Words that rhyme with bombe

n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation [syn: angstrom, angstrom unit, A]

n 1: great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool" [syn: aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang- froid]

n 1: any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing 2: semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation [syn: ointment, unction, unguent, balm, salve]

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]

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]

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]

n 1: microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica

n 1: a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing 2: (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus)

v 1: preserve a dead body

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"

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"

n 1: a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables [syn: iamb, iambus]

n 1: a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) [syn: whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom]

n 1: uneasiness about the fitness of an action [syn: scruple, qualm, misgiving] 2: a mild state of nausea [syn: queasiness, squeamishness, qualm]

n 1: a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram [syn: rhombus, rhomb, diamond]

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]

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"

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]

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]

n 1: flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first

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]