| 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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| 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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| chopstick | (noun) one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with | - |
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| 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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| 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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| gearstick | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, shifter |
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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 | - |
| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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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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| 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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| nightstick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, truncheon |
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| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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 | - |