HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Flickering.

noun

1. (nautical) The part of a ship's deck from amidships toward the stern

noun

1. plural of afterdeck

noun

1. (figuratively) By extension, any result or consequence following a major event.
2. An earthquake that follows in the same vicinity as another, usually larger, earthquake (the "mainshock").
3. Emotional and physical distress following a traumatic event.

noun

1. plural of aftershock

noun

1. (music) A lever in the coupler of an organ.
2. (wrestling) A fall or throw on the back.

noun

1. A pig yielding significant backfat.

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. (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. 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

noun

1. Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”)
2. The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.

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

noun

1. The flow of a fluid (through a pipe etc.) in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended.

verb

1. To flow in the wrong or backward direction.

adj

1. flowing backwards

verb

1. present participle of backflow

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.

noun

1. (agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow

verb

1. (agriculture) To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.

noun

1. (computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.
2. (surfing) The situation where an incoming wave passes from shallower water to a deeper area, making the wave less steep and potentially unsurfable.

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. (nautical) An early navigational instrument for measuring the altitude of the sun and hence calculating latitude.

noun

1. Obsolete form of bailiwick.

noun

1. (informal, countable) Such a male, especially as seen as physically desirable.
2. (informal, uncountable) Imagery of one or more muscular, well-built men.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beef, cake.

noun

1. plural of beefcake

verb

1. (poetic) to cover with small spots or flecks

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of befleck

verb

1. present participle of befleck

verb

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

adj

1. Wearing a frock.

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

noun

1. (countable) A sheep of the Scottish Blackface breed.
2. (uncountable) A style of makeup in which a non-black person blackens their face, usually in order to portray a black person.

noun

1. (Australia, now usually considered offensive) A (male) Australian Aborigine.

noun

1. plural of blackfellow

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

noun

1. A black or dark green aphid (Aphis fabae) that is a common pest of agricultural crops.
2. Any of various small black bloodsucking flies of the family Simuliidae.

noun

1. A tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium

intj

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

noun

1. plural of blackfriar

noun

1. (archaic) Authorship; literary skill.

noun

1. A place where bricks are made; a brickyard.

noun

1. (Australia) A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.

noun

1. plural of brickfield

noun

1. (by extension) A large quantity.
2. The quantity contained in a bucket.

noun

1. plural of bucketful

noun

1. The back of a buffalo

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a calf (young cow).

noun

1. A fine leather made from the hide of a calf.

noun

1. plural of calfskin

adj

1. Resembling chaff.

noun

1. (US) A tax on sales of agricultural goods in order to finance a generic commodity marketing program.
2. (US) The collection of union dues or other fees from employees via deductions from their wages.
3. (US) The optional allocation of part of a citizen's income tax towards the presidential election campaign fund.

noun

1. plural of checkoff

noun

1. A partial mouthful, enough to fill one's cheek.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of chock-full

noun

1. Members of a clan; clanspeople.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cliff; high and steep.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of clock face

noun

1. (slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.

noun

1. (slang, obsolete) Pickpocketing.

noun

1. Any of the large European beetles from the genus Melolontha that are destructive to vegetation.
2. Any of various other similar beetles, such as of the genera Acrossidius, Cyphochilus, Rhopaea, etc.

noun

1. plural of cockchafer

noun

1. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs

verb

1. To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.

noun

1. One who engages in a cockfight.

noun

1. A gambling blood sport (illegal in most countries) in which two roosters have spikes placed on their feet and are made to fight each other, usually to the death.

verb

1. present participle of cockfight

noun

1. plural of cockfight

noun

1. A small attic or garret

noun

1. plural of cockloft

noun

1. the use of cockney words or mannerisms, especially by non-cockneys

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cockneyfy

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To make cockney; to vulgarize.

verb

1. present participle of cockneyfy

noun

1. Any of the genus Dactylis of Eurasian and North African bluegrasses, especially Dactylis glomerata.

noun

1. Alternative form of coffee cake

noun

1. plural of coffeecake

noun

1. (obsolete) A person who makes coffee.
2. Any of several different types of kitchen apparatus used to brew and filter coffee.

noun

1. plural of coffeemaker

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a coffer.

noun

1. (masonry) rubblework faced with stone

noun

1. A manufacturer of coffins.

noun

1. The manufacture of coffins.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of corn flakes

noun

1. One who lives in the country; a rural dweller.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman

noun

1. An item produced by handicraft.

noun

1. A maker of craftwork.

noun

1. A rotating shaft that drives (or is driven by) a crank.

verb

1. (of a straight bolt or rod) To deform in such a manner that part of the rod or bolt is displaced sideways, offset from the longitudinal axis of the part, but remains parallel with the part's main longitudinal axis, with the final shape somewhat resembling a crankshaft.

noun

1. plural of crankshaft

verb

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

noun

1. (US) Erimyzon oblongus, the chubsucker.

noun

1. lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)
2. ragged robin (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi)

noun

1. A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.

noun

1. plural of cufflink

verb

1. (by extension) To formally remove the rights and authority of someone, e.g. a government official or a medical practitioner.
2. (figuratively) To formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.
3. (literally) To divest of a frock.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of defrock

noun

1. The formal removal of the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.

verb

1. present participle of defrock

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To remove from status as a member of a clergy; to unfrock.