- Like rattan furniture
- Like rattling sounds
- Like ratty hotels
- Like ravioli and tortellini
- Like raw 1-Down
- Like raw carrots
- Like raw cotton
- Like raw diamonds
- Like raw film
- Like raw linen
- Like raw oil
- Like raw silk
- Like Ray Romano's voice
- Like rays
- Like razor blades
- Like ready-to-eat shrimp
- Like real estate moguls
- Like real fans
- Like reality, at times
- Like really hot water
- Like really old bread
- Like really wild fans
- Like recollections of people trying to avoid perjury?
- Like records that are easily broken?
- Like recurring arguments
- Like recycled bottles
- Like red bell peppers
- Like Red Cloud
- Like red pistachios
- Like Red Riding Hood
- Like red-line traffic, on Google Maps
- Like red, white and blue hair
- Like Redbox movies
- Like Redford
- Like redheads' tempers, supposedly
- Like redwoods
- Like reel-to-reel recordings
- Like referees
- Like refrigerators, at times
- Like refrigerators, often
- Like regal succession
- Like Regan's tie to King Lear
- Like regular exercise and happiness, per research
- Like regular team players
- Like related Web sites, often
- Like relative
- Like relatively few theatrical releases nowadays
- Like relaxed-fit jeans
- Like relics
- Like religious dissenters
- Like religious statues
- Like Rembrandt
- Like remedial courses, usually
- Like remote suburbs
- Like removable teeth
- Like renewable energy
- Like repartee
- Like repopularized fashions
- Like reporters, by trade
- Like repos, often
- like reptile
- Like reptiles and amphibians
- Like Republican states on an electoral map
- Like reserved seats
- Like reservoirs
- Like resreved seats
- Like restaurant towelettes
- Like restaurants with three Michelin stars
- Like restless children
- Like retirees
- Like Reuben
- Like revealing memoirs
- Like Reynard
- Like rhinos
- Like rho ... or a fraternity row
- Like rhymes and verses
- Like rice and potatoes
- Like rich batter
- Like rich custard
- Like rich desserts
- Like rich quiche
- Like rich soil
- Like Richard and Yorick?
- Like Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins
- Like Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas
- Like Richard Burton, by birth
- Like Richard I
- Like Richard III at the end of act V
- Like Richard of Almanack fame
- Like Ricky Martin, publicly, since last year
- Like Ricky Martin's "vida"
- Like right-lane traffic, usually
- Like right-slanting type
- Like Rip Van Winkle's beard
- Like ripe cheeses
- Like ripe lemons or bananas
- Like ripe mangoes
- Like ripe peaches
- Like ripped jeans in the '90s
- Like risky business
- Like rivals, often
- Like river banks, often
- Like river bottoms
- Like river deltas
- Like river sediment
- Like road-gripping tires
- Like roads with black ice
- Like roads with many potholes
- Like Roald Dahl, by birth
- Like roasted marshmallows
- Like Robert Louis Stevenson and J.M. Barrie
- Like Robert Mueller beginning in 2013
- Like Robin
- Like Robin Hood's beneficiaries
- Like Robin Hood's men
- Like Robin Williams, typically
- Like robins' eggs
- Like Robinson Crusoe
- Like Robitussin: Abbr.
- Like robotics
- Like Rochester and Syracuse, but not New York City
- Like Rochester, N.Y.
- Like rock 'n' roll's Richard
- Like rock formed when magma solidifies
- Like rock music
- Like rock music from the 1950s-'70s, now
- Like rock stars among fans
- Like rock-hard bread
- Like rock's Bizkit
- Like rock's U2
- Like Rockefeller Center
- Like rockets in air
- Like Rocky
- Like Rocky Balboa's eggs
- Like Rocky or Rambo
- Like Rocky's eggs
- Like rococo architecture
- Like rococo decoration
- Like Rod Serling tales
- Like Rod Serling's stories
- Like Rod Stewart's voice
- Like Rodeo Drive shops
- Like rodeo riders, eventually
- Like Rodin's "The Thinker"
- Like Rodin's thinker
- Like Rogaine users
- Like Roger Federer
- Like Roger Federer and Martina Hingis
- Like Roger Rabbit
- Like role models
- Like roles during auditions
- Like Rollerblades wheels
- Like rolling terrain
- Like rollmops
- Like rom-coms, typically
- Like romaine
- Like romantic dinners
- Like romantic evenings
- Like romantic eyes, in old slang
- Like romantic lighting
- Like Romantic music
- Like Rome, it's said
- Like Rome, supposedly
- Like Romeo and Juliet
- Like Romeo and Juliet or 15-Across
- Like Romeo before meeting Juliet
- Like Romulus and Remus
- Like Ronald McDonald's sleeves
- Like rooftop panels
- Like rooms on TV's "Trading Spaces"
- Like rooms to rent
- Like rooms with high windows
- Like roosters
- Like roosters, but not hens
- Like root beer, but not beer
- Like roots, periodically?
- Like rope
- Like Roseanne, vis-à-vis her sitcom reboot
- Like rosebushes
- Like rosemary or lavender, e.g.
- Like roses
- Like rotini
- Like rough sandpaper
- Like rough seas
- Like rough-cut logs
- Like roughly 60% of human beings, ethnically
- Like roughly half a team's games
- Like roulette wheels
- Like rowboats
- Like rowing or running
- Like Royal Albert Hall
- Like royal descent
- Like royal descent, usually
- Like royal flushes
- Like royal succession
- Like royalty
- like rubber
- Like rubberneckers
- Like rubberneckrs
- like rubbish
- Like rubble after a razing
- Like rubble, often
- Like Rubik's creation
- Like Rubik's puzzle
- Like ruckuses or roadster roofs
- Like Rudolph's nose
- Like rugby and fisticuffs
- Like ruled notepaper
- like rulers
- Like runners, swimmers et al.
- Like running Water
- Like runs allowed by a pitcher
- Like runs caused by errors
- Like runts
- Like RuPaul, when performing
- Like Rupert Grint's hair
- Like rush hour traffic
- Like rush hour traffic, often
- Like Rushdie's "Verses"
- Like rushing water
- Like rushing white water
- Like Russ., once
- Like Russia and Japan, for most of 1904-'05
- Like Russia before 1917
- Like Russia before 1991
- Like Russia in the '40s
- Like Russia prior to 1917
- Like Russia, before the revolution
- Like Russia, east of the Urals
- Like Russia, of all countries
- Like Russia, once
- Like Russia, partially
- Like Russian dolls
- Like Russian winters
- Like rye, usually
- Like S. J. Perelman
- Like S.T.C.'s mariner
- Like s'mores
- Like Sabin's polio vaccine
- Like Sabin's vaccine
- Like sachets
- Like sacred statues
- Like sad excuses
- Like saddle shoes
- Like saddle shoes and bell-bottom pants
- Like Sadie of a Beatles song
- Like Sadie of song
- Like Sadie, in a Beatles song
- like saffron
- Like sage or allspice