HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

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

noun

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

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

adj

1. (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
2. (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
3. (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
4. (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
5. (figuratively) Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
6. (figuratively) Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
7. (obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
8. (obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
9. Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
10. Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
11. Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
12. Late or behindhand.
13. Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
14. Reversed in order or sequence.
15. Situated toward or at the rear of something.

adv

1. (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
2. (obsolete) In the past.
3. At, near or towards the rear of something.
4. By way of reflection; reflexively.
5. In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
6. In a reversed order or sequence.
7. In a reversed orientation; back to front.
8. Toward or into the past;

noun

1. The state behind or past.

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.

adv

1. In a backward direction.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of backwardness

adj

1. Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwater

noun

1. (nautical) The flow of air so deflected

verb

1. (nautical) To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel
2. (transitive) To wind backwards.

verb

1. present participle of backwind

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. Synonym of pigweed (“the plant Chenopodium album”)

adv

1. In the manner of a baldric.

noun

1. plural of bawdric

Adverb

1. Towards a beach.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beclown

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of becrawl

verb

1. (dated) To crowd.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of becrowd

verb

1. present participle of becrowd

verb

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

noun

1. A wood largely populated with beech trees.
2. The wood of beech trees (Fagus spp.).

noun

1. plural of beechwood

adv

1. (nautical) Below the main deck of a ship.

adj

1. (Of a person) entranced, charmed, fascinated, as though subject to a magical influence.
2. Under a spell; subject to an act of witchcraft.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bewitch

noun

1. The state or quality of being bewitched.

noun

1. (countable) A wood largely populated with birch trees (Betula spp.).
2. (uncountable) The wood from a birch tree.

noun

1. A session of observing and identifying birds.

verb

1. (intransitive) To take part in birdwatching; to observe and identify birds.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of birdwatch

verb

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

noun

1. (slang) The hobby of watching rocket launches.
2. Observing or identifying wild birds in their natural environment.

noun

1. Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia.)

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. Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.

verb

1. past participle of blowtorch

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack

noun

1. The tree Ceodes umbellifera.

adj

1. Covered with cobwebs
2. Old or outdated.

adj

1. (heraldry) Bent, curved or arched in two directions, both to the left and to the right, or both upwards and downwards.

noun

1. The white bryony, Bryonia alba.

noun

1. Any bird of the genus Molothrus. The cowbirds are brood parasites.

noun

1. plural of cowbird

noun

1. A flowering plant of the genus Carapa in the mahogany family, Meliaceae.

noun

1. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Verbesina.

noun

1. (derogatory, obsolete) Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing.

noun

1. A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
2. A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
3. The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette.

noun

1. plural of drawback

noun

1. A machine in which long pieces of metal are drawn through a drawplate, die, or series of dies, to change the shape, size, cross-sectional area, physical properties, or surface finish of the metal.

verb

1. (India, archaic, transitive) To browbeat; to intimidate or cow.

noun

1. Synonym of gumwood

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of swashbuckle

adj

1. (figuratively) Old.
2. Having a sagged back.
3. Having sagged or hollow surface.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of switchback

noun

1. A folding knife with a blade which opens automatically (under spring pressure) when a button is pressed.

verb

1. (intransitive) To spring open or up.
2. (transitive) To attack or cut with a switchblade.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden move or transition.

noun

1. plural of switchblade

verb

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

noun

1. (electrical engineering) A large piece of power-distribution equipment that directs electricity to multiple loads.
2. (telecommunications) The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient.

noun

1. plural of switchboard

adj

1. Not backward.

adj

1. Not bewitched.

noun

1. a band of leather, metal etc that fastens a wristwatch to the wrist; a watchstrap

noun

1. plural of watchband

noun

1. (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood struck with a drumstick.
2. (philately) The emergency issue of the Cape triangles, printed in 1861.
3. (printing) A wooden block used as a printing form.
4. A woodcut.

noun

1. plural of woodblock