HANGMAN SOLVER

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. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.

noun

1. (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
2. (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
3. (physics) Clipping of background radiation.
4. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
5. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
6. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
7. One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.

verb

1. (journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
2. To put in a position that is not prominent.
3. simple past tense and past participle of backgrind

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.

noun

1. plural of background

verb

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

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

noun

1. A reverse flow, either of a fluid or of an anchor chain.

noun

1. (physics) The scattering of waves, particles, or signals back in the direction of their source.

verb

1. present participle of backscatter

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. (historical) One who fights with a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. plural of backswordman

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. (obsolete) In the London Stock Exchange: a fee paid by a seller on settlement day either to the buyer or to a third party who lends stock, when the seller wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
2. In full normal backwardation: the situation in a futures market where the price for future delivery of a commodity (the forward price) is lower than the price for immediate delivery (the spot price) or nearer delivery, generally arising from a near-term shortage of the commodity.
3. The situation in a stock market where the offer price for stock is lower than the bid price.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of backwardness

noun

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

Proper noun

1. A city in Kazakhstan, rented and administered by Russia, constructed to service Baikonur Cosmodrome, since 1995 also called Baikonur.

noun

1. (art) Decorative work resembling interlaced bands.

noun

1. A card that a bank issues used by the cardholder in the course of authorization to receive bank services.

noun

1. plural of bankcard

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
2. (mining) A banksman.
3. (obsolete) A money changer.
4. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
5. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
6. One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
7. The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
8. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

noun

1. The world of bankers and finance.

noun

1. (obsolete) A female banker.

noun

1. plural of banker

noun

1. A roll of banknotes or other paper currency, carried in lieu of a wallet.
2. The monetary assets of a person or organization.

verb

1. (transitive) To fund a project; to underwrite something.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankroll

noun

1. One who bankrolls; usually an individual who has enough seed capital to launch a venture; one who can fund a project; angel investor.

noun

1. plural of bankroller

verb

1. present participle of bankroll

noun

1. plural of bankroll

verb

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

noun

1. Misspelling of bankruptcy.

adj

1. (finance) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
2. Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
3. Having been legally declared insolvent.

noun

1. (UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
2. One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.

verb

1. (transitive) To force into bankruptcy.

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

1. (finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt

verb

1. present participle of bankrupt

noun

1. (obsolete) bankruptcy

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.

adv

1. In a bankrupt manner.

noun

1. plural of bankrupt

verb

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

noun

1. (dated) bankruptcy

adj

1. Resembling a banner

adv

1. So as to resemble a banner

Proper noun

1. A village near Stirling in Scotland
2. A battle important in Scotland's struggle for independence

adj

1. Having the neck bare.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of barchan

adj

1. Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.

adj

1. (poetic) Made of bark.

verb

1. (intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To become hard or form a crust, like bark.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To tan or dye with bark.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barken

verb

1. present participle of barken

noun

1. (sailing) Alternative spelling of barquentine

noun

1. plural of barkentine

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. (obsolete) The battlement on the exterior fortification of a castle in northern England and parts of Scotland; a barbican.

noun

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A blacksmith's leather apron.

adj

1. Resembling a barn

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.

noun

1. Alternative form of beak-iron

noun

1. (dated) A coarse, shaggy, woollen cloth for overcoats.
2. A tall ceremonial hat worn by members of some British regiments for ceremonial occasions; a busby.
3. The pelt of a bear, especially when used as a rug.

noun

1. plural of bearskin

noun

1. (diminutive) A small or young beaver.
2. A small hat made of beaver fur.

noun

1. The pelt of a beaver.

noun

1. One who, or that which, beckons.

noun

1. plural of beckoner

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

noun

1. The making of beer.

noun

1. (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
2. A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
3. A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.

verb

1. (intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
2. (transitive, intransitive, followed by against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of benchmark

noun

1. A performance measurement according to a benchmark.

verb

1. present participle of benchmark

noun

1. plural of benchmark

verb

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

noun

1. the structure supporting a model railway layout
2. work performed at a workbench

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or his system of idealism.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To sprinkle.

adj

1. Sprinkled.

noun

1. One who or that which besprinkles.

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of besprinkle

noun

1. That which betokens.

verb

1. (transitive) To deprive (a river) of its lower course or trunk by submergence or erosion of the land by the sea.

noun

1. Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.

verb

1. present participle of bicker

noun

1. An anvil with two projecting taper ends.

Noun

1. A young bird.

adj

1. (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland and Northern England) Made of birch; birchen.

Proper noun

1. An English topographic surname
2. Either of F. E. Smith, Frederick Smith or Frederick Smith the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Earls of Birkenhead
3. the town itself.

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to (1815-1898), German statesman associated with antisocialism, complex diplomacy and the creation of the welfare state.

noun

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

verb

1. present participle of blackbird

Proper noun

1. A town in Lancashire, England

noun

1. A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.
2. The berry borne by this shrub.

noun

1. One who blackens.

noun

1. plural of blackener

noun

1. plural of blackhander

noun

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