12-letter words containing ack
- black sucker — a hog sucker, Hypentelium nigricans, of eastern U.S. streams.
- black tongue — canine pellagra.
- black velvet — a mixture of stout and champagne in equal proportions
- black walnut — a North American walnut tree, Juglans nigra, with hard dark wood and edible oily nuts
- black wattle — a small Australian acacia tree, A. mearnsii, with yellow flowers
- black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
- black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
- black-market — to black-marketeer.
- blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
- blackcurrant — In Europe, blackcurrants are a type of very small, dark purple fruits that grow in bunches on bushes.
- blackhearted — wicked; evil
- bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
- blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
- bobbery pack — a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
- bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
- bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- cackermander — a friend
- captain jack — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- care package — Also, CARE package. a package containing food, clothing, or other items sent as necessities to the needy.
- channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
- cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
- clickjacking — the practice of using a disguised hyperlink to direct an internet user to a website he or she does not wish to visit
- closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
- clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
- cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
- come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
- cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
- corn-cracker — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
- crack a book — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crack a joke — make a funny remark
- crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- cracker feed — Cracker feed is the raw materials used in different cracking processes.
- cracker jack — a confection of sweet, glazed popcorn and peanuts
- crackerberry — bunchberry.
- cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
- denim jacket — a jacket made of a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton fabric
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- display hack — (graphics) A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
- display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- duvet jacket — a down-filled jacket used esp by mountaineers
- economy pack — a large pack of goods that is cheaper than a normal-sized pack
- fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.