Words that rhyme with charon

  • aileron
    n 1: an airfoil that controls lateral motion
  • an
    n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]
  • anti
    adj 1: not in favor of (an action or proposal etc.) [ant: pro] n 1: a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.); "the antis smelled victory after a long battle"
  • anuran
    adj 1: relating to frogs and toads [syn: anuran, batrachian, salientian] n 1: any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species [syn: frog, toad, toad frog, anuran, batrachian, salientian]
  • baron
    n 1: a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank 2: a British peer of the lowest rank 3: a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron" [syn: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon]
  • barren
    adj 1: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape" [syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark] 2: not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile" 3: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn: barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent] n 1: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" [syn: barren, waste, wasteland]
  • boron
    n 1: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn: boron, B, atomic number 5]
  • cyclotron
    n 1: an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles
  • deuteron
    n 1: the nucleus of deuterium; consists of one proton and one neutron; used as a bombarding particle in accelerators
  • electron
    n 1: an elementary particle with negative charge [syn: electron, negatron]
  • environ
    v 1: extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" [syn: surround, environ, ring, skirt, border]
  • ephemeron
    n 1: anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form [syn: ephemeron, ephemeral]
  • florin
    n 1: the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents [syn: guilder, gulden, florin] 2: formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents [syn: guilder, gulden, florin, Dutch florin]
  • foreign
    adj 1: of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office" [ant: domestic] 2: relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city" [syn: foreign, strange] [ant: native] 3: not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature" [syn: alien, foreign] 4: not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk" [syn: extraneous, foreign]
  • heron
    n 1: Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) [syn: Hero, Heron, Hero of Alexandria] 2: grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill
  • interferon
    n 1: an antiviral protein produced by cells that have been invaded by a virus; inhibits replication of the virus
  • magnetron
    n 1: a diode vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons from a central cathode to a cylindrical anode is controlled by crossed magnetic and electric fields; used mainly in microwave oscillators
  • micron
    n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter [syn: micron, micrometer]
  • moron
    n 1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard] 2: a city in Argentina, to the west of Buenos Aires
  • neuron
    n 1: a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses [syn: nerve cell, neuron]
  • neutron
    n 1: an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus
  • omicron
    n 1: the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet
  • oxymoron
    n 1: conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
  • photoelectron
    n 1: an electron that is emitted from an atom or molecule by an incident photon
  • positron
    n 1: an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation [syn: positron, antielectron]
  • siren
    n 1: a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived; "Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song" 2: a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive [syn: enchantress, temptress, siren, Delilah, femme fatale] 3: a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound 4: an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning 5: eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills
  • sporran
    n 1: a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanders
  • synchrocyclotron
    n 1: cyclotron that achieves relativistic velocities by modulating the frequency of the accelerating electric field
  • synchrotron
    n 1: cyclotron in which the electric field is maintained at a constant frequency
  • veteran
    adj 1: rendered competent through trial and experience; "a seasoned traveler"; "veteran steadiness"; "a veteran officer" [syn: seasoned, veteran(a)] n 1: a serviceman who has seen considerable active service; "the veterans laughed at the new recruits" [syn: veteran, veteran soldier] 2: a person who has served in the armed forces [syn: veteran, vet, ex-serviceman] 3: an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service [syn: veteran, old- timer, oldtimer, old hand, warhorse, old stager, stager]
  • aaron
    n 1: United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934) [syn: Aaron, Henry Louis Aaron, Hank Aaron] 2: (Old Testament) elder brother of Moses and first high priest of the Israelites; created the golden calf
  • byron
    n 1: English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824) [syn: Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron, Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale]
  • huron
    n 1: the 2nd largest of the Great Lakes [syn: Lake Huron, Huron]
  • serin
    n 1: any of various brown and yellow finches of parts of Europe
  • karen
    n 1: the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands [syn: Karen, Karenic]
  • cohn
    n 1: German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants [syn: Cohn, Ferdinand Julius Cohn]
  • bayonne
    n 1: a city in northeastern New Jersey
  • capone
    n 1: United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947) [syn: Capone, Al Capone, Alphonse Capone, Scarface]
  • calderon
    n 1: Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681) [syn: Calderon, Calderon de la Barca, Pedro Calderon de la Barca]
  • peron
    n 1: Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974) [syn: Peron, Juan Domingo Peron]
  • loren
    n 1: Italian film actress (born in 1934) [syn: Loren, Sophia Loren, Sofia Scicolone]
  • ecuadoran
    n 1: a native or inhabitant of Ecuador [syn: Ecuadorian, Ecuadoran]
  • salvadoran
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of El Salvador or its people; "Salvadoran coffee"; "Salvadoran guerillas" [syn: Salvadoran, Salvadorean] n 1: a native or inhabitant of El Salvador [syn: Salvadoran, Salvadorian, Salvadorean]
  • acheron
    n 1: (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon [syn: Acheron, River Acheron]
  • betatron
    n 1: accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux [syn: betatron, induction accelerator]
  • bevatron
    n 1: a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts
  • elytron
    n 1: either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings [syn: wing case, elytron]
  • hyperon
    n 1: any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron
  • mesotron
    n 1: an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 [syn: meson, mesotron]
  • neophron
    n 1: a genus of Accipitridae [syn: Neophron, genus Neophron]
  • operon
    n 1: a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene
  • erigeron
    n 1: cosmopolitan genus of usually perennial herbs with flowers that resemble asters; leaves occasionally (especially formerly) used medicinally [syn: Erigeron, genus Erigeron]
  • gagarin
    n 1: Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968) [syn: Gagarin, Yuri Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin]
  • aldebaran
    n 1: the brightest star in Taurus
  • honduran
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Honduras or its people n 1: a native or inhabitant of Honduras
  • aneurin
    n 1: a B vitamin that prevents beriberi; maintains appetite and growth [syn: vitamin B1, thiamine, thiamin, aneurin, antiberiberi factor]
  • chiron
    n 1: (Greek mythology) the learned centaur who tutored Achilles, Asclepius, Hercules, Jason, and other heroes 2: an asteroid discovered in 1977; it is unique in having an orbit lying mainly between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus
  • hadron
    n 1: any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles
  • nephron
    n 1: any of the small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney [syn: nephron, uriniferous tubule]
  • millimicron
    n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter [syn: nanometer, nanometre, nm, millimicron, micromillimeter, micromillimetre]
  • styron
    n 1: United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925) [syn: Styron, William Styron]
  • garonne
    n 1: a river that rises in the Pyrenees and flows northwest to the Bay of Biscay [syn: Garonne, Garonne River]
  • saharan
    adj 1: of or relating to or located in the Sahara Desert n 1: a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad
  • dynatron
  • ignitron
  • loran
  • whereon
  • barron
  • claran
  • sharon
  • alaron
  • lebaron
  • lebarron
  • maclaren
  • mccarran
  • mccarren
  • mcfarren
  • mcferran
  • mcferren
  • mcferrin
  • mcferron
  • mclaren
  • mclerran
  • mcpheron
  • mulheren
  • susteren
  • betakeren
  • subsaharan
  • aran
  • aron
  • beran
  • beron
  • charren
  • charron
  • ehren
  • faron
  • farren
  • farron
  • ferran
  • ferren

See also charon definition