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Rhymes with i

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Two-syllable rhymes

  • glass eye — artificial eye.
  • go by — a going by without notice; an intentional passing by; snub: to give one the go-by.
  • goodbye — a farewell.
  • good-bye — a farewell.
  • hereby — by this, or the present, declaration, action, document, etc.; by means of this; as a result of this: I hereby resign as president of the class.
  • hi-fi — high fidelity.
  • horn fly — a small bloodsucking fly, Haematobia irritans, that is a pest, especially of cattle.
  • horse fly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
  • imply — implies
  • july — the seventh month of the year, containing 31 days. Abbreviation: Jul.
  • let fly — to move through the air using wings.
  • mince pie — a pie filled with mincemeat.
  • mind's eye — the hypothetical site of visual recollection or imagination: In her mind's eye she saw the city as it had been in Caesar's time.
  • mumbai — a state in W central India. 118,800 sq. mi. (307,690 sq. km). Capital: Mumbai.
  • nearby — close at hand; not far off; adjacent; neighboring: a nearby village.
  • pass by — go past
  • pop fly — a high fly ball hit to the infield or immediately beyond it that can easily be caught before reaching the ground.
  • pork pie — a snap-brimmed hat with a round, flat crown, usually made of felt.
  • red-eye — the condition of having bloodshot eyes, as from eyestrain or lack of sleep.
  • red tai — See under tai.
  • rely — to depend confidently; put trust in (usually followed by on or upon): You can rely on her work.
  • reply — followup
  • retry — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
  • run dry — dry up
  • sand fly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
  • screw eye — a screw having a ring-shaped head.
  • shanghai — to enroll or obtain (a sailor) for the crew of a ship by unscrupulous means, as by force or the use of liquor or drugs.
  • sit by — If you sit by while something wrong or illegal is happening, you allow it to happen and do not do anything about it.
  • small fry — child
  • squeak by — a short, sharp, shrill cry; a sharp, high-pitched sound.
  • standby — a staunch supporter or adherent; one who can be relied upon.
  • stand by — a staunch supporter or adherent; one who can be relied upon.
  • stick by — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • string tie — a short, very narrow, and unflared necktie, usually tied in a bow.
  • supply — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
  • thereby — by that; by means of that.
  • third eye — pineal eye.
  • tough guy — man: macho, aggressive
  • tsetse fly — any of several bloodsucking African flies of the genus Glossina, that act as a vector of sleeping sickness and other trypanosome infections of humans and domestic animals.
  • untie — to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot.
  • vat dye — any of the class of insoluble dyes impregnated into textile fibers by reduction into soluble leuco bases that regenerate the insoluble dye on oxidation.
  • versailles — a department in N France. 877 sq. mi. (2271 sq. km). Capital: Versailles.
  • war cry — a cry, word, phrase, etc., shouted in charging or in rallying to attack; battle cry.
  • wet fly — an artificial fly designed for use underwater.
  • whereby — By which.
  • wild rye — any grass of the genus Elymus, somewhat resembling rye.
  • wise guy — Informal. a cocksure, conceited, and often insolent person; smart aleck: He has a reputation for being a wise guy.
  • alai — a mountain range in central Asia, in SW Kyrgyzstan, running from the Tian Shan range in China into Tajikistan. Average height: 4800 m (16 000 ft), rising over 5850 m (19 500 ft)
  • ally — A country's ally is another country that has an agreement to support it, especially in war.
  • altai — a territory of the Russian Federation in central Asia. 101,000 sq. mi. (261,700 sq. km). Capital: Barnaul.
  • apple pie — An apple pie is a kind of pie made with apples.
  • apply — If you apply for something such as a job or membership of an organization, you write a letter or fill in a form in order to ask formally for it.
  • awry — If something goes awry, it does not happen in the way it was planned.
  • bad guy — A bad guy is a person in a story or film who is considered to be evil or wicked, or who is fighting on the wrong side. You can also refer to the bad guys in a situation in real life.
  • battle cry — A battle cry is a phrase that is used to encourage people to support a particular cause or campaign.
  • bee fly — any hairy beelike nectar-eating dipterous fly of the family Bombyliidae, whose larvae are parasitic on those of bees and related insects
  • belie — If one thing belies another, it hides the true situation and so creates a false idea or image of someone or something.
  • bely — Andrei [uhn-dryey] /ʌnˈdryeɪ/ (Show IPA), (Boris Nikolayevich Bugayev) 1880–1934, Russian writer.
  • black eye — If someone has a black eye, they have a dark-coloured bruise around their eye.
  • black fly — any small blackish stout-bodied dipterous fly of the family Simuliidae, which sucks the blood of man, mammals, and birds
  • blow fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion, excrement, etc., or in wounds of living animals.
  • blue sky — fanciful; impractical: blue-sky ideas.
  • bonsai — A bonsai or a bonsai tree is a tree or shrub that has been kept very small by growing it in a little pot and cutting it in a special way.
  • bow tie — A bow tie is a tie in the form of a bow. Bow ties are worn by men, especially for formal occasions.
  • brunei — a sultanate in NW Borneo, consisting of two separate areas on the South China Sea, otherwise bounded by Sarawak: controlled all of Borneo and parts of the Philippines and the Sulu Islands in the 16th century; under British protection since 1888; internally self-governing since 1971; became fully independent in 1984 as a member of the Commonwealth. The economy depends chiefly on oil and natural gas. Official language: Malay; English is also widely spoken. Religion: Muslim. Currency: Brunei dollar. Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan. Pop: 415 717 (2013 est). Area: 5765 sq km (2226 sq miles)
  • bye-bye — goodbye
  • come by — To come by something means to obtain it or find it.
  • comply — If someone or something complies with an order or set of rules, they are in accordance with what is required or expected.
  • crane fly — any dipterous fly of the family Tipulidae, having long legs, slender wings, and a narrow body
  • cup tie — In sports, especially football, a cup tie is a match between two teams who are taking part in a competition in which the prize is a cup.
  • decry — If someone decries an idea or action, they criticize it strongly.
  • defy — If you defy someone or something that is trying to make you behave in a particular way, you refuse to obey them and behave in that way.
  • deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
  • do by — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
  • drip-dry — wash-and-wear.
  • drive-by — the action of driving by a specified locality, object, etc.: a drive-by of Nelson's Monument.
  • drop by — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • dry fly — an artificial fly designed for use on the surface of the water.
  • dubai — an emirate in the NE United Arab Emirates, on the Persian Gulf.
  • dui — (obsolete) Plural form of duo.
  • fall guy — an easy victim.
  • fish fry — a picnic or other gathering at which fish are fried and eaten.
  • flesh fly — any fly of the family Sarcophagidae, comprising species that deposit their eggs or larvae in carrion or in the flesh of living animals.
  • fly high — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
  • fruit fly — any of numerous small dipterous insects of the family Tephritidae, the larvae of which feed on the fruit of various plants.
  • george vi — 1895–1952, king of England 1936–1952 (second son of George V; brother of Edward VIII).
  • get by — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.

Three-syllable rhymes

  • abide by — If you abide by a law, agreement, or decision, you do what it says you should do.
  • alder fly — any of several dark-colored neuropterous insects of the family Sialidae, the larvae of which are aquatic and predacious on other aquatic insects.
  • by and by — presently or eventually
  • by the bye — incidentally; by the way: used as a sentence connector
  • chiengmai — a town in NW Thailand: teak, silver, silk industries: university (1964). Pop: 182 000 (2005 est)
  • compound eye — the convex eye of insects and some crustaceans, consisting of numerous separate light-sensitive units (ommatidia)
  • eau de vie — brandy, especially a coarser and less purified variety.
  • edward vi — 1537–53, king of England 1547–53 (son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour).
  • give the eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • henry vi — 1165–97, king of Germany 1190–97; king of Sicily 1194–97; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1191–97 (son of Frederick I).
  • hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
  • hook and eye — a two-piece clothes fastener, usually of metal, consisting of a hook that catches onto a loop or bar.
  • hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
  • jai alai — a game resembling handball, played on a three-walled court between two, four, or six players who are equipped with a long, curved wicker basket, or cesta, strapped to the wrist for catching and throwing a small, hard ball against the front wall.
  • lanai — a veranda, especially a fully furnished one used as a living room.
  • lantern fly — any of several large tropical insects of the family Fulgoridae, formerly thought to be luminescent.
  • magic eye — a miniature cathode-ray tube in some radio receivers, on the screen of which a pattern is displayed in order to assist tuning
  • misapply — to make a wrong application or use of.
  • northern spy — an American variety of red-striped apple that ripens in autumn or early winter.
  • old school tie — a necktie striped in the colors of a specific English public school, especially as worn by a graduate to indicate his educational background.
  • on the sly — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
  • overfly — to fly over (a specified area, territory, country, etc.): The plane lost its way and overflew foreign territory.
  • pineal eye — an eyelike structure that develops from the pineal apparatus in certain cold-blooded vertebrates.
  • private eye — a private detective.
  • public eye — public attention or notice; limelight: a politician who keeps out of the public eye.
  • resupply — provide with sth
  • robber fly — any of numerous swift-flying, often large, dipterous insects of the family Asilidae that are predaceous on other insects.
  • semidry — partially or nearly dry.
  • shepherd's pie — a baked dish of ground or diced meat with a crust of mashed potatoes.
  • shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
  • spanish fly — Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
  • streamer fly — an artificial fly having a wing or wings extending beyond the crook of the fishhook.
  • underlie — to lie under or beneath; be situated under.
  • weather eye — sensitivity and alertness to signs of change in the weather.
  • windsor tie — a wide, soft necktie of black silk, tied at the neck in a loose bow.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • aniline dye — any synthetic dye originally made from raw materials, such as aniline, obtained from coal tar
  • boston cream pie — a cake of two layers with icing and a creamy filling
  • fourth of july — Independence Day.
  • in a pig's eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • mackerel sky — an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.
  • mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
  • money supply — the sum of demand or checking-account deposits and currency in circulation.
  • oversupply — an excessive supply.
  • sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
  • see eye to eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • vinegar fly — any fly of the family Drosophilidae, the larvae of which feed on decaying fruit and vegetation.
  • water supply — the supply of purified water available to a community.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • mediterranean fruit fly — a small, black and white, irregularly banded two-winged fly, Ceratitis capitata, of many warm regions, that damages citrus and other succulent fruit crops by implanting eggs that hatch into maggots within the fruit.

One-syllable rhymes

  • ai — AI is an abbreviation for artificial intelligence, or , artificial insemination.
  • ay — ever; always
  • aye — Aye means yes; used in some dialects of British English.
  • bae — an affectionate term used to address or refer to one’s girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse, etc.: I love you, bae.
  • bi — Bi means the same as bisexual.
  • bligh — William. 1754–1817, British admiral; Governor of New South Wales (1806–9), deposed by the New South Wales Corps: as a captain, commander of H.M.S. Bounty when the crew mutinied in 1789
  • blyNellie (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) 1867–1922, U.S. journalist and social reformer.
  • buy — If you buy something, you obtain it by paying money for it.
  • by — If something is done by a person or thing, that person or thing does it.
  • bye — Bye and bye-bye are informal ways of saying goodbye.
  • cai — computer-aided instruction
  • chai — tea, esp as made in India with added spices
  • chi — the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet (Χ, χ), a consonant, transliterated as ch or rarely kh
  • cry — When you cry, tears come from your eyes, usually because you are unhappy or hurt.
  • cy — Cyprus (international car registration)
  • dai — (chiefly North India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) A wet nurse; a midwife. (from 18th c.).
  • di — didymium
  • die — When people, animals, and plants die, they stop living.
  • dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
  • dwi — DWI is the offense of driving after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed. DWI is an abbreviation for 'driving while intoxicated.'
  • dye — a coloring material or matter.
  • eye — Each of a pair of globular organs in the head through which people and vertebrate animals see, the visible part typically appearing almond-shaped in animals with eyelids.
  • fae — Alternative spelling of fey (etymology 2).
  • fi — the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the fourth and fifth degrees of a scale.
  • fly — to move through the air using wings.
  • flye — (weightlifting) An exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest muscles.
  • frei — Eduardo [e-dwahr-th aw] /ɛˈdwɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–82, Chilean statesman: president 1964–70.
  • fry — to cook in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in fat or oil.
  • frye — (Herman) Northrop, 1912–91, Canadian literary critic and educator.
  • fye — Alternative form of fie.
  • gae — go1
  • guy — a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “woods.”.
  • hi — Hello!
  • high — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
  • hy — a male given name, form of Hiram.
  • jai — victory (to)
  • kai — (NZ, informal) food.
  • lai — (in medieval French literature)
  • lieJonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
  • ly — (astronomy) abbreviation of lightyear.
  • lye — a highly concentrated, aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide.
  • my — (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
  • ngai — clan or tribe: used before the names of certain Māori tribes
  • nigh — near in space, time, or relation: The time draws nigh.
  • nyeEdgar Wilson ("Bill Nye") 1850–96, U.S. humorist.
  • phi — the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
  • pi — the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
  • pie — a former bronze coin of India, the 12th part of an anna.
  • ply — British Dialect. to bend, fold, or mold.
  • pry — to inquire impertinently or unnecessarily into something: to pry into the personal affairs of others.
  • psi — Portable Scheme Interpreter
  • pty — proprietary: used to denote a private limited company
  • pye — (in England before the Reformation) a book of ecclesiastical rules for finding the particulars of the service for the day.
  • rye — a city in SE New York, on Long Island Sound.
  • sci — (hardware)   1. Scalable Coherent Interface. 2. UART.
  • shy — bashful; retiring.
  • sigh — to let out one's breath audibly, as from sorrow, weariness, or relief.
  • sky — the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth: airplanes in the sky; cloudy skies.
  • sly — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
  • spry — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
  • spy — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
  • sri — SRI International
  • sty — a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
  • sy — a male given name, form of Seymour, Simon, or Silas.
  • tae — to.
  • tai — any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
  • thai — Also called Thailander [tahy-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈtaɪˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a native or descendant of a native of Thailand.
  • thigh — the part of the lower limb in humans between the hip and the knee.
  • thy — to address as “thou.”.
  • tie — to bind, fasten, or attach with a cord, string, or the like, drawn together and knotted: to tie a tin can on a dog's tail.
  • try — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
  • uy — Uruguay
  • vi — Viral infection
  • vie — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
  • wai — A Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with a bow.
  • why — for what? for what reason, cause, or purpose?: Why did you behave so badly?
  • wry — produced by a distortion or lopsidedness of the facial features: a wry grin.
  • wy — The name of the letter Y.
  • wye — the letter Y, or something having a similar shape.
  • y — the 25th letter of the English alphabet, a semivowel.
  • y. — Alternative form of Y.
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