HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

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

adj

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

adj

1. Opposing banks (financial institutions).

adj

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

noun

1. Antiblack sentiments or politics.

adj

1. Preventing breakage.

adj

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

noun

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

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

noun

1. The act by which something is backdated.

verb

1. present participle of backdate

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

noun

1. (physics) The scattering of waves, particles, or signals back in the direction of their source.

verb

1. present participle of backscatter

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

verb

1. present participle of backset

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.

noun

1. The act of one who backstabs.

verb

1. present participle of backstab

adj

1. clandestine, secret or furtive

noun

1. The backstairs (stairs at the rear of a building).

adj

1. Secret or furtive.

noun

1. A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.
2. An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.

noun

1. (field hockey, often attributively) An illegal shot in which a player strikes the ball with the rounded face of the stick in field hockey.

noun

1. (sewing) A type of sewing stitch where the stitch goes backwards on the top side of the fabric and doubles forward on the bottom, coming out farther in front, then repeats. The backstitch is a very tight and secure stitch, and also looks very neat.

verb

1. To sew with a backstitch.

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. present participle of backstitch

verb

1. present participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstory

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

noun

1. (aviation) The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.
2. (computer science) The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.

verb

1. present participle of backtrack

noun

1. A small path or trail that is not used regularly.
2. The path over which one has already traveled.

verb

1. To backtrack along a trail.

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.

noun

1. Alternative form of Bakelite

noun

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

Adjective

1. Relating to, or supporting the revolutionary anarchism of

noun

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

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Balkanization

adj

1. superlative form of balky: most balky

noun

1. (geology) A form of trachyandesite

noun

1. The state or condition of being bankable.

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

verb

1. present participle of bankrupt

noun

1. (obsolete) bankruptcy

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.

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.

Proper noun

1. A town in Hampshire, England

verb

1. present participle of basket

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a basket.

noun

1. The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.

noun

1. plural of basketry

noun

1. (figurative) Any useless, unproductive, or lightweight activity.
2. The act of weaving baskets, as for example from grasses, wicker, or rope.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.

verb

1. To dye fabric using the wax-resist method.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of batik

noun

1. A manufacturer of batik fabrics.

verb

1. present participle of batik

noun

1. plural of batik

verb

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

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. Alternative spelling of batik

noun

1. plural of battik

adj

1. superlative form of baulky: most baulky

adj

1. superlative form of beaky: most beaky

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

Proper noun

1. of origin.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of bedtick

adj

1. Wearing a kilt.

verb

1. (transitive, rare) To make a knight of.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beknight

verb

1. present participle of beknight

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To girdle or encircle.
2. (transitive) To knit.

noun

1. The manufacture of belts.

verb

1. (transitive) To pierce in various places; pierce through and through.
2. (transitive) To stick on the surface of; cover over.

verb

1. present participle of bestick

verb

1. present participle of betake

verb

1. present participle of bethank

verb

1. (intransitive) To meditate, ponder; to consider.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To think about, to recollect.
3. (reflexive) To think of (something or somebody) or that (followed by clause); to remind oneself, to consider, to reflect upon.
4. To determine, resolve.

noun

1. The act of thinking, thinking about, considering, reflecting, or remembering.

verb

1. present participle of bethink

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of betoken

noun

1. (Hinduism) devotion to God

noun

1. plural of bhakti

noun

1. A person who steals books

noun

1. A mental disorder that produces a compulsion to steal books.