6-letter words containing ac
- facete — facetious.
- facets — one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- faceup — with the face or the front or upper surface upward: Place the cards faceup on the table.
- facial — of the face: facial expression.
- facias — Plural form of facia.
- facies — general appearance, as of an animal or vegetable group.
- facile — moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
- facing — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- facist — Misspelling of fascist.
- facked — Simple past tense and past participle of fack.
- factic — Factual.
- factly — Only used in matter-of-factly.
- factor — Christmas factor.
- factum — a statement of the facts in a controversy or legal case.
- facula — an irregular, unusually bright patch on the sun's surface.
- facund — (archaic) eloquent, articulate.
- fiacre — a small horse-drawn carriage.
- flacks — Plural form of flack.
- flacon — a small bottle or flask with a stopper, especially one used for perfume.
- formac — FORmula MAnipulation Compiler. J. Sammet & Tobey, IBM Boston APD, 1962. An extension of Fortran for symbolic mathematics. Versions: PL/I-FORMAC and FORMAC73.
- fracas — a noisy, disorderly disturbance or fight; riotous brawl; uproar.
- gedact — a flutelike stopped metal diapason organ pipe
- glaces — ice placed in a drink to cool it.
- glacis — a gentle slope.
- graced — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- graces — William Russell, 1832–1904, U.S. financier and shipping magnate, born in Ireland: mayor of New York City 1880–88.
- guache — Alternative spelling of gouache.
- guaiac — Also called guaiacum gum, gum guaiac. a greenish-brown resin obtained from the guaiacum tree, especially from Guaiacum officinale, used in varnishes, as a food preservative, and in medicine in various tests for the presence of blood.
- h-back — a wingback or slotback
- hacked — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- hackee — (US, dialect) The chickaree or red squirrel.
- hacker — a person, as an artist or writer, who exploits, for money, his or her creative ability or training in the production of dull, unimaginative, and trite work; one who produces banal and mediocre work in the hope of gaining commercial success in the arts: As a painter, he was little more than a hack.
- hackie — hack2 (def 7b).
- hackle — one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
- hackly — rough or jagged, as if hacked: Some minerals break with a hackly fracture.
- heliac — pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.
- hexact — hexactinal
- hijack — to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey.
- horace — (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) 65–8 b.c, Roman poet and satirist.
- iguacu — a river in S Brazil, flowing W to the Paraná River on the Argentina-Paraguay-Brazil border: noted for its falls. 745 miles (1199 km) long.
- illiac — Assembly language for the ILLIAC computer. Listed in CACM 2(5):16, (May 1959) p.16.
- impact — the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
- infact — Misspelling of in fact.
- inlace — enlace.
- intact — not altered, broken, or impaired; remaining uninjured, sound, or whole; untouched; unblemished: The vase remained intact despite rough handling.
- ipecac — the dried root of a shrubby South American plant, Cephaelis ipecacuanha, of the madder family.
- isaacs — a son of Abraham and Sarah, and father of Jacob. Gen. 21:1–4.
- isotac — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to melt at approximately the same period in spring.
- ithaca — one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km). Greek Itháki.
- jacals — Plural form of jacal.