5-Letter Words That End With: OCKS

• any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)

• tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle

• leave as a guarantee in return for money

• disable by cutting the hock

• A laugh, especially a loud or hearty one.

• To laugh, especially loudly or uproariously

• the act of mocking or ridiculing

• constituting a copy or imitation of something

• treat with contempt

• imitate with mockery and derision

• A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.

• a pustule in an eruptive disease

• mark with a scar

• an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial

• any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

• a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats

• a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded

• landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out

• the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair

• a short or shortened tail of certain animals

• come into dock

• deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty

• deduct from someone's wages

• remove or shorten the tail of an animal

• maneuver into a dock

• hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee

• a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind

• hit hard

• a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

• United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

• material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

• (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable

• hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)

• a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western

• pitching dangerously to one side

• move back and forth or sideways

• cause to move back and forth

• make small marks into the surface of