| 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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| muckrake | (verb) explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures | - |
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| namesake | (noun) a person with the same name as another | - |
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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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| nuke | (noun) the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb | Synonyms: atomic warhead, nuclear warhead, thermonuclear warhead |
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| (verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, microwave, zap |
| (verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomise, atomize, zap |
| (verb) bomb with atomic weapons | Synonyms: atom-bomb |
| nutlike | (adjective) resembling a nut in shape and size | - |
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| (adjective) having the flavor of nuts | Synonyms: nutty |
| oatcake | (noun) thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal | - |
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| olivelike | (adjective) resembling an olive | Synonyms: olive-like |
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| outstroke | (noun) the stroke of an engine piston moving toward the crankshaft | - |
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| outtake | (noun) a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film | - |
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| ovenbake | (verb) bake in an oven | - |
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| overtake | (verb) catch up with and possibly overtake | Synonyms: catch, catch up with |
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| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, pass |
| palmlike | (adjective) resembling a palm tree | - |
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| pancake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake |
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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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| partake | (verb) consume | Synonyms: touch |
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| (verb) have, give, or receive a share of | Synonyms: partake in, share |
| (verb) have some of the qualities or attributes of something | - |
| pastelike | (adjective) resembling paste in color; pallid | Synonyms: pasty |
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| peruke | (noun) a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: periwig |
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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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| poke | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, punch, slug |
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| (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poking, thrust, thrusting |
| (noun) a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases | Synonyms: carrier bag, paper bag, sack |
| (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer |
| (noun) tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous | Synonyms: garget, Phytolacca americana, pigeon berry, scoke |
| (verb) make a hole by poking | - |
| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, prod, stab |
| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: pound, thump |
| (verb) stir by poking | - |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, nose, pry |
| 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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| provoke | (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, evoke, kick up |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, raise |
| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague |
| puke | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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| (noun) the matter ejected in vomiting | Synonyms: barf, vomit, vomitus |
| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| puppylike | (adjective) characteristic of a puppy | Synonyms: puppyish |
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| quake | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: earthquake, seism, temblor |
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| (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quiver |
| (verb) shake with seismic vibrations | Synonyms: tremor |
| queenlike | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen | Synonyms: queenly |
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| rake | (noun) a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil | - |
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| (noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: pitch, slant |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rakehell, rip, roue |
| (verb) gather with a rake | - |
| (verb) level or smooth with a rake | - |
| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: crease, graze |
| (verb) move through with or as if with a rake | - |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, run down, scan, skim |
| (verb) sweep the length of | - |
| ratlike | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a rat | - |
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| rattlesnake | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattler |
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| rebuke | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| reedlike | (adjective) resembling a reed in being upright and slender | Synonyms: reedy |
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| remake | (noun) creation that is created again or anew | Synonyms: remaking |
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| (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, redo, refashion |
| resinlike | (adjective) resembling resin in properties or texture | - |
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| retake | (noun) a shot or scene that is photographed again | - |
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| (verb) photograph again | - |
| (verb) capture again | Synonyms: recapture |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: recapture |
| reuptake | (noun) a process of using up or consuming again | Synonyms: re-uptake |
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| revoke | (noun) the mistake of not following suit when able to do so | Synonyms: renege |
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| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, vacate |
| (verb) fail to follow suit when able and required to do so | - |
| 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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| sake | (noun) a reason for wanting something done | Synonyms: interest |
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| (noun) the purpose of achieving or obtaining | - |
| (noun) Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot | Synonyms: rice beer, saki |
| 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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| schipperke | (noun) breed of small stocky black dogs originally used as watchdogs on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium | - |
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| scoke | (noun) tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous | Synonyms: garget, Phytolacca americana, pigeon berry, poke |
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| seamanlike | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a seaman; indicating competent seamanship | Synonyms: seamanly |
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| seaquake | (noun) an earthquake at the sea bed | Synonyms: submarine earthquake |
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| sedgelike | (adjective) resembling rush or sedge | Synonyms: rushlike |
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| seedcake | (noun) a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon | Synonyms: seed cake |
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| semicoke | (noun) Semicoke is a solid residue obtained by carbonization of coal at a relatively low temperature (below 700° C). | - |
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| serflike | (adjective) like someone in servitude | - |
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| shake | (noun) a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, tremble |
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| (noun) causing to move repeatedly from side to side | Synonyms: wag, waggle |
| (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, handshaking |
| (noun) a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it | Synonyms: trill |
| (noun) frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream | Synonyms: milk shake, milkshake |
| (noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shingle |
| (verb) move with or as if with a tremor | Synonyms: didder |
| (verb) undermine or cause to waver | - |
| (verb) bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking | - |
| (verb) shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state | - |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake up, stimulate, stir |
| (verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: agitate |
| (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: judder |
| (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, sway |
| (verb) get rid of | Synonyms: escape from, shake off, throw off |
| 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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| sheldrake | (noun) Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill | - |
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| (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sawbill |
| shelflike | (adjective) resembling a shelf (or considered to resemble a shelf) | - |
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| shiitake | (noun) edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe | Synonyms: Chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, Lentinus edodes, Oriental black mushroom, shiitake mushroom |
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| shortcake | (noun) very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream | - |
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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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| sidestroke | (noun) a swimming stroke in which the arms move forward and backward while the legs do a scissors kick | - |
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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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| slake | (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: abate, slack |
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| (verb) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water | Synonyms: slack |
| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, quench |
| slavelike | (adjective) suitable for a slave or servant | - |
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| slowpoke | (noun) someone who moves slowly | Synonyms: plodder, slowcoach, stick-in-the-mud |
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| smoke | (noun) the act of smoking tobacco or other substances | Synonyms: smoking |
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| (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, fastball, heater, hummer |
| (noun) tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder | Synonyms: roll of tobacco |
| (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, weed |
| (noun) something with no concrete substance | - |
| (noun) an indication of some hidden activity | - |
| (noun) a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas | Synonyms: fume |
| (noun) a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion | Synonyms: smoking |
| (verb) inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes | - |
| (verb) emit a cloud of fine particles | Synonyms: fume |
| snake | (noun) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous | Synonyms: ophidian, serpent |
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| (noun) something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake | - |
| (noun) a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes | Synonyms: auger, plumber's snake |
| (noun) a deceitful or treacherous person | Synonyms: snake in the grass |
| (verb) move along a winding path | - |
| (verb) move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake | - |
| (verb) form a snake-like pattern | - |
| snakelike | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: serpentine, snaky |
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| snowflake | (noun) white Arctic bunting | Synonyms: Plectrophenax nivalis, snow bunting, snowbird |
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| (noun) a crystal of snow | Synonyms: flake |
| 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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| spoke | (noun) support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim | Synonyms: radius, wheel spoke |
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| (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rundle, rung |
| 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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