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.

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. (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”)

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

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. (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. 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. A Schwenkfelder.

noun

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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of shock wave

verb

1. (intransitive) To take part in exciting romantic adventures.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of swashbuckle

noun

1. A daring adventurer.
2. A kind of period adventure story with flashy action and lighthearted tone.
3. A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant sword play.

adj

1. Alternative form of swashbuckling

noun

1. plural of swashbuckler

noun

1. adventure and excitement; that which is swashbuckling

verb

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

adj

1. Adventurous, exciting.

noun

1. (aviation) A flight path consisting of a series of steep ascents and descents, generally flown as a stunt.
2. (chiefly Britain) A path or road having a series of steep ascents and descents.
3. (chiefly Canada, US, road transport) A sharp bend in a path or road which causes a traveller to almost reverse their direction of travel, especially one of a series of such bends on an incline; a hairpin bend; also a path or road having such a series of bends.
4. A railway track on a steep slope in a zigzag formation, in which a train travels in a reverse direction at each switch.
5. A railway track on which there are steep ascents and descents, a train moving partially or fully by the force of gravity using the momentum generated when descending to travel up an ascending part of the track; especially (Britain, dated), such a track built for fun rides at an amusement park; a type of rollercoaster.

verb

1. (intransitive) To take a zigzag course or path.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of switchback

noun

1. plural of switchback

noun

1. (US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
2. (derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
3. (slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
4. A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
5. A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
6. An atavism.
7. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
8. Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout

noun

1. plural of throwback

noun

1. A heavy slapping sound.
2. The act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement.

verb

1. To beat.
2. To fill to overflow.
3. To hit with a flat implement.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of thwack

noun

1. A club, rod, stick, etc., used to thwack.
2. A person who strikes a resounding blow with an object.

noun

1. plural of thwacker

noun

1. The action or sound of a thwack; a beating.

verb

1. present participle of thwack

adv

1. With a thwacking sound.

noun

1. plural of thwack

verb

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

Proper noun

1. A town in southwest London
2. Twickenham Stadium, the largest rugby stadium in England

noun

1. The lesser spotted woodpecker.

Proper noun

1. An inland county of England bordered by Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, West Midlands and Worcestershire.

noun

1. A lookout (person who keeps watch).

noun

1. A person who repairs (and originally made) watches.

noun

1. plural of watchmaker

noun

1. The making (and repairing) of watches

noun

1. The work produced by watchmaking; the mechanical arrangements making up a watch (portable timepiece).

noun

1. (chiefly Canada, US) A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.
2. (figuratively) One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
3. A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.

verb

1. (intransitive, of a boat) To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.
2. (intransitive, of an airplane or missile) To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.
3. (transitive) To act as a weathercock for.

adj

1. Fickle or changeable in one's views.

noun

1. plural of weathercock

adj

1. Synonym of weathercockish