HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Relating to alkaptonuria

noun

1. a stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain

noun

1. A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.

noun

1. plural of alpenstock

noun

1. An alcoholic drink similar to apple brandy and calvados, made by freeze-distilling ("jacking") apple cider.

noun

1. plural of applejack

adj

1. Prickling.

noun

1. (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
2. (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

verb

1. To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
2. To perform a backflip (rotation of body).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backflip

verb

1. present participle of backflip

verb

1. (intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
2. (intransitive) To step backwards.
3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.

verb

1. (US) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

noun

1. The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.

verb

1. (US) present participle of backpedal

verb

1. (British spelling) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal

noun

1. (electronics) A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.

noun

1. plural of backplane

noun

1. (UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
2. (underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
3. A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.
4. A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
5. A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
6. Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.

verb

1. To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backslap

noun

1. One who makes a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.

noun

1. plural of backslapper

noun

1. action of the verb to backslap

verb

1. present participle of backslap

verb

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

noun

1. plural of backsplash

noun

1. Such a knot

verb

1. To secure the ends of a twisted rope within the rope itself in order to prevent fraying

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backsplice

verb

1. present participle of backsplice

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

verb

1. To add speckles.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bespeckle

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

noun

1. (Canada, US) Whitebark raspberry (Rubus leucodermis).
2. (cooking) An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
3. (obsolete, UK, US, dialectal) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus).
4. A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown.

noun

1. plural of blackcap

noun

1. Choke damp.

noun

1. A North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black patch on its head

Proper noun

1. A town and resort in Lancashire, England

noun

1. (obsolete) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
2. (obsolete, nautical, slang) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean.
3. The dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.

noun

1. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
2. (US, countable) A road so paved.
3. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).

verb

1. (US) To pave with blacktop.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

verb

1. present participle of blacktop

verb

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

noun

1. (nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)

noun

1. A kind of cap from Turkic countries, with a high crown.

adj

1. Wearing a calpack.

noun

1. plural of calpack

noun

1. A firearm that is discharged by means of a percussion cap.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a caterpillar.

noun

1. A quarry where chalk is found.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a champion.

noun

1. (obsolete) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten until it is thin.

noun

1. A clapperboard.
2. A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.

noun

1. (law) A temporary job of assisting a judge in writing legal opinions, generally available to a beginning attorney for one to two years.
2. (medicine) Clinical training for physicians during the second half of medical school.
3. The state or business of a clerk.

noun

1. plural of clerkship

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a clump.

noun

1. The (male of the) lumpfish

adj

1. Having some similarity to a computer.

adj

1. Resembling a corpse.

Adjective

1. Resembling crape.

adj

1. Resembling a cup.

noun

1. An alloy of copper containing from 10 to 40% nickel.

noun

1. plural of cupronickel

noun

1. (zoology) Any trilobite of the family Dikelocephalidae.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a disciple.

noun

1. (obsolete) marsh harrier (a bird)

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of an epic.

adj

1. Relating to epiplankton

noun

1. (US) flapjack; pancake

noun

1. (Britain) A bar made of (though not limited to) rolled oats, butter, golden syrup, and brown sugar, baked in a tray.
2. (US) A pancake.

noun

1. plural of flapjack; pancakes.

noun

1. Any member of the family Dicaeidae of passerine birds, many of which feed on nectar.

noun

1. (by extension) Anything tiny or insignificant.
2. Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.

verb

1. To bespeckle with tiny spatters of color.
2. To inspect in minute detail to ensure that something contains no flaws; nitpick.

adj

1. Covered with flyspecks.

noun

1. A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.

verb

1. present participle of flyspeck

noun

1. plural of flyspeck

adj

1. Resembling a forceps.

noun

1. (music) A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch.

noun

1. plural of glockenspiel

noun

1. A musical instrument resembling the oboe, but pitched an octave lower.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to holoplankton

adj

1. Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.

noun

1. The condition of having an unusually high leukocyte count.

adj

1. Having a low percentage of potassium in one's blood.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of jack plane

noun

1. (figuratively) A constantly changing series of colours or other things.
2. An instrument consisting of a tube containing mirrors and loose, colourful beads or other objects; when the tube is looked into and rotated, a succession of symmetrical designs can be seen.

verb

1. (intransitive) To move in shifting (and often attractive or colourful) patterns.

noun

1. plural of kaleidoscope

adj

1. (figuratively) Brightly coloured and continuously changing in pattern, as if in a kaleidoscope.
2. Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope.

adj

1. Alternative form of kaleidoscopic

adv

1. In a kaleidoscopic, continuously changing manner.

noun

1. (archaic) A kind of elastic floorcloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.

adj

1. Relating to, or composed of karyoplasm

adj

1. Relating to, or characteristic of a karyotype

adj

1. Alternative form of cataplectic

adj

1. (Scotland, northern Britain) Easily recognized, distinctive, conspicuous.

noun

1. A horny tumor which forms on the internal surface of the wall of a horse's foot, at the expense of the keraphyllous tissue, which becomes hypertrophied.

adj

1. Capable of thriving on keratin.

adj

1. Relating to keratoplasty.

noun

1. A usually metal strip mounted at the base of a door to prevent scuffing.

noun

1. (obsolete) A changeling.

noun

1. (astronomy) A unit of distance equal to one thousand parsecs

noun

1. plural of kiloparsec

noun

1. plural of kilopascal

adj

1. cinematographical

adj

1. Relating to a kinetoplast

adj

1. of or related to kinoplasm

adj

1. (historical) Relating to the klephts.

noun

1. One who steals compulsively.

adj

1. Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.

noun

1. plural of kleptomaniac

noun

1. Alternative form of klipdas