aftershock | (noun) a tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquake | - |
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airdock | (noun) a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained | Synonyms: hangar, repair shed |
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airlock | (noun) a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure | Synonyms: air lock |
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alpenstock | (noun) a stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers | - |
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antiknock | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknocking |
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(noun) any of various compounds that are added to gasoline to reduce engine knocking | - |
ballcock | (noun) floating ball that controls level in a water tank | Synonyms: ball cock |
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ballock | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
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bannock | (noun) a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland | - |
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bedrock | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, basics, fundamental principle, fundamentals |
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(noun) solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil | - |
bemock | (verb) treat with contempt | Synonyms: mock |
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bitstock | (noun) a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring | Synonyms: brace |
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blackcock | (noun) male black grouse | Synonyms: black cock |
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block | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: blocking |
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(noun) a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) | - |
(noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: blockage, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
(noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: pulley-block, pulley, pulley block |
(noun) a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine | Synonyms: cylinder block, engine block |
(noun) a platform from which an auctioneer sells | Synonyms: auction block |
(noun) housing in a large building that is divided into separate units | - |
(noun) an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension | Synonyms: mental block |
(noun) a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit | - |
(noun) a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings | Synonyms: city block |
(noun) (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted | - |
(noun) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | Synonyms: cube |
(verb) shape into a block or blocks | - |
(verb) shape by using a block | - |
(verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: freeze, immobilise, immobilize |
(verb) be unable to remember | Synonyms: blank out, draw a blank, forget |
(verb) interfere with or prevent the reception of signals | Synonyms: jam |
(verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: deflect, parry |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
(verb) obstruct | Synonyms: choke up, lug, stuff |
(verb) stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block | - |
(verb) support, secure, or raise with a block | - |
(verb) block passage through | Synonyms: close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
(verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: obstruct |
(verb) interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia | - |
(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
(verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: halt, kibosh, stop |
(verb) run on a block system | - |
bloodstock | (noun) thoroughbred horses (collectively) | - |
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bobbysock | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, anklets, bobbysocks |
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bock | (noun) a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring | Synonyms: bock beer |
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bollock | (noun) a pulley-block at the head of a topmast | Synonyms: bullock block |
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(noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
breechblock | (noun) a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing | Synonyms: breech closer |
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bullock | (noun) castrated bull | Synonyms: steer |
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(noun) young bull | - |
burdock | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: clotbur |
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buttock | (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: cheek |
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cassock | (noun) a black garment reaching down to the ankles; worn by priests or choristers | - |
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cellblock | (noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: ward |
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chadlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, charlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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charlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, chadlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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chock | (noun) a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object | Synonyms: wedge |
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(adverb) as completely as possible | Synonyms: chock-a-block |
(verb) support on chocks | - |
(verb) secure with chocks | - |
chockablock | (adjective) packed full to capacity | Synonyms: chock-full, chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full |
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clock | (noun) a timepiece that shows the time of day | - |
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(verb) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time | Synonyms: time |
cock | (noun) adult male bird | - |
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(noun) adult male chicken | Synonyms: rooster |
(noun) faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid | Synonyms: stopcock, turncock |
(noun) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled | Synonyms: hammer |
(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: dick, pecker, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
(verb) set the trigger of a firearm back for firing | - |
(verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
(verb) tilt or slant to one side | - |
coldcock | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: deck, dump, floor, knock down |
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crock | (noun) an earthen jar (made of baked clay) | Synonyms: earthenware jar |
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(noun) nonsense; foolish talk | - |
(noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, lampblack, smut, soot |
(verb) soil with or as with crock | - |
(verb) release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric | - |
deadlock | (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill |
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defrock | (verb) divest of the frock; of church officials | Synonyms: unfrock |
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diestock | (noun) a device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders | - |
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dock | (noun) the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair | - |
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(noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bob, bobtail |
(noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dockage, docking facility |
(noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: pier, wharf, wharfage |
(noun) an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial | - |
(noun) a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded | Synonyms: loading dock |
(noun) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | Synonyms: sorrel, sour grass |
(verb) maneuver into a dock | - |
(verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, tail |
(verb) come into dock | - |
(verb) deduct from someone's wages | - |
(verb) deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty | - |
doorlock | (noun) a lock on an exterior door | - |
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dreadlock | (noun) one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians | - |
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drydock | (noun) a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline | Synonyms: dry dock, graving dock |
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(verb) maneuver (a ship) into a drydock | Synonyms: dry-dock |
dunnock | (noun) small brownish European songbird | Synonyms: hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, sparrow |
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electroshock | (noun) the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma | Synonyms: ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy |
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feedstock | (noun) the raw material that is required for some industrial process | - |
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fetlock | (noun) projection behind and above a horse's hoof | - |
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(noun) the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern | Synonyms: fetlock joint |
firelock | (noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: flintlock |
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flintlock | (noun) an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge | - |
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(noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: firelock |
flock | (noun) a group of birds | - |
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(noun) a group of sheep or goats | Synonyms: fold |
(noun) a church congregation guided by a pastor | - |
(noun) an orderly crowd | Synonyms: troop |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
(verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, constellate |
(verb) move as a crowd or in a group | - |
forelock | (noun) a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears | Synonyms: foretop |
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(noun) a lock of hair growing (or falling) over the forehead | - |
foreshock | (noun) a tremor preceding an earthquake | - |
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frock | (noun) a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice | Synonyms: dress |
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(noun) a habit worn by clerics | - |
(noun) a long, loose outer garment | - |
(verb) put a frock on | - |
gamecock | (noun) a cock bred and trained for fighting | Synonyms: fighting cock |
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(noun) someone who is a very fierce fighter | Synonyms: hell-kite, hell-rooster |
gridlock | (noun) a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible | - |
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gritrock | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritstone |
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gunlock | (noun) the action that ignites the charge in a firearm | Synonyms: firing mechanism |
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gunstock | (noun) the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun | Synonyms: stock |
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haddock | (noun) important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller | Synonyms: Melanogrammus aeglefinus |
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(noun) lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried | - |
hammerlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back | - |
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hammock | (noun) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily | Synonyms: sack |
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(noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hillock, hummock, knoll, mound |
handlock | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff, manacle |
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hassock | (noun) a cushion for kneeling on (as when praying in church) | - |
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(noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: ottoman, pouf, pouffe, puff |
havelock | (noun) a cloth covering for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the neck from direct rays of the sun | - |
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haycock | (noun) a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick | - |
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headlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's head is locked between the crook of your elbow and the side of your body | - |
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headstock | (noun) the stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe) | - |
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hemlock | (noun) an evergreen tree, could refer to any one of a genus of conifers named Tsuga | Synonyms: hemlock tree |
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(noun) soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock | - |
(noun) large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous | Synonyms: California fern, Conium maculatum, Nebraska fern, poison hemlock, poison parsley, winter fern |
(noun) poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium | - |
hillock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hummock, knoll, mound |
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hock | (noun) tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle | Synonyms: hock-joint |
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(noun) any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage) | Synonyms: Rhenish, Rhine wine |
(verb) disable by cutting the hock | - |
(verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: pawn, soak |
hollyhock | (noun) any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers | - |
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(noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althaea, althea |
hummock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hillock, knoll, mound |
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interlock | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
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(noun) a device that prevents an automotive engine from starting | Synonyms: ignition interlock |
(verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: mesh |
(verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: lock |
(verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, lock |
jock | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jockstrap, supporter, suspensor |
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(noun) a person trained to compete in sports | Synonyms: athlete |
knock | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, rap, whack, whang |
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(noun) negative criticism | Synonyms: roast |
(noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, belt, smash |
(noun) the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing) | Synonyms: knocking |
(noun) a bad experience | - |
(verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticise, criticize, pick apart |
(verb) knock against with force or violence | Synonyms: bump |
(verb) rap with the knuckles | - |
(verb) deliver a sharp blow or push | Synonyms: strike hard |
(verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: pink, rap, tap |
(verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: ping, pink |
laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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linstock | (noun) a stick about a meter long with a point on one end (to stick in the ground) and a forked head on the other end (to hold a lighted match); formerly used to fire cannons | - |
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livestock | (noun) any animals kept for use or profit | Synonyms: farm animal, stock |
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lock | (noun) any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured | - |
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(noun) a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed | - |
(noun) a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key | Synonyms: ignition lock |
(noun) enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it | Synonyms: lock chamber |
(noun) a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun | - |
(noun) a strand or cluster of hair | - |
(verb) become rigid or immoveable | - |
(verb) fasten with a lock | - |
(verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, mesh, operate |
(verb) place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape | Synonyms: lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up |
(verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: interlock |
(verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, interlock |
(verb) build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels | - |
(verb) hold fast (in a certain state) | - |
(verb) pass by means through a lock in a waterway | - |
matchlock | (noun) an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge | - |
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mattock | (noun) a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle | - |
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mock | (adjective) constituting a copy or imitation of something | - |
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(noun) the act of mocking or ridiculing | - |
(verb) treat with contempt | Synonyms: bemock |
(verb) imitate with mockery and derision | - |
moorcock | (noun) male red grouse | - |
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nock | (verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: mark, score |
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oarlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: peg, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin |
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overclock | (verb) To run a processor (CPU), or any electronic logic device, at a speed higher than is recommended by the manufacturer. | - |
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overstock | (verb) stock excessively | - |
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paddock | (noun) pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race | - |
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padlock | (noun) a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut | - |
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(verb) fasten with a padlock | - |
peacock | (noun) male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots | - |
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(noun) European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot | Synonyms: Inachis io, peacock butterfly |
penstock | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: sluice, sluiceway |
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(noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: floodgate, head gate, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
petcock | (noun) regulator consisting of a small cock or faucet or valve for letting out air or releasing compression or draining | - |
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piddock | (noun) marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells | - |
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pillock | (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, dullard, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
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pock | (noun) a pustule in an eruptive disease | - |
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(verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pit, scar |
pollock | (noun) important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod | Synonyms: Pollachius pollachius, pollack |
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(noun) lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish | Synonyms: pollack |
poppycock | (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: hooey, stuff, stuff and nonsense |
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restock | (verb) stock again | - |
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roadblock | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: barricade |
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(noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: barrier |
rock | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, sway, tilt |
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(noun) a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western | Synonyms: rock-and-roll, rock'n'roll, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music |
(noun) hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) | Synonyms: rock candy |
(noun) a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | Synonyms: stone |
(noun) (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable | - |
(noun) material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust | Synonyms: stone |
(verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: shake, sway |
(verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: sway |
rootstock | (noun) root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots | - |
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(noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstalk |
rowlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, thole, tholepin |
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rudderstock | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderpost |
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schlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, shlock |
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shaddock | (noun) large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp | Synonyms: pomelo |
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(noun) southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits | Synonyms: Citrus decumana, Citrus grandis, Citrus maxima, pomelo, pomelo tree, pummelo |