HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (nautical) Located on deck.

adv

1. (nautical) On deck.

noun

1. The area on a boat that is abovedeck.

verb

1. (transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in
2. (transitive) To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour)
3. (transitive) To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form.
4. (transitive) To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.
5. (transitive) To report (the receipt of a message to its sender).

adj

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

adj

1. Generally accepted, recognized or admitted.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of acknowledg
2. simple past tense and past participle of acknowledge

adv

1. Confessedly, admittedly.

noun

1. (most common British spelling, also sometimes used in the US) Alternative spelling of acknowledgment

noun

1. plural of acknowledgement

noun

1. One who acknowledges.

noun

1. plural of acknowledger

verb

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

adj

1. (obsolete, specifically) Expressing esteem or gratitude.
2. That acknowledges, in various sense; (especially) that notices or recognises someone or something.

noun

1. (archaic) The act of acknowledging something.

verb

1. present participle of acknowledg
2. present participle of acknowledge

noun

1. (law) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
2. (law) The act of a person admitting a child as their own.
3. (telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
4. A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
5. A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
6. A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
7. An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
8. The act of acknowledging
9. The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.

noun

1. plural of acknowledgment

noun

1. A dyskinesia characterized by the inability to perform the rapid alternating movements of diadochokinesia.

noun

1. Alternative form of adiadochokinesia

Noun

1. A member of an Algonquin people that lived along the Ottawa River in Ontario and Quebec.

Proper noun

1. The Adirondacks

Proper noun

1. A range of mountains in New York State.

noun

1. (nautical) The part of a ship's deck from amidships toward the stern

noun

1. plural of afterdeck

noun

1. (US) A very large hangar for the storage of airships.

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic reddish brown mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.

intj

1. Synonym of alack

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of antic

noun

1. (history) The ruler of an archduchy, in particular the Archduchy of Austria.
2. (history) The son or male-line grandson of an emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

noun

1. The territory or dignity of an archduke or archduchess; an archduchy.

noun

1. plural of archdukedom

noun

1. plural of archduke

adj

1. (rare) Poisoned with arsenic.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of attack

Proper noun

1. The largest conurbation in New Zealand.

noun

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

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

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

adj

1. Having a spine.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcheck

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcross

noun

1. An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date.

verb

1. To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backdate

noun

1. plural of backdate

verb

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

noun

1. The act by which something is backdated.

verb

1. present participle of backdate

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back door, which can be used attributively.

verb

1. Alternative spelling of back door

noun

1. An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

noun

1. (figurative) Any background situation.
2. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
3. An image that serves as a visual background.
4. The setting or background of an acted performance.

verb

1. (transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backdrop

verb

1. present participle of backdrop

noun

1. plural of backdrop

adj

1. (in combination) Having specified type of back.
2. (in combination) Having specified type of backing.
3. (obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of back

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.

adj

1. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.

noun

1. (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
2. (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
3. (physics) Clipping of background radiation.
4. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
5. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
6. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
7. One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.

verb

1. (journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
2. To put in a position that is not prominent.
3. simple past tense and past participle of backgrind

adj

1. (computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive
2. Moved to the background

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of background

noun

1. (chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives basic details on subjects that are likely to be mentioned.
2. A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
3. A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.

noun

1. plural of background

verb

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

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backhaul

noun

1. Land that lies behind or beyond some primary settlement or development.

noun

1. plural of backland

adj

1. Having a backlash.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlash

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

adj

1. Having an excessive list of tasks to do, especially tasks that should have already been performed.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlog

noun

1. An order that cannot be currently filled or shipped, but is requested nonetheless for when the item becomes available again.

verb

1. To place such an order

adj

1. Wearing a backpack.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backpack

verb

1. (intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
2. (intransitive) To step backwards.
3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.

verb

1. (US) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

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

verb

1. (British spelling) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

verb

1. past participle of backscatter

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 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. simple past tense and past participle of backspace

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstab

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstitch

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. (UK, dated) A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
2. (UK, dated) The game in which the stick is used.
3. A sword with one sharp edge.

noun

1. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. (historical) One who fights with a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. plural of backswordman

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backtrack

noun

1. (southern Africa) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas.

noun

1. A native or inhabitant of the backveld.

adj

1. (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
2. (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
3. (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
4. (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
5. (figuratively) Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
6. (figuratively) Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
7. (obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
8. (obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
9. Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
10. Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
11. Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
12. Late or behindhand.
13. Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
14. Reversed in order or sequence.
15. Situated toward or at the rear of something.

adv

1. (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
2. (obsolete) In the past.
3. At, near or towards the rear of something.
4. By way of reflection; reflexively.
5. In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
6. In a reversed order or sequence.
7. In a reversed orientation; back to front.
8. Toward or into the past;

noun

1. The state behind or past.

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.

adv

1. In a backward direction.

noun

1. Reluctance.
2. The state of being backward.

noun

1. plural of backwardness

adj

1. Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwater

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

adj

1. Native to or located in a remote rural location.
2. Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.

adj

1. Pertaining to the backwoods.
2. Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.

noun

1. A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
2. Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.

noun

1. The quality of being backwoodsy.

noun

1. (informal, UK politics) A Peer who is seldom present in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom Parliament, who may be encouraged to attend when a very important vote is expected.
2. A person who is acclimated to living in a forest area that is far removed from civilization or modern conveniences.
3. An uncivilized person.

noun

1. plural of backwoodsman

adj

1. (US) Typical of something or someone from the backwoods

noun

1. A contention, retort, or reply.
2. A contradiction or answer to put off an engagement; a countermand.
3. A section of commentary at the end of a book.

noun

1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
2. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, colloquial) A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
3. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, colloquial) An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.

noun

1. One who carries on a project or business in a backyard, especially the raising of poultry.

noun

1. plural of backyard

noun

1. (Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta

noun

1. Alternative form of baldric

adj

1. Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).

noun

1. plural of baldrick

noun

1. A card that a bank issues used by the cardholder in the course of authorization to receive bank services.

noun

1. plural of bankcard

adj

1. Of a bird raised for meat: lacking feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.

adv

1. Synonym of bareback

adj

1. Having the neck bare.