HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Any member of the genus Carex of sedges.

noun

1. (chiefly Scotland) peasant; fellow

noun

1. (Scotland) Low, fertile land; a river valley.

noun

1. (Scotland, dated) A playing card.
2. (fencing) Alternative form of quarte
3. (historical) A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).
4. A bill of fare; a menu.

noun

1. (obsolete) A carucate.
2. The act of carving

verb

1. (archaic) To cut.
2. (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
3. (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
4. To cut meat in order to serve it.
5. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
6. To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.

adj

1. Having a case or covering; encased or clad.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of case

noun

1. (slang, UK) A crown, a five-shilling coin.

noun

1. plural of case

verb

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

noun

1. A fault in wine, caused by an enzyme, making it turn from red to brown, or white to yellow, on exposure to air.

noun

1. (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
2. A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
3. Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
4. Hyponyms: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna

adv

1. (UK dialect, US) Diagonally.

noun

1. (card games, dice games, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.
2. (figurative, obsolete) Synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.
3. (music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.
4. (obsolete) Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.
5. (obsolete) Synonym of caterer: any provider of food.
6. (rare, obsolete) Four.

verb

1. (UK dialect) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
2. (intransitive, figurative, with 'to') To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
4. To provide

noun

1. (archaic) Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.

Proper noun

1. A diminutive of the female given name Catherine.
2. A diminutive of the female given name Caitlin.

conj

1. Alternative form of 'cause; because

noun

1. (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
2. (countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
3. (countable, obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
4. (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
5. (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
6. (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.

verb

1. (ditransitive) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
2. (obsolete) To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
3. (transitive) To set off an event or action.

verb

1. past participle of cave

noun

1. (dialectal) A horse's bit.
2. (obsolete or dialectal) A parcel or allotment of land.
3. (obsolete or dialectal) A part, share, lot.
4. (obsolete or dialectal) The stick or runestaff used in casting lots; a lot.
5. (obsolete) A gag.
6. Alternative form of kevel (“stonemason's hammer”)

noun

1. (mining, obsolete) One who works the tailings of a mine to extract small pieces of marketable ore.
2. A person who explores caves.

noun

1. plural of cave

verb

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

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A chicken coop.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of caw

Proper noun

1. A city in South Carolina

noun

1. (obsolete) Cessation; extinction (see without cease).

verb

1. (formal, intransitive) To stop.
2. (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.

noun

1. Any monkey in the family Cebidae.

noun

1. (uncommon) A South American tree (Anadenanthera colubrina), the bark of which contains tannin and is used in tanning hides.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of caecal

noun

1. (cooking) A fried ball of minced meat, breadcrumbs, onions, etc.

noun

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of caecum

noun

1. (countable) A coniferous tree of the family Cupressaceae, especially of the genera Juniperus, Cupressus, Calocedrus, or Thuja.
2. (countable) A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae.
3. (countable) A flowering tree of the family Meliaceae, especially of the genera Cedrela or Toona.
4. (uncountable) The aromatic wood from a Cedrus tree, or from any of several unrelated trees.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cede

noun

1. Obsolete form of cedar.
2. One who cedes something.

verb

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

noun

1. plural of cedi

adj

1. Obsolete form of cedary.

noun

1. Any tree of the genus Ceiba, the best-known of which is Ceiba pentandra.
2. The silk-cotton tree, Bombax ceiba.

noun

1. The tree Erythrina crista-galli.

verb

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

Noun

1. A girdle.

noun

1. (informal) A celebrity; a famous person.

noun

1. (architecture) The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos.

noun

1. (rare) plural of cello

noun

1. A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
2. cellophane

noun

1. plural of cell

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of coelom

noun

1. plural of celt

noun

1. (obsolete) A census.
2. (obsolete) A public rate or tax.
3. (obsolete) condition; rank

verb

1. To perfume with incense.

noun

1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.

noun

1. plural of cent

noun

1. (historical) An Anglo-Saxon churl.

noun

1. plural of cepe

noun

1. (biology) A dorsal or lateral outgrowth on the body of nudibranchs.

noun

1. plural of cercus

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cere

noun

1. plural of cere

noun

1. (chemistry) The compound cerium(IV) oxide.

adj

1. (chemistry) Containing cerium with valence four.
2. (chemistry) Relating to wax.

noun

1. (obsolete) Beeswax.
2. (organic chemistry) A triterpene found in cork.

noun

1. plural of cero

noun

1. (chemistry) A radical, C₂₇H₅₅, supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from waxes.

Proper noun

1. name of Welsh origin; a variant of Carys.

noun

1. plural of cestus

noun

1. plural of cete

noun

1. The white, waxy constituent of spermaceti.

noun

1. (organic chemistry) The univalent hexadecyl radical C₁₆H₃₃- present in many waxes.

Proper noun

1. A Spanish enclave at the edge of Morocco.

noun

1. (obsolete) A chase.

verb

1. (obsolete) To chase; to pursue.

noun

1. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
2. Heat excited by friction.
3. Injury or wear caused by friction.
4. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
2. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
3. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
4. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
5. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
6. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.

noun

1. (archaic) The piece by which an object is attached to something, such as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
2. Alternative form of chappe (“rainguard”) (piece fitted to a sword's crossguard).
3. The lower metallic cap at the end of a sword's scabbard.

noun

1. (Northern England) A narrow lane or passage between houses in a town.
2. Alternative form of char ("turn, task, chore, worker").

verb

1. (intransitive) To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs; to char.

noun

1. (Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
2. (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
3. (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
4. (music) A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
5. (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
6. (obsolete) A wild animal that is hunted.
7. (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
8. (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
9. (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
10. (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
11. (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
12. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
13. A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
14. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
15. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
16. The cavity of a mold.
17. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.

verb

1. (transitive) To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
2. (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
3. (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
4. (transitive) To follow at speed.
5. (transitive) To groove; indent.
6. (transitive) To hunt.
7. (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
8. (transitive) To seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way.
9. (transitive) To seek to attain.
10. (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
11. (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
12. (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
13. (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.

abbrev

1. (West Country, obsolete) I have

Proper noun

1. A suburban village in Sutton on the border of London and Surrey

adj

1. (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
2. (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
3. (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
4. Low and/or reduced in price.
5. Of little worth.
6. Of poor quality.

adv

1. Cheaply.

noun

1. (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
2. (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
3. (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
4. Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
5. Price.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To sell.

noun

1. (card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
2. (obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.
3. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
4. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
5. Someone who cheats.
6. The weed cheatgrass.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
2. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
3. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
4. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.

adj

1. (heraldry) Divided into small squares (chequers) by transverse vertical and horizontal lines.

noun

1. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
2. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
3. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
4. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
5. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
6. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. [from 15th c.]
7. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
8. A control; a limit or stop.
9. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
10. A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
11. A small chink or crack.
12. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
13. An inspection or examination.
14. Any fabric woven with such a pattern.

verb

1. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
2. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
3. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
4. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
5. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
6. (poker) To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
7. (sports) To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
8. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
9. (transitive) To mark with a check pattern.
10. To act as a curb or restraint.
11. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
12. To control, limit, or halt.
13. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
14. To inspect; to examine.
15. To leave in safekeeping.
16. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
17. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
18. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
19. To verify or compare with a source of information.
20. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).

noun

1. (anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
2. (anatomy, informal, usually in the plural) The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.
3. (biology, informal) One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.
4. (figurative, informal, uncountable) Impudence.
5. (in the plural) The branches of a bridle bit. .
6. (metalworking) The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould.
7. (nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down
8. Either side of an axehead.
9. One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.

verb

1. Don't cheek me, you little rascal!
2. To be impudent towards.
3. To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle.

intj

1. The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.

noun

1. A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
2. A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound

verb

1. Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.
2. To express in a chirping tone.

noun

1. (archaic) One's attitude, mood.
2. (chiefly Canada, US) Cheerleading, especially when practiced as a competitive sport.
3. (countable) A chant made in support of a team at a sports event.
4. (countable) A cry expressing joy, approval or support, such as "hurrah".
5. (now uncountable) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness, especially food and entertainment prepared for a festive occasion.
6. (obsolete) One's facial expression or countenance.
7. (uncountable) A cheerful attitude; happiness; a good, happy, or positive mood.

verb

1. (transitive) To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.
2. (transitive) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
3. (transitive, figurative) To feel or express enthusiasm for (something).
4. (transitive, intransitive) To applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To encourage to do something.

noun

1. plural of chef

noun

1. (Turkish units of measurement) A unit of weight equal to 200 kg (441 lbs.).
2. (historical units of measurement) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 100 dirhems (variously .15–.35 kg).
3. (historical units of measurement) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 180 okas.

noun

1. A pincer-like claw of a crustacean or arachnid. [from 17th c.]
2. A pupil or disciple, especially in Hinduism. [from 19th c.]

verb

1. (intransitive, Northern England) To gossip, particularly in a forthright manner.
2. (intransitive, Northern England) To speak rudely or out of turn.

noun

1. Alternative form of sheng (Chinese wind instrument)

noun

1. (countable) A flint-like tool made from chert.
2. (geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.

noun

1. (military, chiefly in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
2. (now chiefly US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
3. A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

noun

1. (anatomy) The portion of the front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
2. (obsolete) A coffin.
3. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
4. A chest of drawers.
5. A hit or blow made with one's chest.
6. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
7. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.

verb

1. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.
3. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)

noun

1. Alternative spelling of heth