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. (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. (US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
2. (now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.

noun

1. plural of backhouse

noun

1. (aerospace) A reversed countdown (i.e. ascending numbers) in response to problems leading up to a launch.
2. A reversal or undoing of tasks previously done (often in reverse order).

noun

1. plural of backout

Proper noun

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

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bivouac

verb

1. present participle of bivouac

noun

1. plural of bivouack

verb

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

noun

1. (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
2. (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
3. A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
4. A temporary loss of consciousness.
5. A temporary loss of memory.
6. An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.

verb

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of black out

noun

1. plural of blackout

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

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.

noun

1. (dated) A temporary wooden fortification with a projecting upper story.
2. A reinforced building from which to control hazardous operations, such as an explosion or a rocket launch.
3. A sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports.

noun

1. plural of blockhouse

noun

1. (construction) A void that is deliberately not filled with concrete, so that it can be used to insert something else such as pipework.

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

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. The American woodcock.

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.

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. Alternative spelling of bucket shop

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. Buckaroo.
2. Young lad, friend, pal (used in addressing someone).

noun

1. (chiefly US) Lead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game. [from 18th c.]

noun

1. plural of buckshot

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. An upper tooth that protrudes further than the bottom teeth.

adj

1. Having buckteeth

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. The back of a buffalo

noun

1. (archaic) A young bull.
2. A castrated bull; an ox.

verb

1. To bully.

intj

1. (slang, euphemistic) Expression of frustration.

noun

1. (slang, euphemistic) Testicles.
2. plural of bullock

noun

1. (Australia and New Zealand colloquial, now historical) A person (usually a man) who drives a cart pulled by a team of bullocks.

noun

1. (Scotland, obsolete) A brewing of ale.
2. A submerged, downward-projecting piece of ice.

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. (nautical) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
2. (usually in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum and the top of the legs.

adj

1. (in combination) Having some specific type of buttocks

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. plural of buttock.

noun

1. The stock in a firearm located in the rear of the firing mechanism where one's shoulder is held when shooting

noun

1. Alternative form of chabuk

noun

1. plural of chabouk

noun

1. A folder or booklet containing preprinted cheques for use by the holder of a bank account

noun

1. A Turkish tobacco pipe.

noun

1. plural of chibouk

noun

1. Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

noun

1. A panel of wooden slats typically lain on a concrete floor in a workshop. Compliance of slats arranged in two crossed layers reduces fatigue for a person operating a machine tool or working at a bench.
2. One of a long series of boards laid from side to side as a path across wet or muddy ground; normally used in plural.
3. Wooden, low walkway or short part of a path with one or more planks, logs, or boards laid after each other lengthwise, often two planks wide; also called bog board, bog bridge, or puncheon.

noun

1. plural of duckboard

noun

1. Alternative form of huckle bone

noun

1. (informal, usually in the plural) A thousand dollars.

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. (mineralogy) A chromium chlorite mineral.

noun

1. A Russian dish of salmon, rice etc. cooked in puff pastry

adj

1. Relating to leukoblasts.

Proper noun

1. A city, the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States.

noun

1. An arboreal monkey from Africa, Chlorocebus cynosuros.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to more than one block (in various senses).

adj

1. Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.

adv

1. To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.

noun

1. (Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.

noun

1. One who lives in the outback.

noun

1. plural of outback

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.

noun

1. A male roe deer.

noun

1. plural of roebuck

noun

1. plural of sourcebook

noun

1. A block (of data, etc.) making up part of a larger block.

noun

1. (architecture, urban planning) A very large block of buildings.
2. (computing) A segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device.

noun

1. plural of superblock

noun

1. (American football) The result of a play (usually a kickoff or punt) in which the ball passes out the back of the end zone or a team otherwise gains possession of the ball in their own end zone.