HANGMAN SOLVER

adv

1. (archaic) In the rear; a distance behind.
2. (archaic) Towards the back or rear; backwards.
3. (nautical) Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way.
4. By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)

noun

1. (obsolete) An abacus.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of abaca

noun

1. plural of abaka

adv

1. in the sunshine; basking.

noun

1. (uncommon, usually in the plural) Other members of the genus Abelmoschus, such as okra.
2. The edible and aromatic seed pods (properly, capsules) of the Abelmoschus moschatus.
3. The tropical evergreen shrub Abelmoschus moschatus itself.

noun

1. plural of abelmosk

noun

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of abelmosk in its various senses.

Proper noun

1. A city in southwest Nigeria.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of abhisheka

noun

1. (India) A wine seller; one who is subject to the abkari tax.

noun

1. (India) A revenue tax on the manufacture or sale of liquors and drugs.
2. (India) The manufacture or sale of liquors or drugs.

noun

1. Alternative form of abkari

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.

noun

1. Alternative form of bycoket

Proper noun

1. A village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt which contains several ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman structures.
2. A bay outside this village, at the mouth of the Nile, where on 1 August 1798 a British fleet led by defeated the French in the

adj

1. (nautical) Located on deck.

adv

1. (nautical) On deck.

noun

1. The area on a boat that is abovedeck.

noun

1. (obsolete) apricot

verb

1. To brook; to endure.

Proper noun

1. A Siouan people from between the Platte and the Yellowstone Rivers; the Crow.

Noun

1. A member of this people.

noun

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

adj

1. Able to be acknowledged.
2. Worthy of acknowledgement.

adv

1. (nautical) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.
2. (nautical) Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

noun

1. (astronautics) The use of atmospheric drag to reduce the velocity of a spacecraft, especially so as to establish a stable orbit and to reduce fuel consumption.

verb

1. present participle of aerobrake

adv

1. On the back of a horse; horseback.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of air brick

noun

1. An African thumb piano.

noun

1. Any of the genus Akebia of five species of flowering plant in the family Lardizabalaceae.

noun

1. Any plant of the genus Akebia, especially the invasive plant Akebia quinata.

adj

1. With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.

adv

1. Into, in, or of the position where the arms are akimbo.
2. Of weapons, especially firearms: one held in each hand.

adj

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

noun

1. East Coast fever affecting cattle in Uganda

noun

1. Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans.

noun

1. plural of amberjack

adj

1. Resembling the resin amber.

adj

1. Having the characteristics of an amoeba.

noun

1. The bone of the ankle, forming the lower part of the ankle joint and joining with the tibia and fibula.

noun

1. plural of anklebone

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).

adj

1. Opposing banks (financial institutions).

adj

1. Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.

noun

1. Antiblack sentiments or politics.

adj

1. Preventing breakage.

adj

1. Serving to counter kickbacks (illicit payments); antibribery.
2. Serving to prevent kickbacks (accidents with machinery).

noun

1. An old Thai unit of length, approximately 2.6 centimetres.

adv

1. Alternative form of pickaback

noun

1. Obsolete form of arabesque.

noun

1. plural of arabesk

adj

1. Capable of being consulted for an answer.
2. Capable of being stated as a question.

adj

1. which may be attacked

Noun

1. A people indigenous to New South Wales, Australia.

Proper noun

1. The language spoken by these people.

adj

1. Able to be awoken.

noun

1. Alternative form of baasskap

noun

1. A kind of large lemur, the indri (Indri indri).

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a babe or infant.

noun

1. A Central and Eastern European coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins.

noun

1. plural of babka

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 baby.

noun

1. Archaic form of bokmakierie.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bachelor.

adj

1. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
2. (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
3. At or near the rear.
4. In arrears; overdue.
5. Moving or operating backward.
6. Not current.
7. Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.

adv

1. (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
2. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
3. (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
4. Away from someone or something; at a distance.
5. Away from the front or from an edge.
6. In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
7. In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
8. In a manner that impedes.
9. So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
10. So as to reverse direction and return.
11. To a later point in time. See also put back.
12. Towards, into or in the past.

noun

1. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
2. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
3. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
4. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
5. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
6. (printing) The inside margin of a page.
7. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
8. (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
9. (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
10. (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
11. A ferryboat.
12. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
13. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
14. A support or resource in reserve.
15. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
16. Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
17. That which is farthest away from the front.
18. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
19. The edge of a book which is bound.
20. The part of something that goes last.
21. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
22. The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
23. The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
24. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
25. The spine and associated tissues.

postp

1. Before now; ago.

verb

1. (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
2. (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one's back.
3. (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
4. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
5. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
6. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
7. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
8. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
9. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
10. (transitive) To support.
11. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
12. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
13. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
14. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
15. To row backward with (oars).
16. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.

noun

1. Any pain or ache in the back.

noun

1. plural of backache

intj

1. Alternative form of baccare

noun

1. A band that passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

noun

1. (music) The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.

noun

1. plural of backbeat

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

noun

1. (gymnastics, dance) A move in which the performer bends backwards until the hands touch the floor or catches him/herself with the hands.

verb

1. To perform such a move.

noun

1. plural of backbend

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backbite

noun

1. One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.

verb

1. (informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
2. To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
3. To speak badly of an absent individual.

noun

1. A person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person's back: that is, out of their sight and hearing.

noun

1. plural of backbiter

noun

1. plural of backbite

verb

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

adj

1. Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.

noun

1. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.

verb

1. present participle of backbite

adv

1. In a backbiting manner.

noun

1. plural of backbiting

verb

1. past participle of backbite

noun

1. plural of backblock

noun

1. (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
2. (medicine) A spine board.
3. (nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship
4. (tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.
5. A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.

verb

1. (medicine, transitive) To place (a patient) on a spine board.

noun

1. plural of backboard

verb

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