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9-letter words that end in ack

  • look back — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
  • mccormackJohn, 1884–1945, U.S. tenor, born in Ireland.
  • merrimack — a town in S New Hampshire.
  • minitrack — a system for tracking satellites, space vehicles, or rockets by means of radio waves.
  • mud crack — a fracture, part of a desiccation pattern, caused by the drying out and shrinking of silt or clay.
  • multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
  • neat hack — 1. A clever technique. 2. A brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value. Example: the Caltech Rose Bowl card display switch. See also hack.
  • non-black — a person who is not of a Black race
  • notchback — a style of back for an automobile in which there is a sharp vertical drop-off from the roof line to the trunk.
  • off-track — designating or of legalized betting on horse races, carried on at places away from the racetrack
  • one-track — having only one track.
  • page-jack — to steal contents or code from a (website) and place it on another website, causing users to be redirected to the other site.
  • paperback — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • pickaback — piggyback
  • piggyback — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
  • pinchbackPinckney Benton Stewart, 1837–1921, U.S. politician.
  • pipe rack — a steel framed structure that pipes (used to drill for oil, etc) are stacked on for storage
  • pipe-rack — offering services or goods at low cost because of avoidance of expensive interior decoration, as by displaying clothing for sale on plain pipe racks.
  • play back — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • pony pack — a tray of usually one dozen growing plants that can be bought from a nursery for transplanting: a pony pack of tomato plants.
  • portapack — the first portable combined videotape recorder and camera
  • printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
  • pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
  • push back — force to retreat
  • quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.
  • racetrack — a plot of ground, usually oval, laid out for horse racing.
  • razorback — a finback or rorqual.
  • real hack — A crock. This is sometimes used affectionately; see hack.
  • rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
  • retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
  • ridgeback — Rhodesian ridgeback.
  • ring back — If you ring someone back, you phone them either because they phoned you earlier and you were not there or because you did not finish an earlier telephone conversation.
  • roll back — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
  • roof rack — A roof rack is a metal frame that is fixed on top of a car and used for carrying large objects.
  • roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
  • sand jack — any of a number of containers of sand driven beneath a hull about to be launched as a temporary support and then drained of sand so as to let the hull down onto the launching cradle.
  • sandcrack — a perpendicular fissure in some part of the wall of an animal's hoof, esp. of a horse, often caused by sandy soil
  • sea stack — a pillarlike mass of rock detached by wave action from a cliff-lined shore and surrounded by water.
  • sea wrack — seaweed or a growth of seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.
  • seat back — the part of a chair or seat that you rest your back against
  • sell-back — an act or instance of selling something previously purchased.
  • shellback — an old sailor.
  • shoe rack — shelving unit for storing footwear
  • shoeblack — bootblack.
  • sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
  • slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
  • slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
  • smokejack — an apparatus for turning a roasting spit, set in motion by the current of ascending gases in a chimney.
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