bailiwick | (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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(noun) the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction | - |
baldrick | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldric |
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benedick | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedict |
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billystick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, nightstick, truncheon |
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bluetick | (noun) a very fast American hound; white mottled with bluish grey | - |
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breadstick | (noun) a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup | Synonyms: bread-stick |
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brick | (noun) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material | - |
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(noun) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy | - |
broomstick | (noun) the handle of a broom | Synonyms: broom handle |
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candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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candlewick | (noun) the wick of a candle | - |
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(noun) loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern | - |
chick | (noun) young bird especially of domestic fowl | Synonyms: biddy |
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(noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, dame, doll, skirt, wench |
chopstick | (noun) one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with | - |
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click | (noun) depression of a button on a computer mouse | Synonyms: mouse click |
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(noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: detent, dog, pawl |
(noun) a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) | Synonyms: suction stop |
(noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, clink |
cottonwick | (noun) of warm Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Haemulon malanurum |
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cowlick | (noun) a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat | - |
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crick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: kink, rick, wrick |
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dabchick | (noun) small European grebe | Synonyms: little grebe, Podiceps ruficollis |
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derrick | (noun) a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom | - |
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(noun) a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered | - |
dick | (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, pecker, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
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(noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: gumshoe, hawkshaw |
dipstick | (noun) a graduated rod dipped into a container to indicate the fluid level | - |
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downtick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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dropkick | (noun) (football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground | - |
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drumstick | (noun) a stick used for playing a drum | - |
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(noun) the lower joint of the leg of a fowl | - |
fiddlestick | (noun) a bow used in playing the violin | Synonyms: violin bow |
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firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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flick | (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show |
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(noun) a short stroke | - |
(noun) a light sharp contact (usually with something flexible) | - |
gearstick | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, shifter |
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gimmick | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: device, twist |
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(noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
(noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: catch |
goldbrick | (noun) anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | - |
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(noun) a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | - |
(noun) an idle worthless person | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account |
(noun) a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort | - |
haick | (noun) an outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa | Synonyms: haik |
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hayrick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: haystack, rick |
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hick | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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icepick | (noun) pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice | Synonyms: ice pick |
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joystick | (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, stick |
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(noun) a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers | - |
kick | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: boot, kicking |
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(noun) a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics | Synonyms: kicking |
(noun) the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs) | - |
(noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, squawk |
(noun) the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired | Synonyms: recoil |
(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, rush, thrill |
klick | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, kilometre, km |
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lick | (noun) touching with the tongue | Synonyms: lap |
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(noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, poke, punch, slug |
(noun) a salt deposit that animals regularly lick | Synonyms: salt lick |
lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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lipstick | (noun) makeup that is used to color the lips | Synonyms: lip rouge |
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mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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matchstick | (noun) a short thin stick of wood used in making matches | - |
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maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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maverick | (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
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(noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
medick | (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, trefoil |
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meterstick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: metrestick |
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metrestick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: meterstick |
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niblick | (noun) an iron with considerable loft | Synonyms: nine iron |
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nick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: notch, snick |
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(noun) (British slang) a prison | - |
(noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, gouge |
nightstick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, truncheon |
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nudnick | (noun) (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest | Synonyms: nudnik |
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peachick | (noun) a young peafowl | Synonyms: pea-chick |
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pick | (noun) the act of choosing or selecting | Synonyms: choice, option, selection |
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(noun) a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body | - |
(noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pickax, pickaxe |
(noun) a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material | - |
(noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, weft, woof |
(noun) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument | Synonyms: plectron, plectrum |
(noun) the person or thing chosen or selected | Synonyms: choice, selection |
(noun) the best people or things in a group | Synonyms: cream |
(noun) the quantity of a crop that is harvested | Synonyms: picking |
pinprick | (noun) small puncture (as if made by a pin) | - |
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(noun) a minor annoyance | - |
prick | (noun) the act of puncturing with a small point | Synonyms: pricking |
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(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, putz, shaft, tool |
(noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
(noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, scratch, slit |
quick | (noun) any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) | - |
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rick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, haystack |
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(noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, wrick |
schtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
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(noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
shtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
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(noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
sick | (noun) people who are sick | - |
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sidekick | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, buddy, chum, crony, pal |
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singlestick | (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: backsword, fencing stick |
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slapstick | (noun) acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone | - |
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(noun) a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes | - |
slick | (noun) a trowel used to make a surface slick | - |
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(noun) a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water | - |
(noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slickness, slip, slipperiness |
(noun) a magazine printed on good quality paper | Synonyms: glossy, slick magazine |
slipstick | (noun) analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators | Synonyms: slide rule |
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snick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: nick, notch |
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(noun) a glancing contact with the ball off the edge of the cricket bat | - |
spick | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent | Synonyms: spic, spik |
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stick | (noun) threat of a penalty | - |
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(noun) an implement consisting of a length of wood | - |
(noun) a long thin implement resembling a length of wood | - |
(noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff |
(noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, joystick |
(noun) a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball | - |
(noun) informal terms for the leg | Synonyms: peg, pin |
(noun) a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine | - |
(noun) a small thin branch of a tree | - |
thick | (noun) the location of something surrounded by other things | Synonyms: midst |
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tick | (noun) any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals | - |
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(noun) a light mattress | - |
(noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check, check mark |
(noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: ticking |
toothpick | (noun) pick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth | - |
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trick | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, joke, prank, put-on |
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(noun) (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner | - |
(noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy |
(noun) an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent | - |
(noun) a cunning or deceitful action or device | Synonyms: fast one |
(noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, whoremaster, whoremonger |
(noun) a period of work or duty | - |
uptick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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walkingstick | (noun) any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies | Synonyms: stick insect, walking stick |
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wick | (noun) a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame | Synonyms: taper |
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(noun) any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action | - |
wrick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, rick |
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yardstick | (noun) a ruler or tape that is three feet long | Synonyms: yard measure |
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(noun) a measure or standard used for comparison | - |