HANGMAN SOLVER

Proper noun

1. A city in southwest Nigeria.

noun

1. Alternative form of bycoket

noun

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

adj

1. Preventing breakage.

noun

1. An old Thai unit of length, approximately 2.6 centimetres.

adj

1. which may be attacked

noun

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

noun

1. plural of backbeat

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

verb

1. past participle of backbite

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

noun

1. A pig yielding significant backfat.

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.

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.

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

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.

noun

1. (obsolete) A baker.

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. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstory

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

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

adj

1. Swept back.

noun

1. (computing) A stack trace.

verb

1. (by extension) To find the cause of something by examining past events
2. (computing) To examine a stack trace

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backtrack

noun

1. One who, or that which, backtracks.

noun

1. plural of backtracker

noun

1. (idiomatic) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
2. (paper industry) Water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
3. A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
4. The water held back by a dam or other obstruction

verb

1. (idiomatic) To vacillate on a long-held position.
2. To row or paddle a backwater stroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwater

noun

1. plural of backwater

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of Bakelite

noun

1. (obsolete) Any baked product (such as a pie)

noun

1. plural of bakemeat

noun

1. The act of heating a material in a vacuum in order to drive off volatile components

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.

noun

1. Synonym of Welshcake
2. Synonym of baking stone

noun

1. (mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal white gray mineral containing copper, mercury, silver, and sulfur.

adj

1. superlative form of balky: most balky

noun

1. (geology) A form of trachyandesite

noun

1. A sweet almond dessert pastry that originated in the Netherlands.

noun

1. (now historical) A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary.
2. A piece of paper currency.

noun

1. plural of banknote

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.

noun

1. (dated) bankruptcy

noun

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

noun

1. (sailing) Alternative spelling of barquentine

noun

1. plural of barkentine

noun

1. (mineralogy) A particular hornblende mineral.

adj

1. Of or relating to the mineral barkevikite.

adj

1. superlative form of barky: most barky

noun

1. A magenta-coloured turbid variety of ruby from Victoria, Australia.

noun

1. A hydrometer calibrated to test the strength of tanning liquors used in tanning leather.

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.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of batik

noun

1. A manufacturer of batik fabrics.

adj

1. Having characteristics similar to those of a bat, usually used with reference to the flying mammal.
2. Similar to that of a bat.

noun

1. A kind of flat cake similar to a pancake.

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. A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.
2. A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior.

noun

1. The social and artistic ideas associated with beatniks

noun

1. plural of beatnik

noun

1. (England, dialect, historical) A spade for digging turf in the Fens.
2. (nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
3. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
4. (nautical) The clevis of a pulley block.
5. (nautical, slang) A pocket in clothing.
6. (obsolete) chough (the bird)
7. (sewing) A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.
8. A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
9. An eye in the end of a rope.

noun

1. plural of becket

Proper noun

1. of origin.

noun

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

noun

1. A tick or bag made of cloth, used for enclosing the materials of a bed.