Collins Rhyming Dictionary. Rosalind Fergusson

Slovene, Justine, routine, * mujaheddin, aquamarine, ultramarine, vending machine, knitting machine, washing machine, sewing machine, nouvelle cuisine, Palaeocene, Oligocene

      15.25 has-been, caffeine, Kathleen, gangrene, gamine, vaccine, fanzine, Charlene, Marlene, guanine, Aileen, scalene, dentine, Hellene, Essene, benzene, benzine, theine, Christine, pristine, Sistine, Springsteen, Crimplene®, windscreen, quinine, strychnine, Eileen, Irene, styrene, flyscreen, glycine, lysine, Nicene, hygiene, Tolkien, tontine, colleen, Colleen, morphine, Pauline, chlorine, Doreen, Maureen, Noreen, fluorine, purine, soybean, codeine, Roedean, protein, smokescreen, bromine, sunscreen, butene, Lutine, * epinephrine, Benedictine, polystyrene, diamorphine, * norepinephrine

      15.26 atropine, carrageen, Aberdeen, gabardine, carotene, galantine, trampoline, Jacqueline, Magdalene, naphthalene, gasoline, Vaseline®, tambourine, saccharine, Gadarene, Nazarene, tangerine, Dramamine®, anthracene, Damascene, magazine, Balanchine, aniline, Trasimene, Plasticine®, Halloween, mangosteen, Argentine, margarine, tartrazine, langoustine, crepe de Chine, grenadine, Geraldine, gelatine, seventeen, eglantine, clementine, mescaline, nectarine, pelerine, evergreen, Gretna Green, Bethnal Green, melamine, mezzanine, kerosene, phenazine, fedayeen, Bellarmine, jellybean, pethidine, velveteen, ethylene, methylene, Terylene®, Emmeline, ephedrine, Benzedrine®, epicene, Bernardine, Germolene®, creatine, reconvene, neoprene, Eocene, libertine, nicotine, guillotine, brigantine, brilliantine, Byzantine, intervene, Cymbeline, Windolene®, figurine, Listerine®, glycerine, Hippocrene, silver screen, wintergreen, histamine, limousine, kidney bean, Philippine, Ghibelline, village green, in-between, indigene, iodine, thiamine, tyrosine, isoprene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Constantine, Florentine, quarantine, Josephine, contravene, bottle green, bombazine, olivine, polythene, propylene, olive green, Holocene, oncogene, toluene, tourmaline, soya bean, Ovaltine®, dopamine, overseen, aubergine, bowling green, go-between, haute cuisine, butter bean, runner bean, submarine, putting green, unforeseen, subroutine, wolverine, fullerene, supervene, glutamine, * papaverine, amphetamine, adenosine, promethazine, acetylene, methionine, scopolamine, glucosamine, * betacarotene, polyethylene, antihistamine, nitroglycerine, dryopithecine, catecholamine, polypropylene, antisubmarine, * benzodiazepine, oxyacetylene, australopithecine, trinitrotoluene, buckminsterfullerene, * polytetrafluoroethylene

      15.27 cleaned, fiend, gleaned, preened, screened, weaned, * unscreened, unweaned, machined, etc.

      15.28 umpteenth, eighteenth, thirteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, nineteenth, fourteenth, * seventeenth

      15.29 beans, Dean’s, greens, jeans, Jean’s, Keynes, means, queens, Queens, scenes, screens, teens, * latrines, sardines, baked beans, Justine’s, * Grenadines, clementines, Milton Keynes, smithereens, limousines, Philippines, aubergines, full of beans, New Orleans, * amphetamines, * antihistamines, etc.

       The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

       But I have promises to keep,

       And miles to go before I sleep.

      ROBERT FROST

      15.30 beep, bleep, cheap, cheep, creep, deep, heap, Jeep®, keep, leap, neap, neep, peep, reap, seep, sheep, sleep, steep, Streep, sweep, veep, weep, * asleep, équipe, knee-deep, bo-peep, * scrapheap, slagheap, upkeep, upsweep, * chimney sweep, oversleep, * Uriah Heep

      15.31 beeps, bleeps, creeps, heaps, neaps, neeps, Pepys, sweeps, weeps, etc.

      15.32 cease, crease, fils, fleece, geese, grease, Greece, lease, Nice, niece, peace, piece, Rees, Rhys, * apiece, Matisse, police, sublease, cerise, caprice, Dumfries, De Vries, Denise, MacNeice, pastis, cassis, pelisse, Bernice, surcease, degrease, release, decrease, increase, decease, obese, Cochise, coulisse, * hairpiece, Makepeace, tailpiece, neckpiece, headpiece, set piece, chesspiece, workpiece, earpiece, Greenpeace, eyepiece, timepiece, codpiece, crosspiece, showpiece, mouthpiece, * mantelpiece, ambergris, masterpiece, centrepiece, chersonese, verdigris, re-release, predecease, chimneypiece, altarpiece, War and Peace, frontispiece, * Peloponnese, archdiocese

       Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)

       Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.

      LEIGH HUNT

      15.33 beast, ceased, creased, east, feast, Geest, greased, least, piste, priest, yeast, * uncreased, batiste, artiste, Far East, archpriest, Near East, released, decreased, increased, deceased, northeast, southeast, modiste, * beanfeast, * arriviste, hartebeest, re-released, wildebeest, unreleased, etc.

      15.34 fiche, leash, niche, quiche, * unleash, pastiche, Dalglish, rime riche, schottische, postiche, corniche, * hashish, baksheesh, * microfiche, nouveau riche

      15.35 beat, beet, bleat, cheat, cleat, Crete, eat, feat, feet, fleet, Fleet, gîte, gleet, greet, heat, leat, leet, lied, meat, meet, mete, neat, peat, Pete, pleat, seat, sheet, skeet, sleet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat, * compete, petite, complete, accrete, conceit, unseat, flat feet, Magritte, maltreat, en suite, dead beat, preheat, reheat, reseat, repeat, defeat, effete, delete, elite, deplete, replete, secrete, discreet, discrete, excrete, retreat, ill-treat, entreat, mistreat, deceit, receipt, gamete, crabmeat, factsheet, heartbeat, mainsheet, deadbeat, Benfleet, helpmeet, spreadsheet, worksheet, aesthete, sweetmeat, freesheet, pigmeat, mincemeat, bystreet, high street, time sheet, offbeat, Longleat, concrete, forefeet, Northfleet, forcemeat, horsemeat, broadsheet, browbeat, downbeat, groundsheet, wholewheat, upbeat, drumbeat, buckwheat, dustsheet, bushmeat, * pentathlete, decathlete, * parakeet, Paraclete, Masorete, marguerite, Marguerite, Harley Street, exegete, meadowsweet, incomplete, bittersweet, indiscreet, indiscrete, trick-or-treat, window seat, spirochaete, driver’s seat, obsolete, polychaete, lorikeet, Downing Street, overeat, overheat, sugar beet, superheat, * Carnaby Street, oligochaete

       Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,

       Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgement Seat.

      RUDYARD KIPLING

      15.36 beats, cheats, eats, Keats, Pete’s, pleats, seats, sheets, streets, sweets, * athletes, backstreets, heartbeats, sweetmeats, etc.

      15.37 heath, Heath, Keith, Leith, Meath, ’neath, Reith, sheath, teeth, wreath, * bequeath, beneath, Monteith, * milk teeth, eyeteeth, buckteeth, * Bexleyheath, Cowdenbeath, underneath, * B’nai B’rith

      15.38 breathe, Meath, seethe, sheathe, teethe, wreathe, * unsheathe, enwreath, inbreathe, bequeath, * Pontypridd

      15.39 breve, cleave, eve, Eve, greave, grieve, heave, leave, Neave, Niamh, peeve, reeve, reive, sheave, sleeve, Steve, thieve, vive, we’ve, weave, Yves, * upheave, aggrieve, perceive, conceive, achieve, Rajiv, French leave, qui vive, khedive, believe, relieve, bereave, reprieve, retrieve, inweave, deceive, receive, naive, * wayleave, shirtsleeve, sick leave, Congreve, * apperceive, make-believe, Tel Aviv, Genevieve, semibreve, preconceive, interleave, interweave, misconceive, disbelieve, oversleeve, undeceive, * recitative, overachieve, underachieve

       O what a tangled web we weave,

       When first we practise to deceive!

      SIR WALTER SCOTT

      15.40 grieved, heaved, peeved, thieved, * aggrieved, perceived, conceived, achieved, believed, relieved, bereaved, reprieved, deceived, received, long-sleeved, broad-leaved, short-sleeved, * preconceived, interleaved, misconceived, disbelieved, unrelieved, undeceived, etc.

      15.41 beeves, eaves, Eve’s, Greaves, grieves, heaves, Jeeves, leaves, Reeves, sheaves, sleeves, thieves, * achieves, believes, deceives, receives, * Hargreaves, shirtsleeves, sneak thieves, tea leaves, Greensleeves, wheatsheaves, fig leaves, flyleaves, * Anne of Cleves, Genevieve’s, semibreves, etc.

      15.42 bees, bise, breeze, cheese, Cleese,