HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

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

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

adj

1. Preventing breakage.

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

adj

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

verb

1. present participle of backcheck

noun

1. (genetics) The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent.

verb

1. present participle of backcross

noun

1. The act by which something is backdated.

verb

1. present participle of backdate

verb

1. present participle of backdrop

noun

1. The process by which something is backfilled.

verb

1. present participle of backfill

noun

1. A failure that leads to further misfortune.
2. The occurrence of a backfire.

verb

1. present participle of backfire

verb

1. present participle of backfit

verb

1. present participle of backflip

adj

1. flowing backwards

verb

1. present participle of backflow

noun

1. (backgammon) A game in which a player blocks the opponent's progress by forming two or more points in the opponent's home board.
2. An indirect strategy in which one attempts to achieve one's goals by maneuvering behind the scenes.

noun

1. A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
2. {{lb|en|backgammon}} A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.

verb

1. To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.

noun

1. plural of backgammon

verb

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

adj

1. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.

noun

1. (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
2. (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
3. (physics) Clipping of background radiation.
4. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
5. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
6. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
7. One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.

verb

1. (journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
2. To put in a position that is not prominent.
3. simple past tense and past participle of backgrind

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. plural of background

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backhand

verb

1. present participle of backhaul

adj

1. (music) Providing support for the main performer.

noun

1. (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
2. (television, film) A backdrop.
3. A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
4. Support, especially financial.
5. The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.
6. The mounting of a horse or other animal.

verb

1. present participle of back

noun

1. plural of backing

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

verb

1. present participle of backlist

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

noun

1. A large log to burn at the back of a fire.
2. A log containing text previously read, as in text-based video games or chat rooms.
3. A reserve source or supply.
4. An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders, unconsumed products or unfinished work.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog

adj

1. Having an excessive list of tasks to do, especially tasks that should have already been performed.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlog

verb

1. present participle of backlog

noun

1. plural of backlog

noun

1. hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
2. low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.

verb

1. present participle of backpack

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. (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. (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. action of the verb to backslap

verb

1. present participle of backslap

adj

1. sliding back

noun

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

verb

1. present participle of backslide

verb

1. present participle of backspace

verb

1. present participle of backsplice

noun

1. The act of one who backstabs.

verb

1. present participle of backstab

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.

verb

1. present participle of backstitch

verb

1. present participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.

verb

1. To swing backward.

noun

1. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

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 form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

verb

1. present participle of backwind

adj

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

noun

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

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bag.

noun

1. A manufacturer of bags.

noun

1. The manufacture of bags.

noun

1. (martial arts) Training with a punching bag.

adj

1. (figuratively) Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting.
2. That bakes.

noun

1. (countable) The production of a batch of baked product.
2. An action in which something is baked.
3. The way in which something is baked.

verb

1. present participle of bake.

adv

1. So as to bake.

noun

1. plural of baking

verb

1. present participle of bakshish

verb

1. present participle of balkanise

verb

1. present participle of balkanize

noun

1. A frustration or disappointment; a check.

verb

1. present participle of balk

adv

1. in a balking manner

noun

1. A kind of straw hat.

noun

1. plural of bangkok

noun

1. (aviation) A horizontal turn.
2. (rail transport) The practice of assisting a train up a steep incline (called a bank) with another locomotive at the rear.
3. A mechanical component to prevent vibration in a timepiece, etc.
4. The business of managing a bank.
5. The occupation of managing or working in a bank.

verb

1. present participle of bank

noun

1. plural of banking

verb

1. present participle of bankroll

verb

1. present participle of bankrupt

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a barge.

verb

1. present participle of barken

adj

1. (British slang) Clipping of barking mad.

noun

1. The action of the verb to bark.

verb

1. present participle of bark

adv

1. With barking sounds.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) The act of cheering for or supporting a team.
2. An act of jeering or heckling.

verb

1. present participle of barrack

noun

1. The manufacture of barrels.

Proper noun

1. A town in Hampshire, England

verb

1. present participle of basket

noun

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

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. The act of one who basks.

verb

1. present participle of bask

verb

1. present participle of batik

noun

1. Alternative form of balking

verb

1. present participle of baulk

verb

1. present participle of bechalk

verb

1. present participle of becloak

verb

1. present participle of bedarken

noun

1. The skill or act of making beds (arranging the sheets, etc.).

noun

1. The making of beer.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a beggar: poor, wheedling, insolent, etc.

noun

1. The manufacture of bells.

noun

1. The manufacture of belts.

noun

1. A performance measurement according to a benchmark.

verb

1. present participle of benchmark

noun

1. (obsolete) A kind of rustic dance.

verb

1. present participle of bespeak

verb

1. present participle of betake

verb

1. present participle of bethank

verb

1. present participle of bivouac

noun

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

verb

1. present participle of blackball

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. (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. (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. (archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.
2. (old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
3. The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.
2. (transitive) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackguard

noun

1. Blackguardly behaviour or language.

verb

1. To make blackguardly.

adj

1. Characteristic of a blackguard.

noun

1. plural of blackguard

noun

1. Alternative form of black gum (“tree”)

noun

1. plural of blackgum

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

verb

1. present participle of blackjack

noun

1. (countable) A person who cheats in a game; a cheater, especially a dishonest bookmaker.
2. (countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers; a scab.
3. (uncountable, agriculture, veterinary medicine) A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax.

verb

1. To continue working whilst fellow workers strike.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackleg

noun

1. The practice of working in place of those who are engaged in a strike.

verb

1. present participle of blackleg

noun

1. The character or actions of a blackleg.

noun

1. plural of blackleg

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of black light (“ultraviolet bulb”)