Words that rhyme with bun

• an 0
  n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]
• blowgun 0
  n 1: a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing [syn: blowgun, blowpipe, blowtube, blow tube]
• bobbin 0
  n 1: a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound [syn: bobbin, spool, reel]
• bourbon 0
  n 1: a reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South) 2: whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels 3: a member of the European royal family that ruled France 4: a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily [syn: Bourbon, Bourbon dynasty]
• bung 0
  n 1: a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask [syn: bung, spile] v 1: give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on; "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward" [syn: tip, fee, bung] 2: close with a cork or stopper
• cabin 0
  n 1: small room on a ship or boat where people sleep 2: a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area 3: the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried v 1: confine to a small space, such as a cabin
• carbon 0
  n 1: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C, atomic number 6] 2: a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper [syn: carbon paper, carbon] 3: a copy made with carbon paper [syn: carbon, carbon copy]
• done 0
  adj 1: having finished or arrived at completion; "certain to make history before he's done"; "it's a done deed"; "after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up"; "almost through with his studies" [syn: done, through, through with(p)] 2: cooked until ready to serve
• dun 0
  adj 1: of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie" n 1: horse of a dull brownish grey color 2: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn] v 1: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate] 2: persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone" 3: cure by salting; "dun codfish" 4: make a dun color
• ebon 0
  adj 1: of a very dark black [syn: ebon, ebony]
• fluorocarbon 0
  n 1: a halocarbon in which some hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine; used in refrigerators and aerosols
• fun 0
  n 1: activities that are enjoyable or amusing; "I do it for the fun of it"; "he is fun to have around" [syn: fun, merriment, playfulness] 2: verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport" [syn: fun, play, sport] 3: violent and excited activity; "she asked for money and then the fun began"; "they began to fight like fun" 4: a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement; "her playfulness surprised me"; "he was fun to be with" [syn: playfulness, fun]
• gibbon 0
  n 1: English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794) [syn: Gibbon, Edward Gibbon] 2: smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies [syn: gibbon, Hylobates lar]
• godson 0
  n 1: a male godchild
• grandson 0
  n 1: a male grandchild
• gun 0
  n 1: a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) 2: large but transportable armament [syn: artillery, heavy weapon, gun, ordnance] 3: a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) [syn: gunman, gun] 4: a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter] 5: a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine [syn: grease-gun, gun] 6: a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun] 7: the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies; "two runners started before the gun"; "a twenty gun salute" v 1: shoot with a gun
• handgun 0
  n 1: a firearm that is held and fired with one hand [syn: pistol, handgun, side arm, shooting iron]
• homespun 0
  adj 1: of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns" [syn: homespun(p), nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy] 2: characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys" [syn: cracker-barrel, folksy, homespun] 3: made of cloth spun or woven in the home; "homespun linen"; "homespun garments" n 1: a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home
• hydrocarbon 0
  n 1: an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen
• none 0
  adv 1: not at all or in no way; "seemed none too pleased with his dinner"; "shirt looked none the worse for having been slept in"; "none too prosperous"; "the passage is none too clear" adj 1: not any; "thou shalt have none other gods before me" n 1: a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise 2: a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier
• nun 0
  n 1: a woman religious 2: a buoy resembling a cone [syn: conical buoy, nun, nun buoy] 3: the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
• one 0
  adj 1: used of a single unit or thing; not two or more; "`ane' is Scottish" [syn: one, 1, i, ane] 2: having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice" [syn: one(a), unitary] 3: of the same kind or quality; "two animals of one species" 4: used informally as an intensifier; "that is one fine dog" 5: indefinite in time or position; "he will come one day"; "one place or another" 6: being a single entity made by combining separate components; "three chemicals combining into one solution" 7: eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art" [syn: matchless, nonpareil, one(a), one and only(a), peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled] n 1: the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one" [syn: one, 1, I, ace, single, unity] 2: a single person or thing; "he is the best one"; "this is the one I ordered"
• outrun 0
  v 1: run faster than; "in this race, I managed to outran everybody else"
• overdone 0
  adj 1: represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an exaggerated opinion of oneself" [syn: exaggerated, overdone, overstated] 2: cooked too long but still edible
• popgun 0
  n 1: plaything consisting of a toy gun that makes a popping sound
• pun 0
  n 1: a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her" [syn: pun, punning, wordplay, paronomasia] v 1: make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"
• radiocarbon 0
  n 1: a radioactive isotope of carbon [syn: radiocarbon, carbon 14]
• rerun 0
  n 1: a program that is broadcast again; "she likes to watch `I love Lucy' reruns" v 1: broadcast again, as of a film [syn: rerun, rebroadcast] 2: rerun a performance of a play, for example 3: run again for office; "Bush wants to rerun in 1996" 4: cause to perform again; "We have to rerun the subjects--they misunderstood the instructions"
• ribbon 0
  n 1: any long object resembling a thin line; "a mere ribbon of land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the road was a grey thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward" [syn: ribbon, thread] 2: an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event [syn: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm, ribbon] 3: a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter [syn: ribbon, typewriter ribbon] 4: notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
• robin 0
  n 1: small Old World songbird with a reddish breast [syn: robin, redbreast, robin redbreast, Old World robin, Erithacus rubecola] 2: large American thrush having a rust-red breast and abdomen [syn: robin, American robin, Turdus migratorius]
• run 0
  n 1: a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" [syn: run, tally] 2: the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial" [syn: test, trial, run] 3: a race run on foot; "she broke the record for the half-mile run" [syn: footrace, foot race, run] 4: an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" [syn: streak, run] 5: (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team; "the defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the coach put great emphasis on running" [syn: run, running, running play, running game] 6: a regular trip; "the ship made its run in record time" 7: the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit" [syn: run, running] 8: the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation; "the assembly line was on a 12-hour run" 9: unrestricted freedom to use; "he has the run of the house" 10: the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.); "a daily run of 100,000 gallons of paint" 11: a small stream [syn: rivulet, rill, run, runnel, streamlet] 12: a race between candidates for elective office; "I managed his campaign for governor"; "he is raising money for a Senate run" [syn: political campaign, campaign, run] 13: a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her stocking" [syn: run, ladder, ravel] 14: the pouring forth of a fluid [syn: discharge, outpouring, run] 15: an unbroken chronological sequence; "the play had a long run on Broadway"; "the team enjoyed a brief run of victories" 16: a short trip; "take a run into town" v 1: move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time; "Don't run--you'll be out of breath"; "The children ran to the store" 2: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" [syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away] 3: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" [syn: run, go, pass, lead, extend] 4: direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan" [syn: operate, run] 5: have a particular form; "the story or argument runs as follows"; "as the saying goes..." [syn: run, go] 6: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: run, flow, feed, course] 7: perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore" [syn: function, work, operate, go, run] [ant: malfunction, misfunction] 8: change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull" [syn: range, run] 9: run, stand, or compete for an office or a position; "Who's running for treasurer this year?" [syn: campaign, run] 10: cause to emit recorded audio or video; "They ran the tapes over and over again"; "I'll play you my favorite record"; "He never tires of playing that video" [syn: play, run] 11: move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way; "who are these people running around in the building?"; "She runs around telling everyone of her troubles"; "let the dogs run free" 12: have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence" [syn: tend, be given, lean, incline, run] 13: be operating, running or functioning; "The car is still running--turn it off!" [ant: idle, tick over] 14: change from one state to another; "run amok"; "run rogue"; "run riot" 15: cause to perform; "run a subject"; "run a process" 16: be affected by; be subjected to; "run a temperature"; "run a risk" 17: continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures" [syn: prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure] 18: occur persistently; "Musical talent runs in the family" 19: carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine; "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the Mac"; "the computer executed the instruction" [syn: run, execute] 20: include as the content; broadcast or publicize; "We ran the ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant review"; "All major networks carried the press conference" [syn: carry, run] 21: carry out; "run an errand" 22: pass over, across, or through; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers" [syn: guide, run, draw, pass] 23: cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "Run the wire behind the cabinet" [syn: run, lead] 24: make without a miss 25: deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor [syn: run, black market] 26: cause an animal to move fast; "run the dogs" 27: be diffused; "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run" [syn: run, bleed] 28: sail before the wind 29: cover by running; run a certain distance; "She ran 10 miles that day" 30: extend or continue for a certain period of time; "The film runs 5 hours" [syn: run, run for] 31: set animals loose to graze 32: keep company; "the heifers run with the bulls to produce offspring" [syn: run, consort] 33: run with the ball; in such sports as football 34: travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means; "Run to the store!"; "She always runs to Italy, because she has a lover there" 35: travel a route regularly; "Ships ply the waters near the coast" [syn: ply, run] 36: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" [syn: hunt, run, hunt down, track down] 37: compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon this year"; "let's race and see who gets there first" [syn: race, run] 38: progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting" [syn: move, go, run] 39: reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun" [syn: melt, run, melt down] 40: come unraveled or undone as if by snagging; "Her nylons were running" [syn: ladder, run] 41: become undone; "the sweater unraveled" [syn: run, unravel]
• shogun 0
  n 1: a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68
• shotgun 0
  n 1: firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges [syn: shotgun, scattergun]
• shun 0
  v 1: avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of [syn: shun, eschew] 2: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball]
• someone 0
  n 1: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul]
• son 0
  n 1: a male human offspring; "their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is" [syn: son, boy] [ant: daughter, girl] 2: the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus) [syn: Son, Word, Logos]
• stepson 0
  n 1: the son your spouse by a former marriage
• stun 0
  v 1: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish" [syn: stun, stupefy] 2: hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag [syn: sandbag, stun] 3: overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her" [syn: stun, bedaze, daze]
• suburban 0
  adj 1: relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs; "suburban population"
• sun 0
  n 1: the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system; "the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system"; "the Earth revolves around the Sun" [syn: sun, Sun] 2: the rays of the sun; "the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind" [syn: sunlight, sunshine, sun] 3: a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc 4: any star around which a planetary system revolves 5: first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians [syn: Sunday, Lord's Day, Dominicus, Sun] v 1: expose one's body to the sun [syn: sun, sunbathe] 2: expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun; "insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble"; "These herbs suffer when sunned" [syn: sun, insolate, solarize, solarise]
• ton 0
  n 1: a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds [syn: short ton, ton, net ton] 2: a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds [syn: long ton, ton, gross ton]
• tonne 0
  n 1: a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms [syn: metric ton, MT, tonne, t]
• tun 0
  n 1: a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
• turban 0
  n 1: a traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head 2: a small round woman's hat [syn: pillbox, toque, turban]
• turbine 0
  n 1: rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate
• un 0
  n 1: an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security [syn: United Nations, UN]
• undone 0
  adj 1: not done; "the work could be done or undone and nobody cared" 2: doomed to extinction [syn: done for(p), ruined, sunk, undone, washed-up] 3: not fastened or tied or secured; "her blouse had come undone at the neck"; "his shoelaces were undone" 4: thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence; "price programs became unstuck because little grain was available" [syn: unstuck, undone]
• urban 0
  adj 1: relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area; "urban sociology"; "urban development" 2: located in or characteristic of a city or city life; "urban property owners"; "urban affairs"; "urban manners" [ant: rural]
• 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]
• cuban 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba; "Cuban rum" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Cuba
• finespun 0
  adj 1: developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense" [syn: finespun, delicate] 2: developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions" [syn: finespun, hairsplitting]
• hun 0
  n 1: a member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century 2: offensive term for a person of German descent [syn: Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun]
• lisbon 0
  n 1: capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic [syn: Lisbon, Lisboa, capital of Portugal]
• brunn 0
  n 1: an industrial city in Moravia in Czech Republic to the southeast of Prague [syn: Brno, Brunn]
• donne 0
  n 1: English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631) [syn: Donne, John Donne]
• psilocybin 0
  n 1: a hallucinogenic compound obtained from a mushroom [syn: psilocybin, psilocin]
• theban 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the Egyptian city of Thebes or its people or culture 2: of or relating to the Greek city of Thebes or its people or culture n 1: an Egyptian inhabitant of ancient Thebes 2: a Greek inhabitant of ancient Thebes
• laban 0
  n 1: Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958) [syn: Laban, Rudolph Laban]
• reuben 0
  n 1: (Old Testment) a son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel 2: a hot sandwich with corned beef and Swiss cheese and sauerkraut on rye bread
• durban 0
  n 1: a port city in eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean; resort and industrial center
• hemoglobin 0
  n 1: a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues; "fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals" [syn: hemoglobin, haemoglobin, Hb]
• jacobin 0
  n 1: a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
• anyone 0
• been 0
• begun 0
• everyone 0
• exurban 0
• forerun 0
• interurban 0
• outgun 0
• redone 0
• spun 0
• outdone 0
• terrebonne 0
• chambon 0
• hon 0
• bruhn 0
• brun 0
• bunn 0
• byun 0
• chun 0
• chunn 0
• dunn 0
• dunne 0
• gruhn 0
• grun 0
• gunn 0
• huhn 0
• hunn 0
• jun 0
• kuhne 0
• kun 0
• luhn 0
• lun 0
• lunn 0
• mun 0
• munn 0
• nuhn 0
• nunn 0
• thrun 0

See also bun definition and bun synonyms