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
8.83 gradients, radiance, salience, maintenance, etc.
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
8.88 favourable, amiable, * unfavourable, inalienable
The rhymes in this section have the ‘e’ sound of pen and ready as their main or final vowel sound.
9.1 bleb, deb, ebb, neb, pleb, Seb, web, Webb, * celeb, * Maghreb, Zagreb, Caleb, cobweb, * World Wide Web, Aurangzeb
9.2 beck, check, cheque, Czech, Dec, deck, Eck, feck, fleck, heck, Lech, lek, neck, peck, rec, reck, sec, spec, speck, tech, trek, wreck, * V-neck, recheck, Quebec, bedeck, hi-tech, spot-check, crosscheck, low-tech, * Caltech, Aztec, Dalek, fartlek, parsec, há
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle’s wreck
Shone round him o’er the dead.
FELICIA HEMANS
9.3 checks, cheques, decks, ex, Exe, flecks, flex, hex, kecks, lex, necks, pecks, pecs, Rex, sex, specs, specks, Tex, vex, wrecks, X, * convex, perplex, annex, desex, rechecks, bedecks, * Amex, annex, Artex®, Daleks, apex, APEX, latex, Playtex®, Hedex®, Semtex, Tex-Mex, rednecks, Perspex®, vertex, reflex, Kleenex®, Tipp-Ex®, index, triplex, simplex, NIREX, Pyrex®, ibex, ilex, silex, Timex®, complex, Optrex®, cortex, Gore-Tex®, vortex, Durex®, Lurex®, kopecks, Rolex®, duplex, suplex, * retroflex, circumflex, intersex, Middlesex, cybersex, biconvex, Copydex®, pontifex, multiplex, googolplex, Moulinex®, unisex, * traveller’s cheques, Oedipus Rex, etc.
9.4 flexed, next, sexed, text, vexed, * perplexed, annexed, * pretext, context, subtext, * teletext, hypertext, oversexed, undersexed
9.5 Brecht, checked, decked, flecked, necked, pecked, sect, Sekt, specked, trekked, wrecked, * prospect, suspect, protect, affect, perfect, collect, correct, connect, unchecked, project, object, subject, transect, V-necked, rechecked, respect, expect, inspect, bedecked, detect, defect, effect, infect, elect, select, deflect, reflect, inflect, neglect, erect, deject, eject, reject, inject, direct, bisect, dissect, trisect, spot-checked, crosschecked, * aspect, Albrecht, abject, henpecked, defect, prefect, reject, shipwrecked, insect, prospect, collect, project, suspect, bull-necked, Utrecht, * architect, retrospect, resurrect, recollect, self-respect, genuflect, circumspect, reconnect, reinfect, reelect, deselect, reselect, reinspect, redirect, introspect, disaffect, intellect, incorrect, disconnect, intersect, interject, disrespect, disinfect, vivisect, indirect, misdirect, dialect, side effect, rubbernecked, double-checked, * aftereffect, idiolect, interconnect, hypercorrect, knock-on effect, overprotect
Never will I give advice
Till you please to ask me thrice;
Which, if you in scorn reject,
’Twill be just as I expect.
JONATHAN SWIFT
9.6 etch, fetch, fletch, ketch, kvetch, lech, retch, sketch, stretch, vetch, wretch, * outstretch, * overstretch
9.7 etched, fetched, retched, sketched, stretched, * unstretched, far-fetched, outstretched, * overstretched
9.8 bed, bled, bread, bred, cred, dead, dread, ed, Ed, fed, Fed, fled, Fred, head, ked, lead, led, Med, Ned, pled, read, red, said, shed, shred, sled, sped, spread, stead, ted, Ted, thread, tread, wed, Z, zed, * abed, ahead, undead, unread, unthread, unwed, unsaid, gainsaid, well-fed, well-read, well-bred, Enzed, embed, reread, see red, premed, instead, behead, misled, misread, ill-bred, inbred, sliced bread, drop dead, force-fed, outspread, co-ed, stone-dead, lowbred, * Hampstead, Stansted, slaphead, blackhead, crackhead, smackhead, fathead, blacklead, Manfred, packthread, farmstead, masthead, Ahmed, air bed, airhead, stairhead, day bed, pay bed, braindead, Gateshead, deathbed, bedstead, breast-fed, egghead, deadhead, redhead, wellhead, bedspread, spearhead, seabed, reed bed, seedbed, beachhead, sweetbread, street cred, retread, sickbed, dickhead, thickhead, bighead, pithead, Spithead, pinhead, skinhead, bridgehead, crispbread, Whitbread, wingspread, childbed, biped, Minehead, Brideshead, widespread, hotbed, Ofsted, blockhead, Godhead, hothead, pothead, hogshead, bobsled, dogsled, crossbred, force-fed, forehead, warhead, shortbread, foresaid, Muirhead, purebred, Roundhead, cowshed, flowerbed, Stourhead, Go-Ped®, moped, roadstead, homestead, bonehead, sun bed, Plumstead, bulkhead, drumhead, bloodshed, woodshed, woolshed, spoonfed, proofread, toolshed, * aforesaid, * hammerhead,