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Backdating
- verb - make effective from an earlier date; "The increase in tax was backdated to January"
Backfiring
- verb - come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"
- emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire; "My old car backfires all the time"
- set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire
Backstairs
- adjective - a second staircase at the rear of a building
- secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"
Bacteroids
- noun - a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)
Balanchine
- noun - United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983)
Balaustine
- - The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.
Baldachins
- noun - ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar)
Ballasting
- verb - make steady with a ballast