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Definition: Atom |
AtomNoun1. (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element. 2. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "atom" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Atom \At"om\, transitive verb. To reduce to atoms. [Obsolete]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | Smallest part of an element, with no net electric charge, which can enter into chemical combinations. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | A proposition in logic that cannot be broken down into other propositions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | The smallest particle of an element that cannot be divided or broken up by chemical means. It consists of a central core of protons and neutrons, called the nucleus. Electrons revolve in orbits in the region surrounding the nucleus. (references) |
| The smallest unit of an element consisting of a densepositively charged nucleus (of protons and neutrons) orbited by negativelycharged electrons. (references) | |
Mining | According to the atomic theory, the smallest particle of an element that can exist either alone or in combination with similar particles of the same element or of a different element. The smallest particle of an element that enters into the composition of a molecule. (references) |
Public Administration | The smallest particle of elemental matter into which it can be divided while retaining its chemical properties, in an electrically neutral state, consisting of a positively charged nucleus surrounded by negatively charged corpuscles(electrons). Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An atom is the smallest, irreducible constituent of a chemical system. The word is derived from the Greek atomos, indivisible, from a-, not, and tomos, a cut. It usually means chemical atoms, the basic constituents of molecules and ordinary matter. These atoms are not divisible by chemical reactions but are now known to be composed of even smaller subatomic particles. The sizes of these atoms are generally in the range from 10 pm to 100 pm. This article discusses these chemical atom(s).
The variety of matter that is dealt with in everyday experience consists of discrete atoms. The existence of such particles was first proposed by Greek philosophers such as Democritus, Leucippus, and the Epicureans, but without any real way to be sure, the concept disappeared until it was revived by Rudjer Boscovich in the 18th century, and after that applied to chemistry by John Dalton.
Rudjer Boscovich based his theory on Newtonian mechanics and published it in 1758 within his Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in natura existentium. According to Boscovich, atoms are stuctureless points, which exhibit repelling and attracting forces on each other, depending on distance. John Dalton used the atomic theory to explain why gases always combine in simple ratios. It was with Amedeo Avogadro's work, in the 19th century, that scientists began to distinguish atoms and molecules. In modern times atoms have been observed experimentally.
As it turns out, atoms are themselves made out of smaller particles. In fact, almost all of an atom is empty space. At the center is a tiny positive nucleus composed of nucleons (protons and neutrons), and the rest of the atom contains only the fairly flexible electron shells. Usually atoms are electrically neutral with as many electrons as protons. Atoms are generally classified by the atomic number, which corresponds to the number of protons in the atom. For example, carbon atoms are those atoms containing 6 protons. All atoms with the same atomic number share a wide variety of physical properties and exhibit the same chemical behavior. The various kinds of atoms are listed in the Periodic table. Atoms having the same atomic number, but different atomic masses (due to their different numbers of neutrons), are called isotopes.
The simplest atom is the hydrogen atom, having atomic number 1 and consisting of one proton and one electron. It has been the subject of much interest in science, particularly in the early development of quantum theory.
The chemical behavior of atoms is largely due to interactions between the electrons. In particular the electrons in the outermost shell, called the valence electrons, have the greatest influence on chemical behavior. Core electrons (those not in the outer shell) play a role, but it is usually in terms of a secondary effect due to screening of the positive charge in the atomic nucleus.
There is a strong tendency for atoms to completely fill (or empty) the outer electron shell, which in hydrogen and helium has space for two electrons, and in all other atoms has space for eight. This is achieved either by sharing electrons with neighboring atoms or by completely removing electrons from other atoms. When electrons are shared a covalent bond is formed between the two atoms. Covalent bonds are the strongest type of atomic bond.
When one or more electrons are completely removed from one atom by another, ions are formed. Ions are atoms that possess a net charge due to an imbalance in the number of protons and electrons. The ion that stole the electron(s) is called an anion and is negatively charged. The atom that lost the electron(s) is called a cation and is positively charged. Cations and anions are attracted to each other due to coulombic forces between the positive and negative charges. This attraction is called ionic bonding and is weaker than covalent bonding.
As mentioned above covalent bonding implies a state in which electrons are shared equally between atoms, while ionic bonding implies that the electrons are completely confined to the anion. Except for a limited number of extreme cases, neither of these pictures is completely accurate. In most cases of covalent bonding, the electron is unequally shared, spending more time around the more electronegative atom, resulting in the covalent bond having some ionic character. Similarly, in ionic bonding the electrons often spend a small fraction of time around the more electropositive atom, resulting in some covalent character for the ionic bond.
Models of the atom:
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ATOM | English | Australian Teachers of Media | Education |
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Synonyms: AtomSynonyms: molecule (n), mote (n), particle (n), speck (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inextension | Noun: inextension, nonextension, point; dot; atom; (smallness). |
Littleness | Point; atom; (small quantity); fragment; (small part); powder; point of a pin, mathematical point; minutiae; (unimportance). |
Smallness | Small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Atom |
| English words defined with "atom": carbon atom ♦ hydrogen atom ♦ Rutherford atom ♦ Vortex atom. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "atom": Bohr atom ♦ dopant atom, doping atom ♦ excited atom ♦ hot atom ♦ implanted atom, interstitial atom ♦ knocked-on atom, knock-on atom ♦ labeled atom ♦ metastable atom ♦ Spectrometry, Mass, Fast Atom Bombardment, substitutional impurity atom ♦ un-neutralised impurity atom, un-neutralized impurity atom. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "atom": Propargyl. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Atom" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (atom, atomy, monad), Czech (atom), Danish (atom), German (atom, corpuscle), Hungarian (atom, atomic, nuclear), Indonesian (atom), Papiamen (atom), Romanian (atom, corpuscle, particle), Serbo-Croatian (atom), Swedish (atom), Turkish (atom, atomic, atomical, atomy, monad, nuclear), Welsh (atom). |
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Screenplays | I was just going to have some iced tea and split the atom. (The Bridges of Madison County; writing credit: Richard LaGravenese) He's fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor except crime! (Goldfinger; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
Lyrics | Every atom in my body could inhale her (Girl With the Hungry Eyes; performing artist: JEFFERSON STARSHIP) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mechenyj atom (1972) The Atom Boom (1967) Atom Bomb (1964) Tetsuwan Atom (1963) Our Friend the Atom (1958) | |
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 | Composite photograph, (top) Allied war correspondent standing amid ruins of Museum of Science and Industry (now Genbaku Dome) in Hiroshima-shi, Japan, weeks after impact of atom bomb in 1945; (bottom) British demonstrators marching in neighborhood with si. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Atom fur die Welt : unterstutzen auch Sie durch die kleine Spende Ihrer Gleichgultigkeit unsere hungrige Atomindustrie!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Atom bomb is a paper tiger which the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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 | Volt; voltage; electricity; spark; atom; beam; fire; flare; flicker; gleam; glint; glitter; glow; hint; jot; nucleus; ray; scintilla; scintillation; scrap; sparkle; spit; trace; vestige; dangerous; glitter; glint; sparkle; sparkling. | | Bomb; explode; explosion; atom bomb; bombshell; charge; device; explosive; grenade; hydrogen bomb; mine; missile; nuclear bomb; projectile; rocket; shell; ticker; torpedo; submarine. |
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Kabbalah | The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961 | But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course--both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war. (reference) |
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Health | Chemically it consists in the increase of positive charges on an atom or the loss of negative charges. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MOLECULE, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. Three great scientific theories of the structure of the universe are the molecular, the corpuscular and the atomic. A fourth affirms, with Haeckel, the condensation of precipitation of matter from ether -- whose existence is proved by the condensation of precipitation. The present trend of scientific thought is toward the theory of ions. The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion. A fifth theory is held by idiots, but it is doubtful if they know any more about the matter than the others. |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Through hot wars and cold, through recession and prosperity, through the ages of the atom and outer space, the American people have never faltered and their faith has never flagged. |
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| "Atom" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.02% of the time. "Atom" is used about 511 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.02% | 506 | 11,943 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.78% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 511 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Atom Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "atom": asymmetric carbon atom ♦ Atom bomb ♦ atom fission ♦ atom smasher ♦ atom splitting ♦ Bohr atom ♦ carbon atom ♦ donor atom ♦ dopant atom ♦ doping atom ♦ energetic neutral atom ♦ gram atom ♦ hot atom ♦ hydrogen atom ♦ implanted atom ♦ impurity atom ♦ interstitial atom ♦ Rutherford atom ♦ substitutional impurity atom ♦ Unsymmetrical carbon atom ♦ vortex atom. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "atom": atom-age, atom-bomb, atom-bombardment, atom-bomber, atom-clouds, atom-fired, atom-free, atom-powered, atom-radical, atom-smashing. | |
Ending with "atom": heavy-atom. | |
Containing "atom": an-atom-ical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
atom | 956 | part of an atom | 18 |
atom film | 498 | paradigm atom | 17 |
atom bomb | 292 | atom carbon | 16 |
picture of atom | 121 | atom bomb hiroshima | 13 |
atom time | 120 | atom bohr model | 13 |
atom his package | 93 | atom heart mother | 13 |
atom structure | 69 | atom image | 12 |
x man child of the atom | 54 | atom splitting | 12 |
atom ant | 53 | atom bohr | 12 |
child of the atom | 40 | atom oliver | 12 |
atom model | 38 | atom child man rom x | 11 |
atom bomb picture | 37 | animation atom | 11 |
atom his package lyrics | 33 | atom smasher | 10 |
atom history | 26 | ariel atom | 10 |
atom clock | 24 | atom bomb pic | 10 |
atom diagram | 23 | oxygen atom | 9 |
atom molecule | 23 | atom movie | 9 |
atom egoyan | 22 | atom family | 9 |
atom films.com | 21 | atom symbol | 9 |
the hydrogen atom | 19 | atom bomb history | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "atom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | atoom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | atom (atomy, monad), çikë (bit, doit, drachm, dram, dribblet, drop, hoot, jot, near, scrap, tithe, tittle, whit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ذرة عنصرية, الذرة مقدار بالغ الصغر, الذرة بوصفها مصدارا للطاقة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | частица (bit, fleck, fraction, molecule, particle, sippet, tittle, vestige, whit), атом (atomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 原子 (atomic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | atom, zrnko (element, grain, granule), troška (dab, mite, touch, trace, whit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | atom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | atoom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | atomo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | هسته (Kernel, Nucleus, Stone), کوچکترین ذره , جوهرفرد (Element), جزء لایتجزی , اتم . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | atomi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | atome. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | atom (corpuscle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άτομο (individual, person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | atom (atomic, nuclear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | atom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | adamh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | atomo (atomy, mote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 原子 , 微塵 (particle), アト"ー性皮膚炎 (ad, ad impact, add-on, add-on module, adobe, advertisement, at random, atmosphere, atomic, atopic dermatitis, atrium, attraction, attractive, attractor, attribute, autoload, studio). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アト , '"し (apparition, capital, origin, original poem, phantom limb, primeval, principal, reduction of capital, silkworm egg sheet, stencil, strict order, thread for weaving, vision, visual hallucination, your order), みじ" (particle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 원자 (atomic, Atomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | breneen (mote, particle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | atom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atomay átomo (atomy, particle, speck). (various references) atomic (atomic), atom (corpuscle, particle), urmã (clew, clue, footmark, footprint, furrow, impress, impression, imprint, indent, jot, Mark, patent office, print, pug, rear, rearward, relic, remnant, rut, scent, seal, shadow, sign, slot, spoor, stamp, step, trace, track, trail, vestige, wake), strop (bead, bit, drop, grain, nip, ounce, Pearl, peg, spatter, speck, spot), pic (a wee bit, bead, bit, crumb, dash, drop, jot, pennyworth, pick, spark, spot, sprinkle, touch, whit), pãrticicã (bit, fleck, particle, speck), fãrâmã (bit, chip, crumb, element, fleck, fragment, morsel, particle, scrap, smithereens, speck, whit). (various references) атом (atoms, atomy). (various references) dùradan , durradan (an atom). (various references) atom. (various references) átomo (mote). (various references) atom. (various references) อะตอม, ปริมา"ที่น้อยมาก. (various references) atom (atomic, atomical, atomy, monad, nuclear). (various references) atom (r). (various references) крихітна істота, найдрібніша частка (minim), атом (corpuscle, corpuscule). (various references) vật nhỏ, tý (crumb). (various references) atom, rhithyn (particle, scintilla), mymryn (bit, mite, particle), gronyn (grain, grape, roe), cyrbibyn (smithereen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | atomos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | corpora, corpore, corpori, corporibus, corporis, corporum, corpus, corpusque, particula, particulam, particulatim, scintilla. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "atom": atomic, atomical, atomically, atomics, atomies, atomise, atomised, atomiser, atomisers, atomises, atomising, atomism, atomisms, atomist, atomistic, atomistically, atomists, atomization, atomizations, atomize, atomized, atomizer, atomizers, atomizes, atomizing, atoms, atomy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "atom": antiatom, diatom, heteroatom, multiatom, subatom. (additional references) | |
Words containing "atom": anatomic, anatomical, anatomically, anatomies, anatomise, anatomised, anatomises, anatomising, anatomist, anatomists, anatomize, anatomized, anatomizes, anatomizing, anatomy, antiatoms, dermatomal, dermatome, dermatomes, diatomaceous, diatomic, diatomite, diatomites, diatoms, dilatometer, dilatometers, dilatometric, dilatometries, dilatometry, hecatomb, hecatombs, hematoma, hematomas, hematomata, hepatoma, hepatomas, hepatomata, hepatomegalies, hepatomegaly, heteroatoms, interatomic, keratoma, keratomas, keratomata, microanatomical, microanatomies, microanatomy, monatomic, neuroanatomic, neuroanatomical, neuroanatomies. (additional references) | |
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"Atom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acom, actem, acttm, adomi, adum, afon, afto, ahto, alom, altum, amom, amot, anom, antam, aom, aot, aroom, Artem, Asom, atam, Atame, atan, atem, atemp, atemt, ateo, Atim, atin, Atko, Atmx, ato, atoa, atoe, atog, atoh, atoma, atomb, atome, atomi, aton, atony, atoo, ator, atos, atou, Atouma, atow, atox, atoy, atoz, Atrox, Attoh, Attow, atu, atub, atui, atum, Atumba, atumn, atuz, autem, avto, axom, azon, catom, daton, ectomy, etom, etome, fatom, fatum, Fatuma, Hatoum, itom, maktowm, oton, taon, taum, utom, uton, Watamu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "atom" (pronounced a"tum) |
| 4 | a" t u m | datum, stratum. |
| 3 | -t u m | accustom, ageratum, antemortem, arboretum, autumn, Bantam, bottom, centum, custom, dictum, ecosystem, item, momentum, phantom, quantum, rectum, sanctum, subsystem, symptom, system, totem, ultimatum, verbatim, victim. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: moat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-o-t" | |
-1 letter: mat, moa, mot, oat, tam, tao, tom. | |
-2 letters: am, at, ma, mo, om, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-o-t" | |
+1 letter: amort, atoms, atomy, magot, matzo, moats, stoma, toman. | |
+2 letters: almost, amatol, amount, atomic, comate, combat, diatom, fantom, fathom, format, maggot, magots, mahout, maloti, maltol, manito, marmot, mascot, matron, matzoh, matzos, matzot, moated, mortal, mortar, omenta, optima, outman, potman, smalto, somata, stomal, stomas, stroma, tampon, tomans, tomato, tombac, tombak, tombal, tomcat, wombat. | |
+3 letters: aftmost, amatols, amatory, amniote, amongst, amorist, amosite, amotion, amounts, anatomy, animato, antonym, apomict, apothem, atemoya, atomics, atomies, atomise, atomism, atomist, atomize, automan, automen, boatman, boatmen, bombast, bromate, bumboat, coadmit, cocomat, comates, comatic, comatik, combats, comitia, commata, compact, compart, diatoms, dogmata, doormat, dormant, fantoms, fathoms, flotsam, footman, formant, formate, formats, impasto, komatik, lomenta, madwort, maestro, maggots, maggoty, magneto, mahouts, maillot, maintop, maltols, maltose, mammoth, manihot, manitos, manitou, marcato, marmots, marplot, mascots, mastoid, matador, matelot, matrons, mattock, mattoid, matzohs, matzoon, matzoth, megaton, metazoa, metopae, moating, momenta, montage, montane, mordant, mortals, mortars, mortary, mozetta, mulatto, myomata, nonmeat, oatmeal, omental, optimal, osmatic, osteoma, ostmark, ottoman, outbeam, outmans, outswam, pantoum, phantom, pomatum, postman, potamic, ptomain, romaunt, scotoma, sfumato, smaltos, somatic, somital, stardom, stomach, stomata, stomate, stromal, subatom, tamarao, tambour, tampion, tampons, taproom, tearoom, telamon, teraohm, timpano, tinamou, tokamak, tokomak, tollman, tomback, tombacs, tombaks, tombola, tomcats, tomenta, tonearm, tongman, topmast, toxemia, transom, tritoma, tsardom, tumoral, twasome, tympano, tzardom, wombats. | |
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