| BACKBIT | • backbit v. Simple past tense and past participle of backbite. • back-bit v. Simple past tense of back-bite. • BACKBITE v. to speak ill of. |
| BACKETS | • backets n. Plural of backet. • BACKET n. (Scots) a shallow wooden trough for carrying ashes. |
| BACKFAT | • backfat n. Fat of the back, especially of pigs. • BACKFAT n. the layer of fat between the skin and muscle in animals. |
| BACKFIT | • backfit v. To retrofit. • BACKFIT v. to modify later. |
| BACKLIT | • backlit v. Simple past tense and past participle of backlight. • backlit adj. Lit or illuminated from behind. • BACKLIT adj. lit from behind. |
| BACKLOT | • backlot n. The farthest section of a parking lot. • backlot n. (Hollywood) The area of a movie studio where outdoor scenes were filmed. It typically served as a generic… • BACKLOT n. an outdoor area, often next to a TV studio, used for exterior scenes. |
| BACKOUT | • backout n. A reversal or undoing of tasks previously done (often in reverse order). • backout n. (Aerospace) A reversed countdown (i.e. ascending numbers) in response to problems leading up to a launch. • back␣out v. (Transitive) To reverse (a vehicle) from a confined space. |
| BACKSET | • backset n. A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback. • backset n. Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water. • backset v. (US, especially Western US) To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring. |
| BRACKET | • bracket n. A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf. • bracket n. (Engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part… • bracket n. (Nautical) A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support. |
| CUTBACK | • cutback n. A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service. • cutback n. (Surfing) Maneuver where the surfer turns and surfs back towards where the wave is breaking. • cutback n. (Roofing) Solvent-thinned bitumen used in cold process roofing adhesives, cements and coatings. |
| CUTBANK | • cutbank n. (North America) The outer edge of the bend in a stream or river, where the water cuts into the bank… • Cut␣Bank prop.n. A city, the county seat of Glacier County, Montana, United States. • CUTBANK n. a steep stream bank. |
| FATBACK | • fatback n. (US) A layer of fat, along the back of a pig, used as a cut of meat or to make lard. • fatback n. A fish, the menhaden. • FATBACK n. a dried strip of fat from the back of a hog. |
| HACKBUT | • hackbut n. Obsolete form of arquebus. • HACKBUT n. (historical) a harquebus; a matchlock gun invented in the 15th century, also HAGBUT. |
| OUTBACK | • outback n. (Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops. • outback adj. Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas. • outback adv. To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia. |
| SACKBUT | • sackbut n. (Music) A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone… • SACKBUT n. a medieval trombone, also SACBUT, SAGBUT. |
| SETBACK | • setback n. An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, blow (an adverse event which retards or prevents progress towards… • setback n. (US) The required distance between a structure and a road. • setback n. (Architecture) A step-like recession in a wall. |
| SUBTACK | • subtack n. An underlease in Scotland. • SUBTACK n. a sublease in Scotland. |
| TIEBACK | • tieback n. A loop of cloth, cord, etc., which is placed around a curtain to hold it open to one side. • tieback n. (Journalism) A newspaper rewrite or short synopsis of the information presented in the original story… • tie␣back v. To tie or fasten behind. |
| TOMBACK | • tomback n. Archaic form of tombak. • TOMBACK n. (Malay) an alloy of copper and zinc, also TOMBAC, TAMBAC, TAMBAK, TOMBAK. |