HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible; the boondocks.

noun

1. (basketball) A backcourt player.

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

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 backhaul

noun

1. A reverse flow, either of a fluid or of an anchor chain.

noun

1. Misspelling of bankruptcy.

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

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

Proper noun

1. A village near Stirling in Scotland
2. A battle important in Scotland's struggle for independence

verb

1. present participle of bivouac

Proper noun

1. A town in Lancashire, England

noun

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

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.

noun

1. (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.

adj

1. (by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
2. (of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.

noun

1. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
2. (historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
3. (usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. (colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

noun

1. plural of bluestocking

noun

1. Alternative form of bontebok (“South African antelope”)

noun

1. plural of bontebuck

noun

1. (Internet) An automated response to an email, indicating that it could not be delivered.
2. (marketing) A customized order form sent out with previously ordered goods, encouraging the customer to make a further order, perhaps motivated by a discount or free gift.
3. A rebound.
4. An economic recovery.

Proper noun

1. of German origin. Widely known as the surname of the Austrian composer (1824-96).

Proper noun

1. A city in Germany; Braunschweig.
2. Any of several towns in the United States and elsewhere.
3. A suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

noun

1. Menyanthes trifoliata, a plant with racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine.

noun

1. plural of buckbean

noun

1. (Ireland, historical) a poor young man of the lower Anglo-Irish gentry who aspires to the habits and dress of the wealthy.

noun

1. plural of buckeen

noun

1. A heavy pouring down of liquid; a deluge.
2. Synonym of binning (“data pre-processing technique”)
3. The act of moving material using a bucket.

verb

1. present participle of bucket

noun

1. The manufacture of buckets.

Proper noun

1. a city in West Virginia, USA

noun

1. A horn of a buck.
2. The royal fern, Osmunda regalis.

noun

1. (UK) A hound for deer hunting.

noun

1. plural of buckhound

noun

1. (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
2. The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
3. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
4. The liquid used in this process.
5. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.

verb

1. present participle of buck

Proper noun

1. A place name:
   1. A town in Buckinghamshire, England.
   2. A former city in Quebec, Canada, merged into Gatineau in 2002.
   3. An unincorporated community in Colorado, USA, named after a railroad official.
   4. A census-designated place in Florida, USA.
   5. A village in Illinois, USA.
   6. An unincorporated community in Iowa, USA, named after Buckingham County, VA.
   7. A former city in Texas, USA, now part of Richardson, Texas.
   8. A census-designated place and county seat of Buckingham County in Virginia, USA.
2. A dukedom in the English peerage.
3. An English habitational surname derived from the place name.

Proper noun

1. An inland county of England bounded by Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Greater London, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

noun

1. The quality of being buckish.

verb

1. present participle of buckler

adj

1. Wavy; curly, as hair.

noun

1. (geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
2. A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
3. Smoked herring.
4. The act of fastening a buckle.
5. The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.

verb

1. present participle of buckle

verb

1. present participle of buckram

adj

1. Of a grayish yellow in colour.

noun

1. A grayish yellow in colour.
2. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
3. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
4. Breeches made of buckskin.
5. Clothing made from buckskin.
6. The skin of a male deer, a buck.

adj

1. Wearing clothes made from buckskin.

noun

1. trousers and other clothing made from buckskin

noun

1. Hippophae (family Elaeagnaceae), the sea buckthorn.
2. also genus Frangula, especially Frangula alnus, the alder buckthorn.
3. especially genus Rhamnus,
4. especially the common buckthorn or purging buckthorn; Rhamnus cathartica.

noun

1. (South Africa) A strong wagon with a frame over the wheels used for hauling goods.
2. (US) A buckboard; a wagon for personal transport as well as transporting goods.

noun

1. A bull-necked person.
2. A short and thick neck, like that of a bull.

adj

1. Having a thick, muscular neck

noun

1. plural of bullneck

noun

1. criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
2. fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. present participle of bushwhack

noun

1. A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

noun

1. (Canada, US) The outer edge of the bend in a stream or river, where the water cuts into the bank leaving the opposite side flat.

noun

1. plural of cutbank

noun

1. Alternative form of huckle bone

noun

1. (derogatory) A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.
2. A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back.
3. One who is stooped or hunched over.

adj

1. Having an abnormally curved or hunched back

noun

1. plural of hunchback

Proper noun

1. A city in western Austria, and the capital of the federal state of Tyrol.

adj

1. Boisterous
2. Suitable for rough use.

noun

1. (circus) A tumbler.
2. (entertainment) A slapstick comedy or comedian.
3. (sailing) A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area
4. A person living in rough, violent conditions.
5. A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
6. Clothing suitable for rough use.

noun

1. plural of knockabout

noun

1. (baseball) A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air.
2. (figurative) An event that is hard to predict.

verb

1. (intransitive, baseball) To pitch knuckleballs.

noun

1. (baseball) A baseball pitcher known for throwing knuckleballs.

noun

1. plural of knuckleball

noun

1. (slang) A die.
2. A bone that forms a knuckle in the human hand, in an animal's paw or any bone that forms a similar bump.
3. Such a bone once used in knucklebones and other children's games of chance.

noun

1. A children's game, originally played with the knucklebones of sheep, in which small objects are picked up, moved, thrown, and caught according to various rules.
2. plural of knucklebone

noun

1. A traditional German Christmas biscuit form of gingerbread.

Proper noun

1. An area in Baltic northern Germany.

noun

1. (botany) Any of the genus Muehlenbeckia of maidenhairs.

verb

1. present participle of parbuckle

adj

1. Preceding a bankruptcy.

noun

1. (dated) The springbok.
2. The pronghorn

noun

1. (American football) The act of playing as a quarterback
2. (US) The action of making criticisms after the event

verb

1. present participle of quarterback

adj

1. (archaic) born alive; not stillborn

verb

1. present participle of rebuckle

adj

1. (CB radio slang) Limited in frequency because of a limited supply of crystals.
2. Surrounded by rocks.

noun

1. (US, obsolete) A tourist.
2. Someone or something with a flexible neck.
3. Someone who engages in rubbernecking, or turning and staring.

verb

1. To watch by craning the neck (as though it were made of rubber), especially if the observer and observed are in motion relative to each other.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of rubberneck

noun

1. (originally US) A person who rubbernecks; someone who cranes their neck as though it were made of rubber to see something (such as a tourist attraction) or to watch an event (such as an accident); a rubberneck.

noun

1. Generally, any act of observation in a manner considered unduly overt or otherwise unseemly.
2. The act of slowing down whilst driving a vehicle, in order to see the scene of an accident.

verb

1. present participle of rubberneck

verb

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

noun

1. (American football) The act of returning a kicked ball, such as from a punt or kickoff
2. A managed reduction of output in a power plant.

noun

1. plural of runback

noun

1. Alternative form of springbok

noun

1. The low-cut back of a woman's dress.

adj

1. Alternative form of swashbuckling

adj

1. Adventurous, exciting.

verb

1. present participle of thumbtack

noun

1. A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.

noun

1. plural of ticklenburg

noun

1. (zoology) The leatherback.

noun

1. (attributive) Part of a garment that is turned back.
2. The act of turning back a boat containing immigrants.
3. The strap from the hames to the hip-strap, on a horse.

noun

1. (nautical) A link threaded on both ends of a short bar which is used to pull objects together. (FM 55-501)
2. A coupling device consisting of two eyelets or other connection points connected in screw threads. The joint in between can be turned to shorten or lengthen the device with mechanical advantage provided by the screw threads.

noun

1. plural of turnbuckle

adj

1. which may not be attacked

adv

1. Such that it may not be attacked.

adj

1. (not comparable) Having no back.
2. (obsolete, not comparable) Of an animal: never having been ridden or not accustomed to being ridden; not (currently) being ridden.
3. (photography, holography) (of a plate) Not having an antihalation backing.
4. Having no (or few) backers.
5. Not supported or backed up (by someone or something).

adj

1. Not backward.