HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative spelling of abhisheka

noun

1. (mineralogy) A basaltic-trachyandesite rock containing phenocrysts of olivine and augite

adj

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

noun

1. Antiblack sentiments or politics.

noun

1. plural of backbiter

noun

1. plural of backbite

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backbiting

noun

1. (genetics) The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent.

verb

1. present participle of backcross

noun

1. plural of backfield

noun

1. plural of backfill

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backfire

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backing

verb

1. present participle of backlash

noun

1. (publishing) A list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to the frontlist of more recent titles.

verb

1. (transitive) To hold back a student's application (to a college etc.) based on whether a preferred candidate declines their offer.
2. (transitive, publishing) To place (a book) on a backlist.

verb

1. present participle of backlist

verb

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

noun

1. (physics) The scattering of waves, particles, or signals back in the direction of their source.

verb

1. present participle of backscatter

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

verb

1. present participle of backset

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

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

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. action of the verb to backslap

verb

1. present participle of backslap

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. present participle of backspace

noun

1. (music) Synonym of spinback
2. Spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands.

verb

1. (music) To play a section of a record in reverse, as a disc jockey; to apply spinback.
2. (transitive) To spin (a ball) with this motion.

noun

1. plural of backspin

noun

1. Such a knot

verb

1. To secure the ends of a twisted rope within the rope itself in order to prevent fraying

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

verb

1. present participle of backsplice

noun

1. The act of one who backstabs.

verb

1. present participle of backstab

adj

1. clandestine, secret or furtive

noun

1. The backstairs (stairs at the rear of a building).

adj

1. Secret or furtive.

noun

1. A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.
2. An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.

noun

1. (field hockey, often attributively) An illegal shot in which a player strikes the ball with the rounded face of the stick in field hockey.

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

verb

1. present participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstory

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

noun

1. Any of various aquatic insects, of the family Notonectidae, that swim on their backs.

noun

1. (sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.

verb

1. To swing backward.

noun

1. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

noun

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

noun

1. The quality of being backwoodsy.

noun

1. plural of baidarka

noun

1. plural of bailiwick

noun

1. plural of bakery

Proper noun

1. A major city in California, USA

noun

1. The role or status of a baker.

Proper noun

1. an unincorporated community in Mercer County, New Jersey, USA.
2. a town in North Carolina, USA, and the county seat of Mitchell County.
3. an unincorporated community in Coshocton County, Ohio, USA.

noun

1. plural of baking

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bakshish

noun

1. plural of bakshish

verb

1. present participle of bakshish

Adjective

1. Relating to, or supporting the revolutionary anarchism of

noun

1. plural of balalaika

noun

1. plural of baldrick

verb

1. Alternative spelling of balkanize

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanise

verb

1. present participle of balkanise

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Balkanism

adj

1. superlative form of balky: most balky

noun

1. The state or quality of being balky or uncooperative.

adj

1. (obsolete, rare) uneven; ridgy

noun

1. plural of balkline

noun

1. plural of banking

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

1. (obsolete) bankruptcy

noun

1. A plant belonging to the genus Banksia.

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist.
2. Of or pertaining to Iain Banks (born 1954) or his writings, most notably a utopian style of science fiction.

noun

1. plural of banksia

noun

1. The land by a riverbank.

noun

1. plural of bankside

noun

1. (regional, US) three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

noun

1. plural of barkentine

adj

1. superlative form of barky: most barky

noun

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A blacksmith's leather apron.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a base (in various senses).

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

adj

1. Suggesting a basilisk (snake-like dragon): baleful, spellbinding.

noun

1. (heraldry) A type of dragon used in heraldry.
2. (science fiction) An infohazard or cognitohazard, especially a Langford's basilisk.
3. A mythical snake-like dragon, so venomous that even its gaze was deadly.
4. A tree-dwelling type of lizard of the genus Basiliscus: the basilisk lizard.
5. A type of large brass cannon.

noun

1. plural of basilisk

Proper noun

1. A town in Hampshire, England

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a basin.

Proper noun

1. A serif typeface from the 18th century.

verb

1. present participle of basket

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a basket.

noun

1. The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.

noun

1. plural of basketry

noun

1. (figurative) Any useless, unproductive, or lightweight activity.
2. The act of weaving baskets, as for example from grasses, wicker, or rope.

noun

1. The act of one who basks.

verb

1. present participle of bask

noun

1. (zoology) Any member of the genus Bassariscus.

noun

1. plural of batik

verb

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

noun

1. plural of battik

noun

1. plural of baudekin

adj

1. superlative form of baulky: most baulky

adj

1. superlative form of beaky: most beaky

noun

1. (dated) A coarse, shaggy, woollen cloth for overcoats.
2. A tall ceremonial hat worn by members of some British regiments for ceremonial occasions; a busby.
3. The pelt of a bear, especially when used as a rug.

noun

1. plural of bearskin

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a beast.

noun

1. The social and artistic ideas associated with beatniks