HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. sliding back

noun

1. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.

verb

1. present participle of backslide

verb

1. present participle of backspace

verb

1. present participle of backsplice

noun

1. The act of one who backstabs.

verb

1. present participle of backstab

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.

verb

1. present participle of backstitch

verb

1. present participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.

verb

1. To swing backward.

noun

1. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. (aviation) The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.
2. (computer science) The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.

verb

1. present participle of backtrack

noun

1. A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

verb

1. present participle of backwind

adj

1. Similar to a badger.
2. Similar to that of a badger.

noun

1. (nautical) A brush-like pad made of rope, attached to a shroud in order to prevent wear on sails.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bag.

noun

1. A manufacturer of bags.

noun

1. The manufacture of bags.

noun

1. (martial arts) Training with a punching bag.

adj

1. (figuratively) Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting.
2. That bakes.

noun

1. (countable) The production of a batch of baked product.
2. An action in which something is baked.
3. The way in which something is baked.

verb

1. present participle of bake.

adv

1. So as to bake.

noun

1. plural of baking

verb

1. present participle of bakshish

verb

1. present participle of balkanise

verb

1. present participle of balkanize

noun

1. A frustration or disappointment; a check.

verb

1. present participle of balk

adv

1. in a balking manner

noun

1. A kind of straw hat.

noun

1. plural of bangkok

noun

1. (aviation) A horizontal turn.
2. (rail transport) The practice of assisting a train up a steep incline (called a bank) with another locomotive at the rear.
3. A mechanical component to prevent vibration in a timepiece, etc.
4. The business of managing a bank.
5. The occupation of managing or working in a bank.

verb

1. present participle of bank

noun

1. plural of banking

verb

1. present participle of bankroll

verb

1. present participle of bankrupt

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a barge.

verb

1. present participle of barken

adj

1. (British slang) Clipping of barking mad.

noun

1. The action of the verb to bark.

verb

1. present participle of bark

adv

1. With barking sounds.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) The act of cheering for or supporting a team.
2. An act of jeering or heckling.

verb

1. present participle of barrack

noun

1. The manufacture of barrels.

Proper noun

1. A town in Hampshire, England

verb

1. present participle of basket

noun

1. The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.

noun

1. (figurative) Any useless, unproductive, or lightweight activity.
2. The act of weaving baskets, as for example from grasses, wicker, or rope.

noun

1. The act of one who basks.

verb

1. present participle of bask

verb

1. present participle of batik

noun

1. Alternative form of balking

verb

1. present participle of baulk

verb

1. present participle of bechalk

verb

1. present participle of becloak

verb

1. present participle of bedarken

noun

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

noun

1. The making of beer.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a beggar: poor, wheedling, insolent, etc.

noun

1. The manufacture of bells.

noun

1. The manufacture of belts.

noun

1. A performance measurement according to a benchmark.

verb

1. present participle of benchmark

noun

1. (obsolete) A kind of rustic dance.

verb

1. present participle of bespeak

verb

1. present participle of betake

verb

1. present participle of bethank

verb

1. present participle of bivouac

noun

1. An instance, or action, of a person being blackballed

verb

1. present participle of blackball

noun

1. (UK, Australia) The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.

verb

1. present participle of blackbird

noun

1. (countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
2. (uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
3. Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion; on steel, generally, synonym of bluing.
4. The act of defaming or sullying.

verb

1. present participle of blacken

noun

1. plural of blackening

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. (archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.
2. (old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
3. The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.
2. (transitive) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackguard

noun

1. Blackguardly behaviour or language.

verb

1. To make blackguardly.

adj

1. Characteristic of a blackguard.

noun

1. plural of blackguard

noun

1. Alternative form of black gum (“tree”)

noun

1. plural of blackgum

noun

1. A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
2. A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
3. Shoe polish.

verb

1. present participle of black

noun

1. plural of blacking

verb

1. present participle of blackjack

noun

1. (countable) A person who cheats in a game; a cheater, especially a dishonest bookmaker.
2. (countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers; a scab.
3. (uncountable, agriculture, veterinary medicine) A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax.

verb

1. To continue working whilst fellow workers strike.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackleg

noun

1. The practice of working in place of those who are engaged in a strike.

verb

1. present participle of blackleg

noun

1. The character or actions of a blackleg.

noun

1. plural of blackleg

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of black light (“ultraviolet bulb”)

noun

1. The act of placing onto a blacklist.

verb

1. present participle of blacklist

noun

1. The act of one who blackmails.

verb

1. present participle of blackmail

noun

1. the business of a blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacktop

noun

1. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
2. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
3. The application of a coating of blackwash.

verb

1. present participle of blackwash

noun

1. (countable) A layer of something that covers like a blanket.
2. (nautical, slang) A manoeuvre in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.
3. (rail transport) Provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains.
4. (uncountable, countable) Cloth for making blankets.
5. (uncountable, countable) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.

verb

1. present participle of blanket

noun

1. The manufacture of blankets.

noun

1. (television) The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.
2. A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
3. An instance of something being blanked out.

verb

1. present participle of blank

verb

1. present participle of blockade

noun

1. A thing that is blocking; an obstruction.
2. The state of being blocked.
3. constipation

noun

1. plural of blockage

noun

1. The manufacture of blocks for use in printing.
2. The manufacture of nautical blocks.

noun

1. The manufacture of boilers.

noun

1. The manufacture of bolts.

noun

1. The art or practice of compiling books from the writings of others.
2. The art or profession of determining odds and receiving and paying off bets, especially bets on the outcome of sporting events.

noun

1. plural of bookmaking

verb

1. present participle of bookmark

noun

1. The making of boots.

noun

1. Alternative form of boscage

noun

1. plural of boskage

noun

1. The manufacture of bottles.

noun

1. The manufacture of bows (for archery or for musical instruments).

noun

1. The manufacture of boxes.

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. The act of applying brakes.

verb

1. present participle of brake

noun

1. The making of bread.

noun

1. (accounting) A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
2. Something that has been broken.
3. The act of breaking.
4. The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.

noun

1. plural of breakage

noun

1. The act of eating breakfast.

verb

1. present participle of breakfast

noun

1. (linguistics) A change of a vowel to a diphthong.
2. (music) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.
3. Breakdancing.
4. The act by which something is broken.

verb

1. present participle of break

noun

1. plural of breaking

adj

1. (immunology) Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
2. (medicine) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
3. Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

noun

1. (construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
2. (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
3. (sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.
4. Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.