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14-letter words containing ack

  • black diamonds — carbonado1 .
  • black hawk war — a war fought in northern Illinois and present-day southern Wisconsin, 1831–32, in which U.S. regulars and militia with Indian allies defeated the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by Chief Black Hawk, attempting to recover lost hunting grounds.
  • black mulberry — a small deciduous tree, Morus nigra, with small leaves, producing edible fruit
  • black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
  • black redstart — a small, Passerine bird, Phoenicurus ochruros, found in Central and S Europe
  • black root rot — any of several diseases of plants characterized by black or brown lesions on the root.
  • black sea bass — an American coastal percoid fish, Centropristes striatus, having an elongated body with a long spiny dorsal fin almost divided into two
  • black selenium — an allotropic form of selenium occurring as a black, amorphous, water-insoluble, light-sensitive powder: used chiefly in photoelectric cells.
  • black skipjack — a small spotted tuna, Euthynnus yaito, of Indo-Pacific seas
  • black squirrel — a fox squirrel or gray squirrel in that color phase in which the fur is black.
  • black-and-blue — (of the skin) discoloured, as from a bruise
  • black-eyed pea — Black-eyed peas are beige seeds with black marks that are eaten as a vegetable. They are from a plant called the cowpea.
  • black-on-black — concerning black people exclusively
  • blacktip shark — a widely distributed sand shark, Charcharinus limbatus, having fins that appear to have been dipped in ink, inhabiting shallow waters of warm seas.
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
  • clickety-clack — a rhythmic, swiftly paced succession of alternating clicks and clacks, as the sound produced by the wheels of a train moving over tracks.
  • common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
  • counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
  • counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
  • coxsackievirus — any of a group of enteroviruses that cause several diseases, as viral meningitis
  • crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
  • cracker bonbon — a thin, crisp biscuit.
  • cracker-barrel — rural; rustic; homespun
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • cut the cackle — to stop chattering; be quiet
  • deep hack mode — hack mode
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • dongle cracker — (security)   Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
  • every man jack — everyone without exception
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
  • get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
  • go to the pack — to fall into a lower state or condition
  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • graham cracker — a semisweet cracker, usually rectangular in shape, made chiefly of whole-wheat flour.
  • hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
  • hairline crack — a very fine crack
  • have a stomack — to be pregnant
  • horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
  • horseshoe back — a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.
  • humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
  • indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
  • into the black — into a profitable condition financially
  • jack crosstree — jack1 (def 9b).
  • jack-in-office — a self-important petty official
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • jacking engine — an engine for moving an idle reciprocating engine or turbine to permit inspection and repairs.
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