HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Relating to alkaptonuria

noun

1. a stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain

noun

1. A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.

noun

1. plural of alpenstock

noun

1. One who opposes a skeptical viewpoint.

noun

1. Opposition to a skeptical viewpoint.

adj

1. Alternative form of apocatastatic

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. (UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
2. (underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
3. A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.
4. A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
5. A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
6. Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.

noun

1. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstop

verb

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

noun

1. (drugs) The rolling a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion
2. (firearms) The rearmost surface applied to the grip especially of a pistol below a possible beavertail.
3. A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
4. A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
5. An anchoring strap, passed around the waist or hips, for a small loom.
6. The backbone of a book.

verb

1. To apply or make into a backstrap.

adj

1. Swept back.

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

1. (finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

noun

1. (obsolete) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
2. (obsolete, nautical, slang) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean.
3. The dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.

noun

1. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
2. (US, countable) A road so paved.
3. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).

verb

1. (US) To pave with blacktop.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

verb

1. present participle of blacktop

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bucket shop

noun

1. One who manufactures carpets.

noun

1. The manufacture of carpets.

noun

1. carpeting generally

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a caterpillar.

noun

1. A quarry where chalk is found.

noun

1. Lip balm.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of cheapskate

noun

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

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

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

adj

1. Showing chutzpah; not showing due respect; impudent; impertinent; brazen.

noun

1. A clapperboard.
2. A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.

noun

1. (Jamaica) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes.
2. (figurative) A site of conflict; a battlefield.
3. (figurative) An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control.
4. (nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located.
5. (nautical, now historical) The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay.
6. (now chiefly historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting.
7. (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
8. The compartment in an aircraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled; an analogous area in a spacecraft.
9. The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile).

noun

1. plural of cockpit

adj

1. Having some similarity to a computer.

noun

1. (informal, dated) A computer enthusiast.

noun

1. plural of computernik

noun

1. One who partakes in something with others.

noun

1. (historical) A stick or switch used among some Native Americans for making or counting a coup.

adj

1. (informal) Eccentric or impractical.

noun

1. (informal) An eccentric, crazy or foolish person.
2. (informal) Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).

noun

1. plural of crackpot

noun

1. The flowering plant Arum maculatum that has arrow-shaped leaves and a cluster of scarlet berries.
2. The related plant Arum italicum.

noun

1. plural of cuckoopint

noun

1. (slang) A useless person of inferior intellect; a dipshit.
2. A stick or rod used to measure the depth of a liquid. Often used to check the level at which a liquid in an opaque or inaccessible tank or reservoir stands; gauge.

verb

1. (mechanical engineering) To measure the level of a fluid using a dipstick.
2. To check (a person) for their understanding of something, as of a lesson, or attitude toward something.

noun

1. plural of dipstick

noun

1. (aviation) A thin hollow tube installed vertically in the bottoms of fuel tanks of many large aircraft, used to check fuel levels; now mostly superseded by the floatstick.

adj

1. Alternative form of ectodynamorphic

verb

1. (transitive, archaic, Scotland) To pack up.

adj

1. Relating to epiplankton

noun

1. (archaic) A laughing stock.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to holoplankton

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from hyperkeratosis

adj

1. (neurology, pathology, psychiatry, psychology) Of, relating to, or affected with hyperkinesis or hyperactivity.

noun

1. A person exhibiting hyperkinesis or hyperactivity.

noun

1. The condition of having an unusually high leukocyte count.

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hypokinesis

verb

1. (transitive, rare) To place into a pocket.

noun

1. (Western US) A difficult situation.
2. (forestry) A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
3. (pinball) A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.
4. A jumble of felled timber.
5. A large cash prize or money.
6. A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
7. An unexpected windfall or reward.

verb

1. (of a slot machine, intransitive) To issue a jackpot.

noun

1. plural of jackpot

noun

1. (sports) An athletic supporter worn by men and boys to support the genitals during strenuous exercise.

noun

1. plural of jockstrap

noun

1. (archaic) A kind of elastic floorcloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.

adj

1. (genetics) Of or pertaining to karyotypes

adj

1. Relating to, or characteristic of a karyotype

adj

1. Alternative form of cataphoretic

adj

1. Alternative form of cataphoric

adj

1. Alternative form of cataplectic

adj

1. Capable of thriving on keratin.

adj

1. Relating to keratoplasty.

noun

1. (ophthalmology) An ophthalmic instrument for assessing the shape of the anterior surface of the cornea.

noun

1. (ophthalmology) The measurement of the shape of the anterior surface of the cornea.

noun

1. (countable, now rare) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning.
2. (uncountable, chiefly US, Canada, UK) Ellipsis of tomato ketchup.. A tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners.

verb

1. (transitive) To cover with ketchup.

noun

1. plural of ketchup

noun

1. A usually metal strip mounted at the base of a door to prevent scuffing.

adj

1. cinematographical

adj

1. (photography) Relating to kinetography.

adj

1. Relating to a kinetoplast

noun

1. An early device for exhibiting motion pictures, creating the illusion of movement from a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images that is conveyed over a light source with a high-speed shutter.
2. An instrument for illustrating the production of kinematic curves by the combination of circular movements of different radii.

noun

1. plural of kinetoscope

adj

1. Relating to the kinetoscope.

adj

1. (historical) Relating to the klephts.

noun

1. One who steals compulsively.

adj

1. Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.

noun

1. plural of kleptomaniac

noun

1. (geomorphology) Part of a river or channel where there is a sharp change in slope, such as a waterfall or lake.

adj

1. Of or relating to krypsis.