| afterdeck | (noun) a deck abaft of midships | - |
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| beck | (noun) a beckoning gesture | - |
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| becket | (noun) (nautical) a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other; used to secure loose items on a ship | - |
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| beckon | (verb) signal with the hands or nod | Synonyms: wave |
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| (verb) summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture | - |
| (verb) appear inviting | - |
| bedeck | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedight, deck |
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| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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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 |
| (verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
| (verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
| breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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| bullnecked | (adjective) having a thick short powerful neck | - |
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| 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 |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: delay, retard |
| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, crack |
| (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: chink |
| (verb) arrest the motion (of something) abruptly | - |
| (verb) examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition | Synonyms: check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off |
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
| (verb) verify by consulting a source or authority | - |
| (verb) write out a check on a bank account | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) place into check | - |
| (verb) decline to initiate betting | - |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: checker, chequer |
| (verb) stop in a chase especially when scent is lost | - |
| (verb) abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey | - |
| (verb) stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution | - |
| (verb) hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping | - |
| (verb) consign for shipment on a vehicle | - |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: condition, discipline, train |
| (verb) make an examination or investigation | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) be verified or confirmed; pass inspection | Synonyms: check out |
| checkbook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: chequebook |
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| checked | (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checkered, chequered |
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| checker | (noun) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | Synonyms: chequer |
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| (noun) one who checks the correctness of something | - |
| (noun) an attendant who checks coats or baggage | - |
| (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: chequer |
| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, chequer |
| checkerberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
| checkerbloom | (noun) perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated | Synonyms: Sidalcea malviflora, wild hollyhock |
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| checkerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, chequerboard |
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| checkered | (adjective) marked by changeable fortune | - |
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| (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checked, chequered |
| checkers | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: draughts |
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| checklist | (noun) a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
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| checkmate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: mate |
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| (noun) complete victory | - |
| (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
| checkout | (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, check |
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| (noun) a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases | Synonyms: checkout counter |
| (noun) the latest time for vacating a hotel room | Synonyms: checkout time |
| checkpoint | (noun) a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance | - |
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| checkrein | (noun) a rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position | Synonyms: bearing rein |
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| checkroom | (noun) a room where baggage or parcels are checked | Synonyms: left-luggage office |
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| checkrow | (verb) plant in checkrows | - |
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| checksum | (noun) a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage | - |
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| checkup | (noun) a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person | Synonyms: health check, medical, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) check a second time | - |
| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: counteract |
| 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 |
| (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, dump, floor, knock down |
| (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, bedight |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
| decker | (noun) (often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels | - |
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| deckhand | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: roustabout |
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| deckle | (noun) (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets | - |
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| (noun) rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper | Synonyms: deckle edge |
| deckled | (adjective) having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade | Synonyms: deckle-edged, featheredged |
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| dreck | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: schlock, shlock |
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| feckless | (adjective) generally incompetent and ineffectual | Synonyms: inept |
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| (adjective) not fit to assume responsibility | - |
| fecklessly | (adverb) with ineptitude; in an incompetent manner | Synonyms: ineptly |
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| (adverb) in a feckless manner; irresponsibly and incompetently | - |
| fecklessness | (noun) worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual | - |
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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 |
| (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, blot, spot |
| flecked | (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: dotted, specked, speckled, stippled |
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| flyspeck | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (noun) a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly | - |
| foredeck | (noun) the deck between the bridge and the forecastle | - |
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| freckle | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: lentigo |
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| (verb) mark with freckles | - |
| (verb) become freckled | - |
| freckled | (adjective) relating to or covered with or resembling freckles | Synonyms: lentiginose, lentiginous |
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| gecko | (noun) any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless | - |
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| gooseneck | (noun) something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose) | - |
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| heckelphone | (noun) an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe | Synonyms: basset oboe |
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| heckle | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: hatchel |
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| (verb) challenge aggressively | - |
| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, hatchel |
| heckler | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: badgerer |
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| heckling | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: barracking |
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| henpecked | (adjective) harassed by persistent nagging | Synonyms: dominated |
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| housewrecker | (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housebreaker |
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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 |
| misreckoning | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: miscalculation, misestimation |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion | Synonyms: make out |
| neckband | (noun) a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over | Synonyms: collar |
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| (noun) necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck | Synonyms: choker, collar, dog collar |
| (noun) a band around the collar of a garment | - |
| neckcloth | (noun) an ornamental white cravat | Synonyms: stock |
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| necked | (adjective) having a neck or having a neck especially as specified | - |
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| necker | (noun) a lover who necks | - |
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| neckerchief | (noun) a kerchief worn around the neck | - |
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| necking | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| (noun) the molding at the top of a column | Synonyms: gorgerin |
| necklace | (noun) jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women) | - |
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| neckless | (adjective) lacking or apparently lacking a neck | - |
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| necklet | (noun) decoration worn about the neck (fur piece or tight necklace) as an ornament | - |
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| necklike | (adjective) resembling a neck | - |
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| neckline | (noun) the line formed by the edge of a garment around the neck | - |
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| neckpiece | (noun) an article of apparel worn about the neck | - |
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| necktie | (noun) neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front | Synonyms: tie |
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| neckwear | (noun) articles of clothing worn about the neck | - |
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| overreckoning | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overrating |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) bother persistently with trivial complaints | Synonyms: hen-peck, nag |
| (verb) eat by pecking at, like a bird | Synonyms: pick up |
| (verb) eat like a bird | Synonyms: peck at, pick at |
| (verb) kiss lightly | Synonyms: smack |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, pick |
| pecker | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: peckerwood, woodpecker |
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| (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, neb, nib |
| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
| peckerwood | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: pecker, woodpecker |
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| peckish | (adjective) somewhat hungry | - |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| pinchbeck | (adjective) serving as an imitation or substitute | - |
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| (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold | - |
| quarterdeck | (noun) the stern area of a ship's upper deck | - |
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| reckless | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: foolhardy, heady, rash |
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| (adjective) characterized by careless unconcern | Synonyms: heedless |
| recklessly | (adverb) in a reckless manner | - |
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| recklessness | (noun) the trait of giving little thought to danger | Synonyms: foolhardiness, rashness |
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| reckon | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, regard, see, view |
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| (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, work out |
| (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, imagine, opine, suppose, think |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, forecast |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, look, rely, swear |
| (verb) take account of | Synonyms: count |
| reckoner | (noun) a handbook of tables used to facilitate computation | Synonyms: ready reckoner |
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| (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, estimator, figurer |
| reckoning | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, numeration, tally |
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| (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, computation, figuring |
| (noun) a bill for an amount due | Synonyms: tally |
| 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 |
| (verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
| rubbernecker | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubberneck |
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| schnecken | (noun) rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom | Synonyms: caramel bun, honey bun, sticky bun |
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| seckel | (noun) small yellowish- to reddish-brown pear | Synonyms: seckel pear |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) destroy a ship | - |
| (verb) cause to experience shipwreck | - |
| (verb) ruin utterly | - |
| (verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) produce specks in or on | - |
| specked | (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: dotted, flecked, speckled, stippled |
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| speckle | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, spot |
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| (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: bespeckle |
| (verb) produce a mottled effect | Synonyms: stipple |
| speckled | (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: dotted, flecked, specked, stippled |
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| speckless | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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