The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.
backshift
backshift
noun
(grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
(statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.
verb
(grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
blackfish
blackfish
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
(Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
(chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).
Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).
verb
(Internet slang, derogatory, of a white person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
(fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.
bookshelf
bookshelf
noun
A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.
chayefsky
checkoffs
checkoffs
noun
plural of checkoff
cheekfuls
creekfish
creekfish
noun
(US) Erimyzon oblongus, the chubsucker.
fishhooks
fishhooks
noun
(slang) A pair of jacks (the playing card)
plural of fishhook
fishworks
fishworks
noun
A fish processing plant.
fishyback
flashback
flashback
noun
(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
(databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
(psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
verb
(intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.
flashlike
flashlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a flash.
fleshhook
fleshhook
noun
(historical) A hook designed to lift meat out of boiling water.
fleshlike
fleshlike
adj
Resembling flesh
flunkyish
flunkyish
adj
Like a flunky.
foreshank
foreshank
noun
A cut of meat from this part.
The upper part of the foreleg of cattle.
foreshock
foreshock
noun
(geology) A small earth tremor which precedes the mainshock in an earthquake sequence. Not all mainshocks have foreshocks.
Any shock or disturbance which precedes an event
forksmith
frecklish
frecklish
adj
Having freckles; freckled.
Resembling or characteristic of a freckle.
fukushima
fukushima
Proper noun
A city in Japan.
A prefecture in Japan.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster following a tsunami in 2011.
halfbacks
halfbacks
noun
plural of halfback
halfbeaks
halfbeaks
noun
plural of halfbeak
homefolks
hoofmarks
hoofmarks
noun
plural of hoofmark
jackshaft
jackshaft
noun
A common mechanical component used to transfer or synchronize rotational force in a machine.
A wheelless axle used to turn the wheels of a locomotive.
verb
To transfer or synchronize rotational force by means of a jackshaft.
kaffiyehs
kaffiyehs
noun
plural of kaffiyeh
kerchiefs
kerchiefs
noun
plural of kerchief
killifish
killifish
noun
Any of a number of tiny fish in the Cyprinodontiformes order of ray-finned fish.
makeshift
makeshift
adj
Made to work or suffice; improvised; substituted.
noun
(obsolete) A rogue; a shifty person.
A temporary (usually insubstantial) substitution.
pickshaft
rockshaft
shaftlike
shaftlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a shaft.
shakefork
shakefork
noun
(heraldry) A pall, especially one which stops short of the edges of the shield and which has pointed ends.
(obsolete) A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.
sheaflike
sheaflike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a sheaf.
shelfback
shelflike
shelflike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a shelf.
skewwhiff
skewwhiff
adj
Alternative spelling of skew-whiff
skullfish
skullfish
noun
(nautical, whaling, obsolete) A whale more than two years old.
snakefish
snakefish
noun
Any of the several fish that resemble a snake.
Trachinocephalus myops
spikefish
spikefish
noun
Any of the family Triacanthodidae of ray-finned fishes related to the pufferfishes and triggerfishes.
stockfish
stockfish
noun
(South Africa) The shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis)
A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.
trunkfish
trunkfish
noun
Species of genera Lactophrys and Rhinesomus (in boxfish family Ostraciidae).
wreckfish
wreckfish
noun
Any of the perciform marine fish of the family Polyprionidae, often inhabiting caves and shipwrecks.