Collins Rhyming Dictionary. Rosalind Fergusson

* primus inter pares, etc.

      4.41 barbers, Flanders, garters, rafters, casters, masters, Masters, Mahler’s, Chalmers, farmers, classes, glasses, passes, answers, chances, glances, marshes, arches, archers, Archers, marches, Marches, branches, * Bahamas, pyjamas, sultanas, * forefathers, eyeglasses, sunglasses, * Alexander’s, etc.

       Men seldom make passes

       At girls who wear glasses.

      DOROTHY PARKER

      4.42 Barnaby, Carnaby, Carnegie, Arcady, bastardy, Flaherty, Tarporley, rascally, masterly, artfully, fatherly, partially, laughably, ardently, guardedly, artlessly, heartlessly, Barbary, raspberry, Shaftesbury, artery, Tartary, mastery, carvery, chandlery, armoury, chancery, archery, Marjorie, harmony, argosy, pharmacy, garlicky, suavity, sparsity, varsity, heartily, craftily, nastily, farcically, markedly, startlingly, charmingly, marquetry, parquetry, basketry, carpentry, artistry, palmistry, larceny, * grandfatherly, impartially, remarkably, half-heartedly, light-heartedly, wholeheartedly, disastrously, self-mastery, gendarmerie, chinoiserie, disharmony, foolhardily, lethargically, alarmingly, disarmingly, * camaraderie, Devanagari, intervarsity, etc.

      4.43 Hanukkah, yarmulke, chancellor, Barbara, Scarborough, yarborough, Marlborough, Farnborough, slanderer, barterer, charterer, plasterer, armourer, Marmara, sharpener, bargainer, gardener, Gardiner, hardener, pardoner, almoner, fastener, Hertfordshire, armature, arbiter, Pargiter, carpenter, harvester, harnesser, Derbyshire, varnisher, harbinger, arguer, * Antarctica

      4.44 clarkia, hardier, Nadia, heartier, craftier, draughtier, nastier, Parthia, aria, maria, barmier, Chania, Narnia, classier, Marcia, tarsier, chancier, starchier, * La Guardia, gaillardia, Somalia, Titania, intarsia, bilharzia, Abkhazia, * tachycardia, pericardia, Yugoslavia, passacaglia, Christiania, Kristiania, Oceania, Anastasia, etc.

      4.45 Castleford, afterward, carpeted, marketed, targeted, harvested, * uncarpeted

      4.46 Castleford’s, afterwards

      4.47 laughable, farmable, passable, chargeable, Barnstaple, barnacle, masterful, pastoral, arsenal, Arsenal, article, particle, farcical, Parsifal, carnival, cardinal, marginal, * remarkable, impassable, rechargeable, anarchical, hierarchical, * unremarkable, unsurpassable, pericardial, myocardial

      4.48 barnacled, Archibald, articled

      4.49 martyrdom, marjoram, cardamom, * pericardium, myocardium, * started ’em, answer ’em, etc.

      4.50 Harpenden, charlatan, Palmerston, Parthenon, Farquharson, Sanderson, guardian, Graafian, Barthian, Parthian, Charmian, Marmion, Marylebone, barbican, Barbican, cardigan, Cardigan, ptarmigan, Arlington, Darlington, harvestman, partisan, Parkinson, * Mozartian, Falstaffian, Hogarthian, Somalian, Zimbabwean

      4.51 parliament, armament, argument, rearmament, disarmament

      4.52 harbouring, scarpering, bartering, answering, sharpening, darkening, gardening, hardening, heartening, fastening, carpeting, marketing, garnishing, varnishing, * telemarketing, etc.

      4.53 Barnabas, Spartacus, marvellous, fatherless, partnerless, barbarous, slanderous, Tartarus, artfulness, artlessness, heartlessness, arquebus, Artemas, hardiness, tardiness, heartiness, craftiness, nastiness, arduous, * kind-heartedness, light-heartedness, foolhardiness, etc.

      4.54 arsonist, pharmacist, Dadaist, Stalinist, Darwinist, narcissist, * Neo-Darwinist

      4.55 hardiest, heartiest, craftiest, draughtiest, nastiest, barmiest, classiest, chanciest, starchiest, etc.

      4.56 marginally, arguably, chancellery, arbitrary, parsimony

      4.57 answerable, pardonable, marketable, arguable, * unanswerable, unpardonable, unmarketable, unarguable

-air-

      The rhymes in this section have the ‘air’ sound of hair and barely as their main or final vowel sound.

      5.1 air, Ayr, bare, bear, Blair, blare, br’er, care, chair, Cher, Claire, Clare, dare, e’er, ere, Eyre, fair, fare, fayre, flair, flare, glair, glare, hair, hare, heir, Herr, Khmer, lair, mare, mayor, ne’er, pair, pare, pear, père, prayer, quare, rare, scare, share, snare, spare, square, stair, stare, swear, tare, tear, their, there, they’re, ware, wear, where, yeah, * compare, Astaire, affair, unfair, aware, unswear, meunière, Daguerre, Basse-Terre, Sancerre, parterre, éclair, Jane Eyre, elsewhere, whene’er, where’er, Pierre, prepare, repair, impair, despair, midair, Kildare, Hilaire, declare, Sinclair, beware, ensnare, misère, Niger, Voltaire, forbear, forswear, howe’er, coheir, au pair, go spare, O’Hare, Lothair, * ampere, fanfare, flatware, Rambert, hardware, glassware, armchair, haircare, air fare, shareware, daycare, Mayfair, threadbare, hectare, welfare, neckwear, headsquare, set square, menswear, deckchair, Edgware, workfare, workwear, fieldfare, freeware, wheelchair, skincare, slipware, knitwear, swimwear, tinware, childcare, nightwear, nightmare, timeshare, highchair, compère, confrère, software, forebear, warfare, horsehair, foursquare, sportswear, corsair, ploughshare, Flaubert, mohair, nowhere, stoneware, Robespierre, bugbear, funfair, somewhere, footwear, pushchair, groupware, Gruyère, * Camembert, Aberdare, camel hair, cafetiere, savoir-faire, aftercare, jardinière, wear and tear, fair and square, maidenhair, tableware, pied-à-terre, Fred Astaire, Delaware, de la Mare, debonair, questionnaire, laissez faire, derrière, premiere, teddy bear, Medicare, secretaire, everywhere, anywhere, Burke and Hare, earthenware, legionnaire, silverware, kitchenware, billionaire, millionaire, trillionaire, rivière, disrepair, Finisterre, chinaware, ironware, nom de guerre, Molière, solitaire, doctrinaire, commissaire, rocking chair, hollowware, corsetière, overbear, polar bear, Baudelaire, open-air, au contraire, thoroughfare, Tupperware®, underwear, unaware, ovenware, * chemin de fer, concessionaire, the worse for wear, commissionaire, Apollinaire, couturière, * chargé d’affaires, devil-may-care, Folies-Bergère, Vanity Fair, surface-to-air, ready-to-wear, * multimillionaire, Weston-super-Mare, son et lumière

       What is this life if, full of care,

       We have no time to stand and stare.

      W. H. DAVIES

      5.2 aired, Baird, bared, cared, dared, fared, flared, glared, laird, paired, pared, scared, shared, snared, squared, stared, * compared, prepared, repaired, impaired, despaired, declared, ensnared, * dark-haired, fair-haired, grey-haired, red-haired, long-haired, short-haired, * unprepared, unrepaired, unimpaired, undeclared

      5.3 auberge, * concierge

      5.4 bairn, cairn, Nairn, * Auvergne, * Fairbairn, Pitcairn

      5.5 airs, Ayers, bears, cares, chairs, Claire’s, dares, flares, hairs, pairs, pears, prayers, spares, stairs, theirs, wares, * compares, upstairs, affairs, backstairs, repairs, downstairs, * Carstairs, hectares, deckchairs, nightmares, * legionnaire’s, unawares, etc.

       Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!

       Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.

      A. A. MILNE

      6.1 Verdi, barely, Fairlie, fairly, rarely, sparely, squarely, scarcely, airy, Carey, chary, Clary, dairy, fairy, hairy, lairy, Mary, nary, prairie, scary, vary, wary, Airdrie, carefree, * unfairly, contrary, unwary, canary, * Monteverdi, cassowary, Salieri, Alighieri, airy-fairy, Tipperary, Inveraray, Miserere, Nyerere, condottiere, * carabiniere, arrivederci, * Dante Alighieri, etc.

      6.2 airer, bearer, carer, Clara, Eire, fairer, parer, rarer, Sarah, scarer, sharer, starer, swearer, tearer, wearer, Ayrshire, * caldera, Sierra, preparer, repairer, declarer, * macebearer, talebearer, wayfarer, seafarer, swordbearer, pallbearer,