HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.

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.

Proper noun

1. A major city in California, USA

adj

1. (of a river, etc) Risen to a height just sufficient to spill over its banks into the floodplain.

noun

1. The amount that will fit into a basket

noun

1. plural of basketful

noun

1. The amount that a beaker will hold.

noun

1. As much (food) as a creature's beak will hold or carry.

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

noun

1. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak mushroom.
2. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa).
3. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak tomato.
4. (countable, archaic): A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.
5. (countable, uncountable) (A) steak cut from beef cattle.
6. (uncountable) The herb prepared from the leaves of the beefsteak plant.

noun

1. plural of beefsteak

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. Gaillardia; a plant of the genus Gaillardia.

noun

1. (archaic) Authorship; literary skill.

noun

1. (by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
2. (largely obsolete outside religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
3. The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
4. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.

verb

1. (intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
2. (transitive) To serve breakfast to.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of breakfast

noun

1. One eating breakfast.

noun

1. plural of breakfaster

noun

1. The act of eating breakfast.

verb

1. present participle of breakfast

adj

1. Without breakfast.

noun

1. plural of breakfast

verb

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

noun

1. (chiefly attributive) Any piece of furniture (especially a bookcase or cabinet) that has a central section that projects farther forward than the other sections.

noun

1. plural of breakfront

noun

1. discontinuance (act of breaking off)

noun

1. The back of a buffalo

noun

1. One who invents fables.

verb

1. (gambling, slang, transitive) For the bank or dealer to assist (the player) by cheating in his/her favour, to encourage further play and facilitate a later swindle.

verb

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

noun

1. Someone who breaks a promise or violates a treaty.

adj

1. That can be resorted to as a fallback.

noun

1. (construction) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.
2. A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
3. An act of falling back.
4. Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.

verb

1. Misspelling of fall back.

noun

1. plural of fallback

noun

1. (often attributive) A kind of chair whose back has a number of vertical elements that spread out like a fan.

noun

1. plural of farkleberry

noun

1. (countable) A berry from a shrub of this species.
2. (uncountable) A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium arboreum) native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri, and south to Florida and eastern Texas, and taking the form of a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3-5 m (rarely 9 m) tall.

noun

1. A motor car having a continuous slope from the roof to the rear

noun

1. plural of fastback

noun

1. (US) A layer of fat, along the back of a pig, used as a cut of meat or to make lard
2. A fish, the menhaden.

noun

1. plural of fatback

noun

1. Any fish of the family Notopteridae.

noun

1. (electronics, cybernetics, control theory) The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.
2. Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
3. The high-pitched howling noise heard when there is a loop between a microphone and a speaker.

verb

1. (music) To generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.
2. (transitive) To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
3. (transitive) To provide informational feedback to.

noun

1. (proscribed) plural of feedback

verb

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

noun

1. A thicket of fern or bracken
2. gosari namul

noun

1. A feature of maple wood where the fibers are distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern.
2. A kind of chasuble with the front cut away.
3. The brown recluse spider.

noun

1. plural of fiddleback

noun

1. A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.

noun

1. plural of finback

noun

1. A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking.
2. Any of certain species of pheasant in the genus Lophura.

noun

1. (figurative) Any separating barrier.
2. An area cleared of all flammable material to prevent a fire from spreading across it.

noun

1. plural of firebreak

noun

1. A type of board manufactured from wood flakes

noun

1. A burst of flame emitted from a cannon, furnace, etc. in an abnormal direction.

noun

1. (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
2. (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
3. (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
4. A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
5. The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.

verb

1. (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

noun

1. plural of flashback

noun

1. A special kind of electrical transformer, originally designed to generate high-voltage sawtooth signals at a relatively high frequency, and now extensively used in switched-mode power supplies.
2. The movement of the electron beam back to its initial position between scan lines in a cathode-ray tube display.

noun

1. A bank of fog.

noun

1. A small, affordable sailboat, rigged as a sloop.

adj

1. (archaic) Extremely black; jet-black.

verb

1. (archaic) To break in pieces, break up, destroy.
2. (archaic) To break through, interrupt.

adj

1. That may be known in advance.

adj

1. (computing) Capable of being split into separate processes.
2. (computing) Capable of being split into separate projects.
3. Capable of being moved or separated with a fork.

noun

1. (baseball) A baseball pitch, much like the sinker.

noun

1. A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head.
2. Another species of hake, Phycis phycis
3. The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides).

noun

1. The quality of being frankable.

adj

1. (Australia, finance) Eligible for franking, a system of tax credit.
2. Eligible for franking (free postage).

noun

1. A pigeon of a fancy breed having a frill or curls on the wing shield feathers.

noun

1. (American football) An offensive back whose primary jobs are to block in advance of the halfback on running plays and for the quarterback on passing plays.
2. (field hockey) A defensive player who assists the goalie in preventing the opposing team from scoring.
3. (rugby) A position behind the main line of backs in both rugby union and rugby league. In rugby union, they wear number 15 jersey at the start of play and are the last line of defence responsible for catching punts.
4. (soccer) A player who plays on the left or right side of defence.

noun

1. plural of fullback

noun

1. (American football) An offensive back whose primary jobs are to carry the ball on running plays and to serve as a receiver or blocker on passing plays.
2. (Australian rules football) One of three players (the centre halfback and two halfback flankers) on the line between the centre line and the fullback line.
3. (Canadian football) A defensive back whose primary jobs are to cover the slotback on passing plays and prevent running plays from going to the outside.
4. (field hockey) A player in the halfback position, with both offensive and defensive roles.
5. (field sports) Any of various positions on the field of play between the forwards and the fullbacks.
6. (rugby) The player who feeds the ball into the scrum, and receives the ball as it emerges from the back of the scrum.

verb

1. To play in the position of halfback.

noun

1. plural of halfback

noun

1. (zoology) Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoos or ballyhoos.

noun

1. plural of halfbeak

noun

1. (historical, by extension) An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.
2. (historical, chiefly attributive) A way of arranging benches back to back, resembling a knifeboard; common on the open upper deck of early double-deck omnibuses and trams.
3. A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.

noun

1. (countable) The ball used in the sport of korfball.
2. (uncountable) A non-contact unisex team sport originating from the Netherlands, similar to netball, where players attempt to throw a ball into a basket atop a pole.

adj

1. After breakfast.

adj

1. Before breakfast.

noun

1. Any bird of the genus Dryoscopus.

noun

1. A person, usually criminal, who breaks into safes; a safecracker.

noun

1. The act of breaking into a safe.

noun

1. A softcover or paperback book.

noun

1. plural of softback

adj

1. Without having eaten breakfast.