Words that rhyme with bridoon

  • cardoon
    n 1: southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots [syn: cardoon, Cynara cardunculus] 2: only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes
  • opportune
    adj 1: suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose; "an opportune place to make camp"; "an opportune arrival" [ant: inopportune]
  • picayune
    adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
  • platoon
    n 1: a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant 2: a team of policemen working under the military platoon system 3: a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity; "platoons of tourists poured out of the busses"; "the defensive platoon of the football team"
  • pontoon
    n 1: (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge 2: a float supporting a seaplane
  • prune
    n 1: dried plum v 1: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back] 2: weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet" [syn: cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise]
  • raccoon
    n 1: the fur of the North American racoon 2: an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America [syn: raccoon, racoon]
  • saloon
    n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom] 2: tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals [syn: public house, pub, saloon, pothouse, gin mill, taphouse] 3: a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors [syn: sedan, saloon]
  • soon
    adv 1: in the near future; "the doctor will soon be here"; "the book will appear shortly"; "she will arrive presently"; "we should have news before long" [syn: soon, shortly, presently, before long]
  • spoon
    n 1: a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food 2: as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar" [syn: spoon, spoonful] 3: formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face v 1: scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the roast" 2: snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others [syn: smooch, spoon]
  • swoon
    n 1: a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain [syn: faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium] v 1: pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain [syn: faint, conk, swoon, pass out]
  • tune
    n 1: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven" [syn: tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase] 2: the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch; "he cannot sing in tune"; "the clarinet was out of tune" 3: the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency v 1: adjust for (better) functioning; "tune the engine" [syn: tune, tune up] 2: adjust the pitches of (musical instruments); "My piano needs to be tuned" [syn: tune, tune up] [ant: untune]
  • tycoon
    n 1: a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron" [syn: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon]
  • typhoon
    n 1: a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans
  • boone
    n 1: an American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820) [syn: Boone, Daniel Boone]
  • june
    n 1: the month following May and preceding July
  • poon
    n 1: wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars 2: any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood
  • bethune
    n 1: United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955) [syn: Bethune, Mary McLeod Bethune]
  • cancun
    n 1: a popular island resort off the northeastern tip of the Yucatan peninsula
  • rangoon
    n 1: the capital and largest city of Myanmar; located in the south near the Irrawaddy river delta [syn: Yangon, Rangoon]
  • strewn
  • broun
  • bruen
  • brune
  • bruun
  • banoun
  • barloon
  • cahoon
  • calhoon
  • calhoun
  • muldoon
  • lardoon
  • rigadoon

See also bridoon definition