HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (in combination) Having specified type of back.
2. (in combination) Having specified type of backing.
3. (obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of back

adj

1. (phonetics) comparative form of back: more back

noun

1. One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs an entrant in a contest, or who supports an enterprise by funding it.

noun

1. (Scotland) A shallow wooden trough for carrying ashes, coals, etc.

noun

1. (colloquial) A ride on the back of a bicycle or motorbike.

adj

1. (computing) That is intended as a backup.
2. Standby, reserve or extra.
3. Supporting, reinforcing; (music) of or related to accompaniment

noun

1. (computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is destroyed or damaged.
2. (law enforcement) reinforcements
3. A reserve or substitute.
4. An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement of the material, or an accumulation of material that causes an overflow due to the flow being greater than the maximum possible flow.

verb

1. Misspelling of back up.

noun

1. Hungarian apricot brandy

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beck

noun

1. (archaic) A European fish, Pagrus pagrus

noun

1. (England, dialect, historical) A spade for digging turf in the Fens.
2. (nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
3. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
4. (nautical) The clevis of a pulley block.
5. (nautical, slang) A pocket in clothing.
6. (obsolete) chough (the bird)
7. (sewing) A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.
8. A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
9. An eye in the end of a rope.

noun

1. A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.
2. A sign made without words; a beck.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To seem attractive and inviting
2. (transitive, intransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.

verb

1. (transitive) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

verb

1. (transitive) To duck or immerse thoroughly; submerge.

noun

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) A disappointment; trick.

verb

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To deceive; disappoint; jilt.

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.

verb

1. (archaic) To ridicule or mock.
2. (transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.
3. (transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout.
4. (transitive, archaic) To make up as something else, to make into an imitation or semblance

noun

1. (Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
2. (Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
3. A skirmish; an encounter.
4. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
5. The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.

verb

1. (of rain) To patter.
2. To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
3. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
4. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

noun

1. (cinematography) The process of loading two reels of film into a camera, so that they both pass through the camera gate together, formerly used for visual effects and as a subtractive colour process.

verb

1. (cinematography) To load two reels of film in this manner.

noun

1. (UK) Soot flying in the air.
2. A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
3. Black garments, etc.
4. plural of black

verb

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

noun

1. (informal, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.

noun

1. (slang, New York, Maryland, MLE) A pistol.
2. Alternative spelling of blickey (“A small tin canister or cylindrical pail.”)

noun

1. plural of block

verb

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

adj

1. Resembling a block in shape.

noun

1. (US, dialect, archaic, New York) A large basket woven from oak splints.

noun

1. (US, Southwestern US) The Osage orange.

adj

1. (archaic) brackish

noun

1. plural of brick

verb

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

adj

1. Covered with brick.
2. Similar to brick in texture, colour, shape, etc.

noun

1. (slang) A bricklayer.

noun

1. plural of brock

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buck

noun

1. (mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
2. (mining) One who bucks ore.
3. A horse or other animal that bucks.

noun

1. (MTE, slang) an insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
2. (UK, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
3. (aviation, mechanical engineering, uncommon) A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
4. (basketball, informal) A field goal.
5. (basketball, informal) The basket.
6. (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
7. (informal, chiefly in the plural) A great deal of anything.
8. (informal, chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
9. (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
10. (slang, humorous) A helmet.
11. (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
12. A bucket bag.
13. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
14. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
15. The amount held in this container.
16. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
17. The pitcher in certain orchids.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
2. (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
3. (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
4. (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
5. (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
6. (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
7. (transitive, Australia, slang) To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
8. (transitive, UK, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

noun

1. (Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
2. (US, baking) A cake baked with fresh fruit and a streusel topping.
3. (countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
4. (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
5. A contorted expression, as of the face.
6. A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
7. A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.

verb

1. (Scotland) To unite in marriage.
2. (intransitive) To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
3. (intransitive) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
6. (transitive) To fasten using a buckle.
7. (transitive) To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
8. To buckle down; to apply oneself.

adj

1. (African-American Vernacular, archaic) White.

noun

1. (Caribbean) A white person.
2. (dated, now rare, African-American Vernacular, derogatory) A poor white person.

noun

1. (obsolete) Laterite.

noun

1. (now historical) A long whip formerly used as an instrument of punishment in India and parts of the Middle East.

noun

1. (US, historical, sometimes derogatory) An emigrant heading west on the Oregon Trail who gave up and turned back to the east.
2. (beekeeping) A section of honeycomb that is unfinished and returned to the hive.

noun

1. India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold.

Proper noun

1. Beta Ursae Minoris, the second-brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor.

verb

1. (transitive) To repair (a book) by replacing the spine.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of rebec

noun

1. Alternative spelling of xebec.