10-letter words containing tick
- sticky bun — honey bun (def 1).
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- swordstick — a hollow walking stick containing a short sword or dagger
- taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
- thai stick — a cigar-shaped stick of highly potent marijuana from Thailand.
- the sticks — remote rural place
- tick fever — any fever transmitted by ticks, as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which attacks humans, or Texas fever, which is confined to some animals, as cattle.
- tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
- ticked off — a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.
- ticket day — (on the London Stock Exchange) the day on which selling brokers receive from buying brokers the names of investors who have made purchases during the previous account
- ticketless — a slip, usually of paper or cardboard, serving as evidence that the holder has paid a fare or admission or is entitled to some service, right, or the like: a railroad ticket; a theater ticket.
- ticky-tack — shoddy and unimaginatively designed; flimsy and dull: a row of new, ticky-tacky bungalows.
- unticketed — a slip, usually of paper or cardboard, serving as evidence that the holder has paid a fare or admission or is entitled to some service, right, or the like: a railroad ticket; a theater ticket.
- yardsticks — Plural form of yardstick.