Words that rhyme with bensalem

n 1: a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum [syn: alum, ammonia alum, ammonium alum] 2: a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum [syn: alum, potassium alum, potash alum] 3: a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) [syn: alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate, grad] 4: a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things)

adj 1: belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War

n 1: a shelter from danger or hardship [syn: refuge, sanctuary, asylum] 2: a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person [syn: mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum]

n 1: a state of extreme confusion and disorder [syn: chaos, pandemonium, bedlam, topsy-turvydom, topsy- turvyness] 2: pejorative terms for an insane asylum [syn: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit]

n 1: a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans

n 1: a line of units following one after another 2: a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands [syn: column, chromatography column] 3: a vertical array of numbers or other information; "he added a column of numbers" 4: anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower; "the test tube held a column of white powder"; "a tower of dust rose above the horizon"; "a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite" [syn: column, tower, pillar] 5: an article giving opinions or perspectives [syn: column, editorial, newspaper column] 6: a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) [syn: column, pillar] 7: (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure [syn: column, pillar] 8: a page or text that is vertically divided; "the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject"; "the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns" 9: any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body

n 1: an integrated course of academic studies; "he was admitted to a new program at the university" [syn: course of study, program, programme, curriculum, syllabus]

n 1: capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River [syn: Salem, capital of Oregon] 2: a city in northeastern Massachusetts; site of the witchcraft trials in 1692 3: a city in southern India

n 1: a Dravidian language (closely related to Tamil) that is spoken in southwestern India

n 1: (anatomy) an encircling structure (as the ridge around the base of a tooth)

n 1: a dense cluster of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce" [syn: capitulum, head] 2: fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn [syn: ear, spike, capitulum] 3: an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree

n 1: a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease [syn: inoculant, inoculum]

n 1: capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel (although its status as capital is disputed); it was captured from Jordan in 1967 in the Six Day War; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom [syn: Jerusalem, capital of Israel]

n 1: a small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Hydrus 2: any fine network (especially one in the body composed of cells or blood vessels) 3: the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant [syn: reticulum, second stomach]

n 1: a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity [syn: celom, coelom, celoma]

n 1: spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water 2: any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form [syn: spirillum, spirilla]