Words containing ton

Acetone means: A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

Acetonic means: Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies.

Acton means: A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail.

Adder's-tongue means: A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

Adder's-tongue means: The yellow dogtooth violet.

Aketon means: See Acton.

Alum stone means: A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite.

Amazon stone means: A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.

Amphopeptone means: A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

Anelectrotonus means: The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.