HANGMAN SOLVER

Proper noun

1. A city in southwest Nigeria.

Proper noun

1. A village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt which contains several ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman structures.
2. A bay outside this village, at the mouth of the Nile, where on 1 August 1798 a British fleet led by defeated the French in the

adj

1. Yielding alkalis.

adj

1. Producing or generating alkali.

noun

1. (medicine) A rare inherited genetic disorder of phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism, causing the accumulation and eventual excretion of alkapton.

adj

1. Relating to alkaptonuria

Proper noun

1. The personification of death in Breton mythology.

noun

1. Synonym of ankylosaurus

noun

1. plural of ankylosaur

noun

1. A large herbivorous dinosaur, of genus Ankylosaurus, that lived in the Cretaceous period, noted for its heavy armor and club-like tail.

noun

1. The territory or dignity of an archduke or archduchess; an archduchy.

noun

1. plural of archdukedom

adj

1. Alternative form of arrhenotokous

adj

1. (zoology) Relating to arrhenotoky; producing males from unfertilized eggs.

adj

1. (zoology) Producing only asexual individuals.

noun

1. A visual illusion in which a stationary source of light appears to move.
2. Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an internal cause.

noun

1. autokinesis

adj

1. (historical) Of a fire-alarm telegraphy system, arranged so that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.
2. Moving by itself or automatically.

noun

1. One who manufactures automobiles; typically used to refer to a large corporation such as General Motors.

adj

1. Like an automaton; robotic.

noun

1. (zoology) The true skeleton of a sponge, composed of elements secreted by the sponge itself.

noun

1. plural of autoworker

noun

1. A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible; the boondocks.

noun

1. (basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.

noun

1. (basketball) A backcourt player.

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

noun

1. (agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow

verb

1. (agriculture) To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.

adj

1. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.

noun

1. (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
2. (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
3. (physics) Clipping of background radiation.
4. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
5. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
6. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
7. One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.

verb

1. (journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
2. To put in a position that is not prominent.
3. simple past tense and past participle of backgrind

adj

1. (computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive
2. Moved to the background

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of background

noun

1. (chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives basic details on subjects that are likely to be mentioned.
2. A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
3. A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.

noun

1. plural of background

verb

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

noun

1. (US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
2. (now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.

noun

1. plural of backhouse

noun

1. (aerospace) A reversed countdown (i.e. ascending numbers) in response to problems leading up to a launch.
2. A reversal or undoing of tasks previously done (often in reverse order).

noun

1. plural of backout

Proper noun

1. A city in Kazakhstan, rented and administered by Russia, constructed to service Baikonur Cosmodrome, since 1995 also called Baikonur.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Bakery.
2. A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
3. A building principally containing ovens.

noun

1. plural of bakehouse

noun

1. The act of heating a material in a vacuum in order to drive off volatile components

Proper noun

1. A village near Stirling in Scotland
2. A battle important in Scotland's struggle for independence

adj

1. Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bashi-bazouk

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

Noun

1. A member of one of the historical aboriginal peoples of Canada.

Proper noun

1. The extinct language of these people.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bivouac

verb

1. present participle of bivouac

noun

1. plural of bivouack

verb

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

noun

1. (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
2. (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
3. A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
4. A temporary loss of consciousness.
5. A temporary loss of memory.
6. An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.

verb

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of black out

noun

1. plural of blackout

noun

1. (archaic) The bluebuck.

noun

1. plural of blaubok

noun

1. The bluebuck (extinct mammal).

noun

1. (US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
2. (informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
3. (informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
4. (slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
5. A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
6. A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.

noun

1. plural of blockbuster

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.

noun

1. (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.

noun

1. (dated) A temporary wooden fortification with a projecting upper story.
2. A reinforced building from which to control hazardous operations, such as an explosion or a rocket launch.
3. A sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports.

noun

1. plural of blockhouse

noun

1. (construction) A void that is deliberately not filled with concrete, so that it can be used to insert something else such as pipework.

noun

1. (by extension) Any parasite.
2. (by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
3. A vampire.
4. An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
5. The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).

noun

1. plural of bloodsucker

adj

1. (by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
2. (of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.

adj

1. Resembling a blouse.

noun

1. A blank booklet of lined paper used in the administration of examinations, so named because of its pale blue front and back covers.

verb

1. (law) To format a document, particularly a legal document including citations, according to the rules of the Bluebook, a US style guide.

noun

1. plural of bluebook

noun

1. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
2. (historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
3. (usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. (colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

noun

1. plural of bluestocking

noun

1. The American woodcock.

noun

1. (Canada, US, derogatory) A brawny or coarse person.
2. (Canada, US, ethnic slur) An immigrant from Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or the Balkans, especially one who is regarded as vain, aggressively masculine, and socially unsophisticated.

noun

1. plural of bohunk

noun

1. Alternative form of bontebok (“South African antelope”)

noun

1. plural of bontebuck

adj

1. (obsolete) Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books.

noun

1. As much as a book holds.

noun

1. Any of the small insects who feed on bookbindings, especially those of the order Psocoptera.

noun

1. (UK dialectal or obsolete) The belly.
2. (UK dialectal) The carcass of a slaughtered animal.
3. (UK dialectal) The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.

noun

1. (woodworking) Obsolete form of buhl work.

noun

1. (Internet) An automated response to an email, indicating that it could not be delivered.
2. (marketing) A customized order form sent out with previously ordered goods, encouraging the customer to make a further order, perhaps motivated by a discount or free gift.
3. A rebound.
4. An economic recovery.

noun

1. plural of bousouki

noun

1. (music) A Greek long-necked plucked fretted lute with a sharp, metallic sound.

noun

1. A Greek nightclub playing traditional Greek music.
2. Alternative form of bouzouki (“musical instrument”)

noun

1. plural of bouzouki

adj

1. Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to mainstream success.

noun

1. (aviation) The point at which visibility returns after passing through cloud.
2. A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
3. A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
4. An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
5. An escape from prison.
6. An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).

noun

1. plural of breakout

adj

1. (immunology) Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
2. (medicine) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
3. Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

noun

1. (construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
2. (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
3. (sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.
4. Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.

noun

1. plural of breakthrough

noun

1. (painting) The technique or practice of applying and manipulating paint (usually oil or gouache) in a painting.

noun

1. (slang) A dollar; a buck.
2. A cowboy; specifically, a working cowboy who generally does not partake in rodeos.
3. A reckless, headstrong person.
4. A style of cowboy boot with a high and uniquely tapered heel.
5. One who sports a distinctive buckaroo style of cowboy clothing, boots, and heritage.

noun

1. plural of buckaroo

noun

1. Obsolete form of buckaroo.

noun

1. plural of buckayro

noun

1. A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.

noun

1. plural of buckboard

noun

1. Alternative spelling of buckaroo

noun

1. plural of buckeroo

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bucket shop

Proper noun

1. a city in West Virginia, USA