HANGMAN SOLVER

Proper noun

1. The native language spoken by the Pit River people of present-day California.

Verb

1. To quench; extinguish (fire, pain, malice, enemies, etc.)

noun

1. (athletics) The most reliable female runner in a relay team, usually the one that runs last.
2. A female anchorperson.

noun

1. plural of anchorwoman

noun

1. (rare, dialectal) An angleworm; earthworm.

adv

1. (formal, now rare) From anywhere.

noun

1. A doorway with a semilunar-shaped top.
2. A passageway covered by an arch, particularly one made of masonry.

noun

1. plural of archway

noun

1. A big, masculine wife; a dominating woman; virago.

adj

1. In the shape of an arch.

adj

1. twitching

Proper noun

1. A city in Poland, also called Oświęcim.
2. A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; definition Nazi evil, the Holocaust.

adj

1. Watching; in a state of vigilance.

adv

1. In the manner of a bachelor; (as though) living alone as a single man.

noun

1. (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
2. (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
3. The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
4. The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
5. The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.

verb

1. (transitive) To affect with backwash.
2. To clean the oil from wool after combing.
3. To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

noun

1. (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.

noun

1. plural of backwash

noun

1. A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

noun

1. Any form of switch that is activated barometrically (by a change in pressure)

noun

1. (India, historical) A cook.

Adverb

1. Towards a beach.

noun

1. Clothing suitable for wearing on the beach, though not necessarily for swimming in.

Proper noun

1. of origin.

noun

1. A wood largely populated with beech trees.
2. The wood of beech trees (Fagus spp.).

noun

1. plural of beechwood

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bench-warmer

noun

1. plural of benchwarmer

noun

1. the structure supporting a model railway layout
2. work performed at a workbench

Proper noun

1. A lieutenancy area and historic county in the Scottish Borders.

verb

1. (transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.

verb

1. (transitive) To astonish, amaze.
2. (transitive) To cast a spell upon.
3. (transitive) To fascinate or charm.

adj

1. (Of a person) entranced, charmed, fascinated, as though subject to a magical influence.
2. Under a spell; subject to an act of witchcraft.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bewitch

noun

1. The state or quality of being bewitched.

noun

1. One who bewitches; an enchanter.

noun

1. plural of bewitchery

noun

1. The power of bewitching or fascinating; charm.

verb

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

adj

1. Bewitching; alluring; fascinating; amazing.

adj

1. Enchanting.

noun

1. The act by which somebody is bewitched; a curse or enchantment.

adv

1. In a bewitching manner

noun

1. The state or quality of being bewitching.

noun

1. The characteristic of being bewitched.

noun

1. plural of bewitchment

noun

1. (countable) A wood largely populated with birch trees (Betula spp.).
2. (uncountable) The wood from a birch tree.

noun

1. A session of observing and identifying birds.

verb

1. (intransitive) To take part in birdwatching; to observe and identify birds.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of birdwatch

verb

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

noun

1. (slang) The hobby of watching rocket launches.
2. Observing or identifying wild birds in their natural environment.

noun

1. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
2. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
3. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
4. (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
5. (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

verb

1. (transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
2. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
3. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

noun

1. One who blackwashes.

noun

1. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
2. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
3. The application of a coating of blackwash.

verb

1. present participle of blackwash

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

noun

1. (US, military, slang) A jet fighter.
2. A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.

verb

1. To apply a blowtorch to something.

verb

1. past participle of blowtorch

noun

1. plural of blowtorch

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of blowtorch

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

noun

1. (poetic) A path or route formed by the branches of trees.

Proper noun

1. a city in Lower Saxony, Germany; Brunswick

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Braunschweiger (a sausage).

noun

1. (Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
2. (cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
3. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
4. (slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
5. (slang) Pubic hair.
6. An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]

noun

1. A poor and unskilled farmer.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.

noun

1. plural of buckwheat

verb

1. (US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.

noun

1. (US) The driver of a bullock team.

noun

1. A perennial herb, Melanthium virginicum, having a branched cluster of pale flowers

verb

1. Alternative spelling of bushwhack

verb

1. to ambush
2. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack

noun

1. (Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
2. (US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
3. (US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
4. (dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
5. A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).

noun

1. plural of bushwhacker

noun

1. criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
2. fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. present participle of bushwhack

verb

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

noun

1. An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel.

noun

1. plural of cahow

noun

1. Any of the genus Pluchea of flowering plants in the Asteraceae family.

noun

1. The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.

noun

1. (obsolete) A chandler, or maker of candles.

noun

1. (rare) An absurd question; a quibble; a conundrum; a pun; a piece of jocularity or facetiousness.

noun

1. (US, historical, obsolete slang) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.
2. A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
3. The literal wheel of a cart.

verb

1. To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.
2. To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel

noun

1. One who performs a cartwheel (gymnastic spinning manoeuvre).

noun

1. plural of cartwheeler

verb

1. present participle of cartwheel

noun

1. plural of cartwheel

verb

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

noun

1. A long whip used by the driver of a cart.

verb

1. (transitive) To beat with a cartwhip.

noun

1. a person who makes carts; a wainwright

noun

1. The work of a cartwright, building carts.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of car wash

noun

1. plural of carwash

noun

1. Alternative form of cushaw

noun

1. plural of cashaw

noun

1. A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.

noun

1. plural of cashew

noun

1. A device which captures surface runoff for use as a water supply.

noun

1. A plant, cleavers.

adj

1. (sports) Without any weight restrictions; having no handicap.
2. Having no standard weight, but rather having weight determined when packaged for sale or shipping.

adv

1. (horse racing) Without any weight restrictions; without being handicapped.
2. to ride catchweight

noun

1. (sports) A weight category other than the standard weight categories: either an agreed-upon weight range or an agreement to allow any weight.
2. The weight of all the fish caught.
3. The weight of an item that is not set to a standard, but which varies around an approximate value.

noun

1. (printing, historical) A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page.
2. (theater) The last word of a speech, serving as a cue for the next speaker.
3. A word or expression repeated until it becomes representative of a party, school, business, or point of view.

noun

1. plural of catchword

noun

1. A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.

noun

1. Alternative form of chaffwax

noun

1. Cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.

noun

1. (UK, law, historical) A chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

noun

1. A low glabrous weedy branching herb (Centunculus minimus) of the family Primulaceae, having short dry chaff-like leaves.

verb

1. present participle of chainsaw

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of channel (Etymology 3)

noun

1. plural of chainwheel

noun

1. Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.

noun

1. (derogatory) One who occupies a post or employment but does no useful work.

noun

1. (obsolete) A charwoman
2. A female chairperson

noun

1. plural of chairwoman