HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (nautical) Located on deck.

adv

1. (nautical) On deck.

noun

1. The area on a boat that is abovedeck.

adj

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

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

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

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

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. (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

adj

1. Having a backlash.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlash

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. 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

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. 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.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of backwardness

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwater

noun

1. The quality of being backwoodsy.

noun

1. plural of backwoodsman

noun

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

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

adj

1. (slang) High on cannabis.
2. That has been cooked by baking.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bake

noun

1. (rail transport, informal) A fireman (person who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler on a railroad locomotive).

noun

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

Proper noun

1. A major city in California, USA

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bakshish

adj

1. Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanise

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanize

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balk

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a ballad.

adj

1. Of a cheque, deposited in a bank.
2. Piled high.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bank

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

noun

1. The land by a riverbank.

noun

1. plural of bankside

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. (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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bask

noun

1. Any of various kinds of wood traditionally used for making baskets.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of batik

noun

1. plural of baudekin

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of baulk

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bead.

noun

1. Decorative work involving beads.

noun

1. plural of beadwork

adj

1. (often in combination) Having a beak.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beak

noun

1. (archaeology) An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
2. (nautical) A protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a beard.

adj

1. Wearing a cassock.

adj

1. Chalk-covered or chalky.
2. Having a surface that has been written on in chalk.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bechalk

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beck

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beckon

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of becloak

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

verb

1. (transitive) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

adj

1. Covered; encrusted; arrayed.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bedeck

noun

1. An ornament.

verb

1. present participle of bedeck

verb

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

noun

1. (Judaism) A ritual inspection or examination.

noun

1. An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.

adj

1. Resembling a bed.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of bedmaker

noun

1. The skill or act of making beds (arranging the sheets, etc.).

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

noun

1. A sock worn in bed, to keep the feet warm.

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 duck or immerse thoroughly; submerge.