HANGMAN SOLVER

adv

1. (nautical) On the aft side; in the stern.
2. (nautical, obsolete) Backwards.

prep

1. (nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.

noun

1. (uncountable) Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this.
2. (uncountable) Deduction; subtraction; (countable) an instance of this.
3. An Italian abbot or other member of the clergy.

verb

1. (archaic, chiefly figuratively) Of an edge, point, etc.: to become blunt or dull.
2. (chiefly US) Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
3. (chiefly US) To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
4. (chiefly figuratively) To dull (an edge, point, etc.); to blunt.
5. (chiefly historical) Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
6. (transitive, intransitive, law, chiefly historical) To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.
7. Chiefly followed by from, of, etc.: to omit or remove (a part from a whole); to deduct, to subtract.
8. Chiefly followed by of: to deduct or subtract from.
9. Chiefly followed by of: to deprive (someone or something of another thing).
10. To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled.
11. To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower (someone) in status.
12. To curtail or end (something); to cause to cease.
13. To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
14. To decrease in amount or size.
15. To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
16. To demolish or level to the ground (a building or other structure).
17. To give (someone) a discount or rebate; also, to relieve (someone) of a debt.
18. To give a discount or rebate; to discount, to rebate.
19. To give no consideration to (something); to treat as an exception.
20. To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
21. To lower (something) in price or value.
22. To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
23. To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
24. To put an end to (a nuisance).
25. To reduce (something) in amount or size.

noun

1. (archaic, British slang) A brothel-owner's husband or lover.
2. (archaic, British slang) A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.
3. A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
4. The pastor or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.
5. The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.

noun

1. plural of abet

verb

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

noun

1. A small fresh-water fish (Alburnus alburnus); the bleak.

noun

1. The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.

noun

1. (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.
2. (computing) The function used to abort a process.
3. (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
4. (now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
5. (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.

verb

1. (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
2. (intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
3. (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
4. (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
5. (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
6. (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
7. (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
8. (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
9. (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.

adj

1. In existence; being in evidence; apparent.
2. Moving around; astir.
3. Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood.

adv

1. (archaic) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference.
2. (nautical) To the opposite tack: see go about.
3. (obsolete or rare) In succession; one after another; in the course of events.
4. From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
5. Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
6. Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
7. Near; in the vicinity.
8. Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
9. On all sides; around.
10. To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.

prep

1. (Chester) Have you much hay about? = Have you much in the process of making?
2. (figurative) In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in the possession of; under the control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
3. (with 'to' and verb infinitive) See about to.
4. (with present participle, obsolete or dialect) On the point or verge of.
5. Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
6. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
7. In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
8. On one's person; nearby the person.
9. Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
10. Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.

noun

1. (UK) Formal permission to be away from a college for the greater part of the day or more.
2. A portion of fermenting dough diluted to a paste with water and then cooked.

verb

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

noun

1. (archaic) The boundary around a building, town, region, etc.
2. (archaic, rare) The circumference of something circular; also, an arc; a circuit, an orbit.
3. (obsolete) Chiefly in the plural form ambits: the open space surrounding a building, town, etc.; the grounds or precincts of a place.
4. The area or sphere of control and influence of something.
5. The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc.

noun

1. A coarse material, usually of cotton, originally made in India.
2. An imitation of this fabric.

noun

1. plural of baht

noun

1. (obsolete) A portable coffer or chest with a rounded lid covered in leather, garnished with nails, once used for the transport of clothes or other personal luggage. It was the original portmanteau.
2. (obsolete, architecture) A dwarf-wall of plain masonry, carrying the roof of a cathedral or church and masked or hidden behind the balustrade.

noun

1. plural of bait

verb

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

noun

1. (countable) A dish cooked in this style.
2. (uncountable) A style of Pakistani cooking in which the food is cooked in an iron pan having two handles.

noun

1. A dice game similar to Yahtzee
2. Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell

noun

1. The territory governed by a ban.

adj

1. (US) bantam (small, but aggressive)

noun

1. (informal) A bantam.

noun

1. (UK, obsolete, dialect) A place of shelter for cattle.

intj

1. (obsolete outside Spanish/Portuguese/Italian contexts) (that's) enough; stop!

noun

1. A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.

verb

1. (archaic, slang) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
2. (by extension) To coat over something.
3. To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
4. To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
5. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

noun

1. (India) A slum.

noun

1. The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.

noun

1. plural of bast

adj

1. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

noun

1. (Philippines) A graduating class; school class.
2. (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
3. (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
4. (computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.
5. (obsolete) The process of baking.
6. A bank; a sandbank.
7. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
8. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
9. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

verb

1. (informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
2. (transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch.
3. (transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

adj

1. Reduced; lowered; restrained

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bate

verb

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

noun

1. (Britain, colloquial) The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath.

verb

1. (figuratively, transitive and intransitive) To cover or surround.
2. (intransitive) To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
3. (intransitive) To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.
4. (intransitive) To sunbathe.
5. (transitive) To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid.
6. (transitive) To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath.
7. She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical.

noun

1. (UK) A building containing a public swimming pool or shower facilities; originally a place having individual cubicles where people without bathrooms could have a bath.
2. plural of bath

verb

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

noun

1. A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.

verb

1. To dye fabric using the wax-resist method.

noun

1. Any of several passerine birds in the genus Batis, related to wattle-eyes.
2. Any of the genus Batis of saltworts.

noun

1. (US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen; a truncheon (UK).
2. (heraldry) A riband with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, as shown on a coat of arms.
3. (heraldry) An abatement in coats of arms to denote illegitimacy. (Also spelled batune, baston).
4. (music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
5. (sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
6. A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
7. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.

verb

1. To strike with a baton.

noun

1. (India, dated) An exchange rate.
2. (India, dated) Extra pay; especially an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
3. (India, dated) The discount on uncurrent coins.

noun

1. (informal) batteries (power cells)
2. plural of batt

adj

1. (ballet, of a movement) Performed with a striking together of the legs.

adj

1. (obsolete) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
2. (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.

noun

1. (Jamaica, UK, Canada, derogatory) A homosexual man.
2. (West Indian slang, MLE, MTE) The buttocks or anus.

noun

1. (Scotland) A dog.

verb

1. (dialectal, rare), variant of bean't.

adj

1. (slang, chiefly Midwestern and northeastern US) great; excellent; powerful

noun

1. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
2. (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
3. (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
4. (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
5. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
6. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
7. A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
8. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.

verb

1. (Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.

verb

1. (transitive) To dry or heat (unseasoned) wood for the purpose of straightening it.
2. (transitive, dialectal) To bathe (with warm liquid); foment.

noun

1. plural of beatus

noun

1. plural of beat

verb

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

adj

1. (dialectal, especially Australia) Beautiful, splendid.

noun

1. (informal) Something or someone that is physically attractive.
2. (informal) Something that is a remarkable example of its type.

noun

1. (nonstandard) An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible

verb

1. simple past tense of beget

verb

1. To beat upon (as on a drum); patter upon.

verb

1. (transitive) To furnish with a tag; deck with tags.

noun

1. plural of beta

verb

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

adj

1. Pronunciation spelling of better (comparative of good).

adv

1. (slang) Pronunciation spelling of better (had better).
2. Pronunciation spelling of better (comparative of well).

noun

1. Any fish of the genus Betta, especially Betta splendens (the Siamese fighting fish).

Proper noun

1. that is common in many ethnicities in India.
2. Traditionally among Brahmins, a Brahmin who has learned all the four Vedas.

noun

1. (ecology) The living organisms of a region.
2. The coniferous tree Platycladus orientalis (syn. Biota orientalis, Oriental arborvitae).

noun

1. (Northern England, Midlands, Scotland) A loud noise or cry.

verb

1. (Northern England, Midlands, Scotland) To sound loudly or harshly; to cry out, wail, lament.
2. (Northern England, Midlands, Scotland, of sheep or cattle) To bleat, bellow, low.

intj

1. (chiefly British, informal) To show displeasure or disappointment: damn

noun

1. (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
2. (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
3. (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
4. A flatulent disease of sheep.
5. A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
6. A hit from a pipe.
7. A loud, sudden sound.
8. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
9. A violent gust of wind.
10. An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
11. An explosive charge for blasting.
12. The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
13. The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.

verb

1. (biology, informal, transitive) To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
2. (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To blow, for example on a trumpet.
5. (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
6. (transitive) To blight or wither.
7. (transitive) To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
8. (transitive) To curse; to damn.
9. (transitive) To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
10. (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
11. (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
12. (transitive, science fiction) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
13. The bud blasted in the blossom.
14. To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.

adj

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Bashful, sheepish.
2. (Scotland, Northern England) Dull, stupid.

verb

1. Archaic form of bleat.

verb

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

noun

1. The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.

verb

1. (informal, derogatory) Of a person, to complain.
2. Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound.

adj

1. (obsolete) bloated.

noun

1. (derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
2. (figurative) Wasteful use of space or other resources.
3. (veterinary medicine) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
4. Distention of the abdomen from death.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
2. (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
3. To cause to become distended.
4. To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
5. To fill with vanity or conceit.
6. To increase to an excessive amount.
7. To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bort

noun

1. (squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
2. A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
3. Something that one brags about.

verb

1. (ergative) To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).
2. (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
3. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
4. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
5. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
6. (squash) To play a boast shot.
7. (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

noun

1. plural of boat

verb

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

noun

1. (botany) A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.

adj

1. (Scotland) smooth; unwrinkled
2. (dialectal) Steep, precipitous.

noun

1. (Canada, US) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense of burst

noun

1. plural of brat

verb

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

noun

1. (archaic) Outward appearance; attire; dress.
2. (botany, mineralogy) Form of growth or general appearance and structure of a variety or species of plant or crystal.
3. A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
4. A piece of clothing worn for a specific activity; a uniform.
5. An action performed on a regular basis.
6. An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
7. An addiction.

verb

1. (transitive) To clothe.
2. (transitive, archaic) To inhabit.

noun

1. An insect-derived lubricating powder used in polishing.

noun

1. A type of dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.

noun

1. A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc.

noun

1. (countable) A piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt-front worn by Catholic and Anglican clergy.
2. (countable) The clerical linen collar itself.
3. A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

verb

1. To rotate a plane of projection.

noun

1. A rubber used in polishing marble.

noun

1. A Sufi monastery.

noun

1. (architecture) A vertical dressed stone beside a door or window.

noun

1. A carrier around a projectile in a firearm, cannon or other type of artillery piece that precisely holds the projectile within the barrel.
2. A wooden shoe.

verb

1. (transitive) To enclose (a projectile) in a sabot.

noun

1. plural of stab

verb

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

adj

1. Brindled; diversified in color.
2. Having a wavy or watered appearance.

noun

1. (countable) A brindled cat.
2. (countable, archaic) An old maid or gossip.
3. (countable, uncountable) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
4. (uncountable) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.

verb

1. (transitive) To give a wavy or watered appearance to (a textile).

noun

1. (music) Obsolete spelling of tabor

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of tabor

noun

1. (medicine) A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
2. (more specifically) Tabes dorsalis.

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to tabes.

adj

1. (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.
2. Wasting away, declining.

noun

1. plural of tabi

noun

1. (music) A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.