HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. An old Thai unit of length, approximately 2.6 centimetres.

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.

Proper noun

1. A city in Kazakhstan, rented and administered by Russia, constructed to service Baikonur Cosmodrome, since 1995 also called Baikonur.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of b'ak'tun

Adjective

1. Relating to, or supporting the revolutionary anarchism of

noun

1. Alternative form of banjouke

adj

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

noun

1. Misspelling of bankruptcy.

adj

1. (finance) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
2. Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
3. Having been legally declared insolvent.

noun

1. (UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
2. One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.

verb

1. (transitive) To force into bankruptcy.

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt

verb

1. present participle of bankrupt

noun

1. (obsolete) bankruptcy

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.

adv

1. In a bankrupt manner.

noun

1. plural of bankrupt

verb

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

noun

1. (dated) bankruptcy

Proper noun

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

adj

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

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

noun

1. plural of baudekin

noun

1. Alternative form of balking

verb

1. present participle of baulk

noun

1. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) An illusion; trick; cheat.

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To befool; deceive; balk; jilt.

verb

1. (transitive) To deprive (a river) of its lower course or trunk by submergence or erosion of the land by the sea.

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

verb

1. (dialect, colloquial, informal) simple past tense of blink
2. (intransitive) To blench, blink; turn aside.
3. (transitive, Scotland) To spoil, mismanage.

adj

1. (obsolete) Gray; grayish or light blue.

noun

1. (obsolete) A cloth, or kind of cloth (blanket cloth), generally but not always of this color.
2. (obsolete) A color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray, but sometimes seemingly a dark red or violet.

verb

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

noun

1. (Canada, US, derogatory) A brawny or coarse person.
2. (Canada, US, ethnic slur) An immigrant from Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or the Balkans, especially one who is regarded as vain, aggressively masculine, and socially unsophisticated.

noun

1. plural of bohunk

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.

noun

1. A plant, the acanthus.

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. The manufacture of brushes.

noun

1. The state of being brusk

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. bulkheads in general

noun

1. The characteristic of being bulky, or of having bulk.

noun

1. plural of bulkiness

noun

1. (bodybuilding) A period of intentional weight gain.

verb

1. present participle of bulk

noun

1. The manufacture of bullets.

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. Pituophis catenifer sayi, a large non-venomous colubrid snake endemic to the central United States, northern Mexico, and southwestern Canada.

verb

1. present participle of bulwark

noun

1. (nautical) A short outrigger projecting from the side of the aft part of a square-rigged sailing ship, used as an attachment point for a rope (brace) used to set a yard-arm at different angles to a mast so to allow the ship to sail at different angles to the wind.

noun

1. plural of bumkin

noun

1. (nautical) A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
2. A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
3. Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bumpkin.

adj

1. Befitting a bumpkin.

noun

1. plural of bumpkin

noun

1. (slang, UK) A service-issue rifle.

adj

1. (slang) Defective, broken, not functioning properly.

noun

1. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
2. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
3. (military) A cot.
4. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
5. (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
6. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
7. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.

verb

1. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
2. (dated) To expel from a school.
3. (slang) To depart; scram.
4. To occupy a bunk.
5. To provide a bunk.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bunk

noun

1. (Britain, chiefly historical) A large bin or container for storing coal, often built outdoors in the yard of a house.
2. (Britain, slang) One who bunks off; a truant from school.
3. (US, regional) The menhaden, any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium.
4. (golf) A hazard on a golf course consisting of a sand-filled hollow.
5. (military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
6. (nautical) A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine; (by extension) the quantity of fuel needed to replenish that container.
7. (paintball) An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
8. (rail transport) The coal compartment on a tank engine.
9. (slang) A kitchen worktop.
10. A sort of box or chest, as in a window, the lid of which serves as a seat.

verb

1. (Nigeria) To steal bunker fuel by illicitly siphoning it off.
2. (by extension, Britain, informal) To place (someone) in a position that is difficult to get out of; to hinder.
3. (golf) To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker.
4. (nautical) Of a vessel: to take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine.
5. (paintball) To fire constantly at (an opponent hiding behind an obstacle), trapping them and preventing them from firing at other players; also, to eliminate (an opponent behind an obstacle) by rushing to the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.
6. Often followed by down: to take shelter in a bunker or other place.
7. To load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine.

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)

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bunker

noun

1. (chiefly Nigeria) The illicit removal of oil from a pipeline or other distribution system.
2. (nautical) The taking on board of bunker fuel.

verb

1. present participle of bunker

noun

1. (historical) A man in charge of an industrial coal storage bunker.

noun

1. plural of bunkerman

noun

1. plural of bunker