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.

noun

1. Alternative form of baldric

adj

1. Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).

noun

1. plural of baldrick

noun

1. An ornament.

verb

1. present participle of bedeck

noun

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

noun

1. plural of bedtick

noun

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

noun

1. plural of benedick

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bicker

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

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

verb

1. present participle of blockade

adj

1. stupid

noun

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

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.

verb

1. present participle of bodycheck

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bootlick

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting bradykinesia

Proper noun

1. A town in Colorado, USA
2. an unincorporated community in Indiana, in the United States
3. A village/town in Michigan, US.
4. A city and county seat in Minnesota, US.
5. A city/town in Missouri, US.
6. A town in Oklahoma, US.
7. A city in Texas, USA

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of brickbat

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of brick

noun

1. A place where bricks are made; a brickyard.

noun

1. (Australia) A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.

noun

1. plural of brickfield

noun

1. A factory where bricks are produced or distributed

noun

1. (archaic) Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.

noun

1. (slang, early 20th century) A thorough beating

verb

1. (transitive) To administer a beating to

adj

1. Wearing clothes made from buckskin.

noun

1. (computer graphics) Synonym of checkerboard rendering

verb

1. present participle of checkerboard

noun

1. (childish) A chicken or similar bird.
2. Term of endearment for a young child or loved one.

noun

1. Synonym of laughing kookaburra

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cockbill

noun

1. The male of a game bird, especially of a pheasant.
2. The male of any bird.

adj

1. Idiotic.

noun

1. The quality of being crackbrained; idiocy.

noun

1. (dialect, dated) A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).

noun

1. a small grebe, the little grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis.

noun

1. plural of dabchick

verb

1. present participle of deblock

noun

1. (common name) Either of two species of rattlesnake having a diamond pattern on the back: Crotalus adamanteus, found in the southeastern United States, and Crotalus atrox, found in the southwestern United States and northwestern and central Mexico.
2. The saltmarsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malaclemys terrapin).

noun

1. plural of diamondback

noun

1. (phytopathology) The browning and death of a plant shoot starting at the tip, due to either disease or climate conditions

noun

1. plural of dieback

noun

1. (informal) A hadrosaur.
2. (informal) The duck-billed platypus.
3. A fish of the family Percophidae
4. Bull ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus, now Pteromylaeus bovinus).
5. Percophis brasiliensis (Brazilian flathead).

noun

1. plural of duckbill

noun

1. A feature of maple wood where the fibers are distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern.
2. A kind of chasuble with the front cut away.
3. The brown recluse spider.

noun

1. plural of fiddleback

Proper noun

1. A town in Posey County, Indiana, United States.
2. A city/town in Iowa State.
3. A village in Ohio State.
4. A city in Texas State.
5. A city in the northern part Virginia Commonwealth.

noun

1. (US, slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer.
2. (US, slang, dated) A swindler.
3. Something fraudulent or nonexistent offered for sale; a swindle or con.

verb

1. (US, slang, dated) To shirk or malinger.
2. (US, slang, dated) To swindle.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick

noun

1. (US, informal) A lazy person; an idler.

noun

1. plural of goldbricker

verb

1. present participle of goldbrick

noun

1. plural of goldbrick

verb

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

noun

1. A saddleback (Philesturnus) in its first-year plumage, once thought to be a separate species.

noun

1. A small, buoyant board used to support a swimmer's upper body and arms while allowing free kicking movements.
2. On pianos and organs, a vertical panel located above the pedals.
3. Synonym of kickplate (“strip at base of door to prevent scuffing”)

Proper noun

1. A historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the informal Galloway area of south-western Scotland.

adj

1. Dressed in knickerbockers.

noun

1. A bird, the European sedge warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus).

noun

1. (archaic) Synonym of tui (“a species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand”)
2. A long-tailed American songbird of the Mimidae family, noted for its ability to mimic calls of other birds.

noun

1. plural of mockingbird

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of pickaback

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of piggyback

adj

1. made of red brick
2. of, or relating to a red brick university

noun

1. Clipping of red brick university.

noun

1. plural of redbrick