HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. plural of ankh

Proper noun

1. An ancient city and centre of Buddhism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism and capital of Bactria.
2. One of the 34 provinces in Afghanistan, Balkh Province.

noun

1. Alternative form of beka

noun

1. A snack or light hasty meal.

verb

1. (ice-skating) To not broadcast a medal-winning or otherwise memorable or crucial figure skating performance. This only occurs in a live broadcast because the network has to decide which programs to show and which to cut in the interest of time. If a skater is low in the rankings and several big names are set to skate later, that performance may be cut.
2. Of birds: to make a sudden harsh call.
3. To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.

noun

1. (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
2. (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
3. (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.
4. (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
5. (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
6. (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
7. Tailor's chalk.

verb

1. (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
2. To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
3. To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
4. To manure (land) with chalk.
5. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
6. To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.

noun

1. (India) The large spiral shell of several species of sea conch, much used in making bangles, especially Turbinella pyrum.

verb

1. (US) To eat noisily; to champ or chomp.

noun

1. (US, Alaska) A wine glass.
2. A Middle Eastern falcon, probably the lanner.
3. A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire drill.
4. Charcoal; coke.

verb

1. (Scotland) To make a grating sound.
2. To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.

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.

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. (India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A young, typically attractive, woman or teenage girl.
3. (dated, endearing) A young child.
4. (military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.
5. A young bird.
6. A young chicken.

verb

1. (obsolete) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
2. To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.

noun

1. (countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
2. (figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
3. (uncountable, colloquial, now rare) Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
4. A chip or dent in something metallic.
5. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
6. Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”)
7. Alternative letter-case form of Chink

verb

1. (intransitive) To crack; to open.
2. (intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
3. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
4. (transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
5. (transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.

adj

1. (colloquial, US, chiefly New England) lively; cheerful; in good spirits

noun

1. the sound of a spoon rapidly whisking around a pot or basin.

verb

1. (intransitive, especially as "chirk up") To become happier.
2. (transitive, especially as "chirk up") To make happier.
3. To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.

verb

1. Obsolete form of choke.

adv

1. (nautical) Entirely; quite.

noun

1. (nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
2. (obsolete) An encounter.
3. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
2. (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
3. (obsolete) To encounter.
4. (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
5. To make a dull sound.

noun

1. (electronics) A choking coil.
2. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
3. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
4. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
5. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
6. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
7. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.

verb

1. (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
2. (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
3. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
4. (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
5. (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
6. (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
7. (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
8. (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
9. (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
10. (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
11. (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
12. (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
13. (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
14. (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
15. To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A chayote.
2. A small handleless cup in which saké is served.

adj

1. Alternative form of chokey

adj

1. (slang, of an animal) Adorably fat or large.

noun

1. (slang) An adorably fat or large creature, particularly a cat.
2. Alternative form of chank (“type of shell”)

intj

1. (Australia) A call made to chickens.
2. An imitation of the call of a chicken.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
3. (Australia, dated) A fool.

noun

1. (India, Pakistan) A courtyard.
2. (India, Pakistan) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
3. (India, Pakistan) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).

noun

1. (Scotland) A small pebble.
2. (Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.
3. (US, slang, dated) Food.
4. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
5. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
6. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
7. (informal) A casual throw.
8. (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
9. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
10. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
11. (slang) An act or instance of vomiting.
12. A clucking sound.
13. A gentle touch or tap.
14. Abbreviation of woodchuck.

verb

1. (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
2. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
3. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
4. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
5. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
6. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
7. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
8. (transitive, informal, dated) To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
9. To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
10. To call, as a hen her chickens.
11. To make a clucking sound.
12. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
13. To touch or tap gently.

noun

1. (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
2. (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
3. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
4. A part of something that has been separated.
5. A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.

verb

1. (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
2. (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
3. (transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
4. (transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.

Proper noun

1. The capital of Bangladesh.

noun

1. plural of dhak

noun

1. (Islam) An Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually.

noun

1. Asplenium nidus, an epiphytic fern.

noun

1. plural of hack

verb

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

adj

1. (Tyneside) Filthy or totally dirty.
2. (colloquial) Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacking.
3. (comedy, informal) Hackneyed (lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite)
4. (computing, informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
5. Like a hack; amateurish.

noun

1. plural of haik

noun

1. A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
2. A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.

noun

1. (Islam) An arbitrator.

noun

1. A shrub of the genus Hakea.

verb

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

noun

1. (South Asia) A doctor, usually practicing traditional medicine.
2. (historical) A judge or governor in Islamic India.

noun

1. plural of hank

noun

1. (colloquial) Abbreviation of handkerchief.

noun

1. (historical) In Maghrebi history, a military campaign, often a punitive expedition against insurgents.

verb

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

noun

1. plural of hawk

verb

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

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a hawk.

noun

1. plural of heck

noun

1. plural of hick

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of hickey (“bruise-like mark of mouth on skin”)

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of hike

noun

1. One who hikes, especially frequently.

noun

1. plural of hike

verb

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

noun

1. plural of hock

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of hoik

Proper noun

1. A hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California, Arizona, and Mexico.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of hoke

noun

1. plural of hoke

verb

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

adj

1. (US, colloquial) Corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental.
2. (US, colloquial) Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality.

noun

1. (poetry) Synonym of haiku (“type of Japanese poem”)

noun

1. (countable, informal) A film, television programme, theater production, etc., containing excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material.
2. (countable, uncountable, informal) (An instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, television programme, theater production, etc.
3. (countable, uncountable, informal) (An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.
4. (uncountable, music) A genre of blues song or music, often characterized by sexual innuendos or satire.

noun

1. plural of holk

verb

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

noun

1. plural of honk

verb

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

noun

1. (Canada, US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white (Caucasian) person.
2. (US, obsolete) A factory hand or general unskilled worker.

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of hook

noun

1. plural of hook

verb

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

adj

1. (UK, slang) Dodgy; crooked; illicit.
2. Full of hooks (all senses).
3. Shaped like or resembling a hook; hooked.

noun

1. Absence from school or work; truancy.

noun

1. A Ukrainian national dance in 2/4 time.

noun

1. plural of huck

verb

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

noun

1. plural of hulk

verb

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

adj

1. Large; hulking.

noun

1. (slang, dated) A crotchety or surly person.
2. (slang, dated) A stingy man; a miser.
3. plural of hunk

adj

1. (US, slang) All right; in good condition.
2. (US, slang) even; square; on equal footing with
3. (informal) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
4. Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.

noun

1. (US, slang, now uncommon, ethnic slur) A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)

noun

1. plural of husk

verb

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

adj

1. (US, euphemistic) Burly, stout.
2. (of a voice) Hoarse and rough-sounding.
3. Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.

noun

1. Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs.

adj

1. Alternative form of kutcha

noun

1. The proboscis monkey.

noun

1. (historical) A Hebrew measure of length, equal to six cubits.

noun

1. plural of kaph

noun

1. A kind of dry curry from Bengal.
2. A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats.

noun

1. (countable) The recitation of a Hindu religious story.
2. (uncountable) Such storytelling considered as a genre.
3. A unit of area used mostly for land measure in Eastern India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, varying widely from place to place.

Proper noun

1. A 20th-century variant of Kathy, diminutive of the female given name Katherine and related names.

Proper noun

1. A diminutive of the female given names Katherine, Kathleen, and related names; also used as a formal given name.

Proper noun

1. State in western Malaysia which has Alor Setar as its capital.

noun

1. (obsolete) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.

Proper noun

1. name transferred from the surname.
2. A town in Moray, Scotland.

noun

1. A bin or enclosure in which fish or skins are salted.

Proper noun

1. A city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, on the shore of Kerch Strait; an important industrial, transport and tourist centre of Ukraine.

noun

1. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
2. A hangman.

verb

1. (rare) To hang.
2. Pronunciation spelling of catch.

noun

1. Alternative form of khaddar

noun

1. plural of khaf

noun

1. The tree Senegalia catechu from which cutch is obtained

adj

1. Dust-coloured; of the colour of dust.

noun

1. (South Africa, derogatory, slang) A British person (from the colour of the uniform of British troops, originally in the Second Boer War; compare rooinek). (In this sense the plural generally is khakies.)
2. (often in plural) Khaki clothing or uniform.
3. (rare) A soldier wearing a khaki uniform.
4. A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
5. A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
6. Khaki green, a dull green colour.
7. khaki (Pantone):
8. khaki green:

noun

1. plural of khan

noun

1. Alternative form of khaf

Noun

1. A member of an Indian tribe, the majority of whom live in Meghalaya.

Proper noun

1. The Austro-Asiatic language of the Khasi people.

noun

1. plural of khat

noun

1. (South Africa, loosely) Servants' quarters separated from the main house.
2. (South Africa, slang) Anyone's house or home.
3. (South Africa, strictly) A native house or hut.
4. Any tree of the genus Khaya.

noun

1. Alternative form of heth (Semitic letter)

noun

1. plural of khet