9-letter words that end in back
- notchback — a style of back for an automobile in which there is a sharp vertical drop-off from the roof line to the trunk.
- paperback — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- pickaback — piggyback
- piggyback — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- pinchback — Pinckney Benton Stewart, 1837–1921, U.S. politician.
- play back — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- push back — force to retreat
- quillback — a carpsucker, Carpiodes cyprinus, inhabiting waters in the central and eastern U.S., having one ray of the dorsal fin greatly elongated.
- razorback — a finback or rorqual.
- rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
- ridgeback — Rhodesian ridgeback.
- ring back — If you ring someone back, you phone them either because they phoned you earlier and you were not there or because you did not finish an earlier telephone conversation.
- roll back — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- seat back — the part of a chair or seat that you rest your back against
- sell-back — an act or instance of selling something previously purchased.
- shellback — an old sailor.
- slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
- slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- snap back — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- step back — retreat, move backwards
- sway-back — an excessive downward curvature of the spinal column in the dorsal region, especially of horses.
- sweepback — the shape of, or the angle formed by, an airplane wing or other airfoil the leading or trailing edge of which slopes backward from the fuselage.
- sweptback — (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
- swingback — (especially in political affairs) a return or reversion, as to previous opinion, custom, or ideology: We must fight any swingback to isolationism.
- tail back — When traffic tails back, a long line of it forms along a road, and moves very slowly or not at all, for example because of road works or an accident.
- take back — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- talk back — the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind.
- talk-back — a communications system enabling those in the studio to hear control-room personnel through a loudspeaker or headphones.
- thornback — a skate, Raja clavata, of European waters, having short spines on the back and tail.
- throwback — an act of throwing back.
- touchback — a play in which the ball is downed after having been kicked into the end zone by the opposing team or having been recovered or intercepted there, or in which it has been kicked beyond the end zone. Compare safety (def 6a).
- turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- whaleback — Nautical. a cargo vessel having a hull with a convex deck. a deck or cover curving upward.
- wing back — In football, a wing back is a defender who also takes part in attacking play.
- work back — to work overtime