Collins Rhyming Dictionary

The rhymes in this section have the ‘ay’ sound of same and waiting as their main or final vowel sound.

7.1 a, A, ay, bay, brae, bray, cay, Chay, Che, clay, day, dray, eh, fay, Fay, fey, flay, fray, gay, Gay, Gray, grey, hay, hey, J, jay, Jay, K, Kay, Kray, lay, lei, ley, may, May, nay, née, neigh, pay, play, pray, prey, ray, Ray, re, Re, say, slay, sleigh, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, stray, sway, Tay, they, trait, tray, trey, vlei, way, weigh, whey, yea

7.2 today, jeté, convey, allay, Malay, agley, unlay, array, astray, affray, away, aweigh, René, assay, unsay, strathspey, Cathay, pince-nez, dragée, Shar Pei, parfait, halfway, Niamey, Marseilles, daresay, AA, waylay, gainsay, FA, LA, MA, purvey, survey, Earl Grey, per se, BA, PA, prepay, repay, replay, decay, piquet, midday, inveigh, belay, delay, relay, display, misplay, inlay, mislay, betray, distrait, defray, midway, dismay, Taipei, Bombay, Torbay, Corday, portray, outstay, outplay, foul play, downplay, outweigh, obey, okay, Tokay, au fait, au lait, olé, noway, oyez, O’Shea, José, feng shui, hooray, bouquet, UK, du Pré, Dounreay, touché, * auto-da-fé, Morgan le Fay, cabriolet, Dorian Gray, out-of-the-way, Appian Way, bioassay, YMCA, Botany Bay, Fotheringay, café au lait, ukiyo-e

7.3 frappé, latte, maté, pâté, satay, Dante, backstay, jackstay, café, Pathé, ballet, Calais, chalet, Hallé, palais, valet, barré, laptray, ashtray, tramway, gangway, hatchway, Manet, assay, chassé, glacé, passé, cachet, sachet, sashay, flambé, parquet, manqué, margay, ave, Soave, vale, Arblay, Franglais, mare, moiré, soiree, chambré, André, entrée, Yahweh, parkway, partway, pathway, archway, lamé, carnet, blasé, airplay, hairspray, airway, fairway, stairway, heyday, mayday, May Day, payday, mainstay, gameplay, Maigret, gateway, Safeway, railway, épée, reggae, levee, Pelé, melee, endplay, Nestlé, beret, X-ray, segue, headway, Medway, essay, workday, birthday, Thursday, survey, wordplay, ciré, clearway, hearsay, plié, piqué, bidet, vide, weekday, relay, replay, screenplay, respray, Tigré, freeway, leeway, seaway, speedway, lycée, plissé, Bizet, frisé, cliché, guichet, DJ, sickbay, Biscay, risqué, filet, gilet, Millais, Millet, inlay, stingray, in-tray, slipway, ridgeway, Friday, child’s play, pipeclay, byway, highway, tideway, driveway, Steinway®, washday, bobsleigh, foray, moray, Conway, Monet, Roget, sorbet, forte, forestay, foreplay, swordplay, horseplay, Fauré, doorway, Norway, walkway, Broadway, Galway, hallway, causeway, gourmet, bourrée, curé, purée, outlay, out-tray, croquet, nosegay, sauté, roadway, rosé, crochet, Loveday, someday, Monday, sundae, Sunday, gunplay, subway, runway, buffet, footway, Douai, roué, coupé, toupee, noonday, Tuesday, doomsday, cuvée, duvet, bouclé, soufflé, outré, soothsay, Suchet, * andante, Le Carré, attaché, écarté, Pasquale, cor anglais, Zimbabwe, Mallarmé, macramé, fiancé, fiancée, vivace, recherché, awayday, al dente, expressway, Desirée, appliqué, Enrique, Kol Nidrei, décolleté, consommé, Dubonnet®, cloisonné, de jure, cum laude, démodé, Obote, exposé, Le Touquet, il Duce, retroussé, * cybercafé, marron glacé, papier-mâché, Alicante, diamanté, Tio Pepe®, nota bene, action replay, Champs Elysées, bichon frise, superhighway, Don Quixote, paso doble

I’ve lived a life that’s full, I’ve travelled each and ev’ry highway

7.4 St Tropez, canapé, latter-day, Saturday, Faraday, Santa Fe, Rabelais, Mandalay, Charolais, cabaret, Thackeray, Ballantrae, Hathaway, Galloway, caraway, Massenet, Fabergé, Chabrier, alleyway, Haringey, carriageway, passageway, Poitiers, matinée, San Jose, cassoulet, Castlereagh, faraway, Chardonnay, castaway, Cartier, tearaway, day-to-day, breakaway, takeaway, straightaway, take-home pay, yesterday, present-day, Wednesday, Chevrolet, getaway, well away, Nescafé®, métier, Perrier®, denier, vérité, Eriskay, everyday, émigré, anyway, Hemingway, negligee, crème brûlée, résumé, workaday, steerageway, seize the day, Greenaway, Pinochet, DNA, ETA, PTA, CIA, disobey, interlay, interplay, disarray, giveaway, fricassee, inter se, ricochet, virelay, Milky Way, light of day, flyaway, hideaway, bridleway, IRA, Monterey, Holloway, Hogmanay, fromage frais, dossier, holiday, Doris Day, protégé, protégée, popinjay, Stornoway, waterway, Fourier, tourniquet, roundelay, overpay, overstay, overlay, overplay, go away, stowaway, throwaway, soakaway, foldaway, motorway, Beaujolais, Beaumarchais, sobriquet, Hudson Bay, underpay, Muscadet, underlay, underclay, underplay, cutaway, colourway, runaway, sommelier, USA, crudités, * alackaday, companionway, Sabatier, espalier, Chevalier, Lavoisier, Courvoisier®, boulevardier, Grand Marnier®, Prince Rainier, red-letter day, atelier, Montpellier, Tortelier, hotelier, Olivier, habitué, Escoffier, Montgolfier, Du Maurier, couturier, communiqué, * Le Corbusier

7.6 ache, bake, Blake, brake, break, cake, crake, drake, Drake, fake, flake, hake, Jake, lake, make, quake, rake, sake, shake, sheikh, slake, snake, spake, stake, steak, strake, take, wake, * opaque, awake, unmake, forsake, partake, retake, remake, betake, mistake, * clambake, backache, pancake, handbrake, mandrake, handshake, heartache, heartbreak, daybreak, jailbreak, namesake, headache, sheldrake, wordbreak, earthquake, earache, teacake, seedcake, beefcake, cream cake, cheesecake, beefsteak, sweepstake, remake, keepsake, fish cake, intake, windbreak, firebreak, rock cake, hot cake, stocktake, shortcake, cornflake, corncrake, outtake, outbreak, Hoylake, oatcake, snowflake, sunbake, cupcake, uptake, grubstake, muckrake, fruitcake, toothache, moonquake, * rattlesnake, bellyache, griddlecake, give-and-take, kittiwake, wide awake, overtake, stomachache, undertake

7.7 baked, braked, caked, faked, flaked, quaked, raked, slaked, staked, * unbaked, unslaked, half-baked, * sunbaked

7.8 aid, aide, bade, bayed, blade, braid, brayed, clade, fade, flayed, frayed, glade, grade, jade, Jade, lade, laid, made, maid, neighed, paid, played, prayed, preyed, raid, shade, Slade, spade, spayed, splayed, staid, stayed, strayed, suede, swayed, they’d, trade, wade, Wade, weighed, * forbade, unpaid, brocade, pervade, surveyed, conveyed, arrayed, parade, abrade, upbraid, upgrade, afraid, unweighed, persuade, pomade, unmade, cascade, handmade, man-made, arcade, waylaid, well-paid, Belgrade, self-made, well-made, first aid, prepaid, repaid, relaid, replayed, remade, decayed, brigade, evade, invade, delayed, displayed, inlaid, mislaid, degrade, betrayed, dismayed, grenade, Sinead, dissuade, tirade, blockade, cockade, stockade, portrayed, downgrade, obeyed, home-made, new-laid, crusade, * Band Aid, ram raid, lampshade, barmaid, decade, mermaid, nursemaid, Teasmade®, switchblade, milkmaid, Whipsnade, Live Aid, limeade, bridesmaid, eyeshade, nightshade, comrade, Noraid, housemaid, sunshade, * cavalcade, accolade, Adelaide, masquerade, balustrade, cannonade, barricade, marinade, palisade, marmalade, parlourmaid, carbonade, dairymaid, razor blade, make the grade, chambermaid, tailor-made, escapade, escalade, esplanade, serenade, lemonade, Medicaid, renegade, centigrade, ready-made, retrograde, Biggleswade, colonnade, stock-in-trade, orangeade, overpaid, motorcade, overlaid, Rollerblade®, overplayed, underpaid, underlaid, underplayed, unafraid, custom-made, undismayed, Lucozade®, fusillade, * nurserymaid, harlequinade, etc.

7.9 aids, AIDS, blades, grades, maids, raids, shades, spades, trades, * mermaids, nursemaids, bridesmaids, comrades, * accolades, barricades, palisades, escapades, Everglades, etc.

7.12 age, cage, gage, gauge, mage, page, Paige, phage, rage, sage, stage, swage, wage, * front page, upstage, assuage, rampage, backstage, restage, encage, engage, enrage, presage, offstage, downstage, Osage, * rampage, rain gauge, space age, birdcage, greengage, teenage, ribcage, tyre gauge, Bronze Age, outrage, road rage, Stone Age, school-age, * macrophage, saxifrage, disengage, Iron Age, overage, underage, multistage

7.13 aged, caged, gauged, paged, raged, staged, * uncaged, unwaged, assuaged, engaged, enraged, * teenaged, school-aged, etc.

7.15 ail, ale, bail, bale, Braille, dale, Dale, fail, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, hail, hale, Hale, jail, kale, mail, male, nail, pail, pale, quail, Quayle, rail, sail, sale, Sale, scale, shale, snail, stale, Swale, tail, tale, they’ll, Thrale, trail, vale, veil, wail, wale, whale, Yale, * percale, McPhail, avail, unveil, assail, exhale, curtail, descale, regale, impale, entail, prevail, inhale, derail, bewail, full-scale, * wagtail, travail, fantail, rat’s-tail, handrail, taffrail, blackmail, hangnail, abseil, gaffsail, Arndale, guardrail, Airedale, airmail, Swaledale, snail mail, facemail, staysail, mainsail, telltale, checkrail, bedrail, headrail, headsail, shirt-tail, sperm whale, seakale, Bleasdale, Ruisdael, detail, e-tail, retail, e-mail, female, treenail, greenmail, resale, Windscale, pigtail, ringtail, fishtail, spritsail, timescale, Drysdale, Clydesdale, hightail, Mondale, Rochdale, Lonsdale, bobtail, cocktail, foxtail, oxtail, hobnail, topsail, horsetail, doornail, foresail, mousetail, toenail, wholesale, dovetail, junk mail, thumbnail, * tattletale, Passchendaele, Abigail, galingale, martingale, farthingale, Armidale, fairy tale, Maida Vale, Skelmersdale, Wensleydale, Ebbw Vale, Richter scale, Chippendale, ginger ale, fingernail, bristletail, disentail, nightingale, Nightingale, cottontail, nonpareil, monorail, swallowtail, Calderdale, countervail, ponytail, Holy Grail, tooth and nail, * Fort Lauderdale

7.16 ailed, bailed, failed, flailed, hailed, jailed, mailed, nailed, quailed, railed, sailed, scaled, tailed, veiled, wailed, * unveiled, assailed, curtailed, entailed, prevailed, derailed, bewailed, * draggletailed, etc.

7.17 ails, ales, Dales, fails, Gaels, Gail’s, gales, nails, rails, sails, scales, sales, tales, veils, Wales, * entrails, details, pigtails, cocktails, toenails, * telesales, fingernails, Bloomingdale’s, New South Wales, * cat-o’-nine-tails, etc.

7.18 aim, blame, came, claim, dame, Dame, fame, flame, frame, game, hame, lame, maim, name, same, shame, tame, Thame, * acclaim, proclaim, aflame, reframe, rename, became, defame, declaim, reclaim, disclaim, exclaim, inflame, old flame, * mainframe, surname, first name, quitclaim, nickname, endgame, selfsame, filename, doorframe, forename, * maiden name, Christian name, window frame, what’s-her-name, what’s-his-name, counterclaim, overcame

7.19 aimed, blamed, claimed, framed, maimed, named, shamed, * untamed, acclaimed, proclaimed, unclaimed, unnamed, ashamed, renamed, reclaimed, exclaimed, inflamed, * unashamed, etc.

7.20 aims, claims, flames, games, James, names, * Jesse James, Christian names, * Olympic Games, etc.

7.21 bane, brain, Braine, Cain, cane, chain, crane, Dane, deign, drain, Duane, fain, feign, Frayn, gain, grain, Jain, Jane, lain, lane, main, Maine, mane, pain, Paine, pane, Payne, plain, plane, rain, reign, rein, sane, Seine, Shane, skein, slain, Spain, sprain, stain, strain, swain, ta’en, thane, thegn, train, twain, Twain, vain, vane, vein, wain, wane, Wayne, Zane, * cocaine, McCain, again, mundane, attain, pertain, obtain, contain, sustain, profane, Dunblane, Maclean, complain, arraign, Lorraine, terrain, constrain, domain, Pomagne®, McShane, unchain, campaign, champagne, abstain, arcane, Bahrain, Mark Twain, Charmaine, Great Dane, maintain, urbane, Germaine, germane, deplane, detrain, retrain, chicane, disdain, regain, detain, retain, Sinn Fein, Elaine, Spillane, emplane, explain, Igraine, ingrain, entrain, distrain, restrain, refrain, demesne, remain, inane, insane, vicereine, Cockaigne, Fonteyn, moraine, Coltrane, John Wayne, ordain, chow mein, Coleraine, romaine, Hussein, Ukraine, humane, * ratsbane, plantain, crackbrain, Gawain, airplane, pearmain, sailplane, tailplane, lamebrain, haywain, henbane, Beltane, membrane, vervain, birdbrain, fleabane, ethane, methane, seaplane, migraine, chilblain, midbrain, biplane, triplane, hindbrain, eyestrain, dogbane, octane, warplane, forebrain, propane, grosgrain, wholegrain, ptomaine, bloodstain, wolfsbane, butane, * appertain, ascertain, halothane, chatelain, chatelaine, Tamerlane, aquaplane, scatterbrain, Alamein, Aquitaine, Charlemagne, aeroplane, entertain, Cellophane®, weather vane, featherbrain, preordain, Cleo Laine, windowpane, inhumane, Michael Caine, gyroplane, hydroplane, right as rain, monoplane, foreordain, urethane, counterpane, counterstain, down the drain, Novocaine®, overlain, underlain, hurricane, Dunsinane, sugar cane, Tubal-cain, suzerain, * Citizen Kane, legerdemain, varicose vein, * polyurethane

7.22 caned, chained, deigned, drained, feigned, gained, pained, rained, reigned, sprained, stained, strained, trained, veined, * obtained, contained, sustained, unstained, complained, untrained, constrained, unstrained, unchained, detained, retained, ingrained, restrained, remained, ordained, close-grained, * crackbrained, harebrained, bird-brained, tear-stained, bloodstained, * ascertained, scatterbrained, entertained, self-contained, preordained, foreordained, unconstrained, unexplained, unrestrained, etc.

7.23 change, grange, mange, range, strange, * arrange, free-range, derange, estrange, exchange, long-range, short-range, short-change, * part exchange, prearrange, rearrange, disarrange, interchange, chop and change, stock exchange

7.24 changed, ranged, * arranged, unchanged, deranged, estranged, exchanged, * prearranged, rearranged, etc.

7.25 ain’t, faint, feint, mayn’t, paint, plaint, quaint, saint, taint, * attaint, complaint, constraint, acquaint, repaint, distraint, restraint, * greasepaint, warpaint, * self-restraint, reacquaint, overpaint, unconstraint, unrestraint

7.26 Baines, brains, chains, Danes, drains, gains, Haynes, Jane’s, Keynes, mains, pains, plains, rains, reins, Staines, stains, trains, veins, Wayne’s, * pertains, obtains, Elaine’s, remains, * chilblains, bloodstains, * afterpains, windowpanes, etc.

7.27 ape, cape, Cape, crepe, drape, gape, grape, jape, nape, rape, scrape, shape, tape, * agape, reshape, escape, * landscape, nametape, seascape, shipshape, misshape, moonscape, cloudscape, * masking tape, Sellotape®, ticker tape, out of shape

7.28 apes, drapes, gapes, grapes, scrapes, shapes, traipse, * reshapes, escapes, sour grapes, * jackanapes, etc.

7.29 aped, draped, gaped, raped, scraped, shaped, taped, * pear-shaped, wedge-shaped, V-shaped, U-shaped, etc.

7.30 ace, base, bass, brace, case, chase, dace, face, grace, Grace, lace, mace, Mace®, pace, place, plaice, race, space, Thrace, trace, Wace, * abase, apace, unlace, debase, encase, deface, efface, replace, displace, misplace, enlace, embrace, disgrace, retrace, grimace, outpace, outface, * fanbase, backspace, crankcase, blackface, landrace, airspace, staircase, wheyface, paleface, mainbrace, scapegrace, tailrace, workplace, birthplace, headcase, headrace, wheelbase, seedcase, briefcase, slipcase, millrace, fireplace, typecase, typeface, braaivleis, watchcase, chalkface, showcase, notecase, boldface, coalface, showplace, nutcase, Lovelace, someplace, bookcase, suitcase, shoelace, bootlace, * carapace, Samothrace, marketplace, aerospace, database, waste of space, paper chase, face-to-face, steeplechase, breathing space, interspace, interface, interlace, in-your-face, pillowcase, cyberspace, hyperspace, hiding place, wild-goose chase, contrabass, commonplace, Boniface, lower-case, poker face, outer space, upper-case, pull a face

7.31 based, baste, chased, chaste, haste, laced, mayst, paced, paste, placed, raced, spaced, taste, traced, waist, waste, * unlaced, unplaced, lambaste, straight-faced, strait-laced, debased, encased, distaste, defaced, replaced, displaced, misplaced, enlaced, embraced, disgraced, posthaste, * barefaced, shamefaced, shore-based, foretaste, po-faced, toothpaste, * pantywaist, aftertaste, baby-faced, interlaced, poker-faced, cut and paste, etc.

7.32 ate, bait, bate, crate, date, eight, fate, fête, freight, gait, gate, grate, great, hate, Kate, late, mate, pate, plate, prate, rate, sate, skate, slate, spate, state, straight, strait, Tate, Thwaite, trait, wait, Waite, weight

7.33 abate, placate, truncate, update, upstate, collate, conflate, narrate, uprate, frustrate, await, pulsate, palpate, backdate, translate, castrate, stagnate, aerate, vacate, spectate, estate, gestate, fellate, third-rate, first-rate, create, predate, restate, reflate, debate, negate, sedate, dictate, misstate, elate, relate, deflate, inflate, berate, filtrate, equate, cremate, innate, fixate, blind date, dilate, gyrate, irate, vibrate, migrate, hydrate, prostrate, orate, ornate, outdate, locate, postdate, notate, rotate, prorate, donate, pupate, mutate, Kuwait, * alienate, seventy-eight, peregrinate, interrelate, oxygenate, orientate, * deteriorate, ameliorate, deoxygenate, disorientate

7.34 Ramsgate, mandate, flatmate, palmate, magnate, Margate, classmate, tartrate, jailbait, tailgate, nameplate, chainplate, faceplate, makeweight, Braithwaite, playmate, stalemate, dentate, testate, stellate, endplate, breastplate, template, checkmate, helpmate, messmate, sensate, workmate, birth rate, rebate, cheapskate, team-mate, Lydgate, Wingate, lych gate, dictate, ingrate, citrate, filtrate, shipmate, inmate, whitebait, ice-skate, Highgate, Reigate, hydrate, nitrate, titrate, flyweight, lightweight, primate, lock gate, prostate, phosphate, hotplate, prostrate, cognate, chlorate, quorate, portrait, groundbait, housemate, probate, Colgate®, tollgate, ovate, soul mate, floodgate, Vulgate, update, sulphate, substrate, bookplate, footplate, Newgate, sluicegate, schoolmate, roommate, * incarnate, intestate, insensate, apostate, inquorate, self-portrait, inchoate, * carbohydrate

7.35 masturbate, advocate, allocate, arrogate, Harrogate, abrogate, annotate, aggravate, flagellate, lacerate, macerate, saturate, adumbrate, Bassenthwaite, bantamweight, palliate, abdicate, masticate, fabricate, castigate, navigate, aggregate, abnegate, candidate, antedate, validate, palpitate, gravitate, acetate, agitate, captivate, activate, salivate, vacillate, aspirate, calibrate, magistrate, animate, Latinate, marinate, laminate, fascinate, vaccinate, machinate, paginate, transmigrate, graduate, actuate, amputate, tabulate, adulate, calculate, strangulate, granulate, * exacerbate, extrapolate, collaborate, elaborate, evaporate, exasperate, exaggerate, amalgamate, diaconate, permanganate, Italianate, retaliate, repatriate, expatriate, substantiate, emancipate, eradicate, elasticate, prevaricate, prefabricate, invalidate, decapitate, capacitate, deactivate, reactivate, inactivate, reanimate, concatenate, procrastinate, decaffeinate, desalinate, contaminate, delaminate, assassinate, invaginate, evacuate, infatuate, evaluate, confabulate, perambulate, somnambulate, ejaculate, recalculate, miscalculate, emasculate, coagulate, triangulate, encapsulate, congratulate, * transubstantiate, consubstantiate, circumstantiate, circumnavigate, incapacitate, decontaminate

7.37 paperweight, alienate, tête-à-tête, radiate, eighty-eight, glaciate, satiate, caliphate, * irradiate, emaciate, expatiate, ingratiate

7.38 reprobate, expurgate, derogate, devastate, excavate, enervate, renovate, decollate, escalate, tessellate, separate, decorate, federate, perorate, generate, venerate, second-rate, demonstrate, remonstrate, welterweight, featherweight, detonate, emanate, resonate, welfare state, extirpate, expiate, twenty-eight, dedicate, medicate, predicate, defecate, replicate, explicate, deprecate, metricate, extricate, desiccate, vesicate, delegate, relegate, segregate, meditate, levitate, hesitate, vegetate, elevate, depilate, ventilate, legislate, celebrate, desecrate, execrate, emigrate, denigrate, penetrate, heavyweight, estimate, guesstimate, decimate, designate, sell-by date, Menai Strait, exculpate, educate, exudate, menstruate, peculate, speculate, emulate, regulate, * interrogate, de-escalate, electroplate, redecorate, confederate, expectorate, coelenterate, asseverate, accelerate, decelerate, commemorate, degenerate, regenerate, potentiate, authenticate, domesticate, investigate, desegregate, premeditate, necessitate, disseminate, inseminate, attenuate, extenuate, perpetuate, effectuate, accentuate, eventuate, deregulate, * supererogate, differentiate, overestimate, underestimate

7.39 percolate, perforate, personate, thirty-eight, permeate, germinate, terminate, perpetrate, circulate, * intercalate, interpolate, reverberate, impersonate, regurgitate, exterminate

7.40 demarcate, mediate, deviate, re-create, reinstate, dehydrate, elongate, relocate, neonate, * ameliorate, alleviate, abbreviate, inebriate, appreciate, depreciate

7.41 syncopate, dislocate, Bishopsgate, inundate, interstate, innervate, innovate, immolate, River Plate, liberate, iterate, micturate, illustrate, winterweight, middleweight, cyclamate, impregnate, fifty-eight, sixty-eight, vitiate, dissipate, indicate, syndicate, vindicate, silicate, triplicate, implicate, litigate, mitigate, instigate, irrigate, Billingsgate, liquidate, militate, irritate, imitate, titivate, titillate, scintillate, integrate, immigrate, intimate, inculcate, situate, incubate, stipulate, simulate, stimulate, insulate, * episcopate, equivocate, reciprocate, deliberate, invigorate, alliterate, obliterate, transliterate, reiterate, proliferate, vociferate, exhilarate, incinerate, eviscerate, refrigerate, commiserate, tergiversate, affiliate, humiliate, conciliate, delineate, asphyxiate, officiate, propitiate, initiate, anticipate, participate, pontificate, intimidate, precipitate, habilitate, facilitate, debilitate, felicitate, assimilate, invigilate, equilibrate, reintegrate, disintegrate, administrate, legitimate, eliminate, recriminate, incriminate, discriminate, originate, habituate, insinuate, manipulate, articulate, gesticulate, matriculate, acidulate, capitulate, dissimulate, * reinvigorate, disaffiliate, rehabilitate, recapitulate

7.42 bifurcate, divagate, violate, isolate, hibernate, hyphenate, ideate, ninety-eight, * annihilate

7.43 altercate, collocate, coruscate, propagate, corrugate, objurgate, promulgate, commentate, correlate, copperplate, contemplate, operate, moderate, tolerate, concentrate, Postlethwaite, consummate, alternate, compensate, obviate, constipate, complicate, confiscate, obligate, congregate, cogitate, solid-state, oscillate, consecrate, pollinate, dominate, nominate, obfuscate, conjugate, copulate, populate, flocculate, osculate, modulate, postulate, ovulate, * homologate, accommodate, corroborate, cooperate, preponderate, agglomerate, conglomerate, exonerate, prognosticate, intoxicate, consolidate, deconsecrate, approximate, abominate, predominate, denominate, indoctrinate, hydrogenate, depopulate, repopulate, inoculate, absquatulate, expostulate, * overcompensate, discombobulate

7.44 altercate, Watergate, automate, alternate, forty-eight, nauseate, formicate, fornicate, orchestrate, chlorinate, formulate, * incorporate, subordinate, coordinate, reformulate, inaugurate

7.47 roller-skate, potentate, overstate, overate, overrate, overweight, procreate, roseate, motivate, * appropriate, expropriate, negotiate, associate, dissociate, * misappropriate, renegotiate, disassociate

7.48 suffocate, surrogate, up-to-date, understate, numberplate, ulcerate, underrate, underweight, summerweight, hundredweight, sultanate, rusticate, supplicate, cultivate, sublimate, culminate, fulminate, fluctuate, punctuate, subjugate, undulate, pullulate, ululate, suppurate, * adulterate, calumniate, denunciate, enunciate, resuscitate

7.49 superstate, cruiserweight, glutamate, lubricate, duplicate, fumigate, Unigate, mutilate, ruminate, use-by date, cumulate, * recuperate, vituperate, enumerate, remunerate, rejuvenate, repudiate, excruciate, adjudicate, centuplicate, reduplicate, quintuplicate, quadruplicate, communicate, elucidate, agglutinate, illuminate, hallucinate, accumulate, * excommunicate, * intercommunicate

7.50 Bates, crates, dates, Fates, gates, Greats, Kate’s, mates, plates, rates, skates, States, straits, weights, Yeats, * flatmates, playmates, inmates, ice skates, nitrates, phosphates, soul mates, floodgates, * awaits, pet hates, Bill Gates, dire straits, vibrates, mutates, * paperweights, roller skates, * United States, etc.

7.54 brave, cave, crave, Dave, fave, gave, grave, knave, Maeve, nave, pave, rave, save, shave, slave, stave, they’ve, waive, wave, * concave, forgave, behave, enslave, deprave, engrave, outbrave, * landgrave, margrave, brainwave, enclave, exclave, Redgrave, heat wave, crimewave, conclave, Palgrave, spokeshave, * rant and rave, aftershave, architrave, misbehave, microwave, tidal wave, biconcave, autoclave

7.55 caves, craves, Dave’s, graves, Graves, knaves, raves, saves, shaves, slaves, staves, waves, * airwaves, Bygraves, * misbehaves, microwaves, etc.

7.56 baize, bays, blaze, braise, braze, chaise, craze, days, daze, faze, frays, gaze, glaze, graze, Hayes, haze, Jeyes, Kay’s, laze, maize, May’s, maze, Naze, neighs, phase, phrase, praise, raise, rays, raze, stays, strays, ways, * Gervaise, allays, malaise, ablaze, emblaze, appraise, upraise, amaze, self-praise, liaise, decays, deglaze, rephrase, erase, dispraise, bouquets, * ashtrays, catchphrase, stargaze, pathways, railways, Strangeways, X-rays, endways, breadthways, lengthways, edgeways, essays, weekdays, leastways, clichés, widthways, byways, highways, sideways, longways, crossways, mores, always, Mondays, Sundays, fundraise, toupees, schooldays, duvets, * canapés, paraphrase, passageways, castaways, Marseillaise, waifs and strays, Béarnaise, mayonnaise, reappraise, hollandaise, Bolognese, polonaise, holidays, waterways, cornerways, nowadays, overglaze, overgraze, stowaways, underglaze, colourways, multiphase, etc.

7.57 blazed, braised, crazed, dazed, fazed, gazed, glazed, grazed, lazed, phrased, praised, raised, * unfazed, appraised, amazed, liaised, rephrased, erased, * reappraised, overgrazed, double-glazed, etc.

8.1 baby, maybe, Catesby, Naseby, crepy, grapey, kepi, scrapie, achy, flaky, quaky, reiki, shaky, snaky, Craigie, plaguy, Adie, Brady, lady, Sadie, shady, eighty, Haiti, Katie, matey, slaty, weighty, safety, frailty, dainty, hasty, pasty, tasty, cave, cavy, Davy, gravy, navy, wavy, bailey, Bailey, ceilidh, daily, Daley, gaily, Haley, Hayley, Kayleigh, Rayleigh, scaly, shaly, ably, shapely, vaguely, Madeley, lately, stately, faintly, saintly, bravely, gravely, gamely, lamely, namely, tamely, mainly, plainly, vainly, paisley, Paisley, Ainsley, strangely, debris, Aintree, Braintree, pastry, clayey, Amy, gamey, Jamie, Mamie, pay me, samey, brainy, Cheney, grainy, Janie, rainy, veiny, zany, ha’penny, Basie, Casey, Gracie, lacy, pace, pacey, precis, racy, spacey, Spacey, Stacy, Tracy, crazy, daisy, hazy, lazy, Maisie, mazy, Strachey, cagey, stagey, mangy, rangy, * Carnegie, milady, O’Grady, Kuwaiti, agave, shillelagh, Disraeli, Israeli, sedately, innately, ungainly, inanely, insanely, humanely, Pompeii, Bahraini, Delaney, Khomeini, Eugénie, shove-ha’penny, O’Casey, Scorsese, * crybaby, bushbaby, headachy, landlady, * wakey-wakey, capercaillie, ukulele, Agnus Dei, cockamamie, Allegheny, Museveni, Sulawesi, calabrese, Bel Paese, upsy-daisy, Buthelezi, prima facie, * Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, etc.

8.2 Bayer, Freya, gayer, Heyer, Mayer, kea, layer, payer, player, prayer, sayer, sprayer, stayer, weigher, * obeyer, conveyor, Malaya, assayer, Marbella, mens rea, purveyor, surveyor, delayer, betrayer, * taxpayer, ratepayer, bricklayer, minelayer, soothsayer, * Eritrea, tennis player, record player, Himalaya, * pay her, betray her, etc.

8.3 caber, labour, neighbour, sabre, tabor, Weber, chamber, caper, draper, Draper, gaper, paper, scraper, shaper, taper, tapir, vapour, * belabour, repaper, escaper, * gas chamber, bedchamber, sandpaper, glasspaper, wastepaper, endpaper, flypaper, skyscraper, wallpaper, notepaper, touchpaper, newspaper, * antechamber, * rape her, shape her, etc.

8.4 acre, baker, Baker, breaker, Dacre, faker, fakir, Laker, maker, nacre, Quaker, raker, shaker, staker, taker, waker, agar, Hagar, Jaeger, Vega, * Jamaica, partaker, cloaca, Zuleika, bodega, Ortega, * backbreaker, matchmaker, heartbreaker, caretaker, safe-breaker, haymaker, rainmaker, pacemaker, dressmaker, peacemaker, piss-taker, film-maker, kingmaker, tiebreaker, strikebreaker, icebreaker, wiseacre, clockmaker, lossmaker, watchmaker, jawbreaker, lawbreaker, housebreaker, toymaker, homemaker, boneshaker, muckraker, bookmaker, moonraker, shoemaker, toolmaker, * Chandrasekhar, bellyacher, merrymaker, circuit breaker, mischief-maker, wicket-taker, widow-maker, Wanamaker, boilermaker, undertaker, troublemaker, moneymaker, Studebaker, Noriega, rutabaga, * cabinet-maker, holiday-maker, * take her, wake her, etc.

8.5 Ada, Adur, aider, grader, Nader, raider, Seder, trader, Veda, wader, cater, Chater, crater, data, freighter, gaiter, grater, greater, hater, later, mater, Mehta, pater, plater, raita, skater, slater, Slater, straighter, tater, traitor, waiter, taster, waster, * parader, upgrader, persuader, Darth Vader, Grenada, first-aider, evader, invader, Criseyde, crusader, attainder, remainder, collator, narrator, peseta, translator, spectator, testator, Mercator, creator, debater, Decatur, dictator, equator, vibrator, curator, rotator, * tailgater, ice-skater, dumbwaiter, shirtwaister, * masquerader, serenader, travelator, alma mater, gladiator, trafficator, applicator, alligator, navigator, agitator, activator, aspirator, calibrator, animator, valuator, tabulator, calculator, arbitrator, radiator, aviator, excavator, renovator, escalator, separator, decorator, generator, demonstrator, detonator, resonator, elevator, depilator, epilator, ventilator, legislator, respirator, denigrator, estimator, educator, speculator, regulator, percolator, terminator, perpetrator, mediator, innovator, liberator, illustrator, indicator, instigator, liquidator, imitator, infiltrator, imprimatur, incubator, simulator, insulator, biodata, propagator, commentator, operator, moderator, oscillator, nominator, commutator, procurator, alternator, fornicator, orchestrator, formulator, roller-skater, Rotavator®, procreator, cultivator, numerator, lubricator, duplicator, * collaborator, eradicator, prevaricator, deactivator, procrastinator, perambulator, interrogator, accelerator, investigator, impersonator, exterminator, incinerator, refrigerator, initiator, facilitator, defibrillator, invigilator, administrator, originator, articulator, denominator, coordinator, inaugurator, negotiator, resuscitator, adjudicator, communicator, accumulator, * vasodilator, bronchodilator, totalizator, * circumnavigator, * obeyed her, hate her, etc.

8.6 chafer, safer, wafer, Ava, braver, caver, craver, favour, flavour, graver, haver, Laver, paver, quaver, raver, saver, savour, shaver, slaver, waiver, waver, bather, * UEFA, cadaver, disfavour, engraver, * cockchafer, life-saver, sunbather, * semiquaver, clishmaclaver, * demisemiquaver, * hemidemisemiquaver, * gave her, save her, etc.

8.7 bailor, baler, hailer, jailer, Leila, mailer, Mailer, nailer, Naylor, paler, sailor, scalar, scaler, staler, tailor, Taylor, trailer, wailer, whaler, abler, stabler, stapler, Daimler, paviour, saviour, Saviour, dahlia, failure, * Akela, Michaela, inhaler, shillelagh, bewailer, loud-hailer, Kumbh Mela, Chichewa, behaviour, derailleur, * blackmailer, abseiler, retailer, wassailer, boardsailor, wholesaler, * Venezuela, Muzorewa, misbehaviour, * fail her, regale her, etc.

8.8 framer, gamer, Kramer, tamer, Aylmer, Cana, caner, drainer, gainer, Gaynor, plainer, planar, planer, Rayner, scena, stainer, strainer, trainer, vainer, * proclaimer, defamer, reclaimer, disclaimer, container, sustainer, complainer, campaigner, abstainer, arcana, Marlene, maintainer, detainer, retainer, explainer, restrainer, no-brainer, * cordwainer, * lion-tamer, Magdalena, entertainer, * blame her, train her, etc.

8.9 acer, baser, bracer, chaser, facer, lacer, pacer, placer, racer, spacer, tracer, Ailsa, blazer, Fraser, gazer, Glaser, glazer, grazer, laser, maser, praiser, raiser, razor, Taser®, azure, Asia, Brasher, fascia, geisha, nature, gauger, major, Major, pager, stager, wager, changer, danger, Grainger, manger, ranger, stranger, * defacer, embracer, chalaza, appraiser, eraser, erasure, embrasure, Caucasia, Laurasia, Eurasia, acacia, Galatia, Dalmatia, ex gratia, Hypatia, Croatia, rosacea, denature, Alsager, old stager, arranger, endanger, exchanger, hydrangea, * Spätlese, Auslese, stargazer, trailblazer, hell-raiser, fundraiser, teenager, bushranger, * steeplechaser, Australasia, Appalachia, candidature, legislature, sergeant major, Ursa Major, trumpet major, autochanger, moneychanger, * Maria Theresa, * trace her, enrage her, etc.

8.10 laic, Gaelic, Salic, hayrick, basic, brainsick, trainsick, * Altaic, archaic, Hebraic, voltaic, mosaic, prosaic, Judaic, nucleic, Arcadic, aphasic, dysphasic, * Aramaic, Ptolemaic, algebraic, Pharisaic, formulaic, * ribonucleic, * deoxyribonucleic

8.11 radix, spadix, calyx, matrix, basics, * mosaics, testatrix, creatrix, * generatrix, aviatrix, dominatrix

8.13 laboured, capered, papered, aided, braided, faded, jaded, shaded, catered, dated, fated, gated, mated, plated, rated, sated, stated, waited, fainted, painted, sainted, tainted, tasted, waisted, wasted, favoured, flavoured, savoured, sacred, hatred, Hayward, Haywood, wayward, Aylward, wagered, * upbraided, upgraded, persuaded, unaided, unshaded, invaded, degraded, placated, truncated, updated, undated, unstated, frustrated, translated, serrated, X-rated, created, belated, elated, related, deflated, inflated, cremated, striated, outdated, located, unpainted, untainted, acquainted, hand-painted, untasted, high-waisted, ill-favoured, unflavoured, ill-natured, good-natured, * aggravated, castellated, saturated, antiquated, animated, laminated, vaccinated, calculated, variegated, glaciated, satiated, expurgated, mentholated, separated, decorated, dedicated, desiccated, elevated, celebrated, estimated, decimated, educated, regulated, perforated, herniated, dehydrated, elongated, relocated, syncopated, liberated, illustrated, dissipated, mitigated, irritated, titillated, pixilated, integrated, simulated, stimulated, violated, isolated, hyphenated, corrugated, long-awaited, consummated, constipated, complicated, consecrated, populated, overrated, overstated, unabated, suffocated, understated, untranslated, cultivated, unrelated, unacquainted, lubricated, fumigated, mutilated, * unsaturated, exaggerated, substantiated, emancipated, eradicated, elasticated, dilapidated, decapitated, contaminated, unvaccinated, infatuated, emaciated, unexpurgated, premeditated, uneducated, unregulated, unperforated, exhilarated, refrigerated, opinionated, affiliated, humiliated, sophisticated, unmitigated, corroborated, unconsummated, uncomplicated, unconsecrated, self-pollinated, incorporated, adulterated, uncultivated, communicated, illuminated, accumulated, * unsubstantiated, uncontaminated, superannuated, differentiated, unpremeditated, unappreciated, unaffiliated, unsophisticated, uncorroborated, overpopulated, underpopulated, uncoordinated, unadulterated, * polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, undifferentiated, etc.

Limericks

A limerick is a humorous five-line verse with a characteristic rhyming pattern, as shown in these examples:

There was a young lady named Bright,

Whose speed was far faster than light;

She set out one day

In a relative way

And returned on the previous night.

ARTHUR BULLER

An Anglican curate in want

Of a second-hand portable font

Will exchange for the same

A photo (with frame)

Of the Bishop-Elect of Vermont.

RONALD KNOX

It is allegedly so called because the line ‘Will you come up to Limerick?’ (referring to the place of that name in Ireland) was formerly used as a refrain for similar nonsense verses.

8.14 breakage, wastage, weighbridge, Weybridge, Cambridge, Bainbridge, drainage

8.15 Baal, Mayall, Abel, able, Babel, cable, fable, gable, label, Mabel, sable, stable, table, maple, papal, staple, Gaitskell, bagel, Hegel, plagal, Schlegel, cradle, ladle, fatal, natal, ratel, playful, wakeful, fateful, grateful, hateful, tasteful, wasteful, faithful, baleful, shameful, baneful, gainful, painful, graceful, changeful, Flavell, naval, navel, Wavell, April, sacral, wastrel, Bakewell, anal, basal, staysail, mainsail, hazel, Hazel, nasal, phrasal, facial, glacial, racial, spatial, Rachel, angel, * betrayal, defrayal, portrayal, unable, unstable, Clark Gable, relabel, enable, disable, cloacal, inveigle, finagle, prenatal, hiatal, nonfatal, postnatal, ungrateful, distasteful, unfaithful, disdainful, disgraceful, decanal, appraisal, abbatial, palatial, preglacial, biracial, nonracial, postglacial, archangel, * worktable, turntable, timetable, witch hazel, * antenatal, perinatal, neonatal, reappraisal, interracial, multiracial, * maxillofacial

8.16 abled, cabled, fabled, labelled, stapled, cradled, * unlabelled, enabled, disabled, etc.

8.19 Graham, Grahame, begum, sheikhdom, saintdom, datum, Tatum, Latham, Nahum, Salem, Abram, sacrum, eightsome, Hailsham, * vade mecum, petrolatum, ultimatum, simulacrum, * pay ’em, fail ’em, etc.

8.20 weigh-in, Sabin, tailspin, Aitken, snakeskin, Fagin, Palin, * Onegin, * riboflavin, * shapin’, misbehavin’, etc.

8.21 crayon, rayon, capon, bacon, Bacon, shaken, taken, waken, pagan, Reagan, Aden, Aidan, Blaydon, Braden, Gaydon, Haydon, laden, Leyden, maiden, Clayton, Dayton, Deighton, Drayton, greaten, Layton, Paton, Peyton, phaeton, Satan, straighten, straiten, Paignton, Maidstone, Avon, craven, graven, haven, raven, shaven, Nathan, Galen, apron, matron, patron, Bremen, cayman, Cayman, Damon, drayman, Eamon, Hayman, layman, Lehmann, baseman, statesman, tradesman, dalesman, salesman, gamesman, plainsman, Canaan, basin, caisson, chasten, Grayson, hasten, Jason, mason, Mason, Jameson, blazon, brazen, raisin, Asian, suasion, Cajun, Trajan, * Malayan, Ghanaian, Linnean, Pompeiian, misshapen, awaken, Jamaican, forsaken, unshaken, partaken, mistaken, Nijmegen, unshaven, O’Faolain, Marquesan, liaison, emblazon, occasion, pervasion, abrasion, persuasion, evasion, invasion, equation, dissuasion, Caucasian, Eurasian, contagion, * handmaiden, Newhaven, handbasin, Freemason, washbasin, stonemason, * Galilean, Eritrean, Himalayan, reawaken, godforsaken, overtaken, unmistaken, Copenhagen, overladen, Milford Haven, Venezuelan, diapason, dermabrasion, Australasian, * Kyrie eleison

8.23 probation, gradation, collation, Galatian, conflation, Horatian, narration, serration, natation, lactation, plantation, salvation, stagflation, translation, castration, Dalmatian, stagnation, damnation, taxation, Alsatian, carnation, tarnation, starvation, aeration, vacation, claymation, temptation, gestation, cessation, vexation, sensation, purgation, flirtation, creation, Creation, deflation, reflation, predation, sedation, cetacean, dictation, legation, negation, elation, relation, inflation, filtration, cremation, fixation, striation, libation, citation, dilation, gyration, vibration, migration, titration, privation, oblation, prostration, oration, formation, causation, duration, foundation, Croatian, location, vocation, rogation, flotation, notation, potation, quotation, rotation, ovation, donation, truncation, crustacean, gustation, slumpflation, frustration, summation, pulsation, pupation, mutation, Eustachian

8.24 approbation, masturbation, avocation, advocation, allocation, translocation, arrogation, abrogation, annotation, lamentation, fragmentation, aggravation, appellation, Appalachian, cancellation, flagellation, aberration, adoration, laceration, maceration, adumbration, affirmation, acclamation, adaptation, transplantation, affectation, attestation, annexation, palliation, abdication, mastication, application, fabrication, castigation, navigation, allegation, aggregation, abnegation, validation, habitation, capitation, palpitation, gravitation, sanitation, agitation, captivation, activation, salivation, vacillation, aspiration, transpiration, admiration, calibration, animation, marination, lamination, fascination, vaccination, machination, pagination, assignation, affixation, transmigration, transportation, malformation, transformation, blaxploitation, graduation, actuation, valuation, amputation, salutation, transmutation, tabulation, calculation, strangulation, adulation, granulation, maturation, saturation, adjuration, accusation, * exacerbation, extrapolation, collaboration, elaboration, evaporation, exasperation, exaggeration, amalgamation, retaliation, repatriation, expatriation, substantiation, emancipation, eradication, elastication, reapplication, prevarication, prefabrication, dilapidation, invalidation, cohabitation, decapitation, deactivation, reactivation, inactivation, concatenation, procrastination, decaffeination, desalination, contamination, examination, assassination, imagination, evacuation, infatuation, devaluation, evaluation, confabulation, perambulation, ejaculation, recalculation, emasculation, coagulation, triangulation, encapsulation, congratulation, * transubstantiation, consubstantiation, astronavigation, circumnavigation, incapacitation, self-examination, decontamination, cross-examination, superannuation, tintinnabulation, self-congratulation

8.27 radiation, aviation, glaciation, satiation, * irradiation, emaciation, ingratiation, expatiation

8.28 reprobation, extirpation, defecation, evocation, revocation, embrocation, expurgation, derogation, degradation, exultation, presentation, devastation, excavation, enervation, renovation, preservation, reservation, decollation, escalation, revelation, Revelation, crenellation, desolation, tessellation, exhalation, preparation, reparation, separation, desperation, respiration, decoration, federation, restoration, Restoration, exploration, declaration, peroration, generation, veneration, demonstration, remonstration, defamation, deformation, reformation, Reformation, declamation, reclamation, exclamation, detonation, explanation, emanation, expectation, segmentation, expiation, recreation, dedication, medication, replication, explication, deprecation, metrication, extrication, desiccation, delegation, relegation, segregation, trepidation, depredation, meditation, levitation, equitation, recitation, excitation, hesitation, vegetation, elevation, derivation, deprivation, depilation, ventilation, legislation, expiration, celebration, cerebration, desecration, execration, penetration, fenestration, registration, emigration, denigration, estimation, decimation, destination, declination, designation, resignation, exportation, exhortation, exaltation, exploitation, sexploitation, menstruation, education, exudation, deputation, reputation, refutation, peculation, speculation, regulation, emulation, exhumation, mensuration, * interrogation, de-escalation, redecoration, confederation, expectoration, asseveration, acceleration, deceleration, commemoration, degeneration, regeneration, premedication, authentication, domestication, investigation, desegregation, premeditation, necessitation, defenestration, predestination, dissemination, insemination, perpetuation, effectuation, accentuation, attenuation, extenuation, coeducation, deregulation, * supererogation, biodegradation, Counter-Reformation, differentiation, reinvestigation, hyperventilation, overestimation, underestimation, higher education, further education

8.29 perturbation, percolation, perforation, personation, fermentation, permeation, perspiration, perpetration, germination, termination, permutation, sternutation, circulation, * interpolation, intercalation, reverberation, impersonation, interpretation, regurgitation, determination, extermination, * reinterpretation, predetermination

8.31 relocation, denotation, defalcation, recantation, relaxation, debarkation, demarcation, retardation, emendation, delectation, detestation, sequestration, mediation, deviation, re-creation, dehydration, elongation, deportation, denudation, * remediation, alleviation, abbreviation, inebriation, appreciation, depreciation

8.32 syncopation, invocation, dislocation, inculcation, inundation, dissertation, innovation, installation, inhalation, immolation, liberation, iteration, illustration, information, disclamation, inflammation, intonation, incantation, mistranslation, implantation, incarnation, indentation, pigmentation, impregnation, indexation, dispensation, dissipation, indication, syndication, vindication, triplication, implication, imprecation, litigation, mitigation, instigation, irrigation, liquidation, invitation, irritation, imitation, limitation, visitation, titivation, distillation, scintillation, titillation, inspiration, integration, immigration, infiltration, ministration, intimation, divination, inclination, indignation, importation, situation, incubation, disputation, tribulation, stipulation, stridulation, simulation, stimulation, insulation, * equivocation, reciprocation, deliberation, invigoration, consideration, alliteration, obliteration, reiteration, proliferation, exhilaration, incineration, evisceration, commiseration, refrigeration, affiliation, humiliation, conciliation, delineation, asphyxiation, propitiation, officiation, initiation, anticipation, participation, sophistication, pontification, intimidation, precipitation, facilitation, debilitation, felicitation, horripilation, defibrillation, assimilation, invigilation, equilibration, reintegration, disintegration, administration, legitimation, elimination, recrimination, incrimination, discrimination, origination, habituation, continuation, insinuation, manipulation, matriculation, articulation, gesticulation, capitulation, dissimulation, configuration, * reinvigoration, nonproliferation, disaffiliation, reconciliation, contraindication, self-certification, rehabilitation, prestidigitation, individuation, disambiguation, no-win situation, recapitulation

8.33 bifurcation, divagation, dilatation, violation, isolation, hibernation, hyphenation, ideation, * annihilation

8.34 conurbation, altercation, provocation, convocation, collocation, obfuscation, coruscation, propagation, corrugation, promulgation, connotation, consultation, confrontation, conservation, observation, constellation, consolation, contemplation, operation, moderation, alteration, botheration, toleration, conflagration, concentration, confirmation, proclamation, consummation, alternation, consternation, profanation, coronation, conversation, commendation, ostentation, protestation, condemnation, compensation, condensation, obviation, constipation, complication, confiscation, obligation, congregation, oxidation, cogitation, forestation, compilation, correlation, oscillation, consecration, combination, pollination, domination, nomination, conformation, occupation, conjugation, copulation, population, osculation, modulation, postulation, ovulation, procuration, conjuration, confutation, commutation, computation, * homologation, accommodation, corroboration, cooperation, agglomeration, conglomeration, exoneration, prognostication, intoxication, consolidation, afforestation, deforestation, reforestation, deconsecration, approximation, recombination, indoctrination, abomination, predomination, denomination, preoccupation, depopulation, repopulation, inoculation, demodulation, expostulation, * noncooperation, overcompensation, reafforestation, autocorrelation, overpopulation

8.35 altercation, auscultation, corporation, alteration, automation, alternation, augmentation, claudication, formication, fornication, orchestration, ordination, chlorination, Aurignacian, formulation, * incorporation, excoriation, subordination, coordination, amortization, reformulation, inauguration, * insubordination

8.37 fomentation, molestation, procreation, foliation, spoliation, motivation, prolongation, * defoliation, despoliation, exfoliation, appropriation, expropriation, association, dissociation, negotiation, * radiolocation, misappropriation, disassociation, renegotiation

8.38 suffocation, coloration, ulceration, rustication, publication, supplication, cultivation, sublimation, culmination, fulmination, fluctuation, punctuation, subjugation, undulation, pustulation, suppuration, fulguration, susurration, * adulteration, calumniation, Annunciation, pronunciation, enunciation, denunciation, renunciation, resuscitation, * mispronunciation

8.39 nucleation, duplication, lubrication, fumigation, jubilation, mutilation, ruination, rumination, dubitation, ululation, cumulation, lucubration, * recuperation, vituperation, enumeration, remuneration, rejuvenation, repudiation, adjudication, reduplication, centuplication, communication, elucidation, agglutination, illumination, hallucination, accumulation, * excommunication, * telecommunication, intercommunication

8.40 transfiguration, transliteration, alimentation, manifestation, gratification, ratification, stratification, amplification, clarification, ramification, magnification, classification, standardization, dramatization, glamorization, pasteurization, canonization, magnetization, maximization, anglicization, * syllabification, beatification, declassification, demagnetization, italicization

8.42 alienation, deification, reification, pale imitation, vaporization, stabilization, * destabilization, containerization

8.43 self-preservation, self-immolation, echolocation, recommendation, sedimentation, regimentation, representation, edification, rectification, verification, gentrification, specification, peregrination, self-pollination, self-mutilation, centralization, generalization, specialization, tenderization, memorization, pressurization, mechanization, westernization, sensitization, sterilization, ghettoization, self-education, centrifugation, * experimentation, misrepresentation, identification, exemplification, electrification, indemnification, intensification, decentralization, extemporization, depressurization, desensitization, collectivization

8.44 tergiversation, certification, versification, verbalization, urbanization, mercerization, fertilization, * desertification, diversification, internalization, externalization, commercialization, suburbanization, self-fertilization, cross-fertilization, deterioration

8.45 reincarnation, prepublication, schematization, legalization, equalization, penalization, etherization, demonization, * amelioration

8.46 disapprobation, disinformation, misinformation, disembarkation, implementation, instrumentation, interrelation, misapplication, prettification, mystification, vilification, simplification, vitrification, signification, Disneyfication, dissimilation, disinclination, improvisation, crystallization, signalization, winterization, Islamization, synchronization, Christianization, digitization, civilization, victimization, minimization, mythicization, visualization, immunization, miscalculation, * solidification, acidification, humidification, demystification, revivification, initialization, familiarization, legitimization, politicization, * dehumidification, oversimplification

8.47 hyperinflation, hydrogenation, nitrification, privatization, idolization, finalization, itemization, ionization, lionization, hybridization, * acclimatization, revitalization, de-ionization

8.48 complementation, documentation, modification, quantification, jollification, mollification, qualification, ossification, falsification, oxygenation, cross-pollination, novelization, moralization, mongrelization, modernization, colonization, solemnization, oxidization, fossilization, optimization, * disqualification, transmogrification, personification, detoxification, democratization, demoralization, prioritization, homogenization

8.49 orientation, fortification, mortification, glorification, purification, falsification, formalization, normalization, authorization, organization, bowdlerization, * disorientation, immortalization, reorganization, disorganization

8.50 codification, notification, globalization, localization, vocalization, motorization, polarization, mobilization, * deodorization, depolarization, demobilization, immobilization

8.51 yuppification, justification, nullification, uglification, mummification, multiplication, vulgarization, pulverization, customization, vulcanization, * emulsification

8.52 beautification, unification, brutalization, neutralization, unionization, humanization, utilization, unitization, * reunification, dehumanization, computerization

8.53 alphabetization, naturalization, caramelization, nationalization, rationalization, cannibalization, capitalization, categorization, characterization, decimalization, secularization, regularization, personalization, circularization, serialization, regionalization, liberalization, fictionalization, systematization, digitalization, criminalization, militarization, miniaturization, hospitalization, popularization, * denationalization, pedestrianization, Americanization, depersonalization, materialization, demineralization, legitimatization, decriminalization, demilitarization, industrialization, demutualization

8.54 wakened, straightened, straitened, Leyland, Wayland, Lakeland, Maitland, mainland, Raymond, chastened, hastened, stationed, * awakened, emblazoned, etc.

8.55 Asians, Haitians, nations, stations, Thracians, * Galatians, serrations, Dalmatians, damnations, Alsatians, carnations, temptations, relations, cremations, gyrations, vibrations, privations, foundations, quotations, crustaceans, * Lamentations, cancellations, aberrations, lacerations, aspirations, calculations, salutations, conurbations, connotations, operations, alterations, innovations, indentations, indications, implications, invitations, tribulations, stipulations, complications, obligations, oscillations, combinations, nominations, * examinations, congratulations, United Nations, communications, illuminations, hallucinations, * telecommunications, etc.

8.56 mayn’t, vacant, blatant, latent, patent, flagrant, fragrant, vagrant, claimant, payment, raiment, statement, pavement, ailment, bailment, basement, casement, placement, nascent, patient, ancient, agent, * abeyant, assailant, inhalant, prepayment, repayment, defrayment, nonpayment, escapement, abatement, restatement, misstatement, enslavement, curtailment, derailment, entailment, attainment, containment, arraignment, ordainment, abasement, debasement, encasement, replacement, emplacement, displacement, misplacement, outplacement, amazement, engagement, arrangement, derangement, complainant, complacent, adjacent, renascent, obeisant, complaisant, impatient, reagent, * inpatient, outpatient, newsagent, * overpayment, underpayment, reinstatement, overstatement, understatement, ascertainment, entertainment, edutainment, infotainment, self-abasement, self-effacement, disengagement, prearrangement, rearrangement, liquefacient, stupefacient, * abortifacient

8.57 cadence, patents, valence, fragrance, vagrants, claimants, payments, statements, ailments, nascence, patience, patients, agents, * abeyance, purveyance, conveyance, acquaintance, surveillance, assailants, engagements, arrangements, renaissance, Renaissance, renascence, obeisance, complaisance, impatience, * newsagents, * reacquaintance, entertainments, etc.

8.58 baying, fraying, greying, laying, Maying, neighing, paying, playing, praying, saying, spraying, staying, swaying, weighing, * conveying, surveying, decaying, delaying, betraying, nonpaying, nonplaying, * taxpaying, bricklaying, crocheting, etc.

8.59 gaping, scraping, shaping, aching, baking, breaking, faking, making, quaking, raking, shaking, taking, waking, plaguing, * escaping, partaking, mistaking, reneging, * backbreaking, matchmaking, heartbreaking, painstaking, haymaking, lacemaking, breathtaking, dressmaking, earthshaking, peacemaking, piss-taking, strikebreaking, winemaking, stocktaking, lossmaking, housebreaking, homemaking, lovemaking, shoemaking, * bellyaching, merrymaking, undertaking, moneymaking, etc.

And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,

8.60 aiding, fading, grading, lading, raiding, shading, trading, baiting, dating, grating, hating, mating, plating, rating, skating, slating, waiting, weighting, fainting, painting, tainting, basting, pasting, tasting, wasting, * unfading, pervading, parading, persuading, cascading, degrading, crusading, updating, frustrating, pulsating, translating, spectating, debating, relating, gyrating, rotating, donating, repainting, * ice-skating, wine-tasting, * aggravating, lacerating, captivating, fascinating, calculating, devastating, enervating, decorating, resonating, medicating, hesitating, emigrating, penetrating, circulating, liberating, vindicating, irritating, titillating, scintillating, stimulating, insulating, isolating, hibernating, operating, concentrating, cogitating, copulating, ovulating, alternating, nauseating, roller-skating, motivating, suffocating, supplicating, culminating, fluctuating, undulating, lubricating, duplicating, * exasperating, self-deprecating, unhesitating, exhilarating, participating, debilitating, incriminating, discriminating, accommodating, intoxicating, subordinating, infuriating, negotiating, excruciating, communicating, illuminating, etc.

8.61 chafing, caving, craving, paving, raving, saving, shaving, slaving, waving, plaything, bathing, scathing, swathing, * behaving, engraving, * time-saving, sunbathing, * labour-saving, misbehaving, etc.

8.62 ailing, failing, grayling, Hayling, mailing, nailing, paling, railing, sailing, trailing, veiling, wailing, whaling, cabling, stabling, stapling, cradling, ladling, shaveling, changeling, dayspring, mainspring, lacewing, * unfailing, availing, unveiling, prevailing, bewailing, * blackmailing, abseiling, retailing, e-mailing, boardsailing, * parasailing, unavailing, etc.

8.63 aiming, blaming, flaming, framing, gaming, maiming, naming, shaming, taming, caning, draining, feigning, gaining, raining, reigning, staining, training, waning, * defaming, reclaiming, exclaiming, pertaining, complaining, campaigning, abstaining, retraining, explaining, remaining, * entertaining, self-sustaining, uncomplaining, etc.

8.64 bracing, casing, facing, lacing, pacing, placing, racing, spacing, tracing, blazing, gazing, glazing, grazing, phasing, phrasing, praising, raising, ageing, gauging, paging, raging, staging, changing, ranging, * replacing, embracing, amazing, self-raising, rampaging, engaging, arranging, unchanging, * stargazing, trailblazing, hell-raising, * self-effacing, steeplechasing, interfacing, etc.

8.65 sayings, scrapings, makings, ratings, paintings, Hastings, playthings, mailings, railings, * wine-tastings, * undertakings, etc.

8.66 dais, Thaïs, aphis, Avis, Davis, Mavis, Bayliss, Amis, basis, stasis, * clematis, physalis, oasis, Oasis®, * rara avis, digitalis, * semper fidelis

8.67 magus, Magus, Tagus, vagus, Vegas, flatus, status, stratus, Dreyfus, rayless, talus, shapeless, dateless, stateless, weightless, tasteless, faithless, nailless, tailless, aimless, blameless, nameless, shameless, brainless, painless, stainless, baseless, faceless, graceless, placeless, ageless, changeless, glabrous, scabrous, waitress, famous, Seamus, shamus, squamous, anus, greyness, heinous, Janus, vagueness, greatness, lateness, straightness, faintness, quaintness, safeness, braveness, paleness, staleness, lameness, sameness, tameness, strangeness, gracious, spacious, * Andreas, Piraeus, Emmaus, Linnaeus, Priapus, Las Vegas, meatus, hiatus, quietus, Pharsalus, mandamus, Uranus, Marquesas, capacious, rapacious, sagacious, fallacious, salacious, ungracious, pugnacious, mendacious, veracious, vexatious, herbaceous, flirtatious, curvaceous, sebaceous, edacious, predacious, Cretaceous, vivacious, tenacious, Ignatius, voracious, loquacious, audacious, mordacious, bodacious, rosaceous, fugacious, contagious, courageous, rampageous, outrageous, umbrageous, * San Andreas, Menelaus, apparatus, altostratus, nimbostratus, cirrostratus, ignoramus, farinaceous, efficacious, ericaceous, perspicacious, pertinacious, liliaceous, disputatious, ostentatious, contumacious, advantageous, * inefficacious, disadvantageous, * Coriolanus, * plague us, blame us, etc.

8.68 papist, rapist, sadist, playlist, racist, bassist, ageist, * escapist, * landscapist

8.69 gayest, mayest, greatest, latest, straightest, faintest, safest, bravest, gravest, palest, stalest, stablest, tamest, plainest, vainest, basest, strangest, etc.

8.70 greyish, rakish, crayfish, knavish, slavish, palish, Hamish, Danish, * old-maidish

8.73 dative, native, plaintive, * creative, pervasive, abrasive, persuasive, evasive, invasive, * innovative, contemplative, noninvasive

8.74 babies, rabies, scabies, Hades, ladies, eighties, frailties, Baileys®, dailies, pastries, Amies, daisies, * Mercedes, Euphrates, Israelis, oases, etc.

8.75 players, Sayers, labours, chambers, Chambers, capers, papers, vapours, bakers, breakers, Quakers, shakers, Shakers, takers, traders, waders, taters, flavours, Havers, quavers, sailors, trainers, aces, braces, graces, Graces, laces, places, races, spaces, traces, aitches, ages, pages, stages, wages, dangers, strangers, * spectators, campaigners, * fundraisers, teenagers, * Himalayas, etc.

8.76 Lazenby, neighbourly, fatally, painterly, playfully, gratefully, tastefully, faithfully, gainfully, painfully, gracefully, nasally, facially, racially, favourably, vacantly, blatantly, flagrantly, patiently, matronly, aimlessly, shamelessly, painlessly, famously, graciously, Avebury, Aylesbury, Sainsbury, apery, creperie, drapery, japery, papery, bakery, fakery, vagary, Avery, knavery, quavery, savory, savoury, slavery, raillery, apiary, aviary, Amory, tracery, masonry, blazonry, stationary, stationery, Naomi, papacy, vacancy, valency, flagrancy, vagrancy, agency, gaiety, laity, deity, shakily, daintily, hastily, crazily, lazily, basically, plaintively, scathingly, papistry, * ungratefully, unfaithfully, disdainfully, disgracefully, unfavourably, insatiably, belatedly, good-naturedly, impatiently, mistakenly, voraciously, audaciously, courageously, outrageously, placatory, gyratory, vibratory, migratory, unsavoury, proslavery, chicanery, Freemasonry, probationary, deflationary, inflationary, complacency, ashamedly, restrainedly, prosaically, persuasively, evasively, amazingly, * unmistakably, ostentatiously, approbatory, ambulatory, adulatory, accusatory, revelatory, dedicatory, deprecatory, celebratory, commendatory, condemnatory, compensatory, antislavery, spontaneity, unashamedly, unrestrainedly, uncomplainingly, * congratulatory, anticipatory, participatory, hallucinatory, * justificatory, improvisatory, simultaneity, etc.

8.77 labeller, labourer, Gainsborough, paperer, caterer, waverer, straightener, stationer, Baedeker, Cambridgeshire, * probationer, vacationer, conveyancer

8.78 labia, Swabia, Napier, rapier, flakier, shakier, Nadia, shadier, stadia, weightier, daintier, hastier, tastier, Flavia, Xavier, dahlia, lamia, brainier, crania, mania, rainier, zanier, glacier, racier, brazier, crazier, Frasier, glazier, grazier, hazier, lazier, fascia, mangier, * Arabia, Walachia, Arcadia, Batavia, Belgravia, Moldavia, Octavia, Moravia, azalea, Westphalia, regalia, Australia, Albania, Tasmania, Titania, Mount Rainier, Romania, aphasia, Malaysia, fantasia, dysphasia, gymnasia, Caucasia, * Bessarabia, Scandinavia, Lupercalia, inter alia, bacchanalia, Saturnalia, genitalia, penetralia, marginalia, kitchenalia, echolalia, coprolalia, macadamia, miscellanea, Pomerania, Anglomania, kleptomania, necromania, egomania, nymphomania, dipsomania, hypermania, hypomania, pyromania, monomania, collectanea, Oceania, Aquitania, Mauretania, Mauritania, Ruritania, Lusitania, Transylvania, Pennsylvania, Lithuania, Anastasia, Australasia, euthanasia, Appalachia, * Saudi Arabia, paraphernalia, Mesopotamia, epithalamia, megalomania, bibliomania, balletomania, erotomania, etc.

8.79 payable, playable, capable, breakable, gradable, datable, ratable, paintable, tastable, mailable, salable, saleable, scalable, favourable, blamable, tamable, traceable, satiable, changeable, flavourful, labial, brachial, radial, Balliol, Gabriel, atrial, patrial, cranial, glacial, laical, apical, * unplayable, incapable, escapable, unbreakable, unshakable, mistakable, persuadable, degradable, translatable, debatable, inflatable, available, assailable, unsalable, unsaleable, unfavourable, unnamable, untamable, reclaimable, attainable, obtainable, sustainable, maintainable, explainable, untraceable, replaceable, insatiable, unchangeable, exchangeable, behavioural, occasional, sensational, relational, vocational, bilabial, biradial, preglacial, postglacial, * inescapable, unmistakable, untranslatable, microwavable, unavailable, unassailable, irreclaimable, unattainable, unobtainable, unsustainable, unexplainable, ineffaceable, irreplaceable, interchangeable, transformational, navigational, aspirational, recreational, educational, inspirational, situational, confrontational, operational, conversational, Congregational, occupational, motivational, lackadaisical, * denominational, * biodegradable, representational, nonoperational, organizational, co-educational, * nondenominational, * interdenominational

8.80 Caterham, flavoursome, radium, stadium, atrium, natrium, cranium, * palladium, Palladium, vanadium, geranium, germanium, titanium, uranium, gymnasium, contagium, * Verulamium, Herculaneum, * epithalamium

8.81 Stapleton, Phaethon, Jacobson, railwayman, Fabian, gabion, Swabian, Hadean, radian, avian, Flavian, Shavian, alien, Adrian, Hadrian, Damian, Samian, Gratian, Haitian, Thracian, Davison, Jamieson, Davidson, * Arabian, Walachian, Palladian, Canadian, Grenadian, Barbadian, Arcadian, circadian, Orcadian, Batavian, Moldavian, Octavian, Moravian, mammalian, Westphalian, Hegelian, Pygmalion, Australian, Deucalion, Bahamian, Albanian, Tasmanian, Iranian, Jordanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Malaysian, Vespasian, Caucasian, pelagian, Pelagian, * Trinidadian, Scandinavian, bacchanalian, prothalamion, Pomeranian, subterranean, Panamanian, Mauritanian, Ruritanian, Transylvanian, Pennsylvanian, Lithuanian, Rabelaisian, Australasian, Athanasian, Appalachian, * Episcopalian, tatterdemalion, Mesopotamian, Mediterranean

8.82 gradient, radiant, salient, * liquefacient, stupefacient, * abortifacient

8.84 labelling, layering, neighbouring, tapering, catering, favouring, flavouring, Havering, quavering, wavering, crayoning, * unwavering, self-catering, awakening, conveyancing, etc.

8.85 paperless, flavourless, vaporous, traitorous, dangerous, waywardness, playfulness, faithfulness, weightlessness, scabious, radius, Flavius, aqueous, caseous, gaseous, alias, shakiness, weightiness, daintiness, shapeliness, laziness, nakedness, * Sibelius, extraneous, spontaneous, cutaneous, * simultaneous, instantaneous, miscellaneous, subcutaneous, Athanasius, * contemporaneous, extemporaneous, etc.

8.86 flakiest, shakiest, shadiest, weightiest, daintiest, hastiest, tastiest, brainiest, rainiest, zaniest, raciest, craziest, haziest, laziest, mangiest, etc.

8.87 ableist, fatalist, racialist, naturist, plagiarist, Satanist, atheist, * behaviourist, salvationist, * conservationist, isolationist, educationist

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