HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative form of bycoket

noun

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

noun

1. A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible; the boondocks.

noun

1. (basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.

noun

1. (basketball) A backcourt player.

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

noun

1. (architecture) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

adj

1. farthest back

noun

1. (aerospace) A reversed countdown (i.e. ascending numbers) in response to problems leading up to a launch.
2. A reversal or undoing of tasks previously done (often in reverse order).

noun

1. plural of backout

noun

1. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstop

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backstory

noun

1. (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
2. (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
3. A backhanded stroke or blow.

verb

1. To swim the backstroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. plural of backstroke

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

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

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. (obsolete) The front or back part of the frame of a bedstead.

verb

1. (transitive) to stock; furnish

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

noun

1. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid found in bikh (Aconitum spicatum).

noun

1. (medical biology) The study of movements of or within organisms

noun

1. A hand tool consisting of a crank which holds a fitted rotating drill bit tip, designed to bore holes in rigid materials, by cutting a disc in a spiral fashion.

noun

1. plural of bitstock

noun

1. A little bit; a small piece.
2. A short distance.

noun

1. plural of bittock

Noun

1. A member of the clergy.

noun

1. A tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium

noun

1. (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
2. (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
3. A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
4. A temporary loss of consciousness.
5. A temporary loss of memory.
6. An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.

verb

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of black out

noun

1. plural of blackout

noun

1. Colicroot, Aletris farinosa
2. Culver's root, Veronicastrum virginicum
3. Either of two species in the genus Pterocaulon: Pterocaulon pycnostachyum and Pterocaulon virgatum
4. Several plant diseases caused by fungi in the genus Aphanomyces causing that cause roots to rot and turn black.

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. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
2. (US, countable) A road so paved.
3. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).

verb

1. (US) To pave with blacktop.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

verb

1. present participle of blacktop

verb

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

noun

1. (US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
2. (informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
3. (informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
4. (slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
5. A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
6. A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.

noun

1. plural of blockbuster

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.

adj

1. superlative form of blocky: most blocky

noun

1. (construction) A void that is deliberately not filled with concrete, so that it can be used to insert something else such as pipework.

noun

1. (countable) The breeding line of a thoroughbred horse or other animal.
2. (uncountable) Thoroughbred animals in general, but especially horses.

noun

1. plural of bloodstock

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. Alternative form of bontebok (“South African antelope”)

noun

1. plural of bontebuck

noun

1. (archaic) Authorship; literary skill.

noun

1. One of a set of bookshelves in a library.

noun

1. (dated) A shoeshine boy; a person who shines shoes as an occupation.

verb

1. (transitive) To shine shoes.

noun

1. plural of bootblack

noun

1. a V-shaped, or forked, device for pulling off boots.

noun

1. plural of bootjack

verb

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

noun

1. (US) A toady or sycophant.

verb

1. (intransitive) To engage in fawning, servile behavior.
2. (transitive) To seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bootlick

noun

1. (by extension, derogatory) Anyone who is seen as supporting authoritarianism.
2. (derogatory) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady

noun

1. plural of bootlicker

noun

1. servile behaviour

verb

1. present participle of bootlick

verb

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

noun

1. (mineralogy) Alternate name for delvauxite.

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

noun

1. (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
2. (figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
3. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.

verb

1. (intransitive) To form a bottleneck.
2. (transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bottleneck

noun

1. plural of bottleneck

verb

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

noun

1. A genus, Mazama, of short-horned deer from Brazil.
2. A stag in its second year, before its horns have started branching.

noun

1. plural of brocket

Proper noun

1. a city in Massachusetts, USA, which is one of the two county seats of
2. a small town in Montana, USA.
3. an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, USA.
4. a town in Ontario, Canada. The name is formed from Brant, Greenock and Walkerton, places that merged into Brockton.
5. a township in parish, Shropshire, England

noun

1. (slang, rare) A gun.
2. A broom imbued with magic, enabling one to fly astride the handle.
3. The handle of a broom (sweeping tool).

verb

1. (intransitive) To fly on a broomstick, as witches are said to.

noun

1. plural of broomstick

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bucket shop

noun

1. (chiefly US) Lead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game. [from 18th c.]

noun

1. plural of buckshot

noun

1. Hippophae (family Elaeagnaceae), the sea buckthorn.
2. also genus Frangula, especially Frangula alnus, the alder buckthorn.
3. especially genus Rhamnus,
4. especially the common buckthorn or purging buckthorn; Rhamnus cathartica.

noun

1. An upper tooth that protrudes further than the bottom teeth.

adj

1. Having buckteeth

noun

1. (nautical) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
2. (usually in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum and the top of the legs.

adj

1. (in combination) Having some specific type of buttocks

noun

1. (mining, historical) A worker who gets coal off at a longwall face.
2. (wrestling) One who uses the cross-buttock throw.

noun

1. plural of buttock.

noun

1. The stock in a firearm located in the rear of the firing mechanism where one's shoulder is held when shooting

noun

1. (historical) A type of medieval cap with a wide brim that comes to a point in the front and is turned up at the rear, originally worn by Western European nobility and royalty.

noun

1. cabinetmaking
2. furniture made by a cabinetmaker

noun

1. One who makes cabinets; a practitioner of cabinetwork.

noun

1. A basket for holding clothes to be laundered.

noun

1. (nautical) A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.

noun

1. plural of cockboat

noun

1. Alternative form of cockboat

noun

1. (obsolete) The district to which a constable's power is limited.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

noun

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

adj

1. Between blocks.

noun

1. A space or interval between two adjacent blocks or cells on a grid.

noun

1. (informal, by extension) The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.
2. A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.

verb

1. (intransitive) To march in jackboots.
2. (transitive) To stamp on with a jackboot.

adj

1. (figuratively) Authoritarian or oppressive, especially in a cruel or violent manner.
2. Wearing jackboots.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of jackboot

noun

1. plural of jackboot

adj

1. Alternative form of catabolic

noun

1. (slang) One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trade union.
2. A stick with a rounded knob at the end.

adj

1. Boisterous
2. Suitable for rough use.

noun

1. (circus) A tumbler.
2. (entertainment) A slapstick comedy or comedian.
3. (sailing) A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area
4. A person living in rough, violent conditions.
5. A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
6. Clothing suitable for rough use.

noun

1. plural of knockabout

noun

1. (mineralogy) A chromium chlorite mineral.