| BACKACHES | • backaches n. Plural of backache. • BACKACHE n. pain in the back. |
| BACKCHATS | • backchats n. Plural of backchat. • backchats v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backchat. • back-chats v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of back-chat. |
| BACKHANDS | • backhands n. Plural of backhand. • backhands v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backhand. • back-hands n. Plural of back-hand. |
| BACKHAULS | • backhauls v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backhaul. • BACKHAUL v. to return after delivering a cargo. |
| BACKSLASH | • backslash n. The punctuation mark \. • backslash n. (Computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash… • backslash v. (Computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape… |
| BLACKHEAD | • blackhead n. (Countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged… • blackhead n. (Uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird’s head. • blackhead n. (Countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya. |
| BLACKWASH | • blackwash n. (Slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team. • blackwash n. (Slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash"… • blackwash n. (Medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater. |
| CASHBACKS | • CASHBACK n. getting cash back on a credit card. |
| CHAIRBACK | • chairback n. The rear part of a chair that supports the sitter’s back. • CHAIRBACK n. the part of a chair that supports the sitter's back. |
| FLASHBACK | • flashback n. (Authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow… • flashback n. (Psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in… • flashback n. A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug. |
| HAIRYBACK | • hairyback n. A gastrotrich. • hairyback n. (South Africa, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white Afrikaner. • HAIRYBACK n. (offensive South African) an Afrikaaner. |
| HALFBACKS | • halfbacks n. Plural of halfback. • half-backs n. Plural of half-back. • HALFBACK n. a position in football. |
| HARDBACKS | • hardbacks n. Plural of hardback. • HARDBACK n. a book with a hard cover. |
| HATCHBACK | • hatchback n. A car with a sloping, hinged rear door that opens upwards. • hatchback n. The door itself. • HATCHBACK n. a car with a certain type of liftable back. |
| HAULBACKS | • HAULBACK n. a line for drawing a cable back. |
| HUCKABACK | • huckaback n. A type of coarse, absorbent cotton or linen fabric used for making towels. • HUCKABACK n. an absorbent cotton or linen used for towels. |
| SHABRACKS | • shabracks n. Plural of shabrack. • SHABRACK n. (historical) a trooper's housing or saddlecloth, also SHABRACQUE. |
| WHALEBACK | • whaleback n. (Historical) A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curves above the waterline from… • whaleback n. (Geology) A landform (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale. • WHALEBACK n. a kind of steamboat used on the Great Lakes to carry grain, etc. having a rounded upper deck. |