HANGMAN SOLVER

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 \.
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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. (US) Verbal impudence or argumentative discourse, given in response.

verb

1. (transitive) To respond to in an aggressively disputatious, often sarcastic or insolent manner.

noun

1. A small path or trail that is not used regularly.
2. The path over which one has already traveled.

verb

1. To backtrack along a trail.

noun

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

noun

1. A native or inhabitant of the backveld.

noun

1. (sports) Alternative form of back wall

adv

1. In a backward direction.

noun

1. (Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta

noun

1. Obsolete form of bailiwick.

noun

1. A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
2. The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

noun

1. plural of bailiwick

noun

1. Alternative form of baldric

adj

1. Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).

noun

1. plural of baldrick

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the Balkan peninsula.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bollock

noun

1. Alternative form of bollocks

noun

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

noun

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

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

Proper noun

1. a village in district, East Sussex, England
2. a hamlet in district, Hampshire, England
3. a village in district, Oxfordshire, England
4. a neighbourhood in Kentucky, USA.
5. a city in West Virginia, USA, and the county seat of Named after

adv

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

verb

1. (transitive, literally, figurative) To cover or surround, as with a cloak.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of becloak

verb

1. present participle of becloak

verb

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

verb

1. (poetic) to cover with small spots or flecks

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of befleck

verb

1. present participle of befleck

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To lick or lick about.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To lock up or lock in place; hold tight; fasten.

adv

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

verb

1. To add speckles.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bespeckle

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

noun

1. The European water rail.

noun

1. (accounting) The process of charging the client for a portion of the cost of resources that the client has used in order to recover the capital expense.

noun

1. Someone who sticks up advertisements on billboards, walls, and similar surfaces.

noun

1. Synonym of billposting

noun

1. (dated) A felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler.

Adjective

1. Resembling a biscuit or some aspect of one.

adj

1. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
2. (Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
3. (US) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
4. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
5. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
6. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
7. (of a place, etc) Without light.
8. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
9. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
10. (of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
11. (politics) Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
12. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
13. (sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
14. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
15. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
16. Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
17. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
18. Foul; dirty, soiled.
19. Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
20. Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.

noun

1. (Britain, countable) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
2. (US, slang) Marijuana.
3. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
4. (billiards, snooker, pool, countable) The black ball.
5. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
6. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
7. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
8. (countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
9. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
10. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
11. (informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
12. (informal, countable) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
13. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
14. (sometimes capitalised, countable, often offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
15. A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.

verb

1. (Britain, transitive) To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
2. (transitive) To apply blacking to (something).
3. (transitive) To make black; to blacken.

Proper noun

1. A placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.

noun

1. (archaic, often offensive) A person with dark skin, especially one from north Africa.
2. (heraldry) A stylized Negro.
3. A blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.

noun

1. plural of blackamoor

noun

1. (UK) the great black-backed gull.
2. (zoology) An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee.

noun

1. (countable) A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
2. (countable) A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
3. (countable) A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
4. (uncountable) A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
5. A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.

verb

1. (transitive) To ostracize.
2. (transitive) To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blackball

noun

1. One who blackballs, or casts a vote rejecting somebody.

noun

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

verb

1. present participle of blackball

noun

1. plural of blackball

verb

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

noun

1. (mineralogy) An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter, valuable as an iron ore.

Proper noun

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

noun

1. plural of blackberry

verb

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

noun

1. (UK, dialectal) The blackcurrant.
2. A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
3. The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

verb

1. To gather or forage for blackberries.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a blackberry.

noun

1. (slang, derogatory, historical, among slavers and pirates) A native of the South Pacific islands.
2. A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
3. A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).

verb

1. To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force

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

verb

1. present participle of blackbird

noun

1. plural of blackbird

verb

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

noun

1. A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.

verb

1. To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion.

noun

1. plural of blackboard

verb

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

noun

1. plural of blackbody

noun

1. (physics) a theoretical body, approximated by a hole in a hollow black sphere, that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation and reflects none; it has a characteristic emission spectrum

noun

1. (Australia, informal) Any plant in the genus Xanthorrhoea, native to Australia.
2. (Australia, obsolete, possibly offensive) An Aboriginal boy or servant.

noun

1. plural of blackboy

noun

1. A shrub of the genus Coleogyne

noun

1. An Indian antelope, Antilope cervicapra

Proper noun

1. A town in Lancashire, England

noun

1. (chiefly Australia) Any of several Australian eucalyptus trees with a dark fibrous bark towards the base of the trunk, especially Eucalyptus pilularis.

noun

1. (Canada, US) Whitebark raspberry (Rubus leucodermis).
2. (cooking) An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
3. (obsolete, UK, US, dialectal) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus).
4. A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown.

noun

1. plural of blackcap

Noun

1. A member of the clergy.

noun

1. The male black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix).

noun

1. A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.
2. The berry borne by this shrub.

noun

1. Choke damp.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of black

verb

1. (intransitive, ergative) To become black.
2. (transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
3. (transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
4. (transitive, causative) To make dirty.
5. To defame or sully.

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

noun

1. One who blackens.

noun

1. plural of blackener

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

verb

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

adj

1. comparative form of black: more black

noun

1. One who blacks.

adj

1. superlative form of black: most black

noun

1. Short for black marketeer.

noun

1. A basic coffee drink consisting of any size coffee with two shots of espresso added.
2. A black-eyed species of white-eye, Zosterops emiliae (syn. Chlorocharis emiliae, mountain blackeye, olive blackeye).

noun

1. plural of blackeye

noun

1. (countable) A sheep of the Scottish Blackface breed.
2. (uncountable) A style of makeup in which a non-black person blackens their face, usually in order to portray a black person.

noun

1. (Australia, now usually considered offensive) A (male) Australian Aborigine.

noun

1. plural of blackfellow

noun

1. bluefin tuna

noun

1. plural of blackfin