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Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary: For Songwriters

Page 143

by Paul Zollo


  mayhemming

  precondemning

  rehemming

  stemming

  EM-ISH

  blemish

  Flemish

  Long EM-LESS

  creamless

  dreamless

  seamless

  Long EM-LI

  extremely

  seemly

  supremely

  unseemly

  EM-O

  demo

  memo

  EM-PLAR

  exemplar

  templar

  EMP-SHUN

  exemption

  peremption

  preemption

  redemption

  EMP-TED

  attempted

  exempted

  preempted

  reattempted

  tempted

  unattempted

  untempted

  EMP-TING

  attempting

  exempting

  preempting

  tempting

  untempting

  EMP-TIVE

  preemptive

  redemptive

  Long EM-UR

  blasphemer

  creamer

  daydreamer

  dreamer

  reamer

  redeemer

  schemer

  screamer

  teamer

  Long EN-A

  arena

  Argentina

  Athena

  ballerina

  concertina

  czarina

  farina

  galena

  hyena

  kachina

  marina

  Messina

  novena

  patina

  signorina

  subpena

  subpoena

  Tina

  tsarina

  EN-A

  antenna

  Gehenna

  henna

  Ravenna

  senna

  sienna

  Vienna

  Long E-NAL

  renal

  subpoenal

  venal

  EN-AS

  Dennis

  menace

  tennis

  Venice

  EN-CHING

  benching

  blenching

  clenching

  drenching

  entrenching

  quenching

  retrenching

  trenching

  unclenching

  wrenching

  ENCH-MAN

  Frenchman

  henchman

  EN-CHUR

  adventure

  backbencher

  bencher

  denture

  indenture

  misadventure

  peradventure

  trencher

  venture

  EN-DANS

  ascendance

  ascendence

  attendance

  condescendence

  dependance

  dependence

  descendance

  descendence

  independence

  independents

  interdependence

  resplendence

  transcendence

  EN-DANT

  ascendant

  ascendent

  attendant

  codefendant

  defendant

  dependant

  dependent

  descendant

  descendent

  independent

  interdependent

  overdependent

  resplendent

  superintendent

  transcendent

  EN-DED

  amended

  appended

  apprehended

  ascended

  attended

  befriended

  blended

  commended

  comprehended

  condescended

  contended

  defended

  depended

  descended

  distended

  emended

  ended

  expended

  extended

  fended

  impended

  intended

  mended

  misapprehended

  offended

  overextended

  portended

  pretended

  reascended

  recommended

  rended

  reprehended

  splendid

  subtended

  superintended

  suspended

  tended

  transcended

  unamended

  unattended

  undefended

  unended

  unexpended

  unextended

  unintended

  unmended

  untended

  upended

  vended

  wended

  EN-DI

  bendy

  effendi

  sendee

  trendy

  vendee

  EN-DING

  amending

  appending

  apprehending

  ascending

  attending

  befriending

  bending

  blending

  commending

  comprehending

  condescending

  contending

  defending

  depending

  descending

  distending

  emending

  ending

  expending

  extending

  fending

  heartrending

  impending

  intending

  lending

  mending

  misapprehending

  misspending

  offending

  overextending

  overspending

  pending

  portending

  pretending

  reascending

  recommending

  rending

  reprehending

  sending

  spending

  subtending

  suspending

  tending

  transcending

  unbending

  unending

  unpretending

  upending

  vending

  wending

  Long EN-DISH

  fiendish

  END-LESS

  endless

  friendless

  END-MENT

  amendment

  befriendment

  intendment

  EN-DO

  crescendo

  diminuendo

  innuendo

  EN-DUM

  addendum

  agendum

  referendum

  EN-DUR

  ascender

  attender

  bartender

  bender

  blender

  contender

  defender

  engender

  extender

  fender

  gender

  goaltender

  lender

  mender

  moneylender

  offender

  pretender

  recommender

  render

  sender

  slender

  spender

  splendor

  surrender

  suspender

  tender

  vender

  vendor

  EN-DUS

  horrendous

  stupendous

  tremendous

  EN-EL

  antennal

  fennel

  kennel

  lienal

  phenyl

  Long EN-ESS

  cleanness

  greenness

  keenness

  leanness

  meanness
r />   sereneness

  uncleanness

  Long E-NEST

  cleanest

  keenest

  meanest

  EN-ET

  senate

  tenet

  ENG-THEN

  lengthen

  strengthen

  Long EN-I

  bikini

  fettucine

  genie

  linguine

  martini

  meany

  neoteny

  Puccini

  scaloppine

  Sweeney

  sweeny

  tahini

  teeny

  teeny-weeny

  weeny

  wienie

  zucchini

  EN-I

  antennae

  any

  benny

  fourpenny

  halfpenny

  jenny

  many

  penney

  penny

  sixpenny

  EN-IK

  allergenic

  antigenic

  cacogenic

  calisthenic

  carcinogenic

  eugenic

  hallucinogenic

  Hellenic

  hygienic

  mutagenic

  nonallergenic

  photogenic

  saracenic

  schizophrenic

  telegenic

  toxigenic

  zoogenic

  Long EN-ING

  beaning

  careening

  cleaning

  contravening

  convening

  damascening

  demeaning

  gleaning

  guillotining

  housecleaning

  intervening

  keening

  leaning

  machining

  meaning

  preening

  quarantining

  queening

  reconvening

  screening

  silkscreening

  supervening

  unmeaning

  weaning

  EN-ISH

  replenish

  Rhenish

  wennish

  Long EN-LI

  cleanly

  greenly

  keenly

  leanly

  meanly

  obscenely

  queenly

  routinely

  serenely

  Long EN-O

  amino

  andantino

  chino

  Filipino

  keno

  maraschino

  merino

  palomino

  Reno

  EN-ON

  pennon

  tenon

  EN-SEZ

  condenses

  consequences

  defenses

  dispenses

  expenses

  fences

  incenses

  offenses

  pretenses

  tenses

  ENS-FORTH

  henceforth

  thenceforth

  EN-SHAL

  componential

  confidential

  consequential

  credential

  deferential

  differential

  essential

  eventual

  evidential

  existential

  experiential

  exponential

  inconsequential

  inessential

  inferential

  influential

  nonessential

  nonresidential

  pestilential

  potential

  preferential

  presidential

  providential

  prudential

  quintessential

  referential

  residential

  reverential

  sequential

  subsequential

  tangential

  torrential

  unessential

  EN-SHUN

  circumvention

  contention

  contravention

  convention

  detention

  dissension

  hypotension

  inattention

  indention

  intention

  intervention

  invention

  mention

  nonintervention

  prehension

  pretension

  pretention

 

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