Words that rhyme with life

• wife 3
  n 1: a married woman; a man's partner in marriage [syn: wife, married woman] [ant: hubby, husband, married man]
• wildlife 5
  n 1: all living things (except people) that are undomesticated; "chemicals could kill all the wildlife"
• knife 3
  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]
• rife 4
  adj 1: most frequent or common; "prevailing winds" [syn: prevailing, prevalent, predominant, dominant, rife] 2: excessively abundant [syn: overabundant, plethoric, rife]
• whipping 4
  adj 1: smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines" [syn: snappy, whipping] n 1: beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment [syn: whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation] 2: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping] 3: a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally [syn: whipstitch, whipping, whipstitching] 4: the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating, whipping]
• strife 3
  n 1: lack of agreement or harmony [syn: discord, strife] 2: bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension
• alewife 3
  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]
• loosestrife 3
  n 1: any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum 2: any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia
• yellowknife 3
  n 1: a town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake
• li-ife 3
• afterlife 2
  n 1: life after death [syn: afterlife, hereafter]
• phife 2
• shife 1
• fishwife 1
  n 1: someone who sells fish [syn: fishmonger, fishwife]
• topping 1
  adj 1: excellent; best possible [syn: top-flight, top-hole, topping] n 1: a flavorful addition on top of a dish
• trife 0
• fife 0
  n 1: a small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band
• 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]
• 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
• stopping 0
  n 1: fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members [syn: fillet, stopping] 2: the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch; "the violinist's stopping was excellent"
• sweeping 0
  adj 1: taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; "a sweeping glance"; "a wide- sweeping view of the river" 2: ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction" [syn: sweeping, wholesale] n 1: the act of cleaning with a broom
• tapping 0
  n 1: the sound of light blow or knock; "he heard the tapping of the man's cane"
• timekeeping 0
  n 1: the act or process of determining the time
• wrapping 0
  n 1: the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped [syn: wrapping, wrap, wrapper] 2: an enveloping bandage [syn: swathe, wrapping]
• 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]
• greiff 0
• schleif 0
• slife 0
• streiff 0
• fyfe 0
• saif 0
• goodwife 0
• swapping 0
• backslapping 0
• epping 0
• deeping 0
• wapping 0
• norrkoping 0

See also life definition and life synonyms