scintilla vs particle

scintilla and particle both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scintilla	Yes	No	No	No
particle	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, particle is a hypernym of scintilla; that is, particle is a word with a broader meaning than scintilla:

scintilla: a sparkling glittering particle
particle: a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions

Other hypernyms of scintilla include subatomic particle.

scintilla (noun)	particle (noun)
a sparkling glittering particle	a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs
a tiny or scarcely detectable amount	a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions
	(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything