Words that rhyme with melhem

adj 1: belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War

n 1: a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans

n 1: a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor) [syn: scourge, flagellum] 2: a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa)

n 1: a heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment 2: fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb

n 1: a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms [syn: veil, velum] 2: a muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking [syn: soft palate, velum]

n 1: (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells [syn: phellem, cork]

n 1: an ancient country in southwestern Asia to the east of the Tigris River (in what is modern Iran); was known for its warlike people [syn: Elam, Susiana]

n 1: a bit with a bar mouthpiece that is designed to combine a curb and snaffle

n 1: (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ; "the hilus of the kidney" [syn: hilus, hilum] 2: the scar on certain seeds marking its point of attachment to the funicle

n 1: a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon)

n 1: a Dravidian language (closely related to Tamil) that is spoken in southwestern India

n 1: (anatomy) an encircling structure (as the ridge around the base of a tooth)

n 1: a dense cluster of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce" [syn: capitulum, head] 2: fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn [syn: ear, spike, capitulum] 3: an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree

n 1: a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease [syn: inoculant, inoculum]

n 1: a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity [syn: celom, coelom, celoma]

n 1: spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water 2: any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form [syn: spirillum, spirilla]