12-letter words containing ack
- pack of lies — false account
- pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
- package deal — Also called package plan. an agreement in which the buyer pays a stipulated price for a group of related products or services: a package deal from a book club.
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
- packet radio — (communications, radio) The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
- packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- panic attack — an intense attack of anxiety characterized by feelings of impending doom and trembling, sweating, pounding heart, and other physical symptoms.
- payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
- piggybacking — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
- pipe jacking — a method of laying underground pipelines by assembling the pipes at the foot of an access shaft and pushing them through the ground
- port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
- pre-packaged — Pre-packaged foods have been prepared in advance and put in plastic or cardboard containers to be sold.
- prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- puffa jacket — a warm quilted and padded jacket
- quack doctor — an unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- rack railway — cog railway.
- racket press — a device consisting of a frame closed by a spring mechanism, for keeping taut the strings of a tennis racket, squash racket, etc
- racketeering — a person engaged in a racket.
- rapacki plan — the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany, proposed by Adam Rapacki (1909–70), the Polish foreign minister, in 1957
- ratchet jack — a screw jack rotated by a ratchet mechanism.
- rickenbacker — Edward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
- rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
- running back — an offensive back, as a halfback or fullback, whose principal role is advancing the ball by running with it on plays from scrimmage.
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
- shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
- shellcracker — redear sunfish.
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-track — (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.
- soda cracker — a thin, crisp cracker or wafer prepared from a yeast dough that has been neutralized by baking soda.
- sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
- stackability — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
- starter pack — a pack containing basic equipment or information
- steam jacket — a casing, as on the cylinder of a steam engine, filled with live steam to keep the interior hot.
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- straitjacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- tenure-track — of or relating to a college- or university-teaching job that can lead to a tenured position.
- ticktack man — a bookmaker who uses a system of sign language, mainly using the hands, to transmit his odds to other bookmakers at racecourses