English Words: B

A form of calculation in which input parameters are adjusted until the calculated result coincides with the actual result found

The piece of card used as backing for the clear plastic bubble that contains a packaged toy.

The care of the back.

To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.

To perform inferences, starting with a list of goals (or a hypothesis) and working backwards from the consequent to the antecedent.

Alternative form of back channel.

Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.

To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.

One who backchecks; thus:

The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.

To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look.

A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible.

A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.

A backcourt player.

A fellow teammate on the backcourt.

backstroke

To cross a hybrid with one of its parents.

The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent.

A dam that lies to the rear of something.

A backwards dashing movement.

To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date.

simple past and past participle of backdate

One who backdates.

The act by which something is backdated.

The transfer of one or more electrons from an atomic orbital of an atom to an antibonding orbital of a ligand.

Alternative form of back door.

A chord progression of iv⁷ to ♭VII⁷ to I, common in jazz.

An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

Sudden, dangerous recombustion that occurs when there is a rapid reintroduction of oxygen to an enclosed space containing a fire.

Alternative spelling of backdraft.

The ability of a system of gears to be operated by applying a force to the output, transmitting force through the geartrain in the reverse of the usual direction.

Able to be operated by applying a force to the output, transmitting force through the gear train in the reverse of the usual direction.

A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.

simple past and past participle of back

Alternative form of back end.

Autumnal; cold or chilly.

One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs an entrant in a contest, or who supports an enterprise by funding it.

A board used behind or under other material, often as support.

superlative form of back: most back

A shallow wooden trough for carrying ashes, coals, etc.

The back side of a face of a mesh, which typically will never face the camera and can thus be culled (discarded) from the list of items to be rendered.

A fall or throw on the back.

Fat of the back, especially of pigs.

A pig yielding significant backfat.

The rear part of the field of play, particularly

A player stationed in the backfield.

A file of documents in paper or fiche format that have no digital equivalent.

To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.

The process by which something is backfilled.

The rear fin of a fish.