HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. A dyskinesia characterized by the inability to perform the rapid alternating movements of diadochokinesia.

noun

1. Alternative form of adiadochokinesia

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

adv

1. On the back of a horse; horseback.

noun

1. plural of aircheck

adj

1. Resembling or relating to alkahest.

adj

1. Alternative form of alkahestic

adj

1. (mechanics) Countering or preventing backlash (jarring reflex motion in machinery).

noun

1. plural of apparatchik

noun

1. plural of archdukedom

noun

1. plural of archduke

noun

1. plural of artichoke

noun

1. (Eastern US) A johnnycake.

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the Ashkenazi Jews.

noun

1. plural of backache

noun

1. plural of backbencher

noun

1. plural of backbench

noun

1. plural of backchat

verb

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

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. (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. plural of backhander

noun

1. plural of backhand

verb

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

verb

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

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. (figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
2. (mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
3. A sudden backward motion.
4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

verb

1. To cause or set off a backlash.

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

verb

1. present participle of backlash

noun

1. A rushing backward; a retreat.

noun

1. plural of backrush

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.

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

noun

1. Alternative spelling of baksheesh.

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. Alternative spelling of baksheesh

noun

1. (surveying) A measurement of a previously shot point, used to set the angle to zero when occupying a new position.
2. (surveying) A measurement or reading taken back towards a point of known elevation, used to calculate the height of the surveying instrument (theodolite, transit, total station).
3. The rear sight of a firearm.

verb

1. (surveying) To shoot a backsight.

noun

1. (computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
2. The punctuation mark \.
3. |passage= […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).}}

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.

noun

1. plural of backslash

noun

1. plural of backsplash

noun

1. (sewing) A type of sewing stitch where the stitch goes backwards on the top side of the fabric and doubles forward on the bottom, coming out farther in front, then repeats. The backstitch is a very tight and secure stitch, and also looks very neat.

verb

1. To sew with a backstitch.

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. present participle of backstitch

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. (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
2. (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
3. The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
4. The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
5. The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.

verb

1. (transitive) To affect with backwash.
2. To clean the oil from wool after combing.
3. To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.

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

verb

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

noun

1. plural of benchmark

verb

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

Proper noun

1. A lieutenancy area and historic county in the Scottish Borders.

noun

1. A shrub of the genus Coleogyne

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 blackhander

noun

1. plural of blackhead

noun

1. The state or quality of being blackhearted; villainy.

noun

1. plural of blackheart

adj

1. somewhat black

adv

1. In a blackish way.

noun

1. The quality of being blackish, somewhat black.

Proper noun

1. a city in Georgia, USA

noun

1. (by extension) Any member of a fascist party.
2. (historical, chiefly in the plural) A uniformed member of a paramilitary wing of the Italian Fascist Party.

noun

1. (informal) A person who shoes horses.
2. A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).
3. A person who forges iron.

verb

1. (intransitive) To work as a blacksmith.

noun

1. the business of a blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacksmith

noun

1. plural of blacksmith

noun

1. plural of blackthorn

noun

1. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
2. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
3. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
4. (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
5. (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

verb

1. (transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
2. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
3. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

noun

1. One who blackwashes.

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. A factory that manufactures bleach.

noun

1. The state or condition of being blockheaded.

adj

1. stupid

noun

1. The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity.

noun

1. plural of blockhead

verb

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

noun

1. (dated) A temporary wooden fortification with a projecting upper story.
2. A reinforced building from which to control hazardous operations, such as an explosion or a rocket launch.
3. A sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports.

noun

1. plural of blockhouse

adj

1. Lacking understanding; stupid; obtuse; dull.
2. Like a block in shape or nature; coming across as a block.
3. Rude; clumsy; rough.

noun

1. The state or quality of being blockish.

noun

1. (nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. plural of boschbok

noun

1. plural of boychick

noun

1. plural of boychik

adj

1. Having unusually short legs

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, lead, manganese, oxygen, vanadium, and zinc.

adj

1. (of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
2. Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.
3. Repulsive

noun

1. distastefulness; unpleasantness

Proper noun

1. An inland traditional county of Wales, bordered by Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Glamorganshire.

noun

1. plural of breechblock

adj

1. (slang, UK, dated) Like a brick, a helpful or reliable person.
2. Resembling or characteristic of brick.

adj

1. (obsolete) beastly; brutal

noun

1. (baseball) Synonym of brushback pitch

noun

1. Ceanothus spp.
2. Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, maidenbrush
3. Purshia spp.
4. Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

noun

1. plural of buckbrush

noun

1. (Australia) A prickly annual shrub, Salsola australis
2. (Canada, US) Shrubs of Canada and the central US, Symphoricarpos occidentalis(also known as wolfberry and Symphoricarpos orbicularis (coralberry).

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bucket shop

noun

1. plural of buckhound

Proper noun

1. An inland county of England bounded by Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Greater London, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

adj

1. (now rare) Like a dandy; foppish.
2. (obsolete) Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.

adv

1. In a buckish manner.

noun

1. The quality of being buckish.

adj

1. (slang) Extra, spare.

noun

1. A gift or bribe.
2. A wound that is relatively minor but sufficient to get a soldier sent away from the front to the hospital.
3. An extra portion, ration etc.

noun

1. plural of buckshee

noun

1. (chiefly US) Lead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game. [from 18th c.]

noun

1. plural of buckshot

noun

1. plural of buckwheat

noun

1. (informal) Any relatives of the above that share the same habitat.
2. Either of two species of antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus or Tragelaphus sylvaticus, considered by some sources to be the single species Tragelaphus scriptus) found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

noun

1. plural of bushbuck

verb

1. Alternative spelling of bushwhack

verb

1. to ambush
2. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack

noun

1. (Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
2. (US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
3. (US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
4. (dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
5. A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).

noun

1. plural of bushwhacker

noun

1. criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
2. fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. present participle of bushwhack

verb

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

noun

1. (archaic) A place for the storage of cakes of material, such as seedcake.
2. (archaic) A place where cakes are sold.

noun

1. (chiefly US) A cardsharp.

noun

1. A book used to record amounts of money received or paid out.

noun

1. plural of cashbook

noun

1. plural of chabouk

noun

1. plural of chabuk