HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (mechanics) Countering or preventing backlash (jarring reflex motion in machinery).

adj

1. Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.

noun

1. Antiblack sentiments or politics.

adj

1. Serving to counter kickbacks (illicit payments); antibribery.
2. Serving to prevent kickbacks (accidents with machinery).

adj

1. Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.

noun

1. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.

verb

1. present participle of backbite

adv

1. In a backbiting manner.

noun

1. plural of backbiting

verb

1. past participle of backbite

adj

1. (figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.

verb

1. (computing, artificial intelligence) To perform inferences, starting with a list of goals (or a hypothesis) and working backwards from the consequent to the antecedent.

verb

1. present participle of backcheck

noun

1. (genetics) The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent.

verb

1. present participle of backcross

noun

1. The act by which something is backdated.

verb

1. present participle of backdate

verb

1. present participle of backdrop

noun

1. The process by which something is backfilled.

verb

1. present participle of backfill

noun

1. A failure that leads to further misfortune.
2. The occurrence of a backfire.

verb

1. present participle of backfire

verb

1. present participle of backfit

verb

1. present participle of backflip

adj

1. flowing backwards

verb

1. present participle of backflow

noun

1. (UK, dialectal) A friend at one's back; a backer; one who does his best for another; a supporter.
2. (UK, dialectal) A hangnail.
3. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A false friend; a secret enemy.

verb

1. present participle of backhand

verb

1. present participle of backhaul

adj

1. (music) Providing support for the main performer.

noun

1. (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
2. (television, film) A backdrop.
3. A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
4. Support, especially financial.
5. The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.
6. The mounting of a horse or other animal.

verb

1. present participle of back

noun

1. plural of backing

noun

1. (architecture) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

verb

1. present participle of backlash

noun

1. The illumination of a photographic subject from the rear, causing edges to glow while other areas remain in shadow.

verb

1. present participle of backlight

verb

1. present participle of backlist

noun

1. (transport) The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.

verb

1. present participle of backload

verb

1. present participle of backlog

noun

1. hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
2. low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.

verb

1. present participle of backpack

noun

1. The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.

verb

1. (US) present participle of backpedal

noun

1. (physics) The scattering of waves, particles, or signals back in the direction of their source.

verb

1. present participle of backscatter

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

verb

1. present participle of backset

noun

1. action of the verb to backslap

verb

1. present participle of backslap

verb

1. past participle of backslide

adj

1. sliding back

noun

1. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.

verb

1. present participle of backslide

verb

1. present participle of backspace

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. plural of backspin

verb

1. present participle of backsplice

noun

1. The act of one who backstabs.

verb

1. present participle of backstab

verb

1. present participle of backstitch

verb

1. present participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.

verb

1. To swing backward.

noun

1. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. (aviation) The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.
2. (computer science) The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.

verb

1. present participle of backtrack

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. A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

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.

verb

1. present participle of backwind

noun

1. The quality of being backwoodsy.

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the Balkan peninsula.

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

1. (regional, US) three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) The act of cheering for or supporting a team.
2. An act of jeering or heckling.

verb

1. present participle of barrack

verb

1. present participle of bechalk

verb

1. present participle of beck

adj

1. That beckons.

noun

1. Such a wave or similar action.

verb

1. present participle of beckon

adv

1. So as to beckon or call near; enticingly.

verb

1. present participle of becloak

noun

1. An ornament.

verb

1. present participle of bedeck

verb

1. present participle of befleck

verb

1. present participle of bemock

noun

1. A performance measurement according to a benchmark.

verb

1. present participle of benchmark

noun

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

noun

1. plural of benedick

verb

1. present participle of bestick

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

noun

1. Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.

verb

1. present participle of bicker

noun

1. An anvil with two projecting taper ends.

noun

1. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid found in bikh (Aconitum spicatum).

noun

1. Synonym of billposting

noun

1. (medical biology) The study of movements of or within organisms

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to (1815-1898), German statesman associated with antisocialism, complex diplomacy and the creation of the welfare state.

verb

1. present participle of bivouac

noun

1. An instance, or action, of a person being blackballed

verb

1. present participle of blackball

noun

1. (UK, Australia) The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.

verb

1. present participle of blackbird

noun

1. (countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
2. (uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
3. Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion; on steel, generally, synonym of bluing.
4. The act of defaming or sullying.

verb

1. present participle of blacken

noun

1. plural of blackening

noun

1. bluefin tuna

noun

1. plural of blackfin

noun

1. (slang, of a non-black person) The practice of appropriating signifiers of black identity, such as darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles.

verb

1. present participle of blackfish

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

noun

1. plural of blacking

noun

1. The quality of being blackish, somewhat black.

verb

1. present participle of blackjack

noun

1. The practice of working in place of those who are engaged in a strike.

verb

1. present participle of blackleg

noun

1. The act of placing onto a blacklist.

verb

1. present participle of blacklist

noun

1. The act of one who blackmails.

verb

1. present participle of blackmail

noun

1. the business of a blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacktop

noun

1. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
2. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
3. The application of a coating of blackwash.

verb

1. present participle of blackwash

verb

1. present participle of blockade

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. The state or condition of being 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

noun

1. The state or quality of being blockish.

noun

1. The manufacture of blocks for use in printing.
2. The manufacture of nautical blocks.

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. A coarse woollen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.

verb

1. present participle of bodycheck

noun

1. servile behaviour

verb

1. present participle of bootlick

noun

1. (architecture) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
2. The act of enclosing (text, etc.) in brackets.

verb

1. present participle of bracket

noun

1. distastefulness; unpleasantness

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting bradykinesia

adj

1. Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.

adv

1. (obsolete) In a brainsick manner.