Words that rhyme with amtrack

adv 1: having the wind against the forward side of the sails; "the ship came up into the wind with all yards aback" 2: by surprise; "taken aback by the caustic remarks"

n 1: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons); "the attack began at dawn" [syn: attack, onslaught, onset, onrush] 2: an offensive move in a sport or game; "they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning" 3: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast] 4: ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation; "his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons"; "an attack on inflation"; "his plan of attack was misguided" [syn: approach, attack, plan of attack] 5: the act of attacking; "attacks on women increased last year"; "they made an attempt on his life" [syn: attack, attempt] 6: a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase [syn: attack, tone-beginning] 7: a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition; "an attack of diarrhea" 8: the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent); "the film was sensitive to attack by acids"; "open to attack by the elements" 9: strong criticism; "he published an unexpected attack on my work" v 1: launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week" [syn: attack, assail] [ant: defend] 2: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault] 3: take the initiative and go on the offensive; "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack" [syn: attack, aggress] 4: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" [syn: assail, assault, set on, attack] 5: set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task; "I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed" 6: begin to injure; "The cancer cells are attacking his liver"; "Rust is attacking the metal"

adv 1: in or to or toward a former location; "she went back to her parents' house" 2: at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" [syn: back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards] [ant: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards] 3: in or to or toward an original condition; "he went back to sleep" 4: in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward" [syn: back, backward] [ant: ahead, forward] 5: in reply; "he wrote back three days later" 6: in repayment or retaliation; "we paid back everything we had borrowed"; "he hit me and I hit him back"; "I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher" adj 1: related to or located at the back; "the back yard"; "the back entrance" [ant: front(a)] 2: located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind) legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass" [syn: back(a), hind(a), hinder(a)] 3: of an earlier date; "back issues of the magazine" n 1: the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned" [syn: back, dorsum] 2: the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph" [syn: rear, back] [ant: front] 3: the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden in the rear of the store" [syn: back, rear] [ant: front] 4: (football) a person who plays in the backfield 5: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" [syn: spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone, back, rachis] 6: the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book; "the book had a leather binding" [syn: binding, book binding, cover, back] 7: the part of a garment that covers the back of your body; "they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back" 8: a support that you can lean against while sitting; "the back of the dental chair was adjustable" [syn: back, backrest] 9: (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage v 1: be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960" [syn: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support] 2: travel backward; "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up and hit the tree" 3: give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn: second, back, endorse, indorse] 4: cause to travel backward; "back the car into the parking spot" [ant: advance, bring forward] 5: support financial backing for; "back this enterprise" 6: be in back of; "My garage backs their yard" [ant: face, front, look] 7: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt] 8: shift to a counterclockwise direction; "the wind backed" [ant: veer] 9: establish as valid or genuine; "Can you back up your claims?" [syn: back, back up] 10: strengthen by providing with a back or backing

adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" [ant: white] 2: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. [ant: white] 3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" 4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" [syn: black, bleak, dim] 5: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: black, dark, sinister] 6: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful] 7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" [syn: black, blackened] 8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch- black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark] 9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" [syn: black, grim, mordant] 10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" 11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled] 12: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful] 13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar 14: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn: black, smutty] n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn: black, blackness, inkiness] [ant: white, whiteness] 2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black] 3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) [syn: Black, Joseph Black] 4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) [syn: Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple] 5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid] 6: (board games) the darker pieces [ant: white] 7: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black" v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten]

n 1: a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated [syn: clack, clap] 2: a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction [syn: clack valve, clack, clapper valve] v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter, clack, brattle] 2: make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens [syn: cluck, click, clack] 3: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]

n 1: a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance

adj 1: of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops" [syn: ace, A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, top-notch, tops(p)] n 1: a long narrow opening [syn: crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure] 2: a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack" [syn: gap, crack] 3: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap] 4: a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig" [syn: crack, cracking, snap] 5: a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion" [syn: shot, crack] 6: witty remark [syn: wisecrack, crack, sally, quip] 7: a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; "there was a crack in the mirror" 8: a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive [syn: crack, crack cocaine, tornado] 9: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer] 10: the act of cracking something [syn: fracture, crack, cracking] v 1: become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated" [syn: crack, check, break] 2: make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked" 3: make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped" [syn: snap, crack] 4: hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler" 5: pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county" [syn: break through, crack] 6: break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked" 7: break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped" [syn: snap, crack] 8: gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; "she cracked my password"; "crack a safe" 9: suffer a nervous breakdown [syn: crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse] 10: tell spontaneously; "crack a joke" 11: cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair" 12: reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking 13: break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked"