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backstairs
  • n  a second staircase at the rear of a building
  • s  secret and sly or sordid
    backstairs gossip
    his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard
    backstairs intimacies
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bald-headed
  • s  lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
    a bald-headed gentleman
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baptistic
  • a  of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baptist church
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backward
  • a  directed or facing toward the back or rear
    a backward view
  • a  (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
    a backward lover
  • s  retarded in intellectual development
  • s  having made less than normal progress
    an economically backward country
  • r  at or to or toward the back or rear
    tripped when he stepped backward
  • r  in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
    it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'
    the child put her jersey on backward
  • r  in or to or toward a past time
    lovers of the past looking fondly backward
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bacterial
  • a  relating to or caused by bacteria
    bacterial infection
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bactericidal
  • s  preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms
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