backs: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words
Prefixes of backs
- drawbacks«Word Popularity Bar4/5
drawback
- noun the quality of being a hindrance
- he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan
- noun the quality of being a hindrance
- setbacks3/5
setback
- noun an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
blow; reverse; reversal; black eye.
- noun an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- flashbacks3/5
flashback
- noun a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
- noun an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
- noun a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
- cutbacks3/5
cutback
- noun a reduction in quantity or rate
- noun a reduction in quantity or rate
- paperbacks3/5
paperback
- noun a book with paper covers
paper-back book; paperback book; soft-cover book; softback book; soft-cover; softback.
- adjective satellite (of books) having a flexible binding
paperbacked.
- noun a book with paper covers
- quarterbacks2/5
quarterback
- noun (football) the person who plays quarterback
field general; signal caller.
- noun (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team
field general; signal caller.
- quarterback is the most important position on the team
- noun (football) the person who plays quarterback
- kickbacks2/5
kickback
- noun a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction
- noun a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction
- feedbacks2/5
feedback
- noun the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output
- noun response to an inquiry or experiment
- noun the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output
- callbacks2/5
callback
- noun a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
recall.
- noun a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- comebacks2/5
comeback
- noun a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
rejoinder; return; counter; retort; replication; riposte.
- it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher
- noun return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity
- noun a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- buybacks2/5
buyback
- noun the act of purchasing back something previously sold
repurchase; redemption.
- noun the act of purchasing back something previously sold
- greenbacks2/5
greenback
- noun a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
bank bill; banknote; bill; banker's bill; note; Federal Reserve note; government note; bank note.
- he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes
- noun a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- sticklebacks2/5
stickleback
- noun small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
prickleback.
- noun small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
- switchbacks2/5
switchbacks
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- halfbacks1/5
halfback
- noun (football) the running back who plays the offensive halfback position
- noun (American football) the position of a back on a football team
- noun (football) the running back who plays the offensive halfback position
- fullbacks1/5
fullback
- noun (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team
- noun (American football) the position of a back on a football team
- noun (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team
- cornerbacks1/5
cornerback
- noun a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers
- noun a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers
- pullbacks1/5
pullback
- noun a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back
tieback.
- the draperies were drawn to the sides by pullbacks
- noun (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops)
- the pullback is expected to be over 25,000 troops
- noun a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back
- piggybacks1/5
piggyback
- noun the act of carrying something piggyback
- verb ride on someone's shoulders or back
- noun the act of carrying something piggyback
- tiebacks1/5
tieback
- noun a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back
pullback.
- the draperies were drawn to the sides by pullbacks
- noun a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back
- hatchbacks1/5
hatchback
- noun a car having a hatchback door
- noun a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open
hatchback door.
- noun a car having a hatchback door
- fallbacks1/5
fallback
- noun to break off a military action with an enemy
disengagement; pullout.
- noun to break off a military action with an enemy
- humpbacks1/5
humpback
- noun an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column
hunchback; kyphosis.
- noun a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
hunchback; crookback.
- noun an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column
- rollbacks1/5
rollback
- noun the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw
push back.
- noun reducing prices back to some earlier level
- noun the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw
- throwbacks1/5
throwback
- noun an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
atavist.
- noun a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
atavism; reversion.
- noun an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
- hunchbacks1/5
hunchback
- noun an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column
kyphosis; humpback.
- noun a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
humpback; crookback.
- noun an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column
- slingbacks1/5
slingback
- noun a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel
sling.
- noun a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel
- paybacks1/5
payback
- noun financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
- noun the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19
retribution; vengeance.
- Vengeance is mine
- For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield
- he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him
- the swiftness of divine retribution
- noun financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
- playbacks1/5
playback
- noun the act of reproducing recorded sound
- he was allowed to hear the playback of his testimony
- noun electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material
- noun the act of reproducing recorded sound
- hogbacks1/5
hogback
- noun a narrow ridge of hills
horseback.
- noun a narrow ridge of hills
- diamondbacks1/5
diamondback
- noun large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings
diamondback rattlesnake; Crotalus adamanteus.
- noun large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings
- hardbacks1/5
hardback
- noun a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers
hardcover.
- adjective satellite having a hard back or cover
hardbound; hardcover; hardbacked.
- hardback books
- noun a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers
- graybacks1/5
grayback
- noun a dowitcher with a grey back
Limnodromus griseus; greyback.
- noun a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
greyback; knot; Calidris canutus.
- noun a dowitcher with a grey back
- razorbacks1/5
razorback
- noun a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States
razorbacked hog; razorback hog.
- noun any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin
rorqual.
- noun a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States
- wetbacks1/5
wetback
- noun (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent
greaser; taco.
- noun (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent
- canvasbacks1/5
canvasback
- noun North American wild duck valued for sport and food
Aythya valisineria; canvasback duck.
- noun North American wild duck valued for sport and food
- leatherbacks1/5
leatherback
- noun wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle
Dermochelys coriacea; leatherback turtle; leathery turtle.
- noun wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle
- silverbacks1/5
silverback
- noun an adult male gorilla with grey hairs across the back
- noun an adult male gorilla with grey hairs across the back
- carrybacks1/5
- leasebacks1/5
leasebacks
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- shellbacks1/5
- holdbacks1/5
holdback
Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond.
- seatbacks1/5
- givebacks1/5
givebacks
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Suffixes of backs
- backside«Word Popularity Bar3/5
backside
- noun the side of an object that is opposite its front
back end; rear.
- his room was toward the rear of the hotel
- noun the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
bum; seat; stern; keister; tail end; prat; bottom; rear end; buns; tail; tush; rump; fanny; ass; behind; tooshie; hind end; posterior; hindquarters; butt; nates; rear; arse; buttocks; derriere; can; fundament.
- he deserves a good kick in the butt
- are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
- noun the side of an object that is opposite its front
- backseat3/5
backseat
- noun a secondary or inferior position or status
- tennis has had to take a backseat while his work is so demanding
- noun a seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile)
- noun a secondary or inferior position or status
- backstage3/5
backstage
- noun a stage area out of sight of the audience
wing; offstage.
- adjective satellite concealed from public view or attention
offstage.
- offstage political meetings
- noun a stage area out of sight of the audience
- backsides2/5
backside
- noun the side of an object that is opposite its front
back end; rear.
- his room was toward the rear of the hotel
- noun the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
bum; seat; stern; keister; tail end; prat; bottom; rear end; buns; tail; tush; rump; fanny; ass; behind; tooshie; hind end; posterior; hindquarters; butt; nates; rear; arse; buttocks; derriere; can; fundament.
- he deserves a good kick in the butt
- are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
- noun the side of an object that is opposite its front
- backstroke2/5
backstroke
- noun a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back
- verb swim on one's back
- noun a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back
- backstop2/5
backstop
- noun (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
catcher.
- noun (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field
- noun (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
- backscatter2/5
backscatter
- verb scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes
- verb scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes
- backscattering2/5
backscatter
- verb scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes
- verb scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes
- backsliding2/5
backsliding
- noun a failure to maintain a higher state
relapsing; relapse; reversion; lapse; reverting; lapsing.
- verb drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
lapse; backslide.
- noun a failure to maintain a higher state
- backscattered2/5
backscatter
- verb scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes
- verb scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes
- backspace2/5
backspace
- noun the typewriter key used for back spacing
backspace key; backspacer.
- verb hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard
- To erase, you must backspace
- noun the typewriter key used for back spacing
- backslash2/5
backslash
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- backswing2/5
- backstreet2/5
backstreet
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- backstory2/5
backstory
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- backstabbing2/5
backstabbing
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- backseats1/5
backseat
- noun a secondary or inferior position or status
- tennis has had to take a backseat while his work is so demanding
- noun a seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile)
- noun a secondary or inferior position or status
- backstops1/5
backstop
- noun (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
catcher.
- noun (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field
- noun (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
- backstitch1/5
backstitch
- noun an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one
- verb do backstitches
- noun an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one
- backspin1/5
backspin
- noun spin (usually of a moving ball) that retards or reverses the forward motion
- noun spin (usually of a moving ball) that retards or reverses the forward motion
- backstay1/5
backstay
- noun a stay that supports the back of something
- noun a stay that supports the back of something
- backslidings1/5
backsliding
- noun a failure to maintain a higher state
relapsing; relapse; reversion; lapse; reverting; lapsing.
- verb drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
lapse; backslide.
- noun a failure to maintain a higher state
- backstays1/5
backstay
- noun a stay that supports the back of something
- noun a stay that supports the back of something
- backstitching1/5
backstitch
- noun an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one
- verb do backstitches
- noun an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one
- backstitches1/5
backstitch
- noun an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one
- verb do backstitches
- noun an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one
- backslide1/5
backslide
- verb drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
lapse.
- verb drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- backstairs1/5
backstairs
- noun a second staircase at the rear of a building
- adjective satellite secret and sly or sordid
backstair; furtive.
- backstairs gossip
- his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard
- backstairs intimacies
- furtive behavior
- noun a second staircase at the rear of a building
- backsliders1/5
backslider
- noun someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
recidivist; reversionist.
- noun someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
- backslider1/5
backslider
- noun someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
recidivist; reversionist.
- noun someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
- backslidden1/5
backslide
- verb drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
lapse.
- verb drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- backsheesh1/5
backsheesh
- noun a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
baksheesh; pourboire; bakshis; bakshish; gratuity; tip.
- noun a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
- backslid1/5
backslide
- verb drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
lapse.
- verb drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- backslides1/5
backslide
- verb drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
lapse.
- verb drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- backsaw1/5
backsaw
- noun a handsaw that is stiffened by metal reinforcement along the upper edge
back saw.
- noun a handsaw that is stiffened by metal reinforcement along the upper edge
- backstreets1/5
backstreets
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- backslashes1/5
backslashes
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- backsplash1/5
- backstretch1/5
backstretch
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- backslapping1/5
backslap
- verb display excessive cordiality (towards)
- he is always backslapping his colleagues at staff meetings
- verb display excessive cordiality (towards)
- backstrap1/5
- backshore1/5
- backsight1/5
backsight
(Surv.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight , n., 3.
- backstopping1/5
backstop
- noun (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
catcher.
- noun (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field
- noun (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
- backster1/5
- backspread1/5
- backstabber1/5
backstabber
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- backstabbers1/5
backstabbers
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- backset1/5
backset
A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
- backstories1/5
backstories
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- backstopped1/5
backstop
- noun (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
catcher.
- noun (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field
- noun (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
This page lists all the words created by adding prefixes, suffixes to the word `backs`. For each word, youwill notice a blue bar below the word. The longer the blue bar below a word, the more common/popular the word. Very short blue bars indicate rare usage.
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