HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible; the boondocks.

noun

1. (basketball) A backcourt player.

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

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

Proper noun

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

Proper noun

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

adj

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

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

verb

1. present participle of bivouac

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.

noun

1. (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.

adj

1. (by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
2. (of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.

noun

1. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
2. (historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
3. (usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. (colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

noun

1. plural of bluestocking

noun

1. (Canada, US, derogatory) A brawny or coarse person.
2. (Canada, US, ethnic slur) An immigrant from Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or the Balkans, especially one who is regarded as vain, aggressively masculine, and socially unsophisticated.

noun

1. plural of bohunk

noun

1. Alternative form of bontebok (“South African antelope”)

noun

1. plural of bontebuck

noun

1. (Internet) An automated response to an email, indicating that it could not be delivered.
2. (marketing) A customized order form sent out with previously ordered goods, encouraging the customer to make a further order, perhaps motivated by a discount or free gift.
3. A rebound.
4. An economic recovery.

Proper noun

1. a city in West Virginia, USA

noun

1. A horn of a buck.
2. The royal fern, Osmunda regalis.

noun

1. (UK) A hound for deer hunting.

noun

1. plural of buckhound

noun

1. Hippophae (family Elaeagnaceae), the sea buckthorn.
2. also genus Frangula, especially Frangula alnus, the alder buckthorn.
3. especially genus Rhamnus,
4. especially the common buckthorn or purging buckthorn; Rhamnus cathartica.

noun

1. (South Africa) A strong wagon with a frame over the wheels used for hauling goods.
2. (US) A buckboard; a wagon for personal transport as well as transporting goods.

noun

1. (slang, UK) A service-issue rifle.

noun

1. A building providing sleeping quarters for workers or guests, especially in a rural setting.

noun

1. plural of bunkhouse

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bunco

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bunko

verb

1. present participle of bunko

verb

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

noun

1. (American football) A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage.
2. (sewing) A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.
3. A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.

verb

1. (American football) To perform the buttonhook play.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buttonhook

noun

1. plural of buttonhook

verb

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

adj

1. Resembling a button.

noun

1. A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

adj

1. (of an employee) Whose work confines him or her to a desk.

noun

1. The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct, without realizing the contradiction.

noun

1. plural of doublethink

Proper noun

1. A city and port in southern Croatia on the Adriatic Sea.

noun

1. First person to do, make or fight for something. A pioneer; a seminal person.

noun

1. The act of breaking into another person's house with unlawful intent.

verb

1. (animal training) present participle of housebreak

adj

1. Of animals: trained to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.

noun

1. Alternative form of huckle bone

noun

1. A kind of heavy millboard.

Noun

1. An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.

noun

1. (dated) A key on a keyboard.

adj

1. knobby; knob-shaped

adj

1. Boisterous
2. Suitable for rough use.

noun

1. (circus) A tumbler.
2. (entertainment) A slapstick comedy or comedian.
3. (sailing) A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area
4. A person living in rough, violent conditions.
5. A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
6. Clothing suitable for rough use.

noun

1. plural of knockabout

noun

1. (slang) A die.
2. A bone that forms a knuckle in the human hand, in an animal's paw or any bone that forms a similar bump.
3. Such a bone once used in knucklebones and other children's games of chance.

noun

1. A children's game, originally played with the knucklebones of sheep, in which small objects are picked up, moved, thrown, and caught according to various rules.
2. plural of knucklebone

noun

1. The flying lemur Cynocephalus variegatus

noun

1. Alternative form of mossbanker

noun

1. (obsolete) An acrobat.
2. Any boastful, false pretender.
3. One who sells by deception; a con artist.
4. One who sells dubious medicines.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act as a mountebank.
2. (transitive) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of mountebank

noun

1. plural of mountebankery

noun

1. The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

adj

1. Like a mountebank; using or suggesting quackery.

noun

1. The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.

noun

1. plural of mountebank

verb

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

adj

1. (Britain, Canada) Synonym of neighbourly

adj

1. Not of or relating to a bulkhead.

verb

1. present participle of outbake

verb

1. present participle of outbark

noun

1. That which bursts forth.
2. The act of breaking out.

verb

1. present participle of outbreak

noun

1. (dated) The springbok.
2. The pronghorn

adj

1. (archaic) born alive; not stillborn

adj

1. (CB radio slang) Limited in frequency because of a limited supply of crystals.
2. Surrounded by rocks.

adj

1. Having the skin adhering closely and rigidly to the flesh; hidebound.

adj

1. Not operating normally because of strike action.

noun

1. (taxonomy) A taxonomic category below kingdom and above superphylum.
2. (uncommon) A kingdom that is part of another kingdom, ruled by a subking.

noun

1. plural of subkingdom

noun

1. A subsection of a network.

noun

1. plural of subnetwork

noun

1. A subordinate workman.

noun

1. plural of subworkman

noun

1. (UK, regional) A bogeyman; a fanciful monster used to frighten children.

adj

1. Causing trouble.

noun

1. Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way

adj

1. Without having been beckoned.

adj

1. Not beknown.

adv

1. (followed by to) without the knowledge of

verb

1. simple past tense of unbespeak

adj

1. Not having been bespoken; not specifically requested.

verb

1. past participle of unbespeak

noun

1. The removal of a block or blockage.

verb

1. (intransitive, card games) In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit.
2. (transitive) To enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked).
3. (transitive) To free or make available.
4. (transitive) To remove or clear a block or obstruction from.

adj

1. Not blockaded.

adj

1. Not blocked (in various senses).

verb

1. past participle of unblock

noun

1. The process by which something is unblocked.

verb

1. present participle of unblock

noun

1. plural of unblock

verb

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

adj

1. Not bodylike.

adj

1. Not booked.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of unbook

adj

1. Not bookish.

adv

1. In an unbookish manner.

noun

1. The quality of being unbookish.

adj

1. Not boylike.

adj

1. Not bridegroomlike.

verb

1. simple past tense of unbreak

adj

1. Continuous, without interruption.
2. Of a horse, not tamed.
3. Whole, not divided into parts.

verb

1. past participle of unbreak

adv

1. In an unbroken way; continuously.

noun

1. The state or condition of being unbroken.

adj

1. Not to be brooked or borne; intolerable.

adv

1. In an unbrookable manner.

adj

1. Not brotherlike.