"Picture a weasel -- and most of us can do that, for we have met that little demon of destruction, that small atom of insensate courage, that symbol of slaughter, sleeplessness, and tireless, incredible activity -- picture that scrap of demoniac fury, multiply that mite some fifty times, and you have the likeness of a Wolverine."
--Ernest Thompson Seton, 1906

Yes, it's

144 things that rhyme with "wolverine"!!

After months of toil, the list's compilers attained the golden number of 144. This number is significant for many reasons:

  1. It's a perfect square.
  2. The sum of its digits is a perfect square.
  3. It's a Fibonacci number, and one of only two which are perfect powers at that.
  4. It's the sum of two powers of two (10010000 in binary).
  5. It's 12100 in ternary, which is also not bad.
  6. It has its own word in English: a gross.
  7. It's part of a Pythagorean triple (25+144=169).
  8. And most importantly, it's the number of things currently known to rhyme with the word "wolverine"!

Oh boy!!

  1. acetylene
  2. adenine
  3. almandine
  4. amandine
  5. amine
  6. amphetamine
  7. antihistamine
  8. aquamarine
  9. argentine
  10. astatine
  11. aubergine
  12. Bactine
  13. baleen
  14. ball-peen
  15. bean
  16. beguine
  17. Benedictine
  18. benzene
  19. between
  20. bluejean
  21. bromine
  22. buckminsterfullerene
  23. Byzantine
  24. caffeine
  25. canteen
  26. careen
  27. carotene
  28. chlorine
  29. clean
  30. codeine
  31. convene
  32. creatine
  33. crystalline
  34. cuisine
  35. cytosine
  36. dean
  37. demean
  38. Dentene
  39. dentine
  40. Dion, Celine
  41. dopamine
  42. dramamine
  43. eighteen
  44. epicene
  45. fifteen
  46. figurine
  47. florentine
  48. fluorine
  49. foreseen
  50. fourteen
  51. gabardine
  52. galantine
  53. gamine
  54. gangrene
  55. gasoline
  56. gene
  57. glean
  58. green
  59. grenadine
  60. guanine
  61. guillotine
  62. Halloween
  63. holocene
  64. hygiene
  65. internecine
  66. Jean Baptiste Racine
  67. keen
  68. kerosene
  69. labyrinthine
  70. latrine
  71. lean
  72. libertine
  73. lien
  74. limousine
  75. Listerine
  76. machine
  77. magazine
  78. marine
  79. Maybelline
  80. mean
  81. melamine
  82. mescaline
  83. mezzanine
  84. mien
  85. morphine
  86. mujahedeen
  87. Nalgene
  88. naphthalene
  89. Nazarene
  90. nectarine
  91. neoprene
  92. nineteen
  93. obscene
  94. Ovaltine
  95. Pantene
  96. peregrine
  97. piscine
  98. plasticine
  99. pleistocene
  100. pliocene
  101. polyethylene
  102. polystyrene
  103. pontine
  104. poteen
  105. poutine
  106. praline
  107. preen
  108. pristine
  109. protein
  110. quarantine
  111. queen
  112. ravine
  113. routine
  114. saline
  115. saltine
  116. sardine
  117. sateen
  118. scalene
  119. scene
  120. screen
  121. seen
  122. serene
  123. Seventeen
  124. sheen
  125. sixteen
  126. Slovene
  127. smaragdine
  128. smithereen
  129. spleen
  130. St. Augustine
  131. submarine
  132. tagine
  133. tambourine
  134. tangerine
  135. taurine
  136. teen
  137. terrene
  138. thirteen
  139. thymine
  140. toluene
  141. trampoline
  142. tureen
  143. umpteen
  144. vaccine
  145. Vaseline
  146. velveteen
  147. Visine (for contact lenses)
  148. wean
  149. ween


Note: This list predates this Garfield comic.
Note also: Garfield is actually incorrect here. "Loser" does not in fact rhyme with wolverine.