HANGMAN SOLVER

Proper noun

1. A city in southwest Nigeria.

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

noun

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

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

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

Noun

1. The Doukhobors.

noun

1. (pathology) A disorder of the eye in which the cornea is enlarged and globular in shape.

noun

1. (dated) A key on a keyboard.

adj

1. Boisterous
2. Suitable for rough use.

noun

1. (circus) A tumbler.
2. (entertainment) A slapstick comedy or comedian.
3. (sailing) A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area
4. A person living in rough, violent conditions.
5. A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
6. Clothing suitable for rough use.

noun

1. plural of knockabout

noun

1. (mineralogy) A chromium chlorite mineral.

noun

1. An immature leukocyte.

adj

1. Relating to leukoblasts.

noun

1. (obsolete) An acrobat.
2. Any boastful, false pretender.
3. One who sells by deception; a con artist.
4. One who sells dubious medicines.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act as a mountebank.
2. (transitive) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of mountebank

noun

1. plural of mountebankery

noun

1. The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

adj

1. Like a mountebank; using or suggesting quackery.

noun

1. The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.

noun

1. plural of mountebank

verb

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

adj

1. Of or pertaining to more than one block (in various senses).

adj

1. Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.

adv

1. To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.

noun

1. (Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.

noun

1. One who lives in the outback.

noun

1. plural of outback

verb

1. (transitive) To heat (equipment) at low pressure to remove adsorbed gas from surfaces.
2. (transitive) To surpass in baking; to bake better than.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of outbake

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of outbake

verb

1. (transitive) To surpass in barking.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of outbark

verb

1. present participle of outbark

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To achieve more bookings than.
2. (transitive, chess) To surpass in one's knowledge of book moves.

noun

1. (figurative) An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.
2. A sudden increase.
3. An eruption; the sudden appearance of a rash, disease, etc.
4. Synonym of breakout (“escape from prison”)

verb

1. (intransitive) To burst out or break forth.

noun

1. One who breaks out; an escapee from prison.

noun

1. That which bursts forth.
2. The act of breaking out.

verb

1. present participle of outbreak

noun

1. plural of outbreak

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To exceed in bulk.

verb

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

noun

1. (mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing iron, magnesium, oxygen, and titanium.

adj

1. Not operating normally because of strike action.

Noun

1. In livestock breeding, a written record of the genealogy of animals.

noun

1. plural of studbook

noun

1. A subsection of a network.

noun

1. plural of subnetwork

noun

1. Alternative form of tambuki

noun

1. (UK, regional) A bogeyman; a fanciful monster used to frighten children.

noun

1. Saccharina gyrata, an edible kelp.

noun

1. (American football) The result of a play (usually a kickoff or punt) in which the ball passes out the back of the end zone or a team otherwise gains possession of the ball in their own end zone.

noun

1. plural of touchback

noun

1. A complainer.
2. One who causes trouble, especially one who does so deliberately.

noun

1. plural of troublemaker

adj

1. Causing trouble.

noun

1. Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way

noun

1. An assemblage of tubes.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a turbot.

adv

1. (followed by to) without the knowledge of

adj

1. Not brotherlike.

noun

1. The quality or state of being unknowable.

adj

1. (archaic) Unspeakable.

noun

1. An unworkable aspect or element.
2. The quality or state of being unworkable, lack of workability.

noun

1. (Australian aboriginal) A nomadic excursion into the bush, especially one taken by young teenage boys in certain ancient-custom honoring tribes.
2. (Britain) A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally.
3. A walking trip.
4. An absence, usually from a regular place with a possibility of a return.