Words that rhyme with hebron

n 1: slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses

n 1: an airfoil that controls lateral motion

n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]

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"

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]

n 1: possessing muscular strength [syn: brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftiness]

n 1: an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles

n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow] [ant: sundown, sunset] 2: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" [syn: dawn, morning] 3: an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire" v 1: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place] 2: appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned" 3: become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"

n 1: the nucleus of deuterium; consists of one proton and one neutron; used as a bombarding particle in accelerators

adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn] 2: having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut; "the drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug"

n 1: an elementary particle with negative charge [syn: electron, negatron]

n 1: anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form [syn: ephemeron, ephemeral]

n 1: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn] 2: a young deer v 1: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel] 2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up] 3: have fawns; "deer fawn"

adj 1: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone]

adj 1: destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: done for(p), kaput(p), gone(a)] 2: dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, gone] 3: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone] 4: no longer retained; "gone with the wind"

n 1: an antiviral protein produced by cells that have been invaded by a virus; inhibits replication of the virus

n 1: a field of cultivated and mowed grass

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

n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter [syn: micron, micrometer]

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

n 1: a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses [syn: nerve cell, neuron]

n 1: an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus

n 1: the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet

adv 1: with a forward motion; "we drove along admiring the view"; "the horse trotted along at a steady pace"; "the circus traveled on to the next city"; "move along"; "march on" [syn: along, on] 2: indicates continuity or persistence or concentration; "his spirit lives on"; "shall I read on?" 3: in a state required for something to function or be effective; "turn the lights on"; "get a load on" adj 1: in operation or operational; "left the oven on"; "the switch is in the on position" [ant: off] 2: (of events) planned or scheduled; "the picnic is on, rain or shine"; "we have nothing on for Friday night" [ant: cancelled, off]

n 1: conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

n 1: an article deposited as security 2: a person used by another to gain an end [syn: instrument, pawn, cat's-paw] 3: (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank 4: borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan v 1: leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch" [syn: pawn, soak, hock]

n 1: an electron that is emitted from an atom or molecule by an incident photon

n 1: an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation [syn: positron, antielectron]

n 1: any of various edible decapod crustaceans [syn: prawn, shrimp] 2: shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible v 1: fish for prawns

n 1: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs v 1: call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn] 2: lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"

n 1: stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult v 1: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear] 2: 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] 3: sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the mountains"

n 1: cyclotron that achieves relativistic velocities by modulating the frequency of the accelerating electric field

n 1: cyclotron in which the electric field is maintained at a constant frequency

adj 1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life" [syn: recluse, reclusive, withdrawn] 2: tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man" [syn: indrawn, withdrawn]

n 1: an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy" [syn: yawn, yawning, oscitance, oscitancy] v 1: utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired; "The child yawned during the long performance" 2: be wide open; "the deep gaping canyon" [syn: gape, yawn, yaw]

n 1: the 2nd largest of the Great Lakes [syn: Lake Huron, Huron]

n 1: a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building [syn: Japan, Nippon, Nihon]

n 1: (Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades

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]

n 1: the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945) [syn: Braun, Eva Braun] 2: United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977) [syn: Braun, von Braun, Wernher von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun]

n 1: United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated with Ruth Saint Denis (1891-1972) [syn: Shawn, Ted Shawn]

n 1: United States jazz singer noted for her complex bebop phrasing and scat singing (1924-1990) [syn: Vaughan, Sarah Vaughan]

n 1: a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes [syn: Amen, Amon, Amun]

n 1: sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures; "exons are interspersed with introns" [syn: exon, coding DNA] [ant: intron, noncoding DNA]

n 1: a republic on the west coast of Africa [syn: Gabon, Gabonese Republic, Gabun]

n 1: Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974) [syn: Peron, Juan Domingo Peron]

n 1: an industrial city in Moravia in Czech Republic to the southeast of Prague [syn: Brno, Brunn]

n 1: (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon [syn: Acheron, River Acheron]

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]

n 1: a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts

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]

n 1: any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron

n 1: an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 [syn: meson, mesotron]

n 1: a genus of Accipitridae [syn: Neophron, genus Neophron]

n 1: a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene

n 1: cosmopolitan genus of usually perennial herbs with flowers that resemble asters; leaves occasionally (especially formerly) used medicinally [syn: Erigeron, genus Erigeron]

n 1: any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles

n 1: any of the small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney [syn: nephron, uriniferous tubule]

n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter [syn: nanometer, nanometre, nm, millimicron, micromillimeter, micromillimetre]

n 1: United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925) [syn: Styron, William Styron]

n 1: a river that rises in the Pyrenees and flows northwest to the Bay of Biscay [syn: Garonne, Garonne River]