arrack | (noun) any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses | Synonyms: arak |
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barmbrack | (noun) a rich currant cake or bun | - |
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barrack | (noun) a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel | - |
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barracking | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: heckling |
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bladderwrack | (noun) a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure | Synonyms: black rockweed, bladder fucus, Fucus vesiculosus, tang |
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(noun) similar to and found with black rockweed | Synonyms: Ascophyllum nodosum |
bracken | (noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: brake, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
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(noun) fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions | Synonyms: Pteridium esculentum |
bracket | (noun) a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) | Synonyms: wall bracket |
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(noun) either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material | Synonyms: square bracket |
(noun) either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material | Synonyms: angle bracket |
(noun) a category falling within certain defined limits | - |
brackishness | (noun) the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water | - |
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carack | (noun) a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman | Synonyms: carrack |
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carrack | (noun) a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman | Synonyms: carack |
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coatrack | (noun) a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats | Synonyms: coat rack, hatrack |
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crack | (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: cracking, fracture |
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(noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: fling, go, offer, pass, whirl |
(noun) a narrow opening | Synonyms: gap |
(noun) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive | Synonyms: crack cocaine, tornado |
(noun) a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts | - |
(noun) witty remark | Synonyms: quip, sally, wisecrack |
(noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: cracking, snap |
(noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure |
(noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, cranny, crevice, fissure |
(noun) a chance to do something | Synonyms: shot |
crackdown | (noun) severely repressive actions | - |
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cracker | (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker bonbon, snapper |
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(noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, firecracker |
(noun) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet | - |
(noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: redneck |
(noun) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things | - |
crackerberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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crackerjack | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
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(noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
cracking | (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, fracture |
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(noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: crack, snap |
(noun) the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process) | - |
crackle | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle china, crackleware |
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(noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackling, crepitation |
crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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crackling | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crepitation |
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(noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: greaves |
cracklings | (noun) the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered | - |
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crackpot | (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
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cracksman | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: safebreaker, safecracker |
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firecracker | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, cracker |
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fracking | (noun) a well-stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid | - |
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gimcrack | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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gimcrackery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery |
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grackle | (noun) long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage | Synonyms: crow blackbird |
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(noun) glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech | Synonyms: Gracula religiosa, hill myna, Indian grackle |
hatrack | (noun) a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats | Synonyms: coat rack, coatrack |
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hayrack | (noun) a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry | Synonyms: hayrig |
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(noun) a rack that holds hay for feeding livestock | - |
hitchrack | (noun) a fixed horizontal rail to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying | Synonyms: hitching bar |
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hydrocracking | (noun) the process whereby hydrocarbon molecules of petroleum are broken down into kerosene and gasolene by the addition of hydrogen under high pressure in the presence of a catalyst | - |
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nutcracker | (noun) speckled birds that feed on nuts | - |
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(noun) any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | Synonyms: nuthatch |
(noun) a compound lever used to crack nuts open | - |
racetrack | (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, raceway, track |
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rack | (noun) a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately | Synonyms: single-foot |
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(noun) a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body | - |
(noun) a support for displaying ot holding various articles | Synonyms: stand |
(noun) an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims | Synonyms: wheel |
(noun) the destruction or collapse of something | Synonyms: wrack |
(noun) rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton | - |
racker | (noun) an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack | - |
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racket | (noun) an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit | Synonyms: fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise |
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(noun) a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games | Synonyms: racquet |
(noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: dissonance, noise |
(noun) a loud and disturbing noise | - |
racketeer | (noun) someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion) | - |
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racketeering | (noun) engaging in a racket | - |
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racketiness | (noun) the auditory effect characterized by loud and constant noise | Synonyms: noisiness |
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rickrack | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: ricrac |
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safecracker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safebreaker |
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sidetrack | (noun) a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass | Synonyms: railroad siding, siding, turnout |
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soundtrack | (noun) sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film | - |
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tamarack | (noun) medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark | Synonyms: American larch, black larch, Larix laricina |
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toastrack | (noun) a rack for holding slices of toast | - |
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track | (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track | Synonyms: running |
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(noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, cartroad |
(noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, rails, runway |
(noun) a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels | - |
(noun) a groove on a phonograph recording | - |
(noun) (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data | Synonyms: data track |
(noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, racetrack, raceway |
(noun) an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground | Synonyms: caterpillar track, caterpillar tread |
(noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: lead, trail |
(noun) a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc | Synonyms: cut |
(noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: course, path |
trackball | (noun) an electronic device consisting of a rotatable ball in a housing; used to position the cursor and move images on a computer screen | - |
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tracker | (noun) someone who tracks down game | - |
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tracking | (noun) the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind | Synonyms: trailing |
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tracklayer | (noun) a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks | Synonyms: platelayer |
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wisecrack | (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, quip, sally |
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wrack | (noun) dried seaweed especially that cast ashore | - |
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(noun) growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp | Synonyms: sea wrack |
(noun) the destruction or collapse of something | Synonyms: rack |