HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Belonging to the Bacillariaceae; rod-shaped.

noun

1. (pathology) infection with bacilli

noun

1. (figurative, by extension) Something which spreads like bacterial infection.
2. Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
3. Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.

noun

1. plural of backblock

adj

1. Cowardly, spineless.
2. Without a backbone; invertebrate.

noun

1. cowardice; spinelessness

noun

1. plural of backfield

noun

1. plural of backfill

verb

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

noun

1. Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”)
2. The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backland

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. Having a backlash.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlash

noun

1. A participant in a backlash

noun

1. plural of backlasher

noun

1. plural of backlash

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of 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.

verb

1. present participle of backlist

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backlog

noun

1. plural of backplane

noun

1. One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.

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 backslap

noun

1. One who makes a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.

noun

1. plural of backslapper

noun

1. action of the verb to backslap

verb

1. present participle of backslap

verb

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

noun

1. (computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
2. The punctuation mark \.
3. |passage= […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).}}

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.

noun

1. plural of backslash

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backslide

verb

1. past participle of backslide

noun

1. (dance) A dance move in which the feet are alternately slid back and the heels lifted, giving the illusion of walking forwards while actually moving backwards.
2. A backward regression; a reverting back to a worse state.

verb

1. (Christianity) To revert back into a life of sin after being saved.
2. To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
3. To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.

noun

1. A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
2. She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.

noun

1. plural of backslider

noun

1. plural of backslide

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form 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

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

noun

1. plural of bacteriology

noun

1. A microbiologist whose speciality is bacteriology.

noun

1. plural of bacteriologist

noun

1. Any antibody that causes lysis of the cells of a bacterium

noun

1. The destruction of bacteria by lysis

adj

1. bacterioscopic

adv

1. By means of bacterioscopy.

adv

1. With regard to bacteriostasis; by means of a bacteriostat.

noun

1. plural of baculite

noun

1. (Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta

noun

1. plural of bailiwick

noun

1. The state or quality of being balanced.

noun

1. plural of balancer

noun

1. plural of balance

verb

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

adv

1. In terms of balance.

adj

1. (botany) Belonging to the Balanophoraceae.

noun

1. plural of balcony

noun

1. plural of baldachino

noun

1. plural of baldachin

noun

1. plural of baldrick

noun

1. plural of baldric

adv

1. In the manner of a baldric.

noun

1. plural of ballcarrier

adj

1. (comparable) Of or relating to projectiles moving under their own momentum, aerodynamic drag, gravity, and sometimes rocket power, without significant lift.
2. (comparable, slang) Very angry.
3. (not comparable) Of or relating to ballistics.

adv

1. In a ballistic manner
2. With regard to ballistics

noun

1. A person who has expertise in the field of ballistics

noun

1. plural of ballistician

noun

1. (physics) The science of objects that predominantly fly under the effects of gravity, momentum and atmospheric drag, and dealing with details of their behaviour at the origin and destination of their flight, as of bullets or missiles or rockets.

noun

1. The visual output that a ballistocardiograph produces.

noun

1. An instrument which measures ballistic forces on the heart, producing a graphical representation of repetitive motions of the human body arising from the sudden ejection of blood into the great vessels with each heartbeat.

adj

1. Relating to ballistocardiography

noun

1. The science of the preparation and diagnostic interpretation of ballistocardiograms.

noun

1. Alternative form of bollocks

noun

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

noun

1. balneotherapy

adj

1. Having the health-giving properties of balsam; soothing, restorative.
2. Having the pleasant odour of balsam; balmy, fragrant.
3. Producing balsam.

noun

1. A balsamic vinegar.

adj

1. Alternative form of balsamic

adv

1. In a balsamic manner.

adj

1. (botany) Belonging to the Balsaminaceae.

noun

1. plural of bancal

noun

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

noun

1. plural of barbicel

noun

1. plural of barcarole

noun

1. plural of barcarolle

noun

1. plural of barleycorn

noun

1. plural of barnacle

verb

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

adj

1. Alternative form of baroscopic

adj

1. Of or pertaining to basalt.

noun

1. (geology) The tilting of a geological layer.
2. (medicine, archaic) The replacement of a retroverted uterus by swinging it into its place.

noun

1. (firearms) The portion of a breech-loading firearm that pivots open in order to allow access to the chamber.
2. A counterbalanced structure having one end that rises as the other lowers.

noun

1. plural of bascule

adj

1. (botany) Belonging to the Basellaceae.

adj

1. Relating to the bony base of gills, or to the corresponding parts of abranchiate vertebrates

noun

1. Any fish that has such gills

adv

1. (filler) used to refer to the most important or fundamental point the speaker is making; sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler word
2. in a fundamental, essential or basic manner
3. mostly; generally; for the most part

adj

1. Of or pertaining to the basicranium

noun

1. (lichenology) Any lichen in which the fungus is a member of the Basidiomycota

adj

1. (anatomy) Relating to the lower half of the face

noun

1. (sociolinguistics) A variety of a language that has diverged greatly from the standard form, and is only considered suitable for very informal contexts by speakers.

adj

1. (anatomy) Relating to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, such as the basilic vein.
2. basilican
3. royal; kingly

noun

1. A basilica.

noun

1. (architecture) A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.
2. (obsolete) An apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; hence, any large hall used for this purpose.
3. A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance.

adj

1. basilic

adj

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a basilica; basilical.

noun

1. plural of basilica

Proper noun

1. a region of southern Italy.