11-letter words containing ack
- natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
- nose tackle — nose guard
- nut-cracker — an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
- nutcrackers — Plural form of nutcracker.
- nutty slack — coal
- on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
- overpackage — to package excessively
- pack animal — a mule, donkey, burro, or horse bred for vigor and hardiness and used for carrying heavy loads.
- packability — The quality or state of being packable.
- packet boat — a boat that travels a regular route, as along a coast or on a river, carrying passengers, freight, and mail
- packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
- packing box — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- packing nut — a nut that serves to condense packing and so to tighten its seal.
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- pitch-black — extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- prepackaged — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
- quack grass — a couch grass, Agropyron repens, a pernicious weed in cultivated fields.
- quack-quack — a duck
- quacksalver — a quack doctor.
- quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- racetracker — a person who regularly attends horse races, especially for the purpose of betting.
- rack-renter — one who pays or exacts rack-rent
- racket-tail — any of several birds with a racket-shaped tail, such as certain hummingbirds and kingfishers
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
- report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
- saddle back — any of various animals having markings on the back that resemble a saddle, as a male harp seal.
- safecracker — a person who breaks open safes to rob them.
- scratchback — an implement for scratching the back
- shacklebone — the wrist
- sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- sidetracked — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
- slack-baked — improperly baked.
- slack-jawed — having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- slacklining — the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground
- slacktivism — actions taken to bring about political or social change but requiring only minimal commitment, effort, or risk: students engaging in slacktivism by signing an online petition.
- slate black — a slightly purplish black.
- snack table — a small portable folding table used for an individual serving.
- snapperback — the center on the offensive team.
- steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
- stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
- storm track — the path followed by the center of a cyclonic storm.
- strike back — retaliate
- subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it