Ticks is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TICKS in dictionary:

VERB:
• TICK, to make a sound like a clock
• mark (an item) with a tick or select (a box) on a form, questionnaire, etc. to indicate that something has been chosen, checked, approved, or dealt with
• (of a clock or other mechanical device) make regular short, sharp sounds, typically one for every second of time that passes
• (of time) pass
• proceed or progress
NOUN:
• a mark (✓) used to indicate that an item in a list or text is correct or has been chosen, checked, or dealt with.
• a regular short, sharp sound, especially that made by a clock or watch
• a moment
• the smallest recognized amount by which a price of a security or future may fluctuate.
• a parasitic arachnid which attaches itself to the skin of a terrestrial vertebrate from which it sucks blood, leaving the host when sated. Some species transmit diseases, including tularaemia and Lyme disease.
• a parasitic louse fly, especially the sheep ked.
• a worthless or contemptible person
• a fabric case stuffed with feathers or other material to form a mattress or pillow.
• on credit
• a mark (✓) used to indicate that an item in a list or text is correct or has been chosen, checked, or dealt with.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make a recurrent clicking sound

Words related to TICKS

tick10 ticked13 ticking14

Words that contain TICKS

sticks12 anticks13 deticks14 shticks16 upticks15 bedticks17 besticks16 schticks19 tickseed15 unsticks14 blueticks17 cansticks17 dipsticks18 downticks19 gunsticks16 joysticks25 lipsticks17 lobsticks17 lopsticks17 malsticks17 mapsticks19 mopsticks19 pansticks17 pigsticks18 politicks17 practicks19 stickseed16 tickseeds16 chapsticks23 chopsticks23 crabsticks20 drumsticks19 flagsticks20 gearsticks17 glowsticks20 goldsticks18 headsticks20 knobsticks22 mahlsticks21 maulsticks18 metesticks18 nicksticks22 rainsticks16 ricksticks22 slapsticks18 stickseeds17 yardsticks20 boomsticks20 breadsticks20 broomsticks21 matchsticks24 metersticks19 metresticks19 nightsticks21 shiftsticks23 swordsticks21 tapersticks19 greensticks18 candlesticks21 fiddlesticks23 outpoliticks20 singlesticks19 needlesticks19 walkingsticks27

How to use TICKS in a sentence

• More from fever and dysentery, from biting flies, from ticks and crawling beasts have we suffered than from the bullets of the enemy.
• But they are fortunately different from the grass ticks that, though unpleasant, are not dangerous to man.
• Fine sleek animals that have left the Union scarcely a month before, carefully washed in paraffin in a vain attempt to protect them from flies and ticks.
• Any good operator understands the sounds of its ticks upon the flowing strip of paper, as well as when he sees it.
• Finally it came, three faint ticks in the telephone receiver.
• Tan ticks on the fore-legs and on the white muzzle are desirable.
• And how the trout enjoy the ticks that come from their thickly matted coats! One poor sheep is hopping about on the cricket field dead lame.
• The clock had given only two ticks when she was upon him, but in that time she had completely changed her plan of action.
• We slept on trundle-beds, which were covered with straw ticks.
• The clock ticks on, the boy reads, but with little attention.
• They feed on the insects disturbed by the hoofs of the cattle, and often cling to them and pick off the ticks.
• Now and then we were bitten and stung by the venomous fire-ants, and ticks crawled upon us.
• Poisonous ants, biting flies, ticks, wasps, bees were a perpetual torment.
• He would come into my open house at daybreak, and perch on my body, and awaken me pecking at imaginary ticks.
• They are exceedingly small ticks, which fix their claws firmly in the flesh, and cause intolerable itching.
• He takes the programme, ticks off the names, and writes his remarks and criticisms just as he likes.
• On a mantelshelf the clock ticks, if the cabin boasts one, and by its side rests a well-thumbed Bible.
• Fortunately it is a simple matter to exterminate the ticks and lice and overcome the ordinary skin diseases of sheep.
• The first treatment may not kill all the eggs, but the second will kill the young ticks, thus completing the job.
• The last of the old straw from the emptied ticks had been cast into the flames, and the broken tent-floors were burning brilliantly.
• In my remuda over one half the horses were afflicted with ticks, and many of them it was impossible to bridle, owing to the inflamed condition of their ears.
• Three bursting as near together as the ticks of a clock made almost no smoke, as they brought some tree limbs down and tore away a section of a trunk.
• A familiar example is the Morse telegraph code, in which the letters of written speech are represented by a conventionally fixed sequence of longer or shorter ticks.
• Mother took the feather ticks off the two bedsteads and bundled them up to take to America.
• With the feather ticks went also the money mother had got from selling the bedsteads and other furniture.
• What ticks in the clock, beats here with strong strokes of the hammer.
• Now as the clock ticks its hours away, we may watch the phrases of the capable Author of the great story as they come from His pen.
• And a pallid, tearless woman By the cold hearth sits alone, And the old clock in the corner Ticks on with a steady drone.

Similar words containing TICK without suffix s

tick10 stick11 ticky14 antick12 detick13 shtick15 sticks12 sticky15 ticked13 ticken12 ticker12 ticket12 tickey15 tickle12 tickly15 uptick14 anticke13 anticks13 bedtick16 bestick15 deticks14 lustick13 schtick18 shticks16 shticky19 sticked14 sticker13 stickie13 stickit13 stickle13 stickum15 stickup15 tickens13 tickers13 tickets13 tickeys16 tickies13 ticking14 tickled14 tickler13 tickles13 unstick13 upticks15 anticked15 antickes14 bedticks17 besticks16 bigstick17 bluetick16 canstick16 deticked16 deticker15 dipstick17 downtick18 gunstick15 joystick24 lipstick16 lobstick16 lopstick16 malstick16 mapstick18 mopstick18 nonstick14 panstick16 pigstick17 politick16 practick18 schticks19 staticky17 stickers14 stickful17 stickied15 stickier14 stickies14 stickily17 sticking15 stickjaw24 stickled15 stickler14 stickles14 stickman16 stickmen16 stickout14 stickpin16 stickums16 stickups16 ticketed15 tickings15 ticklace16 ticklers14 ticklier14 tickling15 ticklish17 tickseed15 ticktack20 ticktock20 unsticks14 anticking16 antistick15 blueticks17 Show more ...

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