Collins Rhyming Dictionary. Rosalind Fergusson

frieze, he’s, keys, knees, lees, peas, please, seas, seize, she’s, skis, sleaze, sneeze, squeeze, tease, Tees, these, trees, T’s, tweeze, wheeze, etc.

       He’d fly through the air with the greatest of ease,

       A daring young man on the flying trapeze.

      GEORGE LEYBOURNE

      15.43 appease, trapeze, trustees, Belize, valise, cerise, Marie’s, agrees, unfreeze, chemise, Denise, unease, marquise, trainees, MPs, Kirklees, Burmese, CDs, DTs, degrees, refreeze, deepfreeze, striptease, displease, reprise, disseise, disease, Chinese, Maltese, Louise, rupees, * Senegalese, Peloponnese, Dodecanese, Abdul-Aziz, éminence grise, GCSEs, etc.

      15.44 Andes, axes, Ganges, heartsease, Ares, Aries, caries, lares, pear trees, rabies, scabies, tabes, stapes, Hades, bases, testes, menses, herpes, stirpes, Surtees, fir trees, Hermes, Xerxes, Ceres, series, faeces, theses, species, gee-gees, pine trees, crises, Pisces, * Cervantes, dolmades, penates, Pilates, Antares, Mercedes, Achates, Euphrates, oases, Orestes, Apelles, Waldenses, Laertes, subspecies, committees, Achilles, Antilles, meninges, pyrites, synopses, litotes, psychoses, prognoses, neuroses, * Ecclesiastes, Mithridates, rarae aves, Albigenses, Holofernes, Artaxerxes, Boanerges, miniseries, Archimedes, diabetes, ecospecies, bona fides, diagnoses, etc.

      15.45 Maccabees, absentees, Androcles, Damocles, Anne-Marie’s, Gabonese, Japanese, manganese, Cantonese, antifreeze, Rameses, Javanese, Balinese, Faeroese, sanies, facies, apices, matrices, Cherokees, expertise, Nepalese, Heracles, Vietnamese, Lebanese, Celebes, Hebrides, Pericles, Héloïse, refugees, journalese, vertices, Hercules, legalese, Viennese, Pekinese, helices, Cyclades, Sinhalese, Milanese, Pyrenees, indices, Hyades, Pleiades, Siamese, Guyanese, Taiwanese, Sporades, Socrates, Congolese, novelese, Sophocles, chalk and cheese, cortices, vortices, Portuguese, gourmandise, vocalise, Togolese, overseas, OAPs, codices, dungarees, Sudanese, Ulysses, * cheval-de-frise, cantharides, Los Angeles, analyses, evacuees, Empedocles, Hesperides, appendices, parentheses, antipodes, officialese, Themistocles, Pheidippides, Euripides, Thucydides, Praxiteles, Xenocrates, Hippocrates, anopheles, isosceles, Xenophanes, Demosthenes, Diogenes, hypotheses, computerese, * Alcibiades, Aristophanes, Mephistopheles, Eratosthenes, etc.

      16.1 freebie, hebe, Hebe, Phoebe, creepy, sleepy, tepee, weepy, beaky, cheeky, cliquey, creaky, freaky, geeky, Leakey, leaky, peaky, sneaky, squeaky, streaky, beady, Edie, greedy, needy, reedy, seedy, speedy, tweedy, weedy, wieldy, Beattie, Beatty, meaty, peaty, sleety, sweetie, treaty, fealty, beastie, yeasty, beefy, leafy, Revie, Lethe, Leahy, Ely, freely, Greeley, Healey, Keeley, Lely, mealie, mealy, steely, stele, wheelie, feebly, cheaply, deeply, steeply, bleakly, meekly, treacly, weakly, weekly, neatly, sweetly, Wheatley, beastly, Eastleigh, Priestley, priestly, briefly, chiefly, Keighley, seemly, cleanly, keenly, meanly, queenly, measly, Queensberry, Petrie, kiwi, pewee, beamy, creamy, dreamy, Mimi, preemie, REME, seamy, see me, steamy, beanie, Heaney, genie, Jeannie, meanie, Queenie, Rene, Sweeney, teeny, tweeny, weeny, fleecy, greasy, breezy, cheesy, easy, queasy, sleazy, sneezy, wheezy, teensy, specie, Vichy, peachy, preachy, screechy, Fiji, gee-gee, squeegee, * tzatziki, Kon-Tiki, Malpighi, Carnegie, Respighi, Macready, unwieldy, graffiti, Tahiti, entreaty, Haiti, Donleavy, sapele, Swahili, obliquely, uniquely, naively, serenely, obscenely, routinely, completely, discreetly, unseemly, extremely, supremely, tahini, bambini, tankini, Martini®, Bellini, Cellini, Fellini, Bernini, bikini, Selene, linguine, Irene, Mycenae, Rossini, Orsini, zucchini, Houdini, Puccini, Assisi, Tbilisi, uneasy, Zambezi, Medici, Luigi, * speakeasy, * cock-a-leekie, Nefertiti, Matabele, touchy-feely, Lamborghini, Agostini, Pasolini, Paganini, Cherubini, fettucine, teeny-weeny, Rossellini, Boccherini, Borromini, Toscanini, Mussolini, easy-peasy, teensy-weensy, maharishi, etc.

      16.2 Gaea, freer, Leah, Mia, ria, Ria, rhea, Rhea, seer, Shiah, skier, Thea, Zia, * trachea, Korea, Maria, sharia, Chaldea, sangria, García, Medea, IKEA, spiraea, Crimea, Nicaea, tortilla, cornea, urea, Sofia, Sophia, Euboea, rupiah, Judaea, Lucía, * Landseer, sightseer, * Galatea, ratafia, Dorothea, mausolea, trattoria, pizzeria, Caesarea, Cytherea, mamma mia, Tanzania, panacea, Nicosia, overseer, Boadicea, Kampuchea, * Cassiopeia, pharmacopoeia, Arimathea, Tia Maria®, Ave Maria, peripeteia, Laodicea, Andalucía, * onomatopoeia, * free her, see her, etc.

      16.3 Sheba, beeper, bleeper, cheaper, creeper, deeper, Dnieper, keeper, leaper, peeper, reaper, sleeper, steeper, sweeper, weeper, * amoeba, Bathsheba, Beersheba, barkeeper, park keeper, gamekeeper, gatekeeper, beekeeper, greenkeeper, peacekeeper, tree creeper, innkeeper, timekeeper, minesweeper, shopkeeper, doorkeeper, scorekeeper, storekeeper, housekeeper, goalkeeper, book-keeper, zoo keeper, * Arequipa, wicketkeeper, * bleep her, keep her, etc.

       When we were a soft amoeba, in ages past and gone,

       Ere you were the Queen of Sheba, or I King Solomon.

      ARTHUR SHIPLEY

      16.4 beaker, bleaker, leaker, meeker, seeker, sika, sleeker, sneaker, speaker, Speaker, squeaker, streaker, tikka, tweaker, weaker, eager, leaguer, meagre, Riga, Seeger, Vega, * paprika, self-seeker, Guernica, eureka, loudspeaker, Antigua, beleaguer, intriguer, Swarfega®, * Tanganyika, Frederica, Costa Rica, overeager, * seek her, intrigue her, etc.

      16.5 bleeder, Breda, breeder, cedar, Creda, feeder, kneader, leader, Leda, lieder, Ouida, pleader, reader, seeder, speeder, weeder, fielder, Kielder, wielder, yielder, beater, beta, cheater, cheetah, Dieter, eater, fetor, greeter, heater, litre, meeter, meter, metre, neater, Peta, Peter, pleater, praetor, Rita, Streeter, sweeter, teeter, theta, tweeter, Vita, zeta, Dniester, Easter, keister, quaestor, deemster, teamster, * succeeder, Aïda, valeta, Anita, granita, Juanita, raita, partita, repeater, Evita, excreta, Demeter, Ryvita, pineta, Lolita, saltpetre, ureter, two-seater, northeaster, southeaster, * bandleader, cheerleader, ringleader, mind-reader, sight-reader, loss leader, stockbreeder, mouthbreeder, proofreader, newsreader, midfielder, infielder, outfielder, anteater, eggbeater, beefeater, windcheater, tripmeter, wattmeter, toadeater, voltmeter, ohmmeter, * al-Qaeda, Etheldreda, interceder, copyreader, altimeter, taximeter, nanometre, arboreta, Margarita, decalitre, decametre, centilitre, decilitre, centimetre, decimetre, señorita, hectolitre, hectometre, Eid-ul-Fitr, kilometre, millilitre, millimetre, micrometre, dolce vita, honey-eater, Sandinista, * follow-my-leader, olla podrida, Bhagavad-Gita, * feed her, meet her, etc.

       Here lies that peerless paper peer Lord Peter,

       Who broke the laws of God and man and metre.

      JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART

      16.6 briefer, reefer, FIFA, Eva, beaver, Beaver, Cheever, cleaver, diva, fever, griever, Hever, leaver, lever, reiver, Siva, viva, weaver, weever, ether, breather, either, neither, * Recife, perceiver, achiever, transceiver, believer, retriever, Geneva, deceiver, receiver, school-leaver, Aretha, Ibiza, bequeather, * cantilever, basketweaver, disbeliever, nonbeliever, unbeliever, Unilever, * overachiever, under-achiever, * debrief her, leave her, etc.

      16.7 dealer, feeler, healer, heeler, Keeler, Keillor, kneeler, Leila, peeler, sealer, selah, Sheila, squealer, stealer, vealer, velar, wheeler, Wheeler, feebler, beagler, Ziegler, Libra, Ypres, Phaedra, Kenya, senior, * appealer, concealer, three-wheeler, tequila, revealer, cathedra, urethra, Monsignor, * wheeler-dealer, Philomela, * enfant terrible, ex cathedra, tetrahedra, polyhedra, savoir-vivre, joie de vivre, * heal her, steal her, etc.

      16.8 beamer, creamer, dreamer, femur, lemur, Lima, reamer, schema, schemer, screamer, seamer, steamer, streamer, Beena, cleaner, Ena, Gina, gleaner, greener, keener, leaner, Lena, meaner, Meena, Nina, screener, Sheena, Tina, weaner, Wiener, Zena, * blasphemer, oedema, redeemer, Redeemer, Robina, subpoena, convener, Athena, tahina, arena, farina, marina, Marina, Sabrina, Catriona, Katrina, pashmina, Martina, tsarina, Medina, Edwina, Messina, retsina, verbena, Christina, Melina, Selina, Serena, demeanour, hyena, Ribena®, Hygena, Molina, Cortina, Georgina, Rowena, novena, euglena, * daydreamer, pipe cleaner, * emphysema, terza rima, Iwo Jima, Hiroshima, carabiner, Pasadena, cavatina, ballerina, Palestrina, Agrippina, Angelina, Ballymena, casuarina, scarlatina, Argentina, St Helena, semolina, Messalina, intervener, signorina, Philomena, Wilhelmina, Filipina,