HANGMAN SOLVER

Proper noun

1. A city in southwest Nigeria.

adj

1. Opposing banks (financial institutions).

noun

1. A kind of large lemur, the indri (Indri indri).

noun

1. (music) The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.

noun

1. One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.

verb

1. (informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
2. To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
3. To speak badly of an absent individual.

adj

1. (UK dialectal) Retrospective.

adv

1. (UK dialectal, of time) Long ago; in the past.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
2. (UK dialectal) Retrospect; hindsight.
3. (UK dialectal) backwater
4. (figuratively) Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
5. A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
6. A cast or throw back.

verb

1. (UK dialectal) To change retrospectively; reverse.
2. To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.

noun

1. (Britain) Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.

verb

1. To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.

noun

1. An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date.

verb

1. To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date.

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.

adj

1. farthest back

noun

1. plural of backout

noun

1. A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.
2. The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back seat

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) to attack someone (especially verbally) unfairly in a deceitful, underhand, or treacherous manner, especially when they're not present in the place or situation that it happens. (as if stabbing them in the back). See backbite.

noun

1. (nautical) A part of the rigging of a sailing ship extending from masthead the top of the mast to the back of the ship; they support the strain on all upper masts and provide additional support to the shrouds when the wind is abaft the beam.
2. A strengthening or supporting piece that is built into the back of something.

noun

1. (obsolete) A baker.

noun

1. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

noun

1. (US) Verbal impudence or argumentative discourse, given in response.

verb

1. (transitive) To respond to in an aggressively disputatious, often sarcastic or insolent manner.

noun

1. Alternative form of Bakelite

noun

1. (obsolete) Any baked product (such as a pie)

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.

adj

1. superlative form of balky: most balky

noun

1. (geology) A form of trachyandesite

noun

1. (now historical) A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary.
2. A piece of paper currency.

adj

1. (finance) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
2. Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
3. Having been legally declared insolvent.

noun

1. (UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
2. One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.

verb

1. (transitive) To force into bankruptcy.

adj

1. superlative form of barky: most barky

noun

1. Baskets collectively.
2. The process of weaving unspun vegetable fibers to make a basket.

verb

1. present participle of batik

adj

1. superlative form of beaky: most beaky

noun

1. plural of beatnik

noun

1. plural of berakah

verb

1. (transitive) To mark or cover with streaks.

verb

1. present participle of betake

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.

adj

1. superlative form of black: most black

noun

1. (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
2. (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
3. A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
4. A temporary loss of consciousness.
5. A temporary loss of memory.
6. An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.

verb

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of black out

noun

1. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
2. (US, countable) A road so paved.
3. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).

verb

1. (US) To pave with blacktop.

adj

1. superlative form of blank: most blank

noun

1. plural of blanket

verb

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

adj

1. (dated, euphemistic) damnable, damned
2. Resembling or related to a blanket.

adj

1. superlative form of bleak: most bleak

noun

1. (by extension) A pole or rod with such a hook at one end.
2. A hook attached to a pole used for pulling or pushing boats, rafts, logs or other objects to or from the side of a boat.

adj

1. Resembling a boat

noun

1. A schoolfellow; an associate in studying.

noun

1. a V-shaped, or forked, device for pulling off boots.

noun

1. plural of bracket

verb

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

adj

1. Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to mainstream success.

noun

1. (aviation) The point at which visibility returns after passing through cloud.
2. A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
3. A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
4. An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
5. An escape from prison.
6. An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).

noun

1. (figurative) A criticism or uncomplimentary remark.
2. A piece of brick used as a weapon, especially if thrown, or placed in something like a sock and used as a club.

verb

1. (transitive) To attack by throwing brickbats.
2. (transitive, figurative) To assail with criticism.

noun

1. (now chiefly historical) A type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering.

noun

1. plural of britska

noun

1. plural of britzka

noun

1. A vertical support for a furnace or boiler, to give it rigidity.

noun

1. The tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.

noun

1. Especially, one who shares a bunk bed.
2. One who sleeps in the same area as another person.

noun

1. (nautical) A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.

noun

1. plural of cutback

noun

1. plural of cutbank

noun

1. A database (collection of organized information in a regular structure)
2. An organization dedicated to maintaining a database.

noun

1. A book in which appointments are kept, each listed beside the day when it occurs.

noun

1. A motor car having a continuous slope from the roof to the rear

noun

1. plural of fatback

noun

1. A small, affordable sailboat, rigged as a sloop.

noun

1. (archaic, Scilly Isles) The greater shearwater or hagdon.

noun

1. plural of hackbut

noun

1. (informal, by extension) The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.
2. A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.

verb

1. (intransitive) To march in jackboots.
2. (transitive) To stamp on with a jackboot.

noun

1. (sailing) Any sailboat having a keel (as opposed to a centerboard or daggerboard).

noun

1. plural of ketubah

noun

1. (archaic) The plant comfrey.

noun

1. Alternative form of cottabus

noun

1. A plant, bush jasmine (Chrysojasminum fruticans, syn. Jasminum fruticans).
2. One who excites contentions and quarrels; an instigator.

noun

1. plural of outback

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of outbake

verb

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

verb

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

noun

1. (figurative) An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.
2. A sudden increase.
3. An eruption; the sudden appearance of a rash, disease, etc.
4. Synonym of breakout (“escape from prison”)

verb

1. (intransitive) To burst out or break forth.

noun

1. plural of sackbut

noun

1. Alternative spelling of sackbut

noun

1. (American football) A small lightweight running back valued for speed rather than power.

noun

1. plural of setback

noun

1. (American football) A particular position in American football, often a running back who lines up near the line of scrimmage and can function as a wide receiver.
2. (Canadian football) A particular position in Canadian football, similar to a hybrid between wide receiver and running back. This position is more common in the Canadian game than its American counterpart.

noun

1. A softcover or paperback book.

noun

1. levee, dyke

noun

1. plural of subtask

noun

1. (American football) A running back or halfback who lines up furthest to the rear in an I formation.
2. (UK) A line of motor vehicles causing or the result of traffic congestion or a traffic jam.

adj

1. Capable of being taken.

noun

1. (rare) A storybook.

adj

1. Capable of being talked (to or about) (construed with a preposition).
2. Capable of offering engaging conversation.

noun

1. Alternative form of tambuki

noun

1. plural of tanbark

noun

1. plural of tieback

noun

1. A manufacturer of tubs.

noun

1. (attributive) Part of a garment that is turned back.
2. The act of turning back a boat containing immigrants.
3. The strap from the hames to the hip-strap, on a horse.

noun

1. Alternative form of waterbuck

noun

1. plural of wetback; a slur towards persons of Mexican descent in the United States

noun

1. A boat used for purposes other than recreation, passenger transport, or combat.