typhon-, typhoni- +

(Greek > Latin: whirlwind, tempest)

Typhon
1. A violent whirlwind; a typhoon.
2. A surface-to-air missile designed for shipboard deployment against high-performance aircraft and short-range tactical missiles.

It carries a nuclear or a non-nuclear warhead.

3. Etymology: from Greek mythology, a monster with a hundred heads and one of the whirlwinds.

Son of Typhoeus and Echidna; father of Cerberus and the Chimera and the Sphinx.

typhon, tyfon
Acoustical engineering, a loudspeaker horn that is actuated by compressed air or steam.