Orange is one of those words that famously has nothing perfectly to rhyme with it. The other one is silver. However, the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary does show both these words as having half-rhymes (such as lozenge with orange and salver with silver).

The principle of a half-rhyme in these cases is quite simple. Whereas a full and stressed rhyme (e.g. hand / stand) or even an unstressed rhyme (such as handing / standing) contain vowels that are common to both words, a half-rhyme like orange / lozenge or silver / salver (technically speaking, pararhymes) has obvious differences between vowels in certain syllables.
Source(s):
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/orange

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What about liver? quiver? sliver?
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"The rumor that "orange" rhymes with no other word is incorrect. Orange rhymes with Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a sac where spores are made). "Silver" has the same rumor going for it, but it actually rhymes with Wilver (a nickname) and chilver (a ewe lamb)."

I'd say rhyming with Wilver doesn't count, since it's a name. But chilver being a ewe lamb could work.
Source(s):
http://dictionary1.classic.reference.com/help/faq/language/t22.html

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Try Slither
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