HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. plural of backrush

noun

1. (computing) The sending of IP packets to essentially random addresses in response to incoming packets that have a spoofed origin.
2. (military) A portion of the energy of electromagnetic radiation such as a laser or radio waves that is scattered back in the direction of the source of radiation by an obscurant.
3. (physics) The deflection of particles and/or radiation through angles greater than 90 degrees to the original direction of travel.
4. The particles and/or radiation deflected in this manner.

verb

1. To scatter particles and/or radiation back to the direction from which they come.

verb

1. past participle of backscatter

noun

1. (physics) The scattering of waves, particles, or signals back in the direction of their source.

verb

1. present participle of backscatter

noun

1. plural of backscatter

verb

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

noun

1. A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch their own back.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back seat

noun

1. plural of backseat

noun

1. A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
2. Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water.

verb

1. (US, especially Western US) To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backset

noun

1. One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of baksheesh.

adj

1. (board sports) Approaching an obstacle backward

noun

1. (euphemistic) A person's buttocks.
2. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
3. (obsolete) The back side of a page: a verso.
4. The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.

noun

1. plural of backside

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backslap

noun

1. One who makes a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.

noun

1. plural of backslapper

noun

1. plural of backslash

verb

1. past participle of backslide

noun

1. (dance) A dance move in which the feet are alternately slid back and the heels lifted, giving the illusion of walking forwards while actually moving backwards.
2. A backward regression; a reverting back to a worse state.

verb

1. (Christianity) To revert back into a life of sin after being saved.
2. To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
3. To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.

noun

1. A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
2. She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.

noun

1. plural of backslider

noun

1. plural of backslide

verb

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

noun

1. (computing) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.
2. (computing) The non-printable text character representing a backspace.
3. The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.

verb

1. (computing) To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.
2. (computing) To remove a character behind a cursor.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backspace

noun

1. A mechanism in a typewriter that controls backspacing.

noun

1. plural of backspace

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backsplash

noun

1. Such a knot

verb

1. To secure the ends of a twisted rope within the rope itself in order to prevent fraying

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstab

noun

1. A traitor or hypocrite, such as a co-worker or friend assumed trustworthy but who figuratively attacks when one's back is turned.

noun

1. plural of backstabber

adj

1. Relating to, or situated in the area behind a stage.
2. Secret, concealed from the public.

adv

1. Out of view of the public.
2. Towards the area behind the stage.

noun

1. The area behind a stage out of view of the audience where performers wait to give their show; especially that of the dressing rooms.
2. The private portion of the space used by a business or enterprise.

noun

1. (obsolete) A baker.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstitch

noun

1. plural of backstitch

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstory

adj

1. (figuratively) Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
2. Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back street

noun

1. plural of backstreet

noun

1. (athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).
2. (exercise) An exercise that stretches the muscles of the back.
3. (figuratively) The middle part of an event.
4. (horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.

noun

1. plural of backstretch.

noun

1. (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
2. (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
3. A backhanded stroke or blow.

verb

1. To swim the backstroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. plural of backstroke

verb

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

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

adj

1. Swept back.

noun

1. Any of various aquatic insects, of the family Notonectidae, that swim on their backs.

noun

1. plural of backswordman

noun

1. (computing) A stack trace.

verb

1. (by extension) To find the cause of something by examining past events
2. (computing) To examine a stack trace

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backtrack

noun

1. One who, or that which, backtracks.

noun

1. plural of backtracker

noun

1. (southern Africa) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas.

noun

1. A native or inhabitant of the backveld.

noun

1. Reluctance.
2. The state of being backward.

noun

1. plural of backwardness

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

noun

1. (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.

noun

1. plural of backwash

noun

1. (idiomatic) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
2. (paper industry) Water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
3. A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
4. The water held back by a dam or other obstruction

verb

1. (idiomatic) To vacillate on a long-held position.
2. To row or paddle a backwater stroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwater

noun

1. plural of backwater

verb

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

noun

1. The quality of being backwoodsy.

noun

1. plural of backwoodsman

noun

1. One who carries on a project or business in a backyard, especially the raising of poultry.

noun

1. (Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta

adj

1. Similar to a badger.
2. Similar to that of a badger.

Proper noun

1. A long-established series of travel guidebooks.

Noun

1. Any travel guide, advice for travelers, or guide pertaining to other subjects.

noun

1. (nautical) A brush-like pad made of rope, attached to a shroud in order to prevent wear on sails.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bag.

noun

1. A manufacturer of bags.

noun

1. (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
2. (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
3. (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
4. Any food item that is baked.
5. The act of cooking food by baking.

verb

1. (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
2. (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
3. (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
5. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
6. (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
7. (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
8. (transitive) To dry by heat.
9. (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
10. (transitive, obsolete) To harden by cold.

noun

1. (Atlantic Canada) The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus

noun

1. (now rare) A board upon which dough is prepared (kneaded, etc) while making bread.

adj

1. (slang) High on cannabis.
2. That has been cooked by baking.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bake

noun

1. (rail transport, informal) A fireman (person who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler on a railroad locomotive).

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Bakery.
2. A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
3. A building principally containing ovens.

noun

1. plural of bakehouse

noun

1. Alternative form of Bakelite

verb

1. (transitive) To coat with Bakelite.

noun

1. (obsolete) Any baked product (such as a pie)

noun

1. plural of bakemeat

verb

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England) alternative past participle of bake; baked.

noun

1. The act of heating a material in a vacuum in order to drive off volatile components

noun

1. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
2. A portable oven for baking.
3. An apple suitable for baking.

noun

1. The realm or sphere of bakers; the world of baking.

noun

1. (dated) A female baker.

noun

1. plural of bakery

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.

adj

1. Without a baker.

adj

1. Characteristic of a baker.

noun

1. plural of baker

Proper noun

1. A major city in California, USA

noun

1. The role or status of a baker.

Proper noun

1. an unincorporated community in Mercer County, New Jersey, USA.
2. a town in North Carolina, USA, and the county seat of Mitchell County.
3. an unincorporated community in Coshocton County, Ohio, USA.

noun

1. (uncountable, US) Baked goods.
2. A shop in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
3. The trade of a baker.

noun

1. plural of bake

verb

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

noun

1. A shop where baked goods are made and sold.

noun

1. plural of bakeshop

noun

1. Synonym of Welshcake
2. Synonym of baking stone

noun

1. Cooking equipment intended for use inside an oven.

noun

1. Alternative form of Bakewell

noun

1. (military slang) A minor wound that is severe enough to get a soldier sent away from the front.
2. in the Middle East, southwest Asia and Eastern Europe: a bribe or tip.

verb

1. To bribe with a baksheesh.

noun

1. plural of baksheesh

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bakshish

noun

1. plural of bakshish

adj

1. Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).

verb

1. Alternative spelling of balkanize

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanise

noun

1. (mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal white gray mineral containing copper, mercury, silver, and sulfur.