HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative form of bycoket

adj

1. (nautical) Located on deck.

adv

1. (nautical) On deck.

noun

1. The area on a boat that is abovedeck.

adv

1. (nautical) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.
2. (nautical) Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

noun

1. Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans.

adj

1. Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.

noun

1. Archaic form of bokmakierie.

noun

1. plural of backache

noun

1. plural of backbeat

noun

1. plural of backbend

noun

1. A person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person's back: that is, out of their sight and hearing.

noun

1. plural of backbite

verb

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

noun

1. (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
2. (medicine) A spine board.
3. (nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship
4. (tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.
5. A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.

verb

1. (medicine, transitive) To place (a patient) on a spine board.

adj

1. Having a spine.

noun

1. plural of backbone

verb

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

verb

1. (computing, artificial intelligence) To perform inferences, starting with a list of goals (or a hypothesis) and working backwards from the consequent to the antecedent.

noun

1. plural of backchat

verb

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

noun

1. The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.

noun

1. (basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.

noun

1. (genetics) An organism produced by such a crossing.
2. (genetics) The act of crossing a hybrid with one of its parents.
3. (juggling) Alternative form of back cross

verb

1. (genetics) To cross a hybrid with one of its parents.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backdate

noun

1. plural of backdate

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backdrop

noun

1. (American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage occupied before the snap by the team on offense.
2. (baseball, rare) Synonym of outfield.
3. (soccer, US) The area behind either the offensive or defensive line.
4. The players occupying this area.

noun

1. plural of backfill

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfire

noun

1. plural of backfire

verb

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

noun

1. Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”)
2. The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.

noun

1. plural of backhand

verb

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

verb

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

noun

1. (US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
2. (now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.

noun

1. (architecture) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

noun

1. plural of backland

verb

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

noun

1. An order that cannot be currently filled or shipped, but is requested nonetheless for when the item becomes available again.

verb

1. To place such an order

noun

1. plural of backpack

verb

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

verb

1. (intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
2. (intransitive) To step backwards.
3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.

noun

1. A decorated comb that attaches a veil to the back of a bride's head.
2. A large tattoo on a person's back.
3. A piece or plate of armour protecting a person's back.

noun

1. (electronics) A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.

noun

1. (UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
2. (underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
3. A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.
4. A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
5. A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
6. Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.

noun

1. plural of backrest

noun

1. plural of backseat

noun

1. (grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
2. (statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.

verb

1. (grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of baksheesh

noun

1. plural of backside

noun

1. (surveying) A measurement of a previously shot point, used to set the angle to zero when occupying a new position.
2. (surveying) A measurement or reading taken back towards a point of known elevation, used to calculate the height of the surveying instrument (theodolite, transit, total station).
3. The rear sight of a firearm.

verb

1. (surveying) To shoot a backsight.

verb

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

noun

1. (computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
2. The punctuation mark \.
3. |passage= […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).}}

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.

noun

1. (dance) A dance move in which the feet are alternately slid back and the heels lifted, giving the illusion of walking forwards while actually moving backwards.
2. A backward regression; a reverting back to a worse state.

verb

1. (Christianity) To revert back into a life of sin after being saved.
2. To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
3. To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.

noun

1. (computing) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.
2. (computing) The non-printable text character representing a backspace.
3. The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.

verb

1. (computing) To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.
2. (computing) To remove a character behind a cursor.

noun

1. plural of backspin

noun

1. (nautical) An early navigational instrument for measuring the altitude of the sun and hence calculating latitude.

adj

1. Relating to, or situated in the area behind a stage.
2. Secret, concealed from the public.

adv

1. Out of view of the public.
2. Towards the area behind the stage.

noun

1. The area behind a stage out of view of the audience where performers wait to give their show; especially that of the dressing rooms.
2. The private portion of the space used by a business or enterprise.

adj

1. clandestine, secret or furtive

noun

1. The backstairs (stairs at the rear of a building).

noun

1. plural of backstay

noun

1. (field hockey, often attributively) An illegal shot in which a player strikes the ball with the rounded face of the stick in field hockey.

noun

1. plural of backstop

verb

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

noun

1. (drugs) The rolling a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion
2. (firearms) The rearmost surface applied to the grip especially of a pistol below a possible beavertail.
3. A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
4. A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
5. An anchoring strap, passed around the waist or hips, for a small loom.
6. The backbone of a book.

verb

1. To apply or make into a backstrap.

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.

noun

1. (computing) A stack trace.

verb

1. (by extension) To find the cause of something by examining past events
2. (computing) To examine a stack trace

noun

1. the act of backtracking

verb

1. (aviation) To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
2. To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
3. To repeat or review work already done.
4. To retrace one's steps.

noun

1. A small path or trail that is not used regularly.
2. The path over which one has already traveled.

verb

1. To backtrack along a trail.

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. plural of backyard

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 baldrick

noun

1. (printing, historical) The handle of a printer's ball.

noun

1. plural of bankcard

noun

1. Misspelling of bankruptcy.

noun

1. An Irish yeasted bread with sultanas and raisins.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barrack

noun

1. One who barracks.

adj

1. Chalk-covered or chalky.
2. Having a surface that has been written on in chalk.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bechalk

noun

1. plural of beckoner

adj

1. That beckons.

noun

1. Such a wave or similar action.

verb

1. present participle of beckon

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of becloak

noun

1. An ornament.

verb

1. present participle of bedeck

noun

1. plural of beefcake

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of befleck

adj

1. Wearing a frock.

verb

1. present participle of bemock

noun

1. (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
2. A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
3. A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.

verb

1. (intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
2. (transitive, intransitive, followed by against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.

noun

1. the structure supporting a model railway layout
2. work performed at a workbench

noun

1. plural of benedick

verb

1. To add speckles.

noun

1. plural of bickerer

noun

1. Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.

verb

1. present participle of bicker

noun

1. (dated) A felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler.

noun

1. A piece of this bark, formerly used for writing on.
2. The bark of the birch tree, especially the white bark of the paper birch, Betula papyrifera.

noun

1. plural of bitstock

noun

1. plural of bivouack

verb

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

Proper noun

1. A placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.

noun

1. (UK) the great black-backed gull.
2. (zoology) An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee.

noun

1. (countable) A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
2. (countable) A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
3. (countable) A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
4. (uncountable) A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
5. A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.

verb

1. (transitive) To ostracize.
2. (transitive) To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.

noun

1. (mineralogy) An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter, valuable as an iron ore.

noun

1. (slang, derogatory, historical, among slavers and pirates) A native of the South Pacific islands.
2. A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
3. A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).

verb

1. To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force

noun

1. (physics) a theoretical body, approximated by a hole in a hollow black sphere, that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation and reflects none; it has a characteristic emission spectrum

noun

1. plural of blackboy

noun

1. An Indian antelope, Antilope cervicapra

Proper noun

1. A town in Lancashire, England

noun

1. (chiefly Australia) Any of several Australian eucalyptus trees with a dark fibrous bark towards the base of the trunk, especially Eucalyptus pilularis.

noun

1. plural of blackcap

Noun

1. A member of the clergy.

noun

1. The male black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix).

noun

1. Choke damp.

adj

1. (food) Synonym of charred.
2. (steel) Synonym of blued.
3. Darkened to the point of appearing black; as:

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacken

noun

1. One who blackens.

noun

1. plural of blackeye

noun

1. (countable) A sheep of the Scottish Blackface breed.
2. (uncountable) A style of makeup in which a non-black person blackens their face, usually in order to portray a black person.

noun

1. plural of blackfin