HANGMAN SOLVER

verb

1. present participle of acknow

adj

1. Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.

adj

1. Swept back.

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.

adj

1. Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.

noun

1. (idiomatic) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
2. (paper industry) Water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
3. A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
4. The water held back by a dam or other obstruction

verb

1. (idiomatic) To vacillate on a long-held position.
2. To row or paddle a backwater stroke.

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. plural of backwrap

verb

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

noun

1. A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
2. The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

noun

1. Any pottery of a black or nearly black colour.

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. Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia.)

noun

1. (uncountable) The very dark wood of such trees.
2. African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa
3. Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia
4. Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India
5. Haematoxylum campechianum, a tree from Mexico.

noun

1. (obsolete) Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
2. (sewing) A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.

noun

1. plural of blowback

noun

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of brick wall

noun

1. A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
2. A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
3. A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.

noun

1. (South Africa) A strong wagon with a frame over the wheels used for hauling goods.
2. (US) A buckboard; a wagon for personal transport as well as transporting goods.

noun

1. (Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
2. (cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
3. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
4. (slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
5. (slang) Pubic hair.
6. An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]

verb

1. (US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.

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

noun

1. plural of cakewalk

noun

1. A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.

noun

1. Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.

noun

1. Alternative form of chewstick (“plant”)

noun

1. That part of a scholar's work that is done in class.

adv

1. In the manner of a cloak.

noun

1. The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).

noun

1. Alternative spelling of coxswain

noun

1. plural of cookware

noun

1. Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement

noun

1. An item produced by handicraft.

noun

1. (US) A point designated for pedestrians to cross a street.
2. (databases) A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.

verb

1. (databases) To map equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.

noun

1. plural of drawback

noun

1. Decorative embroidery.

noun

1. Decorative work made from gatch.

noun

1. (geology) Greywacke.

noun

1. Alternative form of greywacke

noun

1. (geology) A hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix.

noun

1. plural of hackwork

noun

1. (zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.

noun

1. A jack (mechanical lifting device) which is operated by turning a leadscrew.
2. A leadscrew; a screw used to translate rotational into linear motion.

adj

1. (obsolete, of a person) Of no substance or worth.
2. Resembling a bundle of jackstraws that has been strewn on a surface.

noun

1. (dated) An insignificant person.
2. (usually plural) One of the pieces used for the game called jackstraws or pick-up sticks.

noun

1. Alternative form of kickshaw
2. plural of kickshaw

noun

1. A factory that produces lace.

noun

1. plural of mackinaw

noun

1. plural of neckwear

noun

1. Alternative form of paddywhack

noun

1. (derogatory) A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.
2. (figurative) Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one whole piece.
3. A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.

verb

1. To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together.
2. To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric.

Proper noun

1. A large city in Rhode Island.

noun

1. plural of rackwork

noun

1. plural of rickshaw

noun

1. plural of rockaway

noun

1. Artistic ornamentation resembling the scales of a fish.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of shock wave

noun

1. plural of skewback

noun

1. (obsolete, Scotland) One who is sly, cunning, devious.

noun

1. plural of snowpack

noun

1. Any activity by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft or space station in space; extravehicular activity.

verb

1. To perform a spacewalk.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) The black-backed gull (Larus marinus), or swarbie.

noun

1. plural of swayback

noun

1. The rearward angle of the leading edge of a wing, or airfoil.

adj

1. (of a hairstyle) Backswept.
2. (of an aircraft wing) Angled backwards from its attachment to the fuselage.

noun

1. (US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
2. (derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
3. (slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
4. A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
5. A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
6. An atavism.
7. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
8. Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout

noun

1. plural of thwacker

noun

1. The action or sound of a thwack; a beating.

verb

1. present participle of thwack

noun

1. (horse racing) Practice in racing around a track
2. (rail transport) Construction or maintenance of railroad tracks
3. (rail transport) The tracks and associated equipment of a railway line.

noun

1. the state of being wacky

noun

1. Wizardry; witchcraft.

noun

1. Synonym of pimpleback (mussel)

noun

1. The work produced by watchmaking; the mechanical arrangements making up a watch (portable timepiece).

noun

1. A species of antelope endemic to Africa, Kobus ellipsiprymnus.

adj

1. superlative form of whacky: most whacky

noun

1. (geology) A landform (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale.
2. (historical) A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curves above the waterline from vertical to horizontal.

noun

1. The crack of a whip.

noun

1. A wild duck, the canvasback.

noun

1. plural of wingback

noun

1. A witty or sarcastic comment or quip.

verb

1. To make a sarcastic, flippant, or sardonic comment.

noun

1. plural of woolpack

noun

1. plural of woolsack

noun

1. The place where someone works.

noun

1. (computing) A file (or system of files) in which related software and data can be manipulated or developed in isolation from others.
2. (computing, graphical user interface) An empty portion of the screen or window that serves as a container for other windows or objects.
3. (computing, graphical user interface) Any of the screens that can be switched between in a virtual desktop.
4. (robotics) The set of points that can be reached by the end-effector of a robotic manipulator
5. An area allocated for someone to work in, especially in an office.

noun

1. plural of wreckage

noun

1. plural of zwieback