HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (Judaism) The matzoh eaten at a Passover seder, after dinner.

adj

1. Flickering.

Noun

1. The world or sphere of Afrikaners.

noun

1. (nautical) The part of a ship's deck from amidships toward the stern

noun

1. plural of afterdeck

noun

1. Knowledge acquired later, or after the event.

noun

1. (business) The industry that serves that market.
2. (business) The market for further goods and services, such as replacement parts and accessories, subsequent to the sale of a product such as an automobile or computer.
3. (finance) Trading activity in a security immediately following its initial offering to the public.

verb

1. (business) To sell goods or services in the aftermarket.

noun

1. plural of aftermarket

noun

1. (nautical) The compartment nearest the stern in the hold of a ship

noun

1. (figuratively) By extension, any result or consequence following a major event.
2. An earthquake that follows in the same vicinity as another, usually larger, earthquake (the "mainshock").
3. Emotional and physical distress following a traumatic event.

noun

1. plural of aftershock

noun

1. One who acts first and thinks afterwards.

noun

1. plural of alfaki

adj

1. Yielding alkalis.

adj

1. Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of alkalify

verb

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

verb

1. (intransitive) To become changed into an alkali.
2. (transitive) To make (more) alkaline (less acidic)

verb

1. present participle of alkalify

noun

1. (archaic) Persons supported by alms; almsmen.

noun

1. (music) A lever in the coupler of an organ.
2. (wrestling) A fall or throw on the back.

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

noun

1. (US) Reserve support personnel.
2. (US) That which backfills; a replacement.
3. (literature) Material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action.
4. The material that has been used to refill an excavation.

verb

1. (US) To provide reserve support.
2. (US) To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.
3. (archaeology) To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and/or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.
4. (gaming) To enter an online game that's already in progress, replacing a player who left early.
5. To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfill

noun

1. A machine for refilling an excavation.

noun

1. The process by which something is backfilled.

verb

1. present participle of backfill

noun

1. plural of backfill

verb

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

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

noun

1. A failure that leads to further misfortune.
2. The occurrence of a backfire.

verb

1. present participle of backfire

verb

1. present participle of backfit

noun

1. Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”)
2. The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.

noun

1. (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
2. (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

verb

1. To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
2. To perform a backflip (rotation of body).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backflip

verb

1. present participle of backflip

noun

1. The flow of a fluid (through a pipe etc.) in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended.

verb

1. To flow in the wrong or backward direction.

adj

1. flowing backwards

verb

1. present participle of backflow

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. (agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow

verb

1. (agriculture) To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.

noun

1. (computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.
2. (surfing) The situation where an incoming wave passes from shallower water to a deeper area, making the wave less steep and potentially unsurfable.

noun

1. (grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
2. (statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.

verb

1. (grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.

noun

1. (nautical) An early navigational instrument for measuring the altitude of the sun and hence calculating latitude.

noun

1. Obsolete form of bailiwick.

Proper noun

1. A major city in California, USA

adj

1. (of a river, etc) Risen to a height just sufficient to spill over its banks into the floodplain.

noun

1. The amount that will fit into a basket

noun

1. plural of basketful

noun

1. The amount that a beaker will hold.

noun

1. As much (food) as a creature's beak will hold or carry.

noun

1. (informal, countable) Such a male, especially as seen as physically desirable.
2. (informal, uncountable) Imagery of one or more muscular, well-built men.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beef, cake.

noun

1. plural of beefcake

noun

1. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak mushroom.
2. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa).
3. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak tomato.
4. (countable, archaic): A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.
5. (countable, uncountable) (A) steak cut from beef cattle.
6. (uncountable) The herb prepared from the leaves of the beefsteak plant.

noun

1. plural of beefsteak

verb

1. (poetic) to cover with small spots or flecks

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of befleck

verb

1. present participle of befleck

verb

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

adj

1. Wearing a frock.

adj

1. forked into two; bifurcate

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. (countable) A sheep of the Scottish Blackface breed.
2. (uncountable) A style of makeup in which a non-black person blackens their face, usually in order to portray a black person.

noun

1. (Australia, now usually considered offensive) A (male) Australian Aborigine.

noun

1. plural of blackfellow

noun

1. bluefin tuna

noun

1. plural of blackfin

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
2. (Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
3. (chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
4. A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).
5. Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).

verb

1. (Internet slang, derogatory, of a white person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
2. (fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.

noun

1. plural of blackfish

noun

1. (slang, of a non-black person) The practice of appropriating signifiers of black identity, such as darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles.

verb

1. present participle of blackfish

noun

1. plural of blackfly

noun

1. A black or dark green aphid (Aphis fabae) that is a common pest of agricultural crops.
2. Any of various small black bloodsucking flies of the family Simuliidae.

noun

1. A tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium

intj

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) look out; beware

noun

1. plural of blackfriar

noun

1. Gaillardia; a plant of the genus Gaillardia.

noun

1. (archaic) Authorship; literary skill.

adj

1. (obsolete) Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books.

noun

1. As much as a book holds.

noun

1. A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.

noun

1. (by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
2. (largely obsolete outside religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
3. The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
4. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.

verb

1. (intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
2. (transitive) To serve breakfast to.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of breakfast

noun

1. One eating breakfast.

noun

1. plural of breakfaster

noun

1. The act of eating breakfast.

verb

1. present participle of breakfast

adj

1. Without breakfast.

noun

1. plural of breakfast

verb

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

noun

1. (chiefly attributive) Any piece of furniture (especially a bookcase or cabinet) that has a central section that projects farther forward than the other sections.

noun

1. plural of breakfront

noun

1. discontinuance (act of breaking off)

noun

1. A place where bricks are made; a brickyard.

noun

1. (Australia) A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.

noun

1. plural of brickfield

noun

1. (by extension) A large quantity.
2. The quantity contained in a bucket.

noun

1. plural of bucketful

noun

1. The back of a buffalo