Words Containing: A,B,C,E,I,K,S

• the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen

• an adult male gorilla with grey hairs across the back

• blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets

• small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals

• A rebate.

• A reduction in pay or conditions as a result of unfavourable economic conditions.

• Any of three breeds of dog with a distinctive ridge of hair that runs against the grain of the rest of the coat along the spine: the Rhodesian Ridgeback, the Phu Quoc Ridgeback and the Thai Ridgeback.

• one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel

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

• a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine

• 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 miscalculation that recoils on its maker

• come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

• emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire

• set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire

• Any of certain species of pheasant in the genus Lophura.

• A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking.

• drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards