HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bachelor.

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

verb

1. past participle of backbite

adj

1. (figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.

verb

1. present participle of backcheck

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

noun

1. A machine for refilling an excavation.

noun

1. (firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire
2. A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
3. An explosion in other equipment.
4. An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.

verb

1. (of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc.) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
2. (of an engine) To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
3. To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfire

noun

1. plural of backfire

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form 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.

noun

1. (colloquial) A ride on the back of a bicycle or motorbike.

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

noun

1. A decorated comb that attaches a veil to the back of a bride's head.
2. A large tattoo on a person's back.
3. A piece or plate of armour protecting a person's back.

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 backset

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. 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

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. simple past tense and past participle of backstitch

noun

1. plural of backstitch

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backstory

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

noun

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

noun

1. The quality of being backwoodsy.

adj

1. Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

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

adj

1. Of or relating to the mineral barkevikite.

verb

1. present participle of bechalk

verb

1. present participle of beck

adj

1. That beckons.

noun

1. Such a wave or similar action.

verb

1. present participle of beckon

adv

1. So as to beckon or call near; enticingly.

Proper noun

1. of origin.

verb

1. present participle of becloak

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

verb

1. present participle of befleck

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To lick or lick about.

verb

1. present participle of bemock

noun

1. A performance measurement according to a benchmark.

verb

1. present participle of benchmark

noun

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

noun

1. plural of benedick

noun

1. (now historical) An outlying estate.

Proper noun

1. Any of various towns, including:
   1. a town in Maine, USA.

Proper noun

1. A lieutenancy area and historic county in the Scottish Borders.

verb

1. (transitive) To pierce in various places; pierce through and through.
2. (transitive) To stick on the surface of; cover over.

verb

1. present participle of bestick

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

noun

1. (Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
2. (Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
3. A skirmish; an encounter.
4. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
5. The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.

verb

1. (of rain) To patter.
2. To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
3. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
4. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bicker

noun

1. One who bickers; one who engages in nagging or trivial arguing.

noun

1. plural of bickerer

noun

1. Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.

verb

1. present participle of bicker

noun

1. An anvil with two projecting taper ends.

verb

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

noun

1. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid found in bikh (Aconitum spicatum).

noun

1. Someone who sticks up advertisements on billboards, walls, and similar surfaces.

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

noun

1. (medical biology) The study of movements of or within organisms

Adjective

1. Resembling a biscuit or some aspect of one.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bivouac

noun

1. plural of blackberry

verb

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

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a blackberry.

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. plural of blackbody

noun

1. (countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
2. (uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
3. Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion; on steel, generally, synonym of bluing.
4. The act of defaming or sullying.

verb

1. present participle of blacken

noun

1. plural of blackening

noun

1. plural of blackfish

noun

1. plural of blackfly

verb

1. To make blackguardly.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of blacky

noun

1. plural of blackie
2. plural of blacky

noun

1. The quality of being blackish, somewhat black.

noun

1. The practice of working in place of those who are engaged in a strike.

verb

1. present participle of blackleg

noun

1. The character or actions of a blackleg.

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

noun

1. One who blacklists.

noun

1. plural of blacklister

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackmail

noun

1. Someone who blackmails.

noun

1. plural of blackmailer

noun

1. (dialectal, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, dated) A canister or dinner pail usually of tin.

noun

1. plural of blickey