Small particle
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

RAY
Cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins

JOT
A slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"

ION
A particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons

DOT
Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

DAB
A light touch or stroke

AIR
Travel via aircraft; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air"

ACE
A serve that the receiver is unable to reach

BIT
Piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding; "the horse was not accustomed to a bit"

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WHIT
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

SPOT
An act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"

RING
The sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe

MITE
Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

LOTA
Burbot

IOTA
The 9th letter of the Greek alphabet

HYLE

DRAM
The basic unit of money in Armenia

HAIR
A filamentous projection or process on an organism

FIRE
The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"

DROP
The act of dropping something; "they expected the drop would be successful"

DOLE
Money received from the state

BASE
Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

ACID
Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

ATOM
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

MOTE
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

5 letters

CRUMB
A very small quantity of something; "he gave only a crumb of information about his plans"; "there were few crumbs of comfort in the report"

PABLE

WATER
Liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water"

STUFF
Miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff"

SPECK
A very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"

QUARK
(physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3; "quarks have not been observed directly but theoretical predictions based on their existence have been confirmed experimentally"

SCRAP
A small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used; "she jotted it on a scrap of paper"; "there was not a scrap left"

POINT
A contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs

PINCH
Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"

OUNCE
A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound

MONAD
(biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan)

MINIM
A musical note having the time value of half a whole note

MESON
An elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0

GROAT
A former English silver coin worth four pennies

FLECK
A small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"

GRAIN
The smallest possible unit of anything; "there was a grain of truth in what he said"; "he does not have a grain of sense"

EARTH
A connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)

DWARF
A plant or animal that is atypically small

DIMER
A compound whose molecules are composed of two identical monomers

CYCLE
A wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals

ANION
A negatively charged ion

AGENT
The semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

CHAIN
A series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament

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NATURE
The complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions; "it is his nature to help others"

MATTER
That which has mass and occupies space; "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it"

PEBBLE
A small smooth rounded rock

LITTLE
(of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"

ISOMER
A compound that exists in forms having different arrangements of atoms but the same molecular weight

GOBBET
A lump or chunk of raw meat

CATION
A positively charged ion

ALKALI
Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia"

TRIVIA
Something of small importance

TRIMER
A polymer (or a molecule of a polymer) consisting of three identical monomers

TITTLE
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

SMITCH

PROTON
A stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron

PLENUM
A meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present; "the plenum will vote on all tax increases"

7 letters

DRIBLET
A small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling

ANTACID
Acting to neutralize acid (especially in the stomach)

ACIDITY
PH values below 7

TINYBIT

SMIDGEN
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

SCRUPLE
An ethical or moral principle that inhibits action

REAGENT
A chemical agent for use in chemical reactions

RADICAL
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

POLYMER
A naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers

NONACID

OXYACID
Any acid that contains oxygen

MONOMER
A simple compound whose molecules can join together to form polymers

MODICUM
A small or moderate or token amount; "England still expects a modicum of eccentricity in its artists"- Ian Jack

MINIMUM
The smallest possible quantity

METAMER

LATTICE
Small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted

HANDFUL
A small number or amount; "only a handful of responses were received"

GRANULE
A tiny grain

ELEMENT
An abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"

DRIBBLE
The propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks

8 letters

DRIBBLET

SULFACID

PITTANCE
An inadequate payment; "they work all day for a mere pittance"

SPOONFUL
As much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar"

PARTICLE
A function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs

NUTSHELL
The shell around the kernel of a nut

MOLECULE
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

MATERIAL
Things needed for doing or making something; "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials"

MINUTIAE

HYDRACID

FRAGMENT
A broken piece of a brittle artifact

FLYSPECK
A tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly

FARTHING
A former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny

ELECTRON
An elementary particle with negative charge

COMPOUND
An enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)

CHEMICAL
Material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules

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SUBSTANCE
The real physical matter of which a person or thing consists; "DNA is the substance of our genes"

SIDECHAIN

LITTLEBIT