| klondike | (noun) a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time | - |
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| knifelike | (adjective) having a sharp or distinct edge | - |
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| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| (adjective) cutting or able to cut as if with a knife | - |
| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
| lacelike | (adjective) made of or resembling lace | Synonyms: lacy |
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| ladylike | (adjective) befitting a woman of good breeding | - |
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| ladylikeness | (noun) behavior befitting a lady | - |
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| lamblike | (adjective) like a lamb in meekness and gentleness | - |
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| lancelike | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex | Synonyms: lanceolate |
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| latticelike | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, interlaced, latticed |
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| leaflike | (adjective) resembling a leaf | Synonyms: leaf-like |
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| leatherlike | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leathery |
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| leechlike | (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: bloodsucking, parasitic, parasitical |
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| leglike | (adjective) resembling or functioning like a leg | - |
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| lemonlike | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemony, sourish, tangy, tart |
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| lifelike | (adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind | Synonyms: graphic, pictorial, vivid |
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| (adjective) free from artificiality | Synonyms: natural |
| like | (adjective) resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination | Synonyms: similar |
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| (adjective) equal in amount or value | Synonyms: same |
| (adjective) having the same or similar characteristics | Synonyms: alike, similar |
| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, corresponding |
| (noun) a kind of person | Synonyms: ilk |
| (noun) a similar kind | Synonyms: the like, the likes of |
| (verb) feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard | - |
| (verb) to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something | Synonyms: care, wish |
| (verb) be fond of | - |
| (verb) find enjoyable or agreeable | - |
| (verb) want to have | - |
| likeable | (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: appealing, likable, sympathetic |
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| (adjective) easy to like; agreeable | Synonyms: likable |
| liked | (adjective) found pleasant or attractive; often used as a combining form | - |
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| likelihood | (noun) the probability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: likeliness |
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| likeliness | (noun) the probability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: likelihood |
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| likely | (adjective) has a good chance of being the case or of coming about | - |
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| (adjective) within the realm of credibility | - |
| (adjective) expected to become or be; in prospect | Synonyms: potential |
| (adverb) with considerable certainty; without much doubt | Synonyms: belike, in all likelihood, in all probability, probably |
| liken | (verb) consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous | Synonyms: compare, equate |
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| likeness | (noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing | Synonyms: semblance |
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| (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: alikeness, similitude |
| likening | (noun) the act of comparing similarities | - |
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| likewise | (adverb) in like or similar manner | Synonyms: similarly |
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| (adverb) in addition | Synonyms: also, as well, besides, too |
| (adverb) equally | Synonyms: alike |
| linelike | (adjective) resembling a line | - |
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| liplike | (adjective) having lips or parts that resemble lips | Synonyms: labiate |
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| lorikeet | (noun) any of various small lories | - |
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| loverlike | (adjective) like or in the manner of a lover | Synonyms: loverly |
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| machinelike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, automatonlike, robotic, robotlike |
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| maidenlike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a maiden | Synonyms: maidenly |
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| maniclike | (adjective) resembling the mania of manic-depressive illness | - |
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| manlike | (adjective) possessing qualities befitting a man | Synonyms: manful, manly |
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| (adjective) resembling human beings | Synonyms: anthropoid |
| (adjective) characteristic of a man | Synonyms: male, manful, manly, virile |
| maplelike | (adjective) resembling maple | Synonyms: maple-like |
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| marlinespike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlingspike, marlinspike |
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| marlingspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlinspike |
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| marlinspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlingspike |
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| metallike | (adjective) resembling metal | Synonyms: metal-looking, metallic-looking |
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| mike | (noun) device for converting sound waves into electrical energy | Synonyms: mic, microphone |
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| milklike | (adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear | Synonyms: milky, whitish |
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| minibike | (noun) small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars | Synonyms: motorbike |
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| mirrorlike | (adjective) capable of reflecting light like a mirror | Synonyms: specular |
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| moblike | (adjective) characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless | Synonyms: mobbish |
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| moniker | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| moonlike | (adjective) resembling the moon in shape | Synonyms: moon-round |
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| motherlike | (adjective) suggestive of or acting like a mother | - |
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| motorbike | (noun) small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars | Synonyms: minibike |
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| (verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: cycle, motorcycle |
| mouselike | (adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mousey, mousy |
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| mouthlike | (adjective) of an opening that resembles a mouth | - |
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| necklike | (adjective) resembling a neck | - |
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| needlelike | (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, acute, sharp |
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| netlike | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netted, webbed, webby, weblike |
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| networklike | (adjective) having a network of veins or ribs | - |
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| nutlike | (adjective) resembling a nut in shape and size | - |
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| (adjective) having the flavor of nuts | Synonyms: nutty |
| olivelike | (adjective) resembling an olive | Synonyms: olive-like |
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| palmlike | (adjective) resembling a palm tree | - |
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| paperlike | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: chartaceous, papery |
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| parrotlike | (adjective) mechanically imitated or repeated without thought or understanding | - |
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| pastelike | (adjective) resembling paste in color; pallid | Synonyms: pasty |
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| petallike | (adjective) resembling a petal | Synonyms: petal-like |
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| pike | (noun) any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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| (noun) medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet | - |
| (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
| (noun) a sharp point (as on the end of a spear) | - |
| (noun) highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh | - |
| pikeblenny | (noun) tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory | - |
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| pikestaff | (noun) the staff of a pike | - |
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| platelike | (adjective) as the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks | Synonyms: placoid |
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| plumelike | (adjective) resembling a plume | Synonyms: plumy |
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| plumlike | (adjective) resembling a plum fruit | - |
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| podlike | (adjective) resembling a pod | - |
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| pouchlike | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: bursiform, pouch-shaped, saclike |
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| priestlike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood | Synonyms: priestly |
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| prisonlike | (adjective) resembling a prison | - |
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| puppylike | (adjective) characteristic of a puppy | Synonyms: puppyish |
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| queenlike | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen | Synonyms: queenly |
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| ratlike | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a rat | - |
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| reedlike | (adjective) resembling a reed in being upright and slender | Synonyms: reedy |
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| resinlike | (adjective) resembling resin in properties or texture | - |
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| ribbonlike | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbony |
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| riblike | (adjective) resembling a rib | - |
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| ringlike | (adjective) having the shape of a ring | - |
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| robotlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, automatonlike, machinelike, robotic |
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| rocklike | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitelike, granitic, stony |
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| rodlike | (adjective) resembling a rod | Synonyms: rod-shaped |
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| rubberlike | (adjective) having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness | Synonyms: rubbery |
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| rushlike | (adjective) resembling rush or sedge | Synonyms: sedgelike |
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| saclike | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: bursiform, pouch-shaped, pouchlike |
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| saintlike | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, beatific, sainted, saintly |
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| saltlike | (adjective) resembling a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal | - |
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| sandlike | (adjective) resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas | Synonyms: arenaceous, sandy |
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| scalelike | (adjective) reduced to a small appressed thing that resembles a scale | - |
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| seamanlike | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a seaman; indicating competent seamanship | Synonyms: seamanly |
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| sedgelike | (adjective) resembling rush or sedge | Synonyms: rushlike |
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| serflike | (adjective) like someone in servitude | - |
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| sheeplike | (adjective) like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity | Synonyms: sheepish |
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| sheetlike | (adjective) resembling a sheet | - |
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| shelflike | (adjective) resembling a shelf (or considered to resemble a shelf) | - |
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| shrike | (noun) any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals | - |
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| silklike | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick |
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| sisterlike | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterly, sororal |
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| slavelike | (adjective) suitable for a slave or servant | - |
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| snakelike | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: serpentine, snaky |
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| soldierlike | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierly, warriorlike |
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| songlike | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: ariose |
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