HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (obsolete) apricot

noun

1. Alternative spelling of air brick

noun

1. One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.

verb

1. (informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
2. To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
3. To speak badly of an absent individual.

noun

1. (US) Reserve support personnel.
2. (US) That which backfills; a replacement.
3. (literature) Material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action.
4. The material that has been used to refill an excavation.

verb

1. (US) To provide reserve support.
2. (US) To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.
3. (archaeology) To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and/or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.
4. (gaming) To enter an online game that's already in progress, replacing a player who left early.
5. To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.

noun

1. (firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire
2. A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
3. An explosion in other equipment.
4. An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.

verb

1. (of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc.) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
2. (of an engine) To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
3. To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.

noun

1. (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
2. (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

verb

1. To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
2. To perform a backflip (rotation of body).

noun

1. plural of backing

noun

1. (publishing) A list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to the frontlist of more recent titles.

verb

1. (transitive) To hold back a student's application (to a college etc.) based on whether a preferred candidate declines their offer.
2. (transitive, publishing) To place (a book) on a backlist.

adj

1. (board sports) Approaching an obstacle backward

noun

1. (euphemistic) A person's buttocks.
2. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
3. (obsolete) The back side of a page: a verso.
4. The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backslide

noun

1. (music) Synonym of spinback
2. Spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands.

verb

1. (music) To play a section of a record in reverse, as a disc jockey; to apply spinback.
2. (transitive) To spin (a ball) with this motion.

noun

1. (nautical) The flow of air so deflected

verb

1. (nautical) To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel
2. (transitive) To wind backwards.

noun

1. Alternative form of baldric

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the Balkan peninsula.

Proper noun

1. of origin.

noun

1. plural of bedtick

noun

1. A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage.

noun

1. (now historical) An outlying estate.

noun

1. plural of bibcock

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bicker

noun

1. One who bickers; one who engages in nagging or trivial arguing.

noun

1. (accounting) The process of charging the client for a portion of the cost of resources that the client has used in order to recover the capital expense.

noun

1. (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Northern US, Midwestern US) A jelly doughnut: a doughnut filled with jam and coated with sugar.
2. (Manitoba) A doughnut filled with cream, often with chocolate icing.
3. (Midland US) A fried cruller, or a sort of pancake.

noun

1. A hand tool consisting of a crank which holds a fitted rotating drill bit tip, designed to bore holes in rigid materials, by cutting a disc in a spiral fashion.

noun

1. plural of bittock

noun

1. bluefin tuna

noun

1. plural of blackie
2. plural of blacky

noun

1. A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
2. A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
3. Shoe polish.

verb

1. present participle of black

adj

1. somewhat black

noun

1. plural of blickey

adj

1. comparative form of blocky: more blocky

noun

1. (computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
2. Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
3. The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
4. The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).

verb

1. present participle of block

adj

1. Lacking understanding; stupid; obtuse; dull.
2. Like a block in shape or nature; coming across as a block.
3. Rude; clumsy; rough.

noun

1. A coonhound of a certain breed originating in the United States,

verb

1. (Internet slang) To ignore (a message) sent via a social messaging app, especially one where a reply is expected or requested.

noun

1. plural of booklouse

noun

1. (US) A toady or sycophant.

verb

1. (intransitive) To engage in fawning, servile behavior.
2. (transitive) To seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior.

noun

1. Alternative form of boychik

noun

1. plural of boychik

adj

1. (of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
2. Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.
3. Repulsive

noun

1. (figurative) A criticism or uncomplimentary remark.
2. A piece of brick used as a weapon, especially if thrown, or placed in something like a sock and used as a club.

verb

1. (transitive) To attack by throwing brickbats.
2. (transitive, figurative) To assail with criticism.

adj

1. comparative form of bricky: more bricky

noun

1. The act of pelting with bricks.

verb

1. present participle of brick

adj

1. (slang, UK, dated) Like a brick, a helpful or reliable person.
2. Resembling or characteristic of brick.

verb

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

noun

1. (now chiefly historical) A type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering.

adj

1. (obsolete) beastly; brutal

adj

1. Wavy; curly, as hair.

noun

1. (geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
2. A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
3. Smoked herring.
4. The act of fastening a buckle.
5. The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.

verb

1. present participle of buckle

adj

1. Of a grayish yellow in colour.

noun

1. A grayish yellow in colour.
2. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
3. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
4. Breeches made of buckskin.
5. Clothing made from buckskin.
6. The skin of a male deer, a buck.

noun

1. The tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.

noun

1. plural of chibouk

verb

1. (nautical, transitive) To suspend (the anchor) from the cathead preparatory to letting it go.
2. (nautical, transitive) To tilt up one end of, so as to make almost vertical.

noun

1. The male of a game bird, especially of a pheasant.
2. The male of any bird.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a comb.

adj

1. Having some characteristics of a crab
2. Walking or moving sideways

noun

1. cribbing (structural members)

adj

1. Alternative form of kerblike

noun

1. a small grebe, the little grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis.

noun

1. plural of dieback

noun

1. (informal) A hadrosaur.
2. (informal) The duck-billed platypus.
3. A fish of the family Percophidae
4. Bull ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus, now Pteromylaeus bovinus).
5. Percophis brasiliensis (Brazilian flathead).

noun

1. plural of finback

noun

1. A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking.
2. Any of certain species of pheasant in the genus Lophura.

noun

1. A rebate.
2. A reduction in pay or conditions as a result of unfavourable economic conditions.

noun

1. A glare in the sky caused by reflection of light from an ice field.

noun

1. A saddleback (Philesturnus) in its first-year plumage, once thought to be a separate species.

noun

1. (archaic) Amboyna wood, the reddish wood taken from burls of Pterocarpus indicus.

adj

1. Capable or deserving of being kicked.

noun

1. (countable) A backward kick, a retrograde movement of an extremity.
2. (countable, bowling) The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.
3. (countable, informal) A covert, often illegal, payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction; a kind of bribe.
4. (countable, machinery) An accident where an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward.
5. (machinery, forestry) An accident wherein the upper tip of the bar of a running chainsaw contacts a relatively immovable object, forcing the bar upwards and pressing the running chain more firmly against the object, causing the saw to be hurled upwards and backwards into the operator's face.
6. (oil industry) A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead.
7. (pinball) A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
8. (uncountable, bridge) In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
9. (uncountable, firearms, machinery) recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
10. A relaxed party.

noun

1. (countable) The ball used in the above sport.
2. (uncountable) A sport similar to baseball, where a ball is kicked rather than hit.

noun

1. (obsolete, figuratively) A violent person.

noun

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

noun

1. (archaic) The plant comfrey.

noun

1. plural of limbeck

noun

1. A traditional marker found in the Boreal Forests of Canada, created by removing the middle or lower branches of a coniferous tree.

noun

1. A bird, the European sedge warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus).

noun

1. plural of niblick

adj

1. Able to be picked.

adv

1. Archaic form of pickaback.

adj

1. made of red brick
2. of, or relating to a red brick university

noun

1. Clipping of red brick university.

noun

1. Alternative form of reitbok (“reedbuck”)

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a scab (incrustation).

noun

1. plural of sickbay

noun

1. plural of sickbed

noun

1. (US) A fish, the quillback (Carpioides cyprinus).

noun

1. (American football) A running back or halfback who lines up furthest to the rear in an I formation.
2. (UK) A line of motor vehicles causing or the result of traffic congestion or a traffic jam.

noun

1. A bird, the oxpecker.
2. A bird, the yellow-headed caracara (Milvago chimachima).

noun

1. plural of tieback

noun

1. (American football) A running back who is in formation near the line of scrimmage and outside the tackles, a slotback.
2. (soccer) A player who doubles on either side of the center as a defender when their team is defending, and a winger when they are attacking.
3. A wingback chair.
4. One of the projecting side pieces on a wingback chair.

noun

1. A usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp; considered easy to digest and therefore given to the ill and used as a teething food for toddlers.