HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative spelling of abhisheka

adv

1. On the back of a horse; horseback.

adj

1. (mechanics) Countering or preventing backlash (jarring reflex motion in machinery).

noun

1. (By association) A stereotypical, Eastern European peasant grandmother-type figure.
2. A traditional floral headscarf worn by an Eastern European woman, tied under the chin.
3. An old woman, especially one of Eastern European descent.
4. Russian doll, matryoshka

noun

1. plural of babushka

noun

1. plural of backache

noun

1. plural of backbencher

noun

1. plural of backbench

noun

1. plural of backchat

verb

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

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. (of writing) Leftward slant.
2. Backwardness of direction.
3. Deceit or neglect.
4. Indirection.
5. Insincerity, irony, or sarcasm.
6. The use of a backward flip of the hand.

noun

1. plural of backhander

noun

1. plural of backhand

verb

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

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backhoe

noun

1. (US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
2. (now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.

noun

1. plural of backhouse

noun

1. (figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
2. (mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
3. A sudden backward motion.
4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

verb

1. To cause or set off a backlash.

adj

1. Having a backlash.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlash

noun

1. A participant in a backlash

noun

1. plural of backlasher

noun

1. plural of backlash

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backlash

noun

1. A rushing backward; a retreat.

noun

1. plural of backrush

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.

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

noun

1. Alternative spelling of baksheesh.

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. Alternative spelling of baksheesh

noun

1. (surveying) A measurement of a previously shot point, used to set the angle to zero when occupying a new position.
2. (surveying) A measurement or reading taken back towards a point of known elevation, used to calculate the height of the surveying instrument (theodolite, transit, total station).
3. The rear sight of a firearm.

verb

1. (surveying) To shoot a backsight.

noun

1. (computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
2. The punctuation mark \.
3. |passage= […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).}}

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.

noun

1. plural of backslash

noun

1. plural of backsplash

noun

1. (sewing) A type of sewing stitch where the stitch goes backwards on the top side of the fabric and doubles forward on the bottom, coming out farther in front, then repeats. The backstitch is a very tight and secure stitch, and also looks very neat.

verb

1. To sew with a backstitch.

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. present participle of backstitch

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. (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
2. (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
3. The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
4. The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
5. The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.

verb

1. (transitive) To affect with backwash.
2. To clean the oil from wool after combing.
3. To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.

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. A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

Proper noun

1. A region comprising parts of what is now northeastern Afghanistan and southeastern Tajikistan.
2. A province of Afghanistan, Badakhshan Province.
3. Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, or Kūhistoni Badakhshon, a province of Tajikistan.

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. The role or status of a baker.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of bakeshop

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

verb

1. present participle of bakshish

adj

1. (obsolete, rare) uneven; ridgy

noun

1. plural of ballhawk

noun

1. (India, historical) A warehouse.
2. (India, historical) The office of a harbormaster or other port authority.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bashi-bazouk

Proper noun

1. A republic of Russia in the south of the country, with capital Ufa.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bashlyk

noun

1. A protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by Turks and Cossacks.

noun

1. plural of bashlyk

verb

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

verb

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

noun

1. plural of benchmark

verb

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

Proper noun

1. A inland county of England, bounded by Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Greater London and Wiltshire.

Noun

1. A breed of pig from Berkshire county.

Proper noun

1. A lieutenancy area and historic county in the Scottish Borders.

verb

1. (transitive) To shake roughly or violently.

noun

1. (historical) A silver coin of the Ottoman Empire.

verb

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

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To give or add whiskers to; to put whiskers on.

adj

1. Having whiskers

noun

1. plural of bhakta

noun

1. plural of bhakti

noun

1. (Buddhism) A bhikkhu.

noun

1. plural of billhook

noun

1. plural of birthmark

adj

1. Resembling, or pertaining to a bishop.

noun

1. A shrub of the genus Coleogyne

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 blackhander

noun

1. plural of blackhead

noun

1. The state or quality of being blackhearted; villainy.

noun

1. plural of blackheart

adj

1. somewhat black

adv

1. In a blackish way.

noun

1. The quality of being blackish, somewhat black.

Proper noun

1. a city in Georgia, USA

noun

1. (by extension) Any member of a fascist party.
2. (historical, chiefly in the plural) A uniformed member of a paramilitary wing of the Italian Fascist Party.

noun

1. (informal) A person who shoes horses.
2. A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).
3. A person who forges iron.

verb

1. (intransitive) To work as a blacksmith.

noun

1. the business of a blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacksmith

noun

1. plural of blacksmith

noun

1. plural of blackthorn

noun

1. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
2. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
3. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
4. (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
5. (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

verb

1. (transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
2. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
3. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

noun

1. One who blackwashes.

noun

1. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
2. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
3. The application of a coating of blackwash.

verb

1. present participle of blackwash

adj

1. Somewhat blank; more or less blank.

noun

1. A voluble purveyor of nonsense; a blusterer.
2. A worthless fellow; a deadbeat.
3. Nonsense or blather; empty talk.

noun

1. plural of blatherskite

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

adj

1. Somewhat bleak.

noun

1. The state or condition of being blockheaded.

adj

1. stupid

noun

1. The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity.

noun

1. plural of blockhead

verb

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

noun

1. (dated) A temporary wooden fortification with a projecting upper story.
2. A reinforced building from which to control hazardous operations, such as an explosion or a rocket launch.
3. A sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports.

noun

1. plural of blockhouse

adj

1. Lacking understanding; stupid; obtuse; dull.
2. Like a block in shape or nature; coming across as a block.
3. Rude; clumsy; rough.

noun

1. The state or quality of being blockish.

noun

1. (nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. plural of bohunk

noun

1. Alternative form of Bolshevik

noun

1. plural of bolshevik

noun

1. A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s).
2. Something jolty.