HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (obsolete) A maker of cabinets or chests.

adj

1. Somewhat awkward.

noun

1. (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
2. (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
3. The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
4. The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
5. The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.

verb

1. (transitive) To affect with backwash.
2. To clean the oil from wool after combing.
3. To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

noun

1. (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.

noun

1. plural of backwash

noun

1. A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

noun

1. (baseball, chiefly in Chicago) A person who specializes in catching home-run and foul balls.
2. (sports) A player who handles the ball skilfully

noun

1. plural of ballhawk

verb

1. (transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.

noun

1. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
2. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
3. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
4. (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
5. (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

verb

1. (transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
2. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
3. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

noun

1. One who blackwashes.

noun

1. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
2. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
3. The application of a coating of blackwash.

verb

1. present participle of blackwash

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

noun

1. (Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
2. (cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
3. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
4. (slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
5. (slang) Pubic hair.
6. An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]

noun

1. A poor and unskilled farmer.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.

noun

1. plural of buckwheat

verb

1. (US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.

noun

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

verb

1. Alternative spelling of bushwhack

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) The activity of hiking or backpacking.

verb

1. present participle of bushwalk

verb

1. to ambush
2. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack

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. criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
2. fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. present participle of bushwhack

verb

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

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

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beat with a chabuk.

noun

1. Alternative form of chewstick (“plant”)

noun

1. A person, elected by miners, whose task is to check what the mine owner's weighman states has been the amount of coal that has been mined; used especially if the miners' wages are related to production.

noun

1. Alternative form of chuckwalla

noun

1. plural of chuckawalla

noun

1. An iguana, of the genus Sauromalus, living in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

noun

1. plural of chuckwalla

noun

1. Alternative form of clock-watcher

noun

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

noun

1. A bird, the European goatsucker.

noun

1. plural of dorhawk

noun

1. (Australia) Any large bird of prey, especially the wedge-tailed eagle, Aquila audax.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of earthwork

noun

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

noun

1. Decorative work made from gatch.

adj

1. gawky

adv

1. In a gawkish manner.

noun

1. The quality of being gawkish.

noun

1. Any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter.

noun

1. plural of goshawk

noun

1. (historical) A kind of wheelbarrow used to carry new-made bricks to the hacks or racks where they are dried.

noun

1. A saw, with a blade that is put under tension, for cutting metal

verb

1. To cut with a hacksaw.

noun

1. plural of hacksaw

verb

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

noun

1. Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula.

noun

1. plural of hackwork

Noun

1. Chinese maritime customs

noun

1. Jewellery made from human hair.

noun

1. plural of hairwork

noun

1. A handmade object; handicraft.
2. The result of personal efforts.
3. Work done by the hands.
4. Work done personally.

noun

1. plural of handiwork

noun

1. Work done by the hands, as opposed to by machine.

verb

1. (transitive) To work (materials) by hand, without the use of a machine.

adj

1. worked by hand

noun

1. One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.

noun

1. plural of handworker

noun

1. A man who works with his hands; one who carries out handwork.

noun

1. plural of handwork

adj

1. Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly.

noun

1. (obsolete) A vulgar, ignorant country fellow.

Noun

1. The baked berry of the hawthorn tree, i.e. coarse fare.

Proper noun

1. A town in the Scottish Borders region

noun

1. (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
2. (game theory) An uncooperative or purely-selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the Prisoner's Dilemma, alias the Hawk-Dove game.
3. (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
4. A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
5. A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.
6. A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
7. Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
2. (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To expectorate, to cough up something from one's throat.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of hawksbill

noun

1. plural of hawkbill

noun

1. Any dandelion-like flower of the genera Leontodon, Scorzoneroides, and others in subtribe Hypochaeridinae, in the family Asteraceae.

adj

1. (Scotland) spotted, streaked
2. Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of hawk

noun

1. A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
2. Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
3. Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.

noun

1. plural of hawker

noun

1. A place where hawks used for hunting are kept.
2. Aggressive salesmanship.
3. Alternative form of Hawkery
4. The practice of hunting using hawks.

noun

1. Alternative form of hawkie (“white-faced cow”)
2. Obsolete form of hockey (“the sport”).

noun

1. Alternative spelling of hawk-eye

noun

1. plural of hawkeye

noun

1. plural of hawkey

noun

1. (Tyneside) A cow with a white face and darker body.

noun

1. plural of hawkie

noun

1. Action of the verb to hawk.

verb

1. present participle of hawk

noun

1. plural of hawking

adj

1. Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
2. Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
3. Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.

adv

1. In a hawkish manner.

noun

1. The characteristic of being hawkish.

adj

1. Reminiscent of a hawk.

noun

1. (entomology) Any of several moths, of the family Sphingidae, that hover over flowers when sucking nectar through a long proboscis.

noun

1. plural of hawkmoth

noun

1. A nose shaped like a hawk's beak.

adj

1. Having a nose that resembles a hawk's beak.

noun

1. plural of hawknose

noun

1. Synonym of kippernut

noun

1. plural of hawk

verb

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

noun

1. A tropical marine turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, that is a source of tortoiseshell.

noun

1. (dated, 19th century) A detective.

noun

1. plural of hawkshaw

noun

1. Any species of plant of the genus Hieracium and its segregate genus Pilosella, in the sunflower family (Asteraceae).

noun

1. plural of hawkweed

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a hawk.

noun

1. A headache.

noun

1. Mental or intellectual labour; the use of logic and clear thinking.