HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (nautical) Located on deck.

adv

1. (nautical) On deck.

noun

1. The area on a boat that is abovedeck.

adj

1. Able to be acknowledged.
2. Worthy of acknowledgement.

noun

1. (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
2. (medicine) A spine board.
3. (nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship
4. (tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.
5. A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.

verb

1. (medicine, transitive) To place (a patient) on a spine board.

noun

1. plural of backboard

verb

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

adj

1. Having a spine.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcross

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back door, which can be used attributively.

verb

1. Alternative spelling of back door

noun

1. An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

noun

1. (figurative) Any background situation.
2. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
3. An image that serves as a visual background.
4. The setting or background of an acted performance.

verb

1. (transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backdrop

verb

1. present participle of backdrop

noun

1. plural of backdrop

adj

1. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.

noun

1. (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
2. (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
3. (physics) Clipping of background radiation.
4. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
5. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
6. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
7. One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.

verb

1. (journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
2. To put in a position that is not prominent.
3. simple past tense and past participle of backgrind

adj

1. (computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive
2. Moved to the background

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of background

noun

1. (chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives basic details on subjects that are likely to be mentioned.
2. A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
3. A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.

noun

1. plural of background

verb

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

noun

1. (transport) The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.

verb

1. present participle of backload

adj

1. Having an excessive list of tasks to do, especially tasks that should have already been performed.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlog

noun

1. An order that cannot be currently filled or shipped, but is requested nonetheless for when the item becomes available again.

verb

1. To place such an order

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. (UK, dated) A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
2. (UK, dated) The game in which the stick is used.
3. A sword with one sharp edge.

noun

1. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. (historical) One who fights with a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. plural of backswordman

noun

1. (obsolete) In the London Stock Exchange: a fee paid by a seller on settlement day either to the buyer or to a third party who lends stock, when the seller wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
2. In full normal backwardation: the situation in a futures market where the price for future delivery of a commodity (the forward price) is lower than the price for immediate delivery (the spot price) or nearer delivery, generally arising from a near-term shortage of the commodity.
3. The situation in a stock market where the offer price for stock is lower than the bid price.

adj

1. Native to or located in a remote rural location.
2. Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.

adj

1. Pertaining to the backwoods.
2. Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.

noun

1. A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
2. Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.

noun

1. The quality of being backwoodsy.

noun

1. (informal, UK politics) A Peer who is seldom present in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom Parliament, who may be encouraged to attend when a very important vote is expected.
2. A person who is acclimated to living in a forest area that is far removed from civilization or modern conveniences.
3. An uncivilized person.

noun

1. plural of backwoodsman

adj

1. (US) Typical of something or someone from the backwoods

noun

1. A contention, retort, or reply.
2. A contradiction or answer to put off an engagement; a countermand.
3. A section of commentary at the end of a book.

noun

1. (Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta

adj

1. Wearing a cassock.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of becloak

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bivouac

noun

1. A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.

verb

1. To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion.

noun

1. plural of blackboard

verb

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

noun

1. plural of blackbody

noun

1. (physics) a theoretical body, approximated by a hole in a hollow black sphere, that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation and reflects none; it has a characteristic emission spectrum

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

noun

1. (uncountable) The very dark wood of such trees.
2. African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa
3. Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia
4. Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India
5. Haematoxylum campechianum, a tree from Mexico.

noun

1. (by extension) Any form of formal isolation of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
2. (chess) Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it
3. (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
4. The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.

verb

1. (transitive) To create a blockade against.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blockade

noun

1. A person who blockades
2. A ship used in blockading

noun

1. plural of blockader

noun

1. plural of blockade

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of blockade

noun

1. A compound wood board consisting of nearly square strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood.

noun

1. (colloquial) A stupid person.
2. A sideshow performer who hammers nails or similar items through his or her nostril into the nasal cavity; human blockhead.

verb

1. (rare) To behave in a stupid manner.
2. To perform as a human blockhead.

adj

1. Resembling a blockhead; stupid

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blockhead

adv

1. In a blockheaded way.

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

Proper noun

1. A village in Cornwall.
2. A city/village in North Dakota.
3. A borough in Pennsylvania.

noun

1. A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.

noun

1. plural of buckboard

noun

1. A slate or enamel board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to a whiteboard.

verb

1. To write or draw on a chalkboard.

noun

1. plural of chalkboard

noun

1. (film) A style of negative cutting that avoids visible splice marks.
2. A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers.
3. A pattern of squares of alternating colours.

verb

1. (transitive) To checker; to mark with an alternating pattern of light and dark.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of checkerboard

noun

1. (computer graphics) Synonym of checkerboard rendering

verb

1. present participle of checkerboard

noun

1. plural of checkerboard

noun

1. (fishing, dated) An angler's artificial fly.

noun

1. A region of relatively shallow seawater where cod are fished for

noun

1. A cryptanalyst, one who decodes messages without the key.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of cork-board

noun

1. A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

adj

1. hunchbacked

noun

1. (common name) Either of two species of rattlesnake having a diamond pattern on the back: Crotalus adamanteus, found in the southeastern United States, and Crotalus atrox, found in the southwestern United States and northwestern and central Mexico.
2. The saltmarsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malaclemys terrapin).

noun

1. plural of diamondback

noun

1. (with on, upon, etc.) The back of a donkey.

noun

1. A panel of wooden slats typically lain on a concrete floor in a workshop. Compliance of slats arranged in two crossed layers reduces fatigue for a person operating a machine tool or working at a bench.
2. One of a long series of boards laid from side to side as a path across wet or muddy ground; normally used in plural.
3. Wooden, low walkway or short part of a path with one or more planks, logs, or boards laid after each other lengthwise, often two planks wide; also called bog board, bog bridge, or puncheon.

noun

1. plural of duckboard

noun

1. (regional) The natterjack.
2. Any of a group of large woodpeckers that are resident breeders in tropical southern Asia.

noun

1. The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing.
2. The strap or part of the harness so used.
3. restraint (act or result of holding back, device that restrains)

noun

1. plural of holdback

adj

1. (figuratively) Authoritarian or oppressive, especially in a cruel or violent manner.
2. Wearing jackboots.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of jackboot

noun

1. A small, buoyant board used to support a swimmer's upper body and arms while allowing free kicking movements.
2. On pianos and organs, a vertical panel located above the pedals.
3. Synonym of kickplate (“strip at base of door to prevent scuffing”)

adj

1. (informal) Having old-fashioned views; very conservative or reactionary.

noun

1. A board worn on the back like a backpack for carrying goods while travelling.

adj

1. Before a blockade.

noun

1. (music) A long board drilled with holes to support the pipes as part of an organ.

noun

1. Something that blocks or obstructs a road.

verb

1. (colloquial, transitive) To prevent, hinder.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of roadblock

verb

1. present participle of roadblock

noun

1. plural of roadblock

verb

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

noun

1. Synonym of pinboard

adj

1. Not blockaded.