Words that rhyme with vaughan

  • awn
    n 1: slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses
  • born
    adj 1: brought into existence; "he was a child born of adultery" [ant: unborn] 2: being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn: natural, born(p), innate(p)] n 1: British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970) [syn: Born, Max Born]
  • bourn
    n 1: an archaic term for a boundary [syn: bourn, bourne] 2: an archaic term for a goal or destination [syn: bourn, bourne]
  • brawn
    n 1: possessing muscular strength [syn: brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftiness]
  • brown
    adj 1: of a color similar to that of wood or earth [syn: brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown] 2: (of skin) deeply suntanned [syn: brown, browned] n 1: an orange of low brightness and saturation [syn: brown, brownness] 2: Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858) [syn: Brown, Robert Brown] 3: abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859) [syn: Brown, John Brown] 4: a university in Rhode Island [syn: Brown University, Brown] v 1: fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan" 2: make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard" [syn: embrown, brown]
  • con
    adv 1: in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.; "much was written pro and con" [ant: pro] n 1: an argument opposed to a proposal [ant: pro] 2: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn: convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird] 3: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam] v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con] 2: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con, learn]
  • corn
    n 1: tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times [syn: corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays] 2: the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal 3: ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food [syn: corn, edible corn] 4: a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes [syn: corn, clavus] 5: (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) 6: whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn [syn: corn whiskey, corn whisky, corn] 7: something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn" v 1: feed (cattle) with corn 2: preserve with salt; "corned beef"
  • dawn
    n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow] [ant: sundown, sunset] 2: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" [syn: dawn, morning] 3: an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire" v 1: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place] 2: appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned" 3: become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"
  • drawn
    adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn] 2: having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut; "the drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug"
  • faun
    n 1: ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
  • fawn
    n 1: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn] 2: a young deer v 1: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel] 2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up] 3: have fawns; "deer fawn"
  • foregone
    adj 1: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone]
  • gone
    adj 1: destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: done for(p), kaput(p), gone(a)] 2: dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, gone] 3: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone] 4: no longer retained; "gone with the wind"
  • home
    adv 1: at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home" 2: on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home" 3: to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home" adj 1: used of your own ground; "a home game" [ant: away] 2: relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town" 3: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national] n 1: where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" [syn: home, place] 2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house] 3: the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey" 4: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" [syn: home plate, home base, home, plate] 5: the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [syn: base, home] 6: place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball" 7: an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home" 8: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [syn: family, household, house, home, menage] 9: an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" [syn: home, nursing home, rest home] v 1: provide with, or send to, a home 2: return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"
  • horn
    n 1: a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it 2: one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates 3: a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning; 4: a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) [syn: horn, saddle horn] 5: a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves [syn: cornet, horn, trumpet, trump] 6: any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn 7: the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails 8: a device having the shape of a horn; "horns at the ends of a new moon"; "the hornof an anvil"; "the cleat had two horns" 9: an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound 10: a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves [syn: French horn, horn] 11: a device on an automobile for making a warning noise [syn: automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, horn, hooter] v 1: stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer" [syn: horn, tusk]
  • lawn
    n 1: a field of cultivated and mowed grass
  • morn
    n 1: the time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning running errands" [syn: morning, morn, morning time, forenoon]
  • mourn
    v 1: feel sadness; "She is mourning her dead child" 2: observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one
  • pawn
    n 1: an article deposited as security 2: a person used by another to gain an end [syn: instrument, pawn, cat's-paw] 3: (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank 4: borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan v 1: leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch" [syn: pawn, soak, hock]
  • porn
    n 1: creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica, smut]
  • prawn
    n 1: any of various edible decapod crustaceans [syn: prawn, shrimp] 2: shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible v 1: fish for prawns
  • scorn
    n 1: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary" [syn: contempt, disdain, scorn, despite] 2: open disrespect for a person or thing [syn: contempt, scorn] v 1: look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately" [syn: contemn, despise, scorn, disdain] 2: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn: reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down]
  • shorn
    adj 1: having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep" [syn: sheared, shorn] [ant: unsheared, unshorn]
  • spawn
    n 1: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs v 1: call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn] 2: lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
  • swan
    n 1: stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult v 1: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear] 2: 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] 3: sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the mountains"
  • sworn
    adj 1: bound by or as if by an oath; "according to an early tradition became his sworn brother"; "sworn enemies" [syn: pledged, sworn] 2: bound by or stated on oath; "now my sworn friend and then mine enemy"- Shakespeare [ant: unsworn]
  • thorn
    n 1: something that causes irritation and annoyance; "he's a thorn in my flesh" [syn: irritant, thorn] 2: a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet] 3: a Germanic character of runic origin
  • torn
    adj 1: having edges that are jagged from injury [syn: lacerate, lacerated, mangled, torn] 2: disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"
  • wan
    adj 1: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid, wan, sick] 2: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: pale, pallid, wan] 3: lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile" n 1: a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network [syn: wide area network, WAN] v 1: become pale and sickly
  • warn
    v 1: notify of danger, potential harm, or risk; "The director warned him that he might be fired"; "The doctor warned me about the dangers of smoking" 2: admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; "I warned him not to go too far"; "I warn you against false assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet" [syn: warn, discourage, admonish, monish] 3: ask to go away; "The old man warned the children off his property" 4: notify, usually in advance; "I warned you that I would ask some difficult questions"
  • withdrawn
    adj 1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life" [syn: recluse, reclusive, withdrawn] 2: tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man" [syn: indrawn, withdrawn]
  • won
    adj 1: not subject to defeat; "with that move it's a won game" [ant: lost] n 1: the basic unit of money in South Korea [syn: South Korean won, won] 2: the basic unit of money in North Korea [syn: North Korean won, won]
  • worn
    adj 1: affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket" [ant: new] 2: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn]
  • yawn
    n 1: an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy" [syn: yawn, yawning, oscitance, oscitancy] v 1: utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired; "The child yawned during the long performance" 2: be wide open; "the deep gaping canyon" [syn: gape, yawn, yaw]
  • yon
    adv 1: at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal); "the house yonder"; "scattered here and yon"- Calder Willingham [syn: yonder, yon] adj 1: distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal); "yonder valley"; "the hills yonder"; "what is yon place?" [syn: yonder, yon]
  • yuan
    n 1: the basic unit of money in China [syn: yuan, kwai] 2: the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368 [syn: Yuan, Yuan dynasty, Mongol dynasty]
  • braun
    n 1: the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945) [syn: Braun, Eva Braun] 2: United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977) [syn: Braun, von Braun, Wernher von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun]
  • shawn
    n 1: United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated with Ruth Saint Denis (1891-1972) [syn: Shawn, Ted Shawn]
  • xian
    n 1: a city of central China; capital of ancient Chinese empire 221-206 BC [syn: Xian, Sian, Singan, Changan, Hsian]
  • amon
    n 1: a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes [syn: Amen, Amon, Amun]
  • exon
    n 1: sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures; "exons are interspersed with introns" [syn: exon, coding DNA] [ant: intron, noncoding DNA]
  • peron
    n 1: Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974) [syn: Peron, Juan Domingo Peron]
  • abidjan
    n 1: city recognized by the United States as the capital of the Ivory Coast; largest city of the Ivory Coast
  • browne
    n 1: English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882) [syn: Browne, Hablot Knight Browne, Phiz] 2: United States writer of humorous tales of an itinerant showman (1834-1867) [syn: Browne, Charles Farrar Browne, Artemus Ward]
  • borne
  • overdrawn
  • predawn
  • redrawn
  • sawn
  • undergone
  • von
  • whereupon
  • bjorn
  • thorne
  • mazon
  • aune
  • baughn
  • baun
  • bonne
  • braune
  • craun
  • daun
  • draughn
  • flawn
  • praun
  • quan
  • schwahn
  • schwan
  • sean
  • shaun
  • splawn
  • straughn
  • strawn
  • vaughn
  • adon
  • ayon
  • balon
  • bardon
  • buisson
  • cardon
  • caron
  • corron
  • deyton
  • doiron
  • ferdon
  • garon
  • guion
  • jarmon
  • jaudon
  • jiron
  • lamon
  • manion
  • manon
  • maron
  • mayon
  • mccaughan
  • mcglaun
  • menon
  • miron
  • monzon

See also vaughan definition