HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.

adj

1. (Scotland) alight; ablaze

adv

1. (nautical) Towards the lower part of a vessel; towards the lower rigging or the decks.
2. (now chiefly Scotland) Low down.

prep

1. (Scotland) Below.

noun

1. plural of awl

adj

1. Alternative form of AWOL

noun

1. A loud, intense shouting or wailing.

verb

1. (intransitive) To wail; to give out a blaring cry.
2. (intransitive) To weep profusely.
3. (transitive) To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.

noun

1. Obsolete form of blue.

verb

1. (now colloquial) past participle of blow
2. simple past tense of blow

adj

1. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
2. (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
3. (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
4. (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
5. (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
6. (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
7. (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
8. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
9. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
10. A bloom, state of flowering.
11. A damaging occurrence.
12. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
13. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
14. A strong wind.
15. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
16. The act of striking or hitting.

verb

1. (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
2. (UK, slang, archaic) To expose, or inform on.
3. (dated) To talk loudly; boast; brag.
4. (figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
5. (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
6. (intransitive) (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
7. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
8. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
9. (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
10. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
11. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
12. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
13. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
14. (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
15. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
16. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
17. (slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
18. (slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
19. (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
20. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
21. (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
22. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
23. (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
24. (transitive) To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
25. (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
26. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
27. (transitive, historical, military, of a person) To blow from a gun.
28. (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
29. (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
30. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
31. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
32. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
33. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.

noun

1. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
2. (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
3. (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
4. (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.
5. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
6. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
7. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
8. A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
9. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
10. As much as is held by a bowl.
11. The action of bowling a ball.
12. The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
13. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
14. The round hollow part of anything.

verb

1. (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
3. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
4. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
5. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

noun

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

noun

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

verb

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

noun

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

verb

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

noun

1. (metonymically) A monk.
2. (nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
3. (nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
4. (obsolete, Britain) A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.
5. A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
6. A mask that covers the majority of the head.
7. A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
8. A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
9. A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.

verb

1. (Yorkshire) To scrape together
2. (transitive) To make a monk of (a person).
3. To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
4. To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.

noun

1. Alternative form of dowle

noun

1. (in particular) An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
2. (law) A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
3. (obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
4. (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
5. A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
6. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
7. A storm of short duration.
8. A sudden burst of noise and disorder
9. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
2. (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.

adj

1. (UK, dialect) shallow; flat

noun

1. (chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip.

verb

1. simple past tense of fly

noun

1. (Scotland) A morass or marsh.
2. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
3. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
4. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
5. (software) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
6. A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
7. Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
8. Smoothness or continuity.
9. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
10. The emission of blood during menstruation.
11. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
12. The rising movement of the tide.

verb

1. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
2. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
3. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
4. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
5. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
6. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
7. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
8. (transitive) To allow (a liquid) to flow.
9. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
10. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
11. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.

adj

1. (obsolete) foul

noun

1. (archaic) A bird.
2. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
3. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade Galloanserae.

verb

1. To hunt fowl.

noun

1. Obsolete form of glue.

verb

1. (nonstandard) simple past tense of glow

noun

1. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
2. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
3. The light given off by a glowing object.

verb

1. (Internet slang, alt-right) to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
2. (Internet slang, alt-right) to expose someone to the authorities.
3. (copulative) To radiate thermal heat.
4. (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
5. (intransitive, Internet slang) To be related to or part of an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
6. (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
7. To display intense emotion.
8. To emit light as if heated.
9. To gaze especially passionately at something.
10. To shine brightly and steadily.

noun

1. (Ireland, slang) An annoying person; an idiot; a dishonest person.
2. (Ireland, slang) Vulva.

verb

1. (obsolete, Scotland) To weep angrily; to howl.

noun

1. A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
2. Any similar sound.
3. The protracted, mournful cry of a dog, wolf or other canid; also of other animals.

verb

1. To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
2. To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
3. To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
4. To utter with outcry.

noun

1. A melodic chanting style of Welsh preaching.

noun

1. a fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
2. cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
3. the cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
4. the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To throw, dash, or knock.

noun

1. (England, historical or regional) An open space between woods.
2. (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
3. (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
4. (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
5. (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
6. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

noun

1. plural of law

verb

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

adj

1. (obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.
2. (obsolete) Lay; not clerical.
3. (obsolete) Uneducated.
4. (obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
5. Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.

noun

1. A sexually suggestive image, particularly one which does not involve full nudity.

verb

1. (slang) Alternative form of lude (“take the drug quaalude”)
2. To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.

noun

1. Alternative form of low ("flame").

adj

1. (chiefly Scotland) Peaceful, calm.

noun

1. (Scotland) Calm, tranquillity.
2. (obsolete) A low fellow.
3. A shelter; a calm or peaceful place.

noun

1. plural of low

verb

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

noun

1. a monetary unit of Angola used from 1975-1990, one hundredth of a kwanza.

noun

1. A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling.

verb

1. To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.

noun

1. plural of owl

adj

1. In a bad mood; cranky.
2. Seeing poorly.

noun

1. A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction.
2. A similar device to prevent motion in other mechanisms besides ratchets.

verb

1. (transitive) To stop with a pawl.

noun

1. (Canada, US) beaver pelt

noun

1. (American spelling) Alternative spelling of plough

noun

1. (US, Canada) Coleslaw.

noun

1. (US) A large amount.
2. A change of position.
3. A device used for slewing.
4. A wet place; a river inlet.
5. The act, or process of slewing.

verb

1. (intransitive) To pivot.
2. (intransitive) To skid.
3. (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
4. (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
5. (transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
6. (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
7. (transitive, rail transport) To move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
8. simple past tense of slay

adj

1. (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
2. (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
3. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
4. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
5. Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
6. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
7. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.

adv

1. Slowly.

noun

1. (music) A slow song.
2. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
2. (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
3. (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.

noun

1. (Britain, dialectal) A dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
2. Archaic spelling of soul.

verb

1. (obsolete) To soil or stain; to dirty.
2. (transitive) To pull (especially an animal) by the ears; to drag about.

Noun

1. A very long instruction word; an explicitly created set of processor instructions to be executed simultaneously.

Proper noun

1. a distributary of the Rhine in Western Europe that runs through the Netherlands

noun

1. A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
2. A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.
3. Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.

verb

1. (intransitive) To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
2. (intransitive) To make a noise like mourning or crying.
3. (intransitive) To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
4. (obsolete) Synonym of wale (“to choose; to select”)
5. (slang, music) To perform with great liveliness and force.
6. (transitive) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Command; control; possession.
2. (UK dialectal) Power; strength.
3. Forest; woods.

verb

1. (UK dialectal, transitive, intransitive) To govern; inherit.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.
2. (nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
3. A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
4. A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy.
5. A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
6. A ridge or low barrier.
7. A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
8. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
9. The texture of a piece of fabric.

verb

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To choose, select.
2. To beat a person, especially as punishment or out of anger.
3. To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.
4. To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.

noun

1. (Islam) A saint or prophet.
2. A provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.

noun

1. (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
2. (UK, finance, slang, dated) A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).
3. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
4. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
5. (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
6. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
7. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
8. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
9. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
10. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
11. A distance walked.
12. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
13. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
14. A trip made by walking.
15. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.

verb

1. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
2. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
3. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
4. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
5. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
6. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
7. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
8. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
9. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
10. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
11. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
12. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
13. (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
14. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
15. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
16. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
17. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
18. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.

intj

1. (US) Pronunciation spelling of well.

noun

1. (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
2. (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
3. (anatomy, zoology, botany) A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
4. (auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
5. (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
6. (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian.
7. (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
8. (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
9. (often in combination) A barrier.
10. (role-playing games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
11. (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
12. (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
13. (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
14. A barrier to vision.
15. A point of defeat or extinction.
16. A point of desperation.
17. A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
18. A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
19. An impediment to free movement.
20. Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
21. Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
22. The butterfly Lasiommata megera.

verb

1. (transitive, nautical) To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
2. To boil.
3. To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
4. To well, as water; spring.

adj

1. (archaic, nautical) unsteady; crank

verb

1. (intransitive, dialectal or obsolete) To roll; tumble
2. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To turn; cast; hurl; fling; overturn

intj

1. (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) An exclamation of grief.

verb

1. To wail, to cry plaintively.

verb

1. Alternative form of waul

noun

1. (by extension) Boon, benefit.
2. (literary) Welfare, prosperity.
3. (obsolete) Wealth, riches.
4. A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt.
5. Specifically, the general happiness of a community, country etc. (often with qualifying word).

verb

1. To mark with stripes; to wale.

noun

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A whirlpool.
2. A kind of trap for catching fish; a weely.

verb

1. Pronunciation spelling of will, representing Latino-accented English.

noun

1. A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
2. The joint made by welding.
3. The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.

verb

1. (transitive) To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.
2. (transitive) To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To wield.

noun

1. Alternative form of whelk

verb

1. (dialectal) to soak, steep.
2. (dialectal) to thrash, beat severely.
3. (obsolete) Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
4. (obsolete) To diminish; to lose brightness, to wane.
5. (transitive) To form into wrinkles or ridges.
6. To contract; to shorten.

adj

1. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.
2. (archaic, now chiefly Bermuda) Good to eat; tasty, delicious.
3. (hypercorrect) Good, content.
4. In good health.

adv

1. (degree) To a significant degree.
2. (degree, Britain, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
3. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
4. (manner) Completely, fully.
5. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.

intj

1. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting
2. An exclamation of indignance.
3. An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
4. Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
5. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
6. Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
7. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.

noun

1. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
2. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
3. (figurative) A source of supply.
4. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
5. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
6. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
7. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
8. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
9. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
10. (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
11. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
12. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
13. A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
14. A well drink.
15. The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.

verb

1. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.
2. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.

noun

1. The wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

noun

1. (heraldry) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
2. (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
3. A feature resembling a welt.
4. A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.
5. A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
6. In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
7. In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
8. In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To become stringy.
2. (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To decay.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve
4. To cause to have welts; to beat.
5. To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.

adj

1. (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
2. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
3. (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
4. (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
5. Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
6. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
7. Enthusiastic.
8. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
9. From or relating to wild creatures.
10. Furious; very angry.
11. Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
12. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
13. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
14. Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).
15. Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
16. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.

adv

1. (of an audio recording) Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
2. Inaccurately; not on target.

noun

1. (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
2. (often jokingly in reference to sense 2.) civilization at large as opposed to contrived or laboratory conditions.
3. Alternative form of weald
4. The undomesticated state of a wild animal.

verb

1. (intransitive, slang) (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.
2. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.

noun

1. (usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice

verb

1. (transitive) To entice or lure.
2. Misspelling of while (“to pass the time”).

noun

1. (zoology) Obsolete form of whelk.

noun

1. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)
2. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
3. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
4. Firmity of purpose, fixity of intent
5. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
6. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
7. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.

verb

1. (archaic) Implying will go.
2. (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
3. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
4. (auxiliary) To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in questions and negation.
5. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
6. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
7. (now rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
8. (now uncommon or literary, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
9. (transitive) To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
10. (transitive) To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something.
11. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.

noun

1. (phytopathology) Any of various plant diseases characterized by wilting.
2. The act of wilting or the state of being wilted.

verb

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of will
2. (intransitive) To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower).
3. (intransitive) To fatigue; to lose strength; to flag.
4. (transitive) To cause to droop or become limp and flaccid (as a flower).
5. (transitive) To cause to fatigue; to exhaust.

adj

1. Sly, cunning, full of tricks.

adj

1. (archaic, dialect, West Country, Dorset, Devon) Old.

noun

1. (archaic, regional) An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
2. (obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.

noun

1. (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
2. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
3. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
4. A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
5. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
6. A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
7. A wolf spider.
8. Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
9. Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
10. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

verb

1. (intransitive) To hunt for wolves.
2. (intransitive, slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
3. (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

verb

1. Obsolete form of will.

noun

1. (Britain, New Zealand) Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.
2. (Liverpudlian, derogatory) A resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
3. (obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
4. A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
5. A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
6. Anything with a texture like that of wool.
7. The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.

adj

1. Obsolete spelling of wild

noun

1. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
2. A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.

verb

1. To cry out; to howl.

noun

1. A prolonged, loud cry, like the sound of an animal; a wail; a howl.

verb

1. (intransitive) Utter a yowl.
2. (transitive) Express by yowling; utter with a yowl.