CHECK is a hinge word: 1 words make a compound in front of it and 4 make one after it, so it can sit in the middle of a chain and hold two compounds together at once.
Each of these makes a compound ending in CHECK.
Each of these makes a compound starting with CHECK.
CHECK arrived from chess — the shah in check — and then spread to anything stopped or verified. CHECKPOINT and CHECKLIST keep the stopping sense, CHECKBOOK and PAYCHECK the money one, and CHECKOUT does both at once.
Put any word from the first list in front and any word from the second behind, and you have a three-word chain in which both neighbouring pairs join. Here are some of them.
PAY → CHECK → BOOK — paycheck and checkbookKEYSTONE is a free daily puzzle built entirely out of chains like these. You get the two ends and have to fill the two words in the middle. Three bridges a day, no account, no cookies.
Each of these has a page like this one. There is also an index of all 54.
AWAY · BACK · BALL · BED · BLACK · BOARD · BOOK · BOY · BREAK · DAY · DOOR · DOWN · FALL · FATHER · FIRE · GROUND · GUN · HAND · HEAD · HOOD · HOUSE · LAND · LESS · LIFE · LIGHT · LINE · LOAD · MAN · MOTHER · NIGHT · OFF · OUT · OVER · PAY · POINT · POST · POWER · ROOM · RUN · SHIP · SIDE · SOME · STEP · SUN · TAKE · TIME · TURN · UNDER · WALK · WATER · WAY · WOOD · WORK