HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. The tiny lifeforms that float and drift in the air, carried by the current of the wind.

noun

1. A small tree of New Zealand (Olearia furfuracea).

noun

1. plural of akepiro

noun

1. homogentisic acid

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

noun

1. a stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain

noun

1. A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.

noun

1. plural of alpenstock

noun

1. (pathology) fusion of the margins of the eyelids

noun

1. The fear of ankylosis.

noun

1. A Jewish skeptic or apostate.

noun

1. plural of apikoros

noun

1. Alternative form of apocatastasis

adj

1. Alternative form of apocatastatic

noun

1. A troparion chanted at Orthodox Christian worship services, summarizing the feast being celebrated that day.

adj

1. Resembling an apron.

noun

1. (organic chemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the phosphorylation of the amino acid aspartate, the first step in the biosynthesis of three essential amino acids: methionine, lysine, and threonine.

noun

1. (figurative) Any background situation.
2. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
3. An image that serves as a visual background.
4. The setting or background of an acted performance.

verb

1. (transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backdrop

verb

1. present participle of backdrop

noun

1. plural of backdrop

noun

1. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstop

verb

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

noun

1. A shop where baked goods are made and sold.

noun

1. plural of bakeshop

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. (biology) plankton living in the bathyal zone

adj

1. Individually or custom made.
2. Relating to someone who makes custom-made products, especially clothing items.

verb

1. (archaic) past participle of bespeak
2. simple past tense of bespeak

adj

1. (obsolete) betrothed or engaged to be married (compare with: spoken for)

verb

1. past participle of bespeak

noun

1. A person who steals books

noun

1. A mental disorder that produces a compulsion to steal books.

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

adj

1. Resembling, or pertaining to a bishop.

noun

1. A North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black patch on its head

Proper noun

1. A town and resort in Lancashire, England

noun

1. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
2. (US, countable) A road so paved.
3. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).

verb

1. (US) To pave with blacktop.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

verb

1. present participle of blacktop

verb

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

noun

1. (nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)

noun

1. (historical) A person who operated small-crew open fishing boats and fishing rooms on the shores around Newfoundland in the early 19th century.
2. A person in charge of a boat.

verb

1. Alternative spelling of book-keep

noun

1. (accounting) A person responsible for keeping records or documents, such as of a business.
2. A bookseller

noun

1. plural of bookkeeper

noun

1. (accounting) The skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, e.g. income and expenses.
2. (computing) General tasks for maintaining a system.

verb

1. present participle of bookkeep

noun

1. plural of bookkeeping

verb

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

noun

1. A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.

verb

1. (transitive) To affix a bookplate to (a book).

noun

1. plural of bookplate

noun

1. A shop that sells books.

noun

1. plural of bookshop

noun

1. (now historical) A theatre attendant in charge of the boxes.

noun

1. (meteorology) A location referred to when issuing watches, warnings, or advisories for specific areas.
2. (physics) The point where surface water waves are breaking in, e.g., oceans or lakes.
3. (programming) A point in a program at which operation may be interrupted during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated.
4. (web development) A particular size at which a web page is designed to switch to a different layout.

verb

1. (programming, transitive) To flag with a breakpoint.

noun

1. plural of breakpoint

noun

1. The role or position of a broker.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bucket shop

noun

1. The use of a cape, in bullfighting, to distract the bull

noun

1. A firearm that is discharged by means of a percussion cap.

noun

1. (geology) A harder or more resistant rock type overlying a weaker or less resistant rock type.

noun

1. plural of caprock

noun

1. carpeting generally

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a champion.

noun

1. A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts

noun

1. plural of chapbook

noun

1. Any of a group of butterflies of the subfamily Nymphalinae whose wings bear a checkered, spotted pattern.

noun

1. (computing) A situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs; the data stored at this event.
2. (video games) A predetermined point in a map, level or scenario that the player may resume from if they die or restart from if they choose to.
3. A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection

verb

1. To set a checkpoint.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of checkpoint

verb

1. present participle of checkpoint

noun

1. plural of checkpoint

noun

1. Alternative form of chicken pox

noun

1. (mining) A damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.

noun

1. A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

noun

1. plural of chopsocky

noun

1. (ethnic slur) An Asian person.
2. (usually in the plural) An East Asian eating utensil usually used as a pair and held in one hand to grip pieces of food or occasionally to mix liquids or scoop up small pieces of food. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood and measuring approximately 23cm (10 inches) in length.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To pick up (food) using chopsticks.

noun

1. plural of chopstick

noun

1. A cross between an American cocker spaniel and a miniature poodle.

noun

1. plural of cockapoo

noun

1. The (male of the) lumpfish

noun

1. (Jamaica) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes.
2. (figurative) A site of conflict; a battlefield.
3. (figurative) An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control.
4. (nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located.
5. (nautical, now historical) The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay.
6. (now chiefly historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting.
7. (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
8. The compartment in an aircraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled; an analogous area in a spacecraft.
9. The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile).

noun

1. plural of cockpit

noun

1. A blade for tying to the foot of a gamecock.
2. A kind of grass (Echinochloa crus-galli).
3. A kind of hawthorn (Crataegus crus-galli).

noun

1. plural of cockspur

noun

1. (archaic) A hat or cap worn turned up in front.
2. A large edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer)
3. Alternative spelling of cock-up

noun

1. plural of cockup

adj

1. Having some similarity to a computer.

noun

1. (informal, dated) A computer enthusiast.

noun

1. plural of computernik

noun

1. A shop that sells cooked food.

noun

1. plural of cookshop

noun

1. One who partakes in something with others.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of kopek

noun

1. plural of copeck

noun

1. A place where copper is manufactured and/or shaped.

noun

1. (Quebec, UK) A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers.
2. (programming, COBOL) A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate.
3. A student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.