HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

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

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bachelor.

noun

1. The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.

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.

noun

1. (broadcasting) Uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or radio station, network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished show.
2. (military) The shipment of material to or through an area from which the material had previously been shipped.
3. (transport) A return trip after delivery of cargo.
4. (travel, aviation, fare construction) Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point).

verb

1. To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backhaul

verb

1. present participle of backhaul

verb

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

noun

1. (soccer) A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
2. (wrestling) A method of tripping or throwing by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back.

verb

1. (soccer) To perform such a kick.
2. (wrestling) To perform such a trip or throw.

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

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

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

noun

1. plural of backsplash

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

verb

1. (archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.

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. present participle of bechalk

verb

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

noun

1. A shrub of the genus Coleogyne

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
2. (Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
3. (chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
4. A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).
5. Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).

verb

1. (Internet slang, derogatory, of a white person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
2. (fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.

noun

1. plural of blackfish

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. 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

noun

1. A cruel and remorseless person.
2. A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark skin.
3. A type of malleable cast iron with minimum tensile strength of 350 N/mm².
4. Any of various plant diseases that cause darkening of the central tissue.

adj

1. Alternative form of black-hearted

noun

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

noun

1. plural of blackheart

adj

1. somewhat black

adv

1. In a blackish way.

noun

1. The quality of being blackish, somewhat black.

noun

1. Alternative form of black light (“ultraviolet bulb”)

Proper noun

1. a city in Georgia, USA

noun

1. (by extension) Any member of a fascist party.
2. (historical, chiefly in the plural) A uniformed member of a paramilitary wing of the Italian Fascist Party.

noun

1. (informal) A person who shoes horses.
2. A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).
3. A person who forges iron.

verb

1. (intransitive) To work as a blacksmith.

noun

1. the business of a blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacksmith

noun

1. plural of blacksmith

noun

1. A large shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa, that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.
2. A stick or staff taken from this tree.

noun

1. plural of blackthorn

noun

1. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
2. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
3. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
4. (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
5. (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

verb

1. (transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
2. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
3. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

noun

1. One who blackwashes.

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

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

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. Having unusually short legs

adj

1. resembling a branch of a tree

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.

verb

1. (US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.

noun

1. (US) The driver of a bullock team.

noun

1. A slate or enamel board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to a whiteboard.

verb

1. To write or draw on a chalkboard.

noun

1. plural of chalkboard

adj

1. (finance, not comparable) Alternative form of chequable
2. Able to be checked or verified.
3. Able to be marked with a check mark, or tick.

adj

1. (by extension) Jammed tightly together, jam-packed; very crowded; completely filled or stuffed.
2. (nautical, of a ship's hoisting tackle) Having the blocks drawn close together so no further movement is possible, as when the tackle is hauled to the utmost.

adv

1. In a crowded manner; as completely or closely as possible.

noun

1. A basket for holding clothes to be laundered.

noun

1. (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
2. (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
3. (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
4. A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
5. The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.

verb

1. (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

noun

1. plural of flashback

noun

1. (archaic, Scilly Isles) The greater shearwater or hagdon.

noun

1. A small North American sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus, the roe of which is harvested for caviar

noun

1. Alternative form of hacksilver

noun

1. (American football) An offensive back whose primary jobs are to carry the ball on running plays and to serve as a receiver or blocker on passing plays.
2. (Australian rules football) One of three players (the centre halfback and two halfback flankers) on the line between the centre line and the fullback line.
3. (Canadian football) A defensive back whose primary jobs are to cover the slotback on passing plays and prevent running plays from going to the outside.
4. (field hockey) A player in the halfback position, with both offensive and defensive roles.
5. (field sports) Any of various positions on the field of play between the forwards and the fullbacks.
6. (rugby) The player who feeds the ball into the scrum, and receives the ball as it emerges from the back of the scrum.

verb

1. To play in the position of halfback.

noun

1. plural of halfback

noun

1. The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing.
2. The strap or part of the harness so used.
3. restraint (act or result of holding back, device that restrains)

noun

1. plural of holdback

noun

1. A large sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, with a leathery back.

noun

1. plural of leatherback

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792–1856), Russian mathematician.
2. Of or related to hyperbolic geometry, which was developed by Nikolai Lobachevsky.

noun

1. (botany) Any of the genus Muehlenbeckia of maidenhairs.

adj

1. On which a person cannot choke.
2. That cannot become choked or blocked up.

noun

1. (historical) A spiked helmet worn by German troops, especially during the First World War.

noun

1. A sailor who has crossed the equator.
2. A worldly sailor.

noun

1. The condition of being shockable; the capacity to be shocked.

adj

1. (medicine) Capable of being treated by defibrillator.
2. Able to be shocked.
3. Easily shocked.

noun

1. One who cleans and polishes shoes (and boots) as an occupation.

noun

1. The quality of being sketchable.

adj

1. Capable of being sketched.

noun

1. (countable) A shield of an easily-cleaned material, such as those placed behind an oven top or kitchen sink and at industrial facilities, construction sites, etc, in order to catch splashes of liquid.
2. (uncountable, countable) Splashes of liquid, especially noxious liquid, rebounding from a surface.

verb

1. (intransitive) To take part in exciting romantic adventures.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of swashbuckle

noun

1. A daring adventurer.
2. A kind of period adventure story with flashy action and lighthearted tone.
3. A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant sword play.

adj

1. Alternative form of swashbuckling

noun

1. plural of swashbuckler

noun

1. adventure and excitement; that which is swashbuckling

verb

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

adj

1. Adventurous, exciting.

adj

1. Incapable of being checked or restrained.
2. Incapable of being checked or verified.

adj

1. Not chokable.

adj

1. Incapable of being shocked (scandalised or appalled).

adj

1. Not sketchable.

noun

1. (geology) A landform (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale.
2. (historical) A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curves above the waterline from vertical to horizontal.