HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of an aunt.

adj

1. Pertaining to an autarky; self-sufficient.

Noun

1. A people indigenous to New South Wales, Australia.

Proper noun

1. The language spoken by these people.

adj

1. Able to be awoken.

adj

1. Aroused or activated.
2. Having been woken up.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of awaken

noun

1. One who, or that which, awakens.

noun

1. plural of awaking

noun

1. Alternative form of baasskap

noun

1. A kind of large lemur, the indri (Indri indri).

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a babe or infant.

noun

1. (By association) A stereotypical, Eastern European peasant grandmother-type figure.
2. A traditional floral headscarf worn by an Eastern European woman, tied under the chin.
3. An old woman, especially one of Eastern European descent.
4. Russian doll, matryoshka

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a baby.

noun

1. Any pain or ache in the back.

noun

1. A band that passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

noun

1. (music) The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.

noun

1. (gymnastics, dance) A move in which the performer bends backwards until the hands touch the floor or catches him/herself with the hands.

verb

1. To perform such a move.

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. (figuratively) Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
2. (figuratively) Courage, fortitude, or strength.
3. The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.

adj

1. (UK dialectal) Retrospective.

adv

1. (UK dialectal, of time) Long ago; in the past.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
2. (UK dialectal) Retrospect; hindsight.
3. (UK dialectal) backwater
4. (figuratively) Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
5. A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
6. A cast or throw back.

verb

1. (UK dialectal) To change retrospectively; reverse.
2. To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.

noun

1. (Britain) Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.

verb

1. To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.

noun

1. (dated) A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
2. The hairstyle produced by backcombing.

verb

1. To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look.

noun

1. An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date.

verb

1. To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date.

noun

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

verb

1. Alternative spelling of back door

noun

1. An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

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.

noun

1. (music) A lever in the coupler of an organ.
2. (wrestling) A fall or throw on the back.

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. The flow of a fluid (through a pipe etc.) in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended.

verb

1. To flow in the wrong or backward direction.

noun

1. (backgammon) A game in which a player blocks the opponent's progress by forming two or more points in the opponent's home board.
2. An indirect strategy in which one attempts to achieve one's goals by maneuvering behind the scenes.

adj

1. (ice hockey) Of a play that uses the back side of the hockey stick
2. (of handwriting) Slanting to the left.
3. (of strokes or throws) In the backhand style

noun

1. (Ultimate Frisbee) the standard throw; a throw during which the disc begins on the off-hand side and travels across the chest to be released from the opposite side.
2. (surfing) the hand towards the back of the board.
3. (tennis) a stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
4. Handwriting that leans to the left
5. The reverse side of the human hand.

verb

1. to execute a backhand stroke or throw
2. to slap with the back of one's hand

noun

1. (broadcasting) Uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or radio station, network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished show.
2. (military) The shipment of material to or through an area from which the material had previously been shipped.
3. (transport) A return trip after delivery of cargo.
4. (travel, aviation, fare construction) Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point).

verb

1. To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted.

noun

1. (soccer) A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
2. (wrestling) A method of tripping or throwing by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back.

verb

1. (soccer) To perform such a kick.
2. (wrestling) To perform such a trip or throw.

noun

1. plural of backhoe

noun

1. plural of backing

noun

1. Land that lies behind or beyond some primary settlement or development.

noun

1. (figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
2. (mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
3. A sudden backward motion.
4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

verb

1. To cause or set off a backlash.

adj

1. (of a person) having an uncovered back, having a back that shows skin
2. having no back, said of things that typically have backs, such as chairs or dresses

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.

noun

1. plural of backlog

adj

1. farthest back

noun

1. plural of backout

noun

1. A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
2. A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.

verb

1. (intransitive) To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.
2. (intransitive) To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
3. (transitive, rare) To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.

noun

1. A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.
2. The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.

noun

1. A rushing backward; a retreat.

noun

1. plural of backsaw

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back seat

verb

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

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. To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.

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.

verb

1. (transitive) to attack someone (especially verbally) unfairly in a deceitful, underhand, or treacherous manner, especially when they're not present in the place or situation that it happens. (as if stabbing them in the back). See backbite.

noun

1. (nautical) A part of the rigging of a sailing ship extending from masthead the top of the mast to the back of the ship; they support the strain on all upper masts and provide additional support to the shrouds when the wind is abaft the beam.
2. A strengthening or supporting piece that is built into the back of something.

noun

1. (obsolete) A baker.

noun

1. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

noun

1. (US) Verbal impudence or argumentative discourse, given in response.

verb

1. (transitive) To respond to in an aggressively disputatious, often sarcastic or insolent manner.

noun

1. (southern Africa) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas.

noun

1. (sports) Alternative form of back wall

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. (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
2. (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
3. The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
4. The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
5. The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.

verb

1. (transitive) To affect with backwash.
2. To clean the oil from wool after combing.
3. To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.

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.

adj

1. Native to or located in a remote rural location.
2. Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.

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. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
2. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, colloquial) A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
3. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, colloquial) An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.

Proper noun

1. A long-established series of travel guidebooks.

Noun

1. Any travel guide, advice for travelers, or guide pertaining to other subjects.

noun

1. A manufacturer of bags.

noun

1. Alternative form of bidarka

Proper noun

1. A city in Kazakhstan, rented and administered by Russia, constructed to service Baikonur Cosmodrome, since 1995 also called Baikonur.

noun

1. (rail transport, informal) A fireman (person who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler on a railroad locomotive).

noun

1. Alternative form of Bakelite

verb

1. (transitive) To coat with Bakelite.

noun

1. (obsolete) Any baked product (such as a pie)

noun

1. The realm or sphere of bakers; the world of baking.

noun

1. (dated) A female baker.

noun

1. plural of bakery

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.

noun

1. A shop where baked goods are made and sold.

noun

1. Cooking equipment intended for use inside an oven.

noun

1. Alternative form of Bakewell

adv

1. So as to bake.

noun

1. plural of baklava

noun

1. plural of baklawa

noun

1. Alternative form of bacupari

noun

1. Alternative form of baldric

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the Balkan peninsula.

adj

1. superlative form of balky: most balky

noun

1. baulk line

noun

1. (baseball, chiefly in Chicago) A person who specializes in catching home-run and foul balls.
2. (sports) A player who handles the ball skilfully

noun

1. Alternative form of bollocks

adj

1. Approximate; close; on the right order of magnitude.

noun

1. (US) A field, stadium or park where ball, especially baseball, is played.
2. (US, figuratively) The general vicinity; somewhere close; a broad approximation.

verb

1. (transitive) To make a rough estimate of.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a balm; soothing, healing.

noun

1. (geology) A form of trachyandesite

noun

1. (art) Decorative work resembling interlaced bands.

noun

1. plural of bangkok

adj

1. Acceptable to a bank.
2. Certain to bring profit and success, especially in the entertainment industry.
3. Reliable.

noun

1. (transferred sense) wealth
2. passbook, chequebook

noun

1. A card that a bank issues used by the cardholder in the course of authorization to receive bank services.

adj

1. (of a river, etc) Risen to a height just sufficient to spill over its banks into the floodplain.

noun

1. plural of banking

noun

1. (now historical) A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary.
2. A piece of paper currency.

noun

1. A roll of banknotes or other paper currency, carried in lieu of a wallet.
2. The monetary assets of a person or organization.

verb

1. (transitive) To fund a project; to underwrite something.

adj

1. (finance) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
2. Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
3. Having been legally declared insolvent.

noun

1. (UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
2. One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.

verb

1. (transitive) To force into bankruptcy.

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist.
2. Of or pertaining to Iain Banks (born 1954) or his writings, most notably a utopian style of science fiction.

noun

1. plural of banksia

noun

1. The land by a riverbank.

noun

1. (UK, civil engineering) The person who directs the operation of a crane or larger vehicle from the point near where loads are attached and detached.

noun

1. plural of banksman

noun

1. plural of bannock

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bard.

adj

1. (dated) Without a shirt; shirtless.
2. Without a condom.
3. Without a saddle.

noun

1. A bird, raised for meat, that lacks feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.

verb

1. (intransitive, slang) To have sex without a condom.
2. (intransitive, slang, particularly sex among men) To have anal sex without a condom.
3. (transitive, slang, particularly sex among men) To anally penetrate without a condom.

noun

1. (obsolete) A berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armour.

noun

1. plural of barkeep

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barken

adj

1. superlative form of barky: most barky

adj

1. (of a dog) That does not bark.
2. Without bark (the tree covering).

adj

1. Characterised or marked by barking

noun

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A blacksmith's leather apron.

adj

1. Resembling a barn

noun

1. (military) A group of buildings used by military personnel as housing.
2. plural of barrack.

verb

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