The rhymes in this section have the ‘oor’ sound of cure and purely as their main or final vowel sound. Many of these words can also be rhymed with words in the – or – section.
27.1 Boer, boor, cure, dour, lure, moor, Moor, Moore, Muir, poor, pure, Ruhr, spoor, sure, tour, Tours, Ure, your, you’re, * velour, McClure, procure, gravure, allure, manure, amour, unmoor, assure, unsure, mature, adjure, abjure, conjure, tandoor, Latour, Cavour, coiffure, Namur, hachure, Kanpur, Darfur, guipure, impure, liqueur, secure, endure, immure, demure, inure, ensure, insure, obscure, couture, du jour, * tambour, grandeur, Dartmoor, tenure, Exmoor, Sedgemoor, detour, Tweedsmuir, concours, Goncourt, contour, cocksure, tonsure, ordure, Broadmoor, Hawksmoor, brochure, * Aznavour, amateur, aperture, Lammermuir, paramour, Jamshedpur, manicure, plat du jour, armature, Réaumur, premature, epicure, pedicure, sepulture, curvature, reassure, prefecture, reinsure, ligature, immature, sinecure, insecure, cynosure, Pompadour, Yom Kippur, confiture, commissure, embouchure, hors concours, overture, Côte d’Azur, Kohinoor, haute couture, troubadour, * caricature, magistrature, photogravure, musculature, underinsure
How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
27.2 cured, gourd, Lourdes, lured, moored, * procured, manured, unmoored, assured, matured, coiffured, secured, immured, inured, insured, obscured, * manicured, self-assured, reassured, reinsured, unsecured, uninsured, * caricatured, underinsured, etc.
27.3 Boers, boors, cures, lures, moors, tours, yours, * matures, allures, amours, Elburz, liqueurs, endures, etc.
28.1 dourly, Gourlay, poorly, purely, surely, curie, Curie, Drury, fury, houri, Jewry, jury, Lurie, Newry, Uri, * Kalgoorlie, securely, demurely, obscurely, tandoori, Venturi, Mercouri, Missouri, potpourri, * prematurely, Dioscuri, etc.
28.2 curer, Dürer, Führer, Jura, juror, lurer, pleura, poorer, purer, surer, tourer, * assurer, procurer, bravura, insurer, securer, caesura, nonjuror, * Angostura, El Mansûra, tessitura, * acciaccatura, appoggiatura, * coloratura, Bonaventura, * camera obscura, * cure her, lure her, etc.
28.3 uric, Zürich, * telluric, mercuric, sulphuric
28.4 mural, neural, pleural, plural, rural, Ural, * extramural, epidural
28.5 Purim, Urim
28.6 Van Buren, Honduran
28.7 burin, urine, * moorin’, allurin’, etc.
28.8 moorland, gourmand
28.9 procurement, allurement
28.10 durance, * assurance, insurance, endurance, * self-assurance, reassurance
28.11 curing, during, luring, mooring, touring, Turing, * procuring, alluring, assuring, maturing, securing, enduring, ensuring, insuring, obscuring, * manicuring, reassuring, * caricaturing, underinsuring, etc.
28.12 poorness, sureness, Arcturus, mercurous, Honduras, sulphurous, * Epicurus, * lure us, assure us, etc.
28.13 poorest, purest, surest, * securest, etc.
28.14 jurist, purist, tourist, * manicurist, pedicurist, * caricaturist
28.15 boorish, Moorish, * amateurish
28.16 Curies, Furies, juries
28.17 gourami, curacy, purity, surety, touristy, urinary, pleurisy, * incurably, maturity, impurity, security, obscurity, futurity, assuredly, * immaturity, insecurity, reassuringly, etc.
28.18 curia, * Manchuria, Etruria, Liguria, dysuria, * haematuria, glycosuria, etc.
28.19 curable, durable, thurible, Muriel, * procurable, insurable, incurable, endurable, Escurial, centurial, tenurial, mercurial, * uninsurable, unendurable
28.20 curium, * tellurium
28.21 puritan, juryman, * Manchurian, Arthurian, Ben-Gurion, tellurian, centurion, Etrurian, Ligurian, Missourian, Silurian, * Khachaturian, holothurian
28.22 prurient, * parturient, esurient, luxuriant
28.23 prurience, * luxuriance
28.24 curious, furious, spurious, * penurious, perjurious, incurious, injurious, sulphureous, luxurious, usurious