HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Flickering.

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 backfield

noun

1. (US) Reserve support personnel.
2. (US) That which backfills; a replacement.
3. (literature) Material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action.
4. The material that has been used to refill an excavation.

verb

1. (US) To provide reserve support.
2. (US) To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.
3. (archaeology) To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and/or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.
4. (gaming) To enter an online game that's already in progress, replacing a player who left early.
5. To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backfill

noun

1. A machine for refilling an excavation.

noun

1. The process by which something is backfilled.

verb

1. present participle of backfill

noun

1. plural of backfill

verb

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

noun

1. (firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire
2. A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
3. An explosion in other equipment.
4. An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.

verb

1. (of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc.) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
2. (of an engine) To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
3. To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.

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. A failure that leads to further misfortune.
2. The occurrence of a backfire.

verb

1. present participle of backfire

verb

1. present participle of backfit

noun

1. (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
2. (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

verb

1. To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
2. To perform a backflip (rotation of body).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backflip

verb

1. present participle of backflip

adj

1. flowing backwards

verb

1. present participle of backflow

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.

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. Obsolete form of bailiwick.

verb

1. present participle of befleck

noun

1. A technique consisting of measuring a person's quantifiable bodily functions, such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, sweat gland activity, and muscle tension, then conveying the information to the person in real-time.

noun

1. plural of biofeedback

noun

1. bluefin tuna

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 blackfish

noun

1. (slang, of a non-black person) The practice of appropriating signifiers of black identity, such as darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles.

verb

1. present participle of blackfish

noun

1. plural of blackfly

intj

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) look out; beware

noun

1. plural of blackfriar

noun

1. A place where bricks are made; a brickyard.

noun

1. (Australia) A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.

noun

1. plural of brickfield

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a calf (young cow).

noun

1. A fine leather made from the hide of a calf.

noun

1. plural of calfskin

adj

1. Resembling chaff.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cliff; high and steep.

noun

1. (slang, obsolete) Pickpocketing.

noun

1. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs

verb

1. To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.

noun

1. One who engages in a cockfight.

noun

1. A gambling blood sport (illegal in most countries) in which two roosters have spikes placed on their feet and are made to fight each other, usually to the death.

verb

1. present participle of cockfight

noun

1. plural of cockfight

noun

1. the use of cockney words or mannerisms, especially by non-cockneys

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cockneyfy

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of cockneyfy

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a coffer.

noun

1. A manufacturer of coffins.

noun

1. The manufacture of coffins.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman

noun

1. (US) Erimyzon oblongus, the chubsucker.

noun

1. A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.

noun

1. plural of cufflink

noun

1. The formal removal of the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.

verb

1. present participle of defrock

verb

1. (transitive) To remove from status as a member of a clergy; to unfrock.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of disfrock

verb

1. present participle of disfrock

verb

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

noun

1. (obsolete) Used in exclamatory phrases to express surprise, insistence, etc.

adj

1. Resembling a factory in any of various respects

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a falcon.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of farce.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fence (artificial barrier).

noun

1. A ferroalloy of iron and nickel.

adj

1. (figurative) Changeable.
2. Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable.

verb

1. (transitive) To deceive, flatter.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To puzzle, perplex, nonplus.

noun

1. The quality of being fickle.

noun

1. plural of fickleness

adj

1. comparative form of fickle: more fickle

adj

1. superlative form of fickle: most fickle

noun

1. (humorous) fickleness

adv

1. (obsolete) In a fickle manner.

noun

1. A feature of maple wood where the fibers are distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern.
2. A kind of chasuble with the front cut away.
3. The brown recluse spider.

noun

1. plural of fiddleback

noun

1. Any plant in the genus Amsinckia, with flowers in a coiled inflorescence that looks like the end of a fiddle.

intj

1. Dated form of fiddlesticks.

noun

1. A bow used to play the fiddle.
2. One of a pair of sticks, similar to drumsticks, used by a second player to percuss the strings of a fiddle while the main player plays via bow.

intj

1. (euphemistic) Darn! Expresses mild dismay or annoyance.
2. (euphemistic) Nonsense! Expresses dismissal or disdain.

noun

1. plural of fiddlestick

noun

1. A bird, the western Orphean warbler, Sylvia hortensis, prized by gourmets.

noun

1. A wanton girl.

noun

1. A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.

noun

1. plural of finback

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of fingerpick

noun

1. plural of fingerpick

verb

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

verb

1. To display extreme daintiness or refinement.
2. To trifle.

adj

1. comparative form of finicky: more finicky

adj

1. superlative form of finicky: most finicky

adv

1. In a finicky way.

adj

1. Alternative form of finikin

noun

1. The quality of being finicky.

adj

1. finical

noun

1. finicky behaviour; fussing

adv

1. finically

noun

1. The quality of being finicking.

adj

1. (informal) Demanding; requiring above-normal care.
2. (informal, of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.

adj

1. comparative form of finnicky: more finnicky

adj

1. superlative form of finnicky: most finnicky

adj

1. Alternative form of finicky

noun

1. A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking.
2. Any of certain species of pheasant in the genus Lophura.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of firebrick

noun

1. A peanut butter cracker baked with marijuana, similar in concept to an Alice B. Toklas brownie.
2. A person or thing that is exciting and/or unpredictable.
3. A small explosive device, typically containing a small amount of gunpowder in a tightly-wound roll of paper, primarily designed to produce a large bang.

noun

1. plural of firecracker

noun

1. (by extension, historical) A firearm using such a gunlock.
2. (historical) A form of gunlock, in which the priming is ignited by a spark.

noun

1. plural of firelock

verb

1. present participle of flack

noun

1. (golf) The pole which marks the location of a hole

verb

1. present participle of flecker