HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. plural of acknowledgement

noun

1. plural of acknowledgment

noun

1. plural of afterdeck

noun

1. (figuratively) By extension, any result or consequence following a major event.
2. An earthquake that follows in the same vicinity as another, usually larger, earthquake (the "mainshock").
3. Emotional and physical distress following a traumatic event.

noun

1. plural of aftershock

adj

1. Resembling or relating to alkahest.

adj

1. Alternative form of alkahestic

adj

1. Slightly alkaline; having the properties of an alkali.

noun

1. a stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain

noun

1. A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.

noun

1. plural of alpenstock

noun

1. plural of amtrack

adj

1. (linguistics) Imperative, as in the anankastic conditional.
2. (psychology) Characterised by compulsion; obsessive-compulsive.

adj

1. (mechanics) Countering or preventing backlash (jarring reflex motion in machinery).

noun

1. Antiblack sentiments or politics.

noun

1. plural of antick

adj

1. (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland, of movement) in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move.

adv

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britian, Ireland) In an anticlockwise fashion.

noun

1. plural of antiknock

adj

1. Preventing rickets.

noun

1. One who opposes a skeptical viewpoint.

noun

1. Opposition to a skeptical viewpoint.

adj

1. (rare) Opposing the farming of livestock.

adj

1. Alternative form of apocatastatic

noun

1. plural of apparatchik

noun

1. plural of artichoke

noun

1. plural of attacker

noun

1. plural of attack

verb

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

adj

1. Filled with awe.

adj

1. Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.

noun

1. plural of backbeat

noun

1. plural of backbiter

noun

1. plural of backbite

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backbiting

adj

1. (UK dialectal) Retrospective.

adv

1. (UK dialectal, of time) Long ago; in the past.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
2. (UK dialectal) Retrospect; hindsight.
3. (UK dialectal) backwater
4. (figuratively) Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
5. A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
6. A cast or throw back.

verb

1. (UK dialectal) To change retrospectively; reverse.
2. To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backchat

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backdate

verb

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

noun

1. (publishing) A list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to the frontlist of more recent titles.

verb

1. (transitive) To hold back a student's application (to a college etc.) based on whether a preferred candidate declines their offer.
2. (transitive, publishing) To place (a book) on a backlist.

verb

1. present participle of backlist

verb

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

adj

1. farthest back

noun

1. plural of backout

noun

1. A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.
2. The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.

noun

1. plural of backrest

noun

1. (computing) The sending of IP packets to essentially random addresses in response to incoming packets that have a spoofed origin.
2. (military) A portion of the energy of electromagnetic radiation such as a laser or radio waves that is scattered back in the direction of the source of radiation by an obscurant.
3. (physics) The deflection of particles and/or radiation through angles greater than 90 degrees to the original direction of travel.
4. The particles and/or radiation deflected in this manner.

verb

1. To scatter particles and/or radiation back to the direction from which they come.

verb

1. past participle of backscatter

noun

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

verb

1. present participle of backscatter

noun

1. plural of backscatter

verb

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

noun

1. A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch their own back.

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back seat

noun

1. plural of backseat

noun

1. A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
2. Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water.

verb

1. (US, especially Western US) To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backset

noun

1. One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.

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. (surveying) A measurement of a previously shot point, used to set the angle to zero when occupying a new position.
2. (surveying) A measurement or reading taken back towards a point of known elevation, used to calculate the height of the surveying instrument (theodolite, transit, total station).
3. The rear sight of a firearm.

verb

1. (surveying) To shoot a backsight.

verb

1. (transitive) to attack someone (especially verbally) unfairly in a deceitful, underhand, or treacherous manner, especially when they're not present in the place or situation that it happens. (as if stabbing them in the back). See backbite.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstab

noun

1. A traitor or hypocrite, such as a co-worker or friend assumed trustworthy but who figuratively attacks when one's back is turned.

noun

1. plural of backstabber

noun

1. The act of one who backstabs.

verb

1. present participle of backstab

noun

1. (nautical) An early navigational instrument for measuring the altitude of the sun and hence calculating latitude.

adj

1. Relating to, or situated in the area behind a stage.
2. Secret, concealed from the public.

adv

1. Out of view of the public.
2. Towards the area behind the stage.

noun

1. The area behind a stage out of view of the audience where performers wait to give their show; especially that of the dressing rooms.
2. The private portion of the space used by a business or enterprise.

adj

1. clandestine, secret or furtive

noun

1. The backstairs (stairs at the rear of a building).

adj

1. Secret or furtive.

noun

1. A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.
2. An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.

noun

1. (nautical) A part of the rigging of a sailing ship extending from masthead the top of the mast to the back of the ship; they support the strain on all upper masts and provide additional support to the shrouds when the wind is abaft the beam.
2. A strengthening or supporting piece that is built into the back of something.

noun

1. plural of backstay

noun

1. (obsolete) A baker.

noun

1. (field hockey, often attributively) An illegal shot in which a player strikes the ball with the rounded face of the stick in field hockey.

noun

1. (sewing) A type of sewing stitch where the stitch goes backwards on the top side of the fabric and doubles forward on the bottom, coming out farther in front, then repeats. The backstitch is a very tight and secure stitch, and also looks very neat.

verb

1. To sew with a backstitch.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstitch

noun

1. plural of backstitch

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backstitch

noun

1. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstop

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backstory

noun

1. (drugs) The rolling a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion
2. (firearms) The rearmost surface applied to the grip especially of a pistol below a possible beavertail.
3. A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
4. A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
5. An anchoring strap, passed around the waist or hips, for a small loom.
6. The backbone of a book.

verb

1. To apply or make into a backstrap.

adj

1. (figuratively) Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
2. Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back street

noun

1. plural of backstreet

noun

1. (athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).
2. (exercise) An exercise that stretches the muscles of the back.
3. (figuratively) The middle part of an event.
4. (horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.

noun

1. plural of backstretch.

noun

1. (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
2. (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
3. A backhanded stroke or blow.

verb

1. To swim the backstroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. plural of backstroke

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

adj

1. Swept back.

noun

1. plural of backtracker

noun

1. plural of backtrack

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backwater

verb

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

noun

1. (printing, historical) The handle of a printer's ball.

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

1. (regional, US) three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

noun

1. plural of becket

noun

1. (obsolete) The front or back part of the frame of a bedstead.

noun

1. plural of bedtick

verb

1. (transitive) To pierce in various places; pierce through and through.
2. (transitive) To stick on the surface of; cover over.

verb

1. present participle of bestick

verb

1. (transitive) to stock; furnish

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bestick

noun

1. Someone who sticks up advertisements on billboards, walls, and similar surfaces.

noun

1. Synonym of billposting

noun

1. (medical biology) The study of movements of or within organisms

Adjective

1. Resembling a biscuit or some aspect of one.

noun

1. A hand tool consisting of a crank which holds a fitted rotating drill bit tip, designed to bore holes in rigid materials, by cutting a disc in a spiral fashion.

noun

1. plural of bitstock

noun

1. plural of bittock

adj

1. superlative form of black: most black

noun

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

noun

1. plural of blackheart

noun

1. (law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned.

verb

1. (transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

adj

1. Being on a blacklist, or having been shunned and rejected due to information (true or false) being spread about scandalous activities or ideas, especially controversial political opinions.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacklist

noun

1. One who blacklists.

noun

1. plural of blacklister

noun

1. The act of placing onto a blacklist.

verb

1. present participle of blacklist

noun

1. plural of blacklist

noun

1. plural of blackout

noun

1. (by extension) Any member of a fascist party.
2. (historical, chiefly in the plural) A uniformed member of a paramilitary wing of the Italian Fascist Party.

noun

1. (informal) A person who shoes horses.
2. A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).
3. A person who forges iron.

verb

1. (intransitive) To work as a blacksmith.

noun

1. the business of a blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacksmith

noun

1. plural of blacksmith

noun

1. (obsolete) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
2. (obsolete, nautical, slang) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean.
3. The dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.

noun

1. plural of blackthorn

verb

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