HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative form of bycoket

noun

1. (most common British spelling, also sometimes used in the US) Alternative spelling of acknowledgment

noun

1. plural of acknowledgement

noun

1. (law) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
2. (law) The act of a person admitting a child as their own.
3. (telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
4. A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
5. A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
6. A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
7. An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
8. The act of acknowledging
9. The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.

noun

1. plural of acknowledgment

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

adj

1. (rare) Composed of both good and evil.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to akinesia: akinesic.

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic reddish brown mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.

adj

1. Resembling or relating to alkahest.

adj

1. Alternative form of alkahestic

adj

1. Slightly alkaline; having the properties of an alkali.

adj

1. (chemistry) Describing a titration in which the titrant is an alkali.

adj

1. Alternative form of alkalimetric

adv

1. By means of alkalimetry.

adj

1. Relating to alkaptonuria

noun

1. a stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain

noun

1. A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.

noun

1. plural of alpenstock

noun

1. plural of amtrack

adj

1. (linguistics) Imperative, as in the anankastic conditional.
2. (psychology) Characterised by compulsion; obsessive-compulsive.

adj

1. Relating to angiokinesis or to an angiokine

adj

1. Of or pertaining to ankylosis.

adj

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

adj

1. Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.

noun

1. Antiblack sentiments or politics.

noun

1. Obsolete form of antic.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of antic

noun

1. (archaic) One who performs antics; a comic performer.

verb

1. present participle of antic

noun

1. plural of antick

adj

1. (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland, of movement) in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move.

adv

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britian, Ireland) In an anticlockwise fashion.

adj

1. (biochemistry) That inhibits the formation of ketones during the metabolism of fats and carbohydrates in the liver

adj

1. Serving to counter kickbacks (illicit payments); antibribery.
2. Serving to prevent kickbacks (accidents with machinery).

adj

1. Of an additive added to petroleum/gasoline to reduce the occurrence of engine knock.

noun

1. Such a substance, usually tetraethyl lead (also MMT, MTBE and ethanol)

noun

1. plural of antiknock

adj

1. (oncology, pharmacology) Preventing or countering leukemia.

noun

1. Any drug that prevents or counters leukemia.

adj

1. Countering racketeering.

adj

1. Preventing rickets.

noun

1. One who opposes a skeptical viewpoint.

noun

1. Opposition to a skeptical viewpoint.

adj

1. (rare) Opposing the farming of livestock.

adj

1. Alternative form of apocatastatic

noun

1. (historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
2. A blindly loyal bureaucrat.

noun

1. plural of apparatchik

noun

1. A dull green colour, like that of an artichoke.
2. A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.

noun

1. plural of artichoke

adj

1. Trickling.

noun

1. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
2. (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
3. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
4. (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
5. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
6. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
7. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
8. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
9. A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
10. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
11. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
12. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.

verb

1. (chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
2. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
3. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
4. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
5. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
6. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
7. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
8. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
9. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
10. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.

adj

1. which may be attacked

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of attack

noun

1. Someone who attacks.

noun

1. plural of attacker

adj

1. Carrying out an attack.

verb

1. present participle of attack

noun

1. (sports) A player in a position whose primary responsibility is offense.

noun

1. plural of attack

verb

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

adj

1. Pertaining to an autarky; self-sufficient.

adj

1. Autarkic.

adv

1. In an autarkic way.

adj

1. (historical) Of a fire-alarm telegraphy system, arranged so that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.
2. Moving by itself or automatically.

adj

1. Filled with awe.

adj

1. Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.

noun

1. (music) The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.

noun

1. plural of backbeat

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backbite

noun

1. One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.

verb

1. (informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
2. To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
3. To speak badly of an absent individual.

noun

1. A person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person's back: that is, out of their sight and hearing.

noun

1. plural of backbiter

noun

1. plural of backbite

verb

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

adj

1. Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.

noun

1. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.

verb

1. present participle of backbite

adv

1. In a backbiting manner.

noun

1. plural of backbiting

verb

1. past participle of backbite

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. (Britain) Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.

verb

1. To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.

noun

1. plural of backchat

verb

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

noun

1. The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.

noun

1. A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible; the boondocks.

noun

1. (basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.

noun

1. (basketball) A backcourt player.

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

noun

1. An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date.

verb

1. To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backdate

noun

1. plural of backdate

verb

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

noun

1. The act by which something is backdated.

verb

1. present participle of backdate

noun

1. (Scotland) A shallow wooden trough for carrying ashes, coals, etc.

noun

1. A pig yielding significant backfat.

verb

1. present participle of backfit

noun

1. (architecture) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

noun

1. The illumination of a photographic subject from the rear, causing edges to glow while other areas remain in shadow.

verb

1. present participle of backlight

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. Lit or illuminated from behind.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlight

adj

1. farthest back

noun

1. (aerospace) A reversed countdown (i.e. ascending numbers) in response to problems leading up to a launch.
2. A reversal or undoing of tasks previously done (often in reverse order).

noun

1. plural of backout

noun

1. (UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
2. (underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
3. A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.
4. A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
5. A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
6. Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.

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.