7-letter words containing a, c, k, n
- jacking — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jacklin — Tony, full name Anthony Jacklin. born 1944, English golfer: won the British Open Championship (1969) and the US Open Championship (1970)
- jackman — (motor racing) A member of the pit crew responsible for lifting the car with a jack.
- jackson — a state in the S United States. 47,716 sq. mi. (123,585 sq. km). Capital: Jackson. Abbreviation: MS (for use with zip code), Miss.
- janacek — Leoš [le-awsh] /ˈlɛ ɔʃ/ (Show IPA), 1854–1928, Czech composer.
- jannock — honest; fair; straightforward.
- kachina — any of various ancestral spirits deified by the Hopi Indians and impersonated in religious rituals by masked dancers.
- kanchil — A small, agile chevrotain of the genus Tragulus.
- katcina — kachina.
- kechuan — Quechuan.
- kincaid — Jamaica, born 1949, West Indian novelist and short-story writer.
- knacked — Simple past tense and past participle of knack.
- knacker — a person who buys animal carcasses or slaughters useless livestock for a knackery or rendering works.
- kneecap — the patella.
- koranic — Alternative spelling of Qur'anic.
- kranach — Lucas ("the Elder") 1472–1553, German painter and graphic artist.
- kronach — Lucas ("the Elder") 1472–1553, German painter and graphic artist.
- lacking — being without; not having; wanting; less: Lacking equipment, the laboratory couldn't undertake the research project.
- linpack — 1. A package of linear algebra routines. 2. The kernel benchmark developed from the "LINPACK" package of linear algebra routines. It was written by Jack Dongarra <[email protected]> in Fortran and is commonly used in that language but there is also a C version. Source Code by FTP: single precision Fortran, double precision Fortran, C.
- lockean — an adherent of the philosophy of Locke.
- lockman — (Scotland, archaic) A public executioner.
- macdink — /mak'dink/ To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file. Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without them. The Macintosh is said to encourage such behaviour. See also fritterware, window shopping.
- mack on — a pimp.
- macking — a pimp.
- maniack — Obsolete form of maniac.
- manjack — a west Indian tree with slimy fruit
- manpack — a compact load able to be carried by one person
- mckenna — Siobhan [shuh-vawn,, -von] /ʃəˈvɔn,, -ˈvɒn/ (Show IPA), 1923–86, Irish actress.
- nalchik — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in N Caucasia, N of the Georgian Republic. 4747 sq. mi. (12,295 sq. km). Capital: Nalchik.
- nechako — a river in central British Columbia, Canada, flowing NE and E to the Fraser river. About 150 miles (240 km) long.
- netback — a calculation of the price of crude-oil products based on the price of crude oil.
- nethack — (games) /net'hak/ (Unix) A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate, distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced by Andries Brouwer, were simply called "hack". The name changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers originally organised by Mike Stephenson. Version: NetHack 3.2 (Apr 1996?). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
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- nutcake — A cake made with nuts.
- pack in — Hunting. a number of hounds, especially foxhounds and beagles, regularly used together in a hunt.
- packing — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- packman — a peddler.
- pancake — a thin, flat cake of batter fried on both sides on a griddle or in a frying pan; griddlecake or flapjack.
- panicky — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- racking — Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
- ransack — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- ruckman — a person who plays in the ruck
- runback — Football. a run made by a player toward the goal line of the opponents after receiving a kick, intercepting a pass, or recovering an opponent's fumble. the distance covered in making such a run.
- sack in — hit the sack
- sacking — the plundering of a captured place; pillage: the sack of Troy.
- schrank — (in Pennsylvania Dutch furniture) a two-door clothes cabinet one side of which has drawers and shelves and the other side an open space for hanging clothes.
- slacken — If something slackens or if you slacken it, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- snacker — a person who snacks or eats between main meals
- sunback — (of a garment) cut low to expose the back for sunbathing or coolness.
- tack on — attach, append