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Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary: For Songwriters

Page 181

by Paul Zollo


  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

  Long U-NISH

  baboonish

  buffoonish

  moonish

  poltroonish

  UN-ISH

  hunnish

  kittenish

  paganish

  punish

  Long U-NIST

  balloonist

  bassoonist

  cartoonist

  immunist

  lampoonist

  opportunist

  soonest

  UN-JEZ

  challenges

  expunges

  lozenges

  lunges

  plunges

  sponges

  UN-JING

  challenging

  expunging

  lunging

  plunging

  scavenging

  sponging

  unchallenging

  UN-JUN

  dungeon

  sponging

  UN-JUR

  lunger

  plunger

  Long U-NLESS

  moonless

  tuneless

  Long U-NO

  Juneau

  Juno

  numero uno

  uno

  UN-TAL

  biparental

  cliental

  contrapuntal

  disgruntle

  frontal

  infantile

  UN-TED

  absented

  affronted

  blunted

  bunted

  confronted

  covenanted

  frequented

  grunted

  hunted

  patented

  pigmented

  punted

  shunted

  stunted

  talented

  unfrequented

  unpatented

  untalented

  warranted

  UN-TING

  absenting

  affronting

  blunting

  bunting

  confronting

  covenanting

  frequenting

  fronting

  grunting

  headhunting

  hunting

  patenting

  punting

  shunting

  stunting

  warranting

  UN-TUR

  blunter

  carpenter

  confronter

  covenantor

  frequenter

  grunter

  headhunter

  hunter

  patentor

  punter

  shunter

  warranter

  Long U-NUR

  communer

  crooner

  honeymooner

  impugner

  kroner

  kronor

  lampooner

  lunar

  schooner

  semilunar

  sooner

  spooner

  sublunar

  swooner

  tuner

  UN-UR

  bargainer

  beckoner

  blackener

  Dubliner

  flattener

  foreigner

  forerunner

  Gunnar

  gunner

  gunrunner

  lightener

  livener

  Londoner

  mentioner

  pensioner

  poisoner

  questioner

  reopener

  roadrunner

  rottener

  rumrunner

  runner

  sanctioner

  shunner

  sickener

  straightener

  strengthener

  sweetener

  thickener

  threatener

  tightener

  Long U-NYON

  communion

  prounion

  reunion

  union

  UN-YON

  bunion

  Bunyan

  grunion

  onion

  Paul-Bunyan

  trunnion

  Long U-PI

  croupy

  groupie

  kewpie

  loopy

  rupee

  snoopy

  soupy

  whoopee

  UP-I

  guppy

  puppy

  syrupy

  Long U-PID

  Cupid

  stupid

  Long U-PING

  cooping

  drooping

  duping

  grouping

  looping

  pooping

  recouping

  regrouping

  scooping

  snooping

  souping

  stooping

  swooping

  trooping

  whooping

  Long U-PL

  duple

  octuple

  pupal

  pupil

  quintuple

  sextuple

  UP-L

  couple

  decouple

  quintuple

  septuple

  supple

  thermocouple

  uncouple

  UP-LET

  couplet

  octuplet

  quintuplet

  septuplet

  sextuplet

  UP-SHUN

  corruption

  disruption

  e
ruption

  incorruption

  interruption

  irruption

  UPT-LI

  abruptly

  corruptly

  incorruptly

  UPT-NESS

  abruptness

  corruptness

  Long U-PUR

  blooper

  cooper

  grouper

  hooper

  looper

  paratrooper

  party-pooper

  pooper

  snooper

  stupor

  super

  super-duper

  swooper

  trooper

  whooper

  UP-UR

  crupper

  developer

  galloper

  redeveloper

  scalloper

  scupper

  supper

  upper

  UR-A

  pleura

  coloratura

  bravura

  U-RAL

  caesural

  extramural

  intermural

  intramural

  jural

  mural

  neural

  photomural

  pleural

  plural

  puerile

  rural

  subneural

  transmural

  ural

  U-RANS

  assurance

  coinsurance

  endurance

  insurance

  overinsurance

  reassurance

  securance

  UR-BAN

  bourbon

  suburban

  turban

  turbine

  urban

  UR-BING

  curbing

  disturbing

  perturbing

  UR-BL

  gerbil

  gerbille

  herbal

  honorable

  UR-CHEZ

  besmirches

  birches

  lurches

  perches

  researches

  searches

  smirches

  UR-CHUR

  aperture

  besmircher

  bircher

  nurture

  overture

  percher

  UR-DED

  forwarded

  girded

  hazarded

  herded

  placarded

  UR-DI

  bastardy

  birdie

  jeopardy

  sturdy

  wordy

  UR-DING

  forwarding

  hazarding

  herding

  placarding

  rewording

  sheepherding

  shepherding

  undergirding

  wording

  UR-DL

  curdle

  girdle

  hurdle

  UR-DUR

  forwarder

  girder

  herder

  placarder

  sheepherder

  UR-ENS

  concurrence

  countertransference

  deterrence

  furtherance

  inference

  occurrence

  recurrence

  reoccurrence

  transference

  UR-ENT

  concurrent

  countercurrent

  crosscurrent

  currant

  current

  deterrent

  occurrent

  recurrent

  undercurrent

  U-REST

  demurest

  jurist

  manicurist

  maturest

  miniaturist

  obscurest

  pedicurist

  poorest

  purest

  purist

  securest

  surest

  tourist

  UR-GL

  burgle

  gurgle

  U-RI

  blurry

  burry

  buttery

  curry

  electrosurgery

  feathery

  floury

  flurry

  furriery

  furry

  fury

  gingery

  heathery

  honoree

  hurry

  hurry-scurry

  jugglery

  jury

 

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