HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Synonym of avocado.

verb

1. (transitive, rare) To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes

noun

1. The act of abacinating, of blinding with the light from hot metal

noun

1. One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

noun

1. (obsolete) Misspelling of bycoket.

adj

1. Not caused by bacteria; characterized by a lack of bacteria.

adj

1. (zoology) Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal.

adv

1. (As seen or measured) from the end opposite the mouth in a radiate animal (to the other end).

noun

1. (archaic) Stealing cattle on a large scale.
2. (law) Carrying away by force, especially of animals.

noun

1. (law, obsolete) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.

Noun

1. Alternative form of Ibadite.

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.

verb

1. (civil law, transitive) To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
2. (obsolete) To estrange; to cause alienation of.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of abalienate

verb

1. present participle of abalienate

noun

1. (law) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement; transferring a legal title.

noun

1. (law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
2. (law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
3. A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
4. Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
5. An abandoned building or structure.
6. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
7. The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
8. The self-surrender to an outside influence.
9. The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.

noun

1. plural of abandonment

noun

1. Alternative spelling of abnet

noun

1. Alternative spelling of abannation

noun

1. (medicine) A trepan having a conical shape so that injurious penetration of the brain is impossible.

noun

1. A form of articulation that allows considerable change in position and spatial relationship between the articulated parts, and which bones move freely upon one another; diarthrosis.

adj

1. (medicine) Away from the joints; not articular.

noun

1. (anatomy) A term sometimes used for diarthrosis, and also for synarthrosis. Also called dearticulation.
2. (anatomy) An articulation, especially one that permits free motion in the joint; a hinge joint.
3. The act of dislocating a joint.

noun

1. The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low.
2. The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

noun

1. plural of abasement

noun

1. The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame.

noun

1. plural of abashment

verb

1. To abastardize.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To stigmatize as a bastard; debase.

adj

1. Capable of being abated.

noun

1. Alternative form of abattage

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.

adj

1. (decorative arts) Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of abate

noun

1. (Scotland) Waste of stuff in preparing to size.
2. (heraldry) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower the dignity or station of the bearer.
3. (law) The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death of the owner and before the heir takes possession.
4. (law) The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction of taxes due.
5. An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax.
6. The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.

noun

1. plural of abatement

noun

1. One who, or that which, abates.

noun

1. plural of abater

noun

1. plural of abate

verb

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

adj

1. Alternative form of abasic

noun

1. (rhetoric) Anesis.

verb

1. present participle of abate

noun

1. (historical) In the Middle Ages, an officer of the stables who had the care of measuring out the provender; an avenor.
2. A means of defense formed by felled trees, or sometimes by bent trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy, and more recently fortified with barbed wire.
3. In coal-mining, walls of cord-wood piled up crosswise to keep the underground roads open so as to secure ventilation.

adj

1. Provided with an abatis.

noun

1. plural of abatis

noun

1. A skylight or other device whose purpose is to direct light into a room.

noun

1. plural of abatjour

noun

1. (historical) In Ancient Greece, an enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.

noun

1. (law) a person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee
2. (law) one who abates, ends, or does away with a nuisance

noun

1. plural of abator

noun

1. (military) The anchoring of the wheels of an artillery piece, preparatory to firing.
2. (veterinary medicine) The slaughter of animals, especially diseased ones to limit the spread of the disease.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of abatis

adj

1. Alternative spelling of abatised

noun

1. plural of abattis

noun

1. A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.
2. A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.

noun

1. plural of abattoir

noun

1. (usually in the plural) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.

noun

1. Alternative form of abate (“Italian abbot”)
2. An Italian abbot, or similar clergyman in minor orders

adj

1. Belonging to, relating to, or pertaining to an abbey, abbot, or abbess.

adj

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of abbatial

noun

1. (obsolete) The office, tenure, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.

noun

1. (archaic) The seat of an abbey.

noun

1. Archaic form of abbeystead.

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 abbotcy

noun

1. (obscure) abbacy
2. office of the superior of a monastery.

noun

1. (obsolete) An abbacy.

noun

1. plural of abbot

noun

1. The state, term, or office of an abbot; abbacy.

noun

1. plural of abbotship

Proper noun

1. name transferred from the surname.

Proper noun

1. A borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania

adj

1. Capable of being abbreviated.

adj

1. (biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
2. (obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.

noun

1. (obsolete, Scotland) An abridgment.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details.
3. (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
4. (transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
5. (transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.

adj

1. Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
2. Scanty, as in clothing.
3. Shortened; made briefer.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of abbreviate

adv

1. In an abbreviate way.

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of abbreviate

noun

1. (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
2. (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
3. (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
4. (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
5. (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
6. Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
7. The process of abbreviating.
8. The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.

noun

1. plural of abbreviation

noun

1. (Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
2. A person who abbreviates or shortens.

noun

1. plural of abbreviator

adj

1. Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

noun

1. (obsolete) An abbreviated state or form.
2. (obsolete) The process of abbreviating.
3. A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation.
4. An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract.

Noun

1. An inhabitant or native of Abdera, in Thrace.
2. Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

noun

1. (Islam) The Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an.

adj

1. (rare) Abdicating; renouncing.

noun

1. One who abdicates.

verb

1. (intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
2. (transitive) To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To depose.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.
6. (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of abdicate

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of abdicate

noun

1. (obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child.
2. (obsolete) The action of being deposed from the seat of power.
3. (obsolete, law) The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment.
4. The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder.
5. The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power.

noun

1. plural of abdication

adj

1. (rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.

noun

1. (logic) A reasoning from the negative

noun

1. (obsolete) A person supporting the abdication of another.

adj

1. (rare) Having the quality of hiding

noun

1. (rare) A concealed location used for storage or to hide items.

noun

1. (surgery) Extraction of peritoneal fluid from the abdomen for evaluation, using a trocar

adj

1. (anatomy) Relating to the abdomen and to the bladder.

adj

1. (anatomy) Relating to the abdomen and to the genitals.

noun

1. (surgery) Removal of the uterus via an incision made in the abdominal wall rather than via the vagina.

noun

1. (surgery) An incision of the uterus, done through a surgical hole in the abdomen.

adj

1. Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

adj

1. (obsolete) Drawing away from the median axis of the body, as a muscle; see etymology abducting.

noun

1. (neuroanatomy) An abducens nerve.
2. That which abducts.

noun

1. plural of abducens

verb

1. (transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.
2. (transitive, anatomy) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body.

adj

1. Having been kidnapped; having become the victim of an abduction

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of abduct

verb

1. present participle of abduct

noun

1. (anatomy) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
2. (law) The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
3. (logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
4. Leading away; a carrying away.

noun

1. plural of abduction

noun

1. (anatomy) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or from the median line of the body
2. One who abducts; a kidnapper.

Noun

1. of. Sometimes used instead of abductor when referring to the anatomical muscles.

noun

1. plural of abductor

verb

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

noun

1. (chemistry) An explosive consisting of ammonium nitrate with hydrocarbons added.

noun

1. A Eurasian tree, Populus alba, that is widely cultivated in North America.

adj

1. (pathology) Relating to organs outside of the intestine.

Proper noun

1. A city in southwest Nigeria.

Proper noun

1. A village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland

adj

1. (botany, zoology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
2. (sometimes figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
3. Differing from the norm.

noun

1. (biology) A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.
2. A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.

adv

1. In an aberrant manner; abnormally.

noun

1. plural of aberrant

verb

1. (intransitive) To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from.
2. (transitive) To distort; to cause aberration of.

adj

1. abnormal; irregular; atypical

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of aberrate

verb

1. present participle of aberrate

noun

1. (astronomy) A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer.
2. (astronomy, by extension) The tendency of light rays to preferentially strike the leading face of a moving object (the effect underlying the above phenomenon).
3. (electronics) A defect in an image produced by an optical or electrostatic lens system.
4. (medicine) A deviation of a tissue, organ or mental functions from what is considered to be within the normal range.
5. (optics) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; a defect in a focusing mechanism that prevents the intended focal point.
6. (zoology, botany) A typical development or structure; deviation from the normal type; an aberrant organ.
7. A mental disorder, especially one of a minor or temporary character.
8. A partial alienation of reason.
9. The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.

adj

1. Characterized by aberration.

noun

1. plural of aberration

adj

1. Having deviated or been knocked, momentarily and sharply, from the more dominant or expected course or trajectory.

noun

1. (optics) A device that simulates aberration in an image.

noun

1. A device that measures refractive aberrations of the eye

verb

1. (rare, transitive) To eradicate; to pull up by the roots.