Collins Rhyming Dictionary

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

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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, torchbearer, cupbearer, * de Valera, demerara, Riviera, cordillera, * dare her, scare her, etc.

6.3 varied, * unvaried

6.4 careful, prayerful, mayoral

6.5 arum, Fareham, harem, Sarum, Wareham, heirdom, * harum-scarum, * wear ’em, shared ’em, etc.

6.6 hairpin, bearskin, Erin, * carin’, wearin’, etc.

6.7 Ayrton, Aaron, Charon, airman, chairman

6.8 parent, * transparent, impairment, ensnarement, * grandparent, step-parent, godparent

6.9 parents, * transparence, impairments, forbearance, * grandparents, step-parents, godparents

6.10 airing, baring, bearing, blaring, caring, daring, fairing, glaring, pairing, paring, raring, sharing, sparing, staring, swearing, tearing, Waring, wearing, * comparing, unsparing, hard-wearing, preparing, repairing, despairing, forbearing, ball bearing, * cheeseparing, seafaring, childbearing, time-sharing, * overbearing, etc.

Like whatever they say has no bearing,

It’s so scary in a house that allows no swearing

To see him walking around with his headphones blaring.

EMINEM

6.11 airless, careless, hairless, bareness, fairness, * Carreras, unfairness, awareness, * self-awareness, * scare us, prepare us, etc.

6.12 bearish, fairish, garish, squarish, * nightmarish

6.13 rarebit, bear pit, * swear it, tear it, etc.

6.14 Aries, dairies, fairies, prairies, varies, * Canaries, etc.

6.15 carefully, carelessly, rarity, scarcity, airily, warily, daringly, glaringly, sparingly, garishly, * unbearably, transparency, overbearingly, etc.

6.16 airier, area, hairier, scarier, warier, * Bulgaria, Bavaria, malaria, aquaria, Samaria, herbaria, filaria, solaria, * Carpentaria, Berengaria, cineraria, Gran Canaria, oceanaria, urticaria, planetaria, araucaria, * calceolaria, etc.

6.17 bearable, tearable, wearable, aerial, Ariel, * unbearable, unwearable, repairable, malarial, bursarial, filarial, * unrepairable, adversarial, secretarial, actuarial, estuarial, * antimalarial

6.18 barium, * aquarium, samarium, herbarium, vivarium, solarium, rosarium, sudarium, * honorarium, oceanarium, planetarium, sanitarium, dolphinarium

6.19 Arian, Arien, Aryan, Darien, dairyman, * Bulgarian, vulgarian, Hungarian, Bavarian, valerian, Valerian, agrarian, Aquarian, grammarian, barbarian, sectarian, Caesarean, Nigerien, riparian, librarian, Voltairean, Ontarian, Rotarian, ovarian, fruitarian, Sumerian, * Sabbatarian, libertarian, Rastafarian, prelapsarian, nonsectarian, Sagittarian, vegetarian, Trinitarian, proletarian, Unitarian, antiquarian, centenarian, seminarian, millenarian, Gibraltarian, * infralapsarian, supralapsarian, parliamentarian, abecedarian, egalitarian, totalitarian, humanitarian, utilitarian, authoritarian, veterinarian, sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, premillenarian, disciplinarian, * establishmentarian, * latitudinarian, valetudinarian, septuagenarian

6.20 variant, * invariant

6.21 parenting, dairying, varying, * unvarying, etc.

6.22 parentless, carefulness, carelessness, Arius, carious, Darius, Marius, various, airiness, chariness, wariness, * Aquarius, calcareous, burglarious, precarious, vicarious, gregarious, nefarious, hilarious, denarius, * Sagittarius, multifarious, Stradivarius, etc.

6.23 secretariat, proletariat, commissariat

6.24 variable, * invariable

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The rhymes in this section have the ‘ay’ sound of same and waiting as their main or final vowel sound.

7.1 a, A, ay, bay, brae, bray, cay, Chay, Che, clay, day, dray, eh, fay, Fay, fey, flay, fray, gay, Gay, Gray, grey, hay, hey, J, jay, Jay, K, Kay, Kray, lay, lei, ley, may, May, nay, née, neigh, pay, play, pray, prey, ray, Ray, re, Re, say, slay, sleigh, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, stray, sway, Tay, they, trait, tray, trey, vlei, way, weigh, whey, yea