Words ending with iton

Barbiton means: An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

Briton means: British.

Briton means: A native of Great Britain.

Cambro-Briton means: A Welshman.

Chiton means: An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.

Chiton means: One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

IndoBriton means: A person born in India, of mixed Indian and British blood; a half-caste.

Karyomiton means: The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell.

Kytomiton means: See Karyomiton.

Triton means: A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell.

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.