Collins Rhyming Dictionary. Rosalind Fergusson

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      12.18 Curtis, surface, Jervis, Purves, service, surplice, dermis, kermis, furnace, Furness, burgess, Burgess, purchase, * resurface, self-service, disservice, repurchase, * epidermis

      12.19 purpose, circus, Fergus, nervous, surplus, workless, wordless, mirthless, worthless, Thermos®, curtness, pertness, firmness, terseness, versus, Tertius, * Lycurgus, alertness, Propertius, * multipurpose, Carrickfergus, * hurt us, curse us, etc.

      12.20 curtest, pertest, furthest, firmest, earnest, Ernest, sternest, etc.

       Life is real! Life is earnest!

       And the grave is not its goal;

       Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

       Was not spoken of the soul.

      HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

      12.21 surfaced, serviced, * resurfaced, reservist, repurchased, * taxidermist

      12.22 furbish, Kurdish, Turkish, dervish, churlish, girlish, skirmish, burnish, furnish, * refurbish

      12.23 burnished, furnished, * refurbished, unfurnished

      12.24 burbot, Herbert, sherbet, turbot, Urquhart, ergot, Dermot, * alternate

      12.25 turnspit, Burkitt, circuit, surfeit, vervet, circlet, hermit, Kermit, permit, Burnett, * short-circuit, interpret, * reinterpret, misinterpret, * work it, turn it, etc.

      12.26 Wordsworth, vermouth

      12.27 furtive, cursive, * assertive, subversive, discursive, coercive

      12.28 herpes, turkeys, birdies, certes, Surtees, thirties, worthies, Hermes, journeys, mercies, Xerxes, * Laertes, etc.

      12.29 Burgundy, certainty, verbally, personally, fervently, urgently, earnestly, certainly, purposely, nervously, Burberry®, servery, burglary, mercury, Mercury, wormery, fernery, ternary, turnery, bursary, cursory, mercery, nursery, tertiary, perjury, surgery, purgatory, Germany, fervency, urgency, Bermondsey, perfidy, furmity, chirpily, sturdily, dirtily, worthily, vertically, surgically, perfectly, mercifully, furtively, churlishly, girlishly, circuitry, mercenary, courtesy, virtually, * uncertainty, hyperbole, maternally, paternally, eternally, internally, externally, infernally, nocturnally, impersonally, commercially, alternately, uncertainly, infirmary, quaternary, precursory, conservatory, observatory, confirmatory, diversionary, conservancy, emergency, insurgency, acerbity, absurdity, infirmity, fraternity, maternity, paternity, eternity, modernity, perversity, adversity, diversity, unworthily, deservedly, reservedly, concernedly, accursedly, unmercifully, assertively, unnervingly, unerringly, discourtesy, * universally, controversially, inadvertently, anniversary, microsurgery, neurosurgery, taciturnity, university, undeservedly, unreservedly, unconcernedly, disconcertingly, * counterinsurgency, biodiversity, etc.

      12.30 pergola, Berbera, gerbera, murderer, murmurer, nurturer, perjurer, surfacer, purchaser, curvature, nervature, worshipper, Guernica, Perdita, servitor, vertebra, Wurlitzer®, furnisher, furniture, circular, Ursula, * conservator, hyperbola, interpreter, determiner, tubercular, * semicircular

      12.31 Serbia, chirpier, murkier, perkier, quirkier, sturdier, dirtier, thirstier, worthier, curlier, earlier, surlier, Hermia, hernia, vernier, Mercia, * suburbia, Calpurnia, Hibernia, inertia, * hyperthermia, hypothermia, etc.

      12.32 workable, learnable, searchable, personal, vertical, cervical, versicle, surgical, merciful, worshipful, Percival, vertebral, germinal, terminal, virginal, virtual, * unworkable, convertible, observable, transferable, returnable, discernible, submersible, reversible, puerperal, impersonal, adverbial, proverbial, liturgical, unmerciful, * imperturbable, controvertible, indiscernible, nonreturnable, irreversible, intervertebral, interpersonal, metallurgical, * incontrovertible, entrepreneurial

      12.33 Pergamum, burdensome, erbium, terbium, Birmingham, * ytterbium, operculum

      12.34 Turkoman, Pergamon, Ferguson, Serbian, Permian, Surbiton, Workington, Worthington, Burlington, journeyman, clergyman, Murchison, * Gilbertian, quaternion, Saturnian, Melburnian, Hibernian, Copernican

      12.35 termagant, firmament, permanent, pertinent, turbulent, * reverberant, impermanent, subservient, advertisement, refurbishment, appurtenant, impertinent, determinant, * antiperspirant

      12.36 furtherance, permanence, pertinence, turbulence, * impermanence, subservience, advertisements, appurtenance, impertinence, etc.

      12.37 purposeless, Cerberus, murderess, murderous, hurtfulness, nervousness, worthlessness, courteous, pervious, Perseus, merciless, murkiness, sturdiness, dirtiness, worthiness, earliness, terminus, verminous, earnestness, virtuous, * discourteous, impervious, Copernicus, assertiveness, superfluous, tuberculous, * airworthiness, seaworthiness, roadworthiness, etc.

      12.38 herbalist, journalist, * determinist

      12.39 chirpiest, murkiest, perkiest, quirkiest, sturdiest, dirtiest, thirstiest, worthiest, curliest, earliest, surliest, etc.

      12.40 perforate, vertebrate, * imperforate, invertebrate, determinate, * indeterminate

      12.41 merchantable, personable, permeable, terminable, serviceable, * impermeable, determinable, interminable, unserviceable, * semipermeable, indeterminable

-eer-

      The rhymes in this section have the ‘eer’ sound of beer and fiercely as their main or final vowel sound.

      13.1 beer, bier, blear, cere, cheer, clear, dear, deer, drear, ear, fear, gear, Greer, hear, here, jeer, kir, leer, Lear, mere, Mir, near, peer, pier, queer, rear, sear, sere, shear, sheer, smear, sneer, spear, sphere, steer, stere, tear, tier, Trier, veer, Wear, we’re, weir, Weir, year, * appear, frontier, De Vere, adhere, unclear, career, uprear, veneer, Kashmir, apnoea, Tangier, cashier, emir, Vermeer, endear, revere, revers, severe, inhere, mishear, King Lear, midyear, besmear, Kinnear, sincere, vizier, Zaïre, idea, austere, chorea, all-clear, cohere, Hosea, * Tranmere, Tangmere, cashmere, Hampshire, Grasmere, Berkshire, Ayrshire, tapir, Shakespeare, fakir, nadir, reindeer, headgear, Ellesmere, Cheshire, wheatear, switchgear, Kingswear, Wiltshire, compeer, Shropshire, Yorkshire, roe deer, Goodyear, * halberdier, Agadir, balladeer, pamphleteer, gazetteer, stratosphere, atmosphere, bandolier, chandelier, cavalier, Cavalier, cameleer, gasolier, Lancashire, Staffordshire, racketeer, gadgeteer, bathysphere, Vladimir, Casimir, Aboukir, Hertfordshire, marketeer, Chanticleer, Derbyshire, Haslemere, Cambridgeshire, belvedere, grenadier, megathere, seborrhoea, yesteryear, Delamere, Benazir, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire, hemisphere, Bedivere, Elzevir, engineer, technofear, persevere, reappear, ecosphere, disappear, ginger beer, brigadier, interfere, lithosphere, crystal-clear, Windermere, cuirassier, Lincolnshire, Guinevere, insincere, privateer, biosphere, diarrhoea, pyorrhoea, Tyne and Wear, pioneer, bombardier, commandeer, volunteer, troposphere, gondolier, logorrhoea, gonorrhoea, Rothermere, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Conybeare, rocketeer, profiteer, sonneteer, domineer, Warwickshire, auctioneer, corsetier, Paul Revere, mountaineer, oversteer, overhear, sloganeer, understeer, Buttermere, buccaneer, puppeteer, musketeer, Worcestershire, souvenir, muleteer, fusilier, mutineer, scrutineer, * titanothere, Northamptonshire, electioneer, ionosphere, ozonosphere, * charioteer, orienteer, amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, adipocere, Nottinghamshire, Buckinghamshire, Golda Meir, Guadalquivir, carabineer

       Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,

       And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.

      ALEXANDER POPE

      13.2 beard, cheered, cleared, eared, jeered, leered, peered, reared, smeared, sneered, speared, steered, tiered,