HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (law) Legally qualified or competent.
2. (nautical) Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.
3. (obsolete) Easy to use.
4. (obsolete) Rich; well-to-do.
5. (obsolete) Suitable; competent.
6. (obsolete, dialectal) Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.
7. (obsolete, dialectal) Liable to.
8. Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.
9. Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.
10. Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.

noun

1. (military) The letter "A" in Navy Phonetic Alphabet.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give power to; to reinforce; to confirm.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To make capable; to enable.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To make ready.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To vouch for; to guarantee.

adv

1. In an able manner; with great ability.

noun

1. (poetry) A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.
2. (rare) plural of album
3. A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
4. A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
5. Synonym of alb

conj

1. (obsolete) Synonym of albeit

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of alb

noun

1. (US, offensive, ethnic slur) An Albanian.

noun

1. plural of alb

Proper noun

1. from place names in England. Variant spelling: Albee.
2. name, anglicization of Irish Ailbhe, name of an Irish saint also anglicized as Albert.
3. name used in Ireland, derived from Ailbhe, name of heroines in Irish legend.

noun

1. (obsolete, derogatory) Catholic or Orthodox icons of the saints.
2. a false deity or idol

noun

1. A tropical fruit tree from India, Aegle marmelos.
2. The fruit of the tree, also called the wood apple.

noun

1. (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
2. (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
3. (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
4. (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
5. (law, UK) The person providing such payment.
6. (obsolete) Custody; keeping.
7. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
8. A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
9. A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
10. A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
11. A person who bails water out of a boat.
12. A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
13. Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

verb

1. (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
3. (informal, transitive with on) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).
4. (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
5. (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
6. (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
7. (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
8. (rare) To confine.
9. (slang) To exit quickly.
10. To secure the head of a cow during milking.
11. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
12. To set free; to deliver; to release.

adj

1. (by extension) Denuded of any covering.
2. (of a statement or account) Unembellished.
3. (of a statement) Without evidence or support being provided.
4. (of animals) Having areas (of fur or plumage) that are coloured white, especially on the head.
5. (specifically) Having no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head although hair may still grow on the sides and back of the head.
6. Having no hair, fur or feathers.
7. Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.

noun

1. (Appalachia) A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become bald.

noun

1. (archaic) A beacon-fire.
2. (archaic) A funeral pyre.
3. (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
4. A block of compressed cannabis.
5. A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
6. A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
7. A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
8. A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
9. Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
10. Suffering, woe, torment.

verb

1. (Britain, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
2. (transitive) To wrap into a bale.

noun

1. (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
2. (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
3. (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
4. (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
5. (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
6. (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
7. (obsolete) An omission.
8. (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
9. A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
10. A sudden and obstinate stop.
11. Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".

verb

1. (archaic) To pass over or by.
2. (obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid.
3. (sports, intransitive) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
4. To disappoint; to frustrate.
5. To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
6. To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
7. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
8. To leave or make balks in.
9. To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
10. To refuse suddenly.
11. To stop short and refuse to go on.
12. To stop, check, block.

intj

1. (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.

noun

1. (anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
2. (baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
3. (cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
4. (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
5. (in the plural) Courage.
6. (in the plural) Nonsense.
7. (informal) A very enjoyable time.
8. (mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
9. (mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
10. (mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
11. (pinball, countable) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
12. (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
13. (soccer, countable) A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.
14. (sports, countable) An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
15. (uncountable) Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
16. (uncountable, obsolete) Such bullets collectively.
17. A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.
18. A formal dance.
19. A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
20. A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
21. A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
22. A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
23. The globe; the earthly sphere.

verb

1. (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
2. (nonstandard, slang) To play basketball.
3. (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
4. (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
5. (transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
7. (transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
8. (university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Short for blackball.)

noun

1. (figuratively) Something soothing.
2. A plant or tree yielding such substance.
3. Any of a number of other aromatic herbs with a similar citrus-like scent, such as bee balm and horse balm.
4. Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America.
5. Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one.
6. The lemon balm, Melissa officinalis

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal.
2. (transitive, figurative) To soothe; to mitigate.

noun

1. A loud, intense shouting or wailing.

verb

1. (intransitive) To wail; to give out a blaring cry.
2. (intransitive) To weep profusely.
3. (transitive) To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.

noun

1. plural of bbl

noun

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.

verb

1. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Western Pennsylvania) To gather matter; swell; come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.

noun

1. (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
2. (architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
3. (chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.
4. (computing) The bell character.
5. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
6. (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
7. A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
8. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
9. An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
10. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
11. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
12. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
13. The sounding of a bell as a signal.

verb

1. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
2. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
3. (slang, transitive) To telephone.
4. (transitive) To attach a bell to.
5. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
6. (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

noun

1. plural of bel

noun

1. (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
2. (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
3. (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
4. (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
5. (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
6. (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
7. (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
8. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
9. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
10. A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
11. A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
12. A quick drink of liquor.
13. A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
14. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.

verb

1. (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
2. (transitive) To encircle.
3. (transitive) To fasten a belt on.
4. (transitive) To hit with a belt.
5. (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
6. (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
7. (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something.
8. (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of belly

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of belie

noun

1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
2. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
3. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
4. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

verb

1. Pronunciation spelling of boil.

noun

1. (medicine, informal) Clipping of bilirubin.

noun

1. (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
2. (obsolete) A cheat or swindler.
3. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.

verb

1. (intransitive, UK) To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
2. (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
3. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
4. (transitive, archaic) To evade, elude.

noun

1. (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
2. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
3. (obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
4. (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
5. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
6. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
7. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
8. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
9. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
10. A pickaxe, or mattock.
11. A set of items presented together.
12. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
13. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
14. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
15. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
16. Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
17. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
18. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
19. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

verb

1. (obsolete) to peck
2. (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
3. (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
4. (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
5. to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness

noun

1. Half a coconut shell, used in Fiji as a cup for drinking alcohol.

noun

1. (Internet slang, LGBT) A girl of boyish appearance.
2. (music, bagpipes) A type of grace note movement that quickly switches between low-A and low-G several times, producing a low rippling sound.

verb

1. (transitive) To cause (a floating log) to rotate by treading on it.
2. (transitive) To throw down a coin as one's share in a joint contribution.
3. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To spin.
4. Alternative form of birle (“to drink, carouse”)

noun

1. (countable) One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.
2. (uncountable) Gossip; prattle.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
2. to speak carelessly or excessively

noun

1. (Australia, wholesale, food trade) A single sheet for use in a display book, illustrating a particular product available from a wholesaler.
2. (Scotland) A fragment or lump.
3. (Scotland) A portfolio; a blotting-book or blotting-pad.

adj

1. (informal) Dull; uninteresting; insipid.
2. (informal) Low in spirit or health; down.

intj

1. (When spoken repeatedly, often three times in succession: blah blah blah!) Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
2. An expression of mild frustration.
3. Representing the sound of vomiting.

noun

1. (informal) (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc.
2. (uncountable, informal) Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.

verb

1. (intransitive) To utter idle, meaningless talk.

noun

1. (Internet, informal) spam posted to a blog
2. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot

verb

1. (intransitive) To fire a gun.
2. (transitive) To shoot; to kill by gunshot.

noun

1. The Soviet system of connections and social relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).

verb

1. (intransitive) To cry, as a calf or sheep; bleat.
2. (intransitive) To make a senseless noise.
3. (transitive) To utter loudly or foolishly; blurt.
4. To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.
5. To talk inconsiderately; blab.

noun

1. The bleak (fish).

noun

1. The part of a tree that lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

noun

1. (cytology) An irregular bulge in the plasma membrane of a cell undergoing apoptosis.
2. (geology) A bubble-like inclusion of one mineral within another.
3. (pathology) A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid.
4. A bubble, such as in paint or glass.

verb

1. To form, or cause the formation of, blebs.

noun

1. (in parts of French North Africa) Hinterland, field.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bleed

intj

1. (informal) Expressing disgust or trepidation.

noun

1. (East Anglia) General resemblance, likeness; appearance, aspect, look.
2. (archaic) Color of the face, complexion, coloring.
3. (archaic) Consistency, form, texture.
4. (rare, chiefly poetic) Color, hue.

verb

1. To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.

noun

1. Obsolete form of blue.

verb

1. (now colloquial) past participle of blow
2. simple past tense of blow

noun

1. (slang, UK) A chunk of cannabis resin.

noun

1. (obsolete) Cessation; end.
2. A blintz.

verb

1. (obsolete, especially Scotland, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.

noun

1. (Internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.
2. (by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
3. (electronics) A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
4. A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
2. (transitive) Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”)

noun

1. (computing) A logical operation in which a block of data is rapidly moved or copied in memory, most commonly used to animate two-dimensional graphics.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To transfer by a blit operation.

noun

1. (astronomy) A large cloud of gas.
2. (dialect) A bubble; a bleb.
3. (sports, slang) A score of zero.
4. A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
5. A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
6. Alternative spelling of BLOB
7. Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob (a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy).
8. The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
2. (intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
3. (transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto; to cover with blobs.
4. (transitive) To drop in the form of a blob or blobs.

noun

1. A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union.
2. A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.

noun

1. (backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.
2. (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
3. (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
4. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.

verb

1. (intransitive) to soak up or absorb liquid.
2. (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
3. (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
4. (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
5. (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
6. (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
7. (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
8. (transitive) to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.

adj

1. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
2. (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
3. (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
4. (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
5. (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
6. (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
7. (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
8. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
9. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
10. A bloom, state of flowering.
11. A damaging occurrence.
12. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
13. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
14. A strong wind.
15. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
16. The act of striking or hitting.

verb

1. (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
2. (UK, slang, archaic) To expose, or inform on.
3. (dated) To talk loudly; boast; brag.
4. (figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
5. (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
6. (intransitive) (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
7. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
8. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
9. (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
10. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
11. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
12. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
13. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
14. (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
15. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
16. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
17. (slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
18. (slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
19. (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
20. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
21. (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
22. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
23. (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
24. (transitive) To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
25. (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
26. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
27. (transitive, historical, military, of a person) To blow from a gun.
28. (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
29. (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
30. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
31. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
32. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
33. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.

adj

1. (attributively) Swollen, puffed, protruding.

noun

1. The act of blubbing.

verb

1. (obsolete) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
2. To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval).

adj

1. (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
2. (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
3. (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
4. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
5. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
6. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
7. (health care) Having a bluish or purplish shade of the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep red blood cells.
8. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
9. (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
10. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
11. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
12. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
13. (slang, dated) Drunk.
14. Having blue as its color.
15. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.

noun

1. (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
2. (Britain) A type of firecracker.
3. (UK) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
4. (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark blue color of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
5. (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and purple in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
6. (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
7. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
8. (now historical) A bluestocking.
9. (slang) A member of law enforcement.
10. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
11. (uncountable) Blue clothing.
12. A blue dye or pigment.
13. A bluefish.
14. A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
15. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
16. A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
17. A person who has received such sporting colours.
18. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
19. Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
20. Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
21. The far distance; a remote or distant place.
22. The ocean; deep waters.
23. The sky, literally or figuratively.

verb

1. (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
2. (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
3. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
4. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
5. (transitive, slang, dated) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.

intj

1. (colloquial, rare) Expressing disgust or discontent; blah.
2. When repeated or combined with blah, used to denote tedious talking; blah.

Proper noun

1. A town in Texas.

adj

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, informal) In a state of doubt or confusion.

noun

1. (obsolete) A moral stain or blot.
2. A smear, smudge or blot
3. Something that appears hazy or indistinct

verb

1. (graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
2. (intransitive) To become indistinct.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
4. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
5. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
6. To smear, stain or smudge.

noun

1. (Scotland, archaic) A bubbling.
2. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
3. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
4. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
5. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
2. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
3. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
4. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
5. (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
6. (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
8. (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
9. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

noun

1. A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.

adj

1. (Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
2. (Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
3. (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
4. Courageous, daring.
5. Full-bodied.
6. Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
7. Steep or abrupt.
8. Visually striking; conspicuous.

noun

1. (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To become bold or brave.
2. (transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.

noun

1. (Scotland) A small closet.
2. (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
3. (colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
4. (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
5. Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
6. Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
7. The trunk or stem of a tree.

verb

1. (intransitive) To belch.
2. (intransitive) To gush out.
3. (intransitive) To heave.
4. (intransitive) To vomit; retch.
5. (transitive) To belch out; give vent to; ejaculate.

noun

1. (Scotland) An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
2. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.

verb

1. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

noun

1. (US law enforcement) A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.
2. (attributive) a type of punch; an uppercut.
3. A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
4. A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.
5. A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.

verb

1. (transitive, nonce word) To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
2. To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
3. To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

adv

1. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

noun

1. (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
2. (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
3. (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
4. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
5. A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
6. A burst of speed or efficiency.
7. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
8. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
9. A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
10. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
11. A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
12. A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
13. A sudden event, action or emotion.
14. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
15. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
16. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

verb

1. (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
2. (intransitive) To escape.
3. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
4. (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
5. (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
6. (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
7. To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
8. To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
9. To secure a door by locking or barring it.
10. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
11. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
12. To sift, especially through a cloth.
13. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
14. To swallow food without chewing it.
15. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

noun

1. (programming) A Boolean variable, one whose value is either true or false.

verb

1. (slang) To relax.

noun

1. A curved handle.

noun

1. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
2. (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
3. (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
4. (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.
5. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
6. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
7. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
8. A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
9. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
10. As much as is held by a bowl.
11. The action of bowling a ball.
12. The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
13. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
14. The round hollow part of anything.

verb

1. (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
3. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
4. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
5. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

noun

1. A variety of madeira (wine) that is less sweet than malmsey

noun

1. (woodworking) A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works.
2. Furniture having ornamentation of this kind.

noun

1. (dated, neuroanatomy) The medulla oblongata.
2. (nautical) A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
3. (obsolete) An onion.
4. A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
5. Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
6. The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.

verb

1. (intransitive) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

adj

1. being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
2. total

noun

1. (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
2. (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
3. (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
4. (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
5. (obsolete) The body.
6. (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
7. Any huge body or structure.
8. Dietary fibre.
9. Size, specifically, volume.
10. The major part of something.

verb

1. (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
2. (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
3. (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
4. (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to, to bulk out.

adj

1. (finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
2. (of large mammals) Adult male.
3. Large and strong, like a bull.
4. Stupid.

noun

1. (LGBT, slang) An elderly lesbian.
2. (Philadelphia, slang) A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
3. (UK) Clipping of bullseye.
4. (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
5. (US) Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
6. (euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.
7. (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
8. (military, firearms) The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
9. (obsolete) A bubble.
10. (obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.
11. (slang) A policeman.
12. (slang, uncountable) Beef.
13. (uncountable, informal, euphemistic, slang) Clipping of bullshit.
14. A large, strong man.
15. A lie.
16. A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
17. A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.
18. A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
19. A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
20. An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
21. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
22. Any adult male bovine.
23. Specifically, one that is uncastrated.

verb

1. (UK, military) To polish boots to a high shine.
2. (agriculture, intransitive, of a cow or heifer) To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
3. (agriculture, transitive, of a bull) To mate with (a cow or heifer).
4. (dated, 17th century) to publish in a Papal bull
5. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise prices in.
6. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.
7. (intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.
8. (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
9. To mock; to cheat.

noun

1. (South Africa) A ridge or small hill.

noun

1. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
2. A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
3. Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.

verb

1. To remove the knots in cloth.

verb

1. Alternative form of birle

noun

1. (archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
2. (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
3. A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
4. A club sandwich.
5. A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
6. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
7. A playing card marked with such a symbol.
8. An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
9. An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
10. An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
11. The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.

verb

1. (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
2. (intransitive) To join together to form a group.
3. (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
5. (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
6. (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
7. (transitive) To hit with a club.
8. (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
9. (transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
10. (transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
11. We went clubbing in Ibiza.

noun

1. (informal) Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat.

noun

1. (UK, slang) Spittle or phlegm, especially a piece of spittle or phlegm that has been spat out.

verb

1. (UK, slang) To spit or to gob.
2. To flop; to move or behave in a loose or uncoordinated way.

noun

1. (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.

verb

1. (transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

adj

1. (US) Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
2. (dated) Smooth or slippery.
3. Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
4. Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.

noun

1. (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly used in Ireland.

verb

1. (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
2. (transitive) To make smooth or slippery.

noun

1. (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
2. (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
3. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.

verb

1. (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
2. To stick in globs or lumps.

noun

1. (informal) The sound of underwater bubbles, or of water bubbling (often used repetitively).

verb

1. (informal) To make a sound like underwater bubbling; to glug.

noun

1. plural of lab

noun

1. (figuratively) A person who is meek, docile and easily led.
2. (finance, slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
3. (slang) A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).
4. A simple, unsophisticated person.
5. A young sheep.
6. The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of a sheep, to give birth.
2. (transitive or intransitive) To assist (sheep) to give birth.

noun

1. plural of lib

verb

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

noun

1. (archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
2. (astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
3. (astronomy) The edge of a star or planet.
4. (botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
5. (botany) The part of a corolla beyond the throat.
6. (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
7. A branch of a tree.
8. A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
9. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
10. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
11. Short for limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”).

verb

1. (transitive) To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
2. (transitive) To supply with limbs.

Verb

1. To ask (somebody) to remain a platonic friend; to turn down the offer of a romantic or sexual relationship.

noun

1. (anatomy) A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung. [from 16th c.]
2. (figure skating) A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it. [from 20th c.]
3. Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. [from 19th c.]

noun

1. plural of lobus