HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

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

noun

1. (astronautics) The use of atmospheric drag to reduce the velocity of a spacecraft, especially so as to establish a stable orbit and to reduce fuel consumption.

verb

1. present participle of aerobrake

adv

1. On the back of a horse; horseback.

noun

1. Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans.

noun

1. plural of amberjack

adj

1. Resembling the resin amber.

noun

1. (pathology) fusion of the margins of the eyelids

adj

1. Preventing breakage.

noun

1. Obsolete form of arabesque.

noun

1. plural of arabesk

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bachelor.

intj

1. Alternative form of baccare

noun

1. (by extension) Someone who does not play an active role in a process.
2. (education) A student who does not perform well, especially one who sits at the back of the classroom.
3. (politics) A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature.
4. (sports) A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.

noun

1. plural of backbencher

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. A strenuous and exhausting task, typically involving physical effort.

noun

1. plural of backbreaker

adj

1. (figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcross

noun

1. plural of backcross

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backdrop

adj

1. (phonetics) comparative form of back: more back

noun

1. One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs an entrant in a contest, or who supports an enterprise by funding it.

noun

1. plural of backer

noun

1. A pig yielding significant backfat.

noun

1. A machine for refilling an excavation.

noun

1. (firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire
2. A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
3. An explosion in other equipment.
4. An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.

verb

1. (of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc.) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
2. (of an engine) To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
3. To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfire

noun

1. plural of backfire

verb

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

noun

1. (UK, dialectal) A friend at one's back; a backer; one who does his best for another; a supporter.
2. (UK, dialectal) A hangnail.
3. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A false friend; a secret enemy.

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. (informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
2. (racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
3. (racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
4. (surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
5. A blow with the back of the hand.
6. A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.

noun

1. plural of backhander

noun

1. A participant in a backlash

noun

1. plural of backlasher

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

noun

1. (music, slang) A fan or performer of backpack rap.
2. A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially, such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.

noun

1. A hostel catering to backpackers.
2. plural of backpacker

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. plural of backrush

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. One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.

noun

1. One who makes a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.

noun

1. plural of backslapper

noun

1. A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
2. She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.

noun

1. plural of backslider

noun

1. A mechanism in a typewriter that controls backspacing.

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. (obsolete) A baker.

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

noun

1. Any of various aquatic insects, of the family Notonectidae, that swim on their backs.

noun

1. plural of backswordman

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. A native or inhabitant of the backveld.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of backwardness

noun

1. (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.

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. One who carries on a project or business in a backyard, especially the raising of poultry.

noun

1. (Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta

adj

1. Similar to a badger.
2. Similar to that of a badger.

Proper noun

1. A long-established series of travel guidebooks.

Noun

1. Any travel guide, advice for travelers, or guide pertaining to other subjects.

noun

1. (nautical) A brush-like pad made of rope, attached to a shroud in order to prevent wear on sails.

noun

1. A manufacturer of bags.

noun

1. (now rare) A board upon which dough is prepared (kneaded, etc) while making bread.

noun

1. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
2. A portable oven for baking.
3. An apple suitable for baking.

noun

1. The realm or sphere of bakers; the world of baking.

noun

1. (dated) A female baker.

noun

1. plural of bakery

noun

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

adj

1. Without a baker.

adj

1. Characteristic of a baker.

noun

1. plural of baker

Proper noun

1. A major city in California, USA

noun

1. The role or status of a baker.

Proper noun

1. an unincorporated community in Mercer County, New Jersey, USA.
2. a town in North Carolina, USA, and the county seat of Mitchell County.
3. an unincorporated community in Coshocton County, Ohio, USA.

noun

1. (uncountable, US) Baked goods.
2. A shop in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
3. The trade of a baker.

noun

1. Cooking equipment intended for use inside an oven.

adj

1. Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).

noun

1. A person who stands on a rock or eminence to observe shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass.
2. One who, or that which balks.

noun

1. plural of balker

adj

1. comparative form of balky: more balky

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
2. (mining) A banksman.
3. (obsolete) A money changer.
4. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
5. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
6. One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
7. The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
8. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

noun

1. The world of bankers and finance.

noun

1. (obsolete) A female banker.

noun

1. plural of banker