Words that rhyme with cephalon

n 1: herbs or shrubs or small trees: flowering maple; Indian mallow [syn: Abutilon, genus Abutilon]

n 1: set of bells hung in a bell tower 2: playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower [syn: bell ringing, carillon, carillon playing]

n 1: the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted 2: the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos [syn: colon, El Salvadoran colon] 3: the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos [syn: colon, Costa Rican colon] 4: a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal [syn: Colon, Aspinwall] 5: a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)

n 1: an athletic contest consisting of ten different events

n 1: a body of troops arranged in a line 2: a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset

n 1: that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord [syn: brain, encephalon]

n 1: the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet

n 1: a thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers 2: a synthetic fabric

n 1: an athletic contest consisting of five different events

n 1: a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race 2: a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines; "power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists" [syn: pylon, power pylon]

n 1: gallery where works of art can be displayed 2: a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work [syn: salon, beauty salon, beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty shop] 3: elegant sitting room where guests are received

n 1: an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India 2: a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948 [syn: Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Ceylon]

n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)

n 1: a compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms; very stable; used in fire extinguishers although it is thought to release bromine that depletes the ozone layer

n 1: the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia

n 1: small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black- spotted brown to white coat

n 1: the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon [syn: diencephalon, interbrain, betweenbrain, thalmencephalon]

n 1: the part of the brain having the most recent phylogenetic origin; the cerebral cortex and related parts [syn: neencephalon, neoencephalon]

n 1: wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia [syn: mouflon, moufflon, Ovis musimon]

n 1: a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips [syn: stolon, runner, offset]