HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Able to be acknowledged.
2. Worthy of acknowledgement.

noun

1. (American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage occupied before the snap by the team on offense.
2. (baseball, rare) Synonym of outfield.
3. (soccer, US) The area behind either the offensive or defensive line.
4. The players occupying this area.

noun

1. plural of backfield

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfill

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backflip

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backhaul

adj

1. Having a backlash.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlash

adj

1. Having an excessive list of tasks to do, especially tasks that should have already been performed.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlog

verb

1. (intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
2. (intransitive) To step backwards.
3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.

verb

1. (US) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

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

verb

1. (British spelling) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backslap

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

noun

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

noun

1. A native or inhabitant of the backveld.

noun

1. (Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta

adj

1. Similar to a badger.
2. Similar to that of a badger.

Proper noun

1. A major city in California, USA

adj

1. Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanise

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanize

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balk

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a ballad.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankroll

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bard.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of baulk

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bead.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a beard.

adj

1. Chalk-covered or chalky.
2. Having a surface that has been written on in chalk.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bechalk

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of becloak

adj

1. Resembling a bed.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of befleck

adj

1. Wearing a kilt.

adj

1. Beloved; liked.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of belike

adv

1. (nautical) Below the main deck of a ship.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bespeckle

adj

1. Sprinkled.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bilk

adj

1. Similar to a bird or an aspect of a bird; reminiscent of birds; avian.

adv

1. (postpositive) In the manner of a bird; as, to fly.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackball

Proper noun

1. The archetypal pirate, who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackbird

noun

1. A person involved in blackbirding (kidnapping Pacific islanders as cheap labour).
2. A ship used for blackbirding.

noun

1. plural of blackbirder

noun

1. plural of blackbody

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of black

adj

1. (food) Synonym of charred.
2. (steel) Synonym of blued.
3. Darkened to the point of appearing black; as:

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacken

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackguard

verb

1. To make blackguardly.

noun

1. plural of blackhander

noun

1. (countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.
2. (countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
3. (uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.

noun

1. plural of blackhead

adj

1. Alternative form of black-hearted

noun

1. The state or quality of being blackhearted; villainy.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackjack

noun

1. Alternative form of black lead

verb

1. To cover, treat or polish with graphite

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackleg

adj

1. Being on a blacklist, or having been shunned and rejected due to information (true or false) being spread about scandalous activities or ideas, especially controversial political opinions.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacklist

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackmail

noun

1. A spice plant with aromatic black seeds, Nigella sativa

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

noun

1. Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia.)

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bladder.

noun

1. Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.

adj

1. Resembling a blade

adj

1. (euphemistic, dated) damned; accursed (from the euphemistic printed form d—d)
2. In a state of blankness.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blank

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blanket

noun

1. a filamentous alga often found in ponds

adj

1. (Appalachia) Sour.
2. Affected with blinking.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blink

adj

1. (figuratively) Having tunnel vision; unable to see what is happening around one.
2. Wearing blinkers or blinders.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blinker

noun

1. (by extension) Any form of formal isolation of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
2. (chess) Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it
3. (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
4. The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.

verb

1. (transitive) To create a blockade against.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blockade

noun

1. A person who blockades
2. A ship used in blockading

noun

1. plural of blockader

noun

1. plural of blockade

verb

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

adj

1. (Ireland, slang) Drunk
2. (of a computer account or similar) Disabled or disconnected, so as to prevent access.
3. (of a person, telephone number, IP address, etc.) Banned or barred from connecting or logging on.
4. Obstructed, so that through movement or flow is prevented or impeded.
5. Unable to move owing to an obstruction.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of block

noun

1. (colloquial) A stupid person.
2. A sideshow performer who hammers nails or similar items through his or her nostril into the nasal cavity; human blockhead.

verb

1. (rare) To behave in a stupid manner.
2. To perform as a human blockhead.

adj

1. Resembling a blockhead; stupid

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blockhead

adv

1. In a blockheaded way.

noun

1. The state or condition of being blockheaded.

adj

1. stupid

noun

1. The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity.

noun

1. plural of blockhead

verb

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

adj

1. Resembling blood.

noun

1. (medicine, obsolete) Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.
2. A stroke or blow with a weapon that draws blood.

noun

1. (by extension) Any parasite.
2. (by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
3. A vampire.
4. An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
5. The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).

noun

1. plural of bloodsucker

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a board.

noun

1. One who trades in books.

noun

1. (obsolete) A prompter at a theatre.
2. A support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bootlick

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bottleneck

noun

1. Enough to fill a brake (type of carriage).

noun

1. A place where bricks are made; a brickyard.

noun

1. (Australia) A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.

noun

1. plural of brickfield

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bride.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bridge.
2. Similar to the card game of bridge.

adv

1. In a brokenhearted manner.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buckle

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buckler

adj

1. Resembling a bud (newly formed leaf or flower, not yet unfolded).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bulk

noun

1. (nautical) A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.
2. A pressure-resistant sealed barrier to any fluid in a large structure.
3. A retaining wall along a waterfront.
4. A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft.
5. Mechanically, a partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition.

adj

1. Furnished with a bulkhead or bulkheads.

noun

1. bulkheads in general

noun

1. plural of bulkhead

adj

1. Having a thick, muscular neck

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bulwark

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a buzzard.

Proper noun

1. a town on the north side of the River in council area, Scotland

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cockbill

noun

1. A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

verb

1. (transitive) To unblock; remove a blockage from.
2. (transitive, computing) To process (digital video) so as to remove block-shaped artifacts of encoding.
3. (transitive, computing) To separate the logical records that have been combined into a physical block for storage.

adj

1. (computing, of a physical block) Separated into logical records
2. unblocked

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of deblock