HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Flickering.

noun

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

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. 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. Obsolete form of bailiwick.

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

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. 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

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a calf (young cow).

noun

1. A fine leather made from the hide of a calf.

noun

1. plural of calfskin

adj

1. Resembling chaff.

noun

1. A partial mouthful, enough to fill one's cheek.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of chock-full

noun

1. Members of a clan; clanspeople.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cliff; high and steep.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of clock face

noun

1. (slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.

noun

1. (slang, obsolete) Pickpocketing.

noun

1. A small attic or garret

noun

1. plural of cockloft

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a coffer.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of corn flakes

noun

1. One who lives in the country; a rural dweller.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman

noun

1. lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)
2. ragged robin (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi)

noun

1. A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.

noun

1. plural of cufflink

noun

1. (now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled.

noun

1. plural of elflock

noun

1. (music) a kind of polonaise, associated with German royal wedding celebrations

adj

1. Resembling a factory in any of various respects

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a falcon.

adj

1. That can be resorted to as a fallback.

noun

1. (construction) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.
2. A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
3. An act of falling back.
4. Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.

verb

1. Misspelling of fall back.

noun

1. plural of fallback

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of farce.

adj

1. (Scotland, Northern English) Powerful, effective, efficient, vigorous.

adv

1. In a feckful manner.

adj

1. (Britain, archaic) Lacking vitality.
2. Lacking purpose.
3. Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
4. Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.

adv

1. In a feckless manner

noun

1. The state of being feckless.

adv

1. (Scotland) mostly; for the greater part
2. (Scotland) partly

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fence (artificial barrier).

noun

1. A ferroalloy of iron and nickel.

noun

1. A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.
2. The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.

adj

1. (in combination) Having fetlocks (of a specified kind).
2. Tied by the fetlock.

noun

1. plural of fetlock

noun

1. (heraldry) A shackle or lock.

adj

1. (figurative) Changeable.
2. Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable.

verb

1. (transitive) To deceive, flatter.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To puzzle, perplex, nonplus.

noun

1. The quality of being fickle.

noun

1. plural of fickleness

adj

1. comparative form of fickle: more fickle

adj

1. superlative form of fickle: most fickle

noun

1. (humorous) fickleness

adv

1. (obsolete) In a fickle manner.

noun

1. A feature of maple wood where the fibers are distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern.
2. A kind of chasuble with the front cut away.
3. The brown recluse spider.

noun

1. plural of fiddleback

noun

1. Any plant in the genus Amsinckia, with flowers in a coiled inflorescence that looks like the end of a fiddle.

intj

1. Dated form of fiddlesticks.

noun

1. A bow used to play the fiddle.
2. One of a pair of sticks, similar to drumsticks, used by a second player to percuss the strings of a fiddle while the main player plays via bow.

intj

1. (euphemistic) Darn! Expresses mild dismay or annoyance.
2. (euphemistic) Nonsense! Expresses dismissal or disdain.

noun

1. plural of fiddlestick

noun

1. A wanton girl.

adv

1. In a finicky way.

adv

1. finically

noun

1. (by extension, historical) A firearm using such a gunlock.
2. (historical) A form of gunlock, in which the priming is ignited by a spark.

noun

1. plural of firelock

noun

1. (Canada, US) A publicist, a publicity agent.
2. Alternative spelling of flak.

verb

1. (Canada, US) To publicise, to promote.
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
4. (transitive, UK dialectal) To beat by flapping.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of flack

verb

1. (intransitive) To flicker; to quiver.
2. (intransitive) To flutter like a bird.

noun

1. The aggressive public relations activity associated with press agents

noun

1. A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

verb

1. present participle of flack

noun

1. plural of flack

verb

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

noun

1. (golf) The pole which marks the location of a hole

noun

1. (US) flapjack; pancake

noun

1. (Britain) A bar made of (though not limited to) rolled oats, butter, golden syrup, and brown sugar, baked in a tray.
2. (US) A pancake.

noun

1. plural of flapjack; pancakes.

noun

1. A burst of flame emitted from a cannon, furnace, etc. in an abnormal direction.

noun

1. (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
2. (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
3. (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
4. A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
5. The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.

verb

1. (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

noun

1. plural of flashback

noun

1. A flake.
2. A lock, as of wool.
3. A small spot or streak; a speckle.

verb

1. (transitive) To mark (something) with small spots.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of fleck

verb

1. (transitive) To fleck; to speckle.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of flecker

verb

1. present participle of flecker

noun

1. The quality of being flecky.

noun

1. A flecked pattern.

verb

1. present participle of fleck

adj

1. Without blame; faultless.
2. Without flecks or spots.