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13-letter words that end in ck

  • saleleaseback — leaseback.
  • scissors jack — a horizontal screw that raises or lowers a hinged, diamond-shaped frame.
  • scissors kick — a propelling motion of the legs in which they move somewhat like the blades of a pair of scissors, used in the sidestroke.
  • sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
  • shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
  • sickle medick — a small Eurasian leguminous plant, Medicago falcata, having trifoliate leaves, yellow flowers, and sickle-shaped pods
  • slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • swizzle stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • swizzle-stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
  • thunderstruck — overcome with consternation; confounded; astounded: He was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion.
  • to keep track — If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time.
  • trailer truck — a trailer designed to be drawn by a truck tractor or other motor truck.
  • undated stock — stock that has no definitive repayment commitment
  • utility truck — pickup
  • volcanic neck — neck (def 14).
  • volcanic rock — rock solidified on Earth's surface
  • volcanic-neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
  • walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
  • warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
  • welfare check — a social security payment
  • what the heck — You say 'what the heck' to indicate that you do not care about a bad aspect of an action or situation.
  • with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
  • wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
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