| 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 | - |
| linelike | (adjective) resembling a line | - |
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| liplike | (adjective) having lips or parts that resemble lips | Synonyms: labiate |
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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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| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| spikelike | (adjective) resembling a spike | - |
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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 |
| 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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