9-letter words containing back
- backwords — Plural form of backword.
- backyards — Plural form of backyard.
- beat back — to force to retreat; drive back
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- fade back — to move back from the line of scrimmage, as in order to throw a forward pass
- fall back — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallbacks — Plural form of fallback.
- fastbacks — Plural form of fastback.
- feedbacks — Plural form of feedback.
- fightback — A fightback is an effort made by a person or group of people to get back into a strong position when they seem likely to lose something such as an election or an important sports match.
- firebacks — Plural form of fireback.
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- flareback — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flashback — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flat back — a book spine presenting a completely flat surface.
- full-back — sports; player , position
- fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
- gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
- give back — return: sth to sb
- give-back — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- givebacks — Plural form of giveback.
- go back n — (networking) A data link layer protocol.
- graybacks — Plural form of grayback.
- greenback — a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.
- halfbacks — Plural form of halfback.
- hand back — return, give back
- hang back — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hardbacks — Plural form of hardback.