Words that rhyme with chromosome

• boehme 5
  n 1: German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624) [syn: Boehme, Jakob Boehme, Bohme, Jakob Bohme, Boehm, Jakob Boehm, Behmen, Jakob Behmen]
• brome 0
  n 1: any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions [syn: brome, bromegrass]
• chrome 0
  n 1: another word for chromium when it is used in dyes or pigments v 1: plate with chromium; "chrome bathroom fixtures" [syn: chrome, chromium-plate] 2: treat with a chromium compound
• comb 0
  n 1: a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair 2: the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds [syn: comb, cockscomb, coxcomb] 3: any of several tools for straightening fibers 4: ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore 5: the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb" [syn: comb, combing] v 1: straighten with a comb; "comb your hair" 2: search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child" [syn: comb, ransack] 3: smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool" [syn: comb, comb out, disentangle]
• dome 0
  n 1: a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward 2: informal terms for a human head [syn: attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome] 3: a stadium that has a roof [syn: dome, domed stadium, covered stadium] 4: a hemispherical roof
• foam 0
  n 1: a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; "the beer had a thick head of foam" [syn: foam, froth] 2: a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture v 1: become bubbly or frothy or foaming; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water" [syn: foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle, form bubbles]
• gnome 0
  n 1: a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure [syn: gnome, dwarf] 2: a short pithy saying expressing a general truth
• home 0
  adv 1: at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home" 2: on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home" 3: to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home" adj 1: used of your own ground; "a home game" [ant: away] 2: relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town" 3: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national] n 1: where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" [syn: home, place] 2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house] 3: the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey" 4: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" [syn: home plate, home base, home, plate] 5: the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [syn: base, home] 6: place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball" 7: an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home" 8: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [syn: family, household, house, home, menage] 9: an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" [syn: home, nursing home, rest home] v 1: provide with, or send to, a home 2: return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"
• loam 0
  n 1: a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
• ohm 0
  n 1: a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere 2: German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854) [syn: Ohm, Georg Simon Ohm]
• ribosome 0
  n 1: an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell; "the ribosome is the site of protein synthesis"
• roam 0
  v 1: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]
• tome 0
  n 1: a (usually) large and scholarly book
• boehm 0
  n 1: German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624) [syn: Boehme, Jakob Boehme, Bohme, Jakob Bohme, Boehm, Jakob Boehm, Behmen, Jakob Behmen]
• rom 0
  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]
• drome 0
  n 1: an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo [syn: airport, airdrome, aerodrome, drome]
• jerome 0
  n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420) [syn: Jerome, Saint Jerome, St. Jerome, Hieronymus, Eusebius Hieronymus, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus]
• nome 0
  n 1: a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century
• rome 0
  n 1: capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire [syn: Rome, Roma, Eternal City, Italian capital, capital of Italy] 2: the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church
• aum 0
  n 1: a terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with Christianity; "in 1995 Aum members released deadly sarin gas on a Tokyo subway train" [syn: Aum Shinrikyo, Aum, Supreme Truth]
• pome 0
  n 1: a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part [syn: pome, false fruit]
• centrosome 0
  n 1: small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules [syn: centrosome, central body]
• liposome 0
  n 1: an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector
• microsome 0
  n 1: a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA
• schistosome 0
  n 1: flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals [syn: schistosome, blood fluke]
• shalom 0
• trypanosome 0
• krome 0
• strome 0
• cydrome 0
• ghuloum 0
• jacome 0
• superdome 0
• holm 0
• noam 0
• schaum 0
• sohm 0
• thome 0
• euchromosome 0

See also chromosome definition