crick

crick is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
2. noun. A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.
3. noun. A small jackscrew.
4. noun. English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
5. noun. a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

   Synonyms: kink, rick, wrick

6. verb. twist (a body part) into a strained position

   "crick your neck"

Synonyms

kink, rick, wrick

Common word forms

cricks, cricked, cricking

Words from these letters

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