8-Letter Words with F,A,B

• (football) the running back who plays the offensive halfback position

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

• a flow that returns toward its source

• 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

• An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

• (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.

• To perform a backflip (rotation of body)

• To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.

• 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

• Fabulous, joyous; great, wonderful.

• A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.

• tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw

• 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

• a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire