HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

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

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

verb

1. present participle of backscratch

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. An English topographic surname
2. Either of F. E. Smith, Frederick Smith or Frederick Smith the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Earls of Birkenhead
3. the town itself.

noun

1. plural of blackhander

noun

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

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. A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s).
2. Something jolty.

noun

1. distastefulness; unpleasantness

adj

1. resembling a branch of a tree

adj

1. Very surprising or shocking; to such a degree as to cause astonishment.
2. stunningly beautiful; amazing

adv

1. In a breathtaking manner.
2. To a degree that causes shock or awe; shockingly.

Proper noun

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

noun

1. (chiefly politics) The pursuit of an advantage by appearing to be willing to take a matter to the brink (for example, by risking a dangerous policy) rather than to concede a point.

noun

1. Alternative form of brinkmanship

adj

1. Grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss of a beloved person or thing, such as the repudiation of a romantic relationship.

adv

1. In a brokenhearted manner.

noun

1. The quality of being brokenhearted.

Proper noun

1. Any of several towns and cities in the United States and Canada:
   1. a city in Mississippi, USA, and the county seat of Named after Brookhaven, New York.

noun

1. The manufacture of brushes.

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. (computer graphics) Synonym of checkerboard rendering

verb

1. present participle of checkerboard

verb

1. past participle of halterbreak

noun

1. (mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
2. (mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated lever or foot-operated toggle lever in a motorcar or the hand-operated crank on a railcar, which is used to set and release such a brake.

verb

1. To apply the handbrake in a vehicle.

adj

1. That causes great grief, anguish or distress.

noun

1. The breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.

adv

1. In a heartbreaking manner

adj

1. Suffering from grief, especially after a failed romance.

adv

1. In a heartbroken manner.

noun

1. The state or quality of being heartbroken.

noun

1. The hornfish.

noun

1. (historical) A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.
2. (law) A legal textbook that gives a basic overview of a particular area of law.

noun

1. plural of hornbook

noun

1. The act of breaking into another person's house with unlawful intent.

verb

1. (animal training) present participle of housebreak

adj

1. Of animals: trained to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.

Noun

1. An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.

verb

1. present participle of kurbash

adj

1. US standard spelling of neighbourlike.

adj

1. (Britain, Canada) Synonym of neighbourly

adj

1. Not shrinkable.

adj

1. Opening a new path or approach

noun

1. The breaking up of a ship for scrap recycling.

adj

1. Synonym of shipwrecked

noun

1. The act of breaking into a shop with unlawful intent.

adj

1. Capable of being made to shrink.

adj

1. Alternative form of swashbuckling

noun

1. (archaic) A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster.
2. The thornback guitarfish (Platyrhinoidis triseriata), a species of ray in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean.
3. The thornback ray or thornback skate (Raja clavata), a species of ray in the Atlantic Ocean.
4. The thornback skate (Dentiraja lemprieri), a fish endemic to Australia.

noun

1. (biochemistry) A proteolytic enzyme that converts prothrombin into thrombin during the clotting of blood

adj

1. Not brotherlike.

adj

1. Not butcherlike.

noun

1. The quality of being unshrinkable.

adj

1. That will not shrink

noun

1. A sturdy bench or table at which manual work is done by a carpenter, machinist, etc.

noun

1. plural of workbench