HANGMAN SOLVER

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

noun

1. plural of backlog

noun

1. plural of backplane

noun

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

verb

1. To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backslap

noun

1. One who makes a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.

noun

1. plural of backslapper

noun

1. action of the verb to backslap

verb

1. present participle of backslap

verb

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

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backslide

verb

1. past participle of backslide

noun

1. (dance) A dance move in which the feet are alternately slid back and the heels lifted, giving the illusion of walking forwards while actually moving backwards.
2. A backward regression; a reverting back to a worse state.

verb

1. (Christianity) To revert back into a life of sin after being saved.
2. To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
3. To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.

noun

1. A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
2. She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.

noun

1. plural of backslider

noun

1. plural of backslide

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form 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. plural of backsplash

noun

1. Such a knot

verb

1. To secure the ends of a twisted rope within the rope itself in order to prevent fraying

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

verb

1. present participle of backsplice

noun

1. (Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta

noun

1. plural of bailiwick

adj

1. Without a baker.

Proper noun

1. A major city in California, USA

Proper noun

1. an unincorporated community in Mercer County, New Jersey, USA.
2. a town in North Carolina, USA, and the county seat of Mitchell County.
3. an unincorporated community in Coshocton County, Ohio, USA.

noun

1. plural of baklava

noun

1. plural of baklawa

noun

1. plural of balalaika

noun

1. plural of baldrick

verb

1. Alternative spelling of balkanize

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanise

verb

1. present participle of balkanise

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Balkanism

Proper noun

1. A geographical region in the southeast of Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia (and Kosovo), sometimes including Romania and Slovenia.

noun

1. plural of balker

adj

1. superlative form of balky: most balky

noun

1. The state or quality of being balky or uncooperative.

adj

1. (obsolete, rare) uneven; ridgy

noun

1. plural of balkline

noun

1. plural of balk

verb

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

noun

1. plural of ballhawk

noun

1. Alternative form of bollocks

noun

1. plural of ballpark

verb

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

noun

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

noun

1. plural of bankroller

noun

1. plural of bankroll

verb

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

noun

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

noun

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

adj

1. (of a dog) That does not bark.
2. Without bark (the tree covering).

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a base (in various senses).

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

adj

1. Suggesting a basilisk (snake-like dragon): baleful, spellbinding.

noun

1. (heraldry) A type of dragon used in heraldry.
2. (science fiction) An infohazard or cognitohazard, especially a Langford's basilisk.
3. A mythical snake-like dragon, so venomous that even its gaze was deadly.
4. A tree-dwelling type of lizard of the genus Basiliscus: the basilisk lizard.
5. A type of large brass cannon.

noun

1. plural of basilisk

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a basin.

Proper noun

1. A serif typeface from the 18th century.

noun

1. (countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
2. (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.

verb

1. To play basketball
2. To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball

noun

1. (informal) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.

noun

1. plural of basketball

noun

1. The amount that will fit into a basket

noun

1. plural of basketful

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a basket.

adj

1. superlative form of baulky: most baulky

noun

1. plural of baulk

verb

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

adj

1. Not having a beak.

noun

1. (chiefly science fiction) A space elevator.
2. (figuratively, colloquial, by extension) A tall, slim person.
3. The stem of a bean plant, proverbially fast-growing and tall.

noun

1. plural of beanstalk

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a beast.

verb

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

verb

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

verb

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

noun

1. plural of belleek

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bellows (device for delivering pressurized air).

adv

1. (nautical) Below the main deck of a ship.

noun

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

verb

1. To add speckles.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bespeckle

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To sprinkle.

adj

1. Sprinkled.

noun

1. One who or that which besprinkles.

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of besprinkle

noun

1. plural of beylik

noun

1. plural of bilker

verb

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

noun

1. plural of billhook

noun

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

noun

1. Synonym of billposting

Adjective

1. Resembling a biscuit or some aspect of one.

adj

1. Resembling, or pertaining to a bishop.

noun

1. plural of biweekly

noun

1. plural of blackamoor

noun

1. plural of blackball

verb

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

noun

1. plural of blackberry

verb

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

noun

1. plural of blackbirder

noun

1. plural of blackbird

verb

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

noun

1. plural of blackboard

verb

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

noun

1. plural of blackbody

noun

1. plural of blackboy

noun

1. A shrub of the genus Coleogyne

noun

1. plural of blackcap

noun

1. plural of blackener

noun

1. plural of blackening

verb

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

adj

1. superlative form of black: most black

noun

1. plural of blackeye

noun

1. plural of blackfellow

noun

1. plural of blackfin

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 blackfly

intj

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) look out; beware

noun

1. plural of blackfriar