7-letter words containing ac
- backlog — A backlog is a number of things which have not yet been done but which need to be done.
- backlot — an area outside a film or television studio used for outdoor filming
- backman — (sports) A position in Australian rules football.
- backoff — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- backout — an instance of withdrawing (from an agreement, etc)
- backrub — therapeutic manipulation of the muscles of the back; massage of the back.
- backsaw — a small handsaw stiffened along its upper edge by a metal section
- backset — a setback; a reversal
- backsey — a sirloin
- backups — Plural form of backup.
- backway — A back alley.
- bacolod — a town in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Negros Island. Pop: 468 000 (2005 est)
- baconer — a pig that weighs between 83 and 101 kg, from which bacon is cut
- bactria — an ancient country of SW Asia, between the Hindu Kush mountains and the Oxus River: forms the present Balkh region in N Afghanistan
- baculum — a bony support in the penis of certain mammals, esp the carnivores
- balitac — Early system on IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- baracoa — a seaport in E Cuba: oldest town in Cuba; settled 1512.
- barlach — Ernst Heinrich [urnst hahyn-rik;; German ernst hahyn-rikh] /ɜrnst ˈhaɪn rɪk;; German ɛrnst ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1870–1938, German sculptor and playwright.
- barrace — a barricade or barrier, particularly one in front of a castle or enclosing the grounds of a tournament
- barrack — A barracks is a building or group of buildings where soldiers or other members of the armed forces live and work. 'Barracks' is the singular and plural form.
- beached — Having a beach.
- beacher — a long, curling wave of the sea.
- beaches — Plural form of beach.
- beacons — a city in SE New York.
- betacam — a high-quality professional video system
- biofact — an item of biological information
- bivouac — A bivouac is a temporary camp made by soldiers or mountain climbers.
- blacken — To blacken something means to make it black or very dark in colour. Something that blackens becomes black or very dark in colour.
- blacker — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blackie — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- blackly — drearily; gloomily
- boracic — boric
- braccia — an old Italian unit of length, usually about 26 or 27 inches (66 or 68 cm), but varying between 18 and 28 inches (46 and 71 cm).
- braccio — an Italian unit of measurement based on the length of a man's arm and roughly equivalent to two feet
- bracero — a Mexican labourer working in the USA, esp one admitted into the country to relieve labour shortages during and immediately after World War II
- brachah — Hebrew terms usually translated as "blessing"
- brachia — Anatomy. the part of the arm from the shoulder to the elbow.
- brachy- — indicating something short
- bracing — If you describe something, especially a place, climate, or activity as bracing, you mean that it makes you feel fresh and full of energy.
- bracken — Bracken is a large plant with leaves that are divided into many thin sections. It grows on hills and in woods.
- bracket — If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices.
- bullace — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus domestica insititia (or P. insititia), of which the damson is the cultivated form
- buyback — an agreement to buy something in return, as by a supplier to buy its customer's product
- byplace — a private place
- cacaine — (archaic, chemistry) The essential principle of cacao, now called theobromine.
- caccini — Giulio [joo-lyaw] /ˈdʒu lyɔ/ (Show IPA), c1546–1618, Italian singer and composer.
- cáceres — a city in W Spain: held by the Moors (1142–1229). Pop: 87 088 (2003 est)
- cachaca — a white Brazilian rum made from sugar cane
- cachets — Plural form of cachet.
- cachexy — (medicine, archaic) Cachexia.