Words that rhyme with fife

• afterlife 0
  n 1: life after death [syn: afterlife, hereafter]
• alewife 0
  n 1: flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams 2: shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus [syn: alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus]
• fishwife 0
  n 1: someone who sells fish [syn: fishmonger, fishwife]
• housewife 0
  n 1: a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income [syn: housewife, homemaker, lady of the house, woman of the house]
• knife 0
  n 1: edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle 2: a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point 3: any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark" [syn: tongue, knife] v 1: use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death" [syn: knife, stab]
• life 0
  n 1: a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life" 2: the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" [syn: life, living] 3: the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others" 4: the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" [syn: animation, life, living, aliveness] 5: the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life" [syn: life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan] 6: the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life" 7: the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life" 8: a living person; "his heroism saved a life" 9: animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" [syn: liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness] 10: living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life" 11: the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon" 12: an account of the series of events making up a person's life [syn: biography, life, life story, life history] 13: a motive for living; "pottery was his life" 14: a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard" [syn: life sentence, life]
• loosestrife 0
  n 1: any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum 2: any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia
• midwife 0
  n 1: a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies [syn: midwife, accoucheuse]
• nightlife 0
  n 1: the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion [syn: nightlife, night life] 2: the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.); "a futile search for intelligent nightlife"; "in the summer the nightlife shifts to the dance clubs" [syn: nightlife, night life]
• paperknife 0
  n 1: dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books [syn: letter opener, paper knife, paperknife]
• penknife 0
  n 1: a small pocketknife; originally used to cut quill pens
• rife 0
  adj 1: most frequent or common; "prevailing winds" [syn: prevailing, prevalent, predominant, dominant, rife] 2: excessively abundant [syn: overabundant, plethoric, rife]
• strife 0
  n 1: lack of agreement or harmony [syn: discord, strife] 2: bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension
• wife 0
  n 1: a married woman; a man's partner in marriage [syn: wife, married woman] [ant: hubby, husband, married man]
• wildlife 0
  n 1: all living things (except people) that are undomesticated; "chemicals could kill all the wildlife"
• lowlife 0
  n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
• yellowknife 0
  n 1: a town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake
• goodwife 0
• greiff 0
• saif 0
• fyfe 0
• fyffe 0
• pfeiff 0
• schleif 0
• slife 0

See also fife definition