circus / ˈ- ɜːr k ə s/ rhymes with murcous, having cut off one's thumb and Quercus, a genus of oak. circle / ˈ- ɜːr k əl/ rhymes with hurkle, to pull in all one's limbs novercal, like a stepmother squircle, a geometric shape resembling a square with rounded edges (e.g., Lamé's special quartic) opercle, an opercular bone and the surnames of Angela Merkel (as pronounced in English), Studs Terkel, and Steve Urkel. chocolate / ˈ- ɒ k l ɪ t/ rhymes with auklet, any of the smaller species of auks, in General American, in which the vowel in the accented syllable is pronounced /ɑ/ in both words. ɒ s/ rhymes with naos, the inner chamber of a temple. cairn rhymes with bairn, a Northern English and Scottish word meaning child. 
bombed / ˈ- ɒ m d/ rhymes with glommed, American slang for 'attached'. boing, -s / ˈ- ɔɪ ŋ, - z/ rhymes with doing (etymology 2), the sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object, and toing/ toings, the sound of a metallic vibration. blitzed / ˈ- ɪ t z d/ rhymes with spritzed, from spritz, to squirt with water or mist. beige / ˈ- eɪ ʒ/ rhymes with greige, a colour between grey and beige. arugula / ˈ- uː ɡ j əl ə/ rhymes with Bugula, a genus of bryozoan, in American English. The alternative American pronunciation / ˈ ɑː ŋ k s t/ has no rhymes. angst / ˈ- æ ŋ k s t/ rhymes with manxed and wangst, self-indulgent self-pity (a portmanteau of wank and angst) phalanxed is not a perfect rhyme because the stress is on the wrong syllable. aitch / ˈ- eɪ tʃ/ rhymes with dialectal nache (the bony point on the rump of an ox or cow), Rach, a hypocoristic for the name Rachel, and one pronunciation of obsolete rache (a streak down a horse's face). This list includes rhymes of words that have been listed as rhymeless. Words may also have more than one pronunciation, one with a rhyme, and one without. 
In the other direction, iron has no rhyme in General American, but many in RP. A commonplace example of this is the word of / ɒ v/, which when stressed had no rhymes in British Received Pronunciation prior to the 19th century, but which rhymed with grave and mauve in some varieties of General American.
Words that rhyme in one accent or dialect may not rhyme in another. And since in most traditions the stressed syllable should not be identical-the consonant before the stressed vowel should be different-adding a prefix to a word, as be-elbow for elbow, does not create a perfect rhyme for it. However, no other English word has exactly these three final syllables with this stress pattern. Ovulate, copulate, and populate, for example, vary only slightly in one consonant from discombobulate, and thus provide very usable rhymes for most situations in which a rhyme for discombobulate is desired. There are many words that match most of the sounds from the stressed vowel onwards and so are near rhymes, called slant rhymes. For instance, a perfect rhyme for discom BOBulate would have to rhyme three syllables, - OBulate. Therefore, words with the stress far from the end are more likely to have no perfect rhymes. Following the strict definition of rhyme, a perfect rhyme demands the exact match of all sounds from the last stressed vowel to the end of the word.
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