HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (obsolete) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
2. (obsolete) Fraud or cunning.

verb

1. (obsolete) To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
3. (transitive) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
4. (transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain.

adv

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative form of a bit.

verb

1. (intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.
2. (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
3. (transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.

noun

1. Alternative form of bafta (“type of material”)

prep

1. Alternative form of abaft

adv

1. (Yorkshire) Without.

noun

1. The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.

adj

1. (MLE) Obvious; blatant.
2. (MLE) Well-known; famous; renowned.

noun

1. (East Anglia) A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.
2. (Internet slang) A post intended to get a rise out of others.
3. (Northern England) A miner's packed meal.
4. (Tyneside) A packed lunch.
5. A light or hasty luncheon.
6. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
7. Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
8. Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something
9. Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.

verb

1. (intransitive) (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
2. (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.
4. (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
5. (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
6. (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
7. (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
8. (transitive, now rare) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.

noun

1. (slang) Clipping of banter.

noun

1. Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.

noun

1. A vat which contains this liquid.
2. An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
3. Strife; contention.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
2. (intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
3. (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
4. (intransitive, slang) To masturbate.
5. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense of beat; = beat.
6. (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
7. (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
8. (transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
9. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
10. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
11. To deprive of.
12. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
13. To waste away.

noun

1. (by extension) A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
2. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
3. (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.
4. A building or area where bathing occurs.
5. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
6. The act of bathing.
7. The body of liquid one bathes in.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal, Commonwealth) To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.
2. (transitive, Commonwealth) To wash a person or animal in a bath.

adj

1. (informal) Mad, insane.

noun

1. plural of bat

verb

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

noun

1. (Polari, usually in the plural) A shoe.
2. Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation

noun

1. (historical) A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland.

adj

1. (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup.
2. (US slang) Exhausted.
3. (slang) Boring.
4. (slang, of a person) Ugly.
5. Dilapidated, beat up.
6. Relating to the Beat Generation.

noun

1. (Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
2. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
3. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
4. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
5. (dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.
6. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
7. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
8. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
9. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
10. (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
11. (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
12. (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
13. (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
14. A beatnik.
15. A pulsation or throb.
16. A rhythm.
17. A stroke; a blow.
18. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
19. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
20. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

verb

1. (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
2. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
3. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
4. (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
5. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
6. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
7. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
8. (transitive) To hit; to strike.
9. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
10. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
11. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
12. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
13. (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
14. (transitive, slang) To rob.
15. To be in agitation or doubt.
16. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
17. To make a sound when struck.
18. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
19. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
20. To tread, as a path.
21. simple past tense of beat

noun

1. (US, Canada) A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.
2. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To improve; to mend.
2. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To kindle a fire.
3. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To rouse.

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.

adj

1. (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
2. (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
3. (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
4. (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
5. (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
6. (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
7. (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
8. Determined or insistent.

noun

1. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
2. A grassy area, grassland.
3. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
4. An inclination or talent.
5. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
6. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
7. Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
8. Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
9. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
10. The old dried stalks of grasses.
11. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bend

adj

1. Most superior; most favorable.
2. Most; largest.
3. superlative form of good: most good.

adv

1. To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
2. superlative form of well: most well

noun

1. (countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
2. (uncountable) One's best behavior.
3. (uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.

verb

1. (modal verb, colloquial) Had best.
2. (transitive) To beat in a contest.
3. To surpass in skill or achievement.

adj

1. (computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
2. (of a person, object or action) Associated with the beta male/female archetype.
3. Designates the second in an order of precedence.
4. Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.

noun

1. (aviation) Sideslip angle.
2. (aviation) The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.
3. (climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
4. (computing, video games, countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
5. (computing, video games, uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
6. (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.
7. (finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
8. (physics) A beta particle or beta ray.
9. (slang, manosphere, masculism) Ellipsis of beta male, a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.
10. Alternative spelling of betta (“fish in the genus Betta”)
11. The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
12. Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc.

verb

1. (chiefly Internet) To beta-read a text.
2. (computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of beat
2. Obsolete spelling of beet

noun

1. The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁
2. The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב
3. The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ

noun

1. plural of bet

verb

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

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. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A woman, a girl.

noun

1. (physics, dated) Synonym of abampere
2. (science fiction) A robot composed of living components

noun

1. (UK, dialect, archaic) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.

verb

1. (UK dialectal, Black Country, Bristol, West Country, Northern England) Originally used to form the second person singular of be, but can denote other present tense forms, such as: are, am, is
2. How bist?
3. I bist goin' 'ome.
4. Where bist goin'.

noun

1. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
2. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
3. (figuratively) aggression
4. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
5. (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
6. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
7. (slang) Something unpleasant.
8. (television) Short for sound bite.
9. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
10. A small meal or snack.
11. The act of biting.
12. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
13. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
14. The wound left behind after having been bitten.

verb

1. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
2. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
3. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
4. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
5. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
6. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
7. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
8. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
9. (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
10. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
11. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
12. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
13. (obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.
14. (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
15. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
16. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
17. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
18. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

noun

1. (MLE) neighbourhood; hood; manor; ends.
2. plural of bit

noun

1. (nautical) A bollard.
2. (nautical) The bitts.

verb

1. (nautical, transitive) To put round the bitts.

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.

verb

1. To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.

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. (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.

noun

1. (Australian politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
2. (chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
3. (poker slang) A full house.
4. A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
5. A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

verb

1. (intransitive) To travel by boat.
2. (transitive) To place in a boat.
3. (transitive) To transport in a boat.

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. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, South Africa, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
2. (Britain, slang) An unattractive person, ugly woman.
3. (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
4. (US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
5. (US, military, law enforcement, slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
6. (archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
7. (archaic, dialectal) Remedy, amends.
8. (aviation) A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
9. (baseball) A bobbled ball.
10. (botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
11. (computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
12. (construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
13. (countable, uncountable) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
14. (firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
15. (informal) A bootleg recording.
16. (informal, with definite article) The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
17. (obsolete) A medicinal cure or remedy.
18. (obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
19. (obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
20. (obsolete) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
21. (slang) A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
22. (slang, ethnic slur) A black person.
23. (slang, motorsports) A tyre.
24. (sports) A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
25. (uncountable) Profit, plunder.
26. (usually preceded by definite article) A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
27. A blow with the foot; a kick.
28. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.

verb

1. (MLE, criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
2. (colloquial, Canada, US, usually with it) To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
3. (computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
4. (computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
5. (informal) To eject; kick out.
6. (often with up) To start or restart a computer or other electronic system; to bootstrap.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To avail, benefit, profit.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To benefit, to enrich; to give in addition.
9. To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
10. To kick.
11. To put boots on, especially for riding.

noun

1. Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond.

noun

1. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
2. A right to take wood from property not one's own.
3. Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.

conj

1. (obsolete) Including all of (used with and).
2. Including both of (used with and).

det

1. Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.

pron

1. Each of the two, or of the two kinds.

noun

1. plural of bot

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bot (the larva of the botfly)

noun

1. (boxing) A boxing match.
2. (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
3. (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
4. (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
5. (roller derby) A roller derby match.
6. A fighting competition.
7. A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant.

prep

1. (colloquial) Aphetic form of about

verb

1. To contest a bout.

noun

1. (derogatory, slang) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
2. (historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment.
3. (informal) Bratwurst.
4. (military) Acronym of Born, Raised, And Transferred.
5. (mining) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
6. (obsolete) The young of an animal.
7. (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
8. (slang) A child (at any age) of an active military service member.
9. (slang) A human child.
10. A turbot or flatfish.

verb

1. (BDSM, intransitive) To act in a bratty manner (as the submissive).

noun

1. One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
2. One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
3. brit milah

verb

1. (intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
2. (intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.
3. (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
4. (transitive) To bruise; indent.

adj

1. (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet

noun

1. (Scotland) A lantern.
2. (Scotland) The moon.

noun

1. (South Africa) A ridge or small hill.

noun

1. (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
2. (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
3. (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
4. (countable, uncountable) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
5. (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
6. A push or shove; a butt.

verb

1. (intransitive, aviation) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
2. (intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
3. (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
4. (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
5. (transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
6. To push with the horns; to butt.
7. To spring or rear up.

adj

1. (slang) Without any money, broke, bankrupt.

noun

1. (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
2. (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
3. (slang) A disappointment.
4. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
5. (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
6. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
7. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
8. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
9. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.

verb

1. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
2. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
3. (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
4. (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
5. (intransitive, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen.
6. (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
7. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
8. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
9. (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
10. (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone) for a crime.
11. (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), To deflower
12. (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
13. (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.

noun

1. (informal) Phenylbutazone.

noun

1. plural of but

verb

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

noun

1. (Canada, US, Philippines, slang) The buttocks (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
2. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
3. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
4. (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
5. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
6. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
7. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
8. (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
9. (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
10. (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
11. (obsolete, West Country) Hassock.
12. (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
13. (slang) A used cigarette.
14. (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
15. (slang, metonymically) Body; self.
16. (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
17. A mark to be shot at; a target.
18. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
19. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
20. A thrust in fencing.
21. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
22. The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
23. The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
24. The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
25. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
26. The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
27. The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.

verb

1. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
2. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
3. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

noun

1. (computing) A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
2. (computing, most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.

noun

1. (finance) Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
2. (law) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due
3. An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
4. The state or condition of owing something to another.

adj

1. (obsolete) Abbreviation of obedient, at one time used in correspondence.

noun

1. (Christianity, historical) A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person.
2. (archaic) Death of a person.
3. (colloquial) An obituary.
4. A record of a person's death.

adj

1. (industrial relations) Clipping of established.

noun

1. (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
2. (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment.
3. (informal) An attempt.
4. (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
5. A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
6. A wound made by stabbing.
7. An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
8. Criticism.
9. Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.

verb

1. (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
2. (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
3. (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
4. (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
5. (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
6. (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
7. (transitive, figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.

noun

1. (dialectal, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
2. A small post for supporting paling.
3. A wedge in coal-mining.

verb

1. (dialect, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) To stab.
2. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To make mats with a stob tool.
3. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To roof with stob-thatch.

noun

1. (chiefly Wikimedia jargon) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
2. (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
3. (obsolete) A blockhead.
4. (obsolete) A log or block of wood.
5. (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
6. (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
7. A pen with a short, blunt nib.
8. A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
9. An old and worn horseshoe nail.
10. An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
11. Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
12. Stub iron.
13. The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
14. The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.

verb

1. (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
2. (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
3. (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.

noun

1. Traditional Japanese ankle socks with a separate section for the big toe.

noun

1. plural of tab

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of taboo

noun

1. Abbreviation of tablespoon. (unit of measure)

noun

1. A cotton garment worn in parts of northern Africa.

noun

1. (Britain, New Zealand) The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing.
2. (UK, dated, slang) The road or highway.
3. (US, dated, regional) A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end.
4. A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop; a Toby jug.
5. Any of several species of pufferfish in the genus Canthigaster
6. The Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus

noun

1. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
2. A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
3. One who keeps secrets.

verb

1. (slang) To stimulate one's vulva against another vulva; to scissor.

noun

1. (brewing, uncountable) The layer of sediment that appears at the bottom of the fermenter after yeast has completed the bulk of the fermentation.
2. (obsolete) A truffle.

noun

1. (anatomy) A tube or tubular organ.
2. A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.
3. A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
4. A large reed stop in organs.
5. A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap.
6. A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba.

noun

1. (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
2. (Britain, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
3. (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
4. (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
5. (obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
6. (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
7. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
8. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

verb

1. (medicine, transitive, colloquial) To intubate.
2. (transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
3. To ride an inner tube.

noun

1. plural of tub

verb

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

Proper noun

1. The fifth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the first month of the season of Peret. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Tybi has been in roughly January.