| 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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| detick | (verb) free (a pet) of ticks | - |
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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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| (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| 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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| nonstick | (adjective) (of surfaces especially of cooking utensils) permitting easy removal of adherent food particles | - |
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| pigsticking | (noun) the sport of hunting wild boar with spears | - |
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| politick | (verb) engage in political activities | - |
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| retick | (verb) sew | Synonyms: tick |
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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 |
| schtickl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtikl, shtickl, shtikl |
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| 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 |
| shtickl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, schtikl, shtikl |
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| singlestick | (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: backsword, fencing stick |
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| slapstick | (adjective) characterized by horseplay and physical action | - |
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| (noun) acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone | - |
| (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 | - |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous | Synonyms: sting |
| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, bond, hold fast, stick to |
| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cling, cohere |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, wedge |
| (verb) pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed | - |
| (verb) pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument | - |
| (verb) fasten with an adhesive material like glue | - |
| (verb) fasten with or as with pins or nails | - |
| (verb) fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something | - |
| (verb) cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface | - |
| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, remain, stay, stay put, stick around |
| (verb) be loyal to | Synonyms: adhere, stand by, stick by |
| (verb) endure | - |
| (verb) be a devoted follower or supporter | Synonyms: adhere |
| (verb) be or become fixed | - |
| stickball | (noun) a form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle | Synonyms: stickball game |
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| sticker | (noun) a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing | Synonyms: dagger |
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| (noun) an adhesive label | Synonyms: gummed label, paster |
| (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, stumper, toughie |
| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, thorn |
| stickily | (adverb) in a sticky viscid manner | Synonyms: viscidly |
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| stickiness | (noun) the property of sticking to a surface | - |
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| sticking | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking out |
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| stickle | (verb) dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points) | - |
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| stickleback | (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: prickleback |
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| stickler | (noun) someone who insists on something | - |
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| sticklerism | (noun) The behaviour of a stickler; inflexible adherence to rules. | - |
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| stickpin | (noun) a decorative pin that is worn in a necktie | - |
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| sticktight | (noun) parasitic on especially the heads of chickens | Synonyms: Echidnophaga gallinacea, sticktight flea |
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| (noun) any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing | Synonyms: beggar's-ticks, beggar-ticks, bur marigold, burr marigold |
| stickup | (noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, heist, holdup |
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| stickweed | (noun) any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing | - |
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| sticky | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, viscid, viscous |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, embarrassing, unenviable |
| (adjective) covered with an adhesive material | - |
| (adjective) hot or warm and humid | Synonyms: muggy, steamy |
| (adjective) moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off |
| (verb) sew | Synonyms: retick |
| (verb) make a clicking or ticking sound | Synonyms: click |
| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, ticktack, ticktock |
| ticker | (noun) a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape | Synonyms: stock ticker |
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| (noun) a small portable timepiece | Synonyms: watch |
| (noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: heart, pump |
| ticket | (noun) the appropriate or desirable thing | Synonyms: just the ticket |
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| (noun) a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation) | - |
| (noun) a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment) | - |
| (noun) a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices | Synonyms: slate |
| (noun) a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc. | Synonyms: tag |
| (verb) provide with a ticket for passage or admission | - |
| (verb) record a fine as a penalty in a police record | Synonyms: fine |
| ticking | (noun) a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers | - |
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| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: tick |
| tickle | (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickling, titillation |
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| (noun) a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking | - |
| (verb) touch or stroke lightly | - |
| (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: thrill, vibrate |
| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: titillate, vellicate |
| tickler | (noun) a file of memoranda or notices that remind of things to be done | Synonyms: tickler file |
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| tickling | (adjective) exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements | Synonyms: tingling, titillating |
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| (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickle, titillation |
| ticklish | (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: delicate, touchy |
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| tickseed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickweed |
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| ticktack | (noun) system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks | - |
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| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, tick, ticktock |
| ticktacktoe | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe |
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| ticktacktoo | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, tit-tat-toe |
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| ticktock | (noun) steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock | Synonyms: tictac, tocktact |
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| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, tick, ticktack |
| tickweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickseed |
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| 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 | - |