OONERISM
Words that go OON!

There's a small family of English words and names that end in -oon, including a subfamily of biological terms ending in -zoon. Although it's hard to assign them a common linguistic origin or etymology, they nonetheless seem to constitute an uncommonly colorful and garish subset of the language. If you were going to have a party, this is the set of words to invite!

I am sorely tempted to Croon a Tune to Oona or Mourn a Rune to Lorna Doone using only these words as rhymes.

1. aboon, a dialect word for "above";
2. actinozoon, a member of the biological class Actinozoa;
3. afternoon, the period between noon and evening;
4. aizoon, a biological genus that includes the house leek;
5. alsoon, "as soon";
6. anderoon, a harem; also spelled "anderun";
7. antenoon, before noon;
8. anthozoon, a member of the biological class of Anthozoa, which includes the sea anemone;
9. antimonsoon, a pattern of wind found above an active monsoon, moving in the opposite direction;
10. antisaloon, a movement aimed at shutting down public drinking establishments;
11. Antoon, a first name; a family name;
12. archbuffoon, the lead comic performer in a pre-Lenten parade;
13. aroon, a term of affection, meaning "darling";
14. aswoon, dizzy with emotion;
15. baboon, a family of large monkeys which live in a variety of habitats including savannas and tropical forests;
16. ballatoon: a heavy boat used to transport lumber in Russia;
17. balloon, an inflatable object, often of cloth, rubber, or plastic, used to contain a gas or fluid;
18. bargoon, a bargain, a Canadian slang term;
19. barracoon, a temporary barracks for slaves or criminals;
20. barspoon, a long-handled spoon used for mixing drinks;
21. bashtoon, a bastard;
22. bassoon, a double-reeded woodwind orchestral instrument;
23. batoon, a baton;
24. bemoon, to moan; to bewail;
25. bigaroon, a variety of cherry;
26. blateroon, a blow-hard;
27. blatteroon, a blow-hard;
28. boon, a favor;
29. bosthoon, an impolite or discourteous fellow;
30. bostoon, an impolite or discourteous fellow;
31. bradoon, a kind of bit used with horses;
32. bridoon, a type of snaffle bit used in a double bridle;
33. Brigadoon: a musical play by Lerner and Loewe about a mythical Scottish village that appears one day every hundred years; the name is thought to be derived from the Scottish landmark, the "Brig o' Doon" or "Bridge of Doon".
34. broon, a variant spelling of "brown";
35. bryozoon, a small animal that lives in compound colonies;
36. buffoon, a fool or object of fun, ultimately from the Latin "buffare", to puff out the cheeks;
37. Burgoon, a village in Ohio;
38. cacoon, the large bean of a tropical vine;
39. Calhoon, a common surname;
40. Callicoon, a town in New York;
41. calycozoon, a member of the Calycozoa biological family;
42. Cameroon, a country in central Africa;
43. cantoon, a cloth that is a variety of fustian, and is often used for men's riding and sporting suits;
44. carcoon, a clerk;
45. cardoon, the artichoke thistle;
46. caroon, old English slang for the coin known as a crown, worth 5 shillings;
47. carroon, old English slang for the coin known as a crown, worth 5 shillings;
48. cartoon, a simple drawing or sketch;
49. cassoon, a deep coffer in a ceiling;
50. cataloon, fabric from Catalonia;
51. ceroon, a package covered by hide;
52. chemiloon, a garment that combines chemise and drawers;
53. chuncoon, a local official of the Manchu dynasty;
54. cimaroon, a slave who escaped from the Spanish conquistadors;
55. cocoon, a protective covering created by an insect preparatory to a period of hibernation or moulting;
56. contrabassoon, a larger version of the bassoon;
57. coon, a raccoon;
58. coprozoon, a protozoan that lives in feces;
59. coquetoon, an antelope found in west Africa;
60. crampoon, a variant form of "crampon", an attachment to the shoe for gripping ice;
61. croon, to sing sentimentally, in a soft voice;
62. cushoon, a term used in Tippu Sultan's army for a regiment or brigade;
63. cytozoon, a parasite living within a cell;
64. dahoon, an evergreen shrub;
65. decatoon: a "ducaton", a silver coin first minted in Italy, and then in Burgundy and the Netherlands;
66. Demophoon, (also Demophon), a Greek of ancient times, whom the goddess Demeter attempted to immortalize;
67. dermatozoon, a parasite that inhabits the skin of its host;
68. dessertspoon, a spoon with an oval, rather than a round bowl, designed for eating desserts;
69. devoon, 1940's slang for 'divine';
70. dhoon, any of the many valleys in northern India that extend from the Himalayas;
71. dioon, a genus of cycads;
72. diplozoon, a kind of flatworm;
73. Disheroon, a family name;
74. doon, a tree native to Sri Lanka; a valley in India; Drumadoon Hill Fort in Scotland
75. doubloon, a gold coin of Spain;
76. dragoon: a light cavalryman. The name is thought to have arisen from the firearm carried by the first mounted infantry, called a "dragon" because of the image of a dragon's head on the barrel;
77. Drumadoon, a town in Scotland, home of "The Doon";
78. ducatoon: a "ducaton", a silver coin first minted in Italy, and then in Burgundy and the Netherlands;
79. Dunoon, a town in Scotland;
80. ectozoon, a parasite that lives outside its host;
81. eftsoon, an old way of saying "soon after";
82. enterozoon, an intestinal parasite;
83. entozoon, an intestinal parasite;
84. eozoon, the name given to various mineralized objects that were mistaken for fossilized remains of an early creature;
85. epiploon, the greater omentum, a fold of peritoneum that hangs down from the stomach.
86. epizoon, a parasite that resides on the surface or skin of its host;
87. espantoon, a half-pike;
88. espontoon, a half-pike;
89. exomoon, an extra-solar moon;
90. festoon, a garland of flowers;
91. flocoon, the filamentous waxy secretion of certain plant lice;
92. floroon, a flowery border;
93. forenoon, the late morning;
94. frigatoon, a Venetian square-sterned vessel;
95. Gaboon, an obsolete form of the name of Gabon, a country in Africa;
96. gaboon, a dark mahogany wood;
97. gadroon, (also godroon), an elaborately carved convex molding, often with beveled edges;
98. galloon, an ornamental braid or strip of cloth, often including metallic thread, and used especially in uniforms;
99. gambroon, linen cloth that has been twilled;
100. ganoon, qanun, a stringed instrument of the Middle East;
101. Gerritszoon, a fictional font described in "Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore", by Robin Sloan;
102. godroon, (also gadroon), an elaborately carved convex molding;
103. gombroon, linen cloth that has been twilled;
104. goon, a thug; a grotesquely shaped person;
105. gorsoon, a young boy, a playful variation on "garcon";
106. gossoon, a young boy, a playful variation on "garcon";
107. granfalloon, a nonce word invented by Kurt Vonnegut in "Cat's Cradle", denoting a proud but meaningless association of people;
108. Grundoon, a minor cartoon character in Walt Kelly's "Pogo", who spoke only gibberish; now used to indicate people of low mentality or with little common sense;
109. gunloon, a person obsessed with guns;
110. haemtozoon, a protozoan blood parasite;
111. halfmoon, the first and last quarter phases of the moon;
112. Hardoon, a family name;
113. harpoon, a hooked spear used in fishing;
114. hemacytozoon, a protozoan blood parasite;
115. hematocytozoon, a protozoan blood parasite;
116. hematozoon, a protozoan blood parasite;
117. hemocytozoon, a protozoan blood parasite;
118. hemozoon, a protozoan blood parasite;
119. hepatozoon, a liver parasite;
120. heroon, a mausoleum for heroes;
121. hexadecaroon, a person with one sixteenth African ancestry;
122. honeymoon, a short celebratory trip or vacation taken by a newly married couple;
123. hookaroon, a tool used in woodcutting, a long pole with a hook at the end;
124. hoon, in Australia, a style of reckless driving intended to impress an audience;
125. Hoosieroons, the former name of the Ball State athletic teams, now known as the Cardinals;
126. huccatoon, a kind of cotton cloth;
127. Huntoon, a family name;
128. hydrozoon, one of the class Hydrozoa, of very small predatory creatures living in salt water;
129. hyperoon, referring to the upper story of a building;
130. hypersoon, extremely soon;
131. jargoon, a variety of zircon;
132. joon, a personal name;
133. Kaiserkroon, a variety of tulip;
134. Kalkoon, a town in Guyana;
135. kanoon, a qanun, a stringed instrument, like a dulcimer or zither, of the Middle East;
136. khahoon, a measure of grain equal to 40 maunds;
137. Khaldoon, a first name;
138. kokoon, the brindled gnu, or blue wildebeest;
139. koshoon, a term used in Tippu Sultan's army for a regiment or brigade;
140. Kowloon, an area in Hong Kong, once a separate walled city;
141. kroon, the currency of Estonia until replaced by the euro;
142. kytoon, a kite-balloon, a tethered aircraft;
143. lagoon, a shallow bay or pool connected to the ocean;
144. lampoon, to mock or make ridiculous;
145. langoon, a French white wine;
146. Laocoon, a Trojan priest swallowed, along with this two sons, by a serpent sent by the gods, after warning the Trojans against accepting the wooden horse offered by the Greeks;
147. lardoon, (also lardon), a piece of bacon used to lard meat;
148. leucocytozoon, a protozoan blood-borne parasite;
149. loon, a large water bird that dives for fish;
150. macaroon, a cookie or small cake made with almonds and coconut;
151. madjoon, a medicinal preparation of various aromatic spices, herbs, and precious substances; opium;
152. madzoon, (also matsun, matzoon), an Armenian food similar to yogurt;
153. majoon, an Arabic confection made with cannabis;
154. maroon, a brownish red color; a runaway African slave; to abandon on an island;
155. marsoon, the white whale;
156. matsoon, an Armenian food similar to yogurt;
157. matzoon, (also madzoon, matsoon, matsun), an Armenian food similar to yogurt;
158. melocotoon, a melocoton: a peach grafted on a quince rootstock;
159. metazoon, a member of the biological class Metazoa;
160. microzoon, a microscopic animal;
161. midafternoon, the middle of the period between noon and evening;
162. midforenoon, time somewhere in the middle of the morning;
163. midnoon, in the middle of noontime;
164. monsoon, a seasonal wind in southeast Asia, and the very rainy weather that is associated with it;
165. moon, earth's satellite, or any satellite of a planet;
166. Muldoon, a common English surname;
167. musketoon, a version of the musket with a shorter barrel;
168. musquetoon, a version of the musket with a shorter barrel;
169. mycetozoon, a slime mold;
170. noon, midday, the time when the sun is directly overhead;
171. octaroon, a mixed race person with one eighth African descent;
172. octoon, part of an insect
173. octoroon, a mixed race person with one eighth African descent;
174. oon, an oven (British dialect)
175. oons, a mild oath, "God's wounds!'
176. overfestoon, to excessively decorate.
177. oversoon, too soon;
178. pameroon, a region of Guyana;
179. pantaloon, baggy trousers gathered at the ankles;
180. Pantaloon, in old Italian comedy, the stock character of an old man wearing baggy trousers;
181. pantoon
182. Papoon, George Papoon, a character created by the Firesign Theatre as a mock presidential candidate, featured on the comedy album "Papoon for President!".
183. pashtoon, a Pushto-speaking people;
184. patacoon, a term for the Spanish dollar, also known as a pataca;
185. patroon, in the Dutch settlements of New York and New Jersey, a patroon was a holder of large tracts of land and certain accompanying rights;
186. Peeploon, a small village in Rajasthan;
187. phytozoon, an animal with many of the attributed of a plant;
188. picaroon, a scoundrel or rogue;
189. pickaroon, a scoundrel or rogue;
190. platoon: comes from the French "peleton" for "little ball" which then began to be used for "small group of men";
191. poltroon: a coward;
192. polyzoon, a small animal that lives in compound colonies;
193. pomeroon, a river in Guyana, and a former Dutch colony near that river;
194. Pompoon, an obsolete form of the word "pompom".
195. Pompoon, a famous American thoroughbred horse.
196. Pompoon, a steamship sunk by a U-boat in 1943.
197. pontoon, a buoyancy tube, or a platform or vessel supported by tubes.
198. poon, an east Indian tree;
199. preafternoon, the period immediately before the afternoon, that is, a little before noon;
200. prenoon, occurring before noon;
201. proballoon
202. prostoon, in architecture, a portico, from "pro" and "stoa";
203. protozoon, a group of primitive single celled organisms;
204. pseudoepiploon, a membrane suggestive of the epiploon;
205. puccoon, a wild American plant used for dyes;
206. puftaloon, a fried scone;
207. pukhtoon, a Pushto-speaking people;
208. puloroon, or "Pulau Rhu", in the Banda Islands, a valuable source of nutmeg, was briefly owned by Great Britain, but then traded to the Dutch in exchange for Manhattan.
209. pulpatoon, a delicate cake made from fruit pulp;
210. pultoon, an Indian regiment;
211. puppetoon, a series of animated films made by George Pal using stop-motion and wooden puppets; hence, a crudely animated figurine.
212. pushtoon, a Pushto-speaking people;
213. qanoon, qanun, a stringed instrument of the Middle East;
214. quadroon, a mixed race person with one quarter African descent;
215. quarteroon, a mixed race person with one quarter African descent;
216. quinteroon, a mixed race person with one sixteenth African descent;
217. quintroon, a mixed race person with one sixteenth African descent;
218. raccoon, a scavenging woodlands creature of North America;
219. racoon, a scavenging woodlands creature of North America;
220. ramoon, a small tree of the mulberry family;
221. Rangoon, the British name for the city of Yangon in Burma aka Myanmar;
222. rantoon,a four-wheel bicycle.
223. ratoon, a fresh shoot emerging from the base of a sugar cane stock after it has been cropped;
224. rattoon, a fresh shoot emerging from the base of a sugar cane stock after it has been cropped;
225. recroon, to croon again;
226. rigadoon, (also rigadon, rigaudon), a lively dance popular in the French baroque period;
227. rockoon, a solid fuel sounding rocket that is launched from a balloon;
228. roon, an obsolete word meaning "red"; a Scottish form of "round";
229. rushoon, a town in Newfoundland;
230. sacoon, a fencing term, the same as 'seconde';
231. sacoon, a family name;
232. saloon, a bar, or public room;
233. saltspoon, a small spoon used to sprinkle salt on food;
234. samoon, a violent, dusty desert wind storm;
235. saprozoon, creatures that feed on putrefying matter;
236. Sassoon, a family name;
237. sashoon, a kind of boot pad;
238. Saskatoon, the largest town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan;
239. scandaroon, a fancy pigeon breed;
240. schoon, an archaic version of "shoes".
241. scoon, to skip a flat stone across the surface of a stream;
242. semiballoon, a dress style; a fishing trawl that opens up as a half-spherical shape;
243. seroon, a bale of indigo covered with hide;
244. sevangoon, a residential area in northeast Singapore.
245. shabbaroon, a ragamuffin;
246. shabroon, a ragamuffin;
247. shabroon, a family name;
248. shagroon, a derogatory term from 19th Century Canterbury, England from settlers who arrived from Australia (seems the wrong direction for emigration!);
249. shalloon, a lightweight woolen fabric;
250. shoon, an obsolete term for "shoes";
251. Siegfried Sassoon, an English soldier poet of the first World War;
252. simoon, a violent, dusty desert wind storm;
253. sirpoon, an evergreen tree;
254. Skanderoon, Iskenderun, a Turkish port, once known as Alexandretta.
255. skanderoon, a species of pigeon;
256. the solid Muldoon, a famous hoax involving a figure made to look like a petrified man;
257. soon, in a short time;
258. soupspoon, a spoon with a deeper bowl for eating soup;
259. spadroon, a lightweight sword with a straight blade;
260. spantoon, a half-pike;
261. spermatozoon, the male sex cell;
262. spittoon, a pot for the convenience of spitters, especially tobacco chewers;
263. spongiozoon, the sea creature known as the sponge;
264. spontoon: (also, espontoon), a "half-pike", a medieval weapon;
265. spoon, a dining utensil ending in a shallow bowl shape, which can used for eating liquids, or small items such as peas and corn;
266. sporozoon, a parasitic protozoan that produces infective spores;
267. stoon (also stound), a length of time, a while, a sharp pain;
268. swoon, to become faint, dizzy, or carried away with emotion;
269. taboon, or "tabun", a clay oven used in the Middle East;
270. tablespoon, a large spoon; a liquid measurement of half an ounce;
271. tampoon, a stopper for a barrel;
272. tappoon, a sheet of wood or metal used to control flow through an irrigation ditch;
273. Tatyoon, a town in Victoria, Canada;
274. teaspoon, a unit of volume measure equal to a third of a tablespoon;
275. teleozoon, a metazoan;
276. tenoroon, the tenor bassoon;
277. terceroon, a person with one eight African ancestry;
278. testoon, an English silver coin, the predecessor of the shilling;
279. tetrastoon, a courtyard enclosed by four porticoes, from the Greek "tetra" and "stoa";
280. Cape Tiberoon, on the island of Hispaniola;
281. tierceroon, a person with one eight African ancestry;
282. toon, a slang form of "cartoon";
283. tosheroon, old English slang for the coin known as a crown, worth 5 shillings;
284. tosseroon, old English slang for the coin known as a crown, worth 5 shillings;
285. tritoon, a boat relying on three pontoons for flotation;
286. trochozoon, an organism of the group Trochozoa;
287. Troon, a town in Scotland, and in Arizona;
288. tuffoon, an obsolete spelling of "typhoon";
289. tusheroon, old English slang for the coin known as a crown, worth 5 shillings;
290. tycoon, a wealthy, powerful person;
291. typhoon, a Pacific Ocean tropical cyclone;
292. van Loon, a family name;
293. vinegaroon: an insect related to spiders, sometimes called the "whip scorpion" because it has pincers and an arching tail. As a defense, it can spray a solution of acetic acid;
294. wackaloon, a crazy, deranged, or obsessed person;
295. Walloon, a member of the French-speaking region of Belgium;
296. Warrahoon, an Amerindian from the Orinoco delta;
297. webtoon, cartoons, manga, and animations, involving drawings rather than photographs;
298. Witherspoon, now a common surname, originally the name of a village, meaning "a narrow strip (span) containing sheep (wether)";
299. wolveboon, a small, poisonous African shrub;
300. woon, a governor in Burma;
301. Wyntoon, an estate in California owned by the Hearst family, named for the local Wintun people;
302. Yackatoon, an aboriginal Australian expression of joy;
303. yesternoon, around noon, yesterday;
304. Zamboon, a Zambian;
305. zimbaloon, (also zimbalon, cimbalon), a dulcimer used by gypsies;
306. zoon, an individual forming a compound organism; any animal that grows from a fertilized egg;