount of light received by the retina, important in the regulation of biorhythms: in amphibians, it causes a lightening of the skin.
- melocoton — any of several large varieties of peach that ripen late in the season
- merestone — A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark.
- metonymic — Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.
- microtone — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- middleton — Thomas, c1570–1627, English dramatist.
- milestone — a stone functioning as a milepost.
- millstone — either of a pair of circular stones between which grain or another substance is ground, as in a mill.
- miltonian — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
- minestone — ore, esp iron ore