HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (astronautics) The use of atmospheric drag to reduce the velocity of a spacecraft, especially so as to establish a stable orbit and to reduce fuel consumption.

verb

1. present participle of aerobrake

adj

1. Preventing breakage.

adj

1. (figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.

noun

1. (genetics) The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent.

verb

1. present participle of backcross

verb

1. present participle of backdrop

noun

1. A failure that leads to further misfortune.
2. The occurrence of a backfire.

verb

1. present participle of backfire

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. (physics) The scattering of waves, particles, or signals back in the direction of their source.

verb

1. present participle of backscatter

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

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

adj

1. Similar to a badger.
2. Similar to that of a badger.

noun

1. (nautical) A brush-like pad made of rope, attached to a shroud in order to prevent wear on sails.

noun

1. A manufacturer of bags.

noun

1. (martial arts) Training with a punching bag.

verb

1. present participle of bankroll

verb

1. present participle of bankrupt

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a barge.

verb

1. present participle of barken

adj

1. (British slang) Clipping of barking mad.

noun

1. The action of the verb to bark.

verb

1. present participle of bark

adv

1. With barking sounds.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) The act of cheering for or supporting a team.
2. An act of jeering or heckling.

verb

1. present participle of barrack

noun

1. The manufacture of barrels.

verb

1. present participle of bedarken

noun

1. The making of beer.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a beggar: poor, wheedling, insolent, etc.

noun

1. A performance measurement according to a benchmark.

verb

1. present participle of benchmark

noun

1. (obsolete) A kind of rustic dance.

noun

1. (UK, Australia) The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.

verb

1. present participle of blackbird

noun

1. (archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.
2. (old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
3. The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.
2. (transitive) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackguard

noun

1. Blackguardly behaviour or language.

verb

1. To make blackguardly.

adj

1. Characteristic of a blackguard.

noun

1. plural of blackguard

noun

1. The manufacture of boilers.

verb

1. present participle of bookmark

noun

1. (architecture) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
2. The act of enclosing (text, etc.) in brackets.

verb

1. present participle of bracket

noun

1. The act of applying brakes.

verb

1. present participle of brake

noun

1. The making of bread.

noun

1. (accounting) A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
2. Something that has been broken.
3. The act of breaking.
4. The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.

noun

1. plural of breakage

noun

1. The act of eating breakfast.

verb

1. present participle of breakfast

noun

1. (linguistics) A change of a vowel to a diphthong.
2. (music) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.
3. Breakdancing.
4. The act by which something is broken.

verb

1. present participle of break

noun

1. plural of breaking

adj

1. (immunology) Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
2. (medicine) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
3. Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

noun

1. (construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
2. (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
3. (sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.
4. Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.

noun

1. plural of breakthrough

adj

1. Very surprising or shocking; to such a degree as to cause astonishment.
2. stunningly beautiful; amazing

adv

1. In a breathtaking manner.
2. To a degree that causes shock or awe; shockingly.

noun

1. The acceptance of bribes.

noun

1. The act of assailing with criticism.
2. The act of attacking by throwing brickbats.

verb

1. present participle of brickbat

noun

1. The act of building a wall by laying bricks, usually with cement between the surfaces of the bricks.

noun

1. plural of bricklaying

noun

1. The manufacture of bricks.

noun

1. (figuratively) A person who connects others.
2. A person who designs and/or constructs bridges.

noun

1. (coin collecting) A type of error coin in which one side of the coin has the normal design and the other side has a mirror image of the same design impressed upon it.

noun

1. plural of brockage

noun

1. (archaic) The act of a broker; brokerage.

noun

1. plural of brokage

noun

1. A business, firm, or company whose business is to act as a broker (e.g., stockbroker).
2. The commission paid to a broker.
3. The occupation of being a broker.

noun

1. plural of brokerage

noun

1. The manufacture of brushes.

Proper noun

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

verb

1. present participle of buckram

verb

1. present participle of bulwark

noun

1. (nautical) Oil or coal used for the engine of a vessel
2. (nautical) The act of bunkering (loading a vessel with oil or coal)

noun

1. (computer graphics) Synonym of checkerboard rendering

verb

1. present participle of checkerboard

Proper noun

1. A city in West Virginia, United States

verb

1. present participle of debark

noun

1. A disembarkation.

verb

1. present participle of disembark

noun

1. An embarkation.

verb

1. present participle of embark

noun

1. Alternative spelling of greyback

noun

1. plural of grayback

noun

1. (US) Any bill that is legal tender in the US (originally printed with green and black ink) issued by the Federal Reserve.
2. (historical) A unit of American currency issued during the Civil War by the Treasury Department.
3. (surfing) A wave that has not yet begun to break.
4. The United States dollar.

noun

1. Alternative form of Greenbacker

noun

1. plural of greenbacker

noun

1. A movement advocating for the inflation of the US currency.

noun

1. plural of greenback

Proper noun

1. An urban district of Bristol, England between Easton, Eastville and Whitehall
2. A large civil cemetery in this district

noun

1. (dated) A louse.
2. (historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).
3. (regional) Any of various grey birds.

noun

1. Any of several finches and cardinals that have a large, powerful bill

noun

1. plural of grosbeak

noun

1. First person to do, make or fight for something. A pioneer; a seminal person.

noun

1. (business) An amount of money advanced to someone starting a business in return for a share of the future profits.
2. (mining) Money, materials, tools, food etc. provided to a prospector in return for a share in future profits.
3. Money, necessities stockpiled to sustain an effort for a period of time.

verb

1. (transitive) To supply such funds to.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of grubstake

noun

1. One who provides a prospector with a grubstake.

noun

1. plural of grubstaker

noun

1. plural of grubstake

verb

1. present participle of grubstake

adj

1. That causes great grief, anguish or distress.

noun

1. The breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.

adv

1. In a heartbreaking manner

noun

1. The act of breaking into another person's house with unlawful intent.

verb

1. (animal training) present participle of housebreak

verb

1. present participle of imbark

noun

1. The act of breaking in; incursion; invasion; inroad.

adj

1. Very difficult to pronounce.

adv

1. In a way that is very difficult to say or pronounce.

noun

1. The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.

noun

1. (pathology) A disorder of the eye in which the cornea is enlarged and globular in shape.

noun

1. The act of typing at a keyboard (with or without a mouse or other pointing device)

verb

1. present participle of kurbash

adj

1. unlawful; illegal.

noun

1. The commission of a criminal act, the violation or breaking of a law.

noun

1. plural of lawbreaking