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

noun

1. (now historical) A universal solvent sought by the alchemists.

adj

1. Resembling or relating to alkahest.

adj

1. Alternative form of alkahestic

noun

1. plural of alkahest

adj

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

adj

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

noun

1. Any of several passerine bird species of various genera in the antbird (Thamnophilidae) family.

noun

1. plural of apparatchik

adj

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

noun

1. plural of artichoke

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of asphalt.

noun

1. Closely-curled black or grey fleece of very young karakul lambs from Astrakhan.
2. Cloth resembling the above mentioned fur, often made from wool and mohair and used for trimmings.

noun

1. plural of backchat

verb

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

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.

verb

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

verb

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

verb

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

noun

1. plural of bhakta

noun

1. plural of bhakti

noun

1. plural of birthmark

noun

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

noun

1. plural of blackheart

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. plural of blackthorn

noun

1. A voluble purveyor of nonsense; a blusterer.
2. A worthless fellow; a deadbeat.
3. Nonsense or blather; empty talk.

noun

1. plural of blatherskite

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

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

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. plural of brightwork

noun

1. The quality of being brokenhearted.

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 buckwheat

noun

1. plural of buttonhook

verb

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

adj

1. superlative form of chalky: most chalky

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.

noun

1. plural of charnockite

noun

1. plural of chatchka

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. 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. 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

noun

1. plural of checkmate

verb

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

noun

1. plural of checkout

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.

adj

1. superlative form of cheeky: most cheeky

Noun

1. A member of the Cheka.

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.

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

adj

1. superlative form of chirk: most chirk

noun

1. A political purge in Russia.

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

Adjective

1. Befitting a Christian.

Adjective

1. Characteristic of Jesus Christ or his works.

Noun

1. The quality of being Christlike.

Noun

1. A chuck; a pebble.

adj

1. superlative form of chunky: most chunky

noun

1. A basket for holding clothes to be laundered.

noun

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

noun

1. A rotating shaft that drives (or is driven by) a crank.

verb

1. (of a straight bolt or rod) To deform in such a manner that part of the rod or bolt is displaced sideways, offset from the longitudinal axis of the part, but remains parallel with the part's main longitudinal axis, with the final shape somewhat resembling a crankshaft.

noun

1. plural of crankshaft

verb

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

noun

1. plural of doublethink

Noun

1. The Doukhobors.

noun

1. plural of earthquake

noun

1. Somebody or something that is earthshaking, or of great global importance.

noun

1. plural of earthshaker

adj

1. Of global consequence or importance.
2. Very loud.

adv

1. In an earthshaking manner.

Noun

1. An earthquake.

noun

1. plural of earthwork

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

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fetish.

noun

1. open-heartedness

noun

1. plural of freethinker