HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative form of bycoket

adj

1. which may be attacked

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. 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

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

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. (Scotland) A shallow wooden trough for carrying ashes, coals, etc.

noun

1. A pig yielding significant backfat.

noun

1. (UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
2. (underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
3. A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.
4. A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
5. A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
6. Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.

noun

1. A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.
2. The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.

noun

1. plural of backrest

noun

1. (computing) The sending of IP packets to essentially random addresses in response to incoming packets that have a spoofed origin.
2. (military) A portion of the energy of electromagnetic radiation such as a laser or radio waves that is scattered back in the direction of the source of radiation by an obscurant.
3. (physics) The deflection of particles and/or radiation through angles greater than 90 degrees to the original direction of travel.
4. The particles and/or radiation deflected in this manner.

verb

1. To scatter particles and/or radiation back to the direction from which they come.

verb

1. past participle of backscatter

noun

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

verb

1. present participle of backscatter

noun

1. plural of backscatter

verb

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

noun

1. A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch their own back.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back seat

noun

1. plural of backseat

noun

1. A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
2. Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water.

verb

1. (US, especially Western US) To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backset

noun

1. One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstab

noun

1. A traitor or hypocrite, such as a co-worker or friend assumed trustworthy but who figuratively attacks when one's back is turned.

noun

1. plural of backstabber

adj

1. Relating to, or situated in the area behind a stage.
2. Secret, concealed from the public.

adv

1. Out of view of the public.
2. Towards the area behind the stage.

noun

1. The area behind a stage out of view of the audience where performers wait to give their show; especially that of the dressing rooms.
2. The private portion of the space used by a business or enterprise.

noun

1. (obsolete) A baker.

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. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstory

adj

1. (figuratively) Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
2. Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back street

noun

1. plural of backstreet

noun

1. (athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).
2. (exercise) An exercise that stretches the muscles of the back.
3. (figuratively) The middle part of an event.
4. (horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.

noun

1. plural of backstretch.

noun

1. (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
2. (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
3. A backhanded stroke or blow.

verb

1. To swim the backstroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. plural of backstroke

verb

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

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

adj

1. Swept back.

noun

1. (computing) A stack trace.

verb

1. (by extension) To find the cause of something by examining past events
2. (computing) To examine a stack trace

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backtrack

noun

1. One who, or that which, backtracks.

noun

1. plural of backtracker

noun

1. (idiomatic) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
2. (paper industry) Water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
3. A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
4. The water held back by a dam or other obstruction

verb

1. (idiomatic) To vacillate on a long-held position.
2. To row or paddle a backwater stroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwater

noun

1. plural of backwater

verb

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

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

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

adj

1. Of or relating to the mineral barkevikite.

noun

1. A kind of flat cake similar to a pancake.

noun

1. (England, dialect, historical) A spade for digging turf in the Fens.
2. (nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
3. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
4. (nautical) The clevis of a pulley block.
5. (nautical, slang) A pocket in clothing.
6. (obsolete) chough (the bird)
7. (sewing) A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.
8. A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
9. An eye in the end of a rope.

noun

1. plural of becket

Proper noun

1. of origin.

noun

1. (obsolete) The front or back part of the frame of a bedstead.

noun

1. A tick or bag made of cloth, used for enclosing the materials of a bed.

noun

1. plural of bedtick

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

verb

1. (transitive) to stock; furnish

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bestick

verb

1. (transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

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

Adjective

1. Resembling a biscuit or some aspect of one.

adj

1. superlative form of black: most black

noun

1. Short for black marketeer.

noun

1. A cruel and remorseless person.
2. A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark skin.
3. A type of malleable cast iron with minimum tensile strength of 350 N/mm².
4. Any of various plant diseases that cause darkening of the central tissue.

adj

1. Alternative form of black-hearted

noun

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

noun

1. plural of blackheart

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 blacktop

noun

1. Blackwater fever; malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum.
2. Waste from domestic toilets; water containing fecal matter.
3. Water containing loam, tannins, etc., giving it a very dark appearance.

noun

1. plural of blackwater

noun

1. (US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
2. (informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
3. (informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
4. (slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
5. A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
6. A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.

noun

1. plural of blockbuster

adj

1. superlative form of blocky: most blocky

noun

1. (nautical) A seaman of a British warship
2. (nautical) An enlisted man in the US Navy.
3. A uniformed policeman.

noun

1. plural of bluejacket

noun

1. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
2. (historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
3. (usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. (colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

noun

1. plural of bluestocking

noun

1. A coonhound of a certain breed originating in the United States,

verb

1. (Internet slang) To ignore (a message) sent via a social messaging app, especially one where a reply is expected or requested.

noun

1. Alternative form of bontebok (“South African antelope”)

noun

1. plural of bontebuck

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bootlick

noun

1. (by extension, derogatory) Anyone who is seen as supporting authoritarianism.
2. (derogatory) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady

noun

1. plural of bootlicker

noun

1. (mineralogy) Alternate name for delvauxite.

noun

1. (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
2. (figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
3. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.

verb

1. (intransitive) To form a bottleneck.
2. (transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bottleneck

noun

1. plural of bottleneck

verb

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

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, lead, manganese, oxygen, vanadium, and zinc.

noun

1. (UK) "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
2. (US) "[" and "]" specifically - as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
3. (algebra) A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
4. (engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
5. (land surveying, 19th century) a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.
6. (military) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
7. (military) Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
8. (nautical) A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
9. (sports) A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
10. (sports) A printed diagram of games in a tournament.
11. (typography) The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
12. A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
13. Alternative form of bragget (“drink made with ale and honey”)
14. One of several ranges of numbers.

verb

1. (military) To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
2. (philosophy, phenomenology) In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.
3. (photography) To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
4. To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.
5. To enclose in typographical brackets.
6. To mark distinctly for special treatment.
7. To place in the same category.
8. To set aside, discount, ignore.
9. To support by means of mechanical brackets.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bracket

noun

1. (architecture) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
2. The act of enclosing (text, etc.) in brackets.

verb

1. present participle of bracket

noun

1. plural of bracket

verb

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

adv

1. In terms of brackets (in various senses).

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting bradykinesia