Words that rhyme with typhoon

• afternoon 0
  n 1: the part of the day between noon and evening; "he spent a quiet afternoon in the park" 2: a conventional expression of greeting or farewell [syn: good afternoon, afternoon]
• attune 0
  v 1: adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with
• baboon 0
  n 1: large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles
• balloon 0
  n 1: large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air 2: small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck v 1: ride in a hot-air balloon; "He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China" 2: become inflated; "The sails ballooned" [syn: balloon, inflate, billow]
• bassoon 0
  n 1: a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family
• boon 0
  adj 1: very close and convivial; "boon companions" n 1: a desirable state; "enjoy the blessings of peace"; "a spanking breeze is a boon to sailors" [syn: blessing, boon]
• buffoon 0
  n 1: a rude or vulgar fool [syn: clown, buffoon] 2: a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior [syn: clown, buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew]
• cardoon 0
  n 1: southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots [syn: cardoon, Cynara cardunculus] 2: only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes
• cartoon 0
  n 1: a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine [syn: cartoon, sketch] 2: a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence [syn: cartoon, animated cartoon, toon] v 1: draw cartoons of
• cocoon 0
  n 1: silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs v 1: retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment; "Families cocoon around the T.V. set most evenings"; "She loves to stay at home and cocoon" 2: wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection
• commune 0
  n 1: the smallest administrative district of several European countries 2: a body of people or families living together and sharing everything v 1: communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity; "He seemed to commune with nature" 2: receive Communion, in the Catholic church [syn: commune, communicate]
• contrabassoon 0
  n 1: the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family [syn: contrabassoon, contrafagotto, double bassoon]
• coon 0
  n 1: an eccentric or undignified rustic; "I'll be a gone coon when the battle starts" 2: (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" [syn: nigger, nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra] 3: North American raccoon [syn: common raccoon, common racoon, coon, ringtail, Procyon lotor]
• croon 0
  v 1: sing softly
• dune 0
  n 1: a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans [syn: dune, sand dune]
• festoon 0
  n 1: a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves 2: an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work 3: flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration [syn: festoon, festoonery] v 1: decorate with strings of flowers; "The public buildings were festooned for the holiday"
• goon 0
  n 1: an awkward stupid person [syn: lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump, gawk] 2: an aggressive and violent young criminal [syn: hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer]
• harpoon 0
  n 1: a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it v 1: spear with a harpoon; "harpoon whales"
• hewn 0
  adj 1: cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel; "a house built of hewn logs"; "rough-hewn stone"; "a path hewn through the underbrush" [syn: hewn, hand-hewn]
• immune 0
  adj 1: relating to the condition of immunity; "the immune system" 2: secure against; "immune from taxation as long as he resided in Bermuda"; "immune from criminal prosecution" 3: relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) [syn: immune, resistant] 4: (usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence; "immune to persuasion" n 1: a person who is immune to a particular infection
• impugn 0
  v 1: attack as false or wrong
• inopportune 0
  adj 1: not opportune; "arrived at a most inopportune hour"; "an inopportune visit" [ant: opportune]
• lagoon 0
  n 1: a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral [syn: lagoon, laguna, lagune]
• lampoon 0
  n 1: a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way [syn: parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on] v 1: ridicule with satire; "The writer satirized the politician's proposal" [syn: satirize, satirise, lampoon]
• loon 0
  n 1: a worthless lazy fellow 2: large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes [syn: loon, diver] 3: a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought [syn: addle-head, addlehead, loon, birdbrain]
• maroon 0
  adj 1: of dark brownish to purplish red [syn: maroon, brownish-red] n 1: a person who is stranded (as on an island); "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there" 2: a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color 3: an exploding firework used as a warning signal v 1: leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the travellers were marooned" [syn: maroon, strand] 2: leave stranded on a desert island without resources; "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"
• monsoon 0
  n 1: a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter 2: rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains 3: any wind that changes direction with the seasons
• moon 0
  n 1: the natural satellite of the Earth; "the average distance to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers"; "men first stepped on the moon in 1969" [syn: Moon, moon] 2: any object resembling a moon; "he made a moon lamp that he used as a night light"; "the clock had a moon that showed various phases" 3: the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) [syn: lunar month, moon, lunation, synodic month] 4: the light of the Moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the Moon was bright enough to read by" [syn: moonlight, moonshine, Moon] 5: United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920) [syn: Moon, Sun Myung Moon] 6: any natural satellite of a planet; "Jupiter has sixteen moons" v 1: have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming" [syn: daydream, moon] 2: be idle in a listless or dreamy way [syn: moon, moon around, moon on] 3: expose one's buttocks to; "moon the audience"
• noon 0
  n 1: the middle of the day [syn: noon, twelve noon, high noon, midday, noonday, noontide]
• opportune 0
  adj 1: suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose; "an opportune place to make camp"; "an opportune arrival" [ant: inopportune]
• picayune 0
  adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
• platoon 0
  n 1: a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant 2: a team of policemen working under the military platoon system 3: a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity; "platoons of tourists poured out of the busses"; "the defensive platoon of the football team"
• pontoon 0
  n 1: (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge 2: a float supporting a seaplane
• prune 0
  n 1: dried plum v 1: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back] 2: weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet" [syn: cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise]
• raccoon 0
  n 1: the fur of the North American racoon 2: an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America [syn: raccoon, racoon]
• rune 0
  n 1: any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each rune had its own magical significance" [syn: rune, runic letter]
• saloon 0
  n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom] 2: tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals [syn: public house, pub, saloon, pothouse, gin mill, taphouse] 3: a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors [syn: sedan, saloon]
• soon 0
  adv 1: in the near future; "the doctor will soon be here"; "the book will appear shortly"; "she will arrive presently"; "we should have news before long" [syn: soon, shortly, presently, before long]
• spoon 0
  n 1: a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food 2: as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar" [syn: spoon, spoonful] 3: formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face v 1: scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the roast" 2: snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others [syn: smooch, spoon]
• swoon 0
  n 1: a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain [syn: faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium] v 1: pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain [syn: faint, conk, swoon, pass out]
• tune 0
  n 1: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven" [syn: tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase] 2: the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch; "he cannot sing in tune"; "the clarinet was out of tune" 3: the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency v 1: adjust for (better) functioning; "tune the engine" [syn: tune, tune up] 2: adjust the pitches of (musical instruments); "My piano needs to be tuned" [syn: tune, tune up] [ant: untune]
• tycoon 0
  n 1: a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron" [syn: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon]
• boone 0
  n 1: an American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820) [syn: Boone, Daniel Boone]
• june 0
  n 1: the month following May and preceding July
• kroon 0
  n 1: the basic unit of money in Estonia
• kuhn 0
  n 1: Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967) [syn: Kuhn, Richard Kuhn]
• poon 0
  n 1: wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars 2: any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood
• toon 0
  n 1: a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence [syn: cartoon, animated cartoon, toon]
• bethune 0
  n 1: United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955) [syn: Bethune, Mary McLeod Bethune]
• cancun 0
  n 1: a popular island resort off the northeastern tip of the Yucatan peninsula
• rangoon 0
  n 1: the capital and largest city of Myanmar; located in the south near the Irrawaddy river delta [syn: Yangon, Rangoon]
• galloon 0
• strewn 0
• broun 0
• bruen 0
• brune 0
• bruun 0
• choon 0
• clune 0
• coone 0
• gruen 0
• heun 0
• hoon 0
• joon 0
• keune 0
• koon 0
• koone 0
• kuehn 0
• kuehne 0
• mhoon 0
• moone 0
• noone 0
• roone 0
• schoon 0
• shoen 0
• suen 0
• thune 0
• toone 0
• troon 0
• antoon 0
• aoun 0
• banoun 0
• barloon 0
• cahoon 0
• calhoon 0
• calhoun 0
• cohoon 0
• corroon 0
• dekroon 0
• hamdoon 0
• harroun 0
• huntoon 0
• karoun 0
• karun 0
• laffoon 0
• liqun 0
• magoon 0
• majnoon 0
• mattoon 0
• mcclune 0

See also typhoon definition