HANGMAN SOLVER

verb

1. present participle of acknow

adj

1. Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.

adj

1. Swept back.

noun

1. (sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.

verb

1. To swing backward.

noun

1. (UK, dated) A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
2. (UK, dated) The game in which the stick is used.
3. A sword with one sharp edge.

adj

1. Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.

noun

1. (idiomatic) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
2. (paper industry) Water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
3. A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
4. The water held back by a dam or other obstruction

verb

1. (idiomatic) To vacillate on a long-held position.
2. To row or paddle a backwater stroke.

adj

1. Pertaining to the backwoods.
2. Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.

noun

1. A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
2. Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.

noun

1. plural of backwrap

verb

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

noun

1. A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
2. The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

noun

1. the structure supporting a model railway layout
2. work performed at a workbench

noun

1. Any pottery of a black or nearly black colour.

noun

1. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
2. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
3. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
4. (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
5. (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

verb

1. (transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
2. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
3. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

noun

1. Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia.)

noun

1. (uncountable) The very dark wood of such trees.
2. African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa
3. Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia
4. Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India
5. Haematoxylum campechianum, a tree from Mexico.

noun

1. (obsolete) Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
2. (sewing) A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.

noun

1. plural of blowback

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

noun

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of brick wall

adj

1. In the manner of bricks, especially the overlapping way in which they are assembled into a wall.

noun

1. The quality of the construction of brick built items.
2. Those parts of items that are made of brick.

noun

1. A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
2. A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
3. A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.

Proper noun

1. A city in Germany; Braunschweig.
2. Any of several towns in the United States and elsewhere.
3. A suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

noun

1. (South Africa) A strong wagon with a frame over the wheels used for hauling goods.
2. (US) A buckboard; a wagon for personal transport as well as transporting goods.

noun

1. (Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
2. (cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
3. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
4. (slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
5. (slang) Pubic hair.
6. An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]

verb

1. (US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.

verb

1. to ambush
2. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

noun

1. plural of cakewalk

noun

1. A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.

noun

1. Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.

noun

1. Alternative form of chewstick (“plant”)

verb

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

noun

1. Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.

noun

1. A twig with a frayed end, used for cleaning the teeth.
2. Any of various plants in the genus Gouania used for oral hygiene, especieally Gouania lupuloides, of the Caribbean.

noun

1. Ageratum conyzoides, chickweed
2. Cerastium - mouse-ear chickweed
3. Holosteum - jagged chickweed
4. Moenchia - upright chickweed
5. Paronychia - chickweed
6. Stellaria pro parte - chickweed
7. especially common chickweed, Stellaria media, a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.

noun

1. That part of a scholar's work that is done in class.

adv

1. In the manner of a cloak.

adj

1. Moving clockwise; having rotary motion in the manner of a clock.

adv

1. In a curve or twist corresponding to the movement of the hands of a clock.

adj

1. Driven by clockwork.
2. Very smooth and regular.

noun

1. A mechanism powered by a coiled spring and regulated by some form of escapement; the power is transmitted through toothed gearwheels and used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.
2. The action of behaving mechanically in the manner of a clock.

noun

1. The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).

noun

1. plural of cockcrow

noun

1. Alternative spelling of coxswain

noun

1. plural of cookware

adj

1. Having the tightly winding shape of a corkscrew.

noun

1. (amusement rides) A type of inversion used in roller coasters.
2. (boxing, martial arts) A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.
3. An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
4. The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.

verb

1. (intransitive) To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.
2. (transitive) To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape.
3. (transitive, informal) To extract information or consent from someone.

noun

1. plural of corkwood

noun

1. (archaic) cowherd

noun

1. plural of coworker

noun

1. The use of a shared working environment for independent activities by different organisations.

noun

1. Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement

noun

1. An item produced by handicraft.

noun

1. plural of cribwork

noun

1. (US) A point designated for pedestrians to cross a street.
2. (databases) A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.

verb

1. (databases) To map equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.

adj

1. Resembling a crown.

noun

1. (dentistry) The addition of a crown.
2. A type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress.

noun

1. plural of drawback

noun

1. plural of duckweed

noun

1. Decorative embroidery.

adv

1. In or as a flock.

noun

1. Decorative work made from gatch.

noun

1. (geology) Greywacke.

noun

1. Alternative form of greywacke

noun

1. (geology) A hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix.

noun

1. plural of hackwork

noun

1. (zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.

noun

1. A jack (mechanical lifting device) which is operated by turning a leadscrew.
2. A leadscrew; a screw used to translate rotational into linear motion.

adj

1. (obsolete, of a person) Of no substance or worth.
2. Resembling a bundle of jackstraws that has been strewn on a surface.

noun

1. (dated) An insignificant person.
2. (usually plural) One of the pieces used for the game called jackstraws or pick-up sticks.

Proper noun

1. A city in in the southeastern part of the State of Washington, along the southwest bank of the

noun

1. Alternative form of kickshaw
2. plural of kickshaw

adj

1. (of a rivet head) To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening.
2. Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal.
3. powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down
4. reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer

noun

1. (film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
2. (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
3. (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
4. (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
5. (slang, obsolete, uncountable) Very strong ale or beer.
6. (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
7. A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
8. An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
9. An overwhelming blow.

verb

1. (genetics) To employ the knockdown technique

noun

1. A factory that produces lace.

noun

1. plural of mackinaw

noun

1. plural of muckworm

noun

1. plural of neckwear

noun

1. Alternative form of paddywhack

noun

1. (derogatory) A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.
2. (figurative) Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one whole piece.
3. A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.

verb

1. To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together.
2. To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric.

Proper noun

1. A large city in Rhode Island.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of piece work

noun

1. The work of a coal miner who is paid in a share of the mined material.

Proper noun

1. a coastal town in council area, Scotland, which is probably more famous for its airport

noun

1. A shrub (Euonymus europaeus), the spindle tree.

noun

1. (nautical, archaic) All of the submerged section of a vessel's planking.
2. (nautical, archaic) The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.
3. (nautical, archaic) The short planks between the portholes.

noun

1. plural of rackwork

noun

1. plural of rickshaw

noun

1. plural of rockaway

noun

1. plural of rockweed

noun

1. plural of rockwork

noun

1. Artistic ornamentation resembling the scales of a fish.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a screw (mechanical fastener).

Proper noun

1. A town in Alberta, Canada.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
2. (figurative) destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss
3. A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy.

verb

1. To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of shock wave

noun

1. plural of skewback

Proper noun

1. a town in the metropolitan borough of West Midlands, England

noun

1. (obsolete, Scotland) One who is sly, cunning, devious.

noun

1. plural of snowpack

noun

1. Any activity by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft or space station in space; extravehicular activity.

verb

1. To perform a spacewalk.

noun

1. Any of various unrelated plants that have seeds that stick to clothing

noun

1. (sports) Use of the stick in lacrosse, hockey, etc.

Proper noun

1. a suburb in south London, England

Proper noun

1. A southern district of Bristol, England between Whitchurch, Brislington and Keynsham

noun

1. (geology) A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped, especially common with tin ore.
2. (mining) A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) The black-backed gull (Larus marinus), or swarbie.

noun

1. plural of swayback

noun

1. The rearward angle of the leading edge of a wing, or airfoil.

adj

1. (of a hairstyle) Backswept.
2. (of an aircraft wing) Angled backwards from its attachment to the fuselage.

noun

1. (US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
2. (derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
3. (slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
4. A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
5. A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
6. An atavism.
7. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
8. Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout

noun

1. plural of thwacker

noun

1. The action or sound of a thwack; a beating.

verb

1. present participle of thwack

noun

1. (horse racing) Practice in racing around a track
2. (rail transport) Construction or maintenance of railroad tracks
3. (rail transport) The tracks and associated equipment of a railway line.

adj

1. Not wrecked.