HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Able to be acknowledged.
2. Worthy of acknowledgement.

noun

1. A band that passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

noun

1. (gymnastics, dance) A move in which the performer bends backwards until the hands touch the floor or catches him/herself with the hands.

verb

1. To perform such a move.

noun

1. plural of backbend

adj

1. Having a spine.

noun

1. The act by which something is backdated.

verb

1. present participle of backdate

noun

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

verb

1. present participle of backdrop

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.

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

adj

1. (ice hockey) Of a play that uses the back side of the hockey stick
2. (of handwriting) Slanting to the left.
3. (of strokes or throws) In the backhand style

noun

1. (Ultimate Frisbee) the standard throw; a throw during which the disc begins on the off-hand side and travels across the chest to be released from the opposite side.
2. (surfing) the hand towards the back of the board.
3. (tennis) a stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
4. Handwriting that leans to the left
5. The reverse side of the human hand.

verb

1. to execute a backhand stroke or throw
2. to slap with the back of one's hand

adj

1. (of writing) inclining to the left
2. Backwards, turned around.
3. Indirect.
4. Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
5. Involving a backward flip of the hand.
6. Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
7. Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
8. With the back of the hand.

adv

1. In a backhanded manner.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backhand

noun

1. (of writing) Leftward slant.
2. Backwardness of direction.
3. Deceit or neglect.
4. Indirection.
5. Insincerity, irony, or sarcasm.
6. The use of a backward flip of the hand.

noun

1. (informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
2. (racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
3. (racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
4. (surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
5. A blow with the back of the hand.
6. A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.

noun

1. plural of backhander

verb

1. present participle of backhand

noun

1. plural of backhand

verb

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

noun

1. Land that lies behind or beyond some primary settlement or development.

noun

1. plural of backland

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

noun

1. The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.

verb

1. (US) present participle of backpedal

verb

1. past participle of backslide

adj

1. sliding back

noun

1. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.

verb

1. present participle of backslide

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.

noun

1. Reluctance.
2. The state of being backward.

noun

1. plural of backwardness

noun

1. (nautical) The flow of air so deflected

verb

1. (nautical) To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel
2. (transitive) To wind backwards.

verb

1. present participle of backwind

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

Proper noun

1. A region comprising parts of what is now northeastern Afghanistan and southeastern Tajikistan.
2. A province of Afghanistan, Badakhshan Province.
3. Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, or Kūhistoni Badakhshon, a province of Tajikistan.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanise

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanize

noun

1. (art) Decorative work resembling interlaced bands.

noun

1. A card that a bank issues used by the cardholder in the course of authorization to receive bank services.

noun

1. plural of bankcard

adj

1. Of a cheque, deposited in a bank.
2. Piled high.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bank

noun

1. The world of bankers and finance.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankroll

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt

noun

1. The land by a riverbank.

noun

1. plural of bankside

adj

1. Having the neck bare.

adj

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barken

noun

1. plural of baudekin

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beckon

verb

1. To make dim, or to darken, or obscure.

adj

1. Dim, dark, or obscure

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bedarken

verb

1. present participle of bedarken

verb

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

noun

1. An ornament.

verb

1. present participle of bedeck

noun

1. The skill or act of making beds (arranging the sheets, etc.).

adj

1. Covered in ink.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beknight

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.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of benchmark

noun

1. A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage.

noun

1. plural of benedick

adj

1. Sprinkled.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bethank

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of betoken

adj

1. Wearing a bikini.

Noun

1. A young bird.

Proper noun

1. An English topographic surname
2. Either of F. E. Smith, Frederick Smith or Frederick Smith the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Earls of Birkenhead
3. the town itself.

noun

1. (mineralogy) An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter, valuable as an iron ore.

noun

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

verb

1. present participle of blackbird

adj

1. (food) Synonym of charred.
2. (steel) Synonym of blued.
3. Darkened to the point of appearing black; as:

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacken

noun

1. plural of blackhander

noun

1. The state or quality of being blackhearted; villainy.

noun

1. The land making up the Texas Blackland Prairies, a temperate grassland ecoregion in Texas with rich, dark soil.

adj

1. (euphemistic, dated) damned; accursed (from the euphemistic printed form d—d)
2. In a state of blankness.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blank

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blanket

noun

1. a filamentous alga often found in ponds

noun

1. (obsolete) One with bad eyes.
2. A dim-witted or stupid person; an idiot.

noun

1. plural of blinkard

adj

1. (Appalachia) Sour.
2. Affected with blinking.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blink

adj

1. (figuratively) Having tunnel vision; unable to see what is happening around one.
2. Wearing blinkers or blinders.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blinker

verb

1. present participle of blockade

noun

1. The state or condition of being blockheaded.

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. 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

verb

1. present participle of bodycheck

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. (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. (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.

noun

1. A rack for holding books; a bookrack.
2. A small stall where books are sold.
3. A stand, made for holding books open.