HANGMAN SOLVER

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. Abbreviation of calculation.
2. Abbreviation of calculator.
3. Abbreviation of calculus.

noun

1. (AUS) Any of a number of marine fish in the family Odacidae

noun

1. (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
2. (informal, dated) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
3. A cabless railroad engine.
4. A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
5. A small island, near a larger island.
6. A young cow or bull.
7. A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals).
8. Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
9. The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.

noun

1. A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent its slipping.
2. A spike on the sole of a boot to prevent slipping, particularly used in logging

verb

1. (possibly dated) Alternative spelling of caulk
2. To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
3. To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.

noun

1. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
2. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
3. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
4. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
5. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
6. (finance) Short for call option.
7. (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
8. (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
9. (law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
10. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
11. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
12. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
13. (uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
14. A beckoning or summoning.
15. A cry or shout.
16. A decision or judgement.
17. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
18. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
19. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
20. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
21. A telephone conversation; a phone call.
22. An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
23. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
24. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
25. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.

verb

1. (Yorkshire) To scold.
2. (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
3. (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
4. (cue sports) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
5. (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
6. (in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
7. (intransitive) To cry or shout.
8. (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
9. (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
10. (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
11. (obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
12. (sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
13. (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
14. (transitive) To declare in advance.
15. (transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
16. (transitive) To predict.
17. (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
18. (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
19. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
20. (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
21. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
22. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
23. (transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone.
24. (transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
25. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
26. (transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
27. To come to pass; to afflict.
28. To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
29. To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
30. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
31. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
32. To stop at a station or port.

adj

1. (of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
2. (of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
3. (of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
4. Without wind or storm.

noun

1. (in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
2. (in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
3. A period of time without wind.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become calm.
2. (transitive) To make calm.

noun

1. (geology) A dark shaly limestone occurring in the Carboniferous limestone of Ireland.

noun

1. plural of cal

noun

1. (now chiefly historical) The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).
2. In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot.

noun

1. (Scotland, obsolete) A stingy person; a niggard.
2. A rude, rustic man; a churl.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly.

noun

1. (Britain, historical, often capitalized, used on maps) An entry to a mill lead taken from a burn or stream (a mill lead (or mill waterway) is generally smaller than a canal but moves a large volume of water).
2. (anatomy, obsolete except in specific senses) A membrane.
3. (cooking) Caul fat.
4. (historical) A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.
5. (woodworking) A strip or block of wood used to distribute or direct clamping force.
6. The amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth (traditionally considered to be good luck).
7. The surface of a press that makes contact with panel product, especially a removable plate or sheet.
8. The thin membrane which covers the lower intestines; the omentum.

noun

1. A traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables.
2. Alternative spelling of caul (“a membrane or veil, especially over a baby's head”)

noun

1. (mathematics) Abbreviation of ceiling.
2. (poetic) A ceiling.

verb

1. (mathematics) To set a higher bound.
2. (transitive) To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.

noun

1. (Myanmar) celebrity

noun

1. (US, informal) A cellular phone.
2. (architecture) A cella.
3. (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
4. (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
5. (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
6. (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
7. (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
8. (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
9. (computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
10. (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
11. (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
12. (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
13. (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
14. (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
15. (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
16. (obsolete, chiefly literary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
17. (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
18. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
19. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
20. A section or compartment of a larger structure.
21. A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
22. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
23. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
24. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

verb

1. (transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.

noun

1. plural of cel

noun

1. A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.

noun

1. A male gypsy.

noun

1. (biochemistry, medicine) Abbreviation of cholesterol.

verb

1. Alternative form of ceil

noun

1. Alternative form of sill

noun

1. The cirl bunting

adj

1. (figurative) Adorned, ornamented.
2. (of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
3. (of an object, often in compounds) Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clothe
2. (archaic, literary or obsolete, past tense clad) To clothe, to dress.
3. (figurative, past tense clad) To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.
4. (past tense clad or cladded) To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).

noun

1. (motor racing slang) Bits of rubber which are shed from tires during a race and collect off the racing line, especially on the outside of corners (cf. marbles).
2. (railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
3. A glue or paste made from starch.
4. Low cloud, fog or smog.

verb

1. (obsolete) To encumber
2. To stick, like boots in mud

adj

1. (obsolete) clammy.

noun

1. (US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A dollar.
2. (dated, US, slang) mouth (Now found mostly in the expression shut one's clam)
3. (informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.
4. (rowing) Alternative form of CLAM
5. (slang) In musicians' parlance, a wrong or misplaced note.
6. (slang, derogatory) A Scientologist.
7. (slang, vulgar) A vagina.
8. A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
9. A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
10. A kind of vise, usually of wood.
11. Alternative form of clem (“to starve”)
12. Strong pincers or forceps.
13. clamminess; moisture

verb

1. To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
2. To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
3. To dig for clams.
4. To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

noun

1. (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
2. (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
3. A badger colony.
4. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
5. Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.

noun

1. (Yorkshire) A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground)
2. (falconry) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
3. (slang, usually with "the") Gonorrhea.
4. A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
5. A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.
6. Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.
7. The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
8. The explosive sound of thunder.

verb

1. (obsolete) To slam (a door or window); formerly often construed with to.
2. (slang) To fornicate, copulate.
3. (slang) To have sex.
4. (slang, African-American Vernacular) To shoot (somebody) with a gun.
5. To applaud.
6. To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound.
7. To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together).
8. To set or put, usually in haste.
9. To slap with the hand in a jovial manner.
10. To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.

noun

1. A clod of earth

verb

1. To dirty

noun

1. (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
2. (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
3. (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
4. A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
5. A foot equipped with such.
6. A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
7. The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.

verb

1. (juggling) To perform a claw catch.
2. To do (something) quickly.
3. To move with one's fingertips.
4. To rail at, revile, or scold (someone or something).
5. To relieve an uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching (someone or something); hence (figuratively), to flatter or humour (someone); to court, to fawn on.
6. To scratch or to tear at.
7. To use the claws to climb.
8. To use the claws to seize, to grip.

noun

1. (biblical) The material of the human body.
2. (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
3. (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
4. (informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims
5. (tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
6. A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
7. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
8. An earth material with ductile qualities.

verb

1. (transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
2. (transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.

noun

1. A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from 16th c.]

noun

1. (Scotland, England dialect) A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
2. (now dialectal) A light breeze.

noun

1. (Tyneside, vulgar, slang) A testicle.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, transitive or intransitive) To be hungry; starve.
2. Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”)

noun

1. (archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.
2. (in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
3. (nautical) The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
4. (nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
5. (obsolete) A roughly spherical mass or body.
6. Obsolete spelling of clue
7. Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.

verb

1. (nautical) (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)
2. (transitive) to roll into a ball

noun

1. (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
2. (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
3. (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
4. (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
5. (obsolete) An embrace.
6. (uncountable, Tyneside) The condition of something, its state.
7. A newspaper clipping.
8. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
9. A season's crop of wool.
10. A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
11. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
12. An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
13. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
14. The product of a single shearing of sheep.

verb

1. (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
2. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
3. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
4. (computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
5. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
6. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
7. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
8. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
9. To curtail; to cut short.
10. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
11. To fasten with a clip.
12. To grip tightly.
13. To hit or strike, especially in passing.
14. to grab or take stealthily

noun

1. (informal, vulgar) Short for clitoris..
2. (offensive, vulgar) A term of abuse.
3. (slang, often derogatory) A penis likened to a clitoris, especially in terms of smallness.

verb

1. (slang, vulgar, often with "off") To stimulate the clitoris.