HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (obsolete, specifically) Expressing esteem or gratitude.
2. That acknowledges, in various sense; (especially) that notices or recognises someone or something.

noun

1. (archaic) The act of acknowledging something.

verb

1. present participle of acknowledg
2. present participle of acknowledge

adv

1. (nautical) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.
2. (nautical) Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

adj

1. Flickering.

adj

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

noun

1. (architecture, informal) A vestibule, foyer or entranceway with doors to the exterior on one end and doors to the interior on the other, functioning to keep indoor and outdoor air, humidity, and air temperatures separate.
2. A sealed, airtight chamber, such as in a manned spacecraft or submarine, used to provide access to and from the sealed area without allowing air out or water in.
3. Alternative form of air lock

noun

1. plural of airlock

adj

1. Relating to aleukaemia.

adj

1. Relating to aleukemia.

adj

1. Resembling or relating to alkahest.

adj

1. Alternative form of alkahestic

adj

1. (geology, of a rock) Containing a relatively high proportion of alkali; alkaline.

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

adj

1. Relating to, or composed of alkyl chains; aliphatic

noun

1. (archaic, historical) shell money used by Native American peoples of California

adj

1. Resembling an anchor.

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.

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. (oncology, pharmacology) Preventing or countering leukemia.

noun

1. Any drug that prevents or counters leukemia.

adj

1. Prickling.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of an arc.

adj

1. Trickling.

adj

1. Autarkic.

adv

1. In an autarkic way.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bachelor.

adv

1. In a backbiting manner.

noun

1. (American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage occupied before the snap by the team on offense.
2. (baseball, rare) Synonym of outfield.
3. (soccer, US) The area behind either the offensive or defensive line.
4. The players occupying this area.

noun

1. plural of backfield

noun

1. (US) Reserve support personnel.
2. (US) That which backfills; a replacement.
3. (literature) Material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action.
4. The material that has been used to refill an excavation.

verb

1. (US) To provide reserve support.
2. (US) To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.
3. (archaeology) To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and/or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.
4. (gaming) To enter an online game that's already in progress, replacing a player who left early.
5. To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfill

noun

1. A machine for refilling an excavation.

noun

1. The process by which something is backfilled.

verb

1. present participle of backfill

noun

1. plural of backfill

verb

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

noun

1. (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
2. (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

verb

1. To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
2. To perform a backflip (rotation of body).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backflip

verb

1. present participle of backflip

adj

1. flowing backwards

verb

1. present participle of backflow

verb

1. present participle of backhaul

verb

1. present participle of backlash

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. (transport) The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.

verb

1. present participle of backload

verb

1. present participle of backlog

noun

1. The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.

verb

1. (US) present participle of backpedal

noun

1. action of the verb to backslap

verb

1. present participle of backslap

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backslide

verb

1. past participle of backslide

noun

1. (dance) A dance move in which the feet are alternately slid back and the heels lifted, giving the illusion of walking forwards while actually moving backwards.
2. A backward regression; a reverting back to a worse state.

verb

1. (Christianity) To revert back into a life of sin after being saved.
2. To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
3. To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.

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. plural of backslide

verb

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

adj

1. sliding back

noun

1. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.

verb

1. present participle of backslide

noun

1. Such a knot

verb

1. To secure the ends of a twisted rope within the rope itself in order to prevent fraying

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

verb

1. present participle of backsplice

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 form of bailiwick.

noun

1. A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
2. The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

noun

1. plural of bailiwick

noun

1. Alternative form of baldric

adj

1. Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).

noun

1. plural of baldrick

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the Balkan peninsula.

noun

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

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

verb

1. present participle of bechalk

adv

1. So as to beckon or call near; enticingly.

verb

1. present participle of becloak

verb

1. present participle of befleck

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To lick or lick about.

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

noun

1. The European water rail.

noun

1. (accounting) The process of charging the client for a portion of the cost of resources that the client has used in order to recover the capital expense.

noun

1. Someone who sticks up advertisements on billboards, walls, and similar surfaces.

noun

1. Synonym of billposting

noun

1. (dated) A felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler.

Adjective

1. Resembling a biscuit or some aspect of one.

noun

1. An instance, or action, of a person being blackballed

verb

1. present participle of blackball

noun

1. plural of blackberry

verb

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

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a blackberry.

noun

1. (slang, derogatory, historical, among slavers and pirates) A native of the South Pacific islands.
2. A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
3. A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).

verb

1. To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackbird

noun

1. A person involved in blackbirding (kidnapping Pacific islanders as cheap labour).
2. A ship used for blackbirding.

noun

1. plural of blackbirder

noun

1. (UK, Australia) The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.

verb

1. present participle of blackbird

noun

1. plural of blackbird

verb

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

noun

1. plural of blackbody

noun

1. (countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
2. (uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
3. Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion; on steel, generally, synonym of bluing.
4. The act of defaming or sullying.

verb

1. present participle of blacken

noun

1. plural of blackening

noun

1. bluefin tuna

noun

1. plural of blackfin

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
2. (Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
3. (chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
4. A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).
5. Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).

verb

1. (Internet slang, derogatory, of a white person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
2. (fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.

noun

1. plural of blackfish

noun

1. (slang, of a non-black person) The practice of appropriating signifiers of black identity, such as darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles.

verb

1. present participle of blackfish

noun

1. plural of blackfly

intj

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) look out; beware

noun

1. plural of blackfriar

noun

1. Blackguardly behaviour or language.

verb

1. To make blackguardly.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of blacky

noun

1. plural of blackie
2. plural of blacky

noun

1. A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
2. A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
3. Shoe polish.

verb

1. present participle of black

noun

1. plural of blacking

adj

1. somewhat black