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— English words —

• backfire v. (Of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc.) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction…
• backfire v. (Of an engine) To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
• backfire v. To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.
• backfire n. (Firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire.
• backfire n. A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke…
• backfire n. An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.
• backfire n. An explosion in other equipment.
• back␣fire n. A small, controlled fire set in the path of a larger uncontrolled fire, in order to limit the spread…
• back␣fire n. An explosion produced either by a running internal combustion engine that occurs in the air intake or…

— English words, defined in French —

• backfire n. Retour de flamme.
• backfire n. (Sens figuré) Situation dans laquelle un de ses actes se retourne contre soi-même.
• backfire v. Pétarader.
• backfire v. (Sens figuré) Causer une situation dans laquelle un de ses actes se retourne contre soi-même.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• backfire v. Sair pela culatra.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• backfire s. Ritorno di fiamma.

76 English words from 9 English definitions

air air␣intake Alternative back back␣fire brings brings␣down Bunsen Bunsen␣burner burner cannon combustion combustion␣engine compression controlled cylinder direction down due due␣to during either engine equipment etc example exhaust experience explosion fail fire Firefighting for for␣example fuel further gas gases gun ignition in␣a␣manner in␣order in␣order␣to intake internal internal␣combustion in␣the␣air larger limit making manner misfortune obstruction occurs of␣a of␣an oil opposite order other passages path popping premature produced running set set␣in small sound spelling spread stroke that the uncontrolled

8 English words from 6 foreign definitions

Causer dans pela Retour Sens ses situation soi

17 foreign words from 6 foreign definitions

actes contre culatra fiamma figuré flamme laquelle même Pétarader Retour␣de␣flamme retourne Ritorno Sair Sair␣pela␣culatra Sens␣figuré soi-même une

5 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

backfired backfires back␣fires backfire␣effect backfire␣effects

16 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ack ACK bac BAC -bac- back Back back- fir FIR fire FIRE ire IrE IRE Ire.

7 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

cab Cab CAB Eri. rif Rif RIF

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

fireback

9 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

backbrief backfired backfires back␣fires briefback fabricked facebrick face␣brick firebacks

2 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

fabrick refback

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

backfile back␣five

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