Words that rhyme with xylophone

• alone 3
  adv 1: without any others being included or involved; "was entirely to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively"; "did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him" [syn: entirely, exclusively, solely, alone, only] 2: without anybody else or anything else; "the child stayed home alone"; "the pillar stood alone, supporting nothing"; "he flew solo" [syn: alone, solo, unaccompanied] adj 1: isolated from others; "could be alone in a crowded room"; "was alone with her thoughts"; "I want to be alone" 2: lacking companions or companionship; "he was alone when we met him"; "she is alone much of the time"; "the lone skier on the mountain"; "a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel"; "a lonely soul"; "a solitary traveler" [syn: alone(p), lone(a), lonely(a), solitary] 3: exclusive of anyone or anything else; "she alone believed him"; "cannot live by bread alone"; "I'll have this car and this car only" [syn: alone(p), only] 4: radically distinctive and without equal; "he is alone in the field of microbiology"; "this theory is altogether alone in its penetration of the problem"; "Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint"; "craftsmen whose skill is unequaled"; "unparalleled athletic ability"; "a breakdown of law unparalleled in our history" [syn: alone(p), unique, unequaled, unequalled, unparalleled]
• allophone 0
  n 1: (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
• bone 0
  adj 1: consisting of or made up of bone; "a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body" n 1: rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates [syn: bone, os] 2: the porous calcified substance from which bones are made [syn: bone, osseous tissue] 3: a shade of white the color of bleached bones [syn: bone, ivory, pearl, off-white] v 1: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone] 2: remove the bones from; "bone the turkey before roasting it" [syn: bone, debone]
• clone 0
  n 1: a person who is almost identical to another [syn: ringer, dead ringer, clone] 2: a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction [syn: clone, clon] 3: an unauthorized copy or imitation [syn: knockoff, clone] v 1: make multiple identical copies of; "people can clone a sheep nowadays"
• cologne 0
  n 1: a commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during the 15th century as a member of the Hanseatic League [syn: Cologne, Koln] 2: a perfumed liquid made of essential oils and alcohol [syn: cologne, cologne water, eau de cologne]
• condone 0
  v 1: excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities" [syn: excuse, condone]
• cone 0
  n 1: any cone-shaped artifact 2: a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point [syn: cone, conoid, cone shape] 3: cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts [syn: cone, strobilus, strobile] 4: a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color [syn: cone, cone cell, retinal cone] v 1: make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"
• cyclone 0
  n 1: (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern [ant: anticyclone] 2: a violent rotating windstorm
• diaphone 0
  n 1: a foghorn that makes a signal consisting of two tones
• drone 0
  n 1: stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen 2: an unchanging intonation [syn: monotone, drone, droning] 3: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [syn: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke] 4: an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control [syn: drone, pilotless aircraft, radio- controlled aircraft] 5: a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone [syn: drone, drone pipe, bourdon] v 1: make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on" 2: talk in a monotonous voice [syn: drone, drone on]
• earphone 0
  n 1: electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked" [syn: earphone, earpiece, headphone, phone]
• gone 0
  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"
• gramophone 0
  n 1: an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically [syn: gramophone, acoustic gramophone]
• headphone 0
  n 1: electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked" [syn: earphone, earpiece, headphone, phone]
• hipbone 0
  n 1: large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis [syn: hipbone, innominate bone]
• homophone 0
  n 1: two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
• hone 0
  n 1: a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors v 1: sharpen with a hone; "hone a knife" 2: make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!" [syn: perfect, hone]
• intone 0
  v 1: utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" [syn: tone, chant, intone] 2: recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer" [syn: chant, intone, intonate, cantillate] 3: speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone; "please intonate with sadness" [syn: intonate, intone]
• known 0
  adj 1: apprehended with certainty; "a known quantity"; "the limits of the known world"; "a musician known throughout the world"; "a known criminal" [ant: unknown]
• megaphone 0
  n 1: a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice
• microphone 0
  n 1: device for converting sound waves into electrical energy [syn: microphone, mike]
• moan 0
  n 1: an utterance expressing pain or disapproval [syn: groan, moan] v 1: indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure; "The students groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"; "The ancient door soughed when opened" [syn: groan, moan]
• one 0
  adj 1: used of a single unit or thing; not two or more; "`ane' is Scottish" [syn: one, 1, i, ane] 2: having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice" [syn: one(a), unitary] 3: of the same kind or quality; "two animals of one species" 4: used informally as an intensifier; "that is one fine dog" 5: indefinite in time or position; "he will come one day"; "one place or another" 6: being a single entity made by combining separate components; "three chemicals combining into one solution" 7: eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art" [syn: matchless, nonpareil, one(a), one and only(a), peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled] n 1: the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one" [syn: one, 1, I, ace, single, unity] 2: a single person or thing; "he is the best one"; "this is the one I ordered"
• overblown 0
  adj 1: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous] 2: past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"
• own 0
  adj 1: belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive; "for your own use"; "do your own thing"; "she makes her own clothes"; "`ain' is Scottish" [syn: own(a), ain] v 1: have ownership or possession of; "He owns three houses in Florida"; "How many cars does she have?" [syn: own, have, possess]
• phone 0
  n 1: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; "I talked to him on the telephone" [syn: telephone, phone, telephone set] 2: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language [syn: phone, speech sound, sound] 3: electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked" [syn: earphone, earpiece, headphone, phone] v 1: get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" [syn: call, telephone, call up, phone, ring]
• polyphone 0
  n 1: a letter that has two or more pronunciations; "`c' is a polyphone because it is pronounced like `k' in `car' but like `s' in `cell'" [syn: polyphone, polyphonic letter]
• prone 0
  adj 1: having a tendency (to); often used in combination; "a child prone to mischief"; "failure-prone" 2: lying face downward [syn: prone, prostrate]
• radiotelephone 0
  n 1: telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire [syn: radiotelephone, radiotelephony, wireless telephone] 2: a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables [syn: radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless telephone]
• roan 0
  adj 1: (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey; "a roan horse" n 1: a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding 2: a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray
• saxophone 0
  n 1: a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore [syn: sax, saxophone]
• scone 0
  n 1: small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle
• sewn 0
  adj 1: fastened with stitches [syn: sewed, sewn, stitched]
• sousaphone 0
  n 1: the lowest brass wind instrument [syn: bass horn, sousaphone, tuba]
• stone 0
  adj 1: of any of various dull tannish or grey colors n 1: a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me" [syn: rock, stone] 2: building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site" 3: material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries" [syn: rock, stone] 4: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem, gemstone, stone] 5: an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone" 6: the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking" [syn: stone, pit, endocarp] 7: United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946) [syn: Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone] 8: United States filmmaker (born in 1946) [syn: Stone, Oliver Stone] 9: United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) [syn: Stone, Lucy Stone] 10: United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) [syn: Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone] 11: United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946) [syn: Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone] 12: United States architect (1902-1978) [syn: Stone, Edward Durell Stone] 13: a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone" v 1: kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock" [syn: stone, lapidate] 2: remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" [syn: pit, stone]
• telephone 0
  n 1: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; "I talked to him on the telephone" [syn: telephone, phone, telephone set] 2: transmitting speech at a distance [syn: telephone, telephony] v 1: get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" [syn: call, telephone, call up, phone, ring]
• throne 0
  n 1: the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.; "the king sat on his throne" 2: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne] 3: the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions v 1: sit on the throne as a ruler 2: put a monarch on the throne; "The Queen was enthroned more than 50 years ago" [syn: enthrone, throne] [ant: dethrone]
• tone 0
  n 1: the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice" [syn: tone, tone of voice] 2: (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones" 3: (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet" [syn: timbre, timber, quality, tone] 4: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell] 5: a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" [syn: shade, tint, tincture, tone] 6: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" [syn: note, musical note, tone] 7: a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies" [syn: tone, pure tone] 8: the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity" [syn: tonicity, tonus, tone] [ant: amyotonia, atonia, atonicity, atony] 9: a musical interval of two semitones [syn: tone, whole tone, step, whole step] 10: the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; "the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"; "from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome" v 1: utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" [syn: tone, chant, intone] 2: vary the pitch of one's speech [syn: tone, inflect, modulate] 3: change the color or tone of; "tone a negative" 4: change to a color image; "tone a photographic image" 5: give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles" [syn: tone, tone up, strengthen]
• vibraphone 0
  n 1: a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound [syn: vibraphone, vibraharp, vibes]
• zone 0
  n 1: a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features 2: any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude [syn: zone, geographical zone] 3: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic 4: (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure [syn: zone, zona] v 1: regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns [syn: zone, district] 2: separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off" [syn: partition, zone]
• capone 0
  n 1: United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947) [syn: Capone, Al Capone, Alphonse Capone, Scarface]
• homegrown 0
  adj 1: grown or originating in a particular place; "stands selling homegrown fruits and vegetables"
• heckelphone 0
  n 1: an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe [syn: heckelphone, basset oboe]
• cellphone 0
  n 1: a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver [syn: cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, cell, mobile phone]
• hydrophone 0
• shone 0
• videophone 0
• stallone 0
• metallophone 0
• anglophone 0
• answerphone 0
• francophone 0
• geophone 0
• sarrusophone 0
• payphone 0

See also xylophone definition and xylophone synonyms