| spiderlike | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderly, spidery |
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| spike | (noun) sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes | - |
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| (noun) a large stout nail | - |
| (noun) any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object | Synonyms: spindle |
| (noun) a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal) | - |
| (noun) a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur) | - |
| (noun) a very high narrow heel on women's shoes | Synonyms: spike heel, stiletto heel |
| (noun) each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves) | - |
| (noun) a transient variation in voltage or current | - |
| (noun) a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline | - |
| (noun) (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis | - |
| (noun) fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn | Synonyms: capitulum, ear |
| (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: fortify, lace |
| (verb) bring forth a spike or spikes | Synonyms: spike out |
| (verb) manifest a sharp increase | - |
| (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, impale, transfix |
| (verb) secure with spikes | - |
| (verb) stand in the way of | - |
| spiked | (adjective) having a long sharp point | - |
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| spikelet | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spine, sticker, thorn |
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| spikelike | (adjective) resembling a spike | - |
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| spikemoss | (noun) any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella | Synonyms: little club moss, spike moss |
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| spikenard | (noun) an aromatic ointment used in antiquity | Synonyms: nard |
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| spongelike | (adjective) like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed | Synonyms: spongy |
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| (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongy, squashy, squishy |
| sportsmanlike | (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sporting, sporty |
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| springlike | (adjective) resembling a spring or the action of a spring | - |
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| starchlike | (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous |
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| starlike | (adjective) resembling a star | - |
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| statesmanlike | (adjective) marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman | Synonyms: statesmanly |
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| stonelike | (adjective) (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness | Synonyms: petrous |
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| straplike | (adjective) long and narrow like a strap | - |
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| strike | (noun) a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions | Synonyms: work stoppage |
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| (noun) a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball | Synonyms: ten-strike |
| (noun) an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective | - |
| (noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: bang, hit, smash, smasher |
| (noun) (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders | - |
| (noun) a gentle blow | Synonyms: rap, tap |
| (verb) cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp | - |
| (verb) arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing | - |
| (verb) indicate (a certain time) by striking | - |
| (verb) make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon | - |
| (verb) hit against; come into sudden contact with | Synonyms: collide with, hit, impinge on, run into |
| (verb) affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, scratch |
| (verb) pierce with force | - |
| (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strickle |
| (verb) hook by a pull on the line | Synonyms: seize |
| (verb) produce by ignition or a blow | - |
| (verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing | Synonyms: coin, mint |
| (verb) disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, impress, move |
| (verb) drive something violently into a location | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: assume, take, take up |
| (verb) cause to experience suddenly | Synonyms: come to, hit |
| (verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon |
| (verb) stop work in order to press demands | Synonyms: walk out |
| (verb) attain | Synonyms: come to |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, shine |
| strikebound | (adjective) closed or immobilized by a strike | - |
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| strikebreaker | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
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| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| strikeout | (noun) an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes | - |
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| striker | (noun) the part of a mechanical device that strikes something | - |
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| (noun) an employee on strike against an employer | - |
| (noun) someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating | - |
| (noun) a forward on a soccer team | - |
| (noun) someone who hits | Synonyms: hitter |
| suchlike | (adjective) of the same kind | - |
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| swordlike | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: bladelike, ensiform, sword-shaped |
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| sylphlike | (adjective) (of a woman or girl) slender and graceful like a sylph | Synonyms: sylphic |
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| taillike | (adjective) resembling a tail | Synonyms: caudal |
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| thistlelike | (adjective) resembling a thistle | - |
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| threadlike | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, thready |
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| tike | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tyke, youngster |
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| (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tyke |
| tonguelike | (adjective) resembling a tongue in form or function | - |
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| toothlike | (adjective) resembling a tooth | - |
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| trancelike | (adjective) as if in a trance | - |
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| treelike | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped |
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| trike | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, velocipede |
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| tubelike | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubular, vasiform |
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| turnpike | (noun) an expressway on which tolls are collected | Synonyms: toll road |
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| (noun) (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid | - |
| twiglike | (adjective) thin as a twig | Synonyms: twiggy |
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| umbrellalike | (adjective) resembling an umbrella | - |
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| unalike | (adjective) not alike or similar | Synonyms: dissimilar |
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| unchristlike | (adjective) not becoming to or like a Christian | Synonyms: unchristianly |
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| ungentlemanlike | (adjective) not befitting a gentleman | Synonyms: ungentlemanly |
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| unladylike | (adjective) lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady | - |
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| unlifelike | (adjective) without substance | Synonyms: cardboard |
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| unlike | (adjective) marked by dissimilarity | - |
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| (adjective) not equal in amount | - |
| unlikeable | (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings | Synonyms: unappealing, unlikable, unsympathetic |
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| (adjective) difficult or impossible to like | Synonyms: unlikable |
| unlikelihood | (noun) the improbability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: unlikeliness |
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| unlikeliness | (noun) the improbability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: unlikelihood |
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| unlikely | (adjective) has little chance of being the case or coming about | - |
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| (adjective) not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred | Synonyms: improbable |
| (adjective) having a probability too low to inspire belief | Synonyms: improbable, unbelievable, unconvincing |
| unlikeness | (noun) dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness | Synonyms: dissimilitude |
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| unmanlike | (adjective) not possessing qualities befitting a man | Synonyms: unmanful, unmanly |
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| unseamanlike | (adjective) not seamanlike | - |
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| unsportsmanlike | (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: cheating, dirty, foul, unsporting |
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| unstatesmanlike | (adjective) not statesmanlike | - |
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| unworkmanlike | (adjective) not characteristic of or suitable for a good workman | - |
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| veinlike | (adjective) having or showing markings that resemble veins | Synonyms: veined, venose |
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| viselike | (adjective) clamped as in a vise | - |
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| vowellike | (adjective) having characteristics of a vowel sound | - |
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| warlike | (adjective) suggesting war or military life | Synonyms: martial |
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| (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: hawkish, militant |
| warriorlike | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, soldierly |
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| wartlike | (adjective) (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts | Synonyms: verrucose, warty |
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| wavelike | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavy |
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| waxlike | (adjective) having the paleness of wax | Synonyms: waxen, waxy |
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| weblike | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, netted, webbed, webby |
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| whiplike | (adjective) having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellated, lash-like |
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| wifelike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a wife | Synonyms: uxorial, wifely |
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| winglike | (adjective) resembling a wing in shape or position | - |
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| wisplike | (adjective) thin and weak | Synonyms: wispy |
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| witchlike | (adjective) being or having the character of witchcraft | - |
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| wolflike | (adjective) resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf | Synonyms: wolfish |
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| womanlike | (adjective) resembling a woman | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female | Synonyms: womanliness |
| workmanlike | (adjective) worthy of a good workman | - |
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| wormlike | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormy |
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| wraithlike | (adjective) lacking in substance | Synonyms: shadowy |
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| yeastlike | (adjective) of or resembling or containing yeast | Synonyms: yeasty |
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