HANGMAN SOLVER

verb

1. (transitive) to attack someone (especially verbally) unfairly in a deceitful, underhand, or treacherous manner, especially when they're not present in the place or situation that it happens. (as if stabbing them in the back). See backbite.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstab

noun

1. A traitor or hypocrite, such as a co-worker or friend assumed trustworthy but who figuratively attacks when one's back is turned.

noun

1. plural of backstabber

noun

1. The act of one who backstabs.

verb

1. present participle of backstab

noun

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

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.

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. (nautical) A part of the rigging of a sailing ship extending from masthead the top of the mast to the back of the ship; they support the strain on all upper masts and provide additional support to the shrouds when the wind is abaft the beam.
2. A strengthening or supporting piece that is built into the back of something.

noun

1. plural of backstay

noun

1. (obsolete) A baker.

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

noun

1. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstop

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backstory

noun

1. (drugs) The rolling a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion
2. (firearms) The rearmost surface applied to the grip especially of a pistol below a possible beavertail.
3. A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
4. A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
5. An anchoring strap, passed around the waist or hips, for a small loom.
6. The backbone of a book.

verb

1. To apply or make into a backstrap.

adj

1. (figuratively) Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
2. Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back street

noun

1. plural of backstreet

noun

1. (athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).
2. (exercise) An exercise that stretches the muscles of the back.
3. (figuratively) The middle part of an event.
4. (horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.

noun

1. plural of backstretch.

noun

1. (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
2. (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
3. A backhanded stroke or blow.

verb

1. To swim the backstroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. plural of backstroke

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

adj

1. Swept back.

noun

1. (US) Verbal impudence or argumentative discourse, given in response.

verb

1. (transitive) To respond to in an aggressively disputatious, often sarcastic or insolent manner.

noun

1. (computing) A stack trace.

verb

1. (by extension) To find the cause of something by examining past events
2. (computing) To examine a stack trace

noun

1. the act of backtracking

verb

1. (aviation) To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
2. To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
3. To repeat or review work already done.
4. To retrace one's steps.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backtrack

noun

1. One who, or that which, backtracks.

noun

1. plural of backtracker

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. plural of backtrack

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form 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. (idiomatic) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
2. (paper industry) Water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
3. A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
4. The water held back by a dam or other obstruction

verb

1. (idiomatic) To vacillate on a long-held position.
2. To row or paddle a backwater stroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwater

noun

1. plural of backwater

verb

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

noun

1. (printing, historical) The handle of a printer's ball.

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

1. (finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.

noun

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

adj

1. Of or relating to the mineral barkevikite.

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. A kind of flat cake similar to a pancake.

noun

1. (England, dialect, historical) A spade for digging turf in the Fens.
2. (nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
3. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
4. (nautical) The clevis of a pulley block.
5. (nautical, slang) A pocket in clothing.
6. (obsolete) chough (the bird)
7. (sewing) A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.
8. A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
9. An eye in the end of a rope.

noun

1. plural of becket

Proper noun

1. of origin.

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 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. (transitive) to stock; furnish

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bestick

verb

1. (transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

noun

1. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid found in bikh (Aconitum spicatum).

noun

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

noun

1. Synonym of billposting

noun

1. (medical biology) The study of movements of or within organisms

Adjective

1. Resembling a biscuit or some aspect of one.

noun

1. A hand tool consisting of a crank which holds a fitted rotating drill bit tip, designed to bore holes in rigid materials, by cutting a disc in a spiral fashion.

noun

1. plural of bitstock

noun

1. A little bit; a small piece.
2. A short distance.

noun

1. plural of bittock

noun

1. (chiefly Australia) Any of several Australian eucalyptus trees with a dark fibrous bark towards the base of the trunk, especially Eucalyptus pilularis.

Noun

1. A member of the clergy.

noun

1. A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.
2. The berry borne by this shrub.

adj

1. superlative form of black: most black

noun

1. Short for black marketeer.

noun

1. A tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium

noun

1. A cruel and remorseless person.
2. A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark skin.
3. A type of malleable cast iron with minimum tensile strength of 350 N/mm².
4. Any of various plant diseases that cause darkening of the central tissue.

adj

1. Alternative form of black-hearted

noun

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

noun

1. plural of blackheart

noun

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

noun

1. (law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned.

verb

1. (transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

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

noun

1. One who blacklists.

noun

1. plural of blacklister

noun

1. The act of placing onto a blacklist.

verb

1. present participle of blacklist

noun

1. plural of blacklist

noun

1. (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
2. (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
3. A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
4. A temporary loss of consciousness.
5. A temporary loss of memory.
6. An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.

verb

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of black out

noun

1. plural of blackout

noun

1. Colicroot, Aletris farinosa
2. Culver's root, Veronicastrum virginicum
3. Either of two species in the genus Pterocaulon: Pterocaulon pycnostachyum and Pterocaulon virgatum
4. Several plant diseases caused by fungi in the genus Aphanomyces causing that cause roots to rot and turn black.

noun

1. (by extension) Any member of a fascist party.
2. (historical, chiefly in the plural) A uniformed member of a paramilitary wing of the Italian Fascist Party.

noun

1. (informal) A person who shoes horses.
2. A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).
3. A person who forges iron.

verb

1. (intransitive) To work as a blacksmith.

noun

1. the business of a blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacksmith

noun

1. plural of blacksmith

noun

1. (obsolete) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
2. (obsolete, nautical, slang) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean.
3. The dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.

noun

1. (Jamaica) Haemulon carbonarium
2. (South Africa, Namibia) Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus
3. (UK) Salmo trutta
4. A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon.
5. A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua)
6. A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains.

noun

1. A large shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa, that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.
2. A stick or staff taken from this tree.

noun

1. plural of blackthorn

noun

1. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
2. (US, countable) A road so paved.
3. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).

verb

1. (US) To pave with blacktop.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

verb

1. present participle of blacktop

verb

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

noun

1. Blackwater fever; malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum.
2. Waste from domestic toilets; water containing fecal matter.
3. Water containing loam, tannins, etc., giving it a very dark appearance.

noun

1. plural of blackwater