Anagrams of FLICKERTAILS_

• 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

• The material that has been used to refill an excavation.

• Reserve support personnel.

• That which backfills; a replacement.

• Material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action.

• 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.

• 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

• Any of certain species of pheasant in the genus Lophura.

• A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking.

• a short coat

• an outer wrapping or casing

• (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth

• the outer skin of a potato

• the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition

• provide with a thermally non-conducting cover

• put a jacket on