Rhymes for ZWIEBACKS

• related to or located at the back

• the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine

• the side that goes last or is not normally seen

• the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer

• (football) a person who plays in the backfield

• the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

• the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book

• the part of a garment that covers the back of your body

• a support that you can lean against while sitting

• (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage

• in or to or toward a former location

• at or to or toward the back or rear

• in or to or toward an original condition

• in or to or toward a past time

• in reply

• in repayment or retaliation

• located at or near the back of an animal

• of an earlier date

• be behind; approve of

• travel backward

• give support or one's approval to

• cause to travel backward

• support financial backing for

• be in back of

• place a bet on

• shift to a counterclockwise direction

• establish as valid or genuine

• strengthen by providing with a back or backing

• a line or route along which something travels or moves

• evidence pointing to a possible solution

• a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels

• a course over which races are run

• a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc

• an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground

• (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data

• a groove on a phonograph recording

• a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll

• any road or path affording passage especially a rough one

• the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track

• carry on the feet and deposit

• observe or plot the moving path of something

• go after with the intent to catch

• travel across or pass over

• make tracks upon

• street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• make less taut

• become loose or looser or less tight

• cause to feel relaxed

• become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner

• make less severe or strict

• become less severe or strict

• make less active or fast

• (used in the plural) pants for casual wear

• a large number or amount

• storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored

• a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome

• an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

• chop or split with an ax

• terminate

• duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio

• send something via a facsimile machine

• charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government

• levy a tax on

• set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

• use to the limit

• make a charge against or accuse

• any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water

• cover with wax

• go up or advance

• increase in phase

• a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel

• lodge in barracks

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• laugh at with contempt and derision

• a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches

• a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back

• a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people

• a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia

• a yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs

• cover with beeswax

• pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')

• lacking in firmness or tension; not taut

• lacking in rigor or strictness

• emptying easily or excessively

• (Roman Catholic Church) a greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist

• a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore

• a Belgian maker of musical instruments who invented the saxophone (1814-1894)

• the middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen

• the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates

• part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs

• a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball

• an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

• chop or split with an ax

• terminate

• any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses

• (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

• an offensive move in a sport or game

• intense adverse criticism

• ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation

• the act of attacking

• a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase

• a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition

• the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)

• strong criticism

• launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with

• attack in speech or writing

• take the initiative and go on the offensive

• attack someone physically or emotionally

• set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task

• begin to injure

• a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder

• hike with a backpack

• retrace one's course

• a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets

• a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

• a flag usually bearing a white skull and crossbones on a black background; indicates a pirate ship

• a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21

• exert pressure on someone through threats

• being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

• of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin

• the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

• British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

• popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

• total absence of light

• (board games) the darker pieces

• a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today

• black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

• marked by anger or resentment or hostility

• offering little or no hope

• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

• (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

• extremely dark

• harshly ironic or sinister

• (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

• distributed or sold illicitly

• (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

• (of coffee) without cream or sugar

• soiled with dirt or soot

• make or become black

• the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired

• misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service

• Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge.

• a person who polishes shoes and boots

• A pitch that comes very close to the batter, forcing them to move back from the plate.

• An action intended to threaten or frighten someone.

• a reduction in quantity or rate

• the quality of being a hindrance

• to break off a military action with an enemy

• A motor car having a continuous slope from the roof to the rear

• salt pork from the back of a hog carcass

• the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output

• response to an inquiry or experiment

• large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific

• a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer

• intense adverse criticism

• artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

• a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

• a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story

• an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)

• (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team

• (American football) the position of a back on a football team, generally larger in size than halfbacks

• play the fullback

• ornamental objects of no great value

• tastelessly showy