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

adj

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

noun

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

adj

1. Resembling or relating to alkahest.

adj

1. Alternative form of alkahestic

adj

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

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. 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

noun

1. (Britain) Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.

verb

1. To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.

noun

1. plural of backchat

verb

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

noun

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

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. 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. (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. (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. (sewing) A type of sewing stitch where the stitch goes backwards on the top side of the fabric and doubles forward on the bottom, coming out farther in front, then repeats. The backstitch is a very tight and secure stitch, and also looks very neat.

verb

1. To sew with a backstitch.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstitch

noun

1. plural of backstitch

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backstitch

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.

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

Proper noun

1. of origin.

verb

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

noun

1. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid found in bikh (Aconitum spicatum).

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

noun

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

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

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

noun

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

noun

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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bucket shop

noun

1. (chiefly US) Lead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game. [from 18th c.]

noun

1. plural of buckshot

noun

1. plural of bucktooth

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. An upper tooth that protrudes further than the bottom teeth.

adj

1. Having buckteeth

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

adj

1. superlative form of chalky: most chalky

noun

1. A quarry where chalk is found.

noun

1. (medicine) A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus.
2. (obsolete) A mass or piece of chalk.

adj

1. Having or resembling chalkstones.

noun

1. Lip balm.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a chariot.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of charnockite

noun

1. A bird in Indian mythology, represented as having a beak on its head that waits for rains to quench its thirst, and associated with the Jacobin cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus).

noun

1. plural of chatchka

noun

1. Alternative form of tchotchke

noun

1. plural of chatchke

noun

1. Alternative form of chewstick (“plant”)

noun

1. (by extension) Someone who does not give freely.
2. Someone who stingily avoids spending money.

noun

1. plural of cheapskate

noun

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

noun

1. One who plays the game of checkers.

noun

1. Any of a group of butterflies of the subfamily Nymphalinae whose wings bear a checkered, spotted pattern.

noun

1. Alternative form of ciclatoun

noun

1. A list of tasks to be completed, names to be consulted, conditions to be verified and similar.
2. An inventory, especially of species.

verb

1. (transitive) To add to a checklist.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of checklist

verb

1. present participle of checklist

noun

1. plural of checklist

verb

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

intj

1. (by extension) Said when one has placed a person in a losing situation with no escape.
2. (chess) Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game.

noun

1. (figuratively, by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
2. The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.

verb

1. (transitive, by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
2. (transitive, chess) To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.

adj

1. (chess) Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game.
2. (figuratively) Suffering a personal loss with no obvious chance to escape the loss.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of checkmate

noun

1. plural of checkmate

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of checkmate

noun

1. (Internet, by extension) The process of confirming and paying for an online purchase.
2. (darts) The number of points that a player scores on their final, winning visit to the oche.
3. A test to see if some device is functioning properly.
4. An inspection or investigation.
5. The place in a supermarket where this is done.
6. The process of checking out items at a supermarket or library.
7. The process of checking out of a hotel, or the latest time to vacate a room in one.

noun

1. plural of checkout

noun

1. (computing) A situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs; the data stored at this event.
2. (video games) A predetermined point in a map, level or scenario that the player may resume from if they die or restart from if they choose to.
3. A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection

verb

1. To set a checkpoint.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of checkpoint

verb

1. present participle of checkpoint

noun

1. plural of checkpoint

noun

1. A cord used by a passenger in a carriage to signal to the driver to slow down or go faster.

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.

adj

1. superlative form of cheeky: most cheeky

Noun

1. A member of the Cheka.

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or provoking chemokinesis

noun

1. (now historical) A member of a Serbian royalist army band.
2. An adherent of an nationalist revival of the historical Chetnik movement.

noun

1. An old Russian dry measure, approximately 26.24 litres; one fourth of an osmina.

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.

adj

1. Alternative form of chicken-hearted

adv

1. Alternative form of chicken-heartedly

noun

1. Alternative form of chicken-heartedness

adj

1. (slang, vulgar) petty and contemptible; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.)
2. (vulgar, slang) cowardly

noun

1. (slang, vulgar) (A) petty and contemptible thing(s).
2. (slang, vulgar) coward
3. (vulgar, military, slang) A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.

noun

1. plural of chickenshit

noun

1. common chickweed

adj

1. superlative form of chirk: most chirk

noun

1. A political purge in Russia.

noun

1. (historical) An old Indian unit of weight, equal to five siccas or one sixteenth of a seer.

noun

1. (climbing) A metal wedge or nut, threaded on a wire, used in rock climbing for protection by wedging it into a crack in the rock.
2. A stone, ranging in size from a boulder to a pebble, which has become wedged in a vertical fissure or cleft.

noun

1. A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.