Anagrams of BACKFILL__

• an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)

• become bubbly or frothy or foaming

• 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

• seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination

• take arbitrarily or by force

• seize control of

• (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

• 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.

• 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

• To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.

• To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and/or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.

• To provide reserve support.

• To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.

• A sailor.

• English gin.