HANGMAN SOLVER

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.

intj

1. Synonym of alack

adj

1. Relating to aleukemia.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to ankylosis.

adj

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

noun

1. An alcoholic drink similar to apple brandy and calvados, made by freeze-distilling ("jacking") apple cider.

noun

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

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.

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backland

verb

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

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. (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.

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. 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.

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.

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of becloak

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of befleck

verb

1. To add speckles.

noun

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

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

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
2. (Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
3. (chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
4. A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).
5. Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).

verb

1. (Internet slang, derogatory, of a white person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
2. (fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.

noun

1. A tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium

noun

1. plural of blackgum

noun

1. (countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.
2. (countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
3. (uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.

noun

1. plural of blacking

noun

1. (aviation) A tool of leather filled with shot (or similar), resembling the weapon, used for shaping sheet metal.
2. (card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over.
3. (card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.
4. (card games) A variant of switch where each player is initially dealt the same number of cards, usually seven, and when one player plays a black jack the player whose turn comes next has to pick up that many cards, unless they play a red jack (as this normally cancels a black jack).
5. (pharmacology, UK, Australia, rare) Ammonium bituminosulfonate.
6. (weaponry) A small, flat, blunt, usually leather-covered weapon loaded with heavy material such as lead or ball bearings, intended to inflict a blow to the head that renders the victim unconscious with diminished risk of lasting cranial trauma.
7. A blackjack oak.
8. Any of a series of hard, dark soils, often considered low quality, but suitable for growing certain crops such as cotton.
9. Any of several species of weed of genus Bidens, such as Bidens pilosa, in the family Compositae.
10. The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and crossed bones on a black field (the Jolly Roger).

verb

1. To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.

noun

1. The land making up the Texas Blackland Prairies, a temperate grassland ecoregion in Texas with rich, dark soil.

noun

1. Alternative form of black lead

verb

1. To cover, treat or polish with graphite

noun

1. plural of blackleg

verb

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

noun

1. (law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned.

verb

1. (transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

noun

1. (England law, historical) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
2. (archaic) A form of protection money (or corn, cattle, etc.) anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to the allies of robbers in order to be spared from pillage.
3. Compromising material that can be used to extort someone, dirt.
4. The extortion of money or favours by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.

verb

1. (Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.
2. (transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.

noun

1. A redneck of black ethnicity.

noun

1. The experiences and culture of African-American people.
2. The quality of being evil or dismal.
3. The state of being of African descent.
4. The state or quality of being black in colour.

noun

1. plural of blackout

noun

1. A North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black patch on its head

Proper noun

1. A town and resort in Lancashire, England

noun

1. Colicroot, Aletris farinosa
2. Culver's root, Veronicastrum virginicum
3. Either of two species in the genus Pterocaulon: Pterocaulon pycnostachyum and Pterocaulon virgatum
4. Several plant diseases caused by fungi in the genus Aphanomyces causing that cause roots to rot and turn black.

noun

1. A spice plant with aromatic black seeds, Nigella sativa

noun

1. (Jamaica) Haemulon carbonarium
2. (South Africa, Namibia) Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus
3. (UK) Salmo trutta
4. A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon.
5. A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua)
6. A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains.

verb

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

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 blesbuck

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blockade

noun

1. A person who blockades
2. A ship used in blockading

noun

1. plural of blockade

verb

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

noun

1. plural of blockage

noun

1. (colloquial) A stupid person.
2. A sideshow performer who hammers nails or similar items through his or her nostril into the nasal cavity; human blockhead.

verb

1. (rare) To behave in a stupid manner.
2. To perform as a human blockhead.

noun

1. (by extension) The approximate place where the toe of the bat touches the pitch when a batsman is taking guard.
2. (cricket) A small depression in the pitch caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the point where they have taken block.

adj

1. superlative form of blocky: most blocky

adj

1. Having an oblong shape

noun

1. (nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)

noun

1. plural of blowback

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of bone black

noun

1. (dated) A shoeshine boy; a person who shines shoes as an occupation.

verb

1. (transitive) To shine shoes.

verb

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

Proper noun

1. a town in Berkshire, England.

noun

1. A kiln in which bricks are baked.

adj

1. Resembling a brick

noun

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of brick wall

noun

1. (by extension) A large quantity.
2. The quantity contained in a bucket.

adv

1. In a buckish manner.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buckler

noun

1. (archaic) A net used for catching deer.

noun

1. plural of bucktail

noun

1. plural of bullneck

verb

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

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cabin.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cable.

noun

1. plural of cakewalk

noun

1. plural of calfskin

noun

1. plural of callback

adj

1. Wearing a calpack.

noun

1. (countable) A camelback sofa or chair.
2. (countable) A flexible water container worn on the back.
3. (countable) A house with a second storey that does not completely cover the ground floor.
4. (countable, rail transport) A railway locomotive that has its cab in the middle as opposed to at the end.
5. (uncountable) A type of rubber used in tyre restoration.
6. (uncountable) The backs of camels.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a camel.

adj

1. Resembling candy, especially in flavor or appearance

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a canon in music.

adv

1. (archaic) In a carking manner; so as to weary or distress.

Proper noun

1. The Catskill Mountains

noun

1. plural of caulking

noun

1. A wing of a prison containing cells for the inmates.

verb

1. present participle of chackle

adj

1. Resembling chaff.

adj

1. Having the form of a chain