HANGMAN SOLVER

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. plural of ballhawk

noun

1. plural of beadwork

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. A slightly elevated path for pedestrians over sandy or swampy ground, typically made out of wood; specifically (Canada, US) one running alongside a body of water or beach.

verb

1. To install a boardwalk over.

noun

1. A manufacturer of bowls.

noun

1. The manufacture of bows (for archery or for musical instruments).

noun

1. Work done with the brain; mental effort.

noun

1. Work or ornamentation made of brass.

adj

1. (entertainment industry) Enjoying rapid popular success.
2. (ice hockey) Occurring during or as a result of a breakaway (see Noun)
3. Capable of breaking off without damaging the larger structure.
4. Having broken away from a larger unit.
5. The breakaway republic is slowly establishing order and civil society.

noun

1. (Australia) A channel of floodwater that has burst from its usual course; or the track or channel eroded by the water.
2. (Australia) A stampede of animals.
3. (Australia) An animal that breaks away from a herd.
4. (Australia, geography) An eroding steep slope on the edge of a plateau; an escarpment.
5. (boxing) The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.
6. (cycle racing) A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton.
7. (ice hockey) A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them.
8. (theater) An item of scenery designed to be broken or destroyed during the performance.
9. A particular yo-yo trick http://yoyo.wikia.com/wiki/Breakaway.
10. A swing dance in which the leader occasionally swings the follower out into an open position.
11. The act of breaking away from something.

noun

1. (US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
2. (US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, common in traditional African American music from the Southern United States.
3. (US, dated) Any noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
4. (chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
5. (film, television) A detailed description of a forthcoming project, including the characters and roles required.
6. (music) The percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music.
7. (physics) The sudden transition of an electrical insulator to a conductor when subjected to a sufficiently strong voltage, caused by the partial or complete ionization of the insulator.
8. (sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
9. A failure, particularly mechanical in nature.
10. A musical technique by which the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, varying in heaviness depending on the genre.
11. A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability.
12. Listing, division or categorization in great detail.
13. Something that has experienced a mechanical failure.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A windbreak.

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. simple past tense and past participle of bulwark

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 drawback

noun

1. plural of hawkbill

noun

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

noun

1. An instance of news broadcasting.

noun

1. plural of skewback

noun

1. plural of skewbald

noun

1. plural of snowbank

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. Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Trillium, having flowers with three petals.
2. Any plant of the genus Arum, especially the cuckoopint.

noun

1. (Australian aboriginal) A nomadic excursion into the bush, especially one taken by young teenage boys in certain ancient-custom honoring tribes.
2. (Britain) A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally.
3. A walking trip.
4. An absence, usually from a regular place with a possibility of a return.

noun

1. Synonym of pimpleback (mussel)

noun

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

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. A wild duck, the canvasback.

noun

1. The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.

noun

1. (agriculture) A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
2. A sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind.
3. The act of breaking wind; flatulence.

noun

1. plural of wingback

noun

1. Alternative form of word break

noun

1. plural of workboat

noun

1. (historical) A small table used by ladies for doing needlework.
2. A table designed for work of a specific type.

noun

1. plural of zwieback