HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcross

noun

1. plural of backcross

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form 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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle 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

adj

1. (phonetics) comparative form of back: more back

noun

1. One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs an entrant in a contest, or who supports an enterprise by funding it.

noun

1. plural of backer

noun

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

noun

1. A pig yielding significant backfat.

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. (backgammon) A game in which a player blocks the opponent's progress by forming two or more points in the opponent's home board.
2. An indirect strategy in which one attempts to achieve one's goals by maneuvering behind the scenes.

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.

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. simple past tense and past participle of backhaul

noun

1. (soccer) A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
2. (wrestling) A method of tripping or throwing by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back.

verb

1. (soccer) To perform such a kick.
2. (wrestling) To perform such a trip or throw.

noun

1. (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader and an excavator/digger.
2. A piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth. Used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.

verb

1. To excavate using such equipment.

noun

1. plural of backhoe

noun

1. (US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
2. (now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.

noun

1. plural of backhouse

noun

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

adj

1. Having a backlash.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlash

noun

1. A participant in a backlash

noun

1. plural of backlasher

noun

1. plural of backlash

verb

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

adj

1. (of a person) having an uncovered back, having a back that shows skin
2. having no back, said of things that typically have backs, such as chairs or dresses

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

noun

1. (music, slang) A fan or performer of backpack rap.
2. A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially, such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.

noun

1. A hostel catering to backpackers.
2. plural of backpacker

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

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. (electronics) A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.

noun

1. plural of backplane

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. plural of backrush

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.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of baksheesh.

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

noun

1. One who makes a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.

noun

1. plural of backslapper

noun

1. plural of backslash

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. (computing) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.
2. (computing) The non-printable text character representing a backspace.
3. The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.

verb

1. (computing) To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.
2. (computing) To remove a character behind a cursor.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backspace

noun

1. A mechanism in a typewriter that controls backspacing.

noun

1. plural of backspace

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backsplash

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

noun

1. plural of backswordman

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. (southern Africa) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas.

noun

1. A native or inhabitant of the backveld.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of backwardness

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

noun

1. (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.

noun

1. plural of backwash

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