12-Letter Words Ending: CKS

• someone excellent of their kind

• something excellent of its kind

• (football) the person who plays quarterback

• (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team

• play the quarterback

• the stern area of a ship's upper deck

• a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing

• someone who builds or maintains very tall structures

• small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research

• weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster

• a training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them

• large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings

• a bow used in playing the violin