These are the meanings of the letters NEBACK when you unscramble them.
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Acne (n.)
A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands.
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Back (n.)
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
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Back (n.)
A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
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Back (n.)
In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
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Back (n.)
An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
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Back (n.)
The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
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Back (n.)
The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
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Back (n.)
The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
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Back (n.)
The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
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Back (n.)
A support or resource in reserve.
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Back (n.)
The keel and keelson of a ship.
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Back (n.)
The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
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Back (n.)
A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
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Back (a.)
Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
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Back (a.)
Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
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Back (a.)
Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
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Back (v. i.)
To get upon the back of; to mount.
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Back (v. i.)
To place or seat upon the back.
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Back (v. i.)
To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
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Back (v. i.)
To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
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Back (v. i.)
To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
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Back (v. i.)
To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
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Back (v. i.)
To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
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Back (v. i.)
To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
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Back (v. i.)
To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
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Back (v. i.)
To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
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Back (v. i.)
To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
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Back (adv.)
In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
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Back (adv.)
To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.
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Back (adv.)
To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
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Back (adv.)
(Of time) In times past; ago.
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Back (adv.)
Away from contact; by reverse movement.
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Back (adv.)
In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
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Back (adv.)
In a state of restraint or hindrance.
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Back (adv.)
In return, repayment, or requital.
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Back (adv.)
In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
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Back (adv.)
In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.
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Bake (v. t.)
To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
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Bake (v. t.)
To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
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Bake (v. t.)
To harden by cold.
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Bake (v. i.)
To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.
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Bake (v. i.)
To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
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Bake (n.)
The process, or result, of baking.
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Bane (n.)
That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
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Bane (n.)
Destruction; death.
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Bane (n.)
Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
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Bane (n.)
A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
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Bane (v. t.)
To be the bane of; to ruin.
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Bank (n.)
A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
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Bank (n.)
A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
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Bank (n.)
A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
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Bank (n.)
The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
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Bank (n.)
An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
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Bank (n.)
The face of the coal at which miners are working.
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Bank (n.)
A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
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Bank (n.)
The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
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Bank (v. t.)
To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
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Bank (v. t.)
To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
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Bank (v. t.)
To pass by the banks of.
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Bank (n.)
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
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Bank (n.)
The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
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Bank (n.)
The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.
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Bank (n.)
A sort of table used by printers.
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Bank (n.)
A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
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Bank (n.)
An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
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Bank (n.)
The building or office used for banking purposes.
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Bank (n.)
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
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Bank (n.)
The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
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Bank (n.)
In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
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Bank (v. t.)
To deposit in a bank.
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Bank (v. i.)
To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
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Bank (v. i.)
To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
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Beak (n.)
The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.
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Beak (n.)
A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.
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Beak (n.)
The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
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Beak (n.)
The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
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Beak (n.)
The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
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Beak (n.)
Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.
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Beak (n.)
A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
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Beak (n.)
That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
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Beak (n.)
A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
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Beak (n.)
Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
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Beak (n.)
A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).
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Beak (n.)
A magistrate or policeman.
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Bean (n.)
A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
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Bean (n.)
The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.
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Beck (n.)
See Beak.
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Beck (n.)
A small brook.
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Beck (n.)
A vat. See Back.
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Beck (v. i.)
To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.
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Beck (v. t.)
To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.
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Beck (n.)
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.
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Cake (n.)
A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
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Cake (n.)
A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
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Cake (n.)
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
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Cake (n.)
A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
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Cake (v. i.)
To form into a cake, or mass.
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Cake (v. i.)
To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
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Cake (v. i.)
To cackle as a goose.
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Cane (n.)
A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
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Cane (n.)
Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
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Cane (n.)
Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
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Cane (n.)
A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
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Cane (n.)
A lance or dart made of cane.
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Cane (n.)
A local European measure of length. See Canna.
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Cane (v. t.)
To beat with a cane.
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Cane (v. t.)
To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.
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Neck (n.)
The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.
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Neck (n.)
Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or resembling the neck of an animal
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Neck (n.)
The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd.
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Neck (n.)
A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
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Neck (n.)
That part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board.
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Neck (n.)
A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft.
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Neck (n.)
the point where the base of the stem of a plant arises from the root.
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Neck (v. t.)
To reduce the diameter of (an object) near its end, by making a groove around it; -- used with down; as, to neck down a shaft.
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Neck (v. t. & i.)
To kiss and caress amorously.