7-letter words containing rac
- 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.
- 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.
- hatrack — a frame, stand, or post having knobs or hooks for hanging hats.
- hayrack — a rack for holding hay for feeding horses or cattle.
- imbrace — Obsolete spelling of embrace.
- infract — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- interac — a system of electronic bank payments or withdrawals
- iracund — prone to anger; irascible.
- karachi — a former province of Pakistan, in the lower Indus valley; now part of West Pakistan. 48,136 sq. mi. (125,154 sq. km). Capital: Karachi.
- le crac — former name of Kerak.
- maracas — a gourd or a gourd-shaped rattle filled with seeds or pebbles and used, often in a pair, as a rhythm instrument.
- maracay — a city in NE Venezuela, SW of Caracas.
- miracle — an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.
- mizrach — a decorative figure, usually bearing an inscription, that is hung on the eastern wall in Jewish homes or synagogues to indicate the direction to face in prayer.
- oraches — Plural form of orache.
- oracles — (especially in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.
- ostraca — (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- outrace — to race or run faster than: The deer outraced its pursuers.
- overact — (of an actor) act a role in an exaggerated manner.
- paracme — the point at which a fever lessens
- peracid — an oxyacid, the primary element of which is in its highest possible oxidation state, as perchloric acid, HClO 4 , and permanganic acid, HMnO 4 .
- practic — practical.
- prerace — of the period before a race
- raccoon — a nocturnal carnivore, Procyon lotor, having a masklike black stripe across the eyes, a sharp snout, and a bushy, ringed tail, native to North and Central America and introduced elsewhere for its valuable fur.
- racecar — racing car.
- racemed — with or arranged in racemes
- racemes — Plural form of raceme.
- racemic — noting or pertaining to any of various organic compounds in which racemism occurs.
- raceway — Chiefly British. a passage or channel for water, as a millrace.
- rachets — Plural form of rachet.
- rachial — Botany. the axis of an inflorescence when somewhat elongated, as in a raceme. (in a pinnately compound leaf or frond) the prolongation of the petiole along which the leaflets are disposed. any of various axial structures.
- raciest — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- racisms — a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- racists — Plural form of racist.
- rack up — ruin or destruction; wrack.
- rackers — Plural form of racker.
- rackets — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- rackett — ranket.
- rackety — making or causing a racket; noisy.
- rackful — Enough to fill a rack.
- rackham — Arthur, 1867–1939, English illustrator and painter.
- racking — Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.