HANGMAN SOLVER

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcross

noun

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

verb

1. Alternative spelling of back door

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfire

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

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

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

verb

1. past participle of backscatter

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

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. 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 backwater

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

adj

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

Proper noun

1. A long-established series of travel guidebooks.

Noun

1. Any travel guide, advice for travelers, or guide pertaining to other subjects.

noun

1. Alternative form of bidarka

noun

1. plural of baidarka

noun

1. (now rare) A board upon which dough is prepared (kneaded, etc) while making bread.

noun

1. The realm or sphere of bakers; the world of baking.

Proper noun

1. A major city in California, USA

noun

1. Alternative form of baldric

adj

1. Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).

noun

1. plural of baldrick

noun

1. (art) Decorative work resembling interlaced bands.

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

noun

1. The world of bankers and finance.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankroll

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bard.

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.

adj

1. Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.

adj

1. (in combination) Having the specified kind of bark.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bark

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barken

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barrack

noun

1. Decorative work involving beads.

noun

1. plural of beadwork

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a beard.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To darken.

verb

1. To make dim, or to darken, or obscure.

adj

1. Dim, dark, or obscure

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bedarken

verb

1. present participle of bedarken

verb

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

noun

1. (Cambridge University, formal or historical) A bedder.
2. someone who manufactures beds

noun

1. plural of bedmaker

noun

1. (figurative) A basis or foundation.
2. (uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface. Bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.

verb

1. (transitive, figurative) To establish on a solid foundation.

noun

1. plural of bedrock

adj

1. Wearing a frock.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of benchmark

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

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.

Proper noun

1. The archetypal pirate, who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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. A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.

verb

1. To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion.

noun

1. plural of blackboard

verb

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

noun

1. (archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.
2. (old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
3. The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.
2. (transitive) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackguard

noun

1. Blackguardly behaviour or language.

verb

1. To make blackguardly.

adj

1. Characteristic of a blackguard.

noun

1. plural of blackguard

noun

1. plural of blackhander

adj

1. Alternative form of black-hearted

noun

1. The state or quality of being blackhearted; villainy.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bladder.

noun

1. Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of blinkard

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

noun

1. A person who blockades
2. A ship used in blockading

noun

1. plural of blockader

noun

1. A compound wood board consisting of nearly square strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood.

noun

1. (medicine, obsolete) Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.
2. A stroke or blow with a weapon that draws blood.