HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (anatomy) A term sometimes used for diarthrosis, and also for synarthrosis. Also called dearticulation.
2. (anatomy) An articulation, especially one that permits free motion in the joint; a hinge joint.
3. The act of dislocating a joint.

noun

1. (surgery) Removal of the uterus via an incision made in the abdominal wall rather than via the vagina.

adj

1. Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

noun

1. A pruning device mounted on a pole, so as to reach high branches; a weeding machine.

adj

1. (pharmacology) Producing miscarriage.

noun

1. (pharmacology) A drug or an agent that induces an abortion.

adj

1. Causing abortion; abortifacient.

noun

1. A substance that induces abortion; an abortifacient.

noun

1. (psychoanalysis) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross.

noun

1. plural of abreaction

noun

1. (archaic) Absolute renunciation; repudiation; retraction.

adj

1. (medicine) Inducing or increasing absorption (of a drug).

noun

1. (medicine) Any such medicine that induces absorption.

noun

1. (optics, physics) Absorbed radiation and incident radiation in a ratio format; a measurement that shows how well a surface absorbs radiation.

noun

1. plural of absorptance

noun

1. (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
2. (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
3. (computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
4. (computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.
5. (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
6. (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
7. (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
8. A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
9. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
10. Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
11. Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
12. An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
13. An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
14. Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
15. The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
16. The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
17. The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
18. The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.

adj

1. Pertaining to abstraction.

noun

1. The creation, principles, or ideals of abstractions, in particular art.
2. The presentation of ideas in an abstract manner.

adj

1. Related or tending to abstractionism, particularly art.

noun

1. (art) Someone who supports or creates abstract art.
2. An idealist.

noun

1. plural of abstractionist

noun

1. plural of abstraction

noun

1. (biology, mycology) A method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.

adj

1. (botany) Having the fruit covered with spines.

adj

1. Spine-bearing.

noun

1. (paleontology) A tubular spine in some bryozoans.

noun

1. Alternative form of acanthopterygian

noun

1. (zoology) A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.

adj

1. (zoology) Acanthopterygious
2. (zoology) Spiny-winged.

adj

1. (zoology) Similar to an acanthopterygian.

noun

1. (zoology) Any fish of the superorder Acanthopterygii.

noun

1. (countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
2. (physics) The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
3. (uncountable) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
4. The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.

noun

1. plural of acceleration

noun

1. (music, obsolete) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
2. (obsolete) The ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapilla.
3. Any bird of the Eurasian genus Prunella, such as the dunnock.

noun

1. plural of accentor

noun

1. An agent that accentuates.

adj

1. In agreement; agreeing.

adv

1. In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably.

noun

1. Someone who plays the accordion.

noun

1. plural of accordionist

noun

1. A person providing an account of events.
2. A person providing an accounting of expenditure or other actions.

noun

1. plural of accounter

verb

1. present participle of accouter

noun

1. (archaic) The act of accoutering; furnishing.
2. (by extension) An identifying yet superficial characteristic.
3. (chiefly in the plural) An article of clothing or equipment, in particular when used as an accessory.
4. (military, chiefly in the plural) A soldier's equipment, other than weapons and uniform.

noun

1. plural of accouterment

noun

1. (Commonwealth) Alternative form of accouterment

noun

1. plural of accoutrement

verb

1. present participle of accoutre

noun

1. (education) The granting of approval to an institution of higher learning by an official review board after the school has met certain requirements.
2. The act of accrediting.
3. The giving of credentials.

noun

1. plural of accreditation

noun

1. (physiology) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

noun

1. (astrophysics) The formation of planets and other bodies by collection of material through gravity.
2. (biology) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
3. (geology) The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
4. (law) Gain to an heir or legatee; failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share percentage.
5. (law) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
6. Concretion; coherence of separate particles.
7. Something added externally to promote the external growth of an item.
8. The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
9. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition.

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or in the form of an accretion

noun

1. plural of accretion

Proper noun

1. A town in Hyndburn borough, Lancashire, England.

noun

1. (obsolete) An encroachment; usurpation.

noun

1. A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that they inhabit, starting at birth.
2. A process by which the culture of an isolated society changes on contact with a different one.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to acculturation

noun

1. A specialist in the study of acculturation.

adj

1. (ichthyology) lacking vertebral centra

noun

1. (obsolete, rare) A heaping up; accumulation

noun

1. Synonym of acetarsol

noun

1. (chemistry) Any mixed salt containing both acetate and arsenite anions

noun

1. heroin

noun

1. (organic chemistry) The simplest organic cyanide or nitrile, CH₃CN, formally derived from acetic acid

noun

1. (pathology) A form of ketonuria characterized by the presence of acetone in the urine

noun

1. (medicine) An acetylsalicylate of antipyrine

noun

1. (organic chemistry) The ketone 3,4-dimethoxy-acetophenone derived from veratrole

noun

1. (biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine into choline and acetic acid.

noun

1. (organic chemistry) acetoin

adj

1. Alternative form of Acherontic

noun

1. (astronomy, geology) Any stony meteorite that contains no chondrules

noun

1. plural of achondrite

adj

1. (geology) Of or pertaining to achondrites, a type of stony meteorite.

adj

1. (teratology) Of, related to, or suffering from achondroplasia.

noun

1. (biochemistry, cytology) A form of dextrin that is not colourable by iodine

noun

1. (biology) Tissue that is not stained by fluid dyes.

adj

1. (cytology, of a cell nucleus) Lacking the ability to be coloured by a stain.

verb

1. present participle of achromatise

noun

1. The act or process of achromatizing.

verb

1. present participle of achromatize

noun

1. Alternative form of achrodextrin

noun

1. (rare) The conversion of iron into steel.

adj

1. (zoology) Resembling the Acinetae.

adj

1. (anatomy) Having both acini and tubules

noun

1. Alternative form of acokantherin

noun

1. Alternative form of acroanaesthesia

adj

1. (genetics) (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.

noun

1. A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a very short arm.

noun

1. plural of acrocentric

noun

1. (pathology) contracture of the joints of the hands or feet

adj

1. Having teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.

noun

1. One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge

noun

1. plural of acrodont

Adjective

1. Relating to, or like, an acrolith.

adj

1. (poetry) Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.

noun

1. (pathology) myotonia of the limbs

noun

1. Synonym of acromyotonia

adj

1. (medicine) Of a substance, both acrid and narcotic; irritant in local effect and narcotic in action upon the nerve centers.

adj

1. (astronomy) acronycal

adj

1. Of or pertaining to acrophony.

adj

1. Of or befitting an acropolis, especially in lofty glory and in the capacity to inspire awe; compare Acropolitan.

noun

1. Alternative form of acroterium

noun

1. (organic chemistry) A toxic colourless liquid organic compound, CH₂=CH.CN, synthesized from propylene and ammonia; used as a monomer in the production of acrylic resins and synthetic rubber.

adj

1. (obsolete, photography) That produces a developable impression on light-sensitive material without contact

noun

1. (obsolete, photography) The production of an actinautographic image

adj

1. Containing or producing actinium

adj

1. Having a radiated form

noun

1. A red to violet pigment present in some Actinozoa

noun

1. (biology) An organ, in some anthozoans, that functions as a gill

noun

1. Alternative form of actinobranch

noun

1. The science of chemistry and actinism.

noun

1. A crinoid of the genus Actinocrinus present only as fossils

noun

1. actinic dermatitis

adj

1. Alternative form of actinodromous

adj

1. (botany) having palmate veins

adj

1. (physics) Synonym of photoconductive

noun

1. photoconductivity

noun

1. The record produced by an actinograph

noun

1. A recording actinometer.

noun

1. measurement with an actinograph