🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Shift"
46 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "shift" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| miffed | 1 | (informal) Somewhat indignant, irritated, angry, in a snit, put out or annoyed. | |
| drift | 1 | noun | (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved. |
| rift | 1 | noun | (figurative) A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance. |
| lift | 1 | verb | (ambitransitive) To raise or rise. |
| swift | 1 | noun | Fast; quick; rapid. |
| adrift | 2 | Floating at random. | |
| gift | 1 | noun | Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. |
| makeshift | 2 | noun | Made to work or suffice; improvised; substituted. |
| shrift | 1 | noun | The act of going to or hearing a religious confession. |
| sift | 1 | verb | (transitive) To examine (something) carefully. |
| clift | 1 | noun | (obsolete) A cliff. |
| short shrift | 2 | noun | (chiefly uncountable, figuratively) Sometimes preceded by the: a quick dismissal or rejection, especially one which is impolite and undertaken without proper consideration. |
| tift | 1 | noun | (dated) A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff. |
| airlift | 2 | noun | The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency. |
| riffed | 1 | Who has lost a job due to a RIF (reduction in force). | |
| spendthrift | 2 | noun | Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully. |
| shoplift | 2 | verb | (transitive) To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise. |
| sniffed | 1 | verb | (ambitransitive) To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something. |
| forklift | 2 | noun | A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved. |
| face lift | 2 | noun | Alternative form of facelift. [Plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging.] |
| whiffed | 1 | verb | A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft. |
| be adrift | 3 | verb | be in motion due to some air or water current |
| continental drift | 5 | noun | (geology) The slow movement of continents explained by plate tectonics. |
| facelift | 2 | noun | Plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging. |
| ski lift | 2 | noun | A device that transports skiers up a mountain. |
| chimney swift | 3 | noun | A rapid-flying bird that feeds on flying insects, Chaetura pelagica, with a breeding range in the eastern US extending into Canada and winter range in northwestern South America. |
| chair lift | 2 | noun | Alternative form of chairlift. [A continuously moving series of open seats, slung from overhead cables, used to transport people (especially skiers) up the sides of mountains.] |
| tree swift | 2 | noun | birds of southeast asia and east indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees |
| crested swift | 3 | noun | birds of southeast asia and east indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees |
| christmas gift | 3 | "Christmas Eve gift" is an exclamation traced back to the early 1800s in the southern United States. | |
| philanthropic gift | 5 | noun | voluntary promotion of human welfare |
| biffed | 1 | verb | (informal, transitive) To punch or hit. |
| boatlift | 2 | noun | The (often clandestine) transportation of a large number of people or amount of goods by boat, especially an exodus of people. |
| sealift | 2 | noun | (military) transportation by sea |
| tiffed | 1 | verb | (intransitive, informal) To be involved in a (generally small) argument or disagreement; to squabble. |
| birthday gift | 3 | noun | a present given in celebration of a person's birthday |
| european swift | 5 | noun | common european bird with a shrieking call that nests chiefly about eaves of buildings or on cliffs |
| aerolift | 3 | a South African airline based in Bryanston, Gauteng, Johannesburg, operating chartered passenger and cargo flights within Africa using Soviet-built aircraft. | |
| credithrift | 3 | — | |
| fork-lift | 2 | — | |
| jonathan swift | 4 | (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) an Anglo-Irish writer who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". | |
| seadrift | 2 | noun | A city in Texas. |
| stiffed | 1 | verb | (slang, chiefly Canada, US) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education. |
| thrift | 1 | noun | (uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money). |
| tifft | 1 | noun | A surname. |
| wedding gift | 3 | noun | a present given to someone getting married |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Shift"
44 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| tryst | 1 | noun | A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time. |
| mist | 1 | noun | (countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.) |
| assist | 2 | verb | To help. |
| subsist | 2 | verb | To survive on a minimum of resources. |
| twist | 1 | noun | A twisting force. |
| persist | 2 | verb | (intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely. |
| pissed | 1 | (chiefly US, Canada, Australia, mildly vulgar, colloquial) Annoyed, angry. | |
| insist | 2 | verb | (sometimes with (that + subjunctive) or intransitive, with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it. |
| resist | 2 | verb | (intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept. |
| dismissed | 2 | Having been fired or let go; having had one's employment terminated. | |
| consist | 2 | verb | (rail transport) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit. |
| desist | 2 | verb | (ambitransitive, formal) To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from). |
| midst | 1 | noun | (often literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location. |
| exist | 2 | verb | (intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality |
| enlist | 2 | verb | (intransitive) To voluntarily join a cause or organization, especially military service. |
| grist | 1 | noun | Grain that is to be ground in a mill. |
| cist | 1 | noun | (archaeology) A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs. |
| blitzed | 1 | (slang) Drunk; wasted. | |
| wrist | 1 | noun | (anatomy) The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense. |
| kissed | 1 | a 1996 Canadian romantic/erotic drama film directed and co-written by Lynne Stopkewich, based on Barbara Gowdy's short story "We So Seldom Look on Love". | |
| fist | 1 | noun | A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward. |
| coexist | 3 | verb | (intransitive, stative, of two or more things, people, concepts, etc.) To exist contemporaneously or in the same area. |
| dished | 1 | Shaped like a dish; concave. | |
| missed | 1 | not caught with the senses or the mind | |
| preexist | 3 | verb | (intransitive) To exist before something else. |
| schist | 1 | noun | Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates. |
| short list | 2 | noun | A list of candidates selected from a longer list, and from which one or more successful candidates are in turn selected. |
| waiting list | 3 | noun | An ordered list of people waiting to obtain a good or service. |
| wist | 1 | verb | (nonstandard, pseudo-archaic) To know, be aware of. |
| cyst | 1 | noun | A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ. |
| mailing list | 3 | noun | An email list. |
| sebaceous cyst | 4 | noun | epidermous cyst |
| delist | 2 | verb | (transitive) To remove from an official register or list. |
| fished | 1 | (rare) Containing or loaded with fish. | |
| ovarian cyst | 5 | noun | Any collection of fluid, surrounded by a very thin wall, within an ovary; any ovarian follicle that is larger than about two centimeters is termed an ovarian cyst. |
| stock list | 2 | noun | Alternative form of stocklist. [An inventory of items that are currently stocked.] |
| free list | 2 | noun | (programming) A data structure, used in dynamic memory allocation, that connects free (unallocated) regions of memory together in a linked list. |
| gist | 1 | noun | (countable) The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith. |
| kist | 1 | noun | (Scotland) A chest. |
| list | 1 | noun | A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth. |
| liszt | 1 | noun | (music) Franz Liszt, a Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher. |
| nist | 1 | noun | A surname from Welsh. |
| rist | 1 | noun | A surname. |
| wished | 1 | verb | (transitive) To desire; to want. |
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