HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative spelling of abhisheka

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to Abkhazia, a disputed territory in Georgia.

Noun

1. A native or inhabitant of Abkhazia, a region in the Caucasus.

Proper noun

1. The Abkhaz language, spoken in Abkhazia, a region in the Caucasus.

adv

1. On the back of a horse; horseback.

noun

1. (pathology) fusion of the margins of the eyelids

noun

1. The fear of ankylosis.

adj

1. (mechanics) Countering or preventing backlash (jarring reflex motion in machinery).

noun

1. (By association) A stereotypical, Eastern European peasant grandmother-type figure.
2. A traditional floral headscarf worn by an Eastern European woman, tied under the chin.
3. An old woman, especially one of Eastern European descent.
4. Russian doll, matryoshka

noun

1. plural of babushka

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bachelor.

noun

1. Any pain or ache in the back.

noun

1. plural of backache

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 backbencher

noun

1. plural of backbench

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

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backchat

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcheck

verb

1. present participle of backcheck

noun

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

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.

adj

1. (ice hockey) Of a play that uses the back side of the hockey stick
2. (of handwriting) Slanting to the left.
3. (of strokes or throws) In the backhand style

noun

1. (Ultimate Frisbee) the standard throw; a throw during which the disc begins on the off-hand side and travels across the chest to be released from the opposite side.
2. (surfing) the hand towards the back of the board.
3. (tennis) a stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
4. Handwriting that leans to the left
5. The reverse side of the human hand.

verb

1. to execute a backhand stroke or throw
2. to slap with the back of one's hand

adj

1. (of writing) inclining to the left
2. Backwards, turned around.
3. Indirect.
4. Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
5. Involving a backward flip of the hand.
6. Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
7. Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
8. With the back of the hand.

adv

1. In a backhanded manner.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backhand

noun

1. (of writing) Leftward slant.
2. Backwardness of direction.
3. Deceit or neglect.
4. Indirection.
5. Insincerity, irony, or sarcasm.
6. The use of a backward flip of the hand.

noun

1. (informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
2. (racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
3. (racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
4. (surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
5. A blow with the back of the hand.
6. A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.

noun

1. plural of backhander

verb

1. present participle of backhand

noun

1. plural of backhand

verb

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

noun

1. (broadcasting) Uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or radio station, network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished show.
2. (military) The shipment of material to or through an area from which the material had previously been shipped.
3. (transport) A return trip after delivery of cargo.
4. (travel, aviation, fare construction) Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point).

verb

1. To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backhaul

verb

1. present participle of backhaul

verb

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

noun

1. (soccer) A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
2. (wrestling) A method of tripping or throwing by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back.

verb

1. (soccer) To perform such a kick.
2. (wrestling) To perform such a trip or throw.

noun

1. (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader and an excavator/digger.
2. A piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth. Used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.

verb

1. To excavate using such equipment.

noun

1. plural of backhoe

noun

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

noun

1. plural of backhouse

noun

1. (figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
2. (mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
3. A sudden backward motion.
4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

verb

1. To cause or set off a backlash.

adj

1. Having a backlash.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlash

noun

1. A participant in a backlash

noun

1. plural of backlasher

noun

1. plural of backlash

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backlash

noun

1. The illumination of a photographic subject from the rear, causing edges to glow while other areas remain in shadow.

verb

1. present participle of backlight

noun

1. A rushing backward; a retreat.

noun

1. plural of backrush

noun

1. A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch their own back.

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

noun

1. Alternative spelling of baksheesh.

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. (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.

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. plural of backslash

noun

1. plural of backsplash

noun

1. (sewing) A type of sewing stitch where the stitch goes backwards on the top side of the fabric and doubles forward on the bottom, coming out farther in front, then repeats. The backstitch is a very tight and secure stitch, and also looks very neat.

verb

1. To sew with a backstitch.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstitch

noun

1. plural of backstitch

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backstitch

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.

noun

1. plural of backstretch.

noun

1. (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
2. (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
3. The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
4. The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
5. The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.

verb

1. (transitive) To affect with backwash.
2. To clean the oil from wool after combing.
3. To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

noun

1. (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.

noun

1. plural of backwash

noun

1. A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

Proper noun

1. A region comprising parts of what is now northeastern Afghanistan and southeastern Tajikistan.
2. A province of Afghanistan, Badakhshan Province.
3. Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, or Kūhistoni Badakhshon, a province of Tajikistan.

noun

1. (rail transport, informal) A fireman (person who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler on a railroad locomotive).

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Bakery.
2. A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
3. A building principally containing ovens.

noun

1. plural of bakehouse

noun

1. The role or status of a baker.

noun

1. A shop where baked goods are made and sold.

noun

1. plural of bakeshop

noun

1. (military slang) A minor wound that is severe enough to get a soldier sent away from the front.
2. in the Middle East, southwest Asia and Eastern Europe: a bribe or tip.

verb

1. To bribe with a baksheesh.

noun

1. plural of baksheesh

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bakshish

noun

1. plural of bakshish

verb

1. present participle of bakshish

Proper noun

1. An ancient city and centre of Buddhism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism and capital of Bactria.
2. One of the 34 provinces in Afghanistan, Balkh Province.

adj

1. (obsolete, rare) uneven; ridgy

noun

1. (baseball, chiefly in Chicago) A person who specializes in catching home-run and foul balls.
2. (sports) A player who handles the ball skilfully

noun

1. plural of ballhawk

noun

1. (India, historical) A warehouse.
2. (India, historical) The office of a harbormaster or other port authority.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bashi-bazouk

Proper noun

1. A republic of Russia in the south of the country, with capital Ufa.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bashlyk

noun

1. A protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by Turks and Cossacks.

noun

1. plural of bashlyk

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. (biology) plankton living in the bathyal zone

noun

1. (archaeology) An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
2. (nautical) A protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship.

verb

1. (archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.

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. present participle of bechalk

verb

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

Proper noun

1. of origin.

noun

1. (Judaism) A ritual inspection or examination.

noun

1. Alternative form of beka

verb

1. (transitive, rare) To make a knight of.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beknight

verb

1. present participle of beknight

verb

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

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.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of benchmark

noun

1. A performance measurement according to a benchmark.

verb

1. present participle of benchmark

noun

1. plural of benchmark

verb

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

noun

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

Noun

1. A member of one of the historical aboriginal peoples of Canada.

Proper noun

1. The extinct language of these people.