HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. The act by which something is backdated.

verb

1. present participle of backdate

verb

1. present participle 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 backfield

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfill

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfire

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backflip

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.

verb

1. present participle of backhand

noun

1. (transport) The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.

verb

1. present participle of backload

noun

1. The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.

verb

1. (US) present participle of backpedal

adj

1. (board sports) Approaching an obstacle backward

noun

1. (euphemistic) A person's buttocks.
2. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
3. (obsolete) The back side of a page: a verso.
4. The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.

noun

1. plural of backside

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backslide

verb

1. past participle of backslide

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 recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
2. She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.

noun

1. plural of backslider

noun

1. plural of backslide

verb

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

adj

1. sliding back

noun

1. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.

verb

1. present participle of backslide

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstitch

noun

1. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. (obsolete) In the London Stock Exchange: a fee paid by a seller on settlement day either to the buyer or to a third party who lends stock, when the seller wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
2. In full normal backwardation: the situation in a futures market where the price for future delivery of a commodity (the forward price) is lower than the price for immediate delivery (the spot price) or nearer delivery, generally arising from a near-term shortage of the commodity.
3. The situation in a stock market where the offer price for stock is lower than the bid price.

noun

1. (nautical) The flow of air so deflected

verb

1. (nautical) To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel
2. (transitive) To wind backwards.

verb

1. present participle of backwind

noun

1. The quality of being backwoodsy.

adj

1. Similar to a badger.
2. Similar to that of a badger.

noun

1. Alternative form of bidarka

noun

1. plural of baidarka

Proper noun

1. A major city in California, USA

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bakshish

noun

1. Alternative form of baldric

adj

1. Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).

noun

1. plural of baldrick

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanise

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanize

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a ballad.

noun

1. The land by a riverbank.

noun

1. plural of bankside

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bard.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of batik

noun

1. plural of baudekin

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bead.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a beard.

verb

1. present participle of bedarken

noun

1. An ornament.

verb

1. present participle of bedeck

noun

1. (Judaism) A ritual inspection or examination.

adj

1. Resembling a bed.

noun

1. The skill or act of making beds (arranging the sheets, etc.).

noun

1. A tick or bag made of cloth, used for enclosing the materials of a bed.

noun

1. plural of bedtick

adj

1. Covered in ink.

adj

1. Wearing a kilt.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bekiss

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beknight

adj

1. Beloved; liked.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of belike

noun

1. A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage.

noun

1. plural of benedick

adj

1. Sprinkled.

adj

1. Having whiskers

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bicker

noun

1. A kayak constructed by covering a light wooden frame (lashed together with sinew) in sea lion hides.

noun

1. plural of bidarka

noun

1. Archaic form of bidarka.

noun

1. plural of bidarkee

adj

1. forked into two; bifurcate

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bike

adj

1. Wearing a bikini.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bilk

noun

1. A technique consisting of measuring a person's quantifiable bodily functions, such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, sweat gland activity, and muscle tension, then conveying the information to the person in real-time.

noun

1. plural of biofeedback

Noun

1. A young bird.

adj

1. Similar to a bird or an aspect of a bird; reminiscent of birds; avian.

adv

1. (postpositive) In the manner of a bird; as, to fly.

Proper noun

1. An English topographic surname
2. Either of F. E. Smith, Frederick Smith or Frederick Smith the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Earls of Birkenhead
3. the town itself.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bivouac

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackbird

noun

1. A person involved in blackbirding (kidnapping Pacific islanders as cheap labour).
2. A ship used for blackbirding.

noun

1. plural of blackbirder

noun

1. (UK, Australia) The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.

verb

1. present participle of blackbird

noun

1. plural of blackbird

verb

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

noun

1. plural of blackbody

noun

1. Blackguardly behaviour or language.

verb

1. To make blackguardly.

adj

1. Being on a blacklist, or having been shunned and rejected due to information (true or false) being spread about scandalous activities or ideas, especially controversial political opinions.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacklist

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackmail

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bladder.

adj

1. Resembling a blade

noun

1. (biology) A round, flattened region of cells from which the embryo of many vertebrates begins to develop in the fertilized ovum; a germinal disk

noun

1. (obsolete) One with bad eyes.
2. A dim-witted or stupid person; an idiot.

noun

1. plural of blinkard

adj

1. (Appalachia) Sour.
2. Affected with blinking.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blink

adj

1. (figuratively) Having tunnel vision; unable to see what is happening around one.
2. Wearing blinkers or blinders.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blinker

verb

1. present participle of blockade

adj

1. stupid

noun

1. The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity.

adj

1. Resembling blood.

adj

1. (by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
2. (of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a board.

noun

1. A diminutive of body, forming part of the exclamatory phrase "ods bodikin", a corruption of God's body.

adv

1. Closely wedged between two people.

noun

1. (printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters letters from a column or page in making corrections.
2. A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
3. A hairpin.
4. A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
5. A type of long thin arrowhead.

noun

1. plural of bodkin

verb

1. present participle of bodycheck

noun

1. A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.

noun

1. plural of bookbindery

noun

1. plural of bookbinder

noun

1. A building where books are assembled and bound.

noun

1. The art, craft or process of binding books