HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. The tiny lifeforms that float and drift in the air, carried by the current of the wind.

noun

1. homogentisic acid

noun

1. (medicine) A rare inherited genetic disorder of phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism, causing the accumulation and eventual excretion of alkapton.

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. (pathology) fusion of the margins of the eyelids

noun

1. The fear of ankylosis.

adj

1. Given to servile imitation.
2. Similar to an ape in appearance or movement.

adj

1. (ophthalmology, dated) Pertaining to or exhibiting aphakia; aphakic.

noun

1. A troparion chanted at Orthodox Christian worship services, summarizing the feast being celebrated that day.

noun

1. An alcoholic drink similar to apple brandy and calvados, made by freeze-distilling ("jacking") apple cider.

noun

1. plural of applejack

adj

1. Prickling.

adj

1. Resembling an apron.

adj

1. Sparkling.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of asphalt.

noun

1. (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
2. (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

verb

1. To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
2. To perform a backflip (rotation of body).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backflip

verb

1. present participle of backflip

verb

1. (intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
2. (intransitive) To step backwards.
3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.

verb

1. (US) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

noun

1. The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.

verb

1. (US) present participle of backpedal

verb

1. (British spelling) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

noun

1. (electronics) A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.

noun

1. plural of backplane

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.

verb

1. To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backslap

noun

1. One who makes a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.

noun

1. plural of backslapper

noun

1. action of the verb to backslap

verb

1. present participle of backslap

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backsplash

noun

1. Such a knot

verb

1. To secure the ends of a twisted rope within the rope itself in order to prevent fraying

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

verb

1. present participle of backsplice

noun

1. (Atlantic Canada) The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus

adj

1. Approximate; close; on the right order of magnitude.

noun

1. (US) A field, stadium or park where ball, especially baseball, is played.
2. (US, figuratively) The general vicinity; somewhere close; a broad approximation.

verb

1. (transitive) To make a rough estimate of.

noun

1. plural of ballpark

verb

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

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.

adv

1. In a bankrupt manner.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. (biology) plankton living in the bathyal zone

verb

1. To add speckles.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bespeckle

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To sprinkle.

adj

1. Sprinkled.

noun

1. One who or that which besprinkles.

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of besprinkle

noun

1. A person who steals books

noun

1. A mental disorder that produces a compulsion to steal books.

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

adj

1. Resembling, or pertaining to a bishop.

noun

1. (Canada, US) Whitebark raspberry (Rubus leucodermis).
2. (cooking) An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
3. (obsolete, UK, US, dialectal) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus).
4. A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown.

noun

1. plural of blackcap

noun

1. Choke damp.

noun

1. A North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black patch on its head

Proper noun

1. A town and resort in Lancashire, England

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. (nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)

noun

1. A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.

verb

1. (transitive) To affix a bookplate to (a book).

noun

1. plural of bookplate

adj

1. Befitting a bumpkin.

noun

1. A kind of cap from Turkic countries, with a high crown.

adj

1. Wearing a calpack.

noun

1. plural of calpack

noun

1. A firearm that is discharged by means of a percussion cap.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a caterpillar.

noun

1. A quarry where chalk is found.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a champion.

noun

1. (obsolete) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten until it is thin.

noun

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

noun

1. (law) A temporary job of assisting a judge in writing legal opinions, generally available to a beginning attorney for one to two years.
2. (medicine) Clinical training for physicians during the second half of medical school.
3. The state or business of a clerk.

noun

1. plural of clerkship

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a clump.

noun

1. The (male of the) lumpfish

adj

1. Having some similarity to a computer.

adj

1. Resembling a corpse.

Adjective

1. Resembling crape.

adj

1. Resembling a cup.

noun

1. An alloy of copper containing from 10 to 40% nickel.

noun

1. plural of cupronickel

noun

1. (zoology) Any trilobite of the family Dikelocephalidae.

noun

1. A tetraploid cell nucleus

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a disciple.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To scatter around.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a dolphin.

noun

1. Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a drop of liquid.

noun

1. (obsolete) marsh harrier (a bird)

noun

1. plural of ekpwele

adj

1. (figuratively) (Of memory) which is very good
2. Resembling or characteristic of an elephant.

noun

1. plural of enkephalin

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of an epic.