9-letter words containing bac
- backstamp — a mark stamped on the back of an envelope by a post office to indicate the date and place of its arrival
- backstays — Plural form of backstay.
- backstops — Plural form of backstop.
- backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
- backstrap — A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
- backswept — slanting backwards
- backswing — the movement of a club, bat, or racket backwards, away from the intended point of contact, in preparation for making a stroke
- backsword — a person who uses the backsword
- backtrace — (computing) A stack trace.
- backtrack — If you backtrack on a statement or decision you have made, you do or say something that shows that you no longer agree with it or support it.
- backwards — If you move or look backwards, you move or look in the direction that your back is facing.
- backwater — A backwater is a place that is isolated.
- backwoods — If you refer to an area as the backwoods, you mean that it is a long way from large towns and is isolated from modern life.
- backwords — Plural form of backword.
- backyards — Plural form of backyard.
- bacon fat — fat made by rendering bacon
- bacterial — Bacterial is used to describe things that relate to or are caused by bacteria.
- bacterias — (US) Plural form of bacteria.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- bacterio- — indicating bacteria or an action or condition relating to or characteristic of bacteria
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- bacterize — to subject to bacterial action
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- beat back — to force to retreat; drive back
- bibacious — tending to drink in excess
- bite back — If you bite back a feeling or something that you were going to say, you stop yourself from expressing it.
- blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
- breakback — backbreaking; extremely heavy
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
- call back — If you call someone back, you telephone them again or in return for a telephone call that they have made to you.
- callbacks — Plural form of callback.
- camelback — a locomotive having its cab situated astride the boiler, halfway along it, rather than at the rear of the boiler
- carbachol — a cholinergic agent, C6H15ClN2O2, used for various ophthalmic purposes, such as the treating of glaucoma
- carryback — (in U.S. income-tax law) a special provision allowing part of a net loss or of an unused credit in a given year to be apportioned over one or two preceding years, chiefly in order to ease the tax burden. Compare carry·forward (def 2).
- cast back — to turn (the mind) to the past
- chairback — the part of a chair that supports the sitter's back
- chawbacon — an unsophisticated person of low intellect
- checkback — a check or verification of a process, tabulation, etc., already completed.
- claw back — If someone claws back some of the money or power they had lost, they get some of it back again.
- clawbacks — Plural form of clawback.
- comb back — a Windsor chair back in which the vertical spindles are surmounted by a broad, carved crest rail resembling a comb.
- come back — If something that you had forgotten comes back to you, you remember it.
- comebacks — Plural form of comeback.
- countback — a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores
- crackback — (in American football) an illegal block made by an offensive player
- crookback — a hunchback
- date back — If something dates back to a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- drawbacks — Plural form of drawback.
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.