HANGMAN SOLVER

adv

1. (nautical) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.
2. (nautical) Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

adj

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

noun

1. Archaic form of bokmakierie.

noun

1. A person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person's back: that is, out of their sight and hearing.

noun

1. plural of backbite

verb

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

verb

1. (computing, artificial intelligence) To perform inferences, starting with a list of goals (or a hypothesis) and working backwards from the consequent to the antecedent.

noun

1. (American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage occupied before the snap by the team on offense.
2. (baseball, rare) Synonym of outfield.
3. (soccer, US) The area behind either the offensive or defensive line.
4. The players occupying this area.

noun

1. plural of backfill

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfire

noun

1. plural of backfire

verb

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

noun

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

verb

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

noun

1. A decorated comb that attaches a veil to the back of a bride's head.
2. A large tattoo on a person's back.
3. A piece or plate of armour protecting a person's back.

noun

1. (grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
2. (statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.

verb

1. (grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of baksheesh

noun

1. plural of backside

noun

1. (surveying) A measurement of a previously shot point, used to set the angle to zero when occupying a new position.
2. (surveying) A measurement or reading taken back towards a point of known elevation, used to calculate the height of the surveying instrument (theodolite, transit, total station).
3. The rear sight of a firearm.

verb

1. (surveying) To shoot a backsight.

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. plural of backspin

adj

1. clandestine, secret or furtive

noun

1. The backstairs (stairs at the rear of a building).

noun

1. (field hockey, often attributively) An illegal shot in which a player strikes the ball with the rounded face of the stick in field hockey.

noun

1. (sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.

verb

1. To swing backward.

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. 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 baldrick

adj

1. That beckons.

noun

1. Such a wave or similar action.

verb

1. present participle of beckon

noun

1. An ornament.

verb

1. present participle of bedeck

verb

1. present participle of bemock

noun

1. plural of benedick

noun

1. plural of bickerer

noun

1. Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.

verb

1. present participle of bicker

noun

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

noun

1. A piece of this bark, formerly used for writing on.
2. The bark of the birch tree, especially the white bark of the paper birch, Betula papyrifera.

noun

1. plural of bitstock

noun

1. plural of bivouack

verb

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

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

noun

1. plural of blackfin

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
2. (Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
3. (chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
4. A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).
5. Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).

verb

1. (Internet slang, derogatory, of a white person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
2. (fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.

noun

1. plural of blacking

noun

1. (law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned.

verb

1. (transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

noun

1. (England law, historical) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
2. (archaic) A form of protection money (or corn, cattle, etc.) anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to the allies of robbers in order to be spared from pillage.
3. Compromising material that can be used to extort someone, dirt.
4. The extortion of money or favours by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.

verb

1. (Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.
2. (transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.

noun

1. (Jamaica) Haemulon carbonarium
2. (South Africa, Namibia) Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus
3. (UK) Salmo trutta
4. A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon.
5. A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua)
6. A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains.

adj

1. superlative form of blocky: most blocky

adj

1. Having an oblong shape

noun

1. (nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)

verb

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

noun

1. (mineralogy) Alternate name for delvauxite.

noun

1. plural of boychick

adj

1. Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.

noun

1. plural of brickbat

verb

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

adj

1. superlative form of bricky: most bricky

noun

1. A kiln in which bricks are baked.

adj

1. Resembling a brick

noun

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of brick wall

adj

1. In the manner of bricks, especially the overlapping way in which they are assembled into a wall.

noun

1. The quality of the construction of brick built items.
2. Those parts of items that are made of brick.

noun

1. A factory where bricks are produced or distributed

noun

1. (archaic) Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.

noun

1. (slang, early 20th century) A thorough beating

verb

1. (transitive) To administer a beating to

Proper noun

1. A city in Germany; Braunschweig.
2. Any of several towns in the United States and elsewhere.
3. A suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

noun

1. A heavy pouring down of liquid; a deluge.
2. Synonym of binning (“data pre-processing technique”)
3. The act of moving material using a bucket.

verb

1. present participle of bucket

adv

1. In a buckish manner.

noun

1. trousers and other clothing made from buckskin

noun

1. plural of bucktail

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cabin.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cable.

noun

1. (dentistry) An interocclusal record made by placing a plastic material (that subsequently hardens) between the upper and lower teeth

noun

1. Synonym of laughing kookaburra

verb

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

noun

1. (vulgar) a stupid person

noun

1. (now rare) A cudgel, originally made of the wood of a crabapple tree, hence any similar club.
2. (obsolete) A crabby, ill-tempered person.
3. A processed food, made of surimi to somewhat resemble the legs of a crab.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of cribwork

noun

1. A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.

noun

1. plural of dabchick

noun

1. plural of duckbill

noun

1. a brick capable of withstanding high temperatures without deforming.

noun

1. A pigeon of a fancy breed having a frill or curls on the wing shield feathers.

noun

1. (US, slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer.
2. (US, slang, dated) A swindler.
3. Something fraudulent or nonexistent offered for sale; a swindle or con.

verb

1. (US, slang, dated) To shirk or malinger.
2. (US, slang, dated) To swindle.

noun

1. plural of iceblink

Proper noun

1. A city in western Austria, and the capital of the federal state of Tyrol.

adj

1. (meteorology, of airflow) Downslope on a mountainside.

noun

1. Short for katabatic wind.

adj

1. Alternative form of catabolic

noun

1. plural of kickback

noun

1. A small, buoyant board used to support a swimmer's upper body and arms while allowing free kicking movements.
2. On pianos and organs, a vertical panel located above the pedals.
3. Synonym of kickplate (“strip at base of door to prevent scuffing”)

noun

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

noun

1. plural of lobstick

Proper noun

1. A town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Noun

1. A terrorist bomb attack on an airplane.

adv

1. (Carried) on the back or the shoulders.

verb

1. (transitive) Dated form of piggyback (“carry someone on the back or shoulders”).

adj

1. Attached or appended to something larger or more important.
2. On somebody's back or shoulders.
3. Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.

noun

1. (countable) A ride on somebody's back or shoulders.
2. (medicine, countable, uncountable) The connection of one intravenous drip to another.
3. An act or instance of piggybacking.

verb

1. (transitive) To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
2. (transitive) To enter a secured area at the same time along with someone having authorized access; to tailgate
3. (transitive) To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway waggon
4. (transitive, Internet) To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.
5. (transitive, Internet) To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.

adj

1. (not comparable) Made of pinchbeck.
2. Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive.

noun

1. An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry.

noun

1. The European rowan tree.

adj

1. (archaic) born alive; not stillborn

noun

1. Carpiodes cyprinus, a freshwater fish of the sucker family with a long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin, native to the eastern and central United States.

noun

1. plural of redbrick

noun

1. Any member of the genus Rudbeckia of coneflowers.

noun

1. A type of women's shoe having a strap behind the heel or ankle

Proper noun

1. (1902–2968), American writer.

noun

1. A type of ibex.

adj

1. Capable of being stuck; adhesive.

noun

1. A street game similar to baseball, played with a stick, a ball and various ad hoc materials; found primarily in large cities in the northeastern United States.
2. The ball used in this game.

noun

1. plural of tailback

adj

1. Not paved or blocked up with bricks.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of unbrick

Proper noun

1. A city in Mississippi, USA

noun

1. A wild duck, the canvasback.

noun

1. plural of wingback

noun

1. plural of zwieback