HANGMAN SOLVER

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

verb

1. present participle of bivouac

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. 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.

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.

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

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. 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 sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture.

verb

1. present participle of caulk

noun

1. plural of caulking

verb

1. present participle of checksum

noun

1. (engineering) The holding of an object in a chuck.

verb

1. present participle of chuck

noun

1. (gerund of chuckle) An instance in which someone chuckles

verb

1. present participle of chuckle

adv

1. in a chuckling manner

noun

1. (computing) The division of memory or data etc. into smaller units for easier processing.
2. (mathematics, education) The partial-quotients method for solving simple division problems by repeated subtraction.
3. (psychology) A strategy for making more efficient use of short-term memory by recoding information.
4. (writing) A method of presenting information which splits concepts into small pieces or "chunks" of information to make reading and understanding faster and easier, using such methods as bulleted lists, short subheadings, or short sentences with one or two ideas per sentence.
5. The process of reducing something to short, thick pieces, usually using a hammer or a crowbar.

verb

1. present participle of chunk

adj

1. (slang, euphemistic) fucking (as intensifier)

noun

1. The action of the verb cluck; a cluck sound.

verb

1. present participle of cluck

adj

1. clunky; awkward

noun

1. A sound that clunks.

verb

1. present participle of clunk

noun

1. The removal of the husk from corn.

noun

1. plural of cornhusking

noun

1. The manufacture of couches.

verb

1. present participle of counterattack

verb

1. present participle of countersink

verb

1. present participle of counterwork

verb

1. present participle of cuck

noun

1. The practice of making a man a cuckold, especially as a sexual kink.

verb

1. present participle of cuckold

noun

1. (UK) A form of crime in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal gang and used by them as a base for their activities.
2. The call of a cuckoo.

verb

1. present participle of cuckoo

noun

1. The manufacture of cups.

adj

1. (slang, humorous) Euphemistic form of fucking.

noun

1. (countable) An instance of ducking (a person in water, etc).
2. (uncountable) The action of the verb to duck.

verb

1. present participle of duck

noun

1. A young duck.

noun

1. plural of duckling

verb

1. present participle of duckwalk

noun

1. Any of various types of chicken noted for their triangular wing patch

adj

1. (vulgar) An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically modifies.
2. (vulgar) Offensive, annoying or worthless.

adv

1. (vulgar) Really, very; having intensive force, often applying to the whole sentence or clause.

infix

1. (vulgar) Alternative spelling of -fucking-, used when the word inflix is put between two words

noun

1. (vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse, especially one lacking passion or a feeling of sincere love.
2. (vulgar, figuratively) An act of mistreatment.

verb

1. present participle of fuck

adj

1. (botany) Belonging to the Ginkgoaceae.

noun

1. A hexokinase isozyme that facilitates phosphorylation of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate, occurring in cells in the liver, pancreas, gut, and brain of humans and most other vertebrates.

noun

1. plural of glucokinase

noun

1. (biochemistry) A transferase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + D-gluconate ⇌ ADP + 6-phospho-D-gluconate.

noun

1. Alternative form of gun deck

verb

1. (naval slang) Synonym of pencil whip (“to falsify records to suggest that work has been done”)

noun

1. A mechanism fitted to a cannon that fires it when a cord is pulled.

noun

1. plural of gunlock

noun

1. Alternative spelling of gunny sack

noun

1. plural of gunnysack

noun

1. A rack for storing a gun.

noun

1. A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.

noun

1. The handle of a handgun.
2. The rear part of a musket, rifle or shotgun which is pressed into the shoulder.

noun

1. A manufacturer of gunstocks.

noun

1. plural of gunstock

noun

1. The behaviour of a huckster.

verb

1. present participle of huckster

noun

1. hydraulic mining (mining using pressurized water jets to dislodge rock or move sediment)

verb

1. present participle of hydraulic

noun

1. An amusing person who acts foolishly in order to entertain others

Proper noun

1. A Himalayan mountain between Nepal and India, the third highest in the world.

noun

1. (India) Synonym of groundnut (“Arachis hypogaea”)

adj

1. Of or pertaining to keraunography.

verb

1. present participle of keypunch

noun

1. (Britain, dialectal) Any of various species of buttercup, or the marsh marigold, Caltha palustris.

noun

1. plural of kingcup

noun

1. Alternative form of chincough (“whooping cough”)

verb

1. present participle of knuckle

noun

1. Alternative spelling of laughing stock.

noun

1. plural of laughingstock

adj

1. That tends to cause leukemia

verb

1. present participle of luck

Proper noun

1. An area in Baltic northern Germany.

verb

1. present participle of muck

verb

1. present participle of muckrake

noun

1. Alternative form of neck guard

verb

1. present participle of outcook

verb

1. present participle of outjockey

verb

1. present participle of outkick

noun

1. The growth of a surface so as to form a cavity (sac or pocket); the cavity so formed

verb

1. present participle of outreckon

verb

1. present participle of outrock

verb

1. present participle of outslick

verb

1. present participle of outtrick

noun

1. A facility where harvested food is processed into a salable condition.
2. A slaughterhouse wherein animals are slaughtered, and the meat is then processed into smaller cuts.

verb

1. present participle of parbuckle

noun

1. (gerund of pluck) An act in which something is plucked.
2. (printing) The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.
3. A fragment of something obtained by plucking.

verb

1. present participle of pluck

noun

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

noun

1. A fold or pinched bunch of fabric caused by the shrinkage of one layer among many.

verb

1. present participle of pucker

adj

1. Making quacking sounds, or prone to doing so.

noun

1. The sound made by a group of ducks; quacks.

verb

1. present participle of quack

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

noun

1. An increase of speed.
2. Stimulation, excitement (of a feeling, emotion etc.).
3. The action of bringing someone or something to life.
4. The first noticeable movements of a foetus during pregnancy, or the period when this occurs.

verb

1. present participle of quicken

verb

1. present participle of quick

noun

1. An amalgam of mercury and tin formerly applied to the backs of mirrors.

verb

1. present participle of quicksilver

verb

1. present participle of rebuckle

noun

1. The activities of a rock hound; amateur geology.

noun

1. (colloquial, chiefly US) A labourer on an oil rig.
2. (colloquial, chiefly US) An ironworker; a dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer.
3. (colloquial, chiefly US) Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person.

verb

1. To work as a laborer on an oil rig.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of roughneck

verb

1. present participle of roughneck

noun

1. plural of roughneck

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. present participle of ruck

verb

1. present participle of ruckle

noun

1. (cooking) The making of sauces.

verb

1. present participle of sculk

noun

1. An event at which something is shucked.

verb

1. present participle of shuck

noun

1. plural of shucking

verb

1. present participle of shuttlecock

noun

1. Alternative form of springbok