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. (India) A walnut.

noun

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

noun

1. (organic chemistry) Any simple aliphatic thiol.

adj

1. (UK, regional, obsolete) Of another kind.

noun

1. (archaic) anthocyanin

noun

1. Dated form of anticathode.

adj

1. (zoology) Relating to arrhenotoky; producing males from unfertilized eggs.

noun

1. (biology) The production of male offspring by parthenogenesis.

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

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. (biology) plankton living in the bathyal zone

Noun

1. A member of one of the historical aboriginal peoples of Canada.

Proper noun

1. The extinct language of these people.

noun

1. plural of berakah

noun

1. Alternative form of bibliotheque

noun

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

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. (by extension) A pole or rod with such a hook at one end.
2. A hook attached to a pole used for pulling or pushing boats, rafts, logs or other objects to or from the side of a boat.

noun

1. A writer of books; an author.

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

adj

1. (immunology) Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
2. (medicine) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
3. Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

noun

1. (construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
2. (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
3. (sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.
4. Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.

noun

1. plural of breakthrough

noun

1. (nautical) A horizontal timber fitted in the bows of a ship to add strength and to connect the sides to the stem.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of brightwork

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.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a brothel.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a brother.

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. 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. (American football) A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage.
2. (sewing) A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.
3. A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.

verb

1. (American football) To perform the buttonhook play.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buttonhook

noun

1. plural of buttonhook

verb

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

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. (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.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a chariot.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of charnockite

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. (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

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or provoking chemokinesis

noun

1. common chickweed

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.

adj

1. superlative form of choky: most choky

noun

1. (biochemistry) Any of several peptide hormones that stimulate the digestion of fat and protein; abbreviated to CCK.

noun

1. A skeleton (of some fish and of mammal embryos) composed of hyaline cartilage

noun

1. (ethnic slur) An Asian person.
2. (usually in the plural) An East Asian eating utensil usually used as a pair and held in one hand to grip pieces of food or occasionally to mix liquids or scoop up small pieces of food. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood and measuring approximately 23cm (10 inches) in length.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To pick up (food) using chopsticks.

noun

1. plural of chopstick

Noun

1. A chuck; a pebble.

noun

1. (New York, obsolete) A three-piece cap or bonnet worn by women, with a straight central piece reaching from the neck to the forehead and two side pieces reaching as far down as the chin.

noun

1. Alternative form of clock-watcher

noun

1. A basket for holding clothes to be laundered.

adj

1. Resembling cloth.

noun

1. A person who makes cloth.

noun

1. The art or trade of a clothmaker.

noun

1. A textile worker.

noun

1. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs

verb

1. To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.

noun

1. One who engages in a cockfight.

noun

1. A gambling blood sport (illegal in most countries) in which two roosters have spikes placed on their feet and are made to fight each other, usually to the death.

verb

1. present participle of cockfight

noun

1. plural of cockfight

noun

1. twilight at cockcrow; daybreak.

noun

1. (archaic) A cockfight.

noun

1. (slang, vulgar) A photograph of one's penis.

noun

1. (countable, obsolete) A kind of net for catching woodcock.
2. (obsolete) Twilight, when poultry would be shut in for the night.

noun

1. plural of cockshut

noun

1. Alternative form of cock throwing

noun

1. A restriction or limit.
2. A second check (in order to confirm or deny a previous one).

verb

1. To recheck.
2. To restrict or limit by counteracting.

noun

1. A shock that travels in the opposite direction to an applied impulse

adj

1. Relating to diadochokinesis.

noun

1. (biology) A dikaryotic mycelium.

noun

1. The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct, without realizing the contradiction.

noun

1. plural of doublethink

adj

1. Resembling a doughnut.

Noun

1. The Doukhobors.

Noun

1. An earthquake.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of earthwork

adj

1. Alternative form of ectodynamorphic

noun

1. (An) electric shock.
2. (medicine) Electroconvulsive therapy.

verb

1. (medicine) To administer electroconvulsive therapy.

noun

1. plural of electroshock

verb

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

noun

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

noun

1. (obsolete) The common law or right of the people.

noun

1. (nautical) Alternative form of futtock

verb

1. (transitive, rare) To plan (something) in advance; think, consider, or contrive beforehand; prognosticate.
2. (transitive, rare) To think about beforehand; to anticipate.

noun

1. One who thinks ahead, or plans things in advance.

verb

1. present participle of forethink