Collins Rhyming Dictionary. Rosalind Fergusson

contravener, ocarina, Thomasina, * ottava rima, Gewürztraminer, * Herzegovina, * esteem her, screen her, etc.

      16.9 greaser, Lisa, pizza, Caesar, freezer, geezer, geyser, Pisa, pleaser, seizer, sneezer, squeezer, teaser, visa, freesia, seizure, Esher, Beecher, bleacher, creature, feature, Meacher, Nietzsche, preacher, screecher, teacher, * degreaser, releaser, Teresa, Theresa, El Gîza, Malteser, Louisa, amnesia, nemesia, godetia, Belisha, Phoenicia, magnesia, Helvetia, Venetia, montbretia, Ossetia, Portlaoise, aubrietia, Rhodesia, Lucretia, procedure, besieger, * crowd-pleaser, schoolteacher, * Ebenezer, Mona Lisa, Melanesia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Austronesia, Polynesia, alopecia, paraplegia, tetraplegia, aquilegia, hemiplegia, quadriplegia, * Hispano-Suiza, * release her, reach her, etc.

      16.10 Greenock, Taoiseach

      16.11 greenstick, Friedrich, Dietrich, scenic, beatnik, seasick, peachick, * amoebic, comedic, acetic, anaemic, phonemic, ischaemic, glycaemic, toxaemic, irenic, hygienic, amnesic, strategic, * orthopaedic, unhygienic, geodesic, analgesic, nonstrategic, paraplegic, tetraplegic, hemiplegic, quadriplegic, * encyclopedic, * hyperglycaemic, hypoglycaemic

      16.12 prefix, Felix, helix, Friedrich’s, remix, phoenix, beatniks, peachicks, etc.

      16.13 fetid, Enid, * Aeneid, bikinied

      16.14 beaded, heeded, needed, pleaded, seeded, fielded, shielded, wielded, yielded, cheated, heated, metered, treated, feasted, Seaford, levered, leeward, Leeward, seaward, eastward, featured, * beleaguered, unheeded, unneeded, succeeded, conceded, unseeded, impeded, receded, exceeded, unheated, untreated, conceited, reheated, repeated, defeated, depleted, ill-treated, northeastward, southeastward, * unimpeded, overheated, undefeated, etc.

      16.15 seawards, eastwards, * northeastwards, southeastwards

      16.16 seepage, leakage, leafage, cleavage

      16.17 feeble, Keble, peepul, people, sepal, steeple, faecal, Jekyll, treacle, beagle, eagle, legal, regal, Segal, Spiegl, beadle, Cheadle, needle, wheedle, beetle, betel, fetal, gleeful, heedful, needful, peaceful, evil, shrieval, weevil, lethal, equal, prequel, sequel, penal, renal, venal, diesel, easel, teasel, weasel, * tracheal, pineal, corneal, enfeeble, illegal, spread-eagle, viceregal, Threadneedle, deceitful, medieval, retrieval, primeval, coeval, upheaval, cathedral, unequal, adrenal, * tradespeople, townspeople, porbeagle, * perineal, laryngeal, pharyngeal, meningeal, centripetal, Evel Knievel, tetrahedral, hexahedral, octahedral, polyhedral, duodenal, * oesophageal, Till Eulenspiegel

      16.18 Peebles, beagles, eagles, needles, Needles, Beatles, beetles, easels, measles, teasels, weasels, * Gleneagles, * pins and needles, etc.

      16.19 prelim, Leitrim, * heal him, meet him, etc.

      16.20 geum, Liam, sebum, caecum, Secombe, Edom, freedom, Needham, sedum, fiefdom, Cheetham, coelom, velum, Greenham, plenum, threesome, besom, Heysham, Evesham, Beecham, * Lyceum, museum, pinetum, cerebrum, pyrethrum, * mausoleum, Colosseum, Erechtheum, Atheneum, perineum, propylaeum, coliseum, arboretum, equisetum, duodenum, dirigisme, * peritoneum, * see ’em, teach ’em, etc.

       You’re the top! You’re the Coliseum,

       You’re the top! You’re the Louvre Museum.

      COLE PORTER

      16.21 wheelspin, Deakin, Wrekin, sheepskin, sealskin, lead-in, Evelyn, sequin, teach-in, * Kosygin, Dunedin, * seekin’, readin’, etc.

      16.22 Behan, eon, Ian, Leon, lien, paean, peon, Theban, cheapen, deepen, steepen, beacon, deacon, pecan, weaken, Egan, Keegan, Regan, vegan, Bredon, Eden, Sweden, Weedon, wealden, Neasden, beaten, Beaton, Beeton, Cretan, eaten, Eaton, Eton, Keaton, neaten, Seaton, Seton, sweeten, wheaten, chieftain, eastern, Easton, even, Leven, Stephen, Ethan, heathen, Whelan, Libran, daemon, demon, freeman, Freeman, Leman, seaman, semen, Eastman, Cheeseman, liegeman, Gleason, Nielsen, Nilsson, Pisan, reason, season, treason, Friesian, lesion, Grecian, legion, region, * plebeian, Korean, Chaldean, Andean, Tarpeian, Circean, Aegean, Fijian, Nemean, Linnean, Piscean, Crimean, Nicaean, Strontian, Orphean, Taurean, Augean, protean, Euboean, Judaean, archdeacon, mohican, Mohican, Antiguan, unbeaten, uneaten, Nuneaton, Cleckheaton, Genevan, breakeven, Kesteven, Ibizan, Van Diemen, pentstemon, Philemon, policeman, unreason, adhesion, artesian, Cartesian, Ephesian, inhesion, Rhodesian, cohesion, Tahitian, completion, accretion, concretion, Phoenician, Haitian, Helvetian, deletion, depletion, repletion, secretion, excretion, Venetian, Ossetian, collegian, Galwegian, Glaswegian, Norwegian, * browbeaten, * Jacobean, Maccabean, Aramaean, Tanzanian, Atlantean, Caribbean, Manichaean, Achillean, Galilean, Kampuchean, Erechtheion, Hebridean, Periclean, empyrean, Herculean, Aeschylean, Tyrolean, Pyrenean, Sisyphean, Mycenaean, Sophoclean, Odyssean, European, Puerto Rican, Costa Rican, Mozambican, cotyledon, weather-beaten, overeaten, Tudorbethan, decahedron, tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, polyhedron, cacodemon, Lacedaemon, Melanesian, Indonesian, Micronesian, Austronesian, Polynesian, Diocletian, * antipodean, Archimedean, Laodicean, epicurean, Epicurean, Terpsichorean, Pythagorean, Elizabethan, dodecahedron

       Good King Wenceslas looked out,

       On the feast of Stephen;

       When the snow lay round about,

       Deep and crisp and even.

      JOHN MASON NEALE

      16.23 cheapened, deepened, fecund, weakened, sweetened, eland, Zealand, Zeeland, Priestland, Cleveland, Greenland, Friesland, Queensland, reasoned, seasoned, weasand, * unsweetened, New Zealand, unseasoned, etc.

      16.24 eons, Ian’s, beacons, deacons, vegans, chieftains, evens, Stephens, heathens, demons, Siemens, reasons, seasons, legions, regions, * plebeians, Koreans, Orleans, Van Diemen’s, adhesions, deletions, secretions, * Jacobeans, Europeans, New Orleans, etc.

      16.25 piquant, secant, needn’t, sealant, frequent, treatment, easement, decent, puissant, recent, regent, * cosecant, infrequent, agreement, maltreatment, ill-treatment, achievement, bereavement, concealment, appeasement, impeachment, indecent, impuissant, malfeasant, allegiant, * antecedent, disagreement, * overachievement, underachievement

      16.26 credence, grievance, sequence, * impedance, agreements, achievements, malfeasance, allegiance, * antecedence, etc.

       Sure, deck your lower limbs in pants;

       Yours are the limbs, my sweeting.

       You look divine as you advance –

       Have you seen yourself retreating?

      OGDEN NASH

      16.27 being, fleeing, seeing, skiing, beeping, bleeping, creeping, keeping, leaping, peeping, reaping, sleeping, sweeping, weeping, creaking, leaking, reeking, seeking, shrieking, sneaking, speaking, squeaking, streaking, beading, bleeding, breeding, feeding, kneading, leading, pleading, reading, speeding, weeding, Fielding, wielding, yielding, beating, cheating, eating, fleeting, greeting, heating, Keating, meeting, seating, sheeting, sweeting, bee sting, feasting, briefing, reefing, grieving, heaving, leaving, sleeving, thieving, weaving, breathing, seething, teething, ceiling, dealing, Ealing, feeling, healing, Keeling, kneeling, peeling, sealing, shieling, squealing, stealing, wheeling, weakling, beagling, needling, reedling, seedling, wheedling, Riesling, key ring, G-string, beeswing, beaming, dreaming, gleaming, scheming, screaming, seeming, steaming, streaming, teeming, cleaning, gleaning, keening, leaning, meaning, screening, weaning, evening, ceasing, fleecing, greasing, leasing, freezing, pleasing, seizing, sneezing, squeezing, teasing, wheezing, preaching, reaching, screeching, teaching, * agreeing, unseeing, unsleeping, safekeeping, self-seeking, nonspeaking, fatiguing, intriguing, reneging, unheeding, proceeding, succeeding, rereading, misleading, inbreeding, preceding, receding, exceeding, unyielding, competing, completing, repeating, defeating, retreating, debriefing, perceiving, achieving, believing, deceiving,