HANGMAN SOLVER

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. 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. (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. 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. (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. (archaic) Authorship; literary skill.

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.

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

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

noun

1. cabinetmaking
2. furniture made by a cabinetmaker

noun

1. One who makes cabinets; a practitioner of cabinetwork.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

adj

1. Between blocks.

noun

1. A space or interval between two adjacent blocks or cells on a grid.

noun

1. One who lives in the outback.

noun

1. A person who breeds and raises livestock.

noun

1. The breeding and rearing of livestock.

noun

1. (finance) A person who buys and sells shares (stock) on a stock exchange on behalf of clients. May also provide investment advice and/or company information, depending on the level of service offered (or chosen by the client).

noun

1. stockbroking

noun

1. plural of stockbroker

noun

1. The profession of a stockbroker.

noun

1. (Britain, derogatory, trading) An unscrupulous stockbroker.
2. (chiefly Britain, trading) A stock exchange worker who deals only with brokers.

noun

1. plural of stockjobber

noun

1. (carpentry) A load-bearing post with a T-shaped cross-section, where the short T-tail prevents bowing of the long post.
2. (nautical) A strong bar placed across a hatch opening to hold hatch boards or hatch covers. (FM 55-501)
3. (nautical) The fore-and-aft spar extending from stem to stern on a lifeboat and serving as a raised spreader for a boat cover. (FM 55-501)
4. (sculpture) A backing pole used to reinforce and stabilize vertically-oriented sculptures.
5. (space science) A vertical structure used to support and stabilize a rocket, often hosting fuel and power umbilical connections. Usually retracted immediately before launch.

noun

1. Synonym of pinboard

noun

1. (archaic) A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster.
2. The thornback guitarfish (Platyrhinoidis triseriata), a species of ray in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean.
3. The thornback ray or thornback skate (Raja clavata), a species of ray in the Atlantic Ocean.
4. The thornback skate (Dentiraja lemprieri), a fish endemic to Australia.

noun

1. (US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
2. (derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
3. (slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
4. A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
5. A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
6. An atavism.
7. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
8. Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout

noun

1. plural of throwback