HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (astronautics) The use of atmospheric drag to reduce the velocity of a spacecraft, especially so as to establish a stable orbit and to reduce fuel consumption.

verb

1. present participle of aerobrake

noun

1. (pathology) fusion of the margins of the eyelids

adj

1. Preventing breakage.

noun

1. (by extension) Someone who does not play an active role in a process.
2. (education) A student who does not perform well, especially one who sits at the back of the classroom.
3. (politics) A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature.
4. (sports) A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.

noun

1. plural of backbencher

adj

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

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

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.

adj

1. (computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive
2. Moved to the background

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of background

noun

1. (chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives basic details on subjects that are likely to be mentioned.
2. A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
3. A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.

noun

1. (informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
2. (racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
3. (racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
4. (surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
5. A blow with the back of the hand.
6. A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.

noun

1. plural of backhander

noun

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

verb

1. present participle of backscatter

noun

1. plural of backswordman

noun

1. Reluctance.
2. The state of being backward.

noun

1. plural of backwardness

noun

1. (nautical) A brush-like pad made of rope, attached to a shroud in order to prevent wear on sails.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
2. (mining) A banksman.
3. (obsolete) A money changer.
4. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
5. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
6. One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
7. The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
8. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

noun

1. The world of bankers and finance.

noun

1. (obsolete) A female banker.

noun

1. plural of banker

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankroll

noun

1. One who bankrolls; usually an individual who has enough seed capital to launch a venture; one who can fund a project; angel investor.

noun

1. plural of bankroller

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.

noun

1. (dated) bankruptcy

adj

1. Resembling a banner

adv

1. So as to resemble a banner

adj

1. Having the neck bare.

adj

1. (poetic) Made of bark.

verb

1. (intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To become hard or form a crust, like bark.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To tan or dye with bark.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barken

verb

1. present participle of barken

noun

1. (sailing) Alternative spelling of barquentine

noun

1. plural of barkentine

adj

1. Resembling a barn

noun

1. The manufacture of barrels.

noun

1. Alternative form of beak-iron

noun

1. (dated) A coarse, shaggy, woollen cloth for overcoats.
2. A tall ceremonial hat worn by members of some British regiments for ceremonial occasions; a busby.
3. The pelt of a bear, especially when used as a rug.

noun

1. plural of bearskin

noun

1. (diminutive) A small or young beaver.
2. A small hat made of beaver fur.

noun

1. The pelt of a beaver.

noun

1. One who, or that which, beckons.

noun

1. plural of beckoner

verb

1. To make dim, or to darken, or obscure.

adj

1. Dim, dark, or obscure

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bedarken

verb

1. present participle of bedarken

verb

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

noun

1. The making of beer.

noun

1. (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
2. A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
3. A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.

verb

1. (intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
2. (transitive, intransitive, followed by against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of benchmark

noun

1. A performance measurement according to a benchmark.

verb

1. present participle of benchmark

noun

1. plural of benchmark

verb

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

noun

1. the structure supporting a model railway layout
2. work performed at a workbench

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or his system of idealism.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To sprinkle.

adj

1. Sprinkled.

noun

1. One who or that which besprinkles.

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of besprinkle

noun

1. That which betokens.

verb

1. (transitive) To deprive (a river) of its lower course or trunk by submergence or erosion of the land by the sea.

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.

adj

1. (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland and Northern England) Made of birch; birchen.

Proper noun

1. An English topographic surname
2. Either of F. E. Smith, Frederick Smith or Frederick Smith the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Earls of Birkenhead
3. the town itself.

noun

1. One who blackens.

noun

1. plural of blackener

noun

1. plural of blackhander

noun

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

adj

1. comparative form of blank: more blank

noun

1. (computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.

noun

1. Gaillardia; a plant of the genus Gaillardia.

noun

1. A manufacturer of blankets.

noun

1. (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
2. (informal, US, automotive) Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.
3. (rare) The eyelid.
4. (slang) A black eye.
5. Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
6. Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.

verb

1. (transitive) To put blinkers on.

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

verb

1. present participle of blinker

noun

1. (plural only) A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes from glare, dust, etc.
2. (plural only, slang) Spectacles.
3. A pair of leather or rubber eye cups attached to a horse hood in order to impede the rear vision of racehorses and harness horses; blinders in (USA).
4. plural of blinker

verb

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

noun

1. The manufacture of boilers.

noun

1. A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s).
2. Something jolty.

noun

1. The art or process of making objects from bone.

adj

1. (informal) Mad; crazy.

noun

1. plural of bonker

noun

1. A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.

noun

1. plural of bookbindery

noun

1. plural of bookbinder

noun

1. A building where books are assembled and bound.

noun

1. (archaic) A bookseller.

noun

1. A kind of combat boot worn in the US Marine Corps.

noun

1. (uncountable) An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.
2. (uncountable, countable) Any of several coarse ferns, of the genus Pteridium, that form dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.

noun

1. plural of bracken

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

Proper noun

1. a town in Berkshire, England.

noun

1. (medicine) Slowness of movement.

noun

1. Alternative form of bradykinesia

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting bradykinesia

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a brain.