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

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. plural of buckwheat

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. Alternative form of chewstick (“plant”)

adj

1. Alternative spelling of chequerwise

verb

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

Proper noun

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

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. plural of chickweed

noun

1. plural of chuckawalla

noun

1. plural of chuckwalla

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. plural of hackwork

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.

adv

1. Alternative form of kitchenward

noun

1. plural of kitchenware

noun

1. plural of kwacha

noun

1. plural of patchwork

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.

noun

1. The area of jurisdiction of a sheriff.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
2. (figurative) destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss
3. A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy.

verb

1. To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap.

adj

1. Stranded as a result of a shipwreck.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of shipwreck

verb

1. present participle of shipwreck

noun

1. plural of shipwreck

adj

1. (figurative) Weak, feeble; shaky.
2. Characteristic of a shipwreck.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of shock wave

Proper noun

1. a town in the metropolitan borough of West Midlands, England

noun

1. Work produced by stitching.

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

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a switch (control that can be turned on and off).

noun

1. plural of throwback

noun

1. plural of thwacker

noun

1. plural of thwack

verb

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

noun

1. The area of jurisdiction of an undersheriff.

adj

1. Not shipwrecked.

Proper noun

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

noun

1. plural of watchmaker

adj

1. Fickle or changeable in one's views.

noun

1. plural of weathercock

noun

1. (mineralogy) The mineral churchite-(Y).

noun

1. plural of whacker

adj

1. superlative form of whacky: most whacky

noun

1. plural of whacko

noun

1. plural of whack

verb

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

noun

1. A tropical species of remora, Remora australis, that attaches exclusively to cetaceans.

noun

1. plural of whicker

verb

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

noun

1. A whipstock; the handle of a whip.

noun

1. (by extension) The driver of a carriage.
2. The stock, or rigid handle, of a whip.

adj

1. Somewhat wicked.

noun

1. plural of woodchuck

noun

1. (US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The groundhog, or its pelt.
2. (US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The marten, or its pelt.

noun

1. plural of workaholic

noun

1. plural of workbench

noun

1. Any of the perciform marine fish of the family Polyprionidae, often inhabiting caves and shipwrecks.

noun

1. plural of wreckfish