Words that rhyme with biffin

n 1: (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research

n 1: primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America [syn: bowfin, grindle, dogfish, Amia calva]

n 1: box in which a corpse is buried or cremated [syn: coffin, casket] v 1: place into a coffin; "her body was coffined"

n 1: a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex [syn: adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, ACTH, adrenocorticotropin, adrenocorticotrophin, corticotropin, corticotrophin]

n 1: formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne

n 1: large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) [syn: dolphinfish, dolphin, mahimahi] 2: any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises

adj 1: suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown [syn: elfin, fey] 2: small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small" [syn: elfin, elflike] 3: relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf; "elfin bells"; "all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance" 4: usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks" [syn: elfin, elfish, elvish]

n 1: winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion [syn: gryphon, griffin, griffon]

n 1: a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan [syn: muffin, gem]

n 1: from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings [syn: paraffin, paraffin wax] 2: a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2) [syn: methane series, alkane series, alkane, paraffin series, paraffin] 3: (British usage) kerosine [syn: paraffin, paraffin oil]

n 1: any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills

n 1: a dirty shabbily clothed urchin [syn: ragamuffin, tatterdemalion]

n 1: mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays

n 1: a midday meal [syn: lunch, luncheon, tiffin, dejeuner]

n 1: a neurochemical occurring naturally in the brain and having analgesic properties