Words that rhyme with abcoulomb

  • angstrom
    n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation [syn: angstrom, angstrom unit, A]
  • aplomb
    n 1: great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool" [syn: aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang- froid]
  • bomb
    n 1: an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions 2: strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion [syn: bomb calorimeter, bomb] 3: an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned" [syn: turkey, bomb, dud] v 1: throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed Dresden" [syn: bombard, bomb] 2: fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" [syn: fail, flunk, bomb, flush it] [ant: make it, pass]
  • condom
    n 1: contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse [syn: condom, rubber, safety, safe, prophylactic]
  • coulomb
    n 1: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn: coulomb, C, ampere-second] 2: French physicist famous for his discoveries in the field of electricity and magnetism; formulated Coulomb's Law (1736-1806) [syn: Coulomb, Charles Augustin de Coulomb]
  • diatom
    n 1: microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
  • firebomb
    n 1: a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) [syn: incendiary bomb, incendiary, firebomb] v 1: attack with incendiary bombs; "The rioters fire-bombed the stores"
  • glom
    v 1: take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom] 2: seize upon or latch onto something; "The Republicans glommed onto Whitewater"
  • maelstrom
    n 1: a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) [syn: whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom]
  • mom
    n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy]
  • pogrom
    n 1: organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)
  • prom
    n 1: a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year [syn: promenade, prom]
  • rhomb
    n 1: a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram [syn: rhombus, rhomb, diamond]
  • sitcom
    n 1: a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life [syn: situation comedy, sitcom] 2: a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life [syn: situation comedy, sitcom]
  • torn
    adj 1: having edges that are jagged from injury [syn: lacerate, lacerated, mangled, torn] 2: disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"
  • rom
    n 1: (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed [syn: read-only memory, ROM, read-only storage, fixed storage]
  • somme
    n 1: battle of World War II (1944) [syn: Somme, Somme River, Battle of the Somme] 2: battle in World War I (1916) [syn: Somme, Somme River, Battle of the Somme]
  • therefrom
    adv 1: from that circumstance or source; "atomic formulas and all compounds thence constructible"- W.V.Quine; "a natural conclusion follows thence"; "public interest and a policy deriving therefrom"; "typhus fever results therefrom" [syn: thence, therefrom, thereof] 2: from that place or from there; "proceeded thence directly to college"; "flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow"; "roads that lead therefrom" [syn: thence, therefrom]
  • eprom
    n 1: (computer science) a read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data [syn: erasable programmable read-only memory, EPROM]
  • from
  • shalom
  • wherefrom
  • dom
  • cocom
  • panmunjom
  • alm
  • caricom
  • pompom
  • microcoulomb

See also abcoulomb definition