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14-letter words containing ack

  • jackknife clam — any bivalve mollusk of the family Solenidae, especially of the genus Ensis, having a long, rectangular, slightly curved shell.
  • jackknife-fish — a black and white, American drum, Equetus lanceolatus, found in tropical areas of the Atlantic Ocean, having an elongated dorsal fin that is held erect.
  • jackson method — (programming)   A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
  • java black rot — a disease of stored sweet potatoes, characterized by dry rot of and black protuberances on the tubers, caused by a fungus, Diplodia tubericola.
  • jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
  • knacker's yard — a slaughterhouse for horses
  • know backwards — to understand completely
  • leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
  • leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
  • mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
  • mackinaw trout — lake trout.
  • marginal hacks — (humour)   Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
  • mercator track — a line appearing straight on a Mercator chart; rhumb line.
  • naval barracks — a place where people in the Navy live
  • nerve wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
  • nerve-wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
  • norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
  • on the back of — If you say that one thing happens on the back of another thing, you mean that it happens after that other thing and in addition to it.
  • oyster cracker — a small, round, usually salted cracker, served with oysters, soup, etc.
  • package policy — an insurance policy which incorporates cover for different types of risk, such as liability and property
  • packed decimal — binary coded decimal
  • packet sniffer — (networking, tool)   A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
  • packet writing — (storage)   A technique for writing CD-Rs and CD-RWs that is more efficient in both disk space used and the time it takes to write the CD.
  • paperback book — a book with covers made of flexible card, sold relatively cheaply
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • platinum black — a black powder consisting of very finely divided metallic platinum, used as a catalyst, especially in organic synthesis.
  • protocol stack — (protocol)   A layered set of protocols which work together to provide a set of network functions. Each intermediate protocol layer uses the layer below it to provide a service to the layer above. The OSI seven layer model is an attempt to provide a standard framework within which to describe protocol stacks.
  • purple grackle — the eastern subspecies of the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula, of North America, having an iridescent purple back.
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • railroad track — railway line
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • rough as sacks — uncouth
  • sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
  • salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
  • serrated wrack — the seaweed Fucus serratus
  • sheepback rock — roche moutonnée.
  • smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
  • snake mackerel — an elongate, deep-sea fish, Gempylus serpens, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having jutting jaws and strong teeth.
  • sorting tracks — the part of a railroad yard used for the final sorting of cars from a classification yard.
  • square bracket — bracket (def 3).
  • stack the deck — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
  • stadium jacket — an insulated, parkalike jacket that reaches to the mid thigh or the knees and often has a drawstring around the bottom edge, worn outdoors in cold weather.
  • steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
  • straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
  • suicide attack — a terrorist attack which someone undertakes knowing that he or she will die in the attack
  • tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
  • the all blacks — the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black belt — a region of the southern US extending from Georgia across central Alabama and Mississippi, in which the population contains a large number of Black people: also noted for its fertile black soil
  • the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
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