13.3 real, * surreal, unreal, ideal, * gonorrhoeal
13.4 Bierce, fierce, Pearse, pierce, Pierce, tierce
13.5 beers, cheers, ears, fears, gears, hears, jeers, peers, Piers, Sears, shears, sneers, spears, Spears, Squeers, tears, tiers, years, * appears, arrears, careers, Algiers, Tangiers, in tears, ideas, all ears, * Cavaliers, engineers, etc.
Mademoiselle from Armenteers,
Hasn’t been kissed for forty years.
Military song
14.1 realty, Brearley, clearly, dearly, merely, nearly, queerly, really, yearly, weirdly, fiercely, Beardsley, beery, bleary, cheery, Cleary, dearie, dreary, eerie, Erie, eyrie, Leary, leery, Neary, Peary, peri, query, smeary, sneery, teary, theory, weary, Deirdre, Tierney, * unclearly, surreally, severely, sincerely, ideally, Dun Laoghaire, Valkyrie, Kashmiri, O’Leary, * insincerely
14.2 weirder, theatre, era, clearer, dearer, hearer, Hera, lira, nearer, queerer, rearer, sclera, sera, shearer, smearer, sneerer, steerer, Vera, fiercer, piercer, * Madeira, Utsire, Elvira, sincerer, chimera, coherer, * sheepshearer, * amphitheatre, rangatira, lavatera, antisera, aloe vera, D’Oliviera, * reared her, cheer her, etc.
14.3 bearded, rearward
14.4 queried, wearied, * unwearied
14.5 peerage, steerage, * arrearage
14.6 cheerful, fearful, tearful, feral, scleral, spheral, Pearsall, tiercel
14.7 serum, theorem, fearsome, meerschaum, * antiserum, * fear ’em, hear ’em, etc.
14.8 deerskin, Erin, * jeerin’, piercin’, etc.
14.9 Reardon, Kieran, Viren, spearman, steersman, Pearson, * Madeiran, frontiersman
14.10 cerement, vehement, * adherent, inherent, coherent, endearment, * incoherent
14.11 clearance, vehemence, * appearance, adherence, adherents, coherence, endearments, * perseverance, reappearance, interference, incoherence, nonappearance
14.12 shearling, yearling, cheering, clearing, earring, gearing, hearing, jeering, rearing, searing, shearing, sneering, steering, piercing, * appearing, veneering, endearing, revering, * sheep-shearing, child-rearing, God-fearing, * engineering, persevering, disappearing, interfering, pioneering, profiteering, domineering, auctioneering, mountaineering, scrutineering, * electioneering, * orienteering, * bioengineering, etc.
14.13 peeress, Beatrice
14.14 cheerless, earless, fearless, peerless, beardless, sclerous, serous, clearness, dearness, nearness, weirdness, fierceness, * Severus, * Algeciras, * Ahasuerus, * hear us, feared us, etc.
14.15 realist, theorist, pianist, * surrealist, idealist, careerist
14.16 weirdest, clearest, dearest, nearest, queerest, fiercest, * sincerest, etc.
14.17 Kyrgyz, queries, series, theories, wearies, Deirdre’s, * miniseries, etc.
14.18 cheerier, drearier, eerier, wearier, * bacteria, anterior, Algeria, exterior, interior, listeria, wisteria, hysteria, inferior, diphtheria, Iberia, Liberia, Siberia, Nigeria, posterior, ulterior, superior, * cafeteria, sansevieria, Lake Superior, etc.
14.19 hearable, steerable, cereal, ferial, serial, Cheeryble, * material, bacterial, arterial, imperial, Imperial, ethereal, venereal, sidereal, funereal, * immaterial, monasterial, managerial, magisterial, ministerial, * antibacterial
14.20 cerium, * bacterium, imperium, deuterium, * magisterium
14.21 Pierian, * Adlerian, Kashmirian, Cancerian, Algerian, Wagnerian, Shakespearean, Spenserian, Zaïrian, Iberian, Liberian, Siberian, Hyperion, criterion, Nigerian, Chaucerian, Mousterian, Sumerian, * Hanoverian, Presbyterian, trans-Siberian
14.22 experience, * inexperience
14.23 cheerfulness, fearlessness, serious, dreariness, weariness, * imperious, mysterious, Tiberias, Tiberius, * Desiderius, deleterious, etc.
For the writing of verse is a struggle mysterious
And the gayest of rhymes is a matter that’s serious.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
The rhymes in this section have the ‘ee’ sound of breed and teacher as their main or final vowel sound. You can also rhyme some of these words with words ending in -y (e.g. happily, telepathy, capability), which you will find in other sections.
15.1 B, be, Bea, bee, Brie, C, Cree, D, Dee, E, fee, flea, flee, free, G, gee, ghee, glee, he, key, knee, lea, lee, Lee, Leigh, me, mi, P, pea, pee, plea, quay, re, sea, scree, see, she, ski, spree, T, te, tea, tee, the, thee, three, tree, Tree, twee, V, we, wee, whee, ye, Z
Stands the church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?
RUPERT BROOKE
15.2 McGee, Dundee, suttee, trustee, McPhee, alee, Tralee, Cherie, Marie, sirree, Capri, agree, buckshee, maquis, grandee, standee, tax-free, banshee, marquee, marquis, draftee, grantee, Grand Prix, Parsee, bargee, payee, JP, HP, AD, bailee, trainee, NB, LP, MP, vendee, settee, esprit, rent-free, étui, ME, lessee, MC, PE, CB, GB, TB, GP, CD, three-D, VD, ET, PT, TT, CV, TV, tee-hee, BC, cc, PC, e.g., yippee, decree, degree, jinni, i.e., ID, IT, Tiree, lychee, t’ai chi, off-key, scot-free, Torquay, Pawnee, Shawnee, foresee, low-key, OD, goatee, toll-free, whoopee, cooee, rupee, bootee, tutee, UV, QC, * mother-to-be, Trincomalee, fiddle-de-dee, bouquet garni, GCSE, RSVP, PAYE, interviewee, on the q.t., WC, * Muhammad Ali
15.3 Bacchae, Yankee, latchkey, Atlee, Crabtree, algae, passkey, larvae, carefree, pear tree, Aintree, Braintree, precis, debris, Elstree, turnkey, fir tree, tepee, kiwi, pewee, gee-gee, squeegee, Frisbee®, prithee, Nike, psyche, pine tree, sightsee, spondee, coffee, toffee, crosstree, Rowntree, Toynbee, trochee, ogee, puttee, bungee, look-see, bootee, shoetree, * antennae, Mycenae, committee, banoffee, Milwaukee, alumnae, Grand Coulee, * Tallahassee, prima facie, subcommittee, Murrumbidgee
15.4 manatee, guarantee, absentee, jamboree, transferee, Anne-Marie, bain-marie, axletree, ratatouille, apogee, Chatterjee, après-ski, addressee, Galilee, Pharisee, appointee, amputee, jalousie, Sadducee, R&B, R&D, Marshalsea, RAC, RIP, maître d’, A&E, HRT, c’est la vie, KGB, ABC, eighty-three, HIV, Cherokee, legatee, devotee, referee, kedgeree, repartee, SAE, escapee, LSD, MSc, MBE, MEP, LED, LCD, Zebedee, Gemini, pedigree, twenty-three, Tennessee, perigee, debauchee, employee, SOB, epopee, MOD, MOT, refugee, fleur-de-lys, verdigris, thirty-three, B&B, Tweedledee, C of E, Peterlee, vis-à-vis, CJD, PhD, VAT, detainee, ESP, CND, GMT, PMT, TNT, BSE, CFC, plc, TLC, BSc, DVD, BBC, PVC, VIP, CID, deportee, TUC, chickadee, disagree, swingletree, fricassee, Winchelsea, chimpanzee, returnee, internee, filigree, fifty-three, sixty-three, retiree, divorcee, inductee, bride-to-be, licensee, Zuider Zee, ITV, Waikiki, ninety-three, wannabe, warrantee, bonhomie, nominee, monoski, water-ski, forty-three, mortgagee, formulae, bourgeoisie, oversea, oversee, OAP, OBE, OTT, Rosie Lee, bumblebee, dungaree, trouble-free, undersea, honeybee, sugar-free, USP, QED, jubilee, dutyfree, * abandonee, examinee, evacuee, chinoiserie, Thermopylae, minutiae
There was an old lady of Winchelsea,
Who