HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (obsolete) A maker of cabinets or chests.

adj

1. Somewhat awkward.

noun

1. (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
2. (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
3. The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
4. The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
5. The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.

verb

1. (transitive) To affect with backwash.
2. To clean the oil from wool after combing.
3. To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

noun

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

noun

1. plural of backwash

noun

1. A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

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

Proper noun

1. of origin.

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.

verb

1. (transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.

verb

1. (transitive) To give or add whiskers to; to put whiskers on.

adj

1. Having whiskers

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

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

noun

1. A writer of books; an author.

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

noun

1. Polished metal fixtures, especially aboard a boat.
2. The varnished or oiled wood trim aboard a boat.

noun

1. plural of brightwork

noun

1. (painting) The technique or practice of applying and manipulating paint (usually oil or gouache) in a painting.

noun

1. (Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
2. (cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
3. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
4. (slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
5. (slang) Pubic hair.
6. An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]

noun

1. A poor and unskilled farmer.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.

noun

1. plural of buckwheat

noun

1. (woodworking) Alternative form of buhl work

verb

1. (US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.

noun

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

verb

1. Alternative spelling of bushwhack

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) The activity of hiking or backpacking.

verb

1. present participle of bushwalk

verb

1. to ambush
2. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack

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. criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
2. fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. present participle of bushwhack

verb

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

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.

noun

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

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beat with a chabuk.

noun

1. Alternative form of chewstick (“plant”)

adj

1. Alternative spelling of chequerwise

noun

1. (figuratively) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
2. Work consisting of or showing checkers, varied alternately by colour or material.

verb

1. (agriculture) To plant seeds at the intersections of a criss-cross pattern previously marked out on the ground.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of checkrow

noun

1. (agriculture) A device for checkrowing.

verb

1. present participle of checkrow

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of check weigher

noun

1. A person, elected by miners, whose task is to check what the mine owner's weighman states has been the amount of coal that has been mined; used especially if the miners' wages are related to production.

noun

1. plural of checkweighman

noun

1. Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.

noun

1. A machine that writes on preprinted checks in such a way as to prevent fraudulent alteration of the check.
2. One who writes checks.

noun

1. Alternative form of chewink

noun

1. Alternative form of checkerwork

Proper noun

1. A village on the northern border of Bristol, England

noun

1. A bird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, the Eastern towhee.

noun

1. plural of chewink

noun

1. A twig with a frayed end, used for cleaning the teeth.
2. Any of various plants in the genus Gouania used for oral hygiene, especieally Gouania lupuloides, of the Caribbean.

noun

1. The plant Euphorbia hypericifolia.
2. The plant Portulaca quadrifida.
3. The plant Senecio vulgaris.

noun

1. common chickweed

noun

1. Ageratum conyzoides, chickweed
2. Cerastium - mouse-ear chickweed
3. Holosteum - jagged chickweed
4. Moenchia - upright chickweed
5. Paronychia - chickweed
6. Stellaria pro parte - chickweed
7. especially common chickweed, Stellaria media, a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.

noun

1. plural of chickweed

noun

1. (India, Pakistan) A courtyard.
2. (India, Pakistan) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
3. (India, Pakistan) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).

noun

1. Alternative form of chuckwalla

noun

1. plural of chuckawalla

noun

1. An iguana, of the genus Sauromalus, living in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

noun

1. plural of chuckwalla

noun

1. Alternative form of clock-watcher

noun

1. A textile worker.

noun

1. The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).

noun

1. Alternative form of cock throwing

noun

1. A bird, the European goatsucker.

noun

1. plural of dorhawk

noun

1. (Australia) Any large bird of prey, especially the wedge-tailed eagle, Aquila audax.

noun

1. Any structure made from earth; especially an embankment or rampart used as a fortification.

noun

1. plural of earthwork

noun

1. Alternative spelling of egg whisk.

noun

1. (countable) A cultural artifact made with feathers.
2. (uncountable) The working of feathers into a cultural artifact.

noun

1. A laborer in the fishing industry.

noun

1. A fish processing plant.

noun

1. Decorative work made from gatch.

adj

1. gawky

adv

1. In a gawkish manner.

noun

1. The quality of being gawkish.

noun

1. Any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter.

noun

1. plural of goshawk

noun

1. (historical) A kind of wheelbarrow used to carry new-made bricks to the hacks or racks where they are dried.

noun

1. A saw, with a blade that is put under tension, for cutting metal

verb

1. To cut with a hacksaw.

noun

1. plural of hacksaw

verb

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

noun

1. Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula.

noun

1. plural of hackwork

Noun

1. Chinese maritime customs

noun

1. Jewellery made from human hair.

noun

1. plural of hairwork

noun

1. A handmade object; handicraft.
2. The result of personal efforts.
3. Work done by the hands.
4. Work done personally.

noun

1. plural of handiwork

noun

1. Work done by the hands, as opposed to by machine.

verb

1. (transitive) To work (materials) by hand, without the use of a machine.

adj

1. worked by hand

noun

1. One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.

noun

1. plural of handworker

noun

1. A man who works with his hands; one who carries out handwork.

noun

1. plural of handwork

adj

1. Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly.

noun

1. (obsolete) A vulgar, ignorant country fellow.

Noun

1. The baked berry of the hawthorn tree, i.e. coarse fare.

Proper noun

1. A town in the Scottish Borders region

noun

1. (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
2. (game theory) An uncooperative or purely-selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the Prisoner's Dilemma, alias the Hawk-Dove game.
3. (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
4. A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
5. A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.
6. A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
7. Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
2. (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To expectorate, to cough up something from one's throat.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.