Words that rhyme with angstrom

• alarum 0
  n 1: an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger [syn: alarm, alert, warning signal, alarum]
• antiserum 0
  n 1: blood serum containing antibodies against specific antigens; provides immunity to a disease
• aplomb 0
  n 1: great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool" [syn: aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang- froid]
• arum 0
  n 1: starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root 2: any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe [syn: arum, aroid]
• ashram 0
  n 1: a place of religious retreat modeled after the Indian ashram 2: (India) a place of religious retreat for Hindus
• bomb 0
  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]
• buckram 0
  adj 1: rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn: starchy, stiff, buckram] n 1: a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing v 1: stiffen with or as with buckram; "buckram the skirt"
• candelabrum 0
  n 1: branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights [syn: candelabrum, candelabra]
• carom 0
  n 1: a glancing rebound [syn: ricochet, carom] 2: a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other [syn: carom, cannon] v 1: rebound after hitting; "The car caromed off several lampposts" 2: make a carom
• cerebrum 0
  n 1: anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans
• condom 0
  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]
• conundrum 0
  n 1: a difficult problem [syn: riddle, conundrum, enigma, brain-teaser]
• coulomb 0
  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]
• decorum 0
  n 1: propriety in manners and conduct [syn: decorum, decorousness] [ant: indecorousness, indecorum]
• diatom 0
  n 1: microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
• durum 0
  n 1: wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America [syn: durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum, macaroni wheat]
• eardrum 0
  n 1: the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound [syn: eardrum, tympanum, tympanic membrane, myringa]
• electrum 0
  n 1: an alloy of gold and silver
• firebomb 0
  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"
• forum 0
  n 1: a public meeting or assembly for open discussion 2: a public facility to meet for open discussion [syn: forum, assembly, meeting place]
• fulcrum 0
  n 1: the pivot about which a lever turns
• glom 0
  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"
• grogram 0
  n 1: a coarse fabric of silk mixed with wool or mohair and often stiffened with gum
• harem 0
  n 1: living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household [syn: harem, hareem, seraglio, serail]
• humdrum 0
  adj 1: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous] 2: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" [syn: humdrum, monotonous] n 1: the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served" [syn: monotony, humdrum, sameness]
• indecorum 0
  n 1: a lack of decorum [syn: indecorum, indecorousness] [ant: decorousness, decorum] 2: an act of undue intimacy [syn: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty]
• jorum 0
  n 1: a large drinking bowl
• kettledrum 0
  n 1: a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it [syn: kettle, kettledrum, tympanum, tympani, timpani]
• lustrum 0
  n 1: a period of five years 2: a ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census
• maelstrom 0
  n 1: a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) [syn: whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom]
• marjoram 0
  n 1: aromatic Eurasian perennial [syn: oregano, marjoram, pot marjoram, wild marjoram, winter sweet, Origanum vulgare] 2: pungent leaves used as seasoning with meats and fowl and in stews and soups and omelets [syn: marjoram, oregano]
• megrim 0
  n 1: a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men [syn: migraine, megrim, sick headache, hemicrania]
• mom 0
  n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy]
• nostrum 0
  n 1: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists [syn: panacea, nostrum, catholicon, cure-all] 2: patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable
• old 0
  adj 1: (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?" [ant: immature, young] 2: of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money" [ant: new] 3: (used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story" 4: skilled through long experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers" [syn: old, older] 5: belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" [syn: erstwhile(a), former(a), old, onetime(a), one- time(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)] 6: (used informally especially for emphasis); "a real honest-to- god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel" [syn: honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old(a), sure-enough(a)] 7: of a very early stage in development; "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century" 8: just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger" [syn: previous(a), old] n 1: past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
• panjandrum 0
  n 1: an important or influential (and often overbearing) person [syn: very important person, VIP, high-up, dignitary, panjandrum, high muckamuck]
• pilgrim 0
  n 1: someone who journeys in foreign lands 2: one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620 [syn: Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father] 3: someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
• plectrum 0
  n 1: a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument [syn: pick, plectrum, plectron]
• pogrom 0
  n 1: organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)
• prom 0
  n 1: a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year [syn: promenade, prom]
• pyrethrum 0
  n 1: made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants 2: white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves are white and silky-hairy below; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum [syn: pyrethrum, Dalmatian pyrethrum, Dalmatia pyrethrum, Tanacetum cinerariifolium, Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium] 3: spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum [syn: painted daisy, pyrethrum, Tanacetum coccineum, Chrysanthemum coccineum] 4: used in former classifications for plants later placed in genus Chrysanthemum and now often included in genus Tanacetum [syn: Pyrethrum, genus Pyrethrum]
• quorum 0
  n 1: a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business
• rhomb 0
  n 1: a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram [syn: rhombus, rhomb, diamond]
• rostrum 0
  n 1: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it [syn: dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump, soapbox] 2: beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils [syn: snout, rostrum]
• sacrum 0
  n 1: wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyx
• serum 0
  n 1: an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates [syn: serum, blood serum]
• simulacrum 0
  n 1: an insubstantial or vague semblance 2: a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone" [syn: effigy, image, simulacrum]
• sitcom 0
  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]
• spectrum 0
  n 1: an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave 2: a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities
• subprogram 0
  n 1: a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program [syn: routine, subroutine, subprogram, procedure, function]
• tantrum 0
  n 1: a display of bad temper; "he had a fit"; "she threw a tantrum"; "he made a scene" [syn: fit, tantrum, scene, conniption]
• theorem 0
  n 1: a proposition deducible from basic postulates 2: an idea accepted as a demonstrable truth
• torn 0
  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"
• variorum 0
  n 1: an edition containing various versions of a text or notes by various scholars or editors [syn: variorum, variorum edition]
• centrum 0
  n 1: the main body of a vertebra
• wolfram 0
  n 1: a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite [syn: tungsten, wolfram, W, atomic number 74]
• durham 0
  n 1: a city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University 2: English breed of short-horned cattle [syn: Durham, shorthorn]
• rom 0
  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]
• dirham 0
  n 1: 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal in Qatar [syn: Qatari dirham, dirham] 2: the basic unit of money in the United Arab Emirates; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: United Arab Emirate dirham, dirham] 3: the basic unit of money in Morocco; equal to 100 centimes [syn: Moroccan dirham, dirham] 4: 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Tunisia [syn: Tunisian dirham, dirham] 5: 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Libya [syn: Libyan dirham, dirham] 6: worth one tenth of a Kuwaiti dinar; equal 100 fils [syn: Kuwaiti dirham, dirham]
• somme 0
  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 0
  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 0
  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]
• antrum 0
  n 1: a natural cavity or hollow in a bone
• colostrum 0
  n 1: milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition [syn: colostrum, foremilk]
• karakoram 0
  n 1: a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak [syn: Karakoram, Karakoram Range, Karakorum Range, Mustagh, Mustagh Range]
• tristram 0
  n 1: (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other [syn: Tristan, Tristram]
• breadcrumb 0
  n 1: crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening
• from 0
• ihram 0
• labarum 0
• shalom 0
• wherefrom 0
• abram 0
• labrum 0
• mccrum 0
• shoreham 0
• dom 0
• cocom 0
• panmunjom 0
• caricom 0
• coram 0
• sarum 0
• byram 0
• byrum 0
• marram 0
• pompom 0
• agstrom 0
• granstrom 0
• hiram 0
• meldrum 0
• bertram 0
• cockalorum 0
• karakorum 0
• pittosporum 0
• sistrum 0
• mottram 0

See also angstrom definition and angstrom synonyms