HANGMAN SOLVER

Proper noun

1. A city in southwest Nigeria.

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

adj

1. Alternative form of arrhenotokous

adj

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

adj

1. (zoology) Producing only asexual individuals.

noun

1. A visual illusion in which a stationary source of light appears to move.
2. Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an internal cause.

noun

1. autokinesis

adj

1. (historical) Of a fire-alarm telegraphy system, arranged so that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.
2. Moving by itself or automatically.

noun

1. One who manufactures automobiles; typically used to refer to a large corporation such as General Motors.

adj

1. Like an automaton; robotic.

noun

1. (zoology) The true skeleton of a sponge, composed of elements secreted by the sponge itself.

noun

1. plural of autoworker

noun

1. A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible; the boondocks.

noun

1. (basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.

noun

1. (basketball) A backcourt player.

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

noun

1. (aerospace) A reversed countdown (i.e. ascending numbers) in response to problems leading up to a launch.
2. A reversal or undoing of tasks previously done (often in reverse order).

noun

1. plural of backout

noun

1. The act of heating a material in a vacuum in order to drive off volatile components

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

Noun

1. A member of one of the historical aboriginal peoples of Canada.

Proper noun

1. The extinct language of these people.

noun

1. (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
2. (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
3. A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
4. A temporary loss of consciousness.
5. A temporary loss of memory.
6. An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.

verb

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of black out

noun

1. plural of blackout

noun

1. (US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
2. (informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
3. (informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
4. (slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
5. A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
6. A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.

noun

1. plural of blockbuster

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.

noun

1. (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.

noun

1. (construction) A void that is deliberately not filled with concrete, so that it can be used to insert something else such as pipework.

noun

1. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
2. (historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
3. (usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. (colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

noun

1. plural of bluestocking

noun

1. Alternative form of bontebok (“South African antelope”)

noun

1. plural of bontebuck

adj

1. Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to mainstream success.

noun

1. (aviation) The point at which visibility returns after passing through cloud.
2. A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
3. A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
4. An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
5. An escape from prison.
6. An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).

noun

1. plural of breakout

adj

1. (immunology) Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
2. (medicine) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
3. Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

noun

1. (construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
2. (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
3. (sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.
4. Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.

noun

1. plural of breakthrough

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. Hippophae (family Elaeagnaceae), the sea buckthorn.
2. also genus Frangula, especially Frangula alnus, the alder buckthorn.
3. especially genus Rhamnus,
4. especially the common buckthorn or purging buckthorn; Rhamnus cathartica.

noun

1. An upper tooth that protrudes further than the bottom teeth.

adj

1. Having buckteeth

noun

1. (nautical) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
2. (usually in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum and the top of the legs.

adj

1. (in combination) Having some specific type of buttocks

noun

1. (mining, historical) A worker who gets coal off at a longwall face.
2. (wrestling) One who uses the cross-buttock throw.

noun

1. plural of buttock.

noun

1. (American football) A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage.
2. (sewing) A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.
3. A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.

verb

1. (American football) To perform the buttonhook play.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buttonhook

noun

1. plural of buttonhook

verb

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

adj

1. Resembling a button.

noun

1. The stock in a firearm located in the rear of the firing mechanism where one's shoulder is held when shooting

adj

1. Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.

adv

1. In a cantankerous manner.

noun

1. The state of being cantankerous.

noun

1. (Internet, by extension) The process of confirming and paying for an online purchase.
2. (darts) The number of points that a player scores on their final, winning visit to the oche.
3. A test to see if some device is functioning properly.
4. An inspection or investigation.
5. The place in a supermarket where this is done.
6. The process of checking out items at a supermarket or library.
7. The process of checking out of a hotel, or the latest time to vacate a room in one.

noun

1. plural of checkout

Noun

1. A chuck; a pebble.

noun

1. (New York, obsolete) A three-piece cap or bonnet worn by women, with a straight central piece reaching from the neck to the forehead and two side pieces reaching as far down as the chin.

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. The condition of being cocksure

noun

1. Archaic form of coconut.

adj

1. Having some similarity to a computer.

noun

1. (informal, dated) A computer enthusiast.

noun

1. plural of computernik

noun

1. (US) A gathering for a meal that is cooked and eaten outside; either a domestic barbecue or a larger social event.

noun

1. plural of cookout

noun

1. Alternative form of counter-attack

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of counterattack

noun

1. One who carries out a counterattack.

verb

1. present participle of counterattack

noun

1. plural of counterattack; alternative spelling of counter-attacks

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterattack; alternative spelling of counter-attacks

noun

1. A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

noun

1. A restriction or limit.
2. A second check (in order to confirm or deny a previous one).

verb

1. To recheck.
2. To restrict or limit by counteracting.

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.

noun

1. (farriery) An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.
2. A mark or token added to those already existing, as a security or proof.

verb

1. (transitive) To apply a countermark to.

verb

1. simple past tense of countersink

noun

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

noun

1. a cylindrical recess, typically machined around a hole to admit a screw so that it sits flush with a surface.

verb

1. (transitive) To cause to sink even with or below the surface.
2. (transitive) To create such a conical recess.

verb

1. present participle of countersink

noun

1. plural of countersink

verb

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

noun

1. (dated) counterfoil

noun

1. (military, sports) The tactic of counterattacking

verb

1. (intransitive) To perform a counterstrike.

noun

1. A blow given in return.
2. A retaliation.

adj

1. (of a bolt or screw) That has a flat conical top allowing it to be inserted flush with a surface

verb

1. past participle of countersink

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. One who lives in the country; a rural dweller.

noun

1. (historical) A stick or switch used among some Native Americans for making or counting a coup.

adj

1. Courteous; polite.
2. Resembling or characteristic of a court.

noun

1. The flowering plant Arum maculatum that has arrow-shaped leaves and a cluster of scarlet berries.
2. The related plant Arum italicum.

noun

1. plural of cuckoopint

noun

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

noun

1. plural of cutwork

adj

1. Relating to deuterotoky.

noun

1. The production of both male and female offspring by parthenogenesis.

adj

1. (zoology) Having two kinds of young.
2. (zoology) Producing only two eggs in a clutch.

noun

1. The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct, without realizing the contradiction.

noun

1. plural of doublethink

adj

1. Resembling a doughnut.

Noun

1. The Doukhobors.

noun

1. (dated) A breathalyzer.