| afterdeck | (noun) a deck abaft of midships | - |
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| beck | (noun) a beckoning gesture | - |
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| bottleneck | (noun) the narrow part of a bottle near the top | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: chokepoint, constriction |
| check | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: bridle, curb |
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| (noun) obstructing an opponent in ice hockey | - |
| (noun) (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king | - |
| (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, checkout |
| (noun) a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard) | - |
| (noun) a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something | Synonyms: chip |
| (noun) an appraisal of the state of affairs | Synonyms: assay |
| (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: confirmation, substantiation, verification |
| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| (noun) the bill in a restaurant | Synonyms: chit, tab |
| (noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check mark, tick |
| (noun) a written order directing a bank to pay money | Synonyms: bank check, cheque |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
| copeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: kopeck, kopek |
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| countercheck | (noun) something that checks the correctness of a previous check | Synonyms: double check |
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| (noun) a check that restrains another check | - |
| crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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| crosscheck | (noun) an illegal check (chopping at an opponent's arms or stick) | - |
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| (noun) an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources | - |
| deck | (noun) any of various platforms built into a vessel | - |
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| (noun) street name for a packet of illegal drugs | - |
| (noun) a porch that resembles the deck on a ship | - |
| (noun) a pack of 52 playing cards | Synonyms: deck of cards, pack of cards |
| dreck | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: schlock, shlock |
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| fiddleneck | (noun) hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers | Synonyms: Phacelia tanacetifolia |
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| fleck | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, maculation, patch, speckle, spot |
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| (noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, chip, flake, scrap |
| flyspeck | (noun) a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly | - |
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| foredeck | (noun) the deck between the bridge and the forecastle | - |
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| gooseneck | (noun) something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose) | - |
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| kopeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopek |
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| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| littleneck | (noun) a young quahog | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
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| (noun) a quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
| neck | (noun) an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck | Synonyms: neck opening |
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| (noun) a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form | - |
| (noun) the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body | Synonyms: cervix |
| (noun) a cut of meat from the neck of an animal | - |
| (noun) a narrow elongated projecting strip of land | - |
| paycheck | (noun) a check issued in payment of wages or salary | Synonyms: payroll check |
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| peck | (noun) a light kiss | - |
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| (noun) bite by a bird | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches | - |
| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons | - |
| pinchbeck | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold | - |
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| quarterdeck | (noun) the stern area of a ship's upper deck | - |
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| redneck | (noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: cracker |
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| roughneck | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| rubberneck | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubbernecker |
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| (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, sightseer, tripper |
| shipwreck | (noun) a wrecked ship (or a part of one) | - |
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| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: wreck |
| (noun) an irretrievable loss | - |
| speck | (noun) a very small spot | Synonyms: pinpoint |
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| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, tinge, touch |
| (noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle |
| swanneck | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanflower |
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| turtleneck | (noun) a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar | Synonyms: polo-neck, turtle |
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| wreck | (noun) a ship that has been destroyed at sea | - |
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| (noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | Synonyms: crash |
| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: shipwreck |
| (noun) something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation | - |
| wryneck | (noun) Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck | - |
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| (noun) an unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted | Synonyms: torticollis |