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Definition: Cracking |
CrackingAdjective1. Making a loud sharp sound as of a rifle shot or a breaking branch or a whip; "lion tamers with their cracking whips". 2. (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing". Noun1. A sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice". 2. The act of cracking something. 3. The process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cracking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Cracking n. [very common] The act of breaking into a computer system; what a cracker does. Contrary to widespread myth, this does not usually involve some mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance, but rather persistence and the dogged repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that exploit common weaknesses in the security of target systems. Accordingly, most crackers are only mediocre hackers. Source: Jargon File. |
Meteorology & Standards | Cracking : cracking caused in metal by the immediate or delayed effects of heating or coolino. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | Cracking:a process by which relatively heated hydrocarbons are broken up by heat into lighter products. Source: European Union. (references) |
Aerospace | Presence of relatively large cracks extending into the interior of a structure, usually produced by overstressing the structural material. Compare checking. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | A close network of cracks formed in the surface of a bituminous road giving an indication of failure. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Much of the fissuring which occurs in concrete, however, may be attributed to the selection of materials or th construction practices. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Chemical Industry | A breakdown in which the cracks penetrate at least one coat and which may be expected to result ultimately in complete failure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Splitting, thermal decomposition often using a catalyst, of petroleum. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Under the effect of heat, with or without pressure, the transformation of hydrocarbons into lower-boiling-point hydrocarbons suitable for motor fuels. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Definition from the Jargon file:cracking n. [very common] The act of breaking into a computer system; what a cracker does. Contrary to widespread myth, this does not usually involve some mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance, but rather persistence and the dogged repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that exploit common weaknesses in the security of target systems, such as buffer overflows and heap overflows.
See also hacking, shellcodes, phreaking
Versions of cracking include demon dialing, war dialing and war driving.
The term "cracker" also refers to a person who removes copy protection from computer software. See software cracking.
In petroleum geology and chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules (e.g. kerogens) are converted to simpler molecules(e.g. hydrocarbons) by the breaking of carbon-carbon bonds in the precursors. The rate of cracking is strongly dependent on the temperature and presence of any catalysts.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cracking."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Software cracking is software hacking in order to remove encoded copy protection. Distribution of cracked software (warez) is generally an illegal (or more recently, criminal) act of copyright infringement.Software cracking is most often done by software reverse engineering.
The passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act made software cracking, as well as the distribution of information which enables software cracking, illegal in the United States.
A good example would be a "No CD" crack, which edits the program so that the CD is no longer needed to execute the program. Another example occurs when businesses break the copy protection of programs that they have legally purchased but that are keyed to particular hardware, so that there is no chance of downtime due to hardware failure.
Some groups devoted to developing tools for software cracks and the distribution of warez include the Phrozen Crew, UCF, Xpression, and DrinkOrDie.
History of Cracking
Cracking has been around as long as there has been software to crack, but software cracking started to evolve into a whole underground scene in the early 80s, on the Apple II and Commodore 64 computers.
People responsible for cracking started to group themselves up into teams, known as "cracking crews" (commonly referred to simply as "groups"). Cracking crews would be made up of suppliers (the people who would get hold of new software, often before its commercial release, if a beta tester were to be located as a supplier); Coders (programmers who would defeat the copy protection); Traders (people who would then distribute the cracks around the world as fast as possible, either by mail or by uploading the software to as many BBSs as possible); and Sysops (people who would run BBSs to help distribute the software).
Programmers started adding "Crack intros to the cracked software to show which cracking crew was responsible. Crews would compete with each other to get new software distributed faster than their rivals, and to be the ones that provided the most reliable cracks.
As these crack intros became more complex, with better graphics and animation, people began to appreciate them in their own right, and groups produced intros without having an associated crack. This was the beginning of the demo scene.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Software cracking."
Synonyms: CrackingSynonyms: bang-up (adj), bully (adj), corking (adj), dandy (adj), great (adj), groovy (adj), keen (adj), neat (adj), nifty (adj), not bad(p) (adj), peachy (adj), slap-up (adj), smashing (adj), swell (adj), crack (n), fracture (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Still; refinery; fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower. |
Noun: increase of temperature; heating. Verb: calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction; melting, fusion; liquefaction; burning. Verb: ambustion, combustion; incension, accension; concremation, cremation; scorification; cautery, cauterization; ustulation, calcination; cracking, refining; incineration, cineration; carbonization; cupellation. | |
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Screenplays | No. We're discussing an object from which I receive in the classic formula a glancing blow which will raise a lump without actually cracking the cranium (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) Except I'm less worried about hitting my thumb, and more worried about going all black-eyed baddy and bewitching that hammer into cracking my friends' skulls open like coconuts (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Way to go, Fry. Now every galaxy is gonna be cracking wise about our mothers (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) See the thing is, is that if you want to go to the Tonight Show, you're going to have to get cracking. (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime García Estrada) Well if they are, they're cracking. It's a sure sign (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; writing credit: Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger) | |
Lyrics | Is cracking at the seams (EPITAPH; performing artist: King Crimson) Your veneer is wearing thin and cracking (Bittersweet Me; performing artist: R.E.M.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Get Cracking (1943) Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions (2002) Cracking Up (1983) | |
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 | Semi-commercial cracking plant. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Specimen of the cracking products. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Cracking of tung-oil. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Hauled out for repairs at the Destroyer Base, San Diego, California, following a collision with USS Percival (DD-298) on the night of 31 January 1926. The original caption reads: "Close-up showing dent in her side as a result of the collision with USS Percival, Sunday night, 31 January 1926. The collision occurred between the two ships in Coronado Roads, California. The sharp prow of the Percival punctured the port forward oil tank of the William Jones, in addition to cutting three deep gashes in the hull just above the water line and cracking several frame plates. William Jones was placed on the marine ways at the Destroyer Base for repairs, when spattered from stem to stern with oil that poured out from the leaking fuel tank, she returned to the harbor. Percival, apparently seaworthy, was ordered to proceed to Panama with the Fleet.". Credit: NAVY. |
 | Oil. Oil for our machines of war is supplied by oil refineries like this one. Here are, left to right, the stabilizing, fractionating and heat exchange towers of the McKean cracking plant of the Quaker State Refining Company. Bradford, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Oil. Here is part of the huge McKean cracking unit of the Quaker State Refining Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania. This plant is working at full capacity to produce oil for the military machines fighting to preserve democracy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Oil. This is the huge gasoline stabilizing tower of the McKean cracking plant of the Quaker State Refining Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania. Quaker State is one of the many American oil companies working to supply the fuel and lubrication for the war machi. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mexican pecan sheller cracking nuts, non-union plant. San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Wintering" by Terry Eaton Commentary: "Dry, cracking berries on the tree." | "Cracked" by Gilbert Tremblay Commentary: "Kewl texture of paint cracking ." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Cracking an egg on the side of the pan and crumpling the eggshell. | | Neck vertebra cracking. |
| Soda can cracking open. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His brain was simmering and bubbling within the cracking tenement of the skull |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The cracking and booming of the ice indicate a change of temperature |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If your child has dry lips, petroleum jelly or a lip pomade can prevent cracking. (references) | |
Hemorrhage also occurs when arterial walls break open. Plaque-encrusted artery walls eventually lose their elasticity and become brittle and thin, prone to cracking. (references) | ||
Business | Cracking the men’s market for nutritional supplements has proven difficult for most manufacturers. (references) | |
One of the major projects being considered is the construction of a US$ 670 million olefin cracking plant in the city of Cartagena. (references) | ||
The Arpechim and Petrotel refineries produce oils and motor oils. Oils are derived from unselected crude oils through the distillate vacuum hydrogen cracking followed by catalytic dewaxing. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | China | Separately, under the guise of urban renewal and cracking down on unregistered places of worship, authorities in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province razed an unknown number of churches and temples in late 2000. However, official repression of underground Catholic and Protestant groups in Guangdong and Fujian provinces eased somewhat. (references) |
Economic History | Oman | Presently, limited cracking capacity is inadequate to produce unleaded gasoline to meet the demand. (references) |
Italy | As a result, the right Italian partner could assist U.S. firms in not only cracking the Italian market, but also in effectively entering other foreign markets. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Pakistan is now cracking down on terror, and I admire the strong leadership of President Musharraf. |
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| "Cracking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 53.57% of the time. "Cracking" is used about 392 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 53.57% | 210 | 20,939 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 46.43% | 182 | 22,870 |
| Total | 100.00% | 392 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cracking": alligator cracking ♦ cracking down ♦ cracking noise ♦ cracking tower ♦ crocodile cracking ♦ environmental stress cracking ♦ get cracking ♦ get cracking on a job ♦ make a cracking noise. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cracking": cracking-apart. | |
Ending with "cracking": nut-cracking, wise-cracking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cracking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | plasaritje (chap, cleft, crack, flaw), kreking, i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), i klasës të parë (Dandy, first class, first rate). (various references) | |
Arabic | ساحق (crusher, crushing, great, landslide, massive, out and out, overpowering, overwhelming, rank, reducible, shattering, sweeping, swinging). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спукване (crack, deflation, phut, rupture), цепнатина (chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, fissure, flaw, leak, rent, rift, shake, slash, slit, slot), крекинг, пукане (crackle, crackling, phut, pop). (various references) | |
Chinese | 嚦 (sound of splitting), 崩裂. (various references) | |
Czech | praskot (crack, crackle, crackling, crash). (various references) | |
Danish | revnen (crack formation), revnedannelse (crack formation, slit eyes, slit openings), opbraekning, krakning (fractional distillation), krakelering (alligator cracking, checking, crack, crazing, crocodile cracking, fissure, slit eyes, slit openings), knusning (bruise, check, crushing, graded size, granulation, grind, grinding, mill, pressure vent, surface crack, surface vent, treading), fraktioneret destillation (fractional distillation, fractionation), foeraabning, flaekket (cleft, riven, slit eyes, slit openings, split), braekning (crushing). (various references) | |
Dutch | craquelé (alligator cracking, crazing, crocodile cracking), cracking, warmscheur, vorming van haarscheurtjes (crazing), scheurvorming (break, brittleness, crack formation, crack-initiating process, fissure), netscheurvorming (alligator cracking, crazing, crocodile cracking), kraken (crack, creak, grate, overpower, usurp), kraakproces, gefractioneerde distillatie (fractional distillation), gedeelteijk openen van de voorvorm, breken (break), barstvorming (brittleness, crack formation), barsten (burst, split). (various references) | |
Finnish | verkkohalkeama (alligator cracking, crazing, crocodile cracking), murtuminen (breach), lämpöhalkeama, krakkaus, halkeilu (burst, bursting), halkeama (chink, cleft, crack, crevasse, crevice, fissure, split). (various references) | |
French | concassage (crushing), cracking, craquage, craquelage (crazing), criquage (crack formation), fendillement (crazing), broyage (crushing), distillation fractionnée, écrasant (crusher, crushing), faiençage, tapure (crack, surface grinding crack), fissurage (crack formation), fissuration (crack formation, crazing), formation de craquelures, fragmentation, friture, lainure, peau de crocodile (alligator cracking, crazing, crocodile cracking, crocodile leather), faïençage (alligator cracking, crazing, crocodile cracking). (various references) | |
German | krachend (crashing), knackend (creaky), geknackt (cracked). (various references) | |
Greek | ράγισμα (crack, flaw). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פריצה (breach, breakthrough, crushing, disruption), פרום (reforming), פציחה (splitting), פצוח (fission, splitting), התפוררות (crumbling, disintegration, disruption), התפקעות (exploding, splitting), הסדקות, בקיעה (breach, cleaving, fissure, hatching, herniation, splitting), סדוק (cleft, cracked, fission, fissure, split, splitting). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megrepedezés, hőbomlás, hőbontás, hasadás (breach, break, chink, cleavage, crack, fission, fissure, flaw, rive, slit, split, tear), hasadék képződés, hasítás (cleavage, rip, ripping, scission, slash, spalling, splitting), krakkolás, krakkolódás, aprítás (comminution, grinding, milling), megrepedés (bursting), töredezés (fragmentation), megrepesztés, reccsenés (crack, crunch, scrunch, zip), recsegés (crack, scrunch), széthasadás (exfoliation), széthasítás, szétrepedés (bursting, exfoliation, fragmentation), szétrepesztés, törés (break, breakage, breaking, chip, comminution, crack, discontinuity, fault, flaw, fraction, fracture, gall, rift in the lute, rift within the lute, rupture, snap, trauma), lepattogzás (crack, exfoliation, pitting, spalling). (various references) | |
Italian | screpolatura (burst, chap, check, crack, crevice, flaw). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 罅割れ , クラスター分析 (class library, class magazine, class media, classmate, cluster analysis, clustering, clutch, clutch bag, clutch hitter, clutch pedal, crack, cracker, craft, craft design, craftsman, crash, crusher, crust), 分解蒸溜法 , 分溜 (fractional distillation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひびわれ, ぶんかいじょうりゅうほう, ぶんりゅう (fraction, fractional distillation, tributary), クラッキング . (various references) | |
Korean | 부숨 (Crashing). (various references) | |
Manx | scoltey (analysis, beanfeast; skive, blow out, burst, bursting, chop up, cleavage; heavy meal, cleave, cleft, crack, crack; feed, crevasse, disunion, fission, fissure, fracture, gutting, hew, rend, scission, slit, slitting, sliver, slot, split, tuck in; gut; fault, vent, venting), frapperaght (crackle, crackling, crepitate, popping). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackingcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cracking, craqueamento, fissuras (crazing, slit eyes, slit openings), destilação fraccionada (fractional distillation, fractionation), estaladura, estalido (clack, crack, crackling, flaw, flick, flip, snap), estampido (boom, crash, din), fenda (aperture, breach, chap, chink, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fracture, gap, hiatus, leak, pit, rent, rift, rip, slit, split), fendihamento, fendilhação (fissuring), barulho (ado, blatancy, bluster, bobbery, chirm, chirp chirrup, clap, clatter, clutter, din, donnybrook, fracas, fuss, gale, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, jazz, knockabout, noise, pother, racket, rattle, roistering, rout, row, rowdyism, ruction, rumpus, shindy, smash, sound, splurge, to-do, tumult, uproar), fissuração (brittleness, checking, crack formation, fissuring), trituração (mastication, milling, pulverization), fracionamento (subdivision), fractura parcial na separação de calotes, fratura (breach, break, breakage, breaking, fracture, rift), gretamento, m. (adjustment, anti-ager, bleaching, fabric, jaw, scorch), pele de crocodilo (crocodile skin), rachamento, rachas (slit eyes, slit openings), ranhura (cannelure, chase, fillister, furrow, gouge, groove, rabbet, slit, slot), fendimento (fission). (various references) | |
Romanian | cracare, trosnitor. (various references) | |
Russian | крекинг. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kreking. (various references) | |
Spanish | agrietamiento (alligator cracking, break, crack formation, crazing, crocodile cracking, production break). (various references) | |
Swedish | krackning. (various references) | |
Turkish | çatlama (dehiscence, fissure, split, spring). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розтріскування, крекінг. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ecclesiastes Chapter 7, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oti wV fwnh twn akanqwn upo ton lebhta outwV gelwV twn afronwn kai ge touto mataiothV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Melius est a sapiente corripi quam stultorum adulatione decipi |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Betere is to be chastisid of a wis man, than bi flatering of foolis to be desceyued; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose. |
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| Language | Ecclesiastes Chapter 7, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | Kay sama sa piti-piti sa mga tunok ilalum sa usa ka kolon, ingon man ang pagkatawa sa buangbuang: kini usab kakawangan man. |
| Croatian | Jer kao prasak trnja ispod kotla, takav je smijeh luðaka, i to je ispraznost. |
| Danish | Som Tjørnekvistes Knitren under Gryden er Tåbers Latter; også det er Tomhed. |
| Dutch | Want gelijk het geluid der doornen onder een pot is, alzo is het lachen eens zots. Dit is ook ijdelheid. |
| Finnish | Parempi on kuulla viisaan nuhdetta, kuin olla kuulemassa tyhmien laulua; |
| French | Car comme le bruit des épines sous la chaudière, ainsi est le rire des insensés. C`est encore là une vanité. |
| German | Denn das Lachen der Narren ist wie das Krachen der Dornen unter den Töpfen; und das ist auch eitel. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tawa orang bodoh tidak berarti, seperti bunyi duri dimakan api. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena seperti bunyi duri di bawah periuk, demikianpun bunyi tertawa orang jahil. Maka ini lagi sia-sia adanya. |
| Italian | perché com'è il crepitio dei pruni sotto la pentola, tale è il riso degli stolti. Ma anche questo è vanità. |
| Maori | Rite tonu hoki ki te papatanga o nga tataramoa i raro i te kohua te kata a te wairangi. He horihori ano tenei. |
| Norwegian | for som tornene spraker under gryten, så er det når dåren ler; også dette er tomhet. |
| Portuguese | Pois qual o crepitar dos espinhos debaixo da panela, tal é o riso do tolo; também isso é vaidade. |
| Rumanian | Cqci rksul celor fqrq minte este ca pkrqitul spinilor supt cqldare. Wi aceasta este o dewertqciune. |
| Spanish | Porque la risa del necio es como el crepitar de las espinas debajo de la olla. Esto también es vanidad. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cracking": crackings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cracking": hydrocracking, safecracking, wisecracking. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cracking": hydrocrackings, safecrackings. (additional references) | |
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"Cracking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cacking, Ccaccatg, chacking, cracken, crackin, crackingly, crackings, crasking, creching, Cruckerne. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cracking" (pronounced kra"king) |
| 5 | -r a" k i ng | racking, tracking, wracking. |
| 4 | -a" k i ng | attacking, backing, hacking, jacking, lacking, packing, sacking, smacking, stacking, tacking, unpacking, whacking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-g-i-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: arcking, carking, racking. | |
-2 letters: arcing, caking, caring, racing, raking. | |
-3 letters: acing, cairn, cigar, circa, crack, crank, crick, garni, grain, kiang, naric. | |
-4 letters: agin, airn, akin, cain, cark, carn, crag, gain, gink, girn, gnar, gran, grin, kain, karn, kina, king, kirn, knar, narc, nark, nick, rack, ragi, rain, raki, rang, rani, rank, rick, ring, rink. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-g-i-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: crackings, crackling. | |
+2 letters: carjacking, cracklings. | |
+3 letters: carjackings. | |
+4 letters: backcrossing, backtracking, checkmarking, safecracking, wisecracking. | |
+5 letters: hydrocracking, safecrackings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Translations: Modern 16. Bible Trace | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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