Words that rhyme with penguin

  • bodkin
    n 1: a dagger with a slender blade [syn: poniard, bodkin] 2: formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head 3: a small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric 4: a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops [syn: bodkin, threader]
  • gherkin
    n 1: any of various small cucumbers pickled whole 2: small prickly cucumber
  • harlequin
    n 1: a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte) v 1: variegate with spots or marks; "His face was harlequined with patches"
  • jerkin
    n 1: a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times
  • palanquin
    n 1: a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers [syn: palanquin, palankeen]
  • sanguine
    adj 1: confidently optimistic and cheerful 2: inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion" [syn: rubicund, ruddy, florid, sanguine] n 1: a blood-red color
  • sequin
    n 1: adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing [syn: sequin, spangle, diamante]
  • darwin
    n 1: English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882) [syn: Darwin, Charles Darwin, Charles Robert Darwin] 2: provincial capital of the Northern Territory of Australia
  • hodgkin
    n 1: English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866) [syn: Hodgkin, Thomas Hodgkin] 2: English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994) [syn: Hodgkin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin] 3: English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998) [syn: Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin]
  • ruskin
    n 1: British art critic (1819-1900) [syn: Ruskin, John Ruskin]
  • algonquin
    adj 1: of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language [syn: Algonquian, Algonkian, Algonquin] n 1: a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast [syn: Algonquian, Algonquin] 2: family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains [syn: Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language]
  • gershwin
    n 1: United States lyricist who frequently collaborated with his brother George Gershwin (1896-1983) [syn: Gershwin, Ira Gershwin] 2: United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies (1898-1937) [syn: Gershwin, George Gershwin]
  • redskin
    n 1: (slang) offensive term for Native Americans [syn: Redskin, Injun, red man]
  • baldwin
    n 1: United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism (1924-1987) [syn: Baldwin, James Baldwin, James Arthur Baldwin] 2: English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947) [syn: Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley] 3: an American eating apple with red or yellow and red skin
  • baldachin
    n 1: ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar)
  • cannikin
    n 1: a wooden bucket 2: a small can
  • manakin
    n 1: a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; "she was too fat to be a mannequin" [syn: mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, fashion model, model] 2: a life-size dummy used to display clothes [syn: mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, form] 3: any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior
  • mannikin
    n 1: a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal [syn: manikin, mannikin, homunculus] 2: a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; "she was too fat to be a mannequin" [syn: mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, fashion model, model] 3: a life-size dummy used to display clothes [syn: mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, form]
  • pannikin
    n 1: a small pan or cup (usually of tin)
  • zworykin
    n 1: United States physicist who invented the iconoscope (1889-1982) [syn: Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin]
  • algonkin
    n 1: a member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec [syn: Algonkian, Algonkin] 2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Algonkian [syn: Algonkian, Algonkin]
  • edwin
    n 1: king of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)
  • goldwyn
    n 1: United States film maker (born in Poland) who founded his own film company and later merged with Louis B. Mayer (1882-1974) [syn: Goldwyn, Sam Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn]
  • anguine
    adj 1: of or related to or resembling a snake
  • dworkin
  • alwyn
  • pipkin
  • anking
  • chindwin
  • tonkin
  • larkin
  • parkin
  • baskin
  • sooterkin
  • berwyn
  • irwin
  • delwyn
  • selwyn
  • godwin
  • goodwin
  • urwin

See also penguin definition