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11-letter words containing ack

  • cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
  • cossack hat — a warm brimless hat of fur or sheepskin
  • cousin jack — a Cornishman, especially a Cornish miner.
  • crack hardy — to disguise one's discomfort, etc; put on a bold front
  • crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
  • cracked gas — Cracked gas is gas from a refining process, which is often compressed afterwards.
  • crackerjack — Someone or something that is crackerjack is excellent or of very high quality.
  • crackleware — porcelain or pottery decorated with intentional crazing in the glaze
  • cracklingly — With a crackling sound.
  • crocus sack — a burlap bag.
  • croker sack — a bag made of burlap or similar material
  • crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
  • cyberattack — an attempt to damage or disrupt a computer system, or obtain information stored on a computer system, by means of hacking
  • cycle track — a special path created for cyclists to use
  • daddy track — a career path for men who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
  • data packet — packet
  • diamondback — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
  • dockmackies — Plural form of dockmackie.
  • don cossack — a member of the eastern branch of the Cossacks, living along the Don
  • doodle-sack — bagpipe (def 1).
  • doodlesacks — Plural form of doodlesack.
  • double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • dust jacket — book jacket.
  • eton jacket — a waist-length jacket with a V-shaped back, open in front, formerly worn by pupils of Eton College
  • fast packet — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
  • featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
  • fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
  • fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
  • firecracker — a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise, as during a celebration.
  • fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
  • flak jacket — U.S. Air Force. an armored garment made of steel plates covered by a padded fabric, designed to protect vital parts of the body from shrapnel.
  • flare stack — A flare stack is a high vertical pipe for carrying unwanted gas so it can be burned off.
  • flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
  • flat-packed — (of a piece of furniture, equipment, or other construction) supplied in pieces packed into a flat box for assembly by the buyer
  • foam-backed — having a backing made of foam rubber
  • gas bracket — a metal pipe projecting from the wall of an apartment, used to support gas lamps and to supply them with gas
  • get back at — take revenge on
  • get back to — resume
  • gimcrackery — cheap, showy, useless trifles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.
  • gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
  • gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
  • googlewhack — A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
  • hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
  • hack attack — (jargon)   (Possibly by analogy with "Big Mac Attack" from advertisements for the McDonald's fast-food chain; the variant "big hack attack" is reported) Nearly synonymous with hacking run, though the latter more strongly implies an all-nighter.
  • hack hammer — an adzlike tool for dressing stone.
  • hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
  • hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
  • hackerspace — A place where hackers meet to work on programming and hardware projects together, and to share their knowledge.
  • hacking run — (jargon)   (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
  • hackishness — (jargon)   The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Synonym hackitude.
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