10-letter words that end in ck
- cherrypick — Alternative spelling of cherry-pick.
- child lock — a lock, such as one on a door or window, designed to keep children safe
- chilliwack — city in S British Columbia, Canada: pop. 60,000
- choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
- chop block — butcher-block.
- chubb lock — a type of lock with a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
- clock jack — jack1 (def 19).
- cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
- coal-black — of a very dark black
- coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
- corn shock — a stack or bundle of bound or unbound corn piled upright for curing or drying
- corn shuck — the husk of an ear of maize
- corn stack — corncrib.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- cottonwick — a grunt, Haemulon melanurum, of warm Atlantic seas.
- coup stick — a stick with which some North American Indian warriors sought to touch their enemies in battle as a sign of courage.
- crab stick — a stick of finely ground white fish, coloured to resemble crabmeat
- crackajack — crackerjack
- cross buck — an offensive play in which two running backs cross paths and charge into the line on opposite sides, one back receiving the ball from the quarterback and the other back faking possession.
- crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
- cycle rack — a series of metal frameworks standing on the ground for holding bicycles upright
- dead stock — farm equipment
- dead-stick — designating a landing made by an aircraft or spacecraft without using power
- decoy duck — a duck, or an image of one, used to lure other ducks into a trap or within shooting range
- desk check — (programming) To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers - though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be. Compare dry run, eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.
- dirt track — a track with an unsealed surface
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- drillstock — a device for holding a drill.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- dumb cluck — a stupid person.
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- dump truck — a usually open-topped truck having a body that can be tilted to discharge its contents, as sand or gravel, through an open tailgate.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- eccentrick — Obsolete form of eccentric.
- echo check — a quality check and error-control technique for data transferred over a computer network or other communications link, in which the data received is stored and also transmitted back to its point of origin, where it is compared with the original data.
- fact-check — to confirm the truth of (an assertion made in speech or writing), often as part of the research or editorial process.
- fanny pack — a small zippered pouch suspended from a belt around the waist.
- fantastick — Obsolete form of fantastic.
- fast track — a racetrack dry and hard enough for optimum speed.
- fast-track — of or relating to the fast track.
- fiddleback — something shaped like a fiddle.
- fight back — retaliate
- fingerpick — a plectrum.worn on the finger.
- fire truck — fire engine.
- fish stick — an oblong piece of fried fish, usually breaded.
- flare-back — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flash back — If your mind flashes back to something in the past, you remember it or think of it briefly or suddenly.
- flash-lock — stanch1 (def 5).