Words that rhyme with nvhome

n 1: any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions [syn: brome, bromegrass]

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

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]

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]

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]

n 1: a (usually) large and scholarly book

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]

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]

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

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]

n 1: an alloy of nickel and chromium with high electrical resistance and an ability to withstand high temperatures; used for resistance heating elements

n 1: (biochemistry) a class of hemoprotein whose principal biological function is electron transfer (especially in cellular respiration)

n 1: mouth of a protozoan

n 1: an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector

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]

n 1: a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA

n 1: scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination