Phrase Hound found 1,274 phrases and 197 compound words that contain life. The most common are listed below. Open life in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 1,274
- way of lifeA style of living that reflects the attitudes of a person or group.
- life insuranceA form of insurance on the life of a person, whereby if the person dies then the insurance policy pays out a sum of money to the beneficiary (such as a person's family).
- real lifeLife outside of a contrived or fantastical environment; often used in comparison to events depicted in drama.
- life cycleThe course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.
- end-of-lifeThe termination of the sale of or support for goods and services.
- meaning of lifeA hypothetical answer to all of life's ultimate questions; the purpose or raison d'être of human life.
- quality of lifeThe general well-being of someone, and the degree to which someone's daily experience is enjoyable or unenjoyable.
- everyday life
- life expectancyThe amount of time one is expected to live.
- daily lifeThe activities that make up a person's normal life, as contrasted with unusual or once-in-a-lifetime events.
- loss of lifeDeath.
- battery lifeThe time that a battery lasts
- get a lifeTo begin having a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence.
- come to lifeTo become alive, to be given life; to be brought into existence.
- social lifeAn individual's interpersonal relationships with people within their immediate surroundings or general public.
- Game of LifeAn American board game simulating progress through life, with job, marriage, etc.
- still lifeA work of art depicting an arrangement of inanimate objects.
- shelf lifeThe length of time a product (especially food and drugs) will last without deteriorating or without being sold.
- sex lifeThat part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity.
- right-to-lifeDescribing an antiabortion political position.
- half-lifeThe time required for half the nuclei in a sample of an isotope to undergo radioactive decay.
- set for lifePossessing sufficient resources, especially financial, to last a lifetime.
- life supportAn artificial system designed to provide oxygen and other conditions necessary for human life in an inhospitable environment.
- private lifeThe aspects of one's life that are personal, such as family, friends and other personal relationships, as opposed to the elements that make up one's public or professional life.
- good lifeA life of material comforts and luxuries.
Compound words 197
- aliveHaving life; living; not dead.
- wildlifeundomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild.
- lifetimeThe duration of the life of someone or something.
- livelyFull of life; energetic, vivacious.
- nightlifeNocturnal activities, especially visiting nightclubs.
- afterlifeA conscious existence after death; a supernatural life that follows one's natural life, in some worldviews.
- lifelineA line to which a drowning or falling victim may cling.
- lifeguardA lifesaver: a rescuer, usually an expert swimmer, employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning at a body of water.
- lifespanThe length of time for which an organism lives.
- lifelessinanimate; having no life