(American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage occupied before the snap by the team on offense.
(baseball, rare) Synonym of outfield.
(soccer, US) The area behind either the offensive or defensive line.
The players occupying this area.
backfills
backfills
noun
plural of backfill
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backfill
backflash
backflash
noun
Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”)
The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.
blackface
blackface
noun
(countable) A sheep of the Scottish Blackface breed.
(uncountable) A style of makeup in which a non-black person blackens their face, usually in order to portray a black person.
blackfeet
blackfins
blackfins
noun
plural of blackfin
blackfire
blackfish
blackfish
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
(Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
(chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).
Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).
verb
(Internet slang, derogatory, of a white person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
(fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.
blackfoot
blackfoot
noun
A tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium
blackford
calfskins
calfskins
noun
plural of calfskin
chafflike
chafflike
adj
Resembling chaff.
clansfolk
clansfolk
noun
Members of a clan; clanspeople.
clockface
clockface
noun
Alternative spelling of clock face
clyfaking
clyfaking
noun
(slang, obsolete) Pickpocketing.
fallbacks
fallbacks
noun
plural of fallback
farcelike
farcelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of farce.
flagstick
flagstick
noun
(golf) The pole which marks the location of a hole
flapjacks
flapjacks
noun
plural of flapjack; pancakes.
flareback
flareback
noun
A burst of flame emitted from a cannon, furnace, etc. in an abnormal direction.
flashback
flashback
noun
(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
(databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
(psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
verb
(intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.
folkcraft
folkcraft
noun
folk craftsmanship
foreslack
foreslack
verb
Alternative form of forslack
francklin
francklyn
frankclay
frillback
frillback
noun
A pigeon of a fancy breed having a frill or curls on the wing shield feathers.
fullbacks
fullbacks
noun
plural of fullback
halfbacks
halfbacks
noun
plural of halfback
halftrack
halftrack
noun
Alternative form of half-track
rockfalls
rockfalls
noun
plural of rockfall
scarflike
scarflike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a scarf.
shelfback
speckfall
stickleaf
thickleaf
thickleaf
adj
Applied to various kinds of plant characterized by thick leaves.