HANGMAN SOLVER

adv

1. (nautical) On the aft side; in the stern.
2. (nautical, obsolete) Backwards.

prep

1. (nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.

noun

1. (dated, electronics) A unit of capacitance equal to one billion (10⁹) farads, used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units

noun

1. plural of abfarad

adj

1. (pharmacology) Producing miscarriage.

noun

1. (pharmacology) A drug or an agent that induces an abortion.

adj

1. (medicine) Inducing or increasing absorption (of a drug).

noun

1. (medicine) Any such medicine that induces absorption.

adj

1. (rare) Full of abuse; abusive.

adv

1. In an abuseful manner; in a manner that abuses.

noun

1. The characteristic of being abuseful.

adj

1. Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

adj

1. (botany) Shaped like a saucer or shallow cup.

adj

1. Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid.

noun

1. (pathology) A benign glandular and fibrous (connective) neoplasm

noun

1. (pathology) a benign nodular microscopic lesion of the prostate consisting of acinar tissue with increased stroma
2. (pathology) a nodular, benign breast lesion consisting of hyperplastic distorted lobules of acinar tissue with increased collagenous stroma

adj

1. Having no fever, without a fever.

noun

1. plural of affability

noun

1. The state or quality of being affable, friendly, or approachable.

adj

1. Mild; benign.
2. Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.

noun

1. The state or quality of being affable.

adv

1. in an affable manner

adj

1. (rare, poetic) Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made.

noun

1. The condition of being affectable.

adj

1. Able to be affected.

noun

1. The quality or state of being affectible.

adj

1. Alternative form of affectable

verb

1. (obsolete) To enfeeble.

adj

1. Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.

adj

1. Able to be affirmed.

adv

1. In an affirmable manner

adj

1. Capable of being affixed.

adj

1. Able to be afforded; inexpensive or reasonably priced.

adj

1. Suitable for being afforested.

noun

1. (medicine) A blood disorder in which the blood does not clot normally due to a lack of, or a malfunction involving, fibrinogen.

noun

1. A Persian ewer.

noun

1. (hydrology) a stream, conduit, pond or reservoir, of a hydroelectric power plant at the outlet of the turbines.

noun

1. (music) A secondary, weaker half of a musical beat.

noun

1. The placenta and other material expelled via the birth canal following childbirth or parturition in mammals.

noun

1. plural of afterbirth

noun

1. plural of afterbody

noun

1. (astronautics) A section or piece of a launch vehicle, rocket, or spacecraft that enters the atmosphere unprotected behind the nose cone or other body that is protected for entry.
2. (astronomy) A companion body that trails a satellite or spacecraft.
3. (nautical) The part of a vessel abaft midships.
4. The afterpart of a vehicle.

noun

1. (anatomy) A posterior subdivision of the hindbrain; the myelencephalon

noun

1. (aviation) A device in a jet engine which injects fuel into the exhaust system to increase the thrust.

noun

1. plural of afterburner

noun

1. (aviation) The injection of extra fuel into a jet engine downstream of the turbines in order to achieve extra thrust.

noun

1. (obsolete) The act or process of making white.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of albify

adj

1. (botany) Having white flowers.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make white.

verb

1. present participle of albify

adj

1. Supplying albumen.

adj

1. Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.

adj

1. Having the form of a developed alphabet or its letters, as opposed to crude pictographic symbols.

noun

1. An amberjack.

noun

1. plural of amberfish

adj

1. Containing or yielding amber.

adj

1. (zoology) Having the form of ambulacra.

adj

1. That resembles an amoeba/ameba

adj

1. Alternative form of amebiform

adj

1. (mineralogy) Bearing amphibole.

adj

1. Capable of being amplified.

noun

1. (pathology) A benign neoplasm that affects fibrous tissue.

adj

1. Preceding a fever

adj

1. (pharmacology) Countering fever.

noun

1. (pharmacology) A medicine or substance that counters fever.

adj

1. Resembling a tree in shape or appearance.

noun

1. (pathology) The medical condition caused by deficiency of riboflavin.

adj

1. (crystallography) Having a particular kind of fibrosity in which fibers have high tensile strength and flexibility

noun

1. (mineralogy) Any of asbestos-like forms of several minerals.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of babyfy

adj

1. Made babyproof.

noun

1. The act or process of making babyproof.

adj

1. Producing berries.

adj

1. Having the form of a berry.

adj

1. Shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped

noun

1. Such a bacillus

noun

1. (music) A lever in the coupler of an organ.
2. (wrestling) A fall or throw on the back.

noun

1. A pig yielding significant backfat.

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 backfield

noun

1. (US) Reserve support personnel.
2. (US) That which backfills; a replacement.
3. (literature) Material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action.
4. The material that has been used to refill an excavation.

verb

1. (US) To provide reserve support.
2. (US) To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.
3. (archaeology) To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and/or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.
4. (gaming) To enter an online game that's already in progress, replacing a player who left early.
5. To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfill

noun

1. A machine for refilling an excavation.

noun

1. The process by which something is backfilled.

verb

1. present participle of backfill

noun

1. plural of backfill

verb

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

noun

1. (firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire
2. A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
3. An explosion in other equipment.
4. An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.

verb

1. (of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc.) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
2. (of an engine) To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
3. To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.

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. A failure that leads to further misfortune.
2. The occurrence of a backfire.

verb

1. present participle of backfire

verb

1. present participle of backfit

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. (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
2. (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

verb

1. To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
2. To perform a backflip (rotation of body).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backflip

verb

1. present participle of backflip

noun

1. The flow of a fluid (through a pipe etc.) in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended.

verb

1. To flow in the wrong or backward direction.

adj

1. flowing backwards

verb

1. present participle of backflow

noun

1. (UK, dialectal) A friend at one's back; a backer; one who does his best for another; a supporter.
2. (UK, dialectal) A hangnail.
3. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A false friend; a secret enemy.

noun

1. (agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow

verb

1. (agriculture) To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.

noun

1. (computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.
2. (surfing) The situation where an incoming wave passes from shallower water to a deeper area, making the wave less steep and potentially unsurfable.

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

adj

1. Shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped.

noun

1. (South Africa) Either species of Polyprion, the wreckfishes.

noun

1. (Tyneside) blank

verb

1. (golf) To strike the ground with the bottom of the club when taking a stroke.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To bark; yelp.
3. To hit or strike, especially with something flat or soft.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of baff

noun

1. plural of baffie
2. plural of baffy

Proper noun

1. A region of Nunavut
2. An island in Nunavut, Baffin Island.
3. Baffin Bay.

verb

1. present participle of baff

noun

1. (US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
2. A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
3. An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.

verb

1. (intransitive) To struggle in vain.
2. (now rare) To foil; to thwart.
3. (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
4. (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
5. To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.

adj

1. (not comparable) having baffles
2. thoroughly confused, puzzled

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of baffle

noun

1. (countable) Something that causes a state of confusion or puzzlement.
2. (uncountable) The state or result of being baffled, puzzled, or confused.

noun

1. plural of bafflement

noun

1. One of the projections inside a dice tower that serve to deflect the die unpredictably.
2. Something that causes one to be baffled, particularly a difficult puzzle or riddle.

noun

1. plural of baffler

noun

1. plural of baffle

adj

1. Puzzling, perplexing, bewildering.
2. frustrating

noun

1. An act of foiling or thwarting.

verb

1. present participle of baffle

adv

1. In a baffling or puzzling manner.

noun

1. The characteristic of being baffling; mysteriousness.

noun

1. (slang, Nigeria) fashionable clothes

verb

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

noun

1. (golf) An obsolete wooden golf club with high loft.
2. (golf) The 4-wood or 5-wood