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Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary: For Songwriters

Page 161

by Paul Zollo


  dicey

  icy

  spicy

  IS-I

  hissy

  missy

  narcissi

  prissy

  sissy

  IS-UL

  bristle

  dismissal

  epistle

  gristle

  missal

  missile

  thistle

  whistle

  Long I-SING

  deicing

  dicing

  enticing

  icing

  lysing

  overpricing

  pricing

  sacrificing

  slicing

  spicing

  splicing

  sufficing

  IS-ING

  dismissing

  hissing

  kissing

  missing

  relinquishing

  reminiscing

  Long I-SIS

  crises

  crisis

  Isis

  lysis

  nisus

  IS-IT

  elicit

  explicit

  implicit

  licit

  overexplicit

  solicit

  unexplicit

  Long I-SIV

  decisive

  derisive

  devisive

  incisive

  indecisive

  IS-IVE

  admissive

  commissive

  divisive

  emissive

  missive

  permissive

  submissive

  transmissive

  unpermissive

  unsubmissive

  ISK-ET

  biscuit

  brisket

  IS-KI

  frisky

  risky

  whiskey

  whisky

  IS-KING

  frisking

  risking

  whisking

  IS-KO

  Cisco

  disco

  francisco

  frisco

  IS-KUR

  bewhisker

  brisker

  frisker

  risker

  whisker

  IS-KUS

  discus

  discuss

  hibiscus

  meniscus

  viscous

  viscus

  IS-L

  bristle

  dismissal

  epistle

  gristle

  missal

  missel

  missile

  thistle

  whistle

  Long I-SLESS

  diceless

  iceless

  priceless

  spiceless

  spliceless

  viceless

  Long I-SLI

  concisely

  imprecisely

  nicely

  precisely

  IS-LI

  bristly

  gristly

  thistly

  IS-LING

  brisling

  bristling

  whistling

  IS-MUS

  Christmas

  isthmus

  IS-N

  christen

  glisten

  listen

  rechristen

  Long I-SNESS

  conciseness

  impreciseness

  niceness

  preciseness

  IS-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

  IS-PING

  crisping

  lisping

  ISP-UR

  crisper

  lisper

  whisper

  IST-AL

  Bristol

  crystal

  distal

  pistil

  pistol

  IS-TANSE

  assistance

  coexistence

  consistence

  desistance

  distance

  equidistance

  existence

  inconsistence

  insistence

  nonexistence

  outdistance

  overinsistence

  persistence

  preexistence

  resistance

  subsistence

  IS-TANT

  assistant

  coexistent

  consistent

  distant

  equidistant

  existent

  inconsistent

  insistent

  nonexistent

  overinsistent

  persistent

  preexistent

  resistant

  resistent

  unresistant

  IST-ED

  assisted

  blacklisted

  closefisted

  coexisted

  consisted

  desisted

  enlisted

  existed

  hardfisted

  insisted

  ironfisted

  listed

  misted

  persisted

  preexisted

  reenlisted

  resisted

  subsisted

  tightfisted

  twisted

  unassisted

  unlisted

  untwisted

  vistaed

  IST-EM

  ecosystem

  filesystem

  subsystem

  system

  IST-I

  Christie

  enlistee

  misty

  twisty

  IS-TIK

  absolutistic

  activistic

  altruistic

  anachronistic

  anarchistic

  animalistic

  animistic

  anomalistic

  antagonistic

  aphoristic

  archaistic

  artistic

  atheistic

  atomistic

  autistic

  ballistic

  behavioristic

  belletristic

  bigamistic

  bolshevistic

  cabalistic

  calvinistic

  cameralistic

  cannibalistic

  canonistic

  capitalistic

  characteristic

  chauvinistic

  communistic

  contortionistic

  criminalistic

  cubistic

  cystic

  deistic

  deterministic

  dualistic

  dynamistic

  egoistic

  egotistic

  emotionalistic

  eucharistic

  eulogistic

  euphemistic

  evangelistic

  expressionistic

  fascistic

  fatalistic

  feministic

  feudalistic

  formalistic

  functionalistic

  futuristic

  hedonistic

  hellenistic

  heuristic

  holistic

  humanistic

  humoristic

  idealistic

  imperialistic

  impressionistic

  inartistic

  individualistic

  jingoistic

  journalistic

  juristic

  legalistic

  linguistic

  logistic

  masochistic

  materialistic

 

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