HANGMAN SOLVER

verb

1. present participle of backdrop

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. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.

noun

1. (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
2. (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
3. (physics) Clipping of background radiation.
4. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
5. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
6. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
7. One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.

verb

1. (journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
2. To put in a position that is not prominent.
3. simple past tense and past participle of backgrind

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. plural of background

verb

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

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. Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. (historical) One who fights with a backsword or singlestick.

noun

1. plural of backswordman

noun

1. (obsolete) In the London Stock Exchange: a fee paid by a seller on settlement day either to the buyer or to a third party who lends stock, when the seller wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
2. In full normal backwardation: the situation in a futures market where the price for future delivery of a commodity (the forward price) is lower than the price for immediate delivery (the spot price) or nearer delivery, generally arising from a near-term shortage of the commodity.
3. The situation in a stock market where the offer price for stock is lower than the bid price.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of backwardness

noun

1. (art) Decorative work resembling interlaced bands.

noun

1. A card that a bank issues used by the cardholder in the course of authorization to receive bank services.

noun

1. plural of bankcard

noun

1. The world of bankers and finance.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankroll

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt

adj

1. Having the neck bare.

adj

1. Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barken

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of benchmark

adj

1. Sprinkled.

Noun

1. A young bird.

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. (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 blackhander

noun

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

noun

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

noun

1. plural of blinkard

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

noun

1. (medicine) Slowness of movement.

noun

1. Alternative form of bradykinesia

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting bradykinesia

noun

1. (biochemistry) A compound released in the blood in some circumstances which causes contraction of smooth muscle and dilation of blood vessels. It is a peptide with nine amino-acid residues.

noun

1. plural of bradykinin

noun

1. The making of bread.

noun

1. (US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
2. (US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, common in traditional African American music from the Southern United States.
3. (US, dated) Any noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
4. (chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
5. (film, television) A detailed description of a forthcoming project, including the characters and roles required.
6. (music) The percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music.
7. (physics) The sudden transition of an electrical insulator to a conductor when subjected to a sufficiently strong voltage, caused by the partial or complete ionization of the insulator.
8. (sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
9. A failure, particularly mechanical in nature.
10. A musical technique by which the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, varying in heaviness depending on the genre.
11. A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability.
12. Listing, division or categorization in great detail.
13. Something that has experienced a mechanical failure.

noun

1. plural of breakdown

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A windbreak.

Proper noun

1. A town in Colorado, USA
2. an unincorporated community in Indiana, in the United States
3. A village/town in Michigan, US.
4. A city and county seat in Minnesota, US.
5. A city/town in Missouri, US.
6. A town in Oklahoma, US.
7. A city in Texas, USA

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of brisken

noun

1. Alternative form of brodequin

adj

1. Grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss of a beloved person or thing, such as the repudiation of a romantic relationship.

adv

1. In a brokenhearted manner.

noun

1. The quality of being brokenhearted.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bunker

noun

1. Alternative form of burkundaz

noun

1. (India, now historical) An armed guard or watchman.

noun

1. (computer graphics) Synonym of checkerboard rendering

verb

1. present participle of checkerboard

noun

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

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

adj

1. Idiotic.

noun

1. The quality of being crackbrained; idiocy.

noun

1. (dialect, dated) A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).

noun

1. Disembarkation.

noun

1. plural of debarkation

verb

1. present participle of debark

noun

1. Someone who debunks.

noun

1. plural of debunker

noun

1. The act of disembarking.

noun

1. plural of disembarkation

noun

1. A disembarkation.

verb

1. present participle of disembark

noun

1. disembarkation

adj

1. Chaotic.

noun

1. A brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.

noun

1. plural of donnybrook

noun

1. (informal, derogatory) A stupid person.
2. A circular device attached to a door, the rotation of which permits the unlatching of the door.

noun

1. plural of doorknob

noun

1. The extent to which something is drinkable.
2. The state or property of being drinkable.

adj

1. (of an alcoholic beverage, especially wine) Of good or satisfactory quality.
2. (of water) Safe to drink.
3. Able to be drunk (as liquid).

noun

1. (chiefly in the plural) That which can be drunk.

noun

1. The quality of being drinkable.

noun

1. plural of drinkable

Proper noun

1. A city and port in southern Croatia on the Adriatic Sea.

verb

1. present participle of goldbrick

noun

1. First person to do, make or fight for something. A pioneer; a seminal person.

noun

1. (mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
2. (mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated lever or foot-operated toggle lever in a motorcar or the hand-operated crank on a railcar, which is used to set and release such a brake.

verb

1. To apply the handbrake in a vehicle.

noun

1. A kind of heavy millboard.

Proper noun

1. A North Caucasian language spoken in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, also known as East Circassian.

noun

1. The act of typing at a keyboard (with or without a mouse or other pointing device)

noun

1. A group of large insectivorous passerine birds of the genus Tyrannus.

noun

1. plural of kingbird

adj

1. Dressed in knickerbockers.

noun

1. (historical, by extension) An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.
2. (historical, chiefly attributive) A way of arranging benches back to back, resembling a knifeboard; common on the open upper deck of early double-deck omnibuses and trams.
3. A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.

noun

1. Dated form of cummerbund.

noun

1. (archaic) Synonym of tui (“a species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand”)
2. A long-tailed American songbird of the Mimidae family, noted for its ability to mimic calls of other birds.

noun

1. plural of mockingbird

noun

1. (historical) The footboard on which a bus conductor stands.
2. A derrickman's work platform.

adj

1. Furnished with too many banks (financial institutions).

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a riband.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of ringbark

verb

1. present participle of roadblock

adj

1. (CB radio slang) Limited in frequency because of a limited supply of crystals.
2. Surrounded by rocks.