HANGMAN SOLVER

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.

Proper noun

1. of origin.

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.

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. Inferior and shoddy work.

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.

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

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beat with a chabuk.

noun

1. Alternative form of chewstick (“plant”)

adj

1. Alternative spelling of chequerwise

noun

1. (figuratively) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
2. Work consisting of or showing checkers, varied alternately by colour or material.

verb

1. (agriculture) To plant seeds at the intersections of a criss-cross pattern previously marked out on the ground.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of checkrow

noun

1. (agriculture) A device for checkrowing.

verb

1. present participle of checkrow

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of check weigher

noun

1. A person, elected by miners, whose task is to check what the mine owner's weighman states has been the amount of coal that has been mined; used especially if the miners' wages are related to production.

noun

1. plural of checkweighman

noun

1. Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.

noun

1. A machine that writes on preprinted checks in such a way as to prevent fraudulent alteration of the check.
2. One who writes checks.

noun

1. Alternative form of chewink

noun

1. Alternative form of checkerwork

Proper noun

1. A village on the northern border of Bristol, England

noun

1. A bird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, the Eastern towhee.

noun

1. plural of chewink

noun

1. A twig with a frayed end, used for cleaning the teeth.
2. Any of various plants in the genus Gouania used for oral hygiene, especieally Gouania lupuloides, of the Caribbean.

noun

1. The plant Euphorbia hypericifolia.
2. The plant Portulaca quadrifida.
3. The plant Senecio vulgaris.

noun

1. common chickweed

noun

1. Ageratum conyzoides, chickweed
2. Cerastium - mouse-ear chickweed
3. Holosteum - jagged chickweed
4. Moenchia - upright chickweed
5. Paronychia - chickweed
6. Stellaria pro parte - chickweed
7. especially common chickweed, Stellaria media, a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.

noun

1. plural of chickweed

noun

1. (India, Pakistan) A courtyard.
2. (India, Pakistan) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
3. (India, Pakistan) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).

noun

1. Alternative form of chuckwalla

noun

1. plural of chuckawalla

noun

1. An iguana, of the genus Sauromalus, living in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

noun

1. plural of chuckwalla

noun

1. Alternative form of clock-watcher

noun

1. A textile worker.

noun

1. The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).

noun

1. Alternative form of cock throwing

noun

1. Decorative work made from gatch.

noun

1. (historical) A kind of wheelbarrow used to carry new-made bricks to the hacks or racks where they are dried.

noun

1. A saw, with a blade that is put under tension, for cutting metal

verb

1. To cut with a hacksaw.

noun

1. plural of hacksaw

verb

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

noun

1. Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula.

noun

1. plural of hackwork

noun

1. (obsolete) A vulgar, ignorant country fellow.

Proper noun

1. A town in the Scottish Borders region

Noun

1. A sheep of a Cumbrian breed prized for their robust health and durable wool.

noun

1. (UK, regional) A European green woodpecker, Picus viridis.
2. (UK, regional) A lesser spotted woodpecker, Dryobates minor.
3. (UK, regional, archaic) A blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus.

noun

1. Alternative form of hickwall

noun

1. (zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.

noun

1. A dainty or delicacy.
2. A trinket or gewgaw.

noun

1. Alternative form of kickshaw
2. plural of kickshaw

noun

1. A distilled spirit made from cherries, usually of the species Cerasus avium; kirsch.

adj

1. To the kitchen

adv

1. (figuratively) Toward food in general.
2. Toward the kitchen.

adv

1. Alternative form of kitchenward

noun

1. (attributive, uncountable) Of or pertaining to utensils and appliances used for food preparation.
2. Instruments and utensils found in a kitchen, particularly those associated with the preparation and serving of food.

noun

1. plural of kitchenware

noun

1. Malawi's major currency unit, equivalent to 100 tambala.
2. Zambia's major currency unit, equivalent to 100 ngwee.

noun

1. plural of kwacha

noun

1. (dated) A blow; a slap.
2. (dated, derogatory) An Irishman.
3. (slang) The paxwax (ligament of the neck in quadrupeds).

verb

1. (dated, transitive) To slap.

noun

1. (derogatory) A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.
2. (figurative) Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one whole piece.
3. A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.

verb

1. To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together.
2. To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of patchwork

noun

1. The making of patchworks

verb

1. present participle of patchwork

noun

1. plural of patchwork

adj

1. Like patchwork; untidy, variegated, higgledy-piggledy.

noun

1. The work of a coal miner who is paid in a share of the mined material.

noun

1. A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.

verb

1. To move someone by means of a rickshaw.

noun

1. plural of rickshaw

Proper noun

1. A river in Canada.
2. Prairie province in western Canada (named after the river, which flows through it) which has Regina as its capital city.

noun

1. Work done for school, including both in class and homework.

Noun

1. A member of the a small American Christian group rooted in the 16th-century Protestant Reformation teachings of

Noun

1. A Schwenkfelder.

noun

1. The first layer of plaster to be applied in plasterwork.

noun

1. The work of cutting with a scythe.