5-letter words containing ac
- acrue — Misspelling of accrue.
- acrux — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- act 1 — Algebraic Compiler and Translator
- acted — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- acter — A play or film with a particular number of acts.
- actin — a protein that participates in many kinds of cell movement, including muscle contraction, during which it interacts with filaments of a second protein, myosin
- actis — a son of Rhoda and Helius who, when banished from his home for fratricide, fled to Egypt, where he taught astrology. The Colossus of Rhodes was built in his honor.
- acton — a jacket or jerkin, originally of quilted cotton, worn under a coat of mail
- actor — An actor is someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
- actos — a short, realistic play, usually in Spanish, that dramatizes the social and economic problems of Chicanos.
- actra — Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television, and Radio Artists
- actus — An Ancient Roman unit of length, approximately 35.5 metres.
- acuff — Roy1903-92; U.S. composer & country music singer
- acute — An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.
- alack — used to express regret, surprise, dismay, etc.
- altac — (language) An extended Fortran II for the Philco 2000, built on TAC.
- anzac — (in World War I) a soldier serving with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
- apace — If something develops or continues apace, it is developing or continuing quickly.
- apacs — Association for Payment Clearing Services
- atrac — Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding
- awacs — airborne warning and control system
- ayacc — A Yacc-like parser generator from the Irvine Research Unit in Software written in Ada that produce Ada output. Comes with aflex. Version 1.2a. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
- bacau — a city in E Romania on the River Bistrila: oil refining, textiles, paper. Pop: 128 000 (2005 est)
- bacca — a simple, fleshy, indehiscent fruit developing from a single ovary, such as the grape or cranberry
- baccy — Older Use. tobacco.
- bacha — a child or a young person
- bache — (obsolete) The dale of a stream or rivulet.
- backs — a large tub, vat, or cistern used by dyers, brewers, distillers, etc., to hold liquids.
- bacne — acne on one's back: Bacne can cause pain and scarring.
- bacon — Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig.
- beach — A beach is an area of sand or stones beside the sea.
- black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
- brach — a bitch hound
- bract — a specialized leaf, usually smaller than the foliage leaves, with a single flower or inflorescence growing in its axil
- byacc — Berkeley Yacc
- cacao — Cacao seeds are the seeds of a tropical tree, from which cocoa and chocolate are made.
- cache — A cache is a quantity of things such as weapons that have been hidden.
- cacky — of or like excrement
- caco- — bad, unpleasant, or incorrect
- cacti — any of numerous succulent plants of the family Cactaceae, of warm, arid regions of the New World, having fleshy, leafless, usually spiny stems, and typically having solitary, showy flowers.
- chace — (obsolete) chase; pursue.
- chack — to bite or snap the teeth or beak
- chaco — extensive lowland plain in central South America, stretching across parts of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia: c. 300,000 sq mi (776,997 sq km)
- clach — a stone
- clack — If things clack or if you clack them, they make a short loud noise, especially when they hit each other.
- coach — A coach is someone who trains a person or team of people in a particular sport.
- coact — to act together
- crack — If something hard cracks, or if you crack it, it becomes slightly damaged, with lines appearing on its surface.
- dacca — Dhaka