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Babelike
- adjective - like a baby especially in dependence; "babelike innocence and dependence"
Backache
- noun - an ache localized in the back
- Lumbago
Backbone
- noun - a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm"
- fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it"
- the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved; "the title and author were printed on the spine of the book"
- the part of a network that connects other networks together; "the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic"
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back"
Backdate
- verb - make effective from an earlier date; "The increase in tax was backdated to January"
Backfire
- noun - a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path
- a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine
- a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
- 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
- the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
Backside
- noun - the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
- the side of an object that is opposite its front; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel"
Baculine
- - Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.
Baculite
- - A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.