HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Producing or generating alkali.

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

verb

1. present participle of bivouac

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.

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.

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.

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. (South Africa) A strong wagon with a frame over the wheels used for hauling goods.
2. (US) A buckboard; a wagon for personal transport as well as transporting goods.

verb

1. present participle of bunko

noun

1. The removal of the husk from corn.

noun

1. plural of cornhusking

noun

1. The manufacture of couches.

verb

1. present participle of counterattack

verb

1. present participle of countersink

verb

1. present participle of counterwork

noun

1. The practice of making a man a cuckold, especially as a sexual kink.

verb

1. present participle of cuckold

noun

1. (UK) A form of crime in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal gang and used by them as a base for their activities.
2. The call of a cuckoo.

verb

1. present participle of cuckoo

adj

1. Resembling dough.

noun

1. The making of dough.

adj

1. Resembling a doughnut.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a dungeon

noun

1. (archaic) A small fishing vessel of the Persian Gulf.

noun

1. (New Zealand) Other species of Panopea, especially Panopea zelandica, native to the coasts of New Zealand.
2. (countable) a member of the species.
3. (uncountable) The species of large saltwater clam Panopea generosa, native to the northeast Pacific coasts from Alaska to Washington State, distinguished by its deep burrowing and long unprotected siphon.
4. (uncountable) its flesh as a seafood.

noun

1. plural of geoduck

adj

1. (botany) Belonging to the Ginkgoaceae.

noun

1. A hexokinase isozyme that facilitates phosphorylation of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate, occurring in cells in the liver, pancreas, gut, and brain of humans and most other vertebrates.

noun

1. plural of glucokinase

noun

1. (biochemistry) A transferase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + D-gluconate ⇌ ADP + 6-phospho-D-gluconate.

noun

1. Any bird in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.

noun

1. plural of goatsucker

adj

1. Resembling a gourd.

noun

1. First person to do, make or fight for something. A pioneer; a seminal person.

noun

1. Alternative form of groundskeeper

noun

1. The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution

noun

1. The foundation; the basic or fundamental parts that support or allow for the rest.

noun

1. plural of groundwork

noun

1. A process of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially one characterized by uncritical acceptance of or conformity to a perceived majority view.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a grouse.

noun

1. A musical instrument, a chordophone, most often neckless and with three strings, played in the lap and with a bow, of ancient Slavic origin.

noun

1. An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.

noun

1. A person who proceeds by guesswork.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of guide book

adj

1. Having the tone or style of a guidebook.

noun

1. plural of guidebook

noun

1. (nautical) A small cove, especially a small fishing community.

verb

1. (nautical) To cruise in shallow coastal waters, spending the nights in gunkholes.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of gunkhole

noun

1. (nautical) cruising in shallow, coastal waters, spending the nights in gunkholes.

noun

1. A mechanism fitted to a cannon that fires it when a cord is pulled.

noun

1. plural of gunlock

noun

1. The handle of a handgun.
2. The rear part of a musket, rifle or shotgun which is pressed into the shoulder.

noun

1. A manufacturer of gunstocks.

noun

1. plural of gunstock

noun

1. Hypentelium nigricans, a species of fish found throughout the Mississippi river basin, growing up to two feet in length.

noun

1. The act of breaking into another person's house with unlawful intent.

verb

1. (animal training) present participle of housebreak

noun

1. Any general tasks that involve preparation.
2. Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
3. The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.

verb

1. present participle of jouk

adj

1. (chemistry) Forming alkalis with oxygen, as some metals do.

Proper noun

1. The second largest city in Taiwan.

noun

1. (Ireland) A beetle.

adj

1. That produces horny tissue

noun

1. (pathology) A disorder of the eye in which the cornea is enlarged and globular in shape.

noun

1. (archaic) A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.
2. A ceraunograph; an instrument for measuring and recording lightning.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to keraunography.

noun

1. (archaic) The study of keraunographs (figures or pictures impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere).

noun

1. (physics) A unit of magnetic field equal to 1,000 gauss

noun

1. plural of kilogauss

noun

1. Enough to fill a kingdom.

noun

1. Alternative form of chincough (“whooping cough”)

noun

1. A flogging with a knout.
2. A leather scourge.

verb

1. present participle of knout

Proper noun

1. A hilly region in southern India, known in English as Coorg.

noun

1. Damaliscus korrigum korrigum, an antelope of a subspecies of the topi.

noun

1. The flying lemur Cynocephalus variegatus

Proper noun

1. A nationalist political party in pre-Communist China that ruled China from 1928 until the Communists overthrew it in 1949, and was subsequently the major administrative party of Taiwan.

noun

1. (Australia) A peanut tree, Sterculia quadrifida, native to eastern coastal Australia; a red- or orange-fruited kurrajong.
2. (Australia) Any of a number of species of tree or shrub in the genus Brachychiton.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of laughing stock.

noun

1. plural of laughingstock

adj

1. That tends to cause leukemia

Noun

1. Muskogee

Proper noun

1. Muskogee

Noun

1. Muskogee

Proper noun

1. Muskogee

Noun

1. A member of an American Indian people; the Creek.

Proper noun

1. The language spoken by these people.
2. A city in Oklahoma.