HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (figuratively) By extension, any result or consequence following a major event.
2. An earthquake that follows in the same vicinity as another, usually larger, earthquake (the "mainshock").
3. Emotional and physical distress following a traumatic event.

noun

1. plural of aftershock

adv

1. On the back of a horse; horseback.

noun

1. (broadcasting) A demonstration recording, often intended to show off the talent of an announcer to a prospective employer.

noun

1. plural of aircheck

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic reddish brown mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.

adj

1. Resembling an anchor.

noun

1. (historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
2. A blindly loyal bureaucrat.

noun

1. plural of apparatchik

noun

1. (history) The ruler of an archduchy, in particular the Archduchy of Austria.
2. (history) The son or male-line grandson of an emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

noun

1. The territory or dignity of an archduke or archduchess; an archduchy.

noun

1. plural of archdukedom

noun

1. plural of archduke

noun

1. (rare) A chief king.

noun

1. A dull green colour, like that of an artichoke.
2. A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.

noun

1. plural of artichoke

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bachelor.

noun

1. (by extension) Someone who does not play an active role in a process.
2. (education) A student who does not perform well, especially one who sits at the back of the classroom.
3. (politics) A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature.
4. (sports) A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.

noun

1. plural of backbencher

noun

1. (informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
2. (racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
3. (racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
4. (surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
5. A blow with the back of the hand.
6. A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.

noun

1. plural of backhander

noun

1. A participant in a backlash

noun

1. plural of backlasher

noun

1. A rushing backward; a retreat.

noun

1. plural of backrush

noun

1. A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch their own back.

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

noun

1. (athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).
2. (exercise) An exercise that stretches the muscles of the back.
3. (figuratively) The middle part of an event.
4. (horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.

noun

1. plural of backstretch.

noun

1. (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.

noun

1. (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
2. A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
3. A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.

verb

1. (intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
2. (transitive, intransitive, followed by against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of benchmark

noun

1. A performance measurement according to a benchmark.

verb

1. present participle of benchmark

noun

1. plural of benchmark

verb

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

noun

1. the structure supporting a model railway layout
2. work performed at a workbench

Proper noun

1. A lieutenancy area and historic county in the Scottish Borders.

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. A shrub of the genus Coleogyne

noun

1. plural of blackhander

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

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. 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. One who blackwashes.

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

adj

1. Having unusually short legs

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, lead, manganese, oxygen, vanadium, and zinc.

adj

1. (of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
2. Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.
3. Repulsive

noun

1. distastefulness; unpleasantness

adj

1. resembling a branch of a tree

Proper noun

1. An inland traditional county of Wales, bordered by Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Glamorganshire.

noun

1. (firearms) The metal block that closes the breech of a breech-loading gun after insertion of the cartridge.

noun

1. plural of breechblock

adj

1. (slang, UK, dated) Like a brick, a helpful or reliable person.
2. Resembling or characteristic of brick.

noun

1. (now chiefly historical) A type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering.

adj

1. (obsolete) beastly; brutal

noun

1. (baseball) Synonym of brushback pitch

noun

1. Ceanothus spp.
2. Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, maidenbrush
3. Purshia spp.
4. Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

noun

1. plural of buckbrush

noun

1. A horn of a buck.
2. The royal fern, Osmunda regalis.

Proper noun

1. An inland county of England bounded by Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Greater London, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

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. A poor and unskilled farmer.

noun

1. (US) The driver of a bullock team.

noun

1. (Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
2. (US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
3. (US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
4. (dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
5. A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).

noun

1. plural of bushwhacker

noun

1. (chiefly US) A cardsharp.

noun

1. A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.

adj

1. Resembling a cathedral

noun

1. A tool use to add a link to a chain
2. One who makes chains.

noun

1. Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.

noun

1. A manufacturer of chairs.

noun

1. The manufacture of chairs.

noun

1. (Hinduism, Ayurveda) Any of (at least) seven centres of spiritual energy in or near the body, according to Ayurveda philosophy.

noun

1. (historical) An old Indian coin from Travancore.
2. A disc-like throwing weapon originally from India.

noun

1. plural of chakra

noun

1. (India, religion) An ideal universal ruler, who rules ethically and benevolently over the entire world.

noun

1. A slate or enamel board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to a whiteboard.

verb

1. To write or draw on a chalkboard.

noun

1. plural of chalkboard

noun

1. One who chalks.

adj

1. comparative form of chalky: more chalky

noun

1. One who makes a change.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a chariot.

noun

1. (US, Alaska) A wine glass.
2. A Middle Eastern falcon, probably the lanner.
3. A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire drill.
4. Charcoal; coke.

verb

1. (Scotland) To make a grating sound.
2. To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.

noun

1. Alternative form of charkha (Indian spinning-wheel)

noun

1. plural of charka

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of chark

noun

1. (Pakistan, India) A domestic spinning wheel, used mostly for spinning cotton.

noun

1. plural of charkha

verb

1. present participle of chark

noun

1. plural of chark

verb

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

noun

1. Any of several yellow-flowered cruciferous weeds of grain fields, especially wild mustard (Sinapis arvensis).

noun

1. plural of charlock

noun

1. (mineralogy) An orthopyroxene-bearing quartz-feldspar rock.

noun

1. plural of charnockite

Proper noun

1. The capital city of Chuvashia, Russia

noun

1. A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
2. A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts).
3. An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
4. One who hinders or stops something.
5. One who makes a check mark.
6. One who or that which checks or verifies something.
7. The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
8. The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis

verb

1. (intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
2. (transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.

noun

1. plural of checkerberry

Noun

1. The teaberry, Gaultheria procumbens.

noun

1. Any of the flowering plants in the genus Sidalcea.

noun

1. (film) A style of negative cutting that avoids visible splice marks.
2. A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers.
3. A pattern of squares of alternating colours.

verb

1. (transitive) To checker; to mark with an alternating pattern of light and dark.