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. (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
2. (medicine) A spine board.
3. (nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship
4. (tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.
5. A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.

verb

1. (medicine, transitive) To place (a patient) on a spine board.

noun

1. plural of backboard

verb

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

adj

1. Having a spine.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcross

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back door, which can be used attributively.

verb

1. Alternative spelling of back door

noun

1. An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

noun

1. (figurative) Any background situation.
2. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
3. An image that serves as a visual background.
4. The setting or background of an acted performance.

verb

1. (transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backdrop

verb

1. present participle of backdrop

noun

1. plural of backdrop

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

noun

1. (transport) The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.

verb

1. present participle of backload

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. (UK, dated) A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
2. (UK, dated) The game in which the stick is used.
3. A sword with one sharp edge.

noun

1. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. (historical) One who fights with a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. plural of backswordman

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.

adj

1. Native to or located in a remote rural location.
2. Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.

adj

1. Pertaining to the backwoods.
2. Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.

noun

1. A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
2. Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.

noun

1. The quality of being backwoodsy.

noun

1. (informal, UK politics) A Peer who is seldom present in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom Parliament, who may be encouraged to attend when a very important vote is expected.
2. A person who is acclimated to living in a forest area that is far removed from civilization or modern conveniences.
3. An uncivilized person.

noun

1. plural of backwoodsman

adj

1. (US) Typical of something or someone from the backwoods

noun

1. A contention, retort, or reply.
2. A contradiction or answer to put off an engagement; a countermand.
3. A section of commentary at the end of a book.

noun

1. (Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta

noun

1. (now rare) A board upon which dough is prepared (kneaded, etc) while making bread.

noun

1. The realm or sphere of bakers; the world of baking.

noun

1. (art) Decorative work resembling interlaced bands.

noun

1. The world of bankers and finance.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankroll

adj

1. Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.

noun

1. Any of various kinds of wood traditionally used for making baskets.

noun

1. Decorative work involving beads.

noun

1. plural of beadwork

adj

1. Wearing a cassock.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beckon

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of becloak

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.

adj

1. Wearing a frock.

adj

1. Knotted again and again; covered with knots.

noun

1. (mathematics) The measure or degree to which a knot is complicated, i.e., a knot's complexity; the number of times that it is necessary to pass one part of the curve of the knot projected upon a plane through another in order to untie the knot.

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 besmoke

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of betoken

adj

1. forked into two; bifurcate

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

noun

1. A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.

verb

1. To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion.

noun

1. plural of blackboard

verb

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

noun

1. plural of blackbody

noun

1. (physics) a theoretical body, approximated by a hole in a hollow black sphere, that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation and reflects none; it has a characteristic emission spectrum

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

noun

1. (uncountable) The very dark wood of such trees.
2. African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa
3. Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia
4. Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India
5. Haematoxylum campechianum, a tree from Mexico.

noun

1. (biology) A round, flattened region of cells from which the embryo of many vertebrates begins to develop in the fertilized ovum; a germinal disk

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

verb

1. present participle of blockade

noun

1. A compound wood board consisting of nearly square strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood.

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

adv

1. In a blockheaded way.

noun

1. The state or condition of being blockheaded.

adj

1. stupid

noun

1. The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity.

noun

1. plural of blockhead

verb

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

adj

1. Resembling blood.

noun

1. (countable) The breeding line of a thoroughbred horse or other animal.
2. (uncountable) Thoroughbred animals in general, but especially horses.

noun

1. plural of bloodstock

noun

1. (medicine, obsolete) Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.
2. A stroke or blow with a weapon that draws blood.

noun

1. (by extension) Any parasite.
2. (by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
3. A vampire.
4. An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
5. The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).

noun

1. plural of bloodsucker

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.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a board.

noun

1. A slightly elevated path for pedestrians over sandy or swampy ground, typically made out of wood; specifically (Canada, US) one running alongside a body of water or beach.

verb

1. To install a boardwalk over.

noun

1. plural of boardwalk.

verb

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

noun

1. A diminutive of body, forming part of the exclamatory phrase "ods bodikin", a corruption of God's body.

adv

1. Closely wedged between two people.

noun

1. (printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters letters from a column or page in making corrections.
2. A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
3. A hairpin.
4. A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
5. A type of long thin arrowhead.

noun

1. plural of bodkin

noun

1. (US, Southwestern US) The Osage orange.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of body check

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bodycheck

verb

1. present participle of bodycheck

noun

1. a craftsman

noun

1. A service offered that includes an erotic massage and may also include prostitution.
2. The application of physical therapy as a preventive measure.
3. The exterior body of a motor vehicle.
4. The repair of a such body.

noun

1. plural of bodywork

noun

1. Alternative form of bockadam

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bonk

noun

1. A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.

noun

1. plural of bookbindery

noun

1. plural of bookbinder

noun

1. A building where books are assembled and bound.

noun

1. The art, craft or process of binding books

noun

1. plural of bookbinding

noun

1. One who trades in books.

noun

1. The condition of being a book.
2. The realm or sphere of books.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of book

noun

1. (figurative) Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else.
2. A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.

verb

1. (transitive) To come before and after, or at both sides of.

noun

1. (poker, slang) An ace and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
2. plural of bookend

verb

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

noun

1. (obsolete) A prompter at a theatre.
2. A support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.

noun

1. Knowledge of books; scholarship.
2. The state or dignity of a book.

noun

1. (Anglo-Saxon) In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from all fief, fee, service, and/or fines. Such was formerly held chiefly by the nobility and denominated freeholders.