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Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary: For Songwriters

Page 141

by Paul Zollo


  deck mate

  Long EK-NESS

  antiqueness

  bleakness

  chicness

  meekness

  obliqueness

  sleekness

  uniqueness

  weakness

  EK-NING

  abandoning

  apportioning

  auctioning

  auditioning

  awakening

  bargaining

  battening

  beckoning

  betokening

  blackening

  blazoning

  bludgeoning

  brightening

  broadening

  burdening

  burgeoning

  captaining

  captioning

  casehardening

  cautioning

  chairmaning

  chairmanning

  championing

  chastening

  cheapening

  chickening

  christening

  coarsening

  commissioning

  conditioning

  cordoning

  cottoning

  counterconditioning

  counteropening

  crimsoning

  cunning

  curtaining

  cushioning

  dampening

  darkening

  deadening

  deafening

  deepening

  determining

  disburdening

  disheartening

  disillusioning

  dunning

  emblazoning

  emboldening

  enlightening

  enlivening

  envisioning

  examining

  fashioning

  fastening

  fattening

  flattening

  foretokening

  freshening

  frightening

  functioning

  gardening

  garrisoning

  gladdening

  glistening

  gunning

  gunrunning

  happening

  hardening

  harkening

  harshening

  hastening

  hearkening

  heartening

  heightening

  hoarsening

  illumining

  imagining

  impassioning

  imprisoning

  jettisoning

  ladening

  leavening

  lengthening

  lessening

  lightening

  likening

  listening

  livening

  loosening

  maddening

  malfunctioning

  mentioning

  moistening

  motioning

  occasioning

  opening

  orphaning

  outbargaining

  outgunning

  outreasoning

  outrunning

  overburdening

  pardoning

  partitioning

  pensioning

  petitioning

  pinioning

  poisoning

  portioning

  positioning

  preconditioning

  predestining

  predetermining

  preexamining

  proportioning

  punning

  questioning

  quickening

  rationing

  rattening

  ravening

  reabandoning

  reapportioning

  reasoning

  reawakening

  rebuttoning

  rechristening

  reckoning

  reconditioning

  reddening

  reenlightening

  reexamining

  refashioning

  refastening

  reopening

  repositioning

  requisitioning

  rerunning

  resharpening

  ripening

  rosining

  roughening

  ruining

  rumrunning

  running

  saddening

  sanctioning

  seasoning

  sectioning

  sharpening

  shortening

  shunning

  sickening

  siphoning

  slackening

  smartening

  softening

  stationing

  steepening

  stiffening

  straightening

  straitening

  strengthening

  stunning

  summoning

  sunning

  sweetening

  syphoning

  thickening

  threatening

  tightening

  toughening

  unburdening

  unbuttoning

  unfastening

  unloosening

  unquestioning

  unreasoning

  vacationing

  visioning

  wakening

  wantoning

  weakening

  whitening

  widening

  worsening

  EK-O

  deco

  echo

  gecko

  reecho

  secco

  Long EK-OK

  peacock

  poppycock

  seacock

  Long EK-ON

  archdeacon

  beacon

  Mohican

  sleeken

  weaken

  EK-ON

  Aztecan

  beckon

  Meccan

  reckon

  Yucatecan

  EK-OND

  beckoned

  fecund

  microsecond

  millisecond

  nanosecond

  picosecond

  reckoned

  second

  unreckoned

  Long EK-RAB

  pea crab

  seacrab

  treecab

  EK-SHUN

  abjection

  affection

  bisection

  circumspection

  collection

  complexion

  confection

  connection

  convection

  correction

  defection

  deflection

  dejection

  detection

  direction

  disaffection

  disconnection

  disinfection

  dissection

  ejection

  election

  erection

  flection

  flexion

  genuflection

  imperfection

  indirection

  infection

  inflection

  injection

  inspection

  insurrection

  interconnection

  interjection

  intersection

  introspection

  midsection

  misdirection

  nondirection

  objection

  overcorrection

  overprotection

  perfection

  predilection

  preelection

  projection

  prosection

  protection

  recollection

  redirection

  reelection

  reflection

  reinspection

  rejection

  resection

  resurrection

  retroflection

  retroflexion

  retrospection

  section

  selection

  subjection

  subsection

  transection

  trise
ction

  vivisection

  EK-SING

  annexing

  flexing

  hexing

  indexing

  perplexing

  telexing

  vexing

  EK-STANT

  extant

  sextant

  EK-STILE

  sextile

  textile

  EK-SUS

  nexus

  plexus

  sexes

  solar plexus

  Texas

  EK-TANT

  disinfectant

  expectant

  humectant

  injectant

  reflectant

  suspectant

  EK-TED

  affected

  bisected

  collected

  complected

  connected

  convected

  corrected

  defected

  deflected

  dejected

  detected

  directed

  disaffected

  disconnected

  disinfected

  dissected

  effected

  ejected

  elected

  erected

  expected

  genuflected

  infected

  inflected

  injected

  inspected

  interconnected

  interjected

  intersected

  misdirected

  neglected

  noninfected

  noninflected

  overprotected

  perfected

  preselected

  projected

  prospected

  protected

  recollected

  reconnected

  redirected

  reelected

  reflected

  reinspected

  rejected

  respected

  resurrected

  selected

  subjected

  suspected

  trisected

  unaffected

  unconnected

  uncorrected

  undetected

  unexpected

  uninflected

  uninspected

  unperfected

  unprotected

  unsuspected

  vivisected

  EKT-FUL

  disrespectful

  neglectful

  respectful

  EK-TIK

  anorectic

  apoplectic

  dialectic

  dyslectic

  eclectic

  hectic

  pectic

  EK-TING

  affecting

  bisecting

  collecting

  connecting

  convecting

  correcting

  defecting

  deflecting

  detecting

  directing

  disaffecting

  disconnecting

  disinfecting

  dissecting

  effecting

  effective

  ejecting

  electing

  erecting

  expecting

  genuflecting

  infecting

  inflecting

  injecting

  inspecting

  interjecting

  intersecting

  misdirecting

  neglecting

  objecting

  overprotecting

  perfecting

  preselecting

  projecting

  prospecting

  protecting

  reconnecting

  redirecting

  reelecting

  reflecting

  reinspecting

  rejecting

  respecting

  resurrecting

  selecting

  subjecting

  suspecting

  trisecting

  unreflecting

  unsuspecting

  vivisecting

  EK-TIVE

  affective

  collective

  connective

  convective

  corrective

  defective

  deflective

  detective

  directive

  effective

  elective

  ineffective

  infective

  introspective

  invective

  irrespective

  nondirective

  nonobjective

  nonselective

  objective

  overprotective

 

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