This is a list of words that end in ‘cks.’ There are more than 500 words ‘cks’ ending words but not all of them are recognized by the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary because many of them are not used in contemporary literature.
We have divided this article into two sections.
The first part gives ‘cks’ ending words with a definition. The latter part comes without a definition because those words are more obscure.
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Adirondacks
The algonkian people formerly north of the st. lawrence river; a member of the adirondack people.
Afterdecks
The part of a deck abaft amidships.
Aftershocks
An aftereffect of a distressing or traumatic event; a minor shock following the main shock of an earthquake.
Airchecks
A recording especially of a radio broadcast.
Airlocks
An intermediate chamber with two airtight doors or openings to permit passage between two dissimilar spaces (such as two places of unequal atmospheric pressure); a stoppage of flow caused by air being in a part where liquid ought to circulate.
Alpenstocks
A long iron-pointed staff used in mountain climbing.
Amberjacks
Any of several carangid fishes (genus seriola); especially : a large vigorous sport fish (s. dumerili) of the western atlantic.
Amtracks
A flat-bottomed military vehicle that moves on tracks on land or water.
Amucks
An episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring.
Applejacks
Brandy distilled from hard cider; also : an alcoholic beverage traditionally made by freezing hard cider and siphoning off the concentrated liquor.
Armlocks
Hammerlock.
Arracks
An asian alcoholic beverage like rum that is distilled from a fermented mash of malted rice with toddy or molasses.
Attacks
To set upon or work against forcefully; to assail with unfriendly or bitter words; to begin to affect or to act on injuriously.
Backblocks
Boondocks —usually used in plural.
Backpacks
A pack that usually has two shoulder straps and is carried on the back: such as; a large pack (as of canvas or nylon) that is supported by an external or internal frame (as of aluminum) and is used especially for carrying supplies when hiking and camping.
Backs
The rear part of the human body especially from the neck to the end of the spine; the body considered as the wearer of clothes; capacity for labor, effort, or endurance.
Backtracks
To retrace one’s course; to go back to an earlier point in a sequence; to reverse a position.
Badderlocks
A large brownish black seaweed (alaria esculenta) often eaten as a vegetable in europe —called also henware, murlin.
Bailiwicks
The office or jurisdiction of a bailiff; the sphere in which one has superior knowledge or authority : a special domain.
Ballocks
Testis—usually considered vulgar.
Bannocks
A usually unleavened flat bread or biscuit made with oatmeal or barley meal; corn bread; especially : a thin cake baked on a griddle.
Barracks
A building or set of buildings used especially for lodging soldiers in garrison —usually used in plural; a structure resembling a shed or barn that provides temporary housing —usually used in plural.
Bawcocks
A fine fellow.
Becks
Beckon.
Bedecks
To clothe with finery : deck; decorate.
Bedrocks
The solid rock underlying unconsolidated surface materials (such as soil); lowest point; basis.
Bedticks
Tick.
Beggar’s-ticks
Bur marigold; also : its prickly achenes; beggar’s-lice.
Beggar-ticks
Bur marigold; also : its prickly achenes; beggar’s-lice.
Belowdecks
Inside or into the superstructure of a boat : down to a lower deck.
Bemocks
Mock.
Between-decks
In the space on a ship between decks : belowdecks : below the main deck.
Bibcocks
A stopcock or faucet having a bent-down nozzle.
Bipacks
A pair of films each sensitive to a different color that are used in color photography by simultaneous exposure one through the other usually with the emulsion surfaces in contact.
Bitstocks
Brace.
Bittocks
A little bit.
Bivouacks
A usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter; encampment usually for a night; a temporary or casual shelter or lodging.
Blackjacks
A card game the object of which is to be dealt cards having a higher count than those of the dealer up to but not exceeding 21 —called also twenty-one, vingt-et-un.
Blacks
Having the very dark color of the night sky or the eye’s pupil : of the color black; of or relating to any of various population groups of especially african ancestry often considered as having dark pigmentation of the skin but in fact having a wide range of skin colors.
Blocks
A compact usually solid piece of substantial material especially when worked or altered to serve a particular purpose : such as; the piece of wood on which the neck of a person condemned to be beheaded is laid for execution.
Blowbacks
An unforeseen and unwanted effect, result, or set of repercussions.
Bluejacks
An oak (quercus cinerea) of the southern u.s. with entire cuneate leaves and numerous small acorns.
Bobbysocks
Girls’ socks reaching above the ankle.
Bocks
A dark lager beer with a high alcohol content that has a strong flavor of malt and a mild flavor of hops and is typically sold in the winter or early spring.
Boychicks
A young man : boy.
Bollocks
Testicles; nonsense.
Bookracks
A rack for holding books.
Boondocks
A remote, thinly settled rural area : sticks — usually used with the; rough country filled with dense brush —usually used with the.
Bootblacks
One who shines shoes.
Bootjacks
A device (as with a v-shaped notch) used for pulling off boots.
Bootlicks
To try to gain favor with through a servile or obsequious manner; to act obsequiously.
Bottlenecks
Narrow.
Bricks
A handy-sized unit of building or paving material typically being rectangular and about 21/4 × 33/4 × 8 inches (57 × 95 × 203 millimeters) and made of moist clay hardened by heat; a good-hearted person; a rectangular compressed mass (as of ice cream).
Brocks
Badger.
Broomsticks
The long thin handle of a broom.
Bucks
Buckinghamshire.
Buybacks
The act or an instance of buying something back; especially : the repurchase by a corporation of shares of its own common stock usually on the open market.
Bullnecks
A thick short powerful neck.
Bullocks
A young bull; a castrated bull : steer.
Burdocks
Any of a genus (arctium) of coarse composite herbs bearing globular flower heads with prickly bracts.
Bushbucks
A small african striped antelope (tragelaphus scriptus) especially of sub-saharan forests that has spirally twisted horns in the male.
Bushwhacks
To attack (someone) by surprise from a hidden place : ambush; to travel by foot through uncleared terrain; to clear a path or advance through thick woods especially by chopping down bushes and low branches.
Buttocks
The back of a hip that forms one of the fleshy parts on which a person sits; the seat of the body; rump.
Cacks
To discharge excrement; vomit.
Callbacks
A return call; recall; a recall of an employee to work after a layoff.
Calpacks
A high-crowned cap worn in turkey, iran, and neighboring countries.
Candlesticks
A holder with a socket for a candle.
Candlewicks
The wick of a candle; a soft cotton embroidery yarn; also : embroidery made with this yarn usually in tufts.
Canvasbacks
A north american wild duck (aythya valisineria) that has a reddish-brown head, black breast, and whitish body and is characterized especially by the elongate sloping profile of the bill and head.
Caprocks
Cap.
Carracks
A beamy sailing ship especially of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Cassocks
A close-fitting ankle-length garment worn especially in roman catholic and anglican churches by the clergy and by laypersons assisting in services.
Cellblocks
A group of cells constituting a subdivision of a prison.
Charlocks
An old world mustard (brassica kaber synonym sinapis arvensis) that is a common weed in grain fields —called also wild mustard.
Checks
To inspect, examine, or look at appraisingly or appreciatively —usually used with out or over; to compare with a source, original, or authority : verify; to look at (something) to obtain information.
Chicks
A domestic chicken; especially : one newly hatched; the young of any bird; child.
Chocks
A wedge or block for steadying a body (such as a cask) and holding it motionless, for filling in an unwanted space, or for blocking the movement of a wheel.
Chopsticks
One of a pair of slender sticks held between thumb and fingers and used chiefly in asian countries to lift food to the mouth.
Chucks
Cluck.
Clacks
Chatter, prattle; to make an abrupt striking sound or series of sounds; cackle, cluck.
Clicks
To strike, move, or produce with a click; to select especially in a computer interface by pressing a button on a control device (such as a mouse); to turn (something) on or off by pushing a button or moving a switch.
Clocks
A device other than a watch for indicating or measuring time commonly by means of hands moving on a dial; broadly : any periodic system by which time is measured; a registering device usually with a dial; specifically : odometer; time clock.
Clucks
To make a cluck; to make a clicking sound with the tongue; to express interest or concern.
Coatracks
A stand or rack fitted with pegs, hooks, or hangers and used for the temporary storage of garments.
Cocks
The adult male of the domestic chicken (gallus gallus) : rooster; the male of birds other than the domestic chicken; woodcock.
Comebacks
A sharp or witty reply : retort; a cause for complaint; a return to a former position or condition (as of success or prosperity) : recovery, revival.
Copecks
A monetary subunit of the ruble (russia).
Cossacks
A member of any of a number of autonomous communities drawn from various ethnic and linguistic groups (such as slavs, tatars, and circassians) that formed in ukraine, southern russia, the caucasus mountains, and siberia after about 1400 and that were completely incorporated .
Counterattacks
An attack made in response to or in defense against an attack made by another.
Cowlicks
A lock or tuft of hair growing in a different direction from the rest of the hair.
Crackerjacks
A person or thing of marked excellence.
Cracks
To make a very sharp explosive sound; to break, split, or snap apart; fail: such as.
Cricks
A painful spasmodic condition of muscles (as of the neck or back).
Crocks
A thick earthenware pot or jar; soot, smut; coloring matter that rubs off from cloth or dyed leather.
Crooknecks
A squash with a long recurved neck.
Crucks
One of a pair of curved timbers forming a principal support of a roof in primitive english house construction.
Curlylocks
One having curly hair.
Cutbacks
Something cut back; reduction.
Dabchicks
Any of several small grebes.
Daglocks
A dirty or matted lock of fur, hair, or wool : taglock.
Deadlocks
A state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill; a tie score.
Decks
A platform in a ship serving usually as a structural element and forming the floor for its compartments; something resembling the deck of a ship: such as; a story or tier of a building (such as a sports stadium).
Defrocks
To deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office; to remove from a position of honor or privilege.
Derricks
A hoisting apparatus employing a tackle rigged at the end of a beam; a framework or tower over a deep drill hole (as of an oil well) for supporting boring tackle or for hoisting and lowering.
Deticks
To remove ticks from.
Dicks
Penis; a mean, stupid, or annoying man; detective.
Diebacks
A condition in woody plants in which peripheral parts are killed (as by parasites).
Diestocks
A stock to hold dies used for cutting threads.
Dipsticks
A graduated rod for indicating depth (as of oil in a crankcase); nitwit; a chemically sensitive strip of paper used to identify one or more constituents (such as glucose or protein) of urine by immersion.
Disfrocks
Defrock.
Docks
A place (such as a wharf or platform) for the loading or unloading of materials; a usually wooden pier used as a landing place or moorage for boats.
Dominicks
Dominique.
Dornicks
A stone small enough to throw; also : a large piece of rock.
Drammocks
Raw oatmeal mixed with cold water.
Drawbacks
A refund of duties especially on an imported product subsequently exported or used to produce a product for export; an objectionable feature : disadvantage.
Dreadlocks
A narrow ropelike strand of hair formed by matting, braiding, or twisting; a hairstyle consisting of dreadlocks.
Drecks
Trash, rubbish.
Dropkicks
A kick made by dropping a ball to the ground and kicking it at the moment it starts to rebound.
Drumsticks
A stick for beating a drum; the segment of a fowl’s leg between the thigh and tarsus.
Ducks
Any of various swimming birds (family anatidae, the duck family) in which the neck and legs are short, the feet typically webbed, the bill often broad and flat, and the sexes usually different from each other in plumage —often used figuratively in phrases like have one’s.
Earlocks
A curl of hair hanging in front of the ear.
Electroshocks
Shock; electroshock therapy.
Elflocks
Hair matted as if by elves —usually used in plural.
Fallbacks
Something on which one can fall back : reserve —often used attributively; a falling back : retreat; something that falls back.
Fastbacks
An automobile with a roof having a long curving downward slope to the rear; also : the back of such an automobile.
Fatbacks
The strip of fat from the back of a hog carcass usually cured by drying and salting.
Fatstocks
Livestock that is fat and ready for market.
Fecks
The greater share : majority—usually used with the; part, portion; value, worth.
Feedbacks
The transmission of evaluative or corrective information about an action, event, or process to the original or controlling source; also : the information so transmitted; the partial reversion of the effects of a process to its source or to a preceding stage.
Fetlocks
A projection bearing a tuft of hair on the back of the leg above the hoof of a horse or similar animal; the tuft of hair itself; the joint of the limb at the fetlock.
Fiddlesticks
A violin bow; something of little value : trifle; nonsense —used as an interjection.
Finbacks
Fin whale.
Firebricks
A refractory brick capable of sustaining high temperatures that is used especially for lining furnaces or fireplaces.
Firelocks
A gun’s lock employing a slow match to ignite the powder charge; also : a gun having such a lock; flintlock; wheel lock.
Flacks
One who provides publicity; especially : press agent.
Flapjacks
Pancake.
Flashbacks
A recession of flame to an unwanted position (as into a blowpipe); interruption of chronological sequence (as in a film or literary work) by interjection of events of earlier occurrence; also : an instance of flashback; a past incident recurring vividly in the mind.
Flecks
Streak, spot; to color as if by sprinkling with flecks.
Flicks
A light sharp jerky stroke or movement; a sound produced by a flick; flicker.
Flintlocks
A lock for a gun or pistol having a flint in the hammer for striking a spark to ignite the charge; a firearm fitted with a flintlock.
Flyspecks
A speck made by fly excrement; something small and insignificant.
Flocks
A group of animals (such as birds or sheep) assembled or herded together; a group under the guidance of a leader; especially : a church congregation; a large number.
Foredecks
The forepart of a ship’s main deck.
Forelocks
A lock of hair growing from the front of the head.
Fossicks
To search for gold or gemstones typically by picking over abandoned workings; to search about : rummage; to search for by or as if by rummaging : ferret out.
Frocks
An outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit; an outer garment worn chiefly by men:; a long loose mantle.
Fucks
Copulate; mess —used with with; to engage in coitus with —sometimes used interjectionally with an object (such as a personal or reflexive pronoun) to express anger, contempt, or disgust.
Fullbacks
An offensive football back used primarily for line plunges and blocking; a primarily defensive player usually stationed nearest the defended goal (as in soccer or field hockey).
Futtocks
One of the curved timbers scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a ship.
Gamecocks
A rooster of the domestic chicken trained for fighting.
Gavelocks
A spear or dart : javelin; an iron crowbar or lever.
Gecks
To be scornful or derisive : mock—usually used with at; to show scorn or derision by tossing the head or casting sidelong glances.
Gemsbucks
Gemsbok.
Geoducks
A large edible burrowing clam (panopea generosa synonym p. abrupta) of the pacific coast of north america that usually weighs two to three pounds (about one kilogram).
Gimcracks
A showy object of little use or value : gewgaw.
Gimmicks
A mechanical device for secretly and dishonestly controlling gambling apparatus; an ingenious or novel mechanical device : gadget; an important feature that is not immediately apparent : catch.
Goldbricks
A worthless brick that appears to be of gold; something that appears to be valuable but is actually worthless; a person who shirks assigned work.
Goldenlocks
Wall fern.
Goldilocks
A person with golden hair —used as a nickname; a european composite herb (galatella linosyris) with heads of yellow flowers resembling those of goldenrod; any of several shrubby southern african composite plants (genus chrysocoma) that have bright yellow flower heads.
Goldylocks
A person with golden hair —used as a nickname; a european composite herb (galatella linosyris) with heads of yellow flowers resembling those of goldenrod; any of several shrubby southern african composite plants (genus chrysocoma) that have bright yellow flower heads.
Gorcocks
A male red grouse.
Graybacks
A confederate soldier; any of various animals: such as; gray whale.
Greenbacks
A legal-tender note issued by the u.s. government.
Gripsacks
Suitcase.
Gucks
Oozy sloppy dirt or debris; broadly : goo, gunk.
Gunlocks
A mechanism attached to or usually integral with a firearm by which the charge is ignited.
Gunnysacks
A sack made of a coarse heavy fabric (such as burlap).
Gunstocks
The stock to which the barrel and mechanism of a firearm are secured.
Hacks
To cut or sever with repeated irregular or unskillful blows; to cut or shape by or as if by crude or ruthless strokes; annoy, vex —often used with off.
Haddocks
An important food fish (melanogrammus aeglefinus synonym gadus aeglefinus) of the cod family occurring on both sides of the north atlantic that has a black lateral line and dark patch above the pectoral fin.
Haycocks
A somewhat rounded conical pile of hay.
Hayracks
A feeding rack that holds hay for livestock; a frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon and used especially in hauling hay or straw; also : a wagon equipped with a hayrack.
Hayricks
A relatively large sometimes thatched outdoor pile of hay : haystack.
Haystacks
A stack of hay; a vertical standing wave in turbulent river waters.
Halfbacks
One of the backs stationed near either flank in football; a player stationed immediately behind the forward line (as in field hockey, soccer, or rugby).
Hammerlocks
A wrestling hold in which an opponent’s arm is held bent behind the back; broadly : a strong hold.
Hammocks
A swinging couch or bed usually made of netting or canvas and slung by cords from supports at each end.
Handpicks
To pick by hand as opposed to a machine process; to select personally or for personal ends.
Hardbacks
A book bound in hard covers.
Hardhacks
A north american spirea (spiraea tomentosa) with dense terminal panicles of pink or occasionally white flowers and leaves having a hairy and yellow to rust-colored underside.
Hardtacks
A saltless hard biscuit, bread, or cracker; any of several mountain mahoganies (especially cercocarpus betuloides).
Hassocks
Tussock; a cushion for kneeling; a padded cushion or low stool that serves as a seat or leg rest.
Hatchbacks
An automobile the back of which consists of a hatch that opens upward; also : the back itself.
Hatracks
A wooden framework with several projecting pegs that hangs against a wall and is used to hold hats and other articles of clothing; clothes tree; hallstand.
Havelocks
A covering attached to a cap to protect the neck from the sun or bad weather.
Haversacks
A bag similar to a knapsack but worn over one shoulder.
Headlocks
A hold in which a wrestler encircles an opponent’s head with one arm.
Hecks
Hell; hell.
Hemlocks
Any of several poisonous herbs (such as a poison hemlock or a water hemlock) of the carrot family having finely cut leaves and small white flowers; a drug or lethal drink prepared from the poison hemlock.
Hendricks
Thomas andrews 1819—1885 american politician; vice president of the u.s. (1885).
Henpecks
To subject (one’s spouse or partner) to persistent nagging and domination.
Hicks
Edward 1780—1849 american painter.
Highjacks
To steal (goods in transit) by stopping a vehicle; to commandeer (a vehicle in transit); often, specifically : to commandeer (a flying airplane) usually by coercing the pilot; to stop and steal from (a vehicle in transit).
Hijacks
To steal (goods in transit) by stopping a vehicle; to commandeer (a vehicle in transit); often, specifically : to commandeer (a flying airplane) usually by coercing the pilot; to stop and steal from (a vehicle in transit).
Hillocks
A small hill.
Hocks
The tarsal joint or region in the hind limb of a digitigrade quadruped (such as the horse) corresponding to the human ankle but elevated and bending backward; a joint of a fowl’s leg that corresponds to the hock of a quadruped.
Hogbacks
A ridge of land formed by the outcropping edges of tilted strata; broadly : a ridge with a sharp summit and steeply sloping sides.
Hoicks
To move or pull abruptly : yank.
Holdbacks
Something that retains or restrains; the act of holding back; something held back.
Hollyhocks
A tall widely cultivated biennial or perennial herb (alcea rosea synonym althaea rosea) of the mallow family that has large coarse rounded leaves and tall spikes of showy flowers and that is probably of asian origin.
Hopsacks
A rough-surfaced loosely woven clothing fabric.
Horsebacks
The back of a horse.
Hucks
To throw or toss; to launch oneself in the air (as from a jump or drop).
Hummocks
A rounded knoll or hillock; a ridge of ice; hammock.
Humpbacks
A humped or crooked back; also : kyphosis; a person with a humpback; humpback whale.
Hunchbacks
A person with a humpback; humpback.
Yacks
A large long-haired wild or domesticated ox (bos grunniens synonym b. mutus) of tibet and adjacent elevated parts of central asia.
Yapocks
An aquatic opossum (chironectes minimus) of south america.
Yardsticks
A graduated measuring stick three feet (0.9144 meter) long; a standard basis of calculation; a standard for making a critical judgment : criterion.
Interlocks
To become locked together or interconnected; to lock together : unite; to connect so that the motion or operation of any part is constrained by another.
Yocks
Laugh; joke, gag.
Yoicks
—used as a cry of encouragement to foxhounds.
Yucks
Laugh; joke, gag.
Jacks
A game played with a set of small objects that are tossed, caught, and moved in various figures; a small 6-pointed metal object used in the game of jacks; a playing card carrying the figure of a soldier or servant and ranking usually below the queen.
Jocks
Athlete; especially : a school or college athlete; a person devoted to a single pursuit or interest; athletic supporter.
Joysticks
A lever in an airplane that operates the elevators by a fore-and-aft motion and the ailerons by a side-to-side motion.
Jumbucks
Sheep.
Kebbocks
A whole wheel or ball of cheese.
Kebbucks
A whole wheel or ball of cheese.
Kecks
To make the sounds of retching.
Kyacks
A packsack to be swung on either side of a packsaddle.
Kickbacks
A return of a part of a sum received often because of confidential agreement or coercion; a sharp violent reaction.
Kicks
To strike out with the foot or feet; to make a kick in football; to show opposition : resist, rebel.
Killicks
Anchor; especially : a small anchor; a jury anchor formed by a stone usually bound within sticks of wood.
Killocks
Anchor; especially : a small anchor; a jury anchor formed by a stone usually bound within sticks of wood.
Knacks
A special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach; a clever trick or stratagem; a clever way of doing something.
Knapsacks
A bag (as of canvas or nylon) strapped on the back and used for carrying supplies or personal belongings : backpack.
Knickknacks
A small trivial article usually intended for ornament.
Knocks
To strike something with a sharp blow; to collide with something; bustle.
Knucks
A game of marbles at the end of which the winner has the option of shooting a marble at the opponent’s knuckles held on the ground; brass knuckles.
Kopecks
A monetary subunit of the ruble (russia).
Lacks
To be deficient or missing; to be short or have need of something; to stand in need of : suffer from the absence or deficiency of.
Laughingstocks
An object of ridicule.
Laverocks
Lark.
Lavrocks
Lark.
Leathernecks
A member of the u.s. marine corps.
Licks
To draw the tongue over; to flicker over like a tongue; to take into the mouth with the tongue : lap.
Limbecks
Alembic.
Limericks
A light or humorous verse form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of three feet and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet with a rhyme scheme of aabba.
Linstocks
A staff having a pointed foot (as for sticking into the ground) and a forked tip and formerly used to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.
Lipsticks
A waxy solid usually colored cosmetic in stick form for the lips; also : a stick of such cosmetic with its case.
Littlenecks
A young quahog suitable to be eaten raw —called also littleneck clam.
Livestocks
Animals kept or raised for use or pleasure; especially : farm animals kept for use and profit.
Locks
A tuft, tress, or ringlet of hair; the hair of the head; a cohering bunch (as of wool, cotton, or flax) : tuft.
Longshucks
Loblolly pine.
Lopsticks
A tree with branches trimmed so that it may serve as a landmark or memorial.
Lovelocks
A long lock of hair variously worn (as over the front of the shoulder) especially by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Lucks
A force that brings good fortune or adversity; the events or circumstances that operate for or against an individual; favoring chance; also : success.
Lumberjacks
Someone whose job is to cut down trees for wood : logger.
Macks
Mackintosh.
Mafficks
To celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior.
Mammocks
A broken piece : scrap.
Marshlocks
Marsh cinquefoil.
Matchlocks
A slow-burning match lowered over a hole in the breech of a musket to ignite the charge; a musket equipped with a matchlock.
Mattocks
A digging and grubbing tool with features of an adze and an ax or pick.
Mavericks
An unbranded range animal; especially : a motherless calf; an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party.
Megabucks
One million dollars; also : an indeterminately large sum of money —usually used in plural.
Micks
Irishman.
Miskicks
To kick in a faulty manner : to kick wrongly.
Mocks
To treat with contempt or ridicule : deride; to disappoint the hopes of; defy, challenge.
Mossbacks
A large sluggish fish (such as a largemouth bass); an extremely old-fashioned or reactionary person : fogy.
Motortrucks
An automotive truck used especially for transporting freight.
Mucks
Soft moist farmyard manure; slimy dirt or filth; defamatory remarks or writings.
Mudpacks
A cosmetic paste for the face composed chiefly of fuller’s earth, bleaches, and astringents; the powder from which this paste is prepared.
Mullocks
Rubbish, refuse, dirt; a state of confusion : muddle, mess; refuse earth or rock from a mine.
Necks
The part of an animal that connects the head with the body; the siphon of a bivalve mollusk (such as a clam); the part of a garment that covers or is next to the neck.
Niblicks
An iron golf club with a wide deeply slanted face used for short shots out of sand or long grass or for shots where quick loft and little roll is desired —called also number nine iron.
Nicknacks
A small trivial article usually intended for ornament.
Nicks
A small notch, groove, or chip; a small cut or wound; a break in one strand of two-stranded dna caused by a missing phosphodiester bond.
Nitpicks
To engage in nit-picking; to criticize by nit-picking.
Nocks
One of the notches cut in either of two tips of horn fastened on the ends of a bow or in the bow itself for holding the string; the part of an arrow having a notch for the bowstring; the notch itself.
Nudnicks
A person who is a bore or nuisance.
Nutpicks
A small sharp-pointed implement for extracting the kernels from nuts.
Oarlocks
A usually u-shaped device for holding an oar in place.
Outbacks
Isolated rural country especially of australia.
Outkicks
To outdo (someone) in kicking : to kick better than; to run at a faster speed than (an opponent) during the last part of a race : to have a better kick than.
Outtricks
To get the better of by trickery.
Overdecks
To adorn extravagantly : adorn excessively.
Overstocks
A surplus of stock : an excessively large inventory of goods.
Packs
A bundle arranged for convenience in carrying especially on the back; a group or pile of related objects; a number of individual components packaged as a unit.
Packsacks
A case (as of canvas) held on the back by shoulder straps and used to carry gear especially when traveling on foot.
Paddocks
A usually enclosed area used especially for pasturing or exercising animals; especially : an enclosure where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race; an often enclosed field; an area at an automobile racecourse where racing cars are parked.
Padlocks
A removable lock with a shackle that can be passed through a staple or link and then secured.
Paybacks
Requital; a return on an investment equal to the original capital outlay; also : the period of time elapsed before an investment is recouped.
Paychecks
A check in payment of wages or salary; wages, salary.
Paperbacks
A book with a flexible paper binding.
Peacocks
A male peafowl distinguished by a crest of upright feathers and by greatly elongated loosely webbed upper tail coverts which are mostly tipped with iridescent spots and are erected and spread in a shimmering fan usually as a courtship display; broadly : peafowl.
Pecks
A unit of capacity equal to 1/4 bushel; a large quantity or number.
Penstocks
A sluice or gate for regulating a flow (as of water); a conduit or pipe for conducting water.
Petcocks
A small cock, faucet, or valve for releasing a gas (such as air) or draining.
Picklocks
Burglar; a tool for picking locks.
Picks
To pierce, penetrate, or break up with a pointed instrument; to remove bit by bit; to remove covering or adhering matter from.
Piddocks
A bivalve mollusk (family pholadidae, especially genera pholas and barnea) that bores holes in wood, clay, and rocks.
Piggybacks
Up on the back and shoulders; on or as if on the back of another; especially : on a railroad flatcar.
Pigsticks
To hunt the wild boar on horseback with a spear.
Pinchecks
A fine check made with different colored yarns, end-and-end, and smaller than the shepherd’s check; a fabric having a pattern of pinchecks.
Pinpricks
A small puncture made by or as if by a pin; a petty irritation or annoyance.
Placks
A small billon coin of scotland issued from james iii (second half of 15th century) to james vi (early 17th century); also : a corresponding unit of value; a paltry bit : trifle.
Playbacks
An act or instance of reproducing recorded sound or pictures often immediately after recording.
Plowbacks
To reinvest (profits) in a business.
Plucks
To pull or pick off or out; to remove something (such as hairs) from by or as if by plucking; rob, fleece.
Pocks
A pustule in an eruptive disease (such as smallpox); also : a spot suggesting such a pustule.
Politicks
To engage in often partisan political discussion or activity.
Pollacks
A commercially important north atlantic food fish (pollachius virens) related to and resembling the cods but darker; a commercially important northern pacific food fish (theragra chalcogramma) of the cod family that closely resembles the pollack —called also walleye pollack.
Pollocks
A commercially important north atlantic food fish (pollachius virens) related to and resembling the cods but darker; a commercially important northern pacific food fish (theragra chalcogramma) of the cod family that closely resembles the pollack —called also walleye pollack.
Potlucks
The regular meal available to a guest for whom no special preparations have been made; a communal meal to which people bring food to share —usually used attributively; whatever is offered or available in given circumstances or at a given time.
Prepacks
To enclose in a prepack; to design, prepare, or learn in advance for repeated or ready use.
Pricks
A mark or shallow hole made by a pointed instrument; a pointed instrument or weapon; a sharp projecting organ or part.
Pucks
An evil spirit : demon; a mischievous sprite : hobgoblin; specifically, capitalized : robin goodfellow.
Pullbacks
A pulling back; especially : an orderly withdrawal of troops from a position or area.
Quacks
To make the characteristic cry of a duck.
Quarterbacks
An offensive back in football who usually lines up behind the center, calls the signals, and directs the offensive play of the team; one who directs and leads.
Quarterdecks
The stern area of a ship’s upper deck; a part of a deck on a naval vessel set aside by the captain for ceremonial and official use.
Quicks
Acting or capable of acting with speed: such as; fast in development or occurrence; done or taking place with rapidity.
Quillbacks
Any of several suckers; especially : a small fish (carpiodes cyprinus) of central and eastern north america with a much elongated first ray of the dorsal fin.
Racetracks
A usually oval course for racing.
Racks
A framework, stand, or grating on or in which articles are placed; an instrument of torture on which a body is stretched; a cause of anguish or pain.
Ransacks
To look through thoroughly in often a rough way; to search through and steal from in a forceful and damaging way : plunder.
Reattacks
To attack again; to make a new attack.
Rebecks
An ancient bowed usually 3-stringed musical instrument with a pear-shaped body and slender neck.
Rechecks
To check (something) again.
Recks
Worry, care; to be of account or interest : matter; to care for : regard.
Recocks
To cock again; especially : to position the hammer of (a firearm) to reset it for firing after a previous attempt to discharge it.
Rednecks
A white member of the southern rural laboring class; a person whose behavior and opinions are similar to those attributed to rednecks.
Reedbucks
Any of a genus (redunca) of fawn-colored african antelopes in which the males have curved and ridged horns.
Relocks
To lock (something) again.
Repacks
To pack (something) again.
Reracks
To place (something) back in or on a rack; to prepare (a recorded video or audio segment) for replaying especially during a broadcast.
Restacks
To stack (something) again.
Restocks
To provide (something) with a stock or supply again : to provide, obtain, or keep a stock or supply of (something) again.
Rickracks
A flat braid woven to form zigzags and used especially as trimming on clothing.
Ricks
A stack (as of hay) in the open air; a pile of material (such as cordwood) split from short logs.
Rimrocks
A top stratum or overlying strata of resistant rock of a plateau that outcrops to form a vertical face; the edge or face of a rimrock outcrop.
Ringnecks
A ring-necked animal.
Roadblocks
A barricade often with traps or mines for holding up an enemy at a point on a road covered by fire; a road barricade set up especially by law enforcement officers; an obstruction in a road.
Rocks
To move back and forth in or as if in a cradle; to cause to sway back and forth; to cause to shake violently.
Roebucks
Roe deer; especially : the male roe deer.
Rollbacks
The act or an instance of rolling back.
Rollicks
To move or behave in a carefree joyous manner : frolic.
Roorbacks
A defamatory falsehood published for political effect.
Rootstocks
A rhizomatous underground part of a plant; a stock for grafting consisting of a root or a piece of root; broadly : stock.
Roughnecks
A rough or uncouth person; rowdy, tough; a worker of an oil-well-drilling crew other than the driller.
Rowlocks
Oarlock.
Rubbernecks
An overly inquisitive person; tourist; especially : one on a guided tour.
Rucks
The usual run of persons or things : generality; an indistinguishable gathering : jumble; the persons or things following the vanguard.
Rucksacks
A bag that is strapped to the back with two shoulder straps and is used for carrying personal belongings and supplies : knapsack.
Ruddocks
Robin.
Runbacks
A run made in football after catching an opponent’s kick or intercepting a pass.
Sacks
A usually rectangular-shaped bag (as of paper, burlap, or canvas); the amount contained in a sack; especially : a fixed amount of a commodity used as a unit of measure; a woman’s loose-fitting dress.
Sawbucks
A 10-dollar bill; sawhorse; especially : one with x-shaped ends.
Scatbacks
An offensive back in football who is an especially fast and elusive ballcarrier.
Schlocks
Of low quality or value.
Schmucks
A stupid, foolish, or unlikeable person : jerk.
Schticks
A usually comic or repetitious performance or routine : bit; one’s special trait, interest, or activity : bag.
Seacocks
A cock or valve close to a ship’s hull for opening or closing a pipe which communicates with the sea; black-bellied plover.
Setbacks
A checking of progress; defeat, reverse; pitch.
Shacks
Hut, shanty; a room or similar enclosed structure for a particular person or use.
Shaddocks
Pomelo.
Shamrocks
A trifoliolate plant used as a floral emblem by the irish: such as; a yellow-flowered old world clover (trifolium dubium) often regarded as the true shamrock; wood sorrel.
Sheepbacks
Roche moutonnée.
Shelducks
Any of various old world ducks (genus tadorna); especially : a common mostly black-and-white duck (t. tadorna) slightly larger than the mallard.
Sherlocks
Detective.
Shylocks
The jewish usurer and antagonist of antonio in shakespeare’s the merchant of venice; loan shark.
Shipwrecks
A wrecked ship or its parts; the destruction or loss of a ship; an irretrievable loss or failure.
Shlocks
Of low quality or value.
Shocks
A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance; a disturbance in the equilibrium or permanence of something; something that causes such disturbance.
Shoepacks
A waterproof laced boot worn especially over heavy socks in cold weather.
Short-shucks
Shortschat.
Shticks
A usually comic or repetitious performance or routine : bit; one’s special trait, interest, or activity : bag.
Shucks
—used especially to express mild disappointment or embarrassment.
Shuttlecocks
A lightweight conical object with a rounded often rubber-covered nose that is used in badminton.
Sicks
Intentionally so written —used after a printed word or passage to indicate that it is intended exactly as printed or to indicate that it exactly reproduces an original.
Sidekicks
A person closely associated with another as a subordinate or partner.
Sidetracks
Siding; a position or condition of secondary importance to which one may be diverted.
Skeesicks
Rascal.
Skeezicks
Rascal.
Skewbacks
A course of masonry, a stone, or an iron plate having an inclined face against which the voussoirs of an arch abut.
Skyjacks
To commandeer (an airplane in flight) by the threat of violence.
Skipjacks
Any of various fishes (such as a ladyfish or bluefish) that jump above or are active at the surface of the water; especially : skipjack tuna; a sailboat with vertical sides and a bottom similar to a flat v.
Slacks
Not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent; characterized by slowness, sluggishness, or lack of energy; moderate in some quality; especially : moderately warm.
Slapjacks
Pancake; a card game in which each player tries to be the first to slap a hand on any jack that appears faceup.
Slapsticks
A device made of two flat pieces of wood fastened at one end so as to make a loud noise when used by an actor to strike a person; comedy stressing farce and horseplay; also : activity resembling slapstick.
Slicks
Having a smooth surface : slippery; having surface plausibility or appeal : glossy; based on stereotype : trite.
Slotbacks
An offensive football halfback who lines up just behind the slot between an offensive end and tackle.
Smacks
Characteristic taste or flavor; also : a perceptible taste or tincture; a small quantity.
Smocks
A woman’s undergarment; especially : chemise; a light loose garment worn especially for protection of clothing while working.
Smokestacks
A pipe or funnel through which smoke and gases are discharged.
Snacks
A light meal : food eaten between regular meals; also : food suitable for snacking.
Snapbacks
A football snap; a sudden rebound or recovery.
Snecks
Latch.
Snicks
To cut through; to cut slightly; to perform a light cutting action.
Snowpacks
A seasonal accumulation of slow-melting packed snow.
Socks
A low shoe or slipper; a knitted or woven covering for the foot usually worn under shoes and extending above the ankle and sometimes to the knee; a shoe worn by actors in greek and roman comedy.
Softbacks
Softcover.
Soundtracks
A track (as on a motion-picture film or television videotape) that carries the sound record; the sound recorded on a soundtrack; especially : the music on a soundtrack.
Specks
A small discoloration or spot especially from stain or decay; a very small amount : bit; something marked or marred with specks.
Spicks
—used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a spanish-american person.
Spondulicks
Fractional currency; money, funds.
Stacks
A large usually conical pile (as of hay, straw, or grain in the sheaf) left standing in the field for storage; an orderly pile or heap; a large quantity or number.
Steeplejacks
A person whose work is building smokestacks, towers, or steeples or climbing up the outside of them to paint and make repairs.
Sticks
A woody piece or part of a tree or shrub: such as; a usually dry or dead severed shoot, twig, or slender branch; a cut or broken branch or piece of wood gathered for fuel or construction material.
Stocks
A store or supply accumulated or available; especially : the inventory of goods of a merchant or manufacturer; the equipment, materials, or supplies of an establishment; livestock.
Stopcocks
A cock for stopping or regulating flow (as through a pipe).
Stricks
A bunch of hackled flax, jute, or hemp.
Sucks
To draw (something, such as liquid) into the mouth through a suction force produced by movements of the lips and tongue; to draw something from or consume by such movements; to apply the mouth to in order to or as if to suck out a liquid.
Swaybacks
An abnormally hollow condition or sagging of the back found especially in horses; also : a sagging back; abnormally exaggerated forward curvature of the lumbar and cervical regions of the spine : lordosis.
Switchbacks
A zigzag road, trail, or section of railroad tracks for climbing a steep hill.
Tacks
Attach; especially : to fasten or affix with tacks; to join or add in a slight or hasty manner —usually used with on or onto; to add as a supplement or something extra —usually used with on or onto.
Tailbacks
The offensive football back farthest from the line of scrimmage; a line of vehicles caused by a traffic slowdown or stoppage.
Tamaracks
Any of several american larches; especially : a larch (larix laricina) of northern north america that inhabits usually moist or wet areas; the wood of a tamarack.
Thicks
Having or being of relatively great depth or extent from one surface to its opposite; heavily built : thickset; close-packed with units or individuals.
Throwbacks
One that is suggestive of or suited to an earlier time or style; reversion to an earlier type or phase : atavism; an instance or product of atavistic reversion.
Thumbtacks
A tack with a broad flat head for pressing into a surface with the thumb.
Thwacks
To strike with or as if with something flat or heavy : whack.
Ticks
A light rhythmic audible tap or beat; also : a series of such ticks; the time taken by the tick of a clock : moment; a small spot or mark; especially : one used to direct attention to something, to check an item on a list, or to represent a point on a scale.
Ticktacks
A ticking or tapping beat like that of a clock or watch; a contrivance used by children to tap on a window from a distance.
Ticktocks
The ticking sound of a clock.
Tiebacks
A decorative strip or device of cloth, cord, or metal for draping a curtain to the side of a window; a curtain with a tieback —usually used in plural.
Tipstocks
The detachable or movable forepart of a gunstock that lies beneath the barrel and forms a hold for the left hand.
Toothpicks
A pointed instrument (such as a slender tapering piece of wood) for removing food particles lodged between the teeth.
Topkicks
First sergeant.
Touchbacks
A situation in football in which the ball is down behind the goal line after a kick or intercepted forward pass after which it is put in play by the team defending the goal on its own 20-yard line.
Tracks
A footprint whether recent or fossil; detectable evidence (such as the wake of a ship, a line of footprints, or a wheel rut) that something has passed; a path made by or as if by repeated footfalls : trail.
Trafficks
The vehicles, pedestrians, ships, or planes moving along a route; congestion of vehicles; the movement (as of vehicles or pedestrians) through an area or along a route.
Traprocks
Any of various dark-colored fine-grained igneous rocks (such as basalt) used especially in road making.
Tricks
A crafty procedure or practice meant to deceive or defraud; a mischievous act : prank; a deceptive, dexterous, or ingenious feat; especially : one designed to puzzle or amuse.
Tripacks
A combination of three superposed films or emulsions each sensitive to a different primary color for simultaneous exposure in one camera.
Trucks
A wheeled vehicle for moving heavy articles: such as; a strong horse-drawn or automotive vehicle (such as a pickup) for hauling.
Tucks
To push in the loose end of so as to hold tightly; to cover by tucking in bedclothes —usually used with in; to put into a snug often concealing or isolating place.
Turtlenecks
A high close-fitting turnover collar used especially for sweaters; a garment (such as a sweater) with a turtleneck.
Tussocks
A compact tuft especially of grass or sedge; also : an area of raised solid ground in a marsh or bog that is bound together by roots of low vegetation.
Two-blocks
Chockablock.
Unblocks
To free from being blocked.
Uncocks
To remove the hammer of (a firearm) from a cocked position.
Undocks
To move away from a dock (as at sailing time); uncouple.
Unfrocks
Defrock.
Unlocks
To unfasten the lock of; open, undo; to free from restraints or restrictions.
Unpacks
To remove the contents of; unburden, reveal; to remove or undo from packing or a container.
Unpicks
To undo by taking out stitches.
Unsticks
To release from a state of adhesion.
Upchucks
Vomit.
Upperstocks
Stocking; specifically : a 16th century stocking reaching below the knee and worn with netherstocks and trunk hose.
Upticks
An increase, rise, or upward trend; a stock market transaction at a price above the last previous transaction in the same security.
Waesucks
—used to express pity.
Warlocks
A man practicing the black arts : sorcerer; conjurer.
Waterbucks
A stocky antelope (kobus ellipsiprymnus) of sub-saharan africa that commonly frequent streams or wet areas.
Weathercocks
A vane often in the figure of a cock mounted so as to turn freely with the wind and show its direction; a person or thing that changes readily or often.
Wedlocks
The state of being married : marriage, matrimony.
Wetbacks
—used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a mexican who enters the u.s. illegally.
Whacks
To strike with a smart or resounding blow; to cut with or as if with a whack : chop; to get the better of : defeat.
Wicks
A bundle of fibers or a loosely twisted, braided, or woven cord, tape, or tube usually of soft spun cotton threads that by capillary attraction draws up to be burned a steady supply of the oil in lamps or the melted tallow or wax in candles.
Windsocks
A truncated cloth cone open at both ends and mounted in an elevated position to indicate the direction of the wind.
Wingbacks
An offensive back in football who lines up outside the tight end; also : the position of such a player.
Winnocks
Window.
Wisecracks
A clever or sarcastic remark.
Woodblocks
Woodcut.
Woodchucks
A grizzled thickset marmot (marmota monax) chiefly of alaska, canada, and the northeastern u.s. —called also groundhog.
Woodcocks
A shorebird (scolopax rusticola) of europe and asia that frequents moist woodlands, has large eyes and rounded wings, is of a variously mottled reddish-brown, black, and buff color with a barred chest, and is often hunted as game.
Woolpacks
A wrapper of strong fabric into which fleeces are packed for shipment; the complete package of wool and wrapper.
Woolsacks
Woolpack; a cushion that is the official seat of the lord chancellor or his deputy in presiding over the house of lords.
Wracks
A wrecked ship; wreckage; wreck.
Wrecks
Something cast up on the land by the sea especially after a shipwreck; shipwreck; the action of wrecking or fact or state of being wrecked : destruction.
Wrynecks
Either of two old world woodpeckers (jynx torquilla or j. ruficollis) that differ from the typical woodpeckers in having soft tail feathers and a peculiar manner of writhing the neck; torticollis.
Zwiebacks
A usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp.
The following words also end in cks; however, we couldn’t find definitions of these words from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
| Anticks | Antiknocks |
| Baldricks | Beflecks |
| Benedicks | Bentincks |
| Blesbucks | Bonnocks |
| Bontebucks | Buicks |
| Bundocks | Caracks |
| Cat-locks | Chadwicks |
| Chipmucks | Coalsacks |
| Crosswicks | Diamondbacks |
| Dornecks | Dornocks |
| Efecks | Facks |
| Fredericks | Frolicks |
| Gweducks | Hairlocks |
| Henricks | Hommocks |
| Horrocks | Yfacks |
| Ifecks | Jumprocks |
| Kendricks | Lobsticks |
| Maddocks | Medicks |
| Medrinacks | Miniclocks |
| Mucklucks | Mudrocks |
| Nimocks | Nipmucks |
| Oicks | Oomiacks |
| Outrocks | Physicks |
| Pick-up-sticks | Pickwicks |
| Plainbacks | Prechecks |
| Princocks | Redbricks |
| Redocks | Retacks |
| Retracks | Shellacks |
| Shmucks | Thacks |
| Tombacks | Trocks |
| Tussucks | ‘tween-decks |
| Umiacks | Unstacks |
| Untacks | Untucks |
| Wacks | Whitracks |
| Wricks | Zacks |
| Zebecks |
