HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. The fear of ankylosis.

adj

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

adj

1. Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.

noun

1. Antiblack sentiments or politics.

adv

1. In a backbiting manner.

noun

1. The process by which something is backfilled.

verb

1. present participle of backfill

verb

1. present participle of backflip

adj

1. flowing backwards

verb

1. present participle of backflow

verb

1. present participle of backhaul

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

verb

1. present participle of backlist

noun

1. (transport) The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.

verb

1. present participle of backload

verb

1. present participle of backlog

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

noun

1. action of the verb to backslap

verb

1. present participle of backslap

verb

1. past participle 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

verb

1. present participle of backsplice

noun

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

adv

1. So as to bake.

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the Balkan peninsula.

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

noun

1. (mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal white gray mineral containing copper, mercury, silver, and sulfur.

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Balkanization

verb

1. Alternative letter-case form of Balkanize

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balkanize

verb

1. present participle of balkanize

noun

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

noun

1. A frustration or disappointment; a check.

verb

1. present participle of balk

adv

1. in a balking manner

noun

1. baulk line

noun

1. plural of balkline

adj

1. Resembling a balloon in form

noun

1. The state or condition of being bankable.

verb

1. present participle of bankroll

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.

adj

1. Resembling a banner

adv

1. So as to resemble a banner

noun

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

adv

1. With barking sounds.

adj

1. Resembling a barn

noun

1. The manufacture of barrels.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a basin.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

noun

1. Alternative form of balking

verb

1. present participle of baulk

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bean.

verb

1. present participle of bechalk

adv

1. So as to beckon or call near; enticingly.

verb

1. present participle of becloak

verb

1. present participle of befleck

noun

1. The manufacture of bells.

noun

1. The manufacture of belts.

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. A mental disorder that produces a compulsion to steal books.

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

noun

1. The act of one who bilks (in any sense).

verb

1. present participle of bilk

noun

1. Alternative form of Billiken

noun

1. Synonym of billposting

noun

1. An instance, or action, of a person being blackballed

verb

1. present participle of blackball

noun

1. (UK, Australia) The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.

verb

1. present participle of blackbird

noun

1. (countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
2. (uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
3. Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion; on steel, generally, synonym of bluing.
4. The act of defaming or sullying.

verb

1. present participle of blacken

noun

1. plural of blackening

noun

1. bluefin tuna

noun

1. plural of blackfin

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. A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
2. A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
3. Shoe polish.

verb

1. present participle of black

noun

1. plural of blacking

noun

1. The quality of being blackish, somewhat black.

verb

1. present participle of blackjack

noun

1. The practice of working in place of those who are engaged in a strike.

verb

1. present participle of blackleg

noun

1. The act of placing onto a blacklist.

verb

1. present participle of blacklist

noun

1. The act of one who blackmails.

verb

1. present participle of blackmail

noun

1. the business of a blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacktop

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. (countable) A layer of something that covers like a blanket.
2. (nautical, slang) A manoeuvre in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.
3. (rail transport) Provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains.
4. (uncountable, countable) Cloth for making blankets.
5. (uncountable, countable) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.

verb

1. present participle of blanket

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a blanket.

noun

1. The manufacture of blankets.

noun

1. (television) The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.
2. A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
3. An instance of something being blanked out.

verb

1. present participle of blank

adj

1. Somewhat blank; more or less blank.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle
2. (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
3. (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
4. (nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
5. (sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
6. (video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances
7. A glimpse or glance.
8. The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.

verb

1. (Tyneside, obsolete) To glance.
2. (hyperbolic) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
3. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
4. (science fiction, video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.
5. (transitive) To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.
6. (transitive) To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
7. To flash headlights on a car at.
8. To flash on and off at regular intervals.
9. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
10. To send a signal with a lighting device.
11. To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
12. To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
13. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.

noun

1. (obsolete) One with bad eyes.
2. A dim-witted or stupid person; an idiot.

noun

1. plural of blinkard

adj

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blink

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

adj

1. (UK, euphemistic, slang) bloody
2. That blinks.

noun

1. The act of something that blinks.

verb

1. present participle of blink

adv

1. While blinking, or as if blinking

noun

1. Montia fontana, a herbaceous annual plant in the family Montiaceae, formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae).
2. plural of blink

verb

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

adj

1. (US, regional) Of milk: turned somewhat sour.
2. (of lights, shining objects) flickery, prone to flicker
3. Of eyes or people/animals: blinking repeatedly, prone to blink.

noun

1. (photography) in digital photography, a flashing pixel.

verb

1. present participle of blockade

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.

noun

1. (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.

noun

1. The state or condition of being blocky.

noun

1. (computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
2. Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
3. The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
4. The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).

verb

1. present participle of block

noun

1. The state or quality of being blockish.

noun

1. The manufacture of blocks for use in printing.
2. The manufacture of nautical blocks.

adj

1. (by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
2. (of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.

noun

1. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
2. (historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
3. (usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. (colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

noun

1. plural of bluestocking

noun

1. An American migratory songbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, resembling a blackbird with the bill of a finch.

noun

1. plural of bobolink

noun

1. The manufacture of boilers.

noun

1. The manufacture of bolts.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of bone.