HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative spelling of accra

noun

1. A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East.
2. A toothbrush tree (Salvadora persica).
3. Alternative spelling of arrack (an alcoholic drink distilled from coconut palm flowers in South Asia)

noun

1. plural of ark

noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
2. (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
3. (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
4. (nautical) A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
5. (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
6. (poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
7. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
8. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
9. The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
10. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
2. (intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
3. (transitive) To speak sharply.
4. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
5. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
6. To girdle.
7. To strip the bark from; to peel.

noun

1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory, vulgar) Synonym of cunt in its various senses, (now especially somewhat endearing) a fool, a prat, a twit, etc.

noun

1. (Britain, slang) Alternative spelling of berk
2. (Northern England) A birch tree.
3. A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).

noun

1. (Internet slang, humorous) The sound a dog makes.
2. (informal) The bald notothen or bald rockcod (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), a species of cod icefish (Nototheniidae) native to the Southern Ocean.

verb

1. (Internet slang, humorous) (of a dog) To bark
2. (intransitive, slang) To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
3. (transitive, intransitive, US politics, often derogatory) To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
4. (transitive, slang) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.
5. (vulgar, slang) To boink.

verb

1. (Southern US, slang, intransitive) To vomit.

noun

1. (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
2. (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.

verb

1. (intransitive) To labor anxiously.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
3. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
4. Pronunciation spelling of caulk.
5. See cark it.

adj

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

noun

1. (botany) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
2. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
3. (uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
4. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
5. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
6. The cork oak, Quercus suber.

verb

1. (fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
2. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
3. (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
4. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
5. (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
6. (transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
7. To fill with cork.
8. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.

adj

1. (broadcasting, of a television station) Off the air; not transmitting.
2. (gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
3. (of a source of light) Extinguished.
4. (of a time period) Lacking progress in science or the arts.
5. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
6. Ambiguously or unclearly expressed: enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure, undefined.
7. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
8. Deprived of sight; blind.
9. Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
10. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
11. Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
12. Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension: caliginous, darkling, dim, gloomy, lightless, sombre.
13. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
14. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.

noun

1. (uncountable) Ignorance.
2. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
3. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

verb

1. (intransitive) To grow or become dark, darken.
2. (intransitive) To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
3. (transitive) To make dark, darken; to obscure.

noun

1. (Midwestern US, dated, slang) A penis; dork.
2. (Midwestern US, dated, slang) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.
3. A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.

verb

1. (obsolete) To darken.
2. To stab with a dirk.

noun

1. (archaic) Alternative form of dirk (“a long dagger”)
2. (derogatory, slang) A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends. Often confused with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of dreck

noun

1. One who ekes.

verb

1. (UK) To rummage, in order to search for something; to dig amongst articles or move things aside in order to try and find something.
2. Alternative form of firk

noun

1. (UK dialectal) A freak; trick; quirk.
2. A stroke; lash.

verb

1. (intransitive) To move quickly; go off or fly out suddenly; turn out.
2. (transitive) To carry away or about; carry; move.
3. (transitive) To drive away.
4. (transitive) To rouse; raise up.

noun

1. (Britain, vulgar) The crotch.
2. (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
3. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
4. (colloquial) A forklift.
5. (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
6. (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
7. (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
8. (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
9. (figurative) A decision point.
10. (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
11. (metonymically) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
12. (metonymically) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
13. (metonymically, and analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
14. (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
15. (obsolete) A gallows.
16. (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
17. (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
18. (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
19. A tuning fork.
20. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
21. Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
22. Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
23. Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
24. The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

verb

1. (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
2. (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
3. (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
4. (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
5. (transitive, Britain) To kick someone in the crotch.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
7. (transitive, intransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
8. (transitive, intransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
9. (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.

noun

1. (Scots) A whisper

verb

1. (archaic, often imperative) To listen attentively.

noun

1. roe of the salmon, red caviar

verb

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

noun

1. A seal (stamp or impression of a stamp).

verb

1. (slang, military, Britain) To modify (weaponry) to disadvantage; especially, to attach a tracking device to and covertly monitor the location of (a weapon).
2. Pronunciation spelling of jerk.

noun

1. (Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable.
2. (Caribbean, Jamaica) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
3. (Caribbean, Jamaica) Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui.
4. (Jamaica) a style of cooking in which the main ingredient—which most often is chicken but may also be beef, pork, goat, boar, seafood, or vegetables—is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; the resulting smoke is key to the flavour of the dish. (Compare jerky.)
5. (US, slang, derogatory) A dull or stupid person.
6. (obsolete) A soda jerk.
7. (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
8. (weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.
9. A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
10. A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.

verb

1. (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
2. (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
3. (obsolete) To beat, to hit.
4. (obsolete) To flout with contempt.
5. (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
6. (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
7. (usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
8. To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

noun

1. (Sikhism) A bangle worn by Sikhs, one of the five Ks, to remind them to do God's work.

noun

1. (mining, dated) A pile of rocks.

noun

1. plural of kar

noun

1. A go-cart.

verb

1. (intransitive) To ride in a go-cart.

noun

1. Abbreviation of kilobar.

noun

1. Alternative form of kier

noun

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The raised edge between the pavement and the roadway, typically made of concrete though originally consisting of a line of kerbstones.
2. A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb.
3. Alternative form of curb (“raised margin along the edge of a well, etc.”)

verb

1. (Britain, transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb.
2. To take a dog to the kerb for the purpose of evacuating.

noun

1. (now rare) The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice.
2. The distance between diverging saw teeth.
3. The flattened, cut-off end of a branch or tree; a stump or sawn-off cross-section.
4. The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision.
5. The portion or quantity (e.g. of wood, hay, turf, wool, etc.) removed or cut off in a given stroke.

verb

1. To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.

noun

1. (Judaism) Alternative form of kere

noun

1. Alternative form of carl

noun

1. (archaic or historical) A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt.
2. (hot metal printing, typography) Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.
3. (obsolete or Ireland) A boor; a low person.
4. (obsolete or dialect) A corn; grain; kernel.
5. (obsolete or dialect) A doll or figurine raised in celebration of a successful harvest; kern-baby.
6. (obsolete or dialect) The harvest home.
7. (obsolete or dialect) The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest.
8. (obsolete, UK) An idler; a vagabond.
9. A churn.
10. Alternative form of quern

verb

1. (typography, chiefly proportional font printing) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Kerosene.
2. A type of wooden drinking vessel produced by the Incas.

noun

1. Alternative form of kheer (“Asian sweet rice pudding”)

noun

1. A bleaching vat.

noun

1. An ankle-length dress traditionally worn by women in Bhutan.

noun

1. (Northern England and Scotland) A church.

noun

1. plural of kir

noun

1. A knot or burl in a tree; a knurl, a gnarl.

noun

1. A knurl.
2. The small wooden ball in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

noun

1. (music) A type of harp played in West Africa.

noun

1. (art, sculpture) An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.

noun

1. The monetary unit of Kutch prior to 1947, divided into 24 dokdas.

noun

1. plural of kor

noun

1. Archaic form of kraal.

noun

1. A Moro sword with an asymmetrical blade.
2. A traditional Indonesian or Malay dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.

verb

1. (transitive) To stab with a kris.

noun

1. An obsolete African unit of measure, varying by the type of produce.

Proper noun

1. Crimea

noun

1. a granary, or village containing a granary, in the Maghreb (Berber countries).

noun

1. The kitchen of a Zen monastery.

noun

1. A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.

Proper noun

1. name of modern usage.

noun

1. (by extension) One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
2. A prank.
3. A romp, frolic, some fun.
4. Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
5. Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

verb

1. To catch larks (type of bird).
2. To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.
3. To sport, engage in harmless pranking.

noun

1. (obsolete) A swindle.
2. The act of lurking.

verb

1. (Internet slang) To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent.
2. (UK, naval slang, transitive) To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty.
3. To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
4. To remain concealed in order to ambush.
5. To remain unobserved.

noun

1. (Rugby football, Australian rules football) A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
2. (archaic) A type of small region or principality.
3. (archaic) Attention, notice.
4. (archaic) Preeminence; high position.
5. (cooking) A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
6. (heading) Attention.
7. (historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
8. (historical) A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
9. (historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
10. (historical) A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
11. (historical) Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
12. (historical) Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
13. (logic) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
14. (nautical) One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
15. (obsolete) A boundary-post or fence.
16. (obsolete) A boundary; a border or frontier.
17. (obsolete) Regard; respect.
18. (obsolete) Resemblance, likeness, image.
19. (obsolete) The female genitals.
20. (product design/engineering) The model number of a device; a device model.
21. (sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
22. A characteristic feature.
23. A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
24. A score for a sporting achievement.
25. A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
26. A sign or brand on a person.
27. A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
28. A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
29. A target for shooting at with a projectile.
30. A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
31. A written character or sign.
32. An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
33. An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
34. An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
35. Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
36. Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
37. Limit or standard of action or fact.
38. The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game.

verb

1. (Australian rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
2. (dated except in the phrase "mark my words") To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
3. (dated) To become aware of (something) through the physical senses.
4. (figurative) To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
5. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
6. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march.
7. (of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
8. (of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
9. (of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
10. (singing) To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
11. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
12. (transitive, intransitive) To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
13. To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
14. To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
15. To be typical or characteristic of (something).
16. To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
17. To create (a mark) on a surface.
18. To create an indication of (a location).
19. To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
20. To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
21. To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
22. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
23. To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
24. To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
25. To record that (someone) has a particular status.

noun

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of mark
2. Obsolete spelling of mark

verb

1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) to run
2. Alternative spelling of murk (“to murder”)

noun

1. Archaic spelling of murk.

adj

1. Dark, murky

noun

1. Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.

verb

1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To murder or seriously injure.
2. To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.

noun

1. (Australia, slang) An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others.
2. (Britain, slang) A police spy or informer.
3. Alternative form of narc (narcotics officer).

verb

1. (intransitive, slang) To complain.
2. (intransitive, slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer.
3. (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate.
4. (transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop.
5. (transitive, thieves' cant) To watch; to observe.

noun

1. (slang, chiefly in plural) A woman's breast.

noun

1. (mineralogy) Obsolete form of ochre.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) Interest on money; usury; increase.
3. Alternative form of oka (“unit of measurement”)

verb

1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To increase (in price); add to.

noun

1. The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
2. The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
2. (UK) An inventory of matériel.
3. (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
4. A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
5. A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation.
6. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
7. An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.
8. An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.
9. An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
10. An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.

verb

1. (Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)
2. (intransitive, dated) To promenade or drive in a park.
3. (intransitive, dated, of horses) To display style or gait on a park drive.
4. (intransitive, slang) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose.
5. (transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.
6. (transitive) To bring together in a park, or compact body.
7. (transitive) To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
8. (transitive, baseball) To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.
9. (transitive, finance) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.
10. (transitive, informal) To defer (a matter) until a later date.
11. (transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.
12. (transitive, oyster culture) To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.

adj

1. (obsolete) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.

noun

1. (informal) Perquisite.
2. (video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
3. A percolator, particularly of coffee.

verb

1. (dated) To peer; to look inquisitively.
2. (intransitive) To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
3. (intransitive, informal) Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
5. (obsolete) To perch.
6. (transitive) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
7. (transitive, informal) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.

noun

1. (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
2. (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
3. (slang) A shag; a fuck; an act of coitus.
4. (uncountable) The meat of a pig; swineflesh.

verb

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).

noun

1. (Britain, slang) A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
2. (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
3. (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
4. (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
5. (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
6. (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
7. (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
8. (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
9. (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
10. (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
11. (nautical, slang) A bunk.
12. (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.
13. (obsolete) A young rabbit, or its skin.
14. (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
15. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
16. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
17. A distaff.
18. A fast amble.
19. A grate on which bacon is laid.
20. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
21. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
22. Alternative form of arak
23. Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
24. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.

verb

1. (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
2. (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
3. (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
4. (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
5. (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
6. (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
7. (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
8. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
9. (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
10. (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
11. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
12. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
13. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
14. To place in or hang on a rack.
15. To torture (someone) on the rack.

noun

1. (Britain, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
2. (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”)
3. (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
4. (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
5. (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
6. (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
7. (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
8. (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
9. (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
10. (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
11. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
12. (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
13. (systems theory) In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
14. A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
15. A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
16. A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
17. A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
18. A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
19. The act of raking.

verb

1. (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
2. (intransitive, dated, rare) To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.
3. (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
4. (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
5. (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
6. (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
7. (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
8. (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
9. (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
10. (transitive, intransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
11. (transitive, intransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
12. (transitive, intransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
13. (transitive, intransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
14. (transitive, intransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly).
15. Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
16. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.

noun

1. A Turkish liqueur flavored with anise.

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Raku

adj

1. (informal) Gross, disgusting.
2. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
3. (obsolete) lustful; lascivious
4. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
5. Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
6. Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
7. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
8. Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).
9. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
10. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

adv

1. (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

noun

1. (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
2. (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
3. (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
4. (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
5. (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
6. (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
7. (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
8. (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
9. A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
10. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
11. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
12. The level of one's position in a class-based society.

verb

1. (US) To take rank of; to outrank.
2. To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
3. To have a ranking.
4. To place abreast, or in a line.

noun

1. (obsolete) A prank.
2. A rush.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To think.
2. (transitive or intransitive, archaic) To make account of; to care for; to heed, regard, consider.
3. (transitive or intransitive, archaic, dialectal) To concern, to be important or earnest.

noun

1. (Ireland) A hill; a mountain.
2. (Scotland) Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.
3. A strong unpleasant smell.

verb

1. (archaic, intransitive) To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.
3. (intransitive) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.

noun

1. (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
2. (military, derogatory and demeaning) A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee.
3. Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.

verb

1. To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
2. To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of riq'a

noun

1. (UK dialectal) A man, especially a warrior or hero.
2. (UK dialectal) A ring; a circle.
3. (curling) A team in a competition.
4. A building housing an ice rink.
5. A sheet of ice prepared for playing certain sports, such as hockey or curling.
6. A surface for roller skating.

noun

1. (banking, finance) A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
2. (countable) A possible adverse event or outcome.
3. (countable) A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
4. (finance) A financial product (typically an investment).
5. (insurance) A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.
6. (insurance) An entity insured by an insurer.
7. (uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
8. (uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
9. (uncountable, economics, business and engineering) The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.

verb

1. (transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).
2. (transitive) To incur risk of (something).
3. (transitive) To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing.

noun

1. (Britain, uncountable) A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
2. (CB radio slang) A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
3. (South Africa, slang, derogatory) An Afrikaner.
4. (US poker slang) An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
5. (US, baseball, slang) A mistake.
6. (US, basketball, slang) A basketball.
7. (US, slang) A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
8. (US, slang) An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
9. (chiefly British) A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.
10. (countable) Distaff.
11. (curling) Synonym of stone.
12. (figuratively) Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
13. (geology) Any natural material with a distinctive composition of minerals.
14. (informal, cricket) A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
15. (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
16. (slang) A precious stone or gem, especially a diamond.
17. (uncountable) The flax or wool on a distaff.
18. (uncountable) The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
19. A large hill or island having no vegetation.
20. A lump or cube of ice.
21. A mass of stone projecting out of the ground or water.
22. A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals.
23. An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
24. Archaic form of roc (mythical bird)
25. The huss or rock salmon.
26. The striped bass.

verb

1. (intransitive) To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
2. (intransitive) To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
3. (intransitive) To sway one's body as a stim.
4. (intransitive) To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
5. (intransitive, slang) To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
6. (intransitive, stative) to be cool.
7. (slang, transitive, euphemistic) to make love to or have sex with.
8. (transitive and intransitive) To move gently back and forth.
9. (transitive and intransitive, of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
10. (transitive) To cause to shake or sway violently.
11. (transitive) To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
12. (transitive) To do something with excitement yet skillfully.
13. (transitive) To thrill or excite, especially with rock music.
14. (transitive) To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).

noun

1. (UK, dialect) Mist; smoke; damp.
2. (UK, dialect, mining) A measurement of coal ore.
3. A defect in an ingot of steel: a depression lined with scale.

adj

1. (UK, dialect) Misty; foggy; cloudy.
2. Exhibiting roke (a defect in steel ingots).

noun

1. (Britain) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
2. (baseball, slang) A rookie.
3. (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
4. (rare) A castle or other fortification.
5. (slang, archaic) A parson.
6. (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
7. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
8. A bad deal; a rip-off.
9. A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
10. mist; fog; roke

verb

1. (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.
2. Pronunciation spelling of look. (mimicking Asian speech)

noun

1. (colloquial) An argument or fight.
2. (now rare) Either of a ruckman or a ruck rover, but not a rover.
3. (rugby union) The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
4. (slang, especially military) A rucksack; a large backpack.
5. A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
6. A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
7. A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
8. A small heifer.
9. A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
10. Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
11. Obsolete form of roc.
12. The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
2. (intransitive) To become folded.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.
4. (transitive) To crease or fold.
5. (transitive, rugby union) To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
6. To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.

noun

1. Alternative form of roc (large bird)