Collins Rhyming Dictionary - Rosalind Fergusson

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Lexington, Kensington, Eddystone, ferryman, Edison, medicine, jettison, benison, venison, Tennyson, Ericsson, netizen, denizen, Methuen, * dodecagon, progestogen, Gulbenkian, Ossetian, rebellion, Cromwellian, Boswellian, Orwellian, Portmeirion, pedestrian, equestrian, Dickensian, American, pantechnicon, * Christadelphian, Philadelphian, un-American, endoskeleton, exoskeleton, * Machiavellian

       Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican!

       His bill will hold more than his belican.

       He can take in his beak

       Enough food for a week

       But I’m damned if I see how the helican.

      DIXON LANIER MERRITT

      10.65 Westmorland, reverend, Reverend, jettisoned

      10.66 Netherlands, Reverend’s

      10.67 decadent, redolent, prevalent, excellent, deferent, efferent, referent, reverent, eloquent, betterment, testament, temperament, tenement, measurement, settlement, devilment, resonant, sentient, prescient, exeunt, mendicant, desiccant, elegant, evident, precedent, president, resident, penitent, hesitant, elephant, relevant, pestilent, celebrant, emigrant, pediment, sediment, sentiment, element, merriment, decrement, excrement, Egremont, detriment, regiment, revenant, eminent, reticent, negligent, exigent, effluent, petulant, tegument, * malevolent, benevolent, expectorant, irreverent, accelerant, Old Testament, New Testament, development, resettlement, dishevelment, embezzlement, consentient, presentient, dissentient, insentient, inelegant, self-evident, nonresident, impenitent, irrelevant, impediment, presentiment, experiment, embellishment, replenishment, pre-eminent, maleficent, beneficent, intelligent, integument, * redevelopment, unintelligent

      10.68 decadence, redolence, prevalence, excellence, temperance, deference, preference, reference, reverence, Reverence, severance, eloquence, measurements, resonance, sentience, prescience, mendicants, elegance, evidence, precedence, residence, residents, penitence, hesitance, elephants, relevance, pestilence, emigrants, sentiments, elements, eminence, reticence, negligence, effluence, petulance, * malevolence, benevolence, intemperance, irreverence, developments, insentience, inelegance, inheritance, impenitence, irrelevance, impediments, experiments, pre-eminence, maleficence, beneficence, intelligence, * disinheritance, * counterintelligence, etc.

      10.69 peppering, rendering, tendering, Kettering, lettering, sheltering, sweltering, mentoring, feathering, weathering, censoring, measuring, welcoming, reckoning, threatening, deafening, lessening, questioning, trespassing, editing, everything, anything, * unquestioning, etc.

      10.70 exodus, Exodus, embolus, memberless, measureless, effortless, weaponless, Hesperus, decorous, generous, lecherous, treacherous, venturous, venomous, slenderness, tenderness, tetanus, cleverness, membranous, pleasantness, gentleness, helpfulness, helplessness, fecklessness, recklessness, restlessness, selflessness, breathlessness, Pegasus, Ephesus, plenteous, envious, Celsius, crepitus, perilous, penniless, Wenceslas, Septimus, readiness, steadiness, cretinous, pettiness, sweatiness, emptiness, heaviness, friendliness, cleanliness, dressiness, resinous, edginess, wretchedness, selfishness, strenuous, tenuous, sensuous, nebulous, Regulus, credulous, sedulous, pendulous, querulous, emulous, tremulous, * Telemachus, acephalous, Bucephalus, expressionless, indecorous, ungenerous, adventurous, togetherness, light-headedness, indebtedness, unpleasantness, forgetfulness, pretentiousness, compendious, rebellious, emeritus, necessitous, unfriendliness, effectiveness, inventiveness, unselfishness, impetuous, contemptuous, tempestuous, incestuous, ingenuous, incredulous, * antitetanus, hydrocephalus, overgenerous, unadventurous, disingenuous, etc.

      10.71 Everest, peskiest, readiest, steadiest, trendiest, pettiest, sweatiest, emptiest, heaviest, healthiest, wealthiest, smelliest, deadliest, friendliest, merriest, dressiest, messiest, sexiest, sketchiest, * unhealthiest, etc.

      10.72 therapist, Methodist, medallist, specialist, terrorist, hedonist, essayist, pessimist, feminist, Leninist, fetishist, exorcist, prejudiced, * nonspecialist, detectorist, adventurist, telephonist, impressionist, expressionist, receptionist, protectionist, perfectionist, projectionist, postfeminist, geneticist, unprejudiced, * hypnotherapist, psychotherapist, instrumentalist, existentialist, sentimentalist, antiterrorist, eco-terrorist, postimpressionist, resurrectionist, vivisectionist, interventionist, * radiotherapist, physiotherapist, * aromatherapist, environmentalist, * antivivisectionist

      10.73 desolate, separate, temperate, desperate, Everett, leveret, delegate, sextuplet, * intemperate, confederate, inveterate, protectorate, inspectorate, electorate, directorate, coelenterate, degenerate, regenerate, commensurate, affectionate, Connecticut, indelicate, effeminate, * unregenerate, overestimate, underestimate

      10.74 Cheviot, Eliot, Herriot, definite, * licentiate, indefinite

      10.75 twentieth, pennyworth, Kenilworth

      10.76 trespasses, terraces, lettuces, crevices, premises, blemishes, vestiges, * apprentices, etc.

      10.77 melodies, penalties, seventies, memories, pleasantries, enemies, recipes, remedies, * contemporaries, accessories, arch-enemies, discrepancies, elevenses, celebrities, extremities, obscenities, complexities, etc.

       For myself, I’m relied on by friends in extremities,

       And I don’t mind so much if a comfort to them it is.

      OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

      10.78 melancholy, sexually, sensually, regularly, temporarily, memorably, pleasurably, questionably, enviably, veritably, negligibly, delicately, definitely, infinitely, eloquently, elegantly, evidently, hesitantly, eminently, petulantly, tentatively, relatively, sensitively, gentlemanly, genuinely, welcomingly, threateningly, deafeningly, questioningly, menacingly, effortlessly, decorously, generously, treacherously, enviously, strenuously, temporary, emissary, necessary, February, estuary, respiratory, testimony, ceremony, celibacy, efficacy, delicacy, Excellency, presidency, residency, hesitancy, * ephemerally, professionally, exceptionally, intentionally, conventionally, congenitally, perpetually, conceptually, effectually, eventually, irregularly, irrevocably, unquestionably, immeasurably, inevitably, intelligibly, affectionately, indefinitely, irreverently, competitively, insensitively, consecutively, ungentlemanly, adventurously, rebelliously, impetuously, contemptuously, contemporary, extemporary, unnecessary, investigatory, confederacy, degeneracy, inefficacy, indelicacy, effeminacy, * architecturally, unintentionally, ineffectually, intellectually, unintelligibly, * infinitesimally, etc.

      10.79 revocable, memorable, venerable, measurable, pleasurable, mentionable, questionable, expiable, enviable, creditable, heritable, veritable, equitable, execrable, penetrable, estimable, perishable, eligible, negligible, educable, reputable, refutable, * irrevocable, unmemorable, inexorable, immeasurable, commensurable, impressionable, exceptionable, objectionable, unmentionable, unquestionable, inexpiable, unenviable, hereditable, discreditable, inevitable, inheritable, inequitable, impenetrable, inestimable, imperishable, intelligible, ineligible, ineducable, disreputable, irrefutable, * unexceptionable, unintelligible

      The rhymes in this section have the ‘er’ sound of her and working as their main or final vowel sound.

      11.1 blur, br’er, burr, cur, duh, er, err, fir, Fleur, fur, her, Kerr, knur, myrrh, per, purr, shirr, sir, Sir, slur, spur, stir, ’twere, Ur, were, whir, * occur, concur, astir, confer, aver, adieu, monsieur, Pasteur, transfer, chasseur, masseur, coiffeur, voyeur, seigneur, deburr, prie-dieu, milieu, recur, incur, deter, inter, bestir, defer, prefer, refer, infer, demur, longueur, Montreux, auteur, hauteur, chauffeur, poseur, douceur, * transfer, larkspur, cockspur, Hotspur, * saboteur, amateur, shamateur, raconteur, rapporteur, pas de deux, de rigueur, Périgueux, reoccur, cri de coeur, Richelieu, disinter, connoisseur, bon

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