12-letter words that end in ck
- display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item
- do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- dolphin kick — (in the butterfly stroke) a kick in which the legs move up and down together, with the knees bent on the upswing.
- double block — a block having two sheaves or pulleys.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
- double-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
- double-quick — very quick or rapid.
- drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- dumper truck — A dumper truck is the same as a dump truck.
- economy pack — a large pack of goods that is cheaper than a normal-sized pack
- electroshock — Of or relating to medical treatment by means of electric shocks.
- engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
- flutter kick — a swimming kick in which the legs make rapid alternate up-and-down movements while the knees remain rigid, as in the crawl.
- fort detrick — a military reservation in N Maryland, NW of Frederick.
- four-o'clock — a common garden plant, Mirabilis jalapa, of the four-o'clock family, having tubular red, white, yellow, or variegated flowers that open late in the afternoon.
- french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- garment rack — A garment rack is a rail used in stores to hang items of clothing on display, such as shirts and coats.
- get the sack — be dismissed from job
- gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- health check — a medical checkup
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- heart attack — damage to an area of heart muscle that is deprived of oxygen, usually due to blockage of a diseased coronary artery, typically accompanied by chest pain radiating down one or both arms, the severity of the attack varying with the extent and location of the damage; myocardial infarction.
- helical rack — a rack having teeth set at an oblique angle to the edges. Compare rack1 (def 5).
- hit the deck — Nautical. a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for strengthening the structure of a vessel. the space between such a surface and the next such surface above: Our stateroom was on B deck.
- hit the sack — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
- hockey stick — the stick used in field hockey or ice hockey.
- horse's neck — a drink of whiskey and ginger ale, served with ice and garnished with a spiral of lemon peel on the rim of the glass.
- impost block — dosseret.
- in good nick — in good condition
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
- joe six-pack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- john hancock — Herbert Jeffrey ("Herbie") born 1940, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
- kinnikinnick — a mixture of bark, dried leaves, and sometimes tobacco, formerly smoked by the Indians and pioneers in the Ohio valley.
- ladder track — a railroad track linking a series of parallel tracks.
- ladder truck — hook and ladder.
- lady's-smock — a N temperate plant, Cardamine pratensis, with white or rose-pink flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- lancet clock — a mantel clock having a case formed like an acutely pointed arch.
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- letter stock — unregistered stock sold privately by a company so as not to have a negative effect on the price of its publicly traded stock.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- lithium lick — NeXT employees who have had too much attention from their esteemed founder, Steve Jobs, are said to have "lithium lick" when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervour and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation, e.g. "It just works, right out of the box!"
- luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train