Synonyms of the word

crick

• n. A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult…
• n. A small jackscrew.
• v. to violently spasm.
• n. (Appalachia) Alternative form of creek.
• n. The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

biochemist

• n. A chemist whose speciality is biochemistry.

cramp

• n. A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
• n. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
• n. A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
• n. A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper…
• v. (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
• v. (transitive) To prohibit movement or expression.
• v. (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
• v. To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.
• v. (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
• v. To form on a cramp.

kink

• v. To laugh loudly.
• v. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
• n. (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a…
• n. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
• n. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
• n. An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
• n. (slang, countable and uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
• n. (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation.
• v. (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
• v. (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.

rick

• n. A stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching.
• n. (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four…
• v. To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
• v. slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.
• n. (military, pejorative and demeaning) A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee.

spasm

• n. A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.
• n. A violent, excruciating seizure of pain.
• n. A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion.
• v. To produce and undergo a spasm.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

wrick

• v. To twist; turn.
• v. To wrench; strain.
• n. A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back.