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8-letter words that end in ack

  • sad sack — a pathetically inept person, especially a soldier, who continually blunders in spite of good intentions.
  • scatback — a fast and agile running back, often small in stature, skilled at eluding tacklers.
  • seatback — the back support of a seat in an aircraft, motor vehicle, etc.
  • set back — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
  • set-back — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
  • shabrack — the saddlecloth of a cavalry horse used by European light cavalry
  • shellack — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • sit back — relax, rest
  • six-pack — six bottles or cans of a beverage, as beer or a soft drink, packaged and sold especially as a unit.
  • skewback — a sloping surface against which the end of an arch rests.
  • ski rack — a rack for holding skis, as one that can be attached to the roof of a car or set up outside a ski lodge.
  • ski-rack — a piece of equipment for the roof a car, which holds skis
  • skipjack — any of various fishes that leap above the surface of the water, as a tuna, Euthynnus pelamis, or the bonito.
  • slapjack — a simple card game.
  • slotback — an offensive back who lines up about one yard behind the gap in the line between a tackle and an end stationed a distance outside of the tackle.
  • slowback — a laggard, idler or lazy person
  • snapback — a sudden rebound or recovery.
  • snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
  • softback — paperback book
  • swayback — an excessive downward curvature of the spinal column in the dorsal region, especially of horses.
  • tailback — the offensive back who lines up farthest behind the line of scrimmage, as in a single wingback or double wingback formation.
  • takeback — something taken back or withdrawn, especially an employee benefit previously gained in a union contract; takeaway.
  • talkback — a system of telephone links enabling spoken directions to be given during the production of a programme
  • tamarack — an American larch, Larix laricina, of the pine family, having a reddish-brown bark and crowded clusters of blue-green needles and yielding a useful timber.
  • the jack — venereal disease
  • the rack — an instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victim
  • the sack — dismissal from employment
  • ticktack — a repetitive sound, as of ticking, tapping, knocking, or clicking: the ticktack of high heels in the corridor.
  • tie tack — a pin having an ornamental head, pinned through the ends of a necktie to hold it against a shirt.
  • turnback — a part of a garment or similar item that is folded or turned back
  • two-pack — (of a paint, filler, etc) supplied as two separate components, for example a base and a catalyst, that are mixed together immediately before use
  • wet pack — a type of bath in which wet sheets are applied to the patient.
  • whipjack — a beggar imitating a distressed sailor
  • whitrack — a weasel; ermine or stoat.
  • win back — retrieve, recover
  • wingback — an offensive back who lines up outside an end.
  • wolfpack — A family or other group of wild wolves.
  • woolpack — a coarse fabric, usually of jute, in which raw wool is packed for transport.
  • woolsack — a sack or bag of wool.
  • zwieback — a special egg bread made into rusks.
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