10-letter words containing ack
- crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- crack root — (security, jargon) To defeat the security system of a Unix machine and gain root privileges thereby. The sort of thing a cracker wants to do.
- crack wise — to joke or gibe
- crackajack — crackerjack
- crackberry — a nickname for a BlackBerry handheld device that functions as a telephone, PDA, and e-mailer and appears to have an addictive hold on its users
- crackbrain — a person who is insane
- crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- cracklings — Plural form of crackling.
- crossjacks — Plural form of crossjack.
- cycle rack — a series of metal frameworks standing on the ground for holding bicycles upright
- dirt track — a track with an unsealed surface
- dockmackie — a North American shrub, Viburnum acerifolium, of the honeysuckle family, having long stemmed clusters of white flowers and ovoid, almost black berries.
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- fanny pack — a small zippered pouch suspended from a belt around the waist.
- fast track — a racetrack dry and hard enough for optimum speed.
- fast-track — of or relating to the fast track.
- feedbacker — One who provides feedback.
- fiddleback — something shaped like a fiddle.
- fight back — retaliate
- flare-back — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flarebacks — Plural form of flareback.
- flash back — If your mind flashes back to something in the past, you remember it or think of it briefly or suddenly.
- flashbacks — Plural form of flashback.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- go back on — at, to, or toward the rear; backward: to step back.
- go back to — revert
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- grass sack — South Midland U.S. a gunnysack.
- grasswrack — any of several perennial submerged marine plants of the genus Zostera; eelgrass
- greenbacks — Plural form of greenback.
- gun tackle — a tackle composed of a fall rove through two single blocks and secured to one of them so as to secure a mechanical advantage of two or three, neglecting friction, depending on the arrangement.
- gunnysacks — Plural form of gunnysack.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- hacked off — (jargon) (Analogous to "pissed off") Said of system administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimised by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home directory called "worm", "lockpick", or "goroot" would probably be an effective (as well as impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at you.
- hackensack — a city in NE New Jersey, near New York City.
- hackerazzo — a person who hacks into the computer or phone of a celebrity in order to gain information about him or her
- hackeysack — A non-competition sport in which a small sack, or
- hackintosh — 1. (jargon, computer) An Apple Lisa that has been hacked into emulating a Macintosh (also called a "Mac XL"). 2. (jargon, computer) A Macintosh assembled from parts theoretically belonging to different models in the line.
- hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
- hackleback — shovelnose sturgeon.
- hackmatack — tamarack (def 1).