HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (obsolete) apricot

adv

1. On the back of a horse; horseback.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bachelor.

noun

1. (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
2. (medicine) A spine board.
3. (nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship
4. (tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.
5. A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.

verb

1. (medicine, transitive) To place (a patient) on a spine board.

noun

1. plural of backboard

verb

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

noun

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

noun

1. (basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.

noun

1. (basketball) A backcourt player.

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

noun

1. (genetics) An organism produced by such a crossing.
2. (genetics) The act of crossing a hybrid with one of its parents.
3. (juggling) Alternative form of back cross

verb

1. (genetics) To cross a hybrid with one of its parents.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backcross

noun

1. plural of backcross

verb

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

noun

1. (genetics) The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent.

verb

1. present participle of backcross

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back door, which can be used attributively.

verb

1. Alternative spelling of back door

noun

1. (figurative) Any background situation.
2. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
3. An image that serves as a visual background.
4. The setting or background of an acted performance.

verb

1. (transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backdrop

verb

1. present participle of backdrop

noun

1. plural of backdrop

noun

1. (agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow

verb

1. (agriculture) To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.

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. An order that cannot be currently filled or shipped, but is requested nonetheless for when the item becomes available again.

verb

1. To place such an order

noun

1. plural of backstory

noun

1. (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
2. (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
3. A backhanded stroke or blow.

verb

1. To swim the backstroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. plural of backstroke

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

noun

1. (UK, dated) A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
2. (UK, dated) The game in which the stick is used.
3. A sword with one sharp edge.

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. (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. A contention, retort, or reply.
2. A contradiction or answer to put off an engagement; a countermand.
3. A section of commentary at the end of a book.

noun

1. (obsolete) The thread-like worm found in filanders, the disease of hawks.

noun

1. (Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta

Proper noun

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

noun

1. One who, or that which, beckons.

noun

1. plural of beckoner

noun

1. (figurative) A basis or foundation.
2. (uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface. Bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.

verb

1. (transitive, figurative) To establish on a solid foundation.

noun

1. plural of bedrock

adj

1. Wearing a frock.

noun

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

noun

1. (archaic, often offensive) A person with dark skin, especially one from north Africa.
2. (heraldry) A stylized Negro.
3. A blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.

noun

1. plural of blackamoor

noun

1. A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.

verb

1. To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion.

noun

1. plural of blackboard

verb

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

noun

1. Colicroot, Aletris farinosa
2. Culver's root, Veronicastrum virginicum
3. Either of two species in the genus Pterocaulon: Pterocaulon pycnostachyum and Pterocaulon virgatum
4. Several plant diseases caused by fungi in the genus Aphanomyces causing that cause roots to rot and turn black.

noun

1. A large shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa, that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.
2. A stick or staff taken from this tree.

noun

1. plural of blackthorn

noun

1. (obsolete) Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
2. (sewing) A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

noun

1. A person who blockades
2. A ship used in blockading

noun

1. plural of blockader

noun

1. A compound wood board consisting of nearly square strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood.

noun

1. (US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
2. (informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
3. (informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
4. (slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
5. A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
6. A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.

noun

1. plural of blockbuster

noun

1. (card games) A playing card, needed by one player, that is held by another.
2. (computing) A bug or issue that prevents software from being released.
3. (computing) An application that stops / impedes unauthorised access to a programme.
4. (computing) One who prevents another user from contacting them electronically.
5. (marketing) A gatekeeper who refuses the marketer access to the person they wish to contact.
6. (poker) A blocker bet.
7. (sports) One who blocks or impedes the movement of an opponent.
8. A close-fitting rectangular glove worn by a goalie in multiple forms of hockey.
9. A person who blocks (stretches or moulds) hats.
10. A puberty blocker.

noun

1. plural of blocker

adj

1. comparative form of blocky: more blocky

noun

1. A person employed to lay down blocks of material, for example as a road surface.

noun

1. A manufacturer of blocks for use in printing.
2. A manufacturer of nautical blocks.

noun

1. (by extension) Any parasite.
2. (by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
3. A vampire.
4. An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
5. The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).

noun

1. plural of bloodsucker

noun

1. The American woodcock.

noun

1. (archaic) Authorship; literary skill.

noun

1. A rack for books; a bookshelf.

noun

1. plural of bookrack

noun

1. A kind of combat boot worn in the US Marine Corps.

noun

1. (by extension, derogatory) Anyone who is seen as supporting authoritarianism.
2. (derogatory) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady

noun

1. plural of bootlicker

noun

1. (mineralogy) Alternate name for delvauxite.

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

Proper noun

1. A village in Cornwall.
2. A city/village in North Dakota.
3. A borough in Pennsylvania.

Proper noun

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

noun

1. (firearms) The metal block that closes the breech of a breech-loading gun after insertion of the cartridge.

noun

1. plural of breechblock

noun

1. The quality of the construction of brick built items.
2. Those parts of items that are made of brick.

noun

1. (UK) a male badger.
2. (archaic, possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
3. (obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.

noun

1. (coin collecting) A type of error coin in which one side of the coin has the normal design and the other side has a mirror image of the same design impressed upon it.

noun

1. plural of brockage

adj

1. (Scotland) variegated, having a mixture of black and white

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of brock

noun

1. A genus, Mazama, of short-horned deer from Brazil.
2. A stag in its second year, before its horns have started branching.

noun

1. plural of brocket

adj

1. (obsolete) beastly; brutal

adj

1. Of animals: variegated, speckled, multicolored; usually used in the phrase brockle-faced.
2. Of food odors: malodorous, flatulent, pungent: smelling of sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, or hydrogen disulfide.

noun

1. plural of brock

verb

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

Proper noun

1. a city in Massachusetts, USA, which is one of the two county seats of
2. a small town in Montana, USA.
3. an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, USA.
4. a town in Ontario, Canada. The name is formed from Brant, Greenock and Walkerton, places that merged into Brockton.
5. a township in parish, Shropshire, England

noun

1. (slang, early 20th century) A thorough beating

verb

1. (transitive) To administer a beating to

noun

1. (slang, rare) A gun.
2. A broom imbued with magic, enabling one to fly astride the handle.
3. The handle of a broom (sweeping tool).

verb

1. (intransitive) To fly on a broomstick, as witches are said to.

noun

1. plural of broomstick

verb

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

noun

1. A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
2. A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
3. A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.

noun

1. (slang) A dollar; a buck.
2. A cowboy; specifically, a working cowboy who generally does not partake in rodeos.
3. A reckless, headstrong person.
4. A style of cowboy boot with a high and uniquely tapered heel.
5. One who sports a distinctive buckaroo style of cowboy clothing, boots, and heritage.

noun

1. plural of buckaroo

noun

1. Obsolete form of buckaroo.

noun

1. plural of buckayro

noun

1. A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.

noun

1. plural of buckboard

noun

1. Alternative spelling of buckaroo

noun

1. plural of buckeroo

noun

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

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. Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium.

noun

1. plural of burdock

noun

1. A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.

noun

1. (mining, historical) A worker who gets coal off at a longwall face.
2. (wrestling) One who uses the cross-buttock throw.