HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. A defect or flaw, especially in cloth.
2. A tumour, often accompanied by inflammation; pustule; varicose vein; pus; atter.
3. Abbreviation of ampersand.

noun

1. plural of aper

adj

1. (archaic) open; uncovered; revealed

noun

1. A place where apes are kept.
2. The practice of aping; an apish action.

prep

1. (rare, nonstandard) After

adj

1. comparative form of apt: more apt

noun

1. Alternative form of arpent (old unit of measure)

adj

1. (obsolete) Rough or harsh; severe, stern, serious.

noun

1. (historical) Any one of several small coins, circulated around the eastern Mediterranean area from the 12th to 17th centuries.
2. (phonetics, obsolete) Rough breathing; a mark (#) indicating that part of a word is aspirated, or pronounced with h before it.

noun

1. (Scotland) The capercaillie.
2. (figuratively) A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.
3. (usually in the plural) Playful behaviour.
4. A jump while dancing.
5. A plant of the genus Capparis.
6. A playful leap or jump.
7. A prank or practical joke.
8. A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.
9. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.

verb

1. To engage in playful behaviour.
2. To jump as part of a dance.
3. To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.

noun

1. (Britain) A floating grogshop supplying the North Sea fishing industry.
2. One who copes.

verb

1. (Britain) To supply the North Sea fishing industry from a floating grogshop.

noun

1. Alternative form of crepe (“a thin fabric, paper, or pancake”).
2. Mourning garments, especially an armband or hatband.

verb

1. (transitive) To clothe in crape.
2. (transitive) To form into ringlets; to curl or crimp.

noun

1. (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
2. (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
3. (informal, derogatory) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
4. (informal, derogatory) Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
5. (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
6. (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
7. (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
8. A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
9. A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
10. The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).

verb

1. (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
2. (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
3. (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
4. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
5. (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
6. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
7. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
8. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
9. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
10. To slip, or to become slightly displaced.

noun

1. (Ireland) A death notice printed on white card with a background of black crepe paper or cloth, placed on the door of a residence or business.
2. A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat.
3. A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface.
4. Crepe paper; thin, crinkled tissue paper.
5. Rubber in sheets, used especially for shoe soles.

verb

1. (transitive) To crease (paper) in such a way to make it look like crepe paper
2. (transitive) To frizz (the hair).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of creep

adj

1. Alternative form of crêpy

adj

1. comparative form of dope: more dope

noun

1. (dated) A person employed to apply dope solution during aircraft manufacture.
2. (derogatory) One who frequently uses recreational drugs; a druggie; a stoner.
3. (derogatory) One who uses performance enhancing substances for competitive gain, especially illegally.

noun

1. (US) A member of a youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square.
2. (textiles) The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
3. A curtain; a drapery.
4. A dress made from an entire piece of cloth, without having pieces cut away as in a fitted garment.

verb

1. (transitive) To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
2. (transitive) To spread over, cover.
3. To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
4. To hang or rest limply.
5. To make cloth.
6. To rail at; to banter.

verb

1. (Scotland) To lower oneself from a height and drop the remaining distance.

noun

1. (botany) a kind of fruit, with a fleshy exterior, formed from the exocarp and mesocarp, surrounding a hardened endocarp which protects the seed.

noun

1. a person who dupes another

noun

1. (historical) One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.
2. (in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator.

Noun

1. Erasable programmable read-only memory.

verb

1. (intransitive) To burst forth; to break out.
2. (intransitive) To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
3. (intransitive, biology) (Of birds, insects, etc.) To suddenly appear in a certain region in large numbers.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To spontaneously release pressure or tension.

noun

1. (Internet slang) An act of using another person's Facebook account to post derogatory messages.
2. (obsolete) A crowd, a rabble.

verb

1. (Internet slang) To hijack, and meddle with, someone's Facebook account while it is unattended.

noun

1. (US, slang) An inexperienced skier.
2. Any of several species of burrowing clams.
3. One who gapes; a starer.
4. The comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla.
5. The fish Champsodon capensis

adj

1. Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
2. Of a dark purplish red colour.

noun

1. (US, naval slang) A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
2. (US, slang, colloquial, African-American Vernacular) A person's head.
3. (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
4. (countable) Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies.
5. (countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
6. (countable, uncountable) A woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
7. (uncountable) Clipping of grapeshot.
8. A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.

verb

1. (dialect, Hong Kong) To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).
2. (dialect, north, UK) To grope.
3. (of livestock) To develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
4. To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
5. To pick grapes.

noun

1. (chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
2. (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
3. (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
4. (nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
5. (nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
6. (nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
7. (obsolete) Grasp; clutch; grip.
8. (obsolete) Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
9. (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
10. A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
11. Alternative form of grype

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To seize or grasp.
2. (intransitive) To suffer griping pains.
3. (intransitive, informal) To complain; to whine.
4. (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
6. (obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
7. (transitive, informal) To annoy or bother.

noun

1. (informal) An act of groping, especially sexually.

verb

1. (obsolete) To examine; to test; to sound.
2. (obsolete) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
3. To intentionally and inappropriately touch or rub against another person, in such a manner as to make the contact appear accidental, for the purpose of one's sexual gratification.
4. To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
5. To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.

noun

1. (obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of gripe

noun

1. (obsolete, chemistry) Any substance resembling hepar in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide.
2. (obsolete, chemistry) liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown colour, sometimes used in medicine, formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalis (especially potassium).

noun

1. (wrestling) A wrestler who uses the hipe technique.

noun

1. One who hopes.

adj

1. (colloquial) hyperactive
2. (slang) energetic; overly diligent

noun

1. (countable, bodybuilding, colloquial) hyperextension exercise
2. (uncountable, colloquial, science fiction) hyperspace
3. (wrestling) Alternative form of hiper

noun

1. One who japes; a joker.

Noun

1. potassium-phosphorus-rare earth elements crustal material of the Moon

noun

1. (figurative) Synonym of outcast: A person who is shunned, a pariah.
2. A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.

verb

1. (figurative, now rare) Synonym of disfigure.
2. (figurative, now rare) Synonym of infect.
3. (figurative, now rare) Synonym of ostracize.
4. (figurative, now rare) Synonym of taint.
5. (now rare) To afflict with leprosy.

noun

1. (botany, rare, obsolete) Any layer of algae, lichens, or other substance producing a leprosylike appearance on the surfaces of plants.
2. (medicine, archaic) Synonym of leprosy.
3. (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of psoriasis.

noun

1. (obsolete) leprosy

noun

1. (ropemaking) A swivel placed at one end of the ropewalk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.
2. One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper.

noun

1. One who mopes or is inclined to do so.

noun

1. An Albanian monarch.

noun

1. (electronics) A non-SI unit of the attenuation (or sometimes gain) of field and power quantities such as electronic signals; the natural logarithm of a ratio, with 1 Np (a ratio of 2.718:1) being equivalent to 8.686 dB.

noun

1. (by extension) Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembling an opera.
2. (music) A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
3. (music) The score for such a work.
4. A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.
5. A company dedicated to performing such works.
6. plural of opus; a collection of work.

noun

1. plural of oper

noun

1. (Australia) A mechanical pencil.
2. A pacemaker (one who sets the pace in a race).
3. In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter.
4. One who paces.

noun

1. A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.
2. A military clergyman.

noun

1. (computing) A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.
2. (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
3. (telecommunications) A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.

adj

1. comparative form of pale: more pale

adj

1. Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.
2. Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
3. Made of paper.
4. Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)

noun

1. (Britain) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
2. (New Zealand) A university course.
3. (dated) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
4. (dated, by extension) The people admitted by free passes.
5. (finance, uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie.
6. (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
7. (uncountable) Wallpaper.
8. (uncountable) Wrapping paper.
9. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
10. A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
11. A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
12. A scholastic essay.
13. A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
14. A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
15. A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
16. A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.

verb

1. (transitive) To apply paper to.
2. (transitive) To document; to memorialize.
3. (transitive) To enfold in paper.
4. (transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
5. (transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
6. (transitive) To sandpaper.
7. (transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
8. To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of pare

noun

1. (informal, especially computing) A parenthesis (bracket used to enclose parenthetical material in text).

noun

1. A tool used to pare things.

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of pareo (“type of garment”)

noun

1. (construction) A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls.

verb

1. (construction) To apply a parge on to a surface.

noun

1. (obsolete) A nasty encounter.
2. (obsolete) Parley; talk.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To talk; to converse; to parley.

noun

1. (computing, linguistics) An act of parsing; a parsing.
2. (computing, linguistics) The result of such an act; a parsing.

verb

1. (computing, linguistics, intransitive) Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.
2. (computing, transitive) To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.
3. (computing, transitive, intransitive) To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
4. (linguistics, transitive, intransitive) To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically.
5. (transitive) To examine closely; to scrutinize.

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of part

adj

1. Alternative spelling of pareve

noun

1. (formal or humorous) Father.

noun

1. A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home.
2. One who paves; one who lays pavement.

noun

1. One who paws.

noun

1. (finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg.
2. One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

noun

1. (euphemistic, vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
2. (figurative) A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip that is operationally useful for decision-making.
3. (figuratively) Something precious.
4. (obsolete) A jewel or gem.
5. (uncountable, typography, printing, dated) The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as 5-point.
6. A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.
7. A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
8. A fringe or border.
9. A light-colored tern.
10. A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
11. A whitish speck or film on the eye.
12. Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
13. One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

verb

1. (intransitive) To hunt for pearls
2. (intransitive) To resemble pearl or pearls.
3. (intransitive, surfing) Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.
4. (intransitive, surfing) To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
5. (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
6. (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.
7. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.

noun

1. plural of pear

adj

1. (UK, US, dialect) Lively; active.

adj

1. Of, or pertaining to, pears.
2. Resembling pears, pear-like.

Noun

1. An American trick-taking card game of the all fours family.
2. The five of trumps in certain card games.

noun

1. plural of peer

verb

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

adj

1. (in dialects) Brisk.

adj

1. (rare) Of or pertaining to peers or the peerage.
2. (rare) That tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious.

noun

1. (Scotland) spinning top

noun

1. Alternative form of pirai (“piranha fish”)

noun

1. (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
2. (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
3. (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
4. (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
5. (US) Kyphosus azureus
6. (dated) A linear measure of 5+¹⁄₂ yards, equal to a rod, a pole or ¹⁄₄ chain; the related square measure.
7. (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
8. (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
9. (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
10. (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
11. A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
12. A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
13. A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
14. A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
15. Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
16. Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.

verb

1. (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
2. (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
3. (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
4. (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
5. (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.

Proper noun

1. name, transferred use of the surname since the Middle Ages.

adj

1. (now rare) Hidden; concealed from sight. Chiefly with lie.
2. (now rare) In a dangerous situation; lost, desperate.
3. (obsolete, military) Stationed in an exposed or hazardous position; hidden in ambush. Originally as sentinel perdu.

noun

1. A soldier sent on a forlorn hope.
2. One placed on watch, or in ambush.

noun

1. plural of pereon

noun

1. the process, following the cutting of foreskin flesh, by which the flesh is pulled back to expose the glans (head) of the penis. It precedes the circumcision which removes the remnants of flesh

noun

1. (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
2. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
3. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.

verb

1. (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.

noun

1. plural of peri

noun

1. plural of perk

verb

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

adj

1. Lively.
2. Standing upright; firm.

noun

1. plural of perm

verb

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

noun

1. A fermented alcoholic beverage made from pears; somewhat analogous to cider.

adj

1. Dark greyish blue or purple.

noun

1. A cloth of this colour.
2. A dark blue-gray colour.

verb

1. Obsolete form of pierce.

Proper noun

1. A city in central Scotland.
2. The state capital of Western Australia.
3. A small town in Tasmania.
4. A town in New York.
5. A hamlet in North Dakota.

noun

1. Obsolete form of petard.

noun

1. (UK, prison slang) A prison cell.
2. (UK, slang) A safe.

verb

1. (card games, intransitive) Synonym of blue peter
2. (most often used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.

noun

1. stone, a weight equal to 14 pounds.

noun

1. (archaic) saltpetre

noun

1. (informal, microbiology) Ellipsis of petri dish.

noun

1. A Venezuelan cryptocurrency launched in 2018, supposed to be backed by the country's oil and mineral reserves. Symbol: ₽.

noun

1. beacon
2. lighthouse

noun

1. (obsolete, anatomy) The diaphragm.
2. (philosophy, historical) The brain or mind.

noun

1. plural of pier

noun

1. (Australia) A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".
4. (US, dated) A male freshman at Cornell University.
5. (military, historical) A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
6. A stingy person; a cheapskate.
7. A tramp; a vagrant.
8. An amateur.
9. One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.

noun

1. One who piles something

noun

1. One who pines (languishes, grieves or mourns).

noun

1. (slang, obsolete) A broken-winded hack horse.
2. A baby pigeon.
3. A bagpiper.
4. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
5. A musician who plays a pipe.
6. A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
7. Archaic form of pepper.

noun

1. One who plies.
2. attributive form of pliers

noun

1. A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a Saint Andrew's cross.
2. Alternative spelling of plier

noun

1. (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
2. (historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
3. (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.
4. A kind of duck, the pochard.
5. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
6. Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.
7. One who pokes.

verb

1. To play poker.
2. To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.

noun

1. (obsolete) An extortioner.
2. A horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle.
3. One who propels a boat using a pole.