HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (rare) Composed of both good and evil.

noun

1. (now historical) A universal solvent sought by the alchemists.

adj

1. Resembling or relating to alkahest.

adj

1. Alternative form of alkahestic

noun

1. plural of alkahest

noun

1. (organic chemistry) Any simple aliphatic thiol.

noun

1. (archaic, historical) shell money used by Native American peoples of California

adj

1. Resembling an anchor.

noun

1. (pathology) fusion of the margins of the eyelids

noun

1. The fear of ankylosis.

noun

1. (biology, medicine) Impaired patency of the urethra owing to any sort of fusion that either partially or completely obstructs its lumen (for example, stricture due to adhesions).

adj

1. (mechanics) Countering or preventing backlash (jarring reflex motion in machinery).

adj

1. (ophthalmology, dated) Pertaining to or exhibiting aphakia; aphakic.

Proper noun

1. A city in northwestern Russia on the White Sea.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of asphalt.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bachelor.

noun

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

noun

1. Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”)
2. The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.

noun

1. (broadcasting) Uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or radio station, network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished show.
2. (military) The shipment of material to or through an area from which the material had previously been shipped.
3. (transport) A return trip after delivery of cargo.
4. (travel, aviation, fare construction) Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point).

verb

1. To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backhaul

verb

1. present participle of backhaul

verb

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

noun

1. (soccer) A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
2. (wrestling) A method of tripping or throwing by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back.

verb

1. (soccer) To perform such a kick.
2. (wrestling) To perform such a trip or throw.

noun

1. (figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
2. (mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
3. A sudden backward motion.
4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

verb

1. To cause or set off a backlash.

adj

1. Having a backlash.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backlash

noun

1. A participant in a backlash

noun

1. plural of backlasher

noun

1. plural of backlash

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backlash

noun

1. The illumination of a photographic subject from the rear, causing edges to glow while other areas remain in shadow.

verb

1. present participle of backlight

noun

1. (computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
2. The punctuation mark \.
3. |passage= […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).}}

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.

noun

1. plural of backslash

noun

1. plural of backsplash

Proper noun

1. An ancient city and centre of Buddhism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism and capital of Bactria.
2. One of the 34 provinces in Afghanistan, Balkh Province.

adj

1. (obsolete, rare) uneven; ridgy

noun

1. (baseball, chiefly in Chicago) A person who specializes in catching home-run and foul balls.
2. (sports) A player who handles the ball skilfully

noun

1. plural of ballhawk

noun

1. (India, historical) A warehouse.
2. (India, historical) The office of a harbormaster or other port authority.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bashlyk

noun

1. A protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by Turks and Cossacks.

noun

1. plural of bashlyk

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. (biology) plankton living in the bathyal zone

verb

1. (archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.

adj

1. Chalk-covered or chalky.
2. Having a surface that has been written on in chalk.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bechalk

verb

1. present participle of bechalk

verb

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

noun

1. (historical) A silver coin of the Ottoman Empire.

noun

1. Alternative form of bibliotheque

noun

1. (ornithology) Written as bill hook: a sharply pointed spike growing from the tip of the upper mandible of the hatchlings of honeyguides, used to destroy the eggs and kill the chicks of the host species.
2. (weaponry) A medieval polearm, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill
3. An agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
4. Written as bill hook: a spiked hook used in offices and shops for hanging bills or other small papers such as receipts.
5. Written as bill-hook: a part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).

verb

1. To use a billhook

noun

1. plural of billhook

adj

1. Resembling, or pertaining to a bishop.

noun

1. A shrub of the genus Coleogyne

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 blackhander

noun

1. (countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.
2. (countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
3. (uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.

noun

1. plural of blackhead

noun

1. A cruel and remorseless person.
2. A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark skin.
3. A type of malleable cast iron with minimum tensile strength of 350 N/mm².
4. Any of various plant diseases that cause darkening of the central tissue.

adj

1. Alternative form of black-hearted

noun

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

noun

1. plural of blackheart

adj

1. somewhat black

adv

1. In a blackish way.

noun

1. The quality of being blackish, somewhat black.

noun

1. Alternative form of black light (“ultraviolet bulb”)

Proper noun

1. a city in Georgia, USA

noun

1. (by extension) Any member of a fascist party.
2. (historical, chiefly in the plural) A uniformed member of a paramilitary wing of the Italian Fascist Party.

noun

1. (informal) A person who shoes horses.
2. A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).
3. A person who forges iron.

verb

1. (intransitive) To work as a blacksmith.

noun

1. the business of a blacksmith

verb

1. present participle of blacksmith

noun

1. plural of blacksmith

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. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
2. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
3. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
4. (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
5. (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

verb

1. (transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
2. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
3. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

noun

1. One who blackwashes.

noun

1. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
2. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
3. The application of a coating of blackwash.

verb

1. present participle of blackwash

adj

1. Somewhat blank; more or less blank.

noun

1. A voluble purveyor of nonsense; a blusterer.
2. A worthless fellow; a deadbeat.
3. Nonsense or blather; empty talk.

noun

1. plural of blatherskite

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

adj

1. Somewhat bleak.

noun

1. (colloquial) A stupid person.
2. A sideshow performer who hammers nails or similar items through his or her nostril into the nasal cavity; human blockhead.

verb

1. (rare) To behave in a stupid manner.
2. To perform as a human blockhead.

adj

1. Resembling a blockhead; stupid

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blockhead

adv

1. In a blockheaded way.

noun

1. The state or condition of being blockheaded.

adj

1. stupid

noun

1. The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity.

noun

1. plural of blockhead

verb

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

noun

1. (by extension) The approximate place where the toe of the bat touches the pitch when a batsman is taking guard.
2. (cricket) A small depression in the pitch caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the point where they have taken block.

noun

1. (dated) A temporary wooden fortification with a projecting upper story.
2. A reinforced building from which to control hazardous operations, such as an explosion or a rocket launch.
3. A sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports.

noun

1. plural of blockhouse

adj

1. Lacking understanding; stupid; obtuse; dull.
2. Like a block in shape or nature; coming across as a block.
3. Rude; clumsy; rough.

noun

1. The state or quality of being blockish.

noun

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

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. Alternative form of Bolshevik

noun

1. plural of bolshevik

noun

1. (obsolete) A prompter at a theatre.
2. A support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.

adv

1. In a bookish manner.

adj

1. (rare) Characteristic of a bookseller.

noun

1. A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.

noun

1. plural of bookshelf