Words starting with back
4 letter words starting with back
- back — If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
- back alley — dirty, unprepossessing, sordid, or clandestine: back-alley morals; back-alley political schemes.
- back anchor — a small anchor for backing a larger one.
- back and fill — to manoeuvre the sails by alternately filling and emptying them of wind to navigate in a narrow place
- back and forth — If someone moves back and forth, they repeatedly move in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
5 letter words starting with back
- backs — a large tub, vat, or cistern used by dyers, brewers, distillers, etc., to hold liquids.
- back, sack, and crack — (cosmetic depilation of) the back, scrotum, and the area between the buttocks
6 letter words starting with back
- backed — having a back or backing
- backer — A backer is someone who helps or supports a project, organization, or person, often by giving or lending money.
- backet — a shallow box, typically one used for carrying substances such as ashes, coal or salt
- backie — a ride on the back of someone's bicycle
- backra — a White person
7 letter words starting with back
- backare — an instruction to keep one's distance; back off!
- backbar — a construction of shelves and counter space behind a bar, used for storing bottles, glasses, etc.
- backbit — Simple past tense and past participle of backbite.
- backend — Alternative form of back end.
- backers — Plural form of backer.
8 letter words starting with back
- back-end — (programming) Any software performing either the final stage in a process, or a task not apparent to the user. A common usage is in a compiler. A compiler's back-end generates machine language and performs optimisations specific to the machine's architecture. The term can also be used in the context of network applications. E.g. "The back-end of the system handles socket protocols". Contrast front end.
- backache — Backache is a dull pain in your back.
- backband — a moulding used at the edges of a window casing
- backbeat — the second and fourth beats of a bar written in even time or, in more complex time signatures, the last beat of the bar
- backbend — a gymnastic exercise in which the trunk is bent backwards until the hands touch the floor
9 letter words starting with back
- back-ache — a pain, especially in the lumbar region of the back, usually caused by the strain of a muscle or ligament.
- back-door — secret; furtive; illicit; indirect.
- back-heel — to strike the ball with one's heel and make it go behind one
- back-load — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- back-talk — an impudent response; impudence.
10 letter words starting with back
- 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.
11 letter words starting with back
- back-burner — 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.
- back-loaded — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- back-logged — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- back-mutate — to undergo back mutation.
- back-paddle — to propel a boat by paddling backward, as by using a stroke in the direction of stern to bow.
12 letter words starting with back
- back-kitchen — a room off a main kitchen, usually further towards the back of the house where washing-up or preparatory cooking work might be done; a scullery
- back-patting — an act or instance of offering praise or congratulation: The winners indulged in a certain amount of mutual back-patting.
- back-slapper — the practice of making a loud and effusive display of friendliness, cordiality, etc., as by slapping persons on the back.
- back-stabbed — to attempt to discredit (a person) by underhanded means, as innuendo, accusation, or the like.
- back-stopped — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
13 letter words starting with back
- back-breaking — Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort.
- back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
- back-stabbing — Back-stabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
- backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
- backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
14 letter words starting with back
- back-and-forth — backward and forward; side to side; to and fro: a back-and-forth shuttling of buses to the stadium; the back-and-forth movement of a clock's pendulum.
- back-clearance — Machinery. the gradual termination of a groove on the body of an object not ending there, as the upper termination of a flute in a twist drill. Also called back clearance. a space in a depressed area of an object into which a machine tool or grinding wheel may safely enter at the end of a pass or operation.
- back-formation — the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification.
- back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
- back-to-basics — stressing simplicity and adherence to fundamental principles: The movement suggests a back-to-basics approach to living for those whose lives have become complicated.
15 letter words starting with back
- back-scratching — a reciprocal exchange of favors, aid, or compliments
16 letter words starting with back
- back-propagation — (Or "backpropagation") A learning algorithm for modifying a feed-forward neural network which minimises a continuous "error function" or "objective function." Back-propagation is a "gradient descent" method of training in that it uses gradient information to modify the network weights to decrease the value of the error function on subsequent tests of the inputs. Other gradient-based methods from numerical analysis can be used to train networks more efficiently. Back-propagation makes use of a mathematical trick when the network is simulated on a digital computer, yielding in just two traversals of the network (once forward, and once back) both the difference between the desired and actual output, and the derivatives of this difference with respect to the connection weights.
- backward-looking — If you describe someone or something as backward-looking, you disapprove of their attitudes, ideas, or actions because they are based on old-fashioned opinions or methods.
18 letter words starting with back
- back-to-the-office report — a brief report by a worker who has been away on a mission of some kind, providing colleagues with information about the mission
20 letter words starting with back
- back-of-the-envelope — (of a plan, calculation, etc) composed or performed quickly and without detailed analysis or research
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