HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (now historical) A universal solvent sought by the alchemists.

adj

1. Resembling or relating to alkahest.

adj

1. Alternative form of alkahestic

noun

1. plural of alkahest

adj

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

Proper noun

1. A city in northwestern Russia on the White Sea.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of asphalt.

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.

verb

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

noun

1. (figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
2. (mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
3. A sudden backward motion.
4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

verb

1. To cause or set off a backlash.

adj

1. Having a backlash.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlash

noun

1. A participant in a backlash

noun

1. plural of backlasher

noun

1. plural of backlash

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backlash

noun

1. (computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
2. The punctuation mark \.
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verb

1. (computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.

noun

1. plural of backslash

noun

1. plural of backsplash

adj

1. (obsolete, rare) uneven; ridgy

noun

1. plural of ballhawk

noun

1. (India, historical) A warehouse.
2. (India, historical) The office of a harbormaster or other port authority.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bashlyk

noun

1. A protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by Turks and Cossacks.

noun

1. plural of bashlyk

verb

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

noun

1. (historical) A silver coin of the Ottoman Empire.

noun

1. plural of billhook

adj

1. Resembling, or pertaining to a bishop.

noun

1. A shrub of the genus Coleogyne

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 blackhander

noun

1. plural of blackhead

noun

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

noun

1. plural of blackheart

adj

1. somewhat black

adv

1. In a blackish way.

noun

1. The quality of being blackish, somewhat black.

Proper noun

1. a city in Georgia, USA

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. plural of blackthorn

noun

1. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
2. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
3. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
4. (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
5. (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

verb

1. (transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
2. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
3. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

noun

1. One who blackwashes.

noun

1. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
2. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
3. The application of a coating of blackwash.

verb

1. present participle of blackwash

adj

1. Somewhat blank; more or less blank.

noun

1. A voluble purveyor of nonsense; a blusterer.
2. A worthless fellow; a deadbeat.
3. Nonsense or blather; empty talk.

noun

1. plural of blatherskite

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

adj

1. Somewhat bleak.

noun

1. The state or condition of being blockheaded.

adj

1. stupid

noun

1. The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity.

noun

1. plural of blockhead

verb

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

noun

1. (dated) A temporary wooden fortification with a projecting upper story.
2. A reinforced building from which to control hazardous operations, such as an explosion or a rocket launch.
3. A sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports.

noun

1. plural of blockhouse

adj

1. Lacking understanding; stupid; obtuse; dull.
2. Like a block in shape or nature; coming across as a block.
3. Rude; clumsy; rough.

noun

1. The state or quality of being blockish.

noun

1. (nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. Alternative form of Bolshevik

noun

1. plural of bolshevik

adv

1. In a bookish manner.

adj

1. (rare) Characteristic of a bookseller.

noun

1. A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.

noun

1. plural of bookshelf

adj

1. Having unusually short legs

noun

1. plural of breechblock

adj

1. Having the form of a brush.

adv

1. In a buckish manner.

noun

1. plural of bulkhead

adj

1. bulky; large

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bulrush.

adj

1. Resembling a bush; bushly.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) The activity of hiking or backpacking.

verb

1. present participle of bushwalk

noun

1. plural of chalkboard

adj

1. superlative form of chalky: most chalky

noun

1. The state of being chalky.

noun

1. plural of chalk

verb

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

noun

1. (medicine) A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus.
2. (obsolete) A mass or piece of chalk.

adj

1. Having or resembling chalkstones.

noun

1. plural of charlock

adj

1. (US) Without checks (financial instruments); chequeless.
2. That cannot be checked or restrained.

noun

1. A list of tasks to be completed, names to be consulted, conditions to be verified and similar.
2. An inventory, especially of species.

verb

1. (transitive) To add to a checklist.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of checklist

verb

1. present participle of checklist

noun

1. plural of checklist

verb

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

adj

1. Without cheeks.

noun

1. The state or quality of being childlike.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a chisel.

noun

1. (biochemistry) Any of several peptide hormones that stimulate the digestion of fat and protein; abbreviated to CCK.

noun

1. A skeleton (of some fish and of mammal embryos) composed of hyaline cartilage

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a chorus.

Adjective

1. Befitting a Christian.

Adjective

1. Characteristic of Jesus Christ or his works.

Noun

1. The quality of being Christlike.

noun

1. plural of chuckawalla

noun

1. plural of chuckhole

noun

1. The quality of being chuckleheaded.

noun

1. plural of chucklehead

noun

1. plural of chuckler

noun

1. plural of chuckle

adj

1. Causing chuckles; humorous.

noun

1. plural of chuckwalla

noun

1. Alternative form of clack dish

Proper noun

1. A historic county in Scotland (abolished in 1975) and present-day council area (created 1996) bordering the council areas of Stirling, Fife, and

adj

1. Like or resembling a clerk.

noun

1. (law) A temporary job of assisting a judge in writing legal opinions, generally available to a beginning attorney for one to two years.
2. (medicine) Clinical training for physicians during the second half of medical school.
3. The state or business of a clerk.

noun

1. plural of clerkship

noun

1. (architecture) A house or dwelling featuring a large visible clock on its exterior.
2. (architecture) A part of a building featuring such a clock; the section of a clocktower in which the clock is housed.

noun

1. A basket for holding clothes to be laundered.

noun

1. A small, flimsy boat.
2. The shell of a cockle (or similar shell).

noun

1. plural of cockleshell

adv

1. In a Cockneyish manner.