HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (nautical) Located on deck.

adv

1. (nautical) On deck.

noun

1. The area on a boat that is abovedeck.

adj

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

noun

1. (gymnastics, dance) A move in which the performer bends backwards until the hands touch the floor or catches him/herself with the hands.

verb

1. To perform such a move.

noun

1. plural of backbend

adj

1. Having a spine.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcheck

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcross

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backdrop

adj

1. (in combination) Having specified type of back.
2. (in combination) Having specified type of backing.
3. (obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of back

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfill

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfire

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backflip

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.

adj

1. (of writing) inclining to the left
2. Backwards, turned around.
3. Indirect.
4. Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
5. Involving a backward flip of the hand.
6. Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
7. Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
8. With the back of the hand.

adv

1. In a backhanded manner.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backhand

noun

1. (of writing) Leftward slant.
2. Backwardness of direction.
3. Deceit or neglect.
4. Indirection.
5. Insincerity, irony, or sarcasm.
6. The use of a backward flip of the hand.

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backhaul

adj

1. Having a backlash.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlash

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

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

adj

1. Wearing a backpack.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backpack

verb

1. (intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
2. (intransitive) To step backwards.
3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.

verb

1. (US) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

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

verb

1. (British spelling) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

verb

1. past participle of backscatter

adj

1. (board sports) Approaching an obstacle backward

noun

1. (euphemistic) A person's buttocks.
2. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
3. (obsolete) The back side of a page: a verso.
4. The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.

noun

1. plural of backside

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backslap

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backspace

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstab

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstitch

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. plural of backswordman

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backtrack

noun

1. (southern Africa) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas.

noun

1. A native or inhabitant of the backveld.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of backwardness

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwater

noun

1. The quality of being backwoodsy.

noun

1. plural of backwoodsman

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. Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).

adj

1. Of a bird raised for meat: lacking feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.

adv

1. Synonym of bareback

adj

1. Having the neck bare.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barrack

adj

1. Wearing a cassock.

adj

1. Chalk-covered or chalky.
2. Having a surface that has been written on in chalk.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bechalk

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beck

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beckon

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of becloak

verb

1. (transitive) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

adj

1. Covered; encrusted; arrayed.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bedeck

noun

1. An ornament.

verb

1. present participle of bedeck

verb

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

noun

1. (figurative) A basis or foundation.
2. (uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface. Bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.

verb

1. (transitive, figurative) To establish on a solid foundation.

noun

1. plural of bedrock

noun

1. A sock worn in bed, to keep the feet warm.

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.

noun

1. plural of bedtick

verb

1. (transitive) To duck or immerse thoroughly; submerge.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of befleck

adj

1. Wearing a frock.

adv

1. (nautical) Below the main deck of a ship.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bemock

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of benchmark

noun

1. A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage.

noun

1. plural of benedick

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bespeckle

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bicker

noun

1. A technique consisting of measuring a person's quantifiable bodily functions, such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, sweat gland activity, and muscle tension, then conveying the information to the person in real-time.

noun

1. plural of biofeedback

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bivouac

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackball

Proper noun

1. The archetypal pirate, who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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. plural of blackbody

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of black

adj

1. (food) Synonym of charred.
2. (steel) Synonym of blued.
3. Darkened to the point of appearing black; as:

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacken

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackguard

verb

1. To make blackguardly.

noun

1. plural of blackhander

noun

1. (countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.
2. (countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
3. (uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.

noun

1. plural of blackhead

adj

1. Alternative form of black-hearted

noun

1. The state or quality of being blackhearted; villainy.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackjack

noun

1. Alternative form of black lead

verb

1. To cover, treat or polish with graphite

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackleg

adj

1. Being on a blacklist, or having been shunned and rejected due to information (true or false) being spread about scandalous activities or ideas, especially controversial political opinions.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacklist

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackmail

noun

1. A spice plant with aromatic black seeds, Nigella sativa

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

noun

1. Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia.)

noun

1. Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.

noun

1. (by extension) Any form of formal isolation of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
2. (chess) Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it
3. (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
4. The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.

verb

1. (transitive) To create a blockade against.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blockade

noun

1. A person who blockades
2. A ship used in blockading

noun

1. plural of blockader

noun

1. plural of blockade

verb

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

adj

1. (Ireland, slang) Drunk
2. (of a computer account or similar) Disabled or disconnected, so as to prevent access.
3. (of a person, telephone number, IP address, etc.) Banned or barred from connecting or logging on.
4. Obstructed, so that through movement or flow is prevented or impeded.
5. Unable to move owing to an obstruction.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of block

noun

1. (colloquial) A stupid person.
2. A sideshow performer who hammers nails or similar items through his or her nostril into the nasal cavity; human blockhead.

verb

1. (rare) To behave in a stupid manner.
2. To perform as a human blockhead.

adj

1. Resembling a blockhead; stupid

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blockhead