HANGMAN SOLVER

adv

1. In the manner of a bachelor; (as though) living alone as a single man.

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.

noun

1. Any of various aquatic insects, of the family Notonectidae, that swim on their backs.

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

adj

1. (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
2. (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
3. (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
4. (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
5. (figuratively) Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
6. (figuratively) Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
7. (obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
8. (obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
9. Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
10. Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
11. Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
12. Late or behindhand.
13. Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
14. Reversed in order or sequence.
15. Situated toward or at the rear of something.

adv

1. (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
2. (obsolete) In the past.
3. At, near or towards the rear of something.
4. By way of reflection; reflexively.
5. In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
6. In a reversed order or sequence.
7. In a reversed orientation; back to front.
8. Toward or into the past;

noun

1. The state behind or past.

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.

adv

1. In a backward direction.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of backwardness

adj

1. Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.

noun

1. (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.

noun

1. (idiomatic) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
2. (paper industry) Water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
3. A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
4. The water held back by a dam or other obstruction

verb

1. (idiomatic) To vacillate on a long-held position.
2. To row or paddle a backwater stroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwater

noun

1. plural of backwater

verb

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

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. (computing, dated) A word wrap feature that restores a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
2. A portion of something that is wrapped backward.

verb

1. (computing, dated) To restore a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
2. To wrap around the back of something.

noun

1. plural of backwrap

verb

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

adv

1. In the manner of a baldric.

noun

1. Any form of switch that is activated barometrically (by a change in pressure)

noun

1. (India, historical) A cook.

noun

1. plural of bawdric

Adverb

1. Towards a beach.

noun

1. Clothing suitable for wearing on the beach, though not necessarily for swimming in.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To crawl about; crawl all over.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of becrawl

verb

1. present participle of becrawl

verb

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

verb

1. (dated) To crowd.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of becrowd

verb

1. present participle of becrowd

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To place a crown upon; crown.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bench-warmer

noun

1. plural of benchwarmer

noun

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

noun

1. (now historical) An outlying estate.

Proper noun

1. Any of various towns, including:
   1. a town in Maine, USA.

Proper noun

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

verb

1. (transitive) To cover (something) with scrawls; to scribble over.

noun

1. One who bewitches; an enchanter.

noun

1. plural of bewitchery

noun

1. The power of bewitching or fascinating; charm.

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal) To wreck completely; ruin; destroy.

noun

1. (countable) A wood largely populated with birch trees (Betula spp.).
2. (uncountable) The wood from a birch tree.

noun

1. A session of observing and identifying birds.

verb

1. (intransitive) To take part in birdwatching; to observe and identify birds.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of birdwatch

verb

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

noun

1. (slang) The hobby of watching rocket launches.
2. Observing or identifying wild birds in their natural environment.

noun

1. Any pottery of a black or nearly black colour.

noun

1. One who blackwashes.

noun

1. Blackwater fever; malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum.
2. Waste from domestic toilets; water containing fecal matter.
3. Water containing loam, tannins, etc., giving it a very dark appearance.

noun

1. plural of blackwater

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. Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

noun

1. (US, military, slang) A jet fighter.
2. A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.

verb

1. To apply a blowtorch to something.

verb

1. past participle of blowtorch

noun

1. plural of blowtorch

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of blowtorch

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

noun

1. (nautical) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from damage.

adv

1. In terms of brackets (in various senses).

noun

1. (poetic) A path or route formed by the branches of trees.

Proper noun

1. a city in Lower Saxony, Germany; Brunswick

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Braunschweiger (a sausage).

noun

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of brick wall

adj

1. In the manner of bricks, especially the overlapping way in which they are assembled into a wall.

noun

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

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.

Proper noun

1. A city in Germany; Braunschweig.
2. Any of several towns in the United States and elsewhere.
3. A suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

noun

1. A poor and unskilled farmer.

noun

1. (US) The driver of a bullock team.

noun

1. A perennial herb, Melanthium virginicum, having a branched cluster of pale flowers

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. Alternative form of cabbage worm

noun

1. plural of cabbageworm

noun

1. cabinetmaking
2. furniture made by a cabinetmaker

noun

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

noun

1. Synonym of chambermaid

noun

1. (chiefly figuratively) A mass of cobwebs; anything that obscures the vision or is elaborate yet flimsy.

adj

1. comparative form of cobwebby: more cobwebby

noun

1. construction work made of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, and in marine work often surrounding a central space filled with stones

noun

1. A blow delivered in reply to a previous blow by somebody else, such as an opponent in a boxing match.

noun

1. plural of counterblow

adj

1. (heraldry) Bent, curved or arched in two directions, both to the left and to the right, or both upwards and downwards.

noun

1. plural of cowberry

noun

1. A shrub native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere (Vaccinium vitis-idaea).
2. The berry of this shrub.

noun

1. Any bird of the genus Molothrus. The cowbirds are brood parasites.

noun

1. plural of cowbird

noun

1. Vaccaria hispanica, an annual herb with blue-grey waxy herbage and pale pink flowers, native to Eurasia.

adj

1. (figuratively) Incidental.
2. In the manner of a crab; sideways.

noun

1. A flowering plant of the genus Carapa in the mahogany family, Meliaceae.

noun

1. cribbing (structural members)

noun

1. plural of cribwork

noun

1. A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that shoots bolts.
2. A portable ballista that can be held in the hand.

noun

1. Someone (usually a soldier) equipped with a crossbow.

noun

1. plural of crossbowman

noun

1. plural of crossbow

noun

1. (US, often attributive) An old, emaciated horse.

noun

1. A type of cocktail made with only Crown Royal whiskey and lemon lime soda.
2. An electrical circuit that prevents an overvoltage from causing damage.
3. An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart.

verb

1. (transitive) To force to move, usually with a crowbar; to prise.

verb

1. present participle of crowbar

noun

1. plural of crowbar

verb

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