Phrase Hound found 88 phrases and 170 compound words that contain locks. The most common are listed below. Open locks in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 88
- locks upthird-person singular simple present indicative of lock up: To imprison or incarcerate (someone).
- Windsor LocksA town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
- Locks HeathA suburban area in Fareham borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5107)
- locks and loadsthird-person singular simple present indicative of lock and load: A command to prepare a weapon for battle.
- combination locksplural of combination lock: A type of lock opened by a sequence of numbers or symbols.
- guard locksplural of guard lock: tide lock
- joint locksplural of joint lock: Any lock designed to hyperextend one of the joints of the body, leading to pain and/or injury.
- leg locksplural of leg lock: A joint lock directed at the ankle, knee, or hip joint.
- love-locksplural of love-lock: A padlock symbolizing two people's love for each other.
- side-locksplural of side-lock: A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.
- boxes and locksthird-person singular simple present indicative of box and lock: To suppress or hide (something) so that it is not readily available or capable of action.
- ankle locksplural of ankle lock: The technique of twisting the ankle of someone already down, in order to keep them down, under the painful threat of an injury to their ankle that will mar them for life.
- staircase locksplural of staircase lock: A set of locks on a waterway canal which rise steeply, and consisting of lock gates where the top gate of one lock is also the bottom gate of the next lock, not having a pound between each level.
- keycard locksplural of keycard lock: An electronic lock operated by a keycard.
- air locksplural of air lock: A small amount of air in a pipe that stops liquid flowing through it.
- bike locksplural of bike lock: A device, fitted with a lock, that is used to immobilise a bicycle when not in use.
- button locksplural of button lock: A type of lock (for knives, and other tools, of folding or collapsing type) in which the lock is released with the press of a button, usually on the side of the handle; such a lock often allows the tool to be locked …
- Caps Locksplural of Caps Lock: An input mode in which all letters of bicameral scripts are generated in capital letters.
- child locksplural of child lock: A type of special-purpose lock that when activated, prevents rearseat passengers from opening the doors from the inside.
- core locksthird-person singular simple present indicative of core lock: Seizure of a turbine engine due to misalignment and loss of clearance between stationary and rotating components, caused by different components cooling and contracting at …
- D locksplural of D lock: A lock shaped like an elongated letter D, used to secure an unattended bicycle to railings etc.
- dial locksplural of dial lock: A combination lock having the numbers entered by means of a rotating dial.
- diff locksplural of diff lock: locking differential
- differential locksplural of differential lock: A kind of automotive differential that provides increased traction by restricting each of the two wheels on an axle to the same rotational speed without regard to available traction or differences in resistance …
- double-locksthird-person singular simple present indicative of double-lock: To lock with two separate locks or bolts.
Compound words 170
- goldilocksA person with golden hair, especially a girl with long hair.
- dreadlocksA hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow long, and twisted into matted strings.
- sisterlocksSmall, thin dreadlocks that are woven into the hair using a special tool.
- locticianA hairdresser who styles the hair into dreadlocks.
- brotherlocksSisterlocks (a kind of dreadlocks) when worn by a male.
- padlocksplural of padlock: A detachable lock that can be used to secure something by means of a sliding or hinged shackle
- deadlocksplural of deadlock: A standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; a stalemate or impasse.
- warlocksplural of warlock: A male magic-user; a male equivalent of a witch; a wizard.
- interlocksplural of interlock: To fit or clasp together securely.
- LocksleyA locality in the Bathurst council area, central eastern New South Wales, Australia.