HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. A small white-flowered herb (Samolus valerandi) usually found in wet places; the water pimpernel.

noun

1. A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
2. A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
3. A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.

Proper noun

1. A city in Germany; Braunschweig.
2. Any of several towns in the United States and elsewhere.
3. A suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

noun

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

noun

1. A poor and unskilled farmer.

noun

1. (woodworking) Alternative form of buhl work

noun

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

noun

1. (figurative) Any means of defence or security.
2. (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
3. A breakwater.
4. A defense or safeguard.
5. A defensive wall or rampart.

verb

1. (transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
2. (transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bulwark

verb

1. present participle of bulwark

noun

1. plural of bulwark

verb

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

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. Alternative spelling of busy work

noun

1. Work done in addition to one's normal duties; subordinate or secondary business; work done on the side.

noun

1. plural of bywork

noun

1. cabinetmaking
2. furniture made by a cabinetmaker

noun

1. One who makes cabinets; a practitioner of cabinetwork.

noun

1. A cage or cage-like structure.

noun

1. A performer of the cakewalk dance.

noun

1. plural of cakewalker

noun

1. Skill or technique involving the use of a camera, especially a video camera.

noun

1. Objects made from canes (slender, flexible plant stems).

noun

1. (figurative) A corrupting or destructive force.
2. Either of two caterpillars, the larvae of geometrid moths, that are destructive to fruit, buds and leaves.

noun

1. plural of cankerworm

noun

1. The plant Taraxacum officinale.

noun

1. The use of a cape, in bullfighting, to distract the bull

noun

1. carpeting generally

noun

1. The work required to deal with cases in any profession where a "case" has a specific definition (e.g. legal, social work, planning, etc.).

noun

1. a social worker

noun

1. plural of caseworker

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. Alternative form of calker

noun

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

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. 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 checkerwork

noun

1. common chickweed

noun

1. That part of a scholar's work that is done in class.

noun

1. Alternative form of clock-watcher

adj

1. Driven by clockwork.
2. Very smooth and regular.

noun

1. A mechanism powered by a coiled spring and regulated by some form of escapement; the power is transmitted through toothed gearwheels and used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.
2. The action of behaving mechanically in the manner of a clock.

noun

1. plural of clockwork

noun

1. A textile worker.

noun

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

noun

1. construction work made of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, and in marine work often surrounding a central space filled with stones

noun

1. The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light

noun

1. The crowing sound of a cock.
2. cockcrow; daybreak

noun

1. plural of cockcrow

noun

1. Alternative form of cock throwing

noun

1. (masonry) rubblework faced with stone

adv

1. counterclockwise

noun

1. The assorted objects, such as pots, pans, baking sheets, etc., used for cooking

noun

1. plural of cookware

noun

1. A place where copper is manufactured and/or shaped.

adj

1. Having the tightly winding shape of a corkscrew.

noun

1. (amusement rides) A type of inversion used in roller coasters.
2. (boxing, martial arts) A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.
3. An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
4. The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.

verb

1. (intransitive) To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.
2. (transitive) To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape.
3. (transitive, informal) To extract information or consent from someone.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of corkscrew

noun

1. A winding, twisting motion.

verb

1. present participle of corkscrew

noun

1. plural of corkscrew

verb

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

adj

1. Resembling the worm of a corkscrew in shape

noun

1. corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops)

noun

1. Annona glabra, a plant found in the West Indies.
2. Caldcluvia paniculosa, a soft barked corkwood from Australia in the coachwood family.
3. Commiphora angolensis or sand corkwood, a shrub species growing mainly in Angola and Namibia.
4. Duboisia, a genus with species found in Australia.
5. Endiandra sieberi, a corkwood from Australia in the laurel family.
6. Entelea arborescens, a species found in New Zealand.
7. Erythrina vespertilio (grey corkwood), a species from Australia.
8. Hakea suberea, a species found in Australia.
9. Leitneria floridana, a species found in southeastern North America.
10. Melicope, a genus with species in Australia.
11. Musanga cecropioides or African corkwood, a species found in Africa.
12. Sesbania grandiflora, a species found in southeast Asia and northern Australia, with edible flowers.
13. The wood of Quercus suber, the cork oak.

noun

1. plural of corkwood

adj

1. (US, Canada) Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

adv

1. (US, Canada) In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

verb

1. (transitive) To work in opposition to; to counteract.

noun

1. (rare) One who works against something; a saboteur.
2. (rare) One who works at a counter.

verb

1. present participle of counterwork

noun

1. (archaic) cowherd

noun

1. Somebody with whom one works.

noun

1. plural of coworker

noun

1. The use of a shared working environment for independent activities by different organisations.

noun

1. Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement

noun

1. plural of crackdown

adj

1. Difficult or unpleasant to pronounce.

noun

1. Articles made with a crackle glaze.

noun

1. plural of crackleware

noun

1. An item produced by handicraft.

noun

1. A maker of craftwork.

noun

1. embroidery made using a crewel

noun

1. plural of crewelwork

noun

1. Alternative form of crew neck

noun

1. cribbing (structural members)

noun

1. plural of cribwork

noun

1. crockery

noun

1. (US) A point designated for pedestrians to cross a street.
2. (databases) A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.

verb

1. (databases) To map equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.

noun

1. plural of crosswalk

noun

1. (obsolete) A person employed to scare off crows.
2. (obsolete) A scarecrow.

noun

1. plural of crowkeeper

adj

1. Resembling a crown.

noun

1. A manufacturer of crowns.

noun

1. (dentistry) The addition of a crown.
2. A type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress.

noun

1. lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)
2. ragged robin (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi)

noun

1. A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away

noun

1. plural of cutwork

noun

1. (US, dated) An African-American area of a city in the American South.

noun

1. (obsolete) The amount of land that can be worked in a day.
2. (obsolete) The work done in a day; a day's work.
3. Work carried out or paid for on a daily basis; day labour.
4. Work done during the day; specifically, the cover-work carried out by someone involved in intelligence work, as opposed to their secret activities.

noun

1. An employee paid on an irregular basis; a casual worker.

noun

1. plural of daywork

noun

1. Unprofitable work that is necessary as a preliminary, e.g. preparing a mine before ore can be extracted.

noun

1. (nautical) The parts of a laden ship that are above water.

noun

1. masonry with diamond-shaped patterns
2. ornamentation with diamonds (precious stones)

noun

1. A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.

noun

1. plural of dockworker

noun

1. Alternative form of donkey work

noun

1. A bird, the European goatsucker.

noun

1. plural of dorhawk

noun

1. (fishing) A kind of artificial fly used in fly fishing.
2. Any of various snipe flies of the genus Rhagio.

noun

1. A downward stroke, especially one that is part of a sequence of alternating upward and downward strokes.

noun

1. plural of downstroke

noun

1. A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
2. A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
3. The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette.