Words that rhyme with glom

• angstrom 0
  n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation [syn: angstrom, angstrom unit, A]
• aplomb 0
  n 1: great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool" [syn: aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang- froid]
• ashram 0
  n 1: a place of religious retreat modeled after the Indian ashram 2: (India) a place of religious retreat for Hindus
• bomb 0
  n 1: an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions 2: strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion [syn: bomb calorimeter, bomb] 3: an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned" [syn: turkey, bomb, dud] v 1: throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed Dresden" [syn: bombard, bomb] 2: fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" [syn: fail, flunk, bomb, flush it] [ant: make it, pass]
• candelabrum 0
  n 1: branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights [syn: candelabrum, candelabra]
• cerebrum 0
  n 1: anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans
• condom 0
  n 1: contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse [syn: condom, rubber, safety, safe, prophylactic]
• conundrum 0
  n 1: a difficult problem [syn: riddle, conundrum, enigma, brain-teaser]
• coulomb 0
  n 1: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn: coulomb, C, ampere-second] 2: French physicist famous for his discoveries in the field of electricity and magnetism; formulated Coulomb's Law (1736-1806) [syn: Coulomb, Charles Augustin de Coulomb]
• decorum 0
  n 1: propriety in manners and conduct [syn: decorum, decorousness] [ant: indecorousness, indecorum]
• diatom 0
  n 1: microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
• eardrum 0
  n 1: the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound [syn: eardrum, tympanum, tympanic membrane, myringa]
• firebomb 0
  n 1: a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) [syn: incendiary bomb, incendiary, firebomb] v 1: attack with incendiary bombs; "The rioters fire-bombed the stores"
• forum 0
  n 1: a public meeting or assembly for open discussion 2: a public facility to meet for open discussion [syn: forum, assembly, meeting place]
• fulcrum 0
  n 1: the pivot about which a lever turns
• harem 0
  n 1: living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household [syn: harem, hareem, seraglio, serail]
• humdrum 0
  adj 1: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous] 2: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" [syn: humdrum, monotonous] n 1: the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served" [syn: monotony, humdrum, sameness]
• maelstrom 0
  n 1: a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) [syn: whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom]
• mom 0
  n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy]
• nostrum 0
  n 1: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists [syn: panacea, nostrum, catholicon, cure-all] 2: patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable
• pilgrim 0
  n 1: someone who journeys in foreign lands 2: one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620 [syn: Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father] 3: someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
• pogrom 0
  n 1: organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)
• prom 0
  n 1: a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year [syn: promenade, prom]
• quorum 0
  n 1: a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business
• rhomb 0
  n 1: a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram [syn: rhombus, rhomb, diamond]
• rostrum 0
  n 1: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it [syn: dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump, soapbox] 2: beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils [syn: snout, rostrum]
• sacrum 0
  n 1: wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyx
• serum 0
  n 1: an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates [syn: serum, blood serum]
• sitcom 0
  n 1: a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life [syn: situation comedy, sitcom] 2: a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life [syn: situation comedy, sitcom]
• spectrum 0
  n 1: an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave 2: a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities
• tantrum 0
  n 1: a display of bad temper; "he had a fit"; "she threw a tantrum"; "he made a scene" [syn: fit, tantrum, scene, conniption]
• theorem 0
  n 1: a proposition deducible from basic postulates 2: an idea accepted as a demonstrable truth
• torn 0
  adj 1: having edges that are jagged from injury [syn: lacerate, lacerated, mangled, torn] 2: disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"
• centrum 0
  n 1: the main body of a vertebra
• wolfram 0
  n 1: a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite [syn: tungsten, wolfram, W, atomic number 74]
• 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]
• somme 0
  n 1: battle of World War II (1944) [syn: Somme, Somme River, Battle of the Somme] 2: battle in World War I (1916) [syn: Somme, Somme River, Battle of the Somme]
• therefrom 0
  adv 1: from that circumstance or source; "atomic formulas and all compounds thence constructible"- W.V.Quine; "a natural conclusion follows thence"; "public interest and a policy deriving therefrom"; "typhus fever results therefrom" [syn: thence, therefrom, thereof] 2: from that place or from there; "proceeded thence directly to college"; "flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow"; "roads that lead therefrom" [syn: thence, therefrom]
• eprom 0
  n 1: (computer science) a read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data [syn: erasable programmable read-only memory, EPROM]
• colostrum 0
  n 1: milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition [syn: colostrum, foremilk]
• from 0
• shalom 0
• wherefrom 0
• labrum 0
• shoreham 0
• dom 0
• cocom 0
• panmunjom 0
• caricom 0
• pompom 0
• agstrom 0
• granstrom 0
• karakorum 0

See also glom definition and glom synonyms