9-Letter Words Containing: A,F,E,B

• A burning torch, especially one carried in procession.

• the makeup (usually burnt cork) used by a performer in order to imitate a Negro

• attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks)

• 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

• the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen

• 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

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