Anagrams of BACKFILES__

• a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)

• a complete failure

• end weakly

• a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)

• a complete failure

• end weakly

• an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)

• become bubbly or frothy or foaming

• an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)

• become bubbly or frothy or foaming

• The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.

• Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).

• A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).

• Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).

• Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.

• The brown recluse spider.

• A feature of maple wood where the fibers are distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern.

• A kind of chasuble with the front cut away.

• 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)

• large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America

• female salmon that has recently spawned

• small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school