HANGMAN SOLVER

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

noun

1. plural of backsplash

noun

1. Such a knot

verb

1. To secure the ends of a twisted rope within the rope itself in order to prevent fraying

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

verb

1. present participle of backsplice

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.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstab

noun

1. A traitor or hypocrite, such as a co-worker or friend assumed trustworthy but who figuratively attacks when one's back is turned.

noun

1. plural of backstabber

noun

1. The act of one who backstabs.

verb

1. present participle of backstab

noun

1. (nautical) An early navigational instrument for measuring the altitude of the sun and hence calculating latitude.

adj

1. Relating to, or situated in the area behind a stage.
2. Secret, concealed from the public.

adv

1. Out of view of the public.
2. Towards the area behind the stage.

noun

1. The area behind a stage out of view of the audience where performers wait to give their show; especially that of the dressing rooms.
2. The private portion of the space used by a business or enterprise.

adj

1. clandestine, secret or furtive

noun

1. The backstairs (stairs at the rear of a building).

adj

1. Secret or furtive.

noun

1. A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.
2. An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.

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. plural of backstay

noun

1. (obsolete) A baker.

noun

1. (field hockey, often attributively) An illegal shot in which a player strikes the ball with the rounded face of the stick in field hockey.

noun

1. (sewing) A type of sewing stitch where the stitch goes backwards on the top side of the fabric and doubles forward on the bottom, coming out farther in front, then repeats. The backstitch is a very tight and secure stitch, and also looks very neat.

verb

1. To sew with a backstitch.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstitch

noun

1. plural of backstitch

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backstitch

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.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstop

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backstory

noun

1. (drugs) The rolling a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion
2. (firearms) The rearmost surface applied to the grip especially of a pistol below a possible beavertail.
3. A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
4. A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
5. An anchoring strap, passed around the waist or hips, for a small loom.
6. The backbone of a book.

verb

1. To apply or make into a backstrap.

adj

1. (figuratively) Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
2. Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back street

noun

1. plural of backstreet

noun

1. (athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).
2. (exercise) An exercise that stretches the muscles of the back.
3. (figuratively) The middle part of an event.
4. (horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.

noun

1. plural of backstretch.

noun

1. (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
2. (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
3. A backhanded stroke or blow.

verb

1. To swim the backstroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. plural of backstroke

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

adj

1. Swept back.

noun

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

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. (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

noun

1. plural of backtracker

noun

1. plural of backtrack

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backup

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. (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.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

noun

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

noun

1. plural of backwash

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. plural of backwater

verb

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

adj

1. Pertaining to the backwoods.
2. Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.

noun

1. A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
2. Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.

noun

1. The quality of being backwoodsy.

noun

1. (informal, UK politics) A Peer who is seldom present in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom Parliament, who may be encouraged to attend when a very important vote is expected.
2. A person who is acclimated to living in a forest area that is far removed from civilization or modern conveniences.
3. An uncivilized person.

noun

1. plural of backwoodsman

adj

1. (US) Typical of something or someone from the backwoods

noun

1. plural of backwrap

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backyard

Proper noun

1. A region comprising parts of what is now northeastern Afghanistan and southeastern Tajikistan.
2. A province of Afghanistan, Badakhshan Province.
3. Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, or Kūhistoni Badakhshon, a province of Tajikistan.

noun

1. (Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta

noun

1. plural of baidarka

noun

1. plural of bailiwick

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Bakery.
2. A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
3. A building principally containing ovens.

noun

1. plural of bakehouse

noun

1. plural of bakemeat

noun

1. (dated) A female baker.

noun

1. plural of bakery

adj

1. Without a baker.

noun

1. plural of baker

Proper noun

1. A major city in California, USA

noun

1. The role or status of a baker.

Proper noun

1. an unincorporated community in Mercer County, New Jersey, USA.
2. a town in North Carolina, USA, and the county seat of Mitchell County.
3. an unincorporated community in Coshocton County, Ohio, USA.

noun

1. plural of bake

verb

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

noun

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

noun

1. plural of bakeshop

noun

1. Synonym of Welshcake
2. Synonym of baking stone

noun

1. plural of baking

noun

1. plural of baklava

noun

1. plural of baklawa

noun

1. (military slang) A minor wound that is severe enough to get a soldier sent away from the front.
2. in the Middle East, southwest Asia and Eastern Europe: a bribe or tip.

verb

1. To bribe with a baksheesh.

noun

1. plural of baksheesh

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bakshish

noun

1. plural of bakshish

verb

1. present participle of bakshish

Adjective

1. Relating to, or supporting the revolutionary anarchism of

noun

1. plural of balalaika

noun

1. plural of baldrick

verb

1. Alternative spelling of balkanize

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanise

verb

1. present participle of balkanise

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Balkanism

Proper noun

1. A geographical region in the southeast of Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia (and Kosovo), sometimes including Romania and Slovenia.

noun

1. plural of balker

adj

1. superlative form of balky: most balky

noun

1. The state or quality of being balky or uncooperative.

adj

1. (obsolete, rare) uneven; ridgy

noun

1. plural of balkline

noun

1. plural of balk

verb

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

noun

1. plural of ballhawk

noun

1. Alternative form of bollocks

noun

1. plural of ballpark

verb

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

noun

1. (printing, historical) The handle of a printer's ball.

noun

1. plural of bangkok

noun

1. plural of bankbook

noun

1. plural of bankcard

noun

1. (obsolete) A female banker.

noun

1. plural of banker

noun

1. plural of banking

noun

1. plural of banknote

noun

1. plural of bankroller

noun

1. plural of bankroll

verb

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

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

1. (obsolete) bankruptcy

noun

1. plural of bankrupt

verb

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

noun

1. plural of bank

verb

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

noun

1. (India, historical) A warehouse.
2. (India, historical) The office of a harbormaster or other port authority.

noun

1. A plant belonging to the genus Banksia.

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.