Rayons

Definition: Rayons

Rayons

Noun

1. Women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk).

Date "rayons" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

"Rayons" is a common misspelling or typo for: rayon.

Synonyms: Rayons

Synonyms: nylon stocking (n), nylons (n), rayon stocking (n), silk stocking (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Rayons

Specialty definitions using "rayons": Moses' Horns ♦ revolving bookcase. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Rayons" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (delete, x-ray treatment).

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Les Rayons x (1900)

L' Utilité des rayons x (1898)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Chants du Crepuscule Avec: Les Voix Interieures / Les Rayons et les Ombres (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Azerbaijan	Administrative subdivisions: 78 rayons, 11 cities, and 1 autonomous republic. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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.

Language		Translations for "rayons"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		人� 丝 (rayon). (various references)

Korean		� �이온 (rayon). (various references)

Pig Latin		ayonsray.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "rayons": crayons. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-n-o-r-s-y"
	-1 letter: arson, rayon, roans, sonar, yarns.
	-2 letters: naos, nary, nays, nosy, oars, osar, rays, roan, rosy, ryas, soar, sora, sorn, soya, yarn.
	-3 letters: any, ars, ays, nay, nor, nos, oar, ons, ora, ors, ran, ras, ray, rya, say, son, soy, syn, yar, yon.
	-4 letters: an, ar, as, ay, na, no, on, or, os, oy, so, ya, yo.
	Words containing the letters "a-n-o-r-s-y"
	+1 letter: aroynts, baryons, crayons, masonry, ryokans.
	+2 letters: acronyms, annoyers, carryons, paronyms, pyranose, sardonyx, sayonara, sovranly, sovranty, stramony, tardyons, unsavory.
	+3 letters: aepyornis, aerodynes, anhydrous, antistory, astronomy, attorneys, barytones, boneyards, bryozoans, carbonyls, caryotins, contrasty, corybants, crayonist, dynatrons, gyrations, karyotins, layperson, monastery, nongreasy, oysterman, parsimony, pyranoses, sayonaras, secondary, signatory, synkaryon, tyrannous, visionary.
	+4 letters: absorbancy, absorbency, androgynes, anisotropy, ankylosaur, arytenoids, asynchrony, canorously, conspiracy, cornerways, corybantes, crayonists, disharmony, dynamotors, fancyworks, gastronomy, gynandrous, gyrfalcons, gyroplanes, hydrations, hydrozoans, laypersons, missionary, monolayers, myrobalans, narcolepsy, nonlawyers, paronymous, pensionary, personally, personalty, pyranoside, pyromanias, ravenously, reasonably, resonantly, roundelays, sardonyxes, sonography, stationary, stationery, syncarpous, synchronal, syncopator, syndicator, synkaryons, thyratrons, transitory, tyrosinase, yeomanries.
	+5 letters: absorbingly, aepyornises, androgynies, androgynous, ankylosaurs, antibaryons, antileprosy, barleycorns, cancerously, cavernously, chardonnays, chrysarobin, conservancy, consolatory, conversancy, cosignatory, countryseat, dangerously, delusionary, designatory, discordancy, erosionally, freemasonry, grandiosely, grandiosity, granophyres, handyperson, honeyeaters, hydrogenase, hydrophanes, hydroplanes, hypertonias, illusionary, inspiratory, larcenously, matronymics, misanthropy, moneymakers, monocrystal, nasopharynx, nefariously, observantly, overstaying, oxygenators, patronymics, pennyroyals, personality, playgrounds, polyandries, polyandrous, pyranosides, pyromancies, pyromaniacs, questionary, rancorously, revisionary, rhinoplasty, salmonberry, scenography, secondarily, sensorially, sportsmanly, stenography, subcontrary, subnormally, syncopators, syndicators, torsionally, translatory, treasonably, trypanosome, tryptophans, tyrannosaur, tyrannously, tyrosinases, uncustomary, unscholarly, unseaworthy.
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