Rhymes for HALFLIVES

• a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall

• a headlong plunge into water

• a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft

• drop steeply

• plunge into water

• swim under water

• reason by deduction; establish by deduction

• obtain

• obtain from a particular source

• develop or evolve from a latent or potential state

• come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example

• take (someone) as a wife

• marry a woman, take a wife

• provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife

• collection of records especially about an institution

• a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

• an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs

• perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning

• cylindrical leaves used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning

• a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war

• an animal that is confined

• a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion

• being in captivity

• giving or marked by complete attention to

• encourage or assent to illegally or criminally

• form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

• make or work out a plan for; devise

• come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

• put or send forth

• having the ability or power to create

• promoting construction or creation

• rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper

• having successive letters joined together

• widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched

• variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges

• A compact folding knife.

• The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.

• A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.

• A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample distribution of the estimate.

• a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

• dance to jive music; dance the jive

• the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

• a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music

• a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration

• causing or able to cause motion

• impelling to action

• experience again, often in the imagination

• tear or be torn violently

• separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument

• A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).

• A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.

• A slice, especially of bread.

• A sheave.

• A beam or plank of split wood.

• A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.

• A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching

• A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.

• A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.

• (papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.

• grant remission of a sin to

• remove the surface of

• grow vigorously

• make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance

• dedicated in fulfillment of a vow

• the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

• a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)

• hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)

• look through a book or other written material

• turn over pages

• produce leaves, of plants

• A drug with calming effects.

• medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing

• relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping)

• producing an effect

• forming a whole or aggregate

• members of a cooperative enterprise

• done by or characteristic of individuals acting together

• set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government

• intended as a commemoration

• an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person

• relating to or based on or involving comparison

• estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete

• the comparative form of an adjective or adverb

• serving or tending to connect

• an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

• involving the joint activity of two or more

• an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

• an instrumentality that connects

• connecting or tending to connect

• resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion

• a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas

• a member of a Conservative Party

• having social or political views favoring conservatism

• avoiding excess

• unimaginatively conventional

• conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

• An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.

• tending to consume or use often wastefully

• a person with pulmonary tuberculosis

• afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis

• a person devoted to the contemplative life

• deeply or seriously thoughtful

• an agent or device intended to prevent conception

• capable of preventing conception or impregnation

• done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit

• a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners

• an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it

• involving the joint activity of two or more

• willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement

• an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence

• syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence

• a device for treating injury or disease

• designed to promote discipline

• tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition

• either of two or more related or complementary variables

• mutually related

• expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation