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The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes —that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwards.
concoction, decoction (In GA, these rhyme with auction; there is also the YouTube slang word obnoxion, meaning something that is obnoxious.) distinguish, extinguish; pneumatic, rheumatic; Anapestic pairs. In an anapestic pair, each word is an anapest and has the first and second syllables unstressed and the third syllable stressed.
weak (or unaccented): a rhyme between two sets of one or more unstressed syllables. ( hammer, carpenter) semirhyme: a rhyme with an extra syllable on one word. ( bend, ending) forced (or oblique): a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound. ( green, fiend; one, thumb) assonance: matching vowels. ( shake, hate) Assonance is sometimes referred to ...
Antarctic icefish (suborder Notothenioidei of order Perciformes) Antenna codlet ( Bregmaceros atlanticus) Arapaima (genus Arapaima) Archerfish (genus Toxotes and family Toxotidae) Arctic char. Armored gurnard (family Peristediidae) Armored searobin (family Peristediidae) Armorhead (family Pentacerotidae) Armorhead catfish (genus Cranoglanis)
Swainson's warbler. Swallow tanager. Swallow-tailed bee-eater. Swallow-tailed cotinga. Swallow-tailed gull. Swallow-tailed hummingbird. Swallow-tailed kite. Swallow-tailed nightjar. Swallow-winged puffbird.
Perfect and imperfect rhymes. Perfect rhyme — also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, [1] or true rhyme — is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions: [2] [3] The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. For example, the words "kit" and "bit" form a perfect ...
For those with happy-tensing accents, the final y in words ending -cy has the FLEECE vowel, and therefore so do inflected forms ending -cies or -cied (fancied, policies, etc.). If the vowel of NEAR (/ɪər/) is considered as "long e", then words ending -cier may also be exceptions.
List of English words with disputed usage. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs. List of ethnic slurs. List of generic and genericized trademarks. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English. List of self-contradicting words in English. Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year. Most common words in English.