HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. A handsaw that has a reinforcement along its back edge.

noun

1. plural of backsaw

adj

1. Swept back.

noun

1. Any of various aquatic insects, of the family Notonectidae, that swim on their backs.

noun

1. (sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.

verb

1. To swing backward.

noun

1. (UK, dated) A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
2. (UK, dated) The game in which the stick is used.
3. A sword with one sharp edge.

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. Reluctance.
2. The state of being backward.

noun

1. plural of backwardness

adj

1. Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.

noun

1. (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
2. (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
3. The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
4. The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
5. The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.

verb

1. (transitive) To affect with backwash.
2. To clean the oil from wool after combing.
3. To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

noun

1. (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.

noun

1. plural of backwash

noun

1. A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

noun

1. plural of backwater

verb

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

adj

1. Pertaining to the backwoods.
2. Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.

noun

1. A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
2. Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.

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

adj

1. (US) Typical of something or someone from the backwoods

noun

1. plural of backwrap

verb

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

noun

1. plural of bailiwick

noun

1. plural of baklawa

noun

1. plural of ballhawk

noun

1. basketwork goods collectively

noun

1. (figurative) Any useless, unproductive, or lightweight activity.
2. The act of weaving baskets, as for example from grasses, wicker, or rope.

noun

1. (historical) A woman who sells goods from a basket.

noun

1. Any of various kinds of wood traditionally used for making baskets.

noun

1. Material woven in the style of a basket.
2. The craft of making such material.

noun

1. plural of basketwork

noun

1. The larva of a psychid moth.

noun

1. plural of bawcock

noun

1. plural of beadwork

adj

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

adv

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

Proper noun

1. A lieutenancy area and historic county in the Scottish Borders.

verb

1. (obsolete) to labour, toil; belabour

verb

1. (transitive) To give or add whiskers to; to put whiskers on.

adj

1. Having whiskers

noun

1. plural of bikeway

noun

1. plural of biweekly

noun

1. plural of blackfellow

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

noun

1. plural of blackwater

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

noun

1. plural of blowback

noun

1. plural of boardwalk.

verb

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

noun

1. plural of bodywork

adv

1. In the manner of a book.

noun

1. plural of bookworm

noun

1. plural of bowknot

adv

1. In terms of brackets (in various senses).

noun

1. Work or ornamentation made of brass.

noun

1. A person who manufactures or shapes brass.

noun

1. A place where brass is manufactured and/or shaped.

noun

1. plural of breakdown

noun

1. plural of breakwater

noun

1. (nautical) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.
2. (slang) Breast augmentation.
3. A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet.
4. A parapet.

noun

1. plural of breastwork

adj

1. In the manner of bricks, especially the overlapping way in which they are assembled into a wall.

noun

1. plural of bridgework

noun

1. plural of brightwork

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. (painting) The technique or practice of applying and manipulating paint (usually oil or gouache) in a painting.

noun

1. A saw, in a metal frame, used to cut lengths of wood.

noun

1. plural of bucksaw

noun

1. plural of buckwheat

noun

1. plural of bulwark

verb

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

verb

1. Alternative spelling of bushwhack

noun

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

verb

1. present participle of bushwalk

verb

1. to ambush
2. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack

noun

1. (Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
2. (US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
3. (US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
4. (dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
5. A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).

noun

1. plural of bushwhacker

noun

1. criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
2. fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. present participle of bushwhack

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of busy work

noun

1. plural of bywork

noun

1. (obsolete) The district to which a constable's power is limited.

noun

1. plural of cribwork

noun

1. plural of drawback

noun

1. plural of hawkbill

noun

1. A tropical marine turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, that is a source of tortoiseshell.

noun

1. plural of jabberwocky

noun

1. plural of jawbreaker

noun

1. The state or quality of being knowable.

noun

1. Misspelling of knowledgeableness.

noun

1. The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.

noun

1. plural of lawbook

noun

1. plural of lawbreaker

noun

1. plural of lawbreaking

noun

1. An instance of news broadcasting.

noun

1. A female pawnbroker.

noun

1. plural of pawnbroker

noun

1. (US, slang) A ten-dollar bill.
2. A framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse.

noun

1. plural of sawbuck

noun

1. (architecture) The side of an arch; the course of masonry on the top of an abutment with a slope for the base of the arch to rest against.

noun

1. plural of skewback

adj

1. (of horses) Marked with patches of white and non-black colours.

noun

1. A skewbald horse.

noun

1. plural of skewbald

noun

1. (archaic, slang) A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.

noun

1. A heap of snow.

noun

1. plural of snowbank

noun

1. Synonym of iceblink

noun

1. A low ridge of sand

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a strawberry (plant or fruit).

noun

1. A subsection of a network.