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12-letter words containing bac

  • backstarting — a marketing technique in publishing, whereby new customers are sent back issues of magazines or journals as part of their subscription
  • backstitches — Plural form of backstitch.
  • backstopping — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
  • backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
  • backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
  • backtrackers — Plural form of backtracker.
  • backtracking — to return over the same course or route.
  • backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
  • backwardness — toward the back or rear.
  • backwoodsman — Backwoodsmen are people, especially politicians, who like the old ways of doing things, or who are involved in an organization at a local level.
  • backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
  • bacon-slicer — a machine for cutting bacon into slices
  • bacteria bed — a layer of sand or gravel used to expose sewage effluent, in its final stages, to air and the action of microorganisms
  • bactericidal — any substance capable of killing bacteria.
  • bactericides — Plural form of bactericide.
  • bacteriocide — Alternative form of bactericide.
  • bacteriology — Bacteriology is the science and the study of bacteria.
  • bacteriostat — any substance that arrests the growth or reproduction of bacteria but does not kill them
  • bombacaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bombacaceae, a family of tropical trees, including the kapok tree and baobab, that have very thick stems, often with water-storing tissue
  • channel back — an upholstered chair or sofa back having deep vertical grooves.
  • coccobacilli — a spherelike bacillus.
  • come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
  • diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
  • enterobacter — Any bacterium of the genus Enterobacter.
  • fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
  • gas bacillus — any of several pathogenic bacilli, especially of the genus Clostridium, that produce gas in infected tissue.
  • gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
  • hark back to — recall: earlier era
  • hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
  • helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
  • lactobacilli — Plural form of lactobacillus.
  • leaf tobacco — tobacco in leaf form
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • little abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
  • mycobacteria — Plural form of mycobacterium.
  • nonbacterial — Not bacterial.
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • piggybacking — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
  • pipe tobacco — tobacco suitable for use in a tobacco pipe
  • quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
  • rickenbacker — Edward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
  • running back — an offensive back, as a halfback or fullback, whose principal role is advancing the ball by running with it on plays from scrimmage.
  • sebacic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 1 0 H 1 8 O 4 , usually obtained from castor oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of plasticizers and resins.
  • straddleback — astride, on horseback
  • thiobacillus — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus, inhabiting soil, sewage, etc., that derive energy from oxidation of sulfur or sulfur compounds.
  • thiobacteria — bacteria found esp. in stagnant water and at the bottom of the sea, that oxidize or reduce sulfur compounds, as hydrogen sulfide
  • tobacco leaf — the leaves of the tobacco plant, used for the production of cigarettes and tobacco
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