backing (n.)

• abetment
• about-face
• advance
• advocacy
• advocate
• aegis
• affirmation
• aid
• alpenstock
• approval
• approving
• arm
• ascending
• ascent
• assistance
• attestation
• auspices
• authentication
• back
• backbone
• backflowing
• backsliding
• backup
• bandeau
• bearer
• bearing
• binding
• bookbinding
• bookcase
• bra
• brace
• bracer
• bracket
• brassiere
• bushing
• buttress
• buttressing
• cane
• capitalization
• care
• career
• carriage
• carrier
• cartridge
• case
• certification
• cervix
• championship
• charity
• chassis
• climbing
• confirmation
• cooperation
• corroboration
• corset
• countenance
• course
• cover
• crook
• crutch
• current
• descent
• disenchantment
• documentation
• dope
• drift
• driftage
• ebbing
• emulsion
• encouragement
• endorsement
• favor
• film
• financing
• flight
• flip-flop
• flow
• flux
• folding
• fortification
• fosterage
• frame
• fulcrum
• funding
• funds
• gathering
• girdle
• goodwill
• grant
• grubstake
• guidance
• guy
• headband
• help
• infrastructure
• interest
• investment
• jacket
• jock
• jockstrap
• lapse
• lining
• mainstay
• maintainer
• maintenance
• mast
• microfilm
• money
• mount
• mounting
• neck
• negative
• onrush
• pack
• passage
• patronage
• plate
• pro
• progress
• proof
• prop
• proving
• ratification
• recidivism
• reclamation
• reflux
• regress
• regression
• rehabilitation
• reinforcement
• reinforcer
• reinstatement
• relapse
• reliance
• rest
• restitution
• restoration
• retrogression
• retroversion
• return
• reversal
• reverse
• reversion
• reverting
• revulsion
• rigging
• rising
• roll
• rounding
• run
• rush
• set
• setting
• sewing
• shoulder
• shroud
• signature
• sinking
• skeleton
• slipcover
• smashing
• soaring
• spine
• sponsorship
• sprit
• staff
• stake
• stave
• stay
• stick
• stiffener
• stream
• strengthener
• strengthening
• subsiding
• subsidy
• substantiation
• subvention
• succor
• support
• supporter
• supporting
• sustainer
• sustainment
• sustenance
• sustentation
• sympathy
• tipping
• trend
• trimming
• turn
• turnabout
• turnaround
• tutelage
• underframe
• upholder
• upkeep
• validation
• vehicle
• verification
• volte-face
• wrapper