aback /ə-bakˈ/

1. Backwards
2. Said of sails pressed backward against the mast by the wind (nautical)

taken aback

Taken by surprise

• field hospital
• field hospitals
• field ice
• fielding
• fieldings
• field-ion microscope
• field-ion microscopes
• field kitchen
• field kitchens
• field lark
• field larks
• field madder
• field mark
• field marks
• field marshal
• field marshals
• field meeting
• field meetings
• fieldmice
• fieldmouse
• field mushroom
• field naturalist
• field naturalists
• field night
• field nights