Home › Words › S › slickheadslickheadslickhead means any of the family Alepocephalidae of marine smelts, lacking scales on the head.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, slickhead ranks #16,765 of 42,785 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom slick + head.nounAny of the family Alepocephalidae of marine smelts, lacking scales on the head.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.alepocephalid 76% match — Any fish in the family Alepocephalidae, the slickheads. vs slickhead →alepocephaliform 70% match — Any slickhead of the order Alepocephaliformes vs slickhead →slimehead 65% match — Any of the long-lived deep-sea fish forming the family Trachichthyidae. vs slickhead →leptocephalic 62% match — Having a narrow skull, as certain flatfishes do. vs slickhead →beltfish 62% match — The largehead hairtail, Trichiurus lepturus. vs slickhead →elopocephalan 59% match — Any fish of the unranked taxon Elopocephala vs slickhead →headfish 59% match — The sunfish (of family Molidae). vs slickhead →ellops 59% match — A sturgeon or swordfish. vs slickhead →