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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backtrack | (verb) retrace one's course | Synonyms: double back, turn back |
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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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(verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: flout, gibe, jeer, scoff |
(verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
(verb) lodge in barracks | - |
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 |
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 | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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(noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: cracking, fracture |
(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 |
(verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension | Synonyms: snap |
(verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, check |
(verb) break partially but keep its integrity | - |
(verb) cause to become cracked | - |
(verb) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking | - |
(verb) break into simpler molecules by means of heat | - |
(verb) pass through (a barrier) | Synonyms: break through |
(verb) tell spontaneously | - |
(verb) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise | - |
(verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up |
(verb) make a sharp sound | Synonyms: snap |
(verb) make a very sharp explosive sound | - |
(verb) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions | - |
gimcrack | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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(noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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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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 | - |
(verb) torture on the rack | - |
(verb) seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block | - |
(verb) place in a rack | Synonyms: rack up |
(verb) work on a rack | - |
(verb) stretch to the limits | - |
(verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, torment, torture |
(verb) go at a rack | Synonyms: single-foot |
(verb) draw off from the lees | - |
(verb) run before a gale | Synonyms: scud |
(verb) fly in high wind | - |
(verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, gouge, squeeze, wring |
(verb) put on a rack and pinion | - |
rickrack | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: ricrac |
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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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(verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, digress, straggle |
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 |
(verb) make tracks upon | - |
(verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, trail |
(verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, traverse |
(verb) carry on the feet and deposit | - |
(verb) observe or plot the moving path of something | - |
wisecrack | (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, quip, sally |
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(verb) make a comment, usually ironic | - |
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 |
(verb) smash or break forcefully | Synonyms: bust up, wreck |