Words that rhyme with metronome

  • gastronome
    n 1: a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) [syn: epicure, gourmet, gastronome, bon vivant, epicurean, foodie]
  • genome
    n 1: the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism; "the human genome contains approximately three billion chemical base pairs"
  • aum
    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]
  • nichrome
    n 1: an alloy of nickel and chromium with high electrical resistance and an ability to withstand high temperatures; used for resistance heating elements
  • cytochrome
    n 1: (biochemistry) a class of hemoprotein whose principal biological function is electron transfer (especially in cellular respiration)
  • cytostome
    n 1: mouth of a protozoan
  • liposome
    n 1: an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector
  • loxodrome
    n 1: a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction [syn: rhumb line, rhumb, loxodrome]
  • microsome
    n 1: a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA
  • microtome
    n 1: scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination
  • seadrome
  • seaholm
  • skydome
  • statohm
  • acrodrome
  • cytosome
  • framatome
  • halidome
  • harmotome
  • hemachrome
  • histotome
  • homochrome
  • hydrosome
  • hypostome
  • interdome
  • kodachrome
  • leucotome
  • lincicome
  • lipochrome
  • macrodome
  • metrodome
  • metrotome
  • milliohm

See also metronome definition