HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (astronautics) The use of atmospheric drag to reduce the velocity of a spacecraft, especially so as to establish a stable orbit and to reduce fuel consumption.

verb

1. present participle of aerobrake

noun

1. (by extension) Someone who does not play an active role in a process.
2. (education) A student who does not perform well, especially one who sits at the back of the classroom.
3. (politics) A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature.
4. (sports) A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.

noun

1. plural of backbench

noun

1. A strenuous and exhausting task, typically involving physical effort.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcheck

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcross

noun

1. plural of backcross

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backdrop

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backflip

noun

1. plural of backhander

noun

1. plural of backlasher

noun

1. A hostel catering to backpackers.
2. plural of backpacker

verb

1. (US) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

noun

1. (computing) The sending of IP packets to essentially random addresses in response to incoming packets that have a spoofed origin.
2. (military) A portion of the energy of electromagnetic radiation such as a laser or radio waves that is scattered back in the direction of the source of radiation by an obscurant.
3. (physics) The deflection of particles and/or radiation through angles greater than 90 degrees to the original direction of travel.
4. The particles and/or radiation deflected in this manner.

verb

1. To scatter particles and/or radiation back to the direction from which they come.

verb

1. present participle of backset

noun

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

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 backslash

verb

1. past participle of backslide

noun

1. plural of backslider

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstab

noun

1. A traitor or hypocrite, such as a co-worker or friend assumed trustworthy but who figuratively attacks when one's back is turned.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstory

noun

1. plural of backstreet

noun

1. (athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).
2. (exercise) An exercise that stretches the muscles of the back.
3. (figuratively) The middle part of an event.
4. (horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. plural of backstroke

verb

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

noun

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backtrack

noun

1. One who, or that which, backtracks.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwater

noun

1. (Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta

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 baksheesh

adj

1. Resembling a balloon in form

noun

1. plural of bankroller

noun

1. (dated) bankruptcy

noun

1. plural of barkentine

noun

1. (mineralogy) A particular hornblende mineral.

noun

1. An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley or other grain, in which some players attempt to catch others who run from a goal.

noun

1. A maker of barrels, especially a cooper or a container manufacturer.

Proper noun

1. A town in Hampshire, England

Proper noun

1. A serif typeface from the 18th century.

noun

1. plural of basketball

noun

1. A person who weaves baskets.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of basketwork

adj

1. Wearing a cassock.

adv

1. So as to beckon or call near; enticingly.

verb

1. present participle of bedarken

verb

1. present participle of beknight

adj

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of benchmark

adj

1. Sprinkled.

noun

1. One who or that which besprinkles.

verb

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

adj

1. Having whiskers

noun

1. A person who steals books

noun

1. Alternative form of bibliotheque

noun

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

noun

1. A technique consisting of measuring a person's quantifiable bodily functions, such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, sweat gland activity, and muscle tension, then conveying the information to the person in real-time.

noun

1. (medical biology) The study of movements of or within organisms

Adjective

1. Resembling a biscuit or some aspect of one.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackball

noun

1. One who blackballs, or casts a vote rejecting somebody.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackbird

noun

1. A person involved in blackbirding (kidnapping Pacific islanders as cheap labour).
2. A ship used for blackbirding.

noun

1. plural of blackbody

noun

1. plural of blackening

noun

1. (Australia, now usually considered offensive) A (male) Australian Aborigine.

noun

1. plural of blackfish

noun

1. plural of blackheart

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackjack

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackleg

noun

1. The character or actions of a blackleg.

adj

1. Being on a blacklist, or having been shunned and rejected due to information (true or false) being spread about scandalous activities or ideas, especially controversial political opinions.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacklist

noun

1. One who blacklists.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackmail

noun

1. Someone who blackmails.

noun

1. plural of blackness

noun

1. plural of blacksnake

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

noun

1. One who blackwashes.

noun

1. plural of blackwater

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bladder.

adj

1. Without a blanket or blankets.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a blanket.

noun

1. a filamentous alga often found in ponds

noun

1. plural of blankness

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

noun

1. plural of bleakness

noun

1. plural of blitzkrieg

noun

1. (US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
2. (informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
3. (informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
4. (slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
5. A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
6. A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.

adj

1. Resembling a blockhead; stupid

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blockhead

noun

1. plural of blockhouse

noun

1. (medicine, obsolete) Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.
2. A stroke or blow with a weapon that draws blood.

noun

1. (by extension) Any parasite.
2. (by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
3. A vampire.
4. An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
5. The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).

noun

1. plural of bluejacket

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bodycheck

noun

1. (US) A whiskey with a beer chaser.
2. A person qualified to make or repair boilers.

noun

1. A shrike endemic to Southern Africa, with olive upper parts, a yellow underside, and a deep black gorget.