HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (mineralogy) A basaltic-trachyandesite rock containing phenocrysts of olivine and augite

adj

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

noun

1. Antiblack sentiments or politics.

noun

1. plural of backbeat

noun

1. plural of backbiter

noun

1. plural of backbite

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backbiting

adj

1. (UK dialectal) Retrospective.

adv

1. (UK dialectal, of time) Long ago; in the past.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
2. (UK dialectal) Retrospect; hindsight.
3. (UK dialectal) backwater
4. (figuratively) Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
5. A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
6. A cast or throw back.

verb

1. (UK dialectal) To change retrospectively; reverse.
2. To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backchat

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backdate

verb

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

noun

1. (publishing) A list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to the frontlist of more recent titles.

verb

1. (transitive) To hold back a student's application (to a college etc.) based on whether a preferred candidate declines their offer.
2. (transitive, publishing) To place (a book) on a backlist.

verb

1. present participle of backlist

verb

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

adj

1. farthest back

noun

1. plural of backout

noun

1. A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.
2. The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.

noun

1. plural of backrest

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.

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

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. (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. (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.

verb

1. (transitive) to attack someone (especially verbally) unfairly in a deceitful, underhand, or treacherous manner, especially when they're not present in the place or situation that it happens. (as if stabbing them in the back). See backbite.

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

noun

1. The act of one who backstabs.

verb

1. present participle of backstab

noun

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

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.

adj

1. clandestine, secret or furtive

noun

1. The backstairs (stairs at the rear of a building).

adj

1. Secret or furtive.

noun

1. A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.
2. An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.

noun

1. (nautical) A part of the rigging of a sailing ship extending from masthead the top of the mast to the back of the ship; they support the strain on all upper masts and provide additional support to the shrouds when the wind is abaft the beam.
2. A strengthening or supporting piece that is built into the back of something.

noun

1. plural of backstay

noun

1. (obsolete) A baker.

noun

1. (field hockey, often attributively) An illegal shot in which a player strikes the ball with the rounded face of the stick in field hockey.

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. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstop

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backstory

noun

1. (drugs) The rolling a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion
2. (firearms) The rearmost surface applied to the grip especially of a pistol below a possible beavertail.
3. A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
4. A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
5. An anchoring strap, passed around the waist or hips, for a small loom.
6. The backbone of a book.

verb

1. To apply or make into a backstrap.

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

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

adj

1. Swept back.

noun

1. plural of backtracker

noun

1. plural of backtrack

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backwater

verb

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

noun

1. plural of bakemeat

noun

1. Synonym of Welshcake
2. Synonym of baking stone

Adjective

1. Relating to, or supporting the revolutionary anarchism of

adj

1. superlative form of balky: most balky

noun

1. (printing, historical) The handle of a printer's ball.

noun

1. plural of banknote

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

1. (obsolete) bankruptcy

noun

1. plural of bankrupt

verb

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

noun

1. (regional, US) three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

noun

1. plural of barkentine

adj

1. superlative form of barky: most barky

Proper noun

1. A town in Hampshire, England

noun

1. (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
2. (LGBT, slang) The male genitalia and region surrounding it.
3. (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
4. (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
5. (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
6. (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
7. (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
8. (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
9. (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
10. (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
11. (obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
12. (slang) The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.
13. (uncountable) The game of basketball.
14. A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
15. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
16. A singlestick with a basket hilt.
17. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.

verb

1. (transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
2. (transitive, publishing) To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.

noun

1. (countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
2. (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.

verb

1. To play basketball
2. To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball

noun

1. (informal) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.

noun

1. plural of basketball

noun

1. The amount that will fit into a basket

noun

1. plural of basketful

verb

1. present participle of basket

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a basket.

noun

1. A person who weaves baskets.

noun

1. The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.

noun

1. plural of basketry

noun

1. Baskets collectively.
2. The process of weaving unspun vegetable fibers to make a basket.

noun

1. plural of basket

verb

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

noun

1. basketwork goods collectively

noun

1. (figurative) Any useless, unproductive, or lightweight activity.
2. The act of weaving baskets, as for example from grasses, wicker, or rope.

noun

1. (historical) A woman who sells goods from a basket.

noun

1. Any of various kinds of wood traditionally used for making baskets.

noun

1. Material woven in the style of a basket.
2. The craft of making such material.

noun

1. plural of basketwork

noun

1. The larva of a psychid moth.

noun

1. plural of batik

verb

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

noun

1. plural of battik

adj

1. superlative form of baulky: most baulky

adj

1. superlative form of beaky: most beaky

noun

1. (chiefly science fiction) A space elevator.
2. (figuratively, colloquial, by extension) A tall, slim person.
3. The stem of a bean plant, proverbially fast-growing and tall.

noun

1. plural of beanstalk

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a beast.

noun

1. The social and artistic ideas associated with beatniks

noun

1. plural of beatnik

noun

1. plural of becket

noun

1. (obsolete) The front or back part of the frame of a bedstead.

noun

1. plural of bedtick

noun

1. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak mushroom.
2. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa).
3. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak tomato.
4. (countable, archaic): A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.
5. (countable, uncountable) (A) steak cut from beef cattle.
6. (uncountable) The herb prepared from the leaves of the beefsteak plant.

noun

1. plural of beefsteak

verb

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

noun

1. (mathematics) The measure or degree to which a knot is complicated, i.e., a knot's complexity; the number of times that it is necessary to pass one part of the curve of the knot projected upon a plane through another in order to untie the knot.

noun

1. (historical) An old Russian unit of weight, approximately 164 kilograms or 10 poods.

verb

1. (transitive) To pierce in various places; pierce through and through.
2. (transitive) To stick on the surface of; cover over.

verb

1. present participle of bestick

verb

1. (transitive) to stock; furnish

verb

1. (transitive) To mark or cover with streaks.