Words that rhyme with babylon

• abutilon 0
  n 1: herbs or shrubs or small trees: flowering maple; Indian mallow [syn: Abutilon, genus Abutilon]
• anon 0
  adv 1: at another time; "ever and anon" 2: (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while; "see you anon"
• baton 0
  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
• canton 0
  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
• carillon 0
  n 1: set of bells hung in a bell tower 2: playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower [syn: bell ringing, carillon, carillon playing]
• chamberlain 0
  n 1: British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940) [syn: Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain, Arthur Neville Chamberlain] 2: the treasurer of a municipal corporation 3: an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman
• chaplain 0
  n 1: a clergyman ministering to some institution
• chiffon 0
  n 1: a sheer fabric of silk or rayon
• colon 0
  n 1: the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted 2: the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos [syn: colon, El Salvadoran colon] 3: the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos [syn: colon, Costa Rican colon] 4: a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal [syn: Colon, Aspinwall] 5: a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
• con 0
  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]
• crestfallen 0
  adj 1: brought low in spirit; "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually" [syn: chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated]
• cretonne 0
  n 1: an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies
• croissant 0
  n 1: very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll [syn: crescent roll, croissant]
• decathlon 0
  n 1: an athletic contest consisting of ten different events
• discipline 0
  n 1: a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" [syn: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick] 2: a system of rules of conduct or method of practice; "he quickly learned the discipline of prison routine"; "for such a plan to work requires discipline"; 3: the trait of being well behaved; "he insisted on discipline among the troops" [ant: indiscipline, undiscipline] 4: training to improve strength or self-control 5: the act of punishing; "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received" [syn: discipline, correction] v 1: develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?" [syn: discipline, train, check, condition] 2: punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently" [syn: discipline, correct, sort out]
• echelon 0
  n 1: a body of troops arranged in a line 2: a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset
• encephalon 0
  n 1: that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord [syn: brain, encephalon]
• epsilon 0
  n 1: the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet
• fallen 0
  adj 1: having dropped by the force of gravity; "fallen leaves covered the forest floor"; "sat on a fallen tree trunk" 2: having fallen in or collapsed; "a fallen building" 3: having lost your chastity; "a fallen woman" 4: killed in battle; "to honor fallen soldiers"
• felon 0
  n 1: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [syn: criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor] 2: a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail [syn: felon, whitlow]
• gallon 0
  n 1: United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters [syn: gallon, gal] 2: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters [syn: gallon, Imperial gallon, congius]
• indiscipline 0
  n 1: the trait of lacking discipline [syn: indiscipline, undiscipline] [ant: discipline]
• john 0
  n 1: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom] 2: youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216) [syn: John, King John, John Lackland] 3: (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation [syn: John, Saint John, St. John, Saint John the Apostle, St. John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, John the Divine] 4: a prostitute's customer [syn: whoremaster, whoremonger, john, trick] 5: the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament [syn: John, Gospel According to John]
• khan 0
  n 1: a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries 2: an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans [syn: caravansary, caravanserai, khan, caravan inn]
• melon 0
  n 1: any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh 2: any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers [syn: melon, melon vine]
• merlon 0
  n 1: a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement
• mullein 0
  n 1: any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers [syn: mullein, flannel leaf, velvet plant]
• muskmelon 0
  n 1: any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell [syn: sweet melon, muskmelon, sweet melon vine, Cucumis melo] 2: the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers [syn: muskmelon, sweet melon]
• non 0
  adv 1: negation of a word or group of words; "he does not speak French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not many"; "not much"; "not at all" [syn: not, non]
• nylon 0
  n 1: a thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers 2: a synthetic fabric
• on 0
  adv 1: with a forward motion; "we drove along admiring the view"; "the horse trotted along at a steady pace"; "the circus traveled on to the next city"; "move along"; "march on" [syn: along, on] 2: indicates continuity or persistence or concentration; "his spirit lives on"; "shall I read on?" 3: in a state required for something to function or be effective; "turn the lights on"; "get a load on" adj 1: in operation or operational; "left the oven on"; "the switch is in the on position" [ant: off] 2: (of events) planned or scheduled; "the picnic is on, rain or shine"; "we have nothing on for Friday night" [ant: cancelled, off]
• pentathlon 0
  n 1: an athletic contest consisting of five different events
• pollen 0
  n 1: the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant
• porcelain 0
  n 1: ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic
• pylon 0
  n 1: a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race 2: a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines; "power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists" [syn: pylon, power pylon]
• salon 0
  n 1: gallery where works of art can be displayed 2: a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work [syn: salon, beauty salon, beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty shop] 3: elegant sitting room where guests are received
• semicolon 0
  n 1: a punctuation mark (`;') used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period
• spawn 0
  n 1: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs v 1: call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn] 2: lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
• sullen 0
  adj 1: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen] 2: darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" [syn: heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening]
• swan 0
  n 1: stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult v 1: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear] 2: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond] 3: sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the mountains"
• swollen 0
  adj 1: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" [syn: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self- conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain]
• talon 0
  n 1: a sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey
• villain 0
  n 1: a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately [syn: villain, scoundrel] 2: the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction [syn: villain, baddie]
• wan 0
  adj 1: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid, wan, sick] 2: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: pale, pallid, wan] 3: lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile" n 1: a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network [syn: wide area network, WAN] v 1: become pale and sickly
• watermelon 0
  n 1: an African melon [syn: watermelon, watermelon vine, Citrullus vulgaris] 2: large oblong or roundish melon with a hard green rind and sweet watery red or occasionally yellowish pulp
• won 0
  adj 1: not subject to defeat; "with that move it's a won game" [ant: lost] n 1: the basic unit of money in South Korea [syn: South Korean won, won] 2: the basic unit of money in North Korea [syn: North Korean won, won]
• woollen 0
  adj 1: of or related to or made of wool; "a woolen sweater" [syn: woolen, woollen] n 1: a fabric made from the hair of sheep [syn: wool, woolen, woollen]
• yon 0
  adv 1: at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal); "the house yonder"; "scattered here and yon"- Calder Willingham [syn: yonder, yon] adj 1: distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal); "yonder valley"; "the hills yonder"; "what is yon place?" [syn: yonder, yon]
• allen 0
  n 1: United States comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, George Burns (1906-1964) [syn: Allen, Gracie Allen, Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen, Gracie] 2: United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-) [syn: Allen, Woody Allen, Allen Stewart Konigsberg] 3: a soldier of the American Revolution whose troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British (1738-1789) [syn: Allen, Ethan Allen]
• brooklyn 0
  n 1: a borough of New York City
• chaplin 0
  n 1: English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977) [syn: Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin]
• franklin 0
  n 1: United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915) [syn: Franklin, John Hope Franklin] 2: printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790) [syn: Franklin, Benjamin Franklin] 3: a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth
• helen 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris; the Greek army sailed to Troy to get her back which resulted in the Trojan War [syn: Helen, Helen of Troy]
• solon 0
  n 1: a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs [syn: statesman, solon, national leader]
• woolen 0
  adj 1: of or related to or made of wool; "a woolen sweater" [syn: woolen, woollen] n 1: a fabric made from the hair of sheep [syn: wool, woolen, woollen]
• yuan 0
  n 1: the basic unit of money in China [syn: yuan, kwai] 2: the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368 [syn: Yuan, Yuan dynasty, Mongol dynasty]
• guatemalan 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Guatemala or its residents; "Guatemalan coffee" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Guatemala
• amman 0
  n 1: the capital and largest city of Jordan [syn: Amman, capital of Jordan]
• bonn 0
  n 1: a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989
• conn 0
  v 1: conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane
• kahn 0
  n 1: United States architect (born in Estonia) (1901-1974) [syn: Kahn, Louis Isadore Kahn]
• ceylon 0
  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]
• koran 0
  n 1: the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina [syn: Koran, Quran, al-Qur'an, Book]
• milan 0
  n 1: the capital of Lombardy in northern Italy; has been an international center of trade and industry since the Middle Ages [syn: Milan, Milano]
• saigon 0
  n 1: a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina [syn: Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon]
• taiwan 0
  n 1: a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong [syn: Taiwan, China, Nationalist China, Republic of China] 2: an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea [syn: Taiwan, Formosa]
• anne 0
  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)
• elan 0
  n 1: a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause); "they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor"; "he felt a kind of religious zeal" [syn: ardor, ardour, elan, zeal] 2: distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer" [syn: dash, elan, flair, panache, style] 3: enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness; "a performance of great elan and sophistication"
• halon 0
  n 1: a compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms; very stable; used in fire extinguishers although it is thought to release bromine that depletes the ozone layer
• papillon 0
  n 1: small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black- spotted brown to white coat
• magellan 0
  n 1: Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521) [syn: Magellan, Ferdinand Magellan, Fernao Magalhaes]
• dylan 0
  n 1: United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941) [syn: Dylan, Bob Dylan] 2: Celtic god of the waves; son of Arianrhod
• galen 0
  n 1: Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)
• venezuelan 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Venezuela or its people; "Venezuelan oil" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Venezuela
• angolan 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Angola or its people; "the Angolan Civil War" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Angola
• magdalen 0
  n 1: a reformed prostitute
• solan 0
  n 1: very large white gannet with black wing tips [syn: solan, solan goose, solant goose, Sula bassana]
• villein 0
  n 1: (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord [syn: serf, helot, villein]
• mouflon 0
  n 1: wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia [syn: mouflon, moufflon, Ovis musimon]
• stolon 0
  n 1: a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips [syn: stolon, runner, offset]
• pademelon 0
  n 1: small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea [syn: pademelon, paddymelon]
• veblen 0
  n 1: United States economist who wrote about conspicuous consumption (1857-1929) [syn: Veblen, Thorstein Veblen, Thorstein Bunde Veblen] 2: United States mathematician (1880-1960) [syn: Veblen, Oswald Veblen]
• myrobalan 0
  n 1: small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit [syn: cherry plum, myrobalan, myrobalan plum, Prunus cerasifera]
• lucullan 0
  adj 1: characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast" [syn: lavish, lucullan, lush, plush, plushy]
• compline 0
  n 1: last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring [syn: compline, complin]
• befallen 0
• biathlon 0
• billon 0
• bon 0
• eidolon 0
• etalon 0
• gonfalon 0
• stolen 0
• thereupon 0
• upon 0
• whereupon 0
• alan 0
• pollan 0
• stollen 0
• magdalene 0

See also babylon definition