7-letter words containing ac
- factors — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factory — a building or group of buildings with facilities for the manufacture of goods.
- factual — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- factums — Plural form of factum.
- facture — the act, process, or manner of making anything; construction.
- faculae — Plural form of facula.
- faculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
- fanback — (of a chair) having a fan-shaped back.
- fatback — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. the fat and fat meat from the upper part of a side of pork, usually cured by salt.
- faxback — An interactive electronic service allowing documents to be downloaded via fax machine.
- fiacres — Plural form of fiacre.
- filacer — (in former times) a legal officer of the British superior courts
- finback — any baleen whale of the genus Balaenoptera, having a prominent dorsal fin, especially B. physalus, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts; rorqual: an endangered species.
- flaccid — soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps.
- flacked — Simple past tense and past participle of flack.
- flacker — To flutter as a bird.
- flacket — a flagon, bottle, or flask for holding alcohol
- flacons — Plural form of flacon.
- flyback — the return to its starting point of the electron beam in a cathode ray tube, as after the completion of a line in a television picture or of a trace in an oscilloscope.
- folacin — folic acid.
- fracker — A person or organization employed in fracking.
- fractal — a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions.
- fracted — broken; having a part displaced.
- fracton — A collective quantized vibration on a substrate with a fractal structure; the fractal analogue of a phonon.
- fractur — Fraktur (def 2).
- fractus — containing small, individual elements that have a ragged appearance.
- furnace — a structure or apparatus in which heat may be generated, as for heating houses, smelting ores, or producing steam.
- ganache — a whipped frosting or filling made with semisweet chocolate and cream, used for cakes, pastries, and candies.
- geofact — a rock, bone, shell, or the like that has been modified by natural processes to appear to look like an artifact.
- glacial — of or relating to glaciers or ice sheets.
- glacier — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- gnumacs — /gnoo'maks/ [contraction of "GNU Emacs"] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, Emacs. Used especially in contrast with GOSMACS.
- go back — return
- gosmacs — /goz'maks/ Gosling Emacs. The first Emacs implementation in C, predating but now largely eclipsed by GNU Emacs. Originally freeware; a commercial version is now modestly popular as UniPress Emacs. The author (James Gosling) went on to invent NeWS.
- gouache — a technique of painting with opaque watercolors prepared with gum.
- gracchi — Gaius Sempronius [gey-uh s sem-proh-nee-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs sɛmˈproʊ ni əs/ (Show IPA), 153–121 b.c, and his brother, Tiberius Sempronius [tahy-beer-ee-uh s] /taɪˈbɪər i əs/ (Show IPA) 163–133 b.c., Roman reformers and orators.
- gracias — (Spanish, colloquial) thank you.
- gracile — gracefully slender.
- gracing — Present participle of grace.
- grackle — any of several long-tailed American birds of the family Icteridae, especially of the genus Quiscalus, having usually iridescent black plumage.
- grimace — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- guanaco — a wild South American ruminant, Lama guanicoe, of which the llama and alpaca are believed to be domesticated varieties: related to the camels.
- hachure — one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
- hack it — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- hack on — To hack; implies that the subject is some pre-existing hunk of code that one is evolving, as opposed to something one might hack up.
- hack up — (jargon) To hack, but generally implies that the result is a quick hack. Contrast this with hack on. To "hack up on" implies a quick-and-dirty modification to an existing system. Contrast hacked up; compare kluge up, monkey up, cruft together.
- hackbut — harquebus.
- hackers — Plural form of hacker.
- hackery — journalism; hackwork