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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 said, ‘If you needle or pin shall see,

On the floor of my room,

Sweep it up with the broom!’

That exhaustive old lady of Winchelsea!

EDWARD LEAR

15.5 Beeb, dweeb, glebe, grebe, * Delibes, Antibes

15.6 dweebs, grebes, Thebes

15.7 beak, bleak, cheek, chic, clique, creak, creek, eek, eke, freak, geek, Greek, leak, leek, meek, peak, Peake, peek, peke, pique, reek, seek, shriek, Sikh, sleek, sneak, speak, Speke, squeak, streak, teak, tweak, weak, week, wreak, * unspeak, oblique, batik, pratique, antique, Lalique, Tajik, technique, bespeak, critique, triptyque, mystique, midweek, bezique, physique, off-peak, boutique, Mustique, unique, * speedfreak, pipsqueak, forepeak, houseleek, newspeak, * Martinique, Chesapeake, fenugreek, stickybeak, hide-and-seek, Dominique, ortanique, Mozambique, tongue-in-cheek, * téléphérique

And I seem to find the happiness I seek

When we’re out together dancing cheek-to-cheek.

IRVING BERLIN

15.8 beaks, breeks, cheeks, freaks, shrieks, speaks, Weekes, weeks, * idée fixe, * Macgillicuddy’s Reeks, etc.

15.9 beach, beech, bleach, breach, breech, each, leach, Leach, leech, peach, pleach, preach, reach, screech, speech, teach, * unteach, impeach, beseech, * Wisbech, horseleech, outreach, * overreach

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.

T. S. ELIOT

15.10 beached, bleached, preached, reached, * unbleached, impeached, beseeched, etc.

15.11 bead, Bede, bleed, breed, cede, creed, deed, Eid, feed, freed, Gide, greed, he’d, heed, knead, lead, lied, mead, Meade, Mede, need, plead, read, Reade, reed, Reed, Reid, screed, seed, she’d, skied, speed, steed, swede, Swede, tweed, Tweed, we’d, weed, * agreed, proceed, succeed, concede, stampede, accede, Rashid, Candide, reread, impede, indeed, misdeed, mislead, inbreed, misread, precede, recede, secede, exceed, high-speed, Godspeed, outbreed, OD’d, * Flamsteed, handfeed, knapweed, ragweed, flaxseed, airspeed, fairlead, hayseed, rapeseed, breast-feed, birdseed, Siegfried, seaweed, weak-kneed, drip-feed, lip-read, chickweed, linseed, mind-read, sight-read, bindweed, Lockheed, crossbreed, hogweed, pondweed, knotweed, knock-kneed, force-feed, groundspeed, oilseed, nosebleed, duckweed, spoonfeed, proofread, * guaranteed, Ganymede, antecede, aniseed, refereed, centipede, retrocede, invalid, interbreed, intercede, millipede, chicken feed, bottle-feed, cottonseed, waterweed, overfeed, underfeed, tumbleweed, Runnymede, bugleweed, supersede, * velocipede

Who to himself is law, no law doth need,

Offends no law, and is a king indeed.

GEORGE CHAPMAN

15.12 beads, breeds, deeds, Leeds, needs, reeds, tweeds, weeds, * succeeds, misdeeds, * nosebleeds, proceeds, * centipedes, invalids, etc.

15.13 beef, brief, chief, fief, grief, leaf, reef, sheaf, thief, * Sharif, massif, debrief, belief, relief, naïf, corned beef, roast beef, O’Keeffe, motif, * kerchief, sneak thief, tea leaf, wheatsheaf, fig leaf, flyleaf, * handkerchief, bas-relief, Tenerife, neckerchief, interleaf, disbelief, misbelief, leitmotif, overleaf, cloverleaf, unbelief, * apéritif

15.14 gigue, Grieg, league, * fatigue, intrigue, renege, * blitzkrieg, sitzkrieg, colleague

15.15 liege, siege, * besiege

15.16 prestige, * noblesse oblige

15.17 Beale, creel, deal, Deal, eel, feel, he’ll, heal, heel, keel, Keele, Kiel, kneel, Lille, meal, Neil, peal, peel, Peel, reel, seal, she’ll, spiel, squeal, steal, steel, Steel, Steele, stele, teal, veal, we’ll, weal, wheal, wheel, zeal, * appeal, allele, Camille, schlemiel, anneal, chenille, conceal, unseal, congeal, Bastille, Castile, square deal, genteel, Emil, Cecile, reseal, repeal, misdeal, reveal, ordeal, O’Neill, Lucille, * cartwheel, selfheal, treadwheel, gearwheel, freewheel, sweetmeal, wheatmeal, piecemeal, printwheel, millwheel, pinwheel, fishmeal, flywheel, cogwheel, allheal, Mobile, oatmeal, wholemeal, bonemeal, newsreel, * blastocoel, deshabille, stainless steel, daisywheel, rectocele, Ferris wheel, Estoril, three-course meal, cystocele, imbecile, glockenspiel, cockatiel, commonweal, cochineal, Dormobile®, snowmobile, Popemobile, underseal, * Achilles heel, * automobile

15.18 field, Field, healed, heeled, kneeled, pealed, peeled, reeled, sealed, shield, squealed, Weald, wheeled, wield, yield, * appealed, afield, unhealed, annealed, concealed, unsealed, congealed, well-heeled, three-wheeled, resealed, repealed, revealed, high-heeled, four-wheeled, low-heeled, two-wheeled, * Hatfield, Anfield, Cranfield, Mansfield, airfield, hayfield, Wakefield, Masefield, Sheffield, Enfield, greenfield, midfield, infield, Winfield, Springfield, Lichfield, windshield, minefield, cornfield, outfield, brownfield, oilfield, Schofield, snowfield, Oldfield, coalfield, Nuffield, gumshield, * battlefield, Macclesfield, Dangerfield, chesterfield, Chesterfield, Sellafield, Beaconsfield, Petersfield, ill-concealed, Copperfield, Butterfield, Somerfield, Huddersfield, unconcealed, unrevealed, * Sutton Coldfield

15.19 deals, eels, feels, heels, meals, Neil’s, seals, wheels, * appeals, conceals, congeals, reveals, * Galashiels, jellied eels, meals on wheels, imbeciles, etc.

When love congeals

It soon reveals

The faint aroma of performing seals,

The double crossing of a pair of heels.

LORENZ HART

15.20 beam, bream, Bream, Cheam, cream, deem, dream, gleam, Nîmes, ream, scheme, scream, seam, seem, steam, stream, team, teem, theme, * abeam, agleam, Karim, upstream, raceme, blaspheme, regime, redeem, esteem, extreme, midstream, ice cream, onstream, downstream, supreme, * centime, harem, airstream, daydream, mainstream, jetstream, Brylcreem®, slipstream, millstream, whitebeam, bireme, trireme, crossbeam, hornbeam, morpheme, Coldstream, phoneme, sunbeam, bloodstream, Gulf Stream, moonbeam, * academe, self-esteem, Ibrahim, single cream, disesteem, quinquereme, kibbutzim, clotted cream, monotreme, double cream

But what is man in his own proud esteem?

Hear him, himself the poet and the theme.

WILLIAM COWPER

15.21 beamed, dreamed, gleamed, screamed, seemed, steamed, streamed, teemed, * undreamed, unstreamed, blasphemed, redeemed, esteemed, * unredeemed, etc.

15.22 beams, dreams, reams, Rheims, schemes, seams, teams, etc.

15.23 bean, been, clean, dean, Dean, e’en, gean, gene, Gene, glean, green, Greene, Jean, Kean, keen, lean, mean, mien, Nene, peen, preen, queen, Queen, scene, screen, seen, sheen, Sheene, skean, spleen, teen, wean, zine

Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?

I’ve been to London to see the Queen.

NURSERY RHYME

15.24 lateen, umpteen, Devine, Levine, ravine, subvene, convene, baleen, unclean, careen, marine, tureen, latrine, McQueen, Janine, obscene, unseen, machine, Rabin, nankeen, sateen, canteen, shagreen, Racine, Maxine, Harbin, sardine, Martine, Amin, Nadine, James Dean, eighteen, jade green, Céline, French bean, terrine, Benin, thirteen, preteen, shebeen, beguine, fifteen, sixteen, trephine, spring-clean, serene, big screen, between, demean, cuisine, nineteen, dry-clean, widescreen, poteen, broad bean, fourteen, small screen, foreseen, Slovene, Justine, routine, * mujaheddin, aquamarine, ultramarine, vending machine, knitting machine, washing machine, sewing machine, nouvelle cuisine, Palaeocene, Oligocene

15.25 has-been, caffeine, Kathleen, gangrene, gamine, vaccine, fanzine, Charlene, Marlene, guanine, Aileen, scalene, dentine, Hellene, Essene, benzene, benzine, theine, Christine, pristine, Sistine, Springsteen, Crimplene®, windscreen, quinine, strychnine, Eileen, Irene, styrene, flyscreen, glycine, lysine, Nicene, hygiene, Tolkien, tontine, colleen, Colleen, morphine, Pauline, chlorine, Doreen, Maureen, Noreen, fluorine, purine, soybean, codeine, Roedean, protein, smokescreen, bromine, sunscreen, butene, Lutine, * epinephrine, Benedictine, polystyrene, diamorphine, * norepinephrine

15.26 atropine, carrageen, Aberdeen, gabardine, carotene, galantine, trampoline, Jacqueline, Magdalene, naphthalene, gasoline, Vaseline®, tambourine, saccharine, Gadarene, Nazarene, tangerine, Dramamine®, anthracene, Damascene, magazine, Balanchine, aniline, Trasimene, Plasticine®, Halloween, mangosteen, Argentine, margarine, tartrazine, langoustine, crepe de Chine, grenadine, Geraldine, gelatine, seventeen, eglantine, clementine, mescaline, nectarine, pelerine, evergreen, Gretna Green, Bethnal Green, melamine, mezzanine, kerosene, phenazine, fedayeen, Bellarmine, jellybean, pethidine, velveteen, ethylene, methylene, Terylene®, Emmeline, ephedrine, Benzedrine®, epicene, Bernardine, Germolene®, creatine, reconvene, neoprene, Eocene, libertine, nicotine, guillotine, brigantine, brilliantine, Byzantine, intervene, Cymbeline, Windolene®, figurine, Listerine®, glycerine, Hippocrene, silver screen, wintergreen, histamine, limousine, kidney bean, Philippine, Ghibelline, village green, in-between, indigene, iodine, thiamine, tyrosine, isoprene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Constantine, Florentine, quarantine, Josephine, contravene, bottle green, bombazine, olivine, polythene, propylene, olive green, Holocene, oncogene, toluene, tourmaline, soya bean, Ovaltine®, dopamine, overseen, aubergine, bowling green, go-between, haute cuisine, butter bean, runner bean, submarine, putting green, unforeseen, subroutine, wolverine, fullerene, supervene, glutamine, * papaverine, amphetamine, adenosine, promethazine, acetylene, methionine, scopolamine, glucosamine, * betacarotene, polyethylene, antihistamine, nitroglycerine, dryopithecine, catecholamine, polypropylene, antisubmarine, * benzodiazepine, oxyacetylene, australopithecine, trinitrotoluene, buckminsterfullerene, * polytetrafluoroethylene

15.27 cleaned, fiend, gleaned, preened, screened, weaned, * unscreened, unweaned, machined, etc.

15.28 umpteenth, eighteenth, thirteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, nineteenth, fourteenth, * seventeenth

15.29 beans, Dean’s, greens, jeans, Jean’s, Keynes, means, queens, Queens, scenes, screens, teens, * latrines, sardines, baked beans, Justine’s, * Grenadines, clementines, Milton Keynes, smithereens, limousines, Philippines, aubergines, full of beans, New Orleans, * amphetamines, * antihistamines, etc.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

ROBERT FROST

15.30 beep, bleep, cheap, cheep, creep, deep, heap, Jeep®, keep, leap, neap, neep, peep, reap, seep, sheep, sleep, steep, Streep, sweep, veep, weep, * asleep, équipe, knee-deep, bo-peep, * scrapheap, slagheap, upkeep, upsweep, * chimney sweep, oversleep, * Uriah Heep

15.31 beeps, bleeps, creeps, heaps, neaps, neeps, Pepys, sweeps, weeps, etc.

15.32 cease, crease, fils, fleece, geese, grease, Greece, lease, Nice, niece, peace, piece, Rees, Rhys, * apiece, Matisse, police, sublease, cerise, caprice, Dumfries, De Vries, Denise, MacNeice, pastis, cassis, pelisse, Bernice, surcease, degrease, release, decrease, increase, decease, obese, Cochise, coulisse, * hairpiece, Makepeace, tailpiece, neckpiece, headpiece, set piece, chesspiece, workpiece, earpiece, Greenpeace, eyepiece, timepiece, codpiece, crosspiece, showpiece, mouthpiece, * mantelpiece, ambergris, masterpiece, centrepiece, chersonese, verdigris, re-release, predecease, chimneypiece, altarpiece, War and Peace, frontispiece, * Peloponnese, archdiocese

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)

Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.

LEIGH HUNT

15.33 beast, ceased, creased, east, feast, Geest, greased, least, piste, priest, yeast, * uncreased, batiste, artiste, Far East, archpriest, Near East, released, decreased, increased, deceased, northeast, southeast, modiste, * beanfeast, * arriviste, hartebeest, re-released, wildebeest, unreleased, etc.

15.34 fiche, leash, niche, quiche, * unleash, pastiche, Dalglish, rime riche, schottische, postiche, corniche, * hashish, baksheesh, * microfiche, nouveau riche

15.35 beat, beet, bleat, cheat, cleat, Crete, eat, feat, feet, fleet, Fleet, gîte, gleet, greet, heat, leat, leet, lied, meat, meet, mete, neat, peat, Pete, pleat, seat, sheet, skeet, sleet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat, * compete, petite, complete, accrete, conceit, unseat, flat feet, Magritte, maltreat, en suite, dead beat, preheat, reheat, reseat, repeat, defeat, effete, delete, elite, deplete, replete, secrete, discreet, discrete, excrete, retreat, ill-treat, entreat, mistreat, deceit, receipt, gamete, crabmeat, factsheet, heartbeat, mainsheet, deadbeat, Benfleet, helpmeet, spreadsheet, worksheet, aesthete, sweetmeat, freesheet, pigmeat, mincemeat, bystreet, high street, time sheet, offbeat, Longleat, concrete, forefeet, Northfleet, forcemeat, horsemeat, broadsheet, browbeat, downbeat, groundsheet, wholewheat, upbeat, drumbeat, buckwheat, dustsheet, bushmeat, * pentathlete, decathlete, * parakeet, Paraclete, Masorete, marguerite, Marguerite, Harley Street, exegete, meadowsweet, incomplete, bittersweet, indiscreet, indiscrete, trick-or-treat, window seat, spirochaete, driver’s seat, obsolete, polychaete, lorikeet, Downing Street, overeat, overheat, sugar beet, superheat, * Carnaby Street, oligochaete

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,

Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgement Seat.

RUDYARD KIPLING

15.36 beats, cheats, eats, Keats, Pete’s, pleats, seats, sheets, streets, sweets, * athletes, backstreets, heartbeats, sweetmeats, etc.

15.37 heath, Heath, Keith, Leith, Meath, ’neath, Reith, sheath, teeth, wreath, * bequeath, beneath, Monteith, * milk teeth, eyeteeth, buckteeth, * Bexleyheath, Cowdenbeath, underneath, * B’nai B’rith

15.38 breathe, Meath, seethe, sheathe, teethe, wreathe, * unsheathe, enwreath, inbreathe, bequeath, * Pontypridd

15.39 breve, cleave, eve, Eve, greave, grieve, heave, leave, Neave, Niamh, peeve, reeve, reive, sheave, sleeve, Steve, thieve, vive, we’ve, weave, Yves, * upheave, aggrieve, perceive, conceive, achieve, Rajiv, French leave, qui vive, khedive, believe, relieve, bereave, reprieve, retrieve, inweave, deceive, receive, naive, * wayleave, shirtsleeve, sick leave, Congreve, * apperceive, make-believe, Tel Aviv, Genevieve, semibreve, preconceive, interleave, interweave, misconceive, disbelieve, oversleeve, undeceive, * recitative, overachieve, underachieve

O what a tangled web we weave,

When first we practise to deceive!

SIR WALTER SCOTT

15.40 grieved, heaved, peeved, thieved, * aggrieved, perceived, conceived, achieved, believed, relieved, bereaved, reprieved, deceived, received, long-sleeved, broad-leaved, short-sleeved, * preconceived, interleaved, misconceived, disbelieved, unrelieved, undeceived, etc.

15.41 beeves, eaves, Eve’s, Greaves, grieves, heaves, Jeeves, leaves, Reeves, sheaves, sleeves, thieves, * achieves, believes, deceives, receives, * Hargreaves, shirtsleeves, sneak thieves, tea leaves, Greensleeves, wheatsheaves, fig leaves, flyleaves, * Anne of Cleves, Genevieve’s, semibreves, etc.

15.42 bees, bise, breeze, cheese, Cleese, ease, fleas, fees, freeze, frieze, he’s, keys, knees, lees, peas, please, seas, seize, she’s, skis, sleaze, sneeze, squeeze, tease, Tees, these, trees, T’s, tweeze, wheeze, etc.

He’d fly through the air with the greatest of ease,

A daring young man on the flying trapeze.

GEORGE LEYBOURNE

15.43 appease, trapeze, trustees, Belize, valise, cerise, Marie’s, agrees, unfreeze, chemise, Denise, unease, marquise, trainees, MPs, Kirklees, Burmese, CDs, DTs, degrees, refreeze, deepfreeze, striptease, displease, reprise, disseise, disease, Chinese, Maltese, Louise, rupees, * Senegalese, Peloponnese, Dodecanese, Abdul-Aziz, éminence grise, GCSEs, etc.

15.44 Andes, axes, Ganges, heartsease, Ares, Aries, caries, lares, pear trees, rabies, scabies, tabes, stapes, Hades, bases, testes, menses, herpes, stirpes, Surtees, fir trees, Hermes, Xerxes, Ceres, series, faeces, theses, species, gee-gees, pine trees, crises, Pisces, * Cervantes, dolmades, penates, Pilates, Antares, Mercedes, Achates, Euphrates, oases, Orestes, Apelles, Waldenses, Laertes, subspecies, committees, Achilles, Antilles, meninges, pyrites, synopses, litotes, psychoses, prognoses, neuroses, * Ecclesiastes, Mithridates, rarae aves, Albigenses, Holofernes, Artaxerxes, Boanerges, miniseries, Archimedes, diabetes, ecospecies, bona fides, diagnoses, etc.

15.45 Maccabees, absentees, Androcles, Damocles, Anne-Marie’s, Gabonese, Japanese, manganese, Cantonese, antifreeze, Rameses, Javanese, Balinese, Faeroese, sanies, facies, apices, matrices, Cherokees, expertise, Nepalese, Heracles, Vietnamese, Lebanese, Celebes, Hebrides, Pericles, Héloïse, refugees, journalese, vertices, Hercules, legalese, Viennese, Pekinese, helices, Cyclades, Sinhalese, Milanese, Pyrenees, indices, Hyades, Pleiades, Siamese, Guyanese, Taiwanese, Sporades, Socrates, Congolese, novelese, Sophocles, chalk and cheese, cortices, vortices, Portuguese, gourmandise, vocalise, Togolese, overseas, OAPs, codices, dungarees, Sudanese, Ulysses, * cheval-de-frise, cantharides, Los Angeles, analyses, evacuees, Empedocles, Hesperides, appendices, parentheses, antipodes, officialese, Themistocles, Pheidippides, Euripides, Thucydides, Praxiteles, Xenocrates, Hippocrates, anopheles, isosceles, Xenophanes, Demosthenes, Diogenes, hypotheses, computerese, * Alcibiades, Aristophanes, Mephistopheles, Eratosthenes, etc.

16.1 freebie, hebe, Hebe, Phoebe, creepy, sleepy, tepee, weepy, beaky, cheeky, cliquey, creaky, freaky, geeky, Leakey, leaky, peaky, sneaky, squeaky, streaky, beady, Edie, greedy, needy, reedy, seedy, speedy, tweedy, weedy, wieldy, Beattie, Beatty, meaty, peaty, sleety, sweetie, treaty, fealty, beastie, yeasty, beefy, leafy, Revie, Lethe, Leahy, Ely, freely, Greeley, Healey, Keeley, Lely, mealie, mealy, steely, stele, wheelie, feebly, cheaply, deeply, steeply, bleakly, meekly, treacly, weakly, weekly, neatly, sweetly, Wheatley, beastly, Eastleigh, Priestley, priestly, briefly, chiefly, Keighley, seemly, cleanly, keenly, meanly, queenly, measly, Queensberry, Petrie, kiwi, pewee, beamy, creamy, dreamy, Mimi, preemie, REME, seamy, see me, steamy, beanie, Heaney, genie, Jeannie, meanie, Queenie, Rene, Sweeney, teeny, tweeny, weeny, fleecy, greasy, breezy, cheesy, easy, queasy, sleazy, sneezy, wheezy, teensy, specie, Vichy, peachy, preachy, screechy, Fiji, gee-gee, squeegee, * tzatziki, Kon-Tiki, Malpighi, Carnegie, Respighi, Macready, unwieldy, graffiti, Tahiti, entreaty, Haiti, Donleavy, sapele, Swahili, obliquely, uniquely, naively, serenely, obscenely, routinely, completely, discreetly, unseemly, extremely, supremely, tahini, bambini, tankini, Martini®, Bellini, Cellini, Fellini, Bernini, bikini, Selene, linguine, Irene, Mycenae, Rossini, Orsini, zucchini, Houdini, Puccini, Assisi, Tbilisi, uneasy, Zambezi, Medici, Luigi, * speakeasy, * cock-a-leekie, Nefertiti, Matabele, touchy-feely, Lamborghini, Agostini, Pasolini, Paganini, Cherubini, fettucine, teeny-weeny, Rossellini, Boccherini, Borromini, Toscanini, Mussolini, easy-peasy, teensy-weensy, maharishi, etc.

16.2 Gaea, freer, Leah, Mia, ria, Ria, rhea, Rhea, seer, Shiah, skier, Thea, Zia, * trachea, Korea, Maria, sharia, Chaldea, sangria, García, Medea, IKEA, spiraea, Crimea, Nicaea, tortilla, cornea, urea, Sofia, Sophia, Euboea, rupiah, Judaea, Lucía, * Landseer, sightseer, * Galatea, ratafia, Dorothea, mausolea, trattoria, pizzeria, Caesarea, Cytherea, mamma mia, Tanzania, panacea, Nicosia, overseer, Boadicea, Kampuchea, * Cassiopeia, pharmacopoeia, Arimathea, Tia Maria®, Ave Maria, peripeteia, Laodicea, Andalucía, * onomatopoeia, * free her, see her, etc.

16.3 Sheba, beeper, bleeper, cheaper, creeper, deeper, Dnieper, keeper, leaper, peeper, reaper, sleeper, steeper, sweeper, weeper, * amoeba, Bathsheba, Beersheba, barkeeper, park keeper, gamekeeper, gatekeeper, beekeeper, greenkeeper, peacekeeper, tree creeper, innkeeper, timekeeper, minesweeper, shopkeeper, doorkeeper, scorekeeper, storekeeper, housekeeper, goalkeeper, book-keeper, zoo keeper, * Arequipa, wicketkeeper, * bleep her, keep her, etc.

When we were a soft amoeba, in ages past and gone,

Ere you were the Queen of Sheba, or I King Solomon.

ARTHUR SHIPLEY

16.4 beaker, bleaker, leaker, meeker, seeker, sika, sleeker, sneaker, speaker, Speaker, squeaker, streaker, tikka, tweaker, weaker, eager, leaguer, meagre, Riga, Seeger, Vega, * paprika, self-seeker, Guernica, eureka, loudspeaker, Antigua, beleaguer, intriguer, Swarfega®, * Tanganyika, Frederica, Costa Rica, overeager, * seek her, intrigue her, etc.

16.5 bleeder, Breda, breeder, cedar, Creda, feeder, kneader, leader, Leda, lieder, Ouida, pleader, reader, seeder, speeder, weeder, fielder, Kielder, wielder, yielder, beater, beta, cheater, cheetah, Dieter, eater, fetor, greeter, heater, litre, meeter, meter, metre, neater, Peta, Peter, pleater, praetor, Rita, Streeter, sweeter, teeter, theta, tweeter, Vita, zeta, Dniester, Easter, keister, quaestor, deemster, teamster, * succeeder, Aïda, valeta, Anita, granita, Juanita, raita, partita, repeater, Evita, excreta, Demeter, Ryvita, pineta, Lolita, saltpetre, ureter, two-seater, northeaster, southeaster, * bandleader, cheerleader, ringleader, mind-reader, sight-reader, loss leader, stockbreeder, mouthbreeder, proofreader, newsreader, midfielder, infielder, outfielder, anteater, eggbeater, beefeater, windcheater, tripmeter, wattmeter, toadeater, voltmeter, ohmmeter, * al-Qaeda, Etheldreda, interceder, copyreader, altimeter, taximeter, nanometre, arboreta, Margarita, decalitre, decametre, centilitre, decilitre, centimetre, decimetre, señorita, hectolitre, hectometre, Eid-ul-Fitr, kilometre, millilitre, millimetre, micrometre, dolce vita, honey-eater, Sandinista, * follow-my-leader, olla podrida, Bhagavad-Gita, * feed her, meet her, etc.

Here lies that peerless paper peer Lord Peter,

Who broke the laws of God and man and metre.

JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART

16.6 briefer, reefer, FIFA, Eva, beaver, Beaver, Cheever, cleaver, diva, fever, griever, Hever, leaver, lever, reiver, Siva, viva, weaver, weever, ether, breather, either, neither, * Recife, perceiver, achiever, transceiver, believer, retriever, Geneva, deceiver, receiver, school-leaver, Aretha, Ibiza, bequeather, * cantilever, basketweaver, disbeliever, nonbeliever, unbeliever, Unilever, * overachiever, under-achiever, * debrief her, leave her, etc.

16.7 dealer, feeler, healer, heeler, Keeler, Keillor, kneeler, Leila, peeler, sealer, selah, Sheila, squealer, stealer, vealer, velar, wheeler, Wheeler, feebler, beagler, Ziegler, Libra, Ypres, Phaedra, Kenya, senior, * appealer, concealer, three-wheeler, tequila, revealer, cathedra, urethra, Monsignor, * wheeler-dealer, Philomela, * enfant terrible, ex cathedra, tetrahedra, polyhedra, savoir-vivre, joie de vivre, * heal her, steal her, etc.

16.8 beamer, creamer, dreamer, femur, lemur, Lima, reamer, schema, schemer, screamer, seamer, steamer, streamer, Beena, cleaner, Ena, Gina, gleaner, greener, keener, leaner, Lena, meaner, Meena, Nina, screener, Sheena, Tina, weaner, Wiener, Zena, * blasphemer, oedema, redeemer, Redeemer, Robina, subpoena, convener, Athena, tahina, arena, farina, marina, Marina, Sabrina, Catriona, Katrina, pashmina, Martina, tsarina, Medina, Edwina, Messina, retsina, verbena, Christina, Melina, Selina, Serena, demeanour, hyena, Ribena®, Hygena, Molina, Cortina, Georgina, Rowena, novena, euglena, * daydreamer, pipe cleaner, * emphysema, terza rima, Iwo Jima, Hiroshima, carabiner, Pasadena, cavatina, ballerina, Palestrina, Agrippina, Angelina, Ballymena, casuarina, scarlatina, Argentina, St Helena, semolina, Messalina, intervener, signorina, Philomena, Wilhelmina, Filipina, misdemeanour, concertina, contravener, ocarina, Thomasina, * ottava rima, Gewürztraminer, * Herzegovina, * esteem her, screen her, etc.

16.9 greaser, Lisa, pizza, Caesar, freezer, geezer, geyser, Pisa, pleaser, seizer, sneezer, squeezer, teaser, visa, freesia, seizure, Esher, Beecher, bleacher, creature, feature, Meacher, Nietzsche, preacher, screecher, teacher, * degreaser, releaser, Teresa, Theresa, El Gîza, Malteser, Louisa, amnesia, nemesia, godetia, Belisha, Phoenicia, magnesia, Helvetia, Venetia, montbretia, Ossetia, Portlaoise, aubrietia, Rhodesia, Lucretia, procedure, besieger, * crowd-pleaser, schoolteacher, * Ebenezer, Mona Lisa, Melanesia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Austronesia, Polynesia, alopecia, paraplegia, tetraplegia, aquilegia, hemiplegia, quadriplegia, * Hispano-Suiza, * release her, reach her, etc.

16.10 Greenock, Taoiseach

16.11 greenstick, Friedrich, Dietrich, scenic, beatnik, seasick, peachick, * amoebic, comedic, acetic, anaemic, phonemic, ischaemic, glycaemic, toxaemic, irenic, hygienic, amnesic, strategic, * orthopaedic, unhygienic, geodesic, analgesic, nonstrategic, paraplegic, tetraplegic, hemiplegic, quadriplegic, * encyclopedic, * hyperglycaemic, hypoglycaemic

16.12 prefix, Felix, helix, Friedrich’s, remix, phoenix, beatniks, peachicks, etc.

16.13 fetid, Enid, * Aeneid, bikinied

16.14 beaded, heeded, needed, pleaded, seeded, fielded, shielded, wielded, yielded, cheated, heated, metered, treated, feasted, Seaford, levered, leeward, Leeward, seaward, eastward, featured, * beleaguered, unheeded, unneeded, succeeded, conceded, unseeded, impeded, receded, exceeded, unheated, untreated, conceited, reheated, repeated, defeated, depleted, ill-treated, northeastward, southeastward, * unimpeded, overheated, undefeated, etc.

16.15 seawards, eastwards, * northeastwards, southeastwards

16.16 seepage, leakage, leafage, cleavage

16.17 feeble, Keble, peepul, people, sepal, steeple, faecal, Jekyll, treacle, beagle, eagle, legal, regal, Segal, Spiegl, beadle, Cheadle, needle, wheedle, beetle, betel, fetal, gleeful, heedful, needful, peaceful, evil, shrieval, weevil, lethal, equal, prequel, sequel, penal, renal, venal, diesel, easel, teasel, weasel, * tracheal, pineal, corneal, enfeeble, illegal, spread-eagle, viceregal, Threadneedle, deceitful, medieval, retrieval, primeval, coeval, upheaval, cathedral, unequal, adrenal, * tradespeople, townspeople, porbeagle, * perineal, laryngeal, pharyngeal, meningeal, centripetal, Evel Knievel, tetrahedral, hexahedral, octahedral, polyhedral, duodenal, * oesophageal, Till Eulenspiegel

16.18 Peebles, beagles, eagles, needles, Needles, Beatles, beetles, easels, measles, teasels, weasels, * Gleneagles, * pins and needles, etc.

16.19 prelim, Leitrim, * heal him, meet him, etc.

16.20 geum, Liam, sebum, caecum, Secombe, Edom, freedom, Needham, sedum, fiefdom, Cheetham, coelom, velum, Greenham, plenum, threesome, besom, Heysham, Evesham, Beecham, * Lyceum, museum, pinetum, cerebrum, pyrethrum, * mausoleum, Colosseum, Erechtheum, Atheneum, perineum, propylaeum, coliseum, arboretum, equisetum, duodenum, dirigisme, * peritoneum, * see ’em, teach ’em, etc.

You’re the top! You’re the Coliseum,

You’re the top! You’re the Louvre Museum.

COLE PORTER

16.21 wheelspin, Deakin, Wrekin, sheepskin, sealskin, lead-in, Evelyn, sequin, teach-in, * Kosygin, Dunedin, * seekin’, readin’, etc.

16.22 Behan, eon, Ian, Leon, lien, paean, peon, Theban, cheapen, deepen, steepen, beacon, deacon, pecan, weaken, Egan, Keegan, Regan, vegan, Bredon, Eden, Sweden, Weedon, wealden, Neasden, beaten, Beaton, Beeton, Cretan, eaten, Eaton, Eton, Keaton, neaten, Seaton, Seton, sweeten, wheaten, chieftain, eastern, Easton, even, Leven, Stephen, Ethan, heathen, Whelan, Libran, daemon, demon, freeman, Freeman, Leman, seaman, semen, Eastman, Cheeseman, liegeman, Gleason, Nielsen, Nilsson, Pisan, reason, season, treason, Friesian, lesion, Grecian, legion, region, * plebeian, Korean, Chaldean, Andean, Tarpeian, Circean, Aegean, Fijian, Nemean, Linnean, Piscean, Crimean, Nicaean, Strontian, Orphean, Taurean, Augean, protean, Euboean, Judaean, archdeacon, mohican, Mohican, Antiguan, unbeaten, uneaten, Nuneaton, Cleckheaton, Genevan, breakeven, Kesteven, Ibizan, Van Diemen, pentstemon, Philemon, policeman, unreason, adhesion, artesian, Cartesian, Ephesian, inhesion, Rhodesian, cohesion, Tahitian, completion, accretion, concretion, Phoenician, Haitian, Helvetian, deletion, depletion, repletion, secretion, excretion, Venetian, Ossetian, collegian, Galwegian, Glaswegian, Norwegian, * browbeaten, * Jacobean, Maccabean, Aramaean, Tanzanian, Atlantean, Caribbean, Manichaean, Achillean, Galilean, Kampuchean, Erechtheion, Hebridean, Periclean, empyrean, Herculean, Aeschylean, Tyrolean, Pyrenean, Sisyphean, Mycenaean, Sophoclean, Odyssean, European, Puerto Rican, Costa Rican, Mozambican, cotyledon, weather-beaten, overeaten, Tudorbethan, decahedron, tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, polyhedron, cacodemon, Lacedaemon, Melanesian, Indonesian, Micronesian, Austronesian, Polynesian, Diocletian, * antipodean, Archimedean, Laodicean, epicurean, Epicurean, Terpsichorean, Pythagorean, Elizabethan, dodecahedron

Good King Wenceslas looked out,

On the feast of Stephen;

When the snow lay round about,

Deep and crisp and even.

JOHN MASON NEALE

16.23 cheapened, deepened, fecund, weakened, sweetened, eland, Zealand, Zeeland, Priestland, Cleveland, Greenland, Friesland, Queensland, reasoned, seasoned, weasand, * unsweetened, New Zealand, unseasoned, etc.

16.24 eons, Ian’s, beacons, deacons, vegans, chieftains, evens, Stephens, heathens, demons, Siemens, reasons, seasons, legions, regions, * plebeians, Koreans, Orleans, Van Diemen’s, adhesions, deletions, secretions, * Jacobeans, Europeans, New Orleans, etc.

16.25 piquant, secant, needn’t, sealant, frequent, treatment, easement, decent, puissant, recent, regent, * cosecant, infrequent, agreement, maltreatment, ill-treatment, achievement, bereavement, concealment, appeasement, impeachment, indecent, impuissant, malfeasant, allegiant, * antecedent, disagreement, * overachievement, underachievement

16.26 credence, grievance, sequence, * impedance, agreements, achievements, malfeasance, allegiance, * antecedence, etc.

Sure, deck your lower limbs in pants;

Yours are the limbs, my sweeting.

You look divine as you advance –

Have you seen yourself retreating?

OGDEN NASH

16.27 being, fleeing, seeing, skiing, beeping, bleeping, creeping, keeping, leaping, peeping, reaping, sleeping, sweeping, weeping, creaking, leaking, reeking, seeking, shrieking, sneaking, speaking, squeaking, streaking, beading, bleeding, breeding, feeding, kneading, leading, pleading, reading, speeding, weeding, Fielding, wielding, yielding, beating, cheating, eating, fleeting, greeting, heating, Keating, meeting, seating, sheeting, sweeting, bee sting, feasting, briefing, reefing, grieving, heaving, leaving, sleeving, thieving, weaving, breathing, seething, teething, ceiling, dealing, Ealing, feeling, healing, Keeling, kneeling, peeling, sealing, shieling, squealing, stealing, wheeling, weakling, beagling, needling, reedling, seedling, wheedling, Riesling, key ring, G-string, beeswing, beaming, dreaming, gleaming, scheming, screaming, seeming, steaming, streaming, teeming, cleaning, gleaning, keening, leaning, meaning, screening, weaning, evening, ceasing, fleecing, greasing, leasing, freezing, pleasing, seizing, sneezing, squeezing, teasing, wheezing, preaching, reaching, screeching, teaching, * agreeing, unseeing, unsleeping, safekeeping, self-seeking, nonspeaking, fatiguing, intriguing, reneging, unheeding, proceeding, succeeding, rereading, misleading, inbreeding, preceding, receding, exceeding, unyielding, competing, completing, repeating, defeating, retreating, debriefing, perceiving, achieving, believing, deceiving, receiving, bequeathing, appealing, unfeeling, concealing, congealing, Darjeeling, self-sealing, freewheeling, revealing, redeeming, convening, unmeaning, self-cleaning, spring-cleaning, demeaning, policing, unceasing, decreasing, increasing, unleashing, beseeching, far-reaching, nonteaching, besieging, * wellbeing, sightseeing, peacekeeping, timekeeping, shopkeeping, housekeeping, book-keeping, breastfeeding, lip-reading, mind-reading, sight-reading, stockbreeding, forcefeeding, spoonfeeding, proofreading, * water-skiing, human being, self-defeating, overeating, overheating, unbelieving, wheeler-dealing, unappealing, unrevealing, intervening, overweening, overreaching, * overachieving, underachieving, etc.

I had a dove and the sweet dove died;

And I have thought it died of grieving:

O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied,

With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving.

JOHN KEATS

16.28 beings, sweepings, greetings, meetings, beestings, leavings, dealings, feelings, seedlings, gleanings, leanings, meanings, evenings, * proceedings, etc.

16.29 Leavis, penis, thesis, tmesis, aegis, Regis, * kinesis, mimesis, prosthesis, Lyme Regis, * in extremis, exegesis, enuresis, diuresis, Bognor Regis, * diaphoresis, telekinesis, * amniocentesis

16.30 Phoebus, rebus, negus, Negus, foetus, grievous, naevus, Stevas, treeless, sleepless, heedless, needless, seedless, weedless, leafless, sleeveless, heelless, wheelless, dreamless, seamless, ceaseless, speechless, oestrus, seamstress, Remus, genus, heinous, venous, Venus, cheapness, steepness, bleakness, meekness, weakness, neatness, sweetness, keenness, greenness, meanness, Croesus, rhesus, Jesus, specious, * Antaeus, Aeneas, Linnaeus, Piraeus, boletus, quietus, Miletus, Malvinas, Silenus, Maecenas, uniqueness, completeness, discreetness, facetious, Lucretius, egregious, * Maccabaeus, Manichaeus, Nicodemus, Polyphemus, polysemous, intravenous, * see us, believe us, etc.

When I talk, and you are heedless,

I will show no anger needless.

JONATHAN SWIFT

16.31 deist, theist, * defeatist, elitist, extremist, machinist, hygienist, * encyclopedist

16.32 freest, cheapest, deepest, steepest, bleakest, meekest, sleekest, weakest, neatest, sweetest, briefest, feeblest, greenest, leanest, meanest, etc.

16.33 cheapish, sheepish, Swedish, fiendish, cliquish, freakish, peevish, squeamish, cleanish, greenish

16.34 fleapit, eaglet, leaflet, secret, egret, peewit, refit, remit, resit, eejit, * albeit, howbeit, so be it, * keep it, clean it, etc.

16.35 expletive, adhesive, cohesive, * self-adhesive

16.36 freebies, Phoebe’s, sweeties, treatise, wheelies, weeklies, faeces, theses, species, gee-gees, * subspecies, * heebie-jeebies, Archimedes, diabetes, ecospecies, etc.

16.37 creepers, jeepers, peepers, sleepers, weepers, beakers, sneakers, speakers, cedars, leaders, fielders, litres, metres, Peters, Rita’s, Beavers, cleavers, levers, dealers, peelers, dreamers, cleaners, creases, pieces, tweezers, creatures, features, beaches, peaches, teachers, * loudspeakers, fajitas, repeaters, Evita’s, * gamekeepers, goalkeepers, cheerleaders, ringleaders, beefeaters, believers, school-leavers, * nonbelievers, misdemeanours, etc.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

SAYING

16.38 eagerly, legally, meagrely, regally, easterly, gleefully, peacefully, lethally, equally, weaselly, reasonably, peaceably, feasibly, heatedly, eastwardly, frequently, evenly, grievously, heedlessly, needlessly, ceaselessly, Queensberry, eatery, thievery, sealery, Tuileries, breviary, creamery, beanery, deanery, denary, greenery, plenary, scenery, venery, deaconry, peony, frequency, decency, recency, regency, Regency, deity, creepily, sleepily, cheekily, sneakily, greedily, speedily, dreamily, breezily, easily, secretly, fleetingly, seemingly, pleasingly, sheepishly, fiendishly, peevishly, feverishly, secrecy, * illegally, northeasterly, southeasterly, deceitfully, agreeably, conceivably, unreasonably, appreciably, conceitedly, repeatedly, infrequently, unevenly, facetiously, secretory, excretory, catenary, machinery, centenary, patisserie, rotisserie, archdeaconry, infrequency, indecency, naivety, amenity, hygienically, strategically, misleadingly, exceedingly, appealingly, revealingly, unceasingly, decreasingly, increasingly, obesity, * inconceivably, unbelievably, irretrievably, irredeemably, intermediary, bicentenary, tercentenary, tricentenary, spontaneity, * simultaneity, homogeneity, etc.

I like your moral and machinery;

Your plot, too, has such scope for scenery.

LORD BYRON

16.39 Greenlander, schemata, Queenborough, sweetener, easterner, reasoner, * New Zealander

16.40 sepia, creepier, sleepier, weepier, cheekier, sneakier, squeakier, greedier, media, needier, seedier, speedier, weedier, meatier, meteor, beefier, Celia, Delia, creamier, dreamier, seamier, steamier, senior, taenia, greasier, breezier, easier, freesia, * Karelia, Amelia, camellia, Cecilia, Cordelia, Cornelia, lobelia, Ophelia, anaemia, ischaemia, pyaemia, toxaemia, uraemia, Bohemia, leukaemia, proscenia, asthenia, gardenia, Armenia, Slovenia, trapezia, amnesia, Silesia, * cyclopedia, multimedia, psychedelia, academia, septicaemia, myasthenia, neurasthenia, schizophrenia, * encyclopedia, Melanesia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Austronesia, analgesia, paraesthesia, anaesthesia, kinaesthesia, synaesthesia, hypaesthesia, Polynesia, aqua regia, * hyperglycaemia, hypoglycaemia, hyperaesthesia, etc.

16.41 keepable, readable, eatable, beatable, treatable, breathable, cleanable, reasonable, seasonable, peaceable, feasible, freezable, seizable, squeezable, reachable, teachable, seasonal, regional, medial, genial, menial, venial, Oedipal, vehicle, meaningful, * agreeable, foreseeable, unspeakable, unreadable, unbeatable, untreatable, uneatable, repeatable, unbreathable, perceivable, conceivable, achievable, believable, retrievable, receivable, resealable, redeemable, amenable, unreasonable, unseasonable, appreciable, depreciable, unreachable, unteachable, impeachable, procedural, Ezekiel, remedial, congenial, strategical, * disagreeable, unforeseeable, unrepeatable, inconceivable, irretrievable, unachievable, unbelievable, irredeemable, inappreciable, unimpeachable, endometrial, uncongenial

16.42 medium, tedium, Sealyham, helium, premium, rhenium, caesium, * mycelium, nobelium, proscenium, selenium, ruthenium, trapezium, magnesium, technetium, lutetium, collegium, * endothelium, epithelium, florilegium

16.43 Peterman, Peterson, Stephenson, Stevenson, oestrogen, median, Reithian, Delian, Pelion, Fenian, Friesian, Nietzschean, * comedian, tragedian, Promethean, chameleon, Hegelian, Mendelian, cornelian, Bohemian, Athenian, Armenian, Tyrrhenian, Slovenian, artesian, Cartesian, Silesian, collegian, * Archimedean, Magdalenian, Melanesian, Indonesian, Micronesian, Austronesian, Polynesian, * Aristotelian, Mephistophelean

16.44 mediant, deviant, lenient, * obedient, submediant, expedient, ingredient, convenient, * disobedient, inexpedient, inconvenient

16.45 deviance, deviants, lenience, * obedience, expedience, ingredients, convenience, * disobedience, inexpedience, inconvenience, etc.

16.46 deepening, weakening, sweetening, reasoning, seasoning, * unreasoning, etc.

16.47 Daedalus, leaderless, featureless, eagerness, meagreness, treasonous, feebleness, evenness, tedious, devious, previous, Delius, Peleus, genius, Theseus, Regius, Oedipus, Aeschylus, meaningless, creepiness, sleepiness, greediness, speediness, dreaminess, greasiness, easiness, seasickness, squeamishness, * unevenness, Asclepius, Prometheus, Boethius, Aurelius, Cornelius, obsequious, abstemious, arsenious, ingenious, egregious, uneasiness, * contumelious, homogeneous, * heterogeneous, etc.

16.48 egotist, legalist, re-enlist, egoist, * anaesthetist, medievalist

16.49 creepiest, sleepiest, weepiest, cheekiest, sneakiest, squeakiest, greediest, neediest, seediest, speediest, weediest, meatiest, beefiest, creamiest, dreamiest, seamiest, steamiest, greasiest, breeziest, easiest, etc.

16.50 Cheviot, * inebriate, collegiate, * intermediate

16.51 Tuileries, frequencies, decencies, * amenities, etc.

16.52 seasonally, regionally, genially, reasonably, leniently, vehemently, previously, deviancy, leniency, * unreasonably, immediately, obediently, conveniently, obsequiously, immediacy, expediency, * disobediently, inconveniently

16.53 reasonable, seasonable, * unreasonable, unseasonable, remediable, * irremediable