10-letter words starting with b
- back shift — a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
- back slang — a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards
- back staff — an obsolete instrument for determining the altitude of the sun by facing away from the sun, sighting upon the horizon, adjusting a cursor until its shadow falls upon the sight through which the horizon appears, and measuring the resulting arc.
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- back tooth — a tooth in the back of your jaw
- back vowel — a vowel whose sound is produced in the back of the mouth or the throat
- back water — to reverse the direction of a boat, esp to push the oars of a rowing boat to slow it down or stop it
- back-alley — Back-alley activities are carried out unofficially, secretly, and often illegally.
- back-check — to skate back toward one's defensive zone obstructing or impeding the movement or progress of one or more opponents on attack. Compare check1 (def 15), fore-check.
- back-cloth — backdrop (def 1).
- back-dated — If a purchase order or invoice is back-dated, it is given a date that is some time before the date it was actually prepared.
- back-order — to treat as a back order: We have to back-order your sofa until the new fabric arrives.
- back-pedal — If you back-pedal, you express a different or less forceful opinion about something from the one you have previously expressed.
- back-track — to return over the same course or route.
- back-trail — to backtrack.
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
- backblocks — bush or remote farming area far distant from city amenities
- backboards — Plural form of backboard.
- backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
- backburner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- backcloths — Plural form of backcloth.
- backcombed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcomb.
- backcourts — Plural form of backcourt.
- backdating — Present participle of backdate.
- backend-to — in a reversed position; backward.
- backfilled — Simple past tense and past participle of backfill.
- backfiring — Present participle of backfire.
- backgammon — Backgammon is a game for two people, played on a board marked with long triangles. Each player has 15 wooden or plastic discs. The players throw dice and move the discs around the board.
- background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
- backhanded — A backhanded compliment is a remark which seems to be an insult but could also be understood as a compliment. A backhanded compliment is also a remark which seems to be a compliment but could also be understood as an insult.
- backhander — A backhander is an amount of money that is illegally paid to someone in a position of authority in order to encourage them to do something.
- backlashed — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backlasher — something or someone who produces a backlash
- backlashes — Plural form of backlash.
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backlogged — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- backmarker — a competitor who is at the back of a field in a race
- backoffice — (software) A suite of network server software from Microsoft that includes Windows NT Server, BackOffice Server (for the integrated development, deployment, and management of BackOffice applications in departments, branch offices, and medium sized businesses); Exchange Server; Proxy Server; Site Server for intranet publishing, management, and search; Site Server Commerce Edition For comprehensive Internet commerce transactions; Small Business Server for business operations, resource management, and customer relations; SNA Server for the integration of existing and new systems and data; SQL Server for scalable, reliable database and data-warehousing; Systems Management Server (SMS) for centralised change- and configuration-management.
- backpacked — Simple past tense and past participle of backpack.
- backpacker — A backpacker is a person who goes travelling with a backpack.
- backpaddle — to propel a boat by paddling backward, as by using a stroke in the direction of stern to bow.
- backpedals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backpedal.
- backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
- backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
- backsheesh — Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
- backsights — Plural form of backsight.