Words that rhyme with agamemnon

  • anon
    adv 1: at another time; "ever and anon" 2: (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while; "see you anon"
  • baton
    n 1: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir [syn: baton, wand] 2: a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick, billy club] 3: a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority 4: a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette 5: a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
  • cannon
    n 1: a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels 2: heavy gun fired from a tank 3: (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm 4: heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane 5: lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals [syn: cannon, shank] 6: a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other [syn: carom, cannon] v 1: make a cannon 2: fire a cannon
  • canon
    n 1: a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; "the neoclassical canon"; "canons of polite society" 2: a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter 3: a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall [syn: canyon, canon] 4: a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts 5: a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church 6: a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired
  • canton
    n 1: a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port [syn: Guangzhou, Kuangchou, Kwangchow, Canton] 2: a small administrative division of a country v 1: provide housing for (military personnel) [syn: quarter, billet, canton] 2: divide into cantons, of a country
  • chiffon
    n 1: a sheer fabric of silk or rayon
  • con
    adv 1: in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.; "much was written pro and con" [ant: pro] n 1: an argument opposed to a proposal [ant: pro] 2: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn: convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird] 3: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam] v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con] 2: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con, learn]
  • cretonne
    n 1: an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies
  • croissant
    n 1: very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll [syn: crescent roll, croissant]
  • epiphenomenon
    n 1: a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon
  • feminine
    adj 1: associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition" [ant: masculine] 2: of grammatical gender [ant: masculine, neuter] 3: befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion" [syn: womanly, feminine] [ant: unwomanly] 4: (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending" n 1: a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
  • guenon
    n 1: small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face [syn: guenon, guenon monkey]
  • pennon
    n 1: a long flag; often tapering [syn: pennant, pennon, streamer, waft] 2: wing of a bird [syn: pennon, pinion]
  • phenomenon
    n 1: any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning 2: a remarkable development
  • prolegomenon
    n 1: a preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise
  • xenon
    n 1: a colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts [syn: xenon, Xe, atomic number 54]
  • canaan
    n 1: an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism [syn: Palestine, Canaan, Holy Land, Promised Land]
  • shannon
    n 1: United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001) [syn: Shannon, Claude Shannon, Claude E. Shannon, Claude Elwood Shannon]
  • buchanan
    n 1: 15th President of the United States (1791-1868) [syn: Buchanan, James Buchanan, President Buchanan]
  • montanan
    n 1: a native or resident of Montana
  • arizonan
    n 1: a native or resident of Arizona [syn: Arizonan, Arizonian]
  • bonn
    n 1: a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989
  • conn
    v 1: conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane
  • ceylon
    n 1: an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India 2: a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948 [syn: Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Ceylon]
  • anne
    n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
  • noumenon
    n 1: the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception [syn: noumenon, thing-in-itself]
  • organon
    n 1: a system of principles for philosophic or scientific investigations; an instrument for acquiring knowledge
  • parthenon
    n 1: the main temple of the goddess Athena; built on the acropolis in Athens more than 400 years B.C.; example of Doric architecture
  • olecranon
    n 1: process of the ulna that forms the outer bump of the elbow and fits into the fossa of the humerus when the arm is extended [syn: olecranon, olecranon process]
  • lennon
    n 1: English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980) [syn: Lennon, John Lennon]
  • tenon
    n 1: a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint
  • maintenon
    n 1: French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719) [syn: Maintenon, Marquise de Maintenon, Francoise d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon]
  • ninon
    n 1: a fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon
  • saarinen
    n 1: Finnish architect and city planner who moved to the United States in 1923; father of Eero Saarinen (1873-1950) [syn: Saarinen, Eliel Saarinen] 2: United States architect (born in Finland) (1910-1961) [syn: Saarinen, Eero Saarinen]
  • finnan
    n 1: haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter [syn: finnan haddie, finnan haddock, finnan, smoked haddock]
  • lebanon
    n 1: an Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean [syn: Lebanon, Lebanese Republic]
  • bon
  • colcannon
  • phonon
  • beynon
  • channon
  • eynon
  • gannon
  • hannon
  • clackmannan
  • concannon
  • conan
  • onan
  • ronan
  • memnon
  • xoanon
  • dunsinane
  • brennan
  • mclennan
  • algernon
  • noonan
  • keenan
  • rhiannon
  • mckinnon
  • vernon

See also agamemnon definition