HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Flickering.

noun

1. (nautical) The part of a ship's deck from amidships toward the stern

noun

1. plural of afterdeck

noun

1. (figuratively) By extension, any result or consequence following a major event.
2. An earthquake that follows in the same vicinity as another, usually larger, earthquake (the "mainshock").
3. Emotional and physical distress following a traumatic event.

noun

1. plural of aftershock

noun

1. (music) A lever in the coupler of an organ.
2. (wrestling) A fall or throw on the back.

noun

1. A pig yielding significant backfat.

noun

1. (American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage occupied before the snap by the team on offense.
2. (baseball, rare) Synonym of outfield.
3. (soccer, US) The area behind either the offensive or defensive line.
4. The players occupying this area.

noun

1. plural of backfield

noun

1. (US) Reserve support personnel.
2. (US) That which backfills; a replacement.
3. (literature) Material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action.
4. The material that has been used to refill an excavation.

verb

1. (US) To provide reserve support.
2. (US) To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.
3. (archaeology) To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and/or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.
4. (gaming) To enter an online game that's already in progress, replacing a player who left early.
5. To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfill

noun

1. A machine for refilling an excavation.

noun

1. The process by which something is backfilled.

verb

1. present participle of backfill

noun

1. plural of backfill

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backfill

noun

1. (firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire
2. A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
3. An explosion in other equipment.
4. An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.

verb

1. (of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc.) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
2. (of an engine) To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
3. To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfire

noun

1. plural of backfire

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backfire

noun

1. A failure that leads to further misfortune.
2. The occurrence of a backfire.

verb

1. present participle of backfire

verb

1. present participle of backfit

noun

1. Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”)
2. The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.

noun

1. (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
2. (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

verb

1. To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
2. To perform a backflip (rotation of body).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backflip

verb

1. present participle of backflip

noun

1. The flow of a fluid (through a pipe etc.) in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended.

verb

1. To flow in the wrong or backward direction.

adj

1. flowing backwards

verb

1. present participle of backflow

noun

1. (UK, dialectal) A friend at one's back; a backer; one who does his best for another; a supporter.
2. (UK, dialectal) A hangnail.
3. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A false friend; a secret enemy.

noun

1. (agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow

verb

1. (agriculture) To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.

noun

1. (computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.
2. (surfing) The situation where an incoming wave passes from shallower water to a deeper area, making the wave less steep and potentially unsurfable.

noun

1. (grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
2. (statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.

verb

1. (grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.

noun

1. (nautical) An early navigational instrument for measuring the altitude of the sun and hence calculating latitude.

noun

1. Obsolete form of bailiwick.

noun

1. (informal, countable) Such a male, especially as seen as physically desirable.
2. (informal, uncountable) Imagery of one or more muscular, well-built men.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beef, cake.

noun

1. plural of beefcake

noun

1. A technique consisting of measuring a person's quantifiable bodily functions, such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, sweat gland activity, and muscle tension, then conveying the information to the person in real-time.

noun

1. plural of biofeedback

noun

1. (countable) A sheep of the Scottish Blackface breed.
2. (uncountable) A style of makeup in which a non-black person blackens their face, usually in order to portray a black person.

noun

1. (Australia, now usually considered offensive) A (male) Australian Aborigine.

noun

1. plural of blackfellow

noun

1. bluefin tuna

noun

1. plural of blackfin

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
2. (Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
3. (chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
4. A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).
5. Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).

verb

1. (Internet slang, derogatory, of a white person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
2. (fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.

noun

1. plural of blackfish

noun

1. (slang, of a non-black person) The practice of appropriating signifiers of black identity, such as darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles.

verb

1. present participle of blackfish

noun

1. plural of blackfly

noun

1. A black or dark green aphid (Aphis fabae) that is a common pest of agricultural crops.
2. Any of various small black bloodsucking flies of the family Simuliidae.

noun

1. A tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium

intj

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) look out; beware

noun

1. plural of blackfriar

noun

1. (archaic) Authorship; literary skill.

noun

1. The back of a buffalo

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a calf (young cow).

noun

1. A fine leather made from the hide of a calf.

noun

1. plural of calfskin

adj

1. Resembling chaff.

noun

1. Members of a clan; clanspeople.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of clock face

noun

1. (slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.

noun

1. (slang, obsolete) Pickpocketing.

noun

1. Any of the large European beetles from the genus Melolontha that are destructive to vegetation.
2. Any of various other similar beetles, such as of the genera Acrossidius, Cyphochilus, Rhopaea, etc.

noun

1. plural of cockchafer

noun

1. the use of cockney words or mannerisms, especially by non-cockneys

noun

1. Alternative form of coffee cake

noun

1. plural of coffeecake

noun

1. (obsolete) A person who makes coffee.
2. Any of several different types of kitchen apparatus used to brew and filter coffee.

noun

1. plural of coffeemaker

noun

1. A manufacturer of coffins.

noun

1. The manufacture of coffins.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of corn flakes

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman

noun

1. An item produced by handicraft.

noun

1. A maker of craftwork.

noun

1. A rotating shaft that drives (or is driven by) a crank.

verb

1. (of a straight bolt or rod) To deform in such a manner that part of the rod or bolt is displaced sideways, offset from the longitudinal axis of the part, but remains parallel with the part's main longitudinal axis, with the final shape somewhat resembling a crankshaft.

noun

1. plural of crankshaft

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crankshaft

noun

1. (informal, derogatory) A person with a passion for protecting the natural environment; an ecological activist.

noun

1. (mining) work done at the face, such as the coalface
2. (sociology, psychology) The communicative strategies involved in upholding face, or social prestige.
3. The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.

verb

1. (UK, Cockney, vulgar) Pronunciation spelling of fuck.

noun

1. (music) a kind of polonaise, associated with German royal wedding celebrations

noun

1. (obsolete) Used in exclamatory phrases to express surprise, insistence, etc.

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fack

adj

1. Resembling a factory in any of various respects

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a falcon.

adj

1. That can be resorted to as a fallback.

noun

1. (construction) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.
2. A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
3. An act of falling back.
4. Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.

verb

1. Misspelling of fall back.

noun

1. plural of fallback

noun

1. (often attributive) A kind of chair whose back has a number of vertical elements that spread out like a fan.

noun

1. Decorative embroidery.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of farce.

noun

1. A motor car having a continuous slope from the roof to the rear

noun

1. plural of fastback

noun

1. (US) A layer of fat, along the back of a pig, used as a cut of meat or to make lard
2. A fish, the menhaden.

noun

1. plural of fatback

noun

1. Fattened livestock.

noun

1. plural of fatstock

noun

1. Any fish of the family Notopteridae.

noun

1. (electronics, cybernetics, control theory) The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.
2. Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
3. The high-pitched howling noise heard when there is a loop between a microphone and a speaker.

verb

1. (music) To generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.
2. (transitive) To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
3. (transitive) To provide informational feedback to.

noun

1. (proscribed) plural of feedback

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of feedback

noun

1. A feature of maple wood where the fibers are distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern.
2. A kind of chasuble with the front cut away.
3. The brown recluse spider.

noun

1. plural of fiddleback

noun

1. A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.

noun

1. plural of finback

noun

1. A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking.
2. Any of certain species of pheasant in the genus Lophura.

noun

1. A peanut butter cracker baked with marijuana, similar in concept to an Alice B. Toklas brownie.
2. A person or thing that is exciting and/or unpredictable.
3. A small explosive device, typically containing a small amount of gunpowder in a tightly-wound roll of paper, primarily designed to produce a large bang.

noun

1. plural of firecracker

noun

1. (Canada, US) A publicist, a publicity agent.
2. Alternative spelling of flak.

verb

1. (Canada, US) To publicise, to promote.
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
4. (transitive, UK dialectal) To beat by flapping.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of flack

verb

1. (intransitive) To flicker; to quiver.
2. (intransitive) To flutter like a bird.

noun

1. The aggressive public relations activity associated with press agents

noun

1. A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

verb

1. present participle of flack

noun

1. plural of flack

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flack

noun

1. (golf) The pole which marks the location of a hole

noun

1. (US) flapjack; pancake

noun

1. (Britain) A bar made of (though not limited to) rolled oats, butter, golden syrup, and brown sugar, baked in a tray.
2. (US) A pancake.

noun

1. plural of flapjack; pancakes.

noun

1. A burst of flame emitted from a cannon, furnace, etc. in an abnormal direction.

noun

1. (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
2. (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
3. (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
4. A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
5. The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.

verb

1. (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

noun

1. plural of flashback