| beachy | pebble-covered, shingly |
| carbuncle | fiery red precious stone |
| carbuncled | set with precious stones |
| cherry-pit | [children's game] throwing cherry-stones into a hole |
| chrysolite | type of semi-precious stone |
| Deucalion | son of Prometheus, who survived with his wife Pyrrha in an ark when Zeus flooded the world; restored humanity by throwing stones over their shoulders, which turned into people |
| flint | type of hard stone, flintstone |
| Gorgon | generally applied to Medusa, one of three monsters who had snakes in their hair, ugly faces, huge wings, and whose staring eyes could turn people to stone |
| gravel | stones, deposits |
| gun-stone | cannon-ball, bullet, projectile |
| London Stone | ancient stone, possibly Roman, once a city landmark in Cannon Street, London |
| metamorphosed | turned into stone, transformed, petrified |
| Orpheus | legendary Greek poet, able to charm beasts and even stones with his music |
| paved | with a paved base, pebbled |
| Perseus | son of Zeus and Danae; advised by Athene to look at the reflection in his shield when cutting off Medusa's head, thereby avoiding being turned to stone; associated with the winged horse released by her death |
| philosopher's two stones | two hypothetical means of (i) giving eternal youth and (ii) turning base metals into gold |
| stone | mineral substance used as a mirror |
| stone | turn to stone, harden |
| stone | thunderbolt |
| stone | precious stone, gem |
| stone | testicle |
| stone of sulphur | thunderbolt |
| stone-bow | type of cross-bow which shoots stones, catapult |
| thunder-stone | thunderbolt |
| touchstone | type of stone used for testing the quality of a gold or silver alloy |
| unpaved | without stones [testicles], castrated |
| whetstone | shaped stone used for sharpening [whetting] tools |