Phenolic rhymes with:
alcoholic, anabolic, balik, bialik, bolich, bolick, bucolic, collick, diastolic, falik, folic, frolic, holick, hollick, hyperbolic, kovalik, kowalik, kralik, krolick, malec, melancholic, metabolic, michalec, nikolic, nonalcoholic, parabolic, polich, pollick, symbolic, vitriolic, workaholic
Phenolic sounds like:
painless, pamela's, panel's, panelize, panels, panels', pannill's, penalize, penalizes, penaloza, penelas, penn-hills, penniless, penology, phonology, pinellas, pinholes, pomology