The wick of an oil lamp

plural of wicked tongue

plural of Wick rotation

(quantum mechanics) A method of reducing high-order derivatives to a combinatorics problem, used extensively in quantum field theory to reduce arbitrary products of creation and annihilation operators to sums of products of pairs of these operators.

A suburb and former village in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, England.

(historical) An edition of the Bible published in London in 1631 that mistakenly omitted the word not from one of the Ten Commandments, stating "Thou shalt commit adultery".

plural of Wicked Bible

The phenomenon of the partial or total destruction of a human body by fire, when the clothing of the victim soaks up melted body fat and acts like the wick of a candle.

plural of wick effect

(UK, colloquial) To annoy or upset someone, especially by repeated disagreeable actions.