Slick

Expressions using "slick": oil slick ♦ slick down ♦ slick magazine ♦ slick oneself up ♦ slick paper ♦ slick spots ♦ slick up. Additional references.

Beginning with "slick": slick-back, slick-edged, slick-looking, slick-moving, slick-running, slick-shifting, slick-soled, slick-style.

Ending with "slick": oil-slick.

Albanian

i shkathët (adroit, agile, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, habile, knacky, light-handed, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, natty, neat, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious), i shkëlqyeshëm (de luxe, fulgent, gilded, glistening, grand, luminous, magnificent, Orient, refulgent, resplendent, sparkling), i lëmuar (ganoid, glace, glib, highbred, nice, polished, polite, refined, sleek, sleeken, sleeky, smooth, smooth-faced, soft, unruffled, waxy, well mannered). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملس الشعر, ‏ماكر (artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, disingenuous, feline, foxlike, foxy, furtive, guileful, malicious, pawky, politic, scheming, sharper, slim, sly, smart, subtle, trick, vulpine, wily), ‏ماهر (adept, adroit, astute, clever, consummate, deft, ingenious, nimble, proficient, shrewd, skilful, skilled, skillful, sound, subtle), ‏لمع الشعر, ‏لامع (blazing, bright, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, flashing, glazed, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossed, glossy, golden, high, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, showy, sleek, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring), ‏سهل (ease, ease off, easy, even, expedite, facilitate, favor, favour, flat, frail, get-at-able, plain, quite simple, simple, smooth, soft), ‏زلق (lubricate, lubricious, slip, slippery, slippy, slither, sweep, unctuous), ‏أملس (downy, lubricious, sleek, smooth, soapy, unctuous, unruffled), ‏بقعة نفط, ‏بقعة زلقة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разлят бензин, хлъзгаво място, хлъзгав (lubricous, slippery), гладък (clean, even, facile, flat, fluent, fluid, glace, level, lubricous, round, satiny, sleek, smooth, unctuous, unruffled), отличен (alpha plus, banner, crack, excellent, fine, grand, groovy, immense, master stroke, masterly, mean, nailing, peachy, pre eminent, prime, prize, roaring, spanking, splendid, superb, unexceptionable, whizbang, wicked, wizard), екстра (cool, crack-a-jack, extra, first rate, gilt-edged, goluptious, nailing, primely, rattling, ripping), лъскаво списание, луксозно списание (glossy), ловък (able, adroit, agile, artful, dodgy, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, natty, neat, neat-handed, peart, politic, pretty, shrewd, skilful, skillful, swift-handed, tricksy, tricky, wary, whizbang), лек (airy, bland, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, fairy, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), приглаждам (sleek, smooth), повърхностен (airy, blanket, borax, cheap, cursory, dilettante, external, facile, flimsy, frothy, glib, lip-deep, outward, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, subaerial, sublime, superficial, surface, terrain, trumpery, yeasty), изкусен (adroit, clever, cunning, daedal, expert, light fingered, masterful, mean, neat, proficient, scientific, sharp, skilful, skilled, skillful, subtle, technic, technical, tricksy, versed, workmanlike), изглаждам (adjust, atone, calender, face, file, iron out, level, make up, patch, patch up, plane, planish, polish, polish up, press out, reconcile, sleek, smarm, smooth, sponge out). (various references)

Chinese 

油滑. (various references)

Czech

uhlazený (courtly, genteel, graceful, mannerly, polite, refined, sleek, urbane), uhladit (flatten, polish, sleek, smooth), mazaný (artful, cannie, canny, crafty, cunning, nifty, sharp, sly), úhledný (neat, sightly, tidy, tight). (various references)

Danish

slikker (sleek, sleeker, sluker), pudseværktøj (sleek, sleeker, sluker), pudseknap (sleek, sleeker, sluker), polere (brightening, burnish, planish, polish, sleek), hinde af flydestoffer, glatte (equalize, flatten, sleek, smooth). (various references)

Dutch

slikker (sleek, sleeker, sluker), polijstnok (sleek, sleeker, sluker), polijsten (brightening, burnish, finishing, planish, polish, polishing, sleek, sleeking, slicking), oppervlaktefilm. (various references)

Farsi 

یکدست کردن , یک دست (Flat, Level), مطلق (Absolute, Abstract, Arbitrary, Autocratic, Downright, Free, Implicit, Positive, Sheer, Stark, Total, Unconditional, Unrestrained, Utter), ماهر (Adept, Adroit, Cunning, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Expert, Great, Handy, Industrious, Jimmy, Natty, Pert, Proficient, Skillful, Understanding, Workmanlike), نرم وصاف کردن , نرم (Downy, Effeminate, Fine, Floppy, Levigate, Limber, Lithe, Mellow, Plastic, Pliant, Silken, Silky, Sleek, Smooth, Soft, Spongy, Suave, Supple, Tractable, Velvet), لیز (Glib, Slab, Slimy, Slipper, Slippery), سطح صیقلی , سطح صاف (Smooth), ساده (Bald, Bare, Downright, Explicit, Homespun, Idiot, Inexpensive, Plain, Positive, Simple, Unaadorned, Unaffected, Unassuming, Unceremonious, Unmeaning, Untutored), صاف (Clear, Even, Explicit, Flat, Glossy, Limpid, Plain, Plane, Serene, Silken, Sleek, Unruffled), جذاب (Cute, Dashing, Lovable, Personable). (various references)

Finnish

silittää (flatten, iron, press, smooth smooth down, stroke), silitin (sleek, sleeker, sluker), tasoittaa (equalize, even, level, make even, round balance, smooth, trim), pintakalvo. (various references)

French

se lisser, se brillantiner, superficiel (slight), lissoir (sleek, sleeker, sluker), brillant (sleek), facile, film d'huile, film superficiel, glissant (slide, sliding, slippery, slippy), astucieux (sly), lisser (sleek), luisant (sleek), marée noir, nappe (slop), rusé (slim, sly), lissé. (various references)

German

polieren (brush up, buff, burnish, furbish, glaze, gloss, polish, polish up, polishing, rub, rubbing, shine, shining, simonize, to polish, to slick). (various references)

Greek 

λειαίνω (abrade, planish, sleek, smooth, surface). (various references)

Hebrew 

חלקלק (greasy, skiddy, slippery, smooth), חלק (blank, even, fate, flat, fraction, glace, installment, level, lot, part, partition, portion, section, share, smooth, soft). (various references)

Hungarian

simító (lute, mason's scraper), simít (smooth, to dub, to enamel, to glaze, to gloss, to smooth, to stroke, to surface), simán (glibly, sleekly, smooth, smoothly), sima felület, sima (calm, chimaera, clean, flat, glassy, glib, glossy, like a mill-pond, plane, sedate, sleek, smooth, smooth air, smooth as glass, smooth working, soft, untroubled), ravasz (acute, artful, astute, be cunning, cagey, cagy, calculating, canny, catchy, colubrine, crafted, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, drafty, draughty, elusive, foxy, gimmicky, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, pawky, shifty, shrewd, slim, sly, to know how many beans make five, trappy, tricksy, tricky, trigger, vulpine, wily), olajréteg (oil slick), menő (ace, going, hip, posh, pro, spiffy, trendy, whiz), frankó (boss, hunky-dory, spiffy, up front), dörzsölt (coony, cunning, hip), baró (sniffy, spiffy), ügyesen (ably, adeptly, adroitly, capably, deftly, expeditiously, expertly, masterly, nattily, skillfully, sleekly, slickly, to jink, to play one's cards well), ügyes (able, adept, adroit, artful, clean, clever, crafted, cunning, dab, daedalian, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodge, expeditious, expenditious, facile, feat, good, habile, handy, ingenious, masterly, natty, nimble-fingered, politic, proficient, ready worker, skilful, skillful, skilly, to know how many beans make five, versatile). (various references)

Indonesian

lapisan (glaze, layer, lining, mantle, precipitate). (various references)

Italian

lisciare (flatter, shave, sleek, slick down, smooth, smooth out, soft soap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

艶艶 (bright, glossy), 艶々 (bright, glossy), 如才 (adroit, affable, clever, sharp, skillful, smart, smooth-tongued). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つやつや (bright, glossy), じょさい (adroit, affable, clever, deacon, sharp, skillful, smart, smooth-tongued). (various references)

Korean 

매끄러운 (silken, silky, sleek, smooth). (various references)

Manx

shliee (flicker; lapping, lick, licking; more, licking; more in number), jesh-laueagh (adept, adroit, ambidexterous, ambidextrous, deft, dexterous, handy), arbyl (end, fluke of whale, queue, stem of note, stern, tail, train of dress), abyl (able-bodied, adroit, businesslike, capable, powerful, smart). (various references)

Pig Latin

ickslay.(various references)

Portuguese

polir (basil, brighten, burnish, furbish, glass, gloss, grind, lap, make smooth, polish, refine, rub, scour, scrape, spall, varnish), manhoso (cagey, designing, jesuitic, jesuitical, machiavellian, pawky, sharp, shifty, sly, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wily), macio (cottony, creamy, cushiony, downy, fleecy, fluffy, gentle, lithe, mellow, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, tender), lustroso (beady, glace, glazed, glazy, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, sleeky, smooth, spick and span, splendent), lisonjeiro (candied, courtly, fawning, flattering, glib, smooth, sugary, wheedling), liso (even-minded, flat, glossy, hard-up, lank, level, plane, sleek, sleeky, unruffled), habilidoso (artful, corndodger, dexterous, dextrous, dodger, handy, hoe-cake, ingenious, knacky, skilful, skillful, tactical, wieldy), gorduroso (adipose, fat, fatty, greasy, lardy, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, smeary, tallowy, unctuous), escorregadio (lubricous, slippery, slippy), ensebado (shabby), destro (able, adroit, clean, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, feat, knacky, light-handed, natty, neat-handed, quick, righthand, right-handed, skilful, skillful), alisar (basil, comb, dab, dub, fettle, grind, level, make smooth, planish, preen, prink, rake, rake up, scrape, smarm, smooth). (various references)

Romanian

pe loc (immediately, on short notice, out of hand, outright, Pat, right, straight away), neted (clear, even, evenly, flat, flush, lank, level ground, plain, plane, polished, sleek, smooth, smooth-faced, smoothly), imediat (anon, at once, before you could say jack robinson, directly, eftsoons, forthright, forthwith, immediate, immediately, in a trice, instanter, instantly, now, on short notice, on the instant, on the spot, out of hand, Pat, present, presently, prompt, quick as flash, right away, soon, speak away, straight, straight away, this instant, urgent), exact (accurate, accurately, by the square, careful, clean-cut, clipping, clockwork, correct, dead, directly, due, even, exact, exactly, faithful, fitting, flat, for all the world, formal, just, just so, narrow, perfect, precise, precisely, proper, punctual, punctually, regular, right, rigorous, scholarly, sharp, straight, strict, strictly, that's the idea, to a day, to a hair's breadth, true, truly, you've hit it), dibaci (adroit, artful, clever, deft, dexterous, handy, skilful, skilled, skillful, sly, subtle, tricky), cu îndemânare (ably), bine scris (readable), şmecher (acute, arch, artful, astute, canny, catchy, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, dodger, downy, leery, sharp, shaver, shifty, slippery, sly, slyboots, wise guy), întocmai (certainly, even, every bit, exactly, for, precise, precisely, sic), îndemânatic (adroit, adroitly, clever, deft, dexterous, dextrous, handy, light-handed, natty, skilful, skillful, subtle, tricky, workmanlike). (various references)

Russian 

гладкий (clean, even, glace, glassy, glib, lank, level, lubricous, sleek, sleeken, sleeky, smooth, unruffled), ловко быстрый, ловкий (adept, adroit, artful, clean, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodgy, feat, habile, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, light-handed, natty, neat, neat-handed, politic, sailorly, skilful, skillful, swift-handed, tactical, tricky). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vešt (able, accomplished, adept, adroit, artful, clever, cunning, daedal, deft, dexterous, habile, handy, knacky, knowing, proficient, sciential, skilled, skillful, subtle, tall), uglađen (genteel, polished, polite, refined, sleek, smooth, suave, trim), prividno lep (meretricious), prepreden (artful, cagey, cagy, cunning, guileful, politic, sharp, shrewd, sly, smart, subtle, tricksy, tricky, vulpine), klizav (glib, lubricous, sliding, slippery, slippy), gladak (even, fine, glib, level, napless, sleeky, smooth). (various references)

Spanish

alisar (flatten, sleek, smooth, smooth down). (various references)

Swedish

smart (savvy, sharp, shrewd, smart). (various references)

Thai

พู�"คล่อง (smooth-tongued), ผิวลื่นเป็นมัน, สุ� าพ (fair, gallant, nice), ทำให้ลื่น, ลื่นเป็นมัน, ซึ่งมีเล่ห์เหลี่ยม (sly), คล่องแคล่ว (glib, lissom, lissome, lively, sleek, snappy), คราบน้ำมัน. (various references)

Turkish

kaliteli dergi (slick paper), şeytan gibi (arch, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, impish, very clever), becerikli (adept, adroit, agile, capable, clever, deft, designing, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, facile, gifted, handsome, ingenious, knowing, light-handed, neat, nimble-fingered, performing, practical, pushful, pushing, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skilled, skillful, skilly, smart, versatile, wise), düz (even, flat, flatways, flatwise, flush, horizontal, level, plain, plane, platy-, right, smooth, straight), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade), düzgün (clear-cut, Dandy, dandyish, fluent, formal, in good trim, ordered, regular, right, shapely, shipshape, smooth, Spruce, Square, straight, trim, unruffled), düzleştirmek (even, flatten, level, smooth, surface), çabucak (apace, at no time, by leaps and bounds, double quick, fast, hand over fist, in a snap, in no time, in short order, lickety-split, nimbly, posthaste, quick, quickly, readily, slippy, speedily, swiftly, with a rush), hemen (anon, as soon as, at a word, at no time, at once, bang off, directly, forthwith, immediate, immediately, in a jiffy, in a snap, in an instant, in no time, in short order, in two ticks, incontinently, instantaneously, instanter, instantly, on the instant, on the spot, out of hand, outright, presently, prompt, pronto, right away, right of the bat, right off, soon, straight away, straight off, straightaway, then and there), ustaca (adroitly, masterful, masterly, skillfully), kaygan (greasy, lubricious, lubricous, slippery, slippy, slithery), kayganlaştırmak, kuşe kâğıtlı dergi (glossy, glossy magazine, slick paper), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), purüzsüz, tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), usta (adept, adroit, artist, connoisseur, constructor, craftsman, dab, dabster, deft, dexterous, experienced, expert, facile, hand, ingenious, intelligent, journeyman, master, old hand, proficient, shark, skilful, skilled, skillful, subtile, versed, whizz, wise, workman, Wright), düzlemek (even, flatten, flush, plane, plaster, point up, shallow, sleek, smooth, smooth out, smooth over, try out). (various references)

Ukrainian

стамеска (chisel, wood chisel), слизький (eely, lubricious, slippery, slippy), спритний (adroit, agile, alert, arch, artful, canny, cunning, deft, dexterous, dodgy, fly, handy, light fingered, light-handed, natty, nifty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, pert, politic, practical, shuffling, tactical, whipping, wide awake, zippy), розкішний журнал, гладкий і лискучий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

khéo léo; trơn tru, đúng; ho� n to� n t� i tình. (various references)

Welsh

slic. (various references)

lubricus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "slick": slicked, slickenside, slickensides, slicker, slickers, slickest, slicking, slickly, slickness, slicknesses, slickrock, slickrocks, slicks. (additional references)

Words ending with "slick": outslick, superslick, ultraslick. (additional references)

Words containing "slick": outslicked, outslicking, outslicks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Csillick, Saleck, Salwick, Sellick, Selvick, shick, sicki, sicko, silack, Silco, sillick, slc, sleck, slicka, slikke, sllick, sluck, smick, splack, Ulick. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: licks.

-1 letter: ilks, lick, sick, silk.

-2 letters: cis, ick, ilk, lis, sic, ski.

-3 letters: is, li, si.

+1 letter: clicks, clinks, flicks, sickle, sickly, slicks.

+2 letters: calkins, kylices, lickers, luckies, mickles, nickels, nickles, pickles, saclike, sickled, sickles, skaldic, slicked, slicker, slickly, stickle, tickles.

+3 letters: backlist, backslid, blackish, blockish, brickles, calfskin, clarkias, clerkish, clickers, clinkers, cowlicks, crinkles, disclike, ficklest, flickers, hillocks, killicks, killocks, lickings, lickspit, limbecks, linstock, lipstick, lobstick, lopstick, lovesick, luckiest, micklest, niblicks, outslick, prickles, rollicks, sacklike, scablike, sculking, scumlike, sickerly, sicklied, sicklier, sicklies, sicklily, sickling, slacking, slickers, slickest, slicking, stickful, stickily, stickled, stickler, stickles, stockily, strickle, suchlike, suckling, ticklers, ticklish, trickles.