HANGMAN SOLVER

Noun

1. A descendant of Aaron; a Levite.

noun

1. (law, obsolete) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.

noun

1. A form of articulation that allows considerable change in position and spatial relationship between the articulated parts, and which bones move freely upon one another; diarthrosis.

noun

1. (anatomy) A term sometimes used for diarthrosis, and also for synarthrosis. Also called dearticulation.
2. (anatomy) An articulation, especially one that permits free motion in the joint; a hinge joint.
3. The act of dislocating a joint.

noun

1. A skylight or other device whose purpose is to direct light into a room.

noun

1. plural of abatjour

noun

1. (law) a person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee
2. (law) one who abates, ends, or does away with a nuisance

noun

1. plural of abator

noun

1. A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.
2. A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.

noun

1. plural of abattoir

noun

1. (obsolete) An abbacy.

noun

1. (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
2. (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
3. (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
4. (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
5. (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
6. Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
7. The process of abbreviating.
8. The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.

noun

1. plural of abbreviation

noun

1. (Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
2. A person who abbreviates or shortens.

noun

1. plural of abbreviator

adj

1. Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

noun

1. (obsolete) A person supporting the abdication of another.

noun

1. (rare) A concealed location used for storage or to hide items.

noun

1. (surgery) Removal of the uterus via an incision made in the abdominal wall rather than via the vagina.

noun

1. (surgery) An incision of the uterus, done through a surgical hole in the abdomen.

adj

1. Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

noun

1. (anatomy) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or from the median line of the body
2. One who abducts; a kidnapper.

Noun

1. of. Sometimes used instead of abductor when referring to the anatomical muscles.

noun

1. plural of abductor

noun

1. (astronomy) A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer.
2. (astronomy, by extension) The tendency of light rays to preferentially strike the leading face of a moving object (the effect underlying the above phenomenon).
3. (electronics) A defect in an image produced by an optical or electrostatic lens system.
4. (medicine) A deviation of a tissue, organ or mental functions from what is considered to be within the normal range.
5. (optics) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; a defect in a focusing mechanism that prevents the intended focal point.
6. (zoology, botany) A typical development or structure; deviation from the normal type; an aberrant organ.
7. A mental disorder, especially one of a minor or temporary character.
8. A partial alienation of reason.
9. The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.

adj

1. Characterized by aberration.

noun

1. plural of aberration

noun

1. (optics) A device that simulates aberration in an image.

noun

1. A device that measures refractive aberrations of the eye

noun

1. A pruning device mounted on a pole, so as to reach high branches; a weeding machine.

noun

1. A supporter or advocate.
2. One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages.

noun

1. plural of abettor

adj

1. (archaic) Inconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed.
2. Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
3. Contrary to something; discordant.
4. Detestable or repugnant.

adv

1. In a manner, or to a degree, that is abhorrent; with abhorrence.

adj

1. (medicine) Relating to or involving abiotrophy; relating to or involving the functional loss of an organ or cells not due to an injury.

noun

1. (medicine) Premature degeneration of cells or tissues, especially with genetic causes; loss of function of organ or cell, not due to injury.

noun

1. (medicine) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; asthenia; atony.
2. (medicine) Decreased response to stimuli.

noun

1. A repudiation on oath of a religious or political principle.
2. A solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an abjuration of heresy.
3. The act of abjuring.

noun

1. plural of abjuration

adj

1. Involving abjuration.

noun

1. A material that ablates, vaporizes, wears away, burns off, erodes, or abrades.

adj

1. Pertaining to ablution.

noun

1. (rare) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects.

noun

1. plural of abnegator

noun

1. (Christianity, theology) One who believes that the cosmos is in an abnormal state that can only be set right by divine influence.

noun

1. plural of abnormality

noun

1. Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.
2. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.

noun

1. plural of abnormity

noun

1. (rare) Alternative form of abnormality
2. A monstrosity

adj

1. Relating to or favoring abolition.

noun

1. One who abominates.

noun

1. plural of abominator

noun

1. The distinctive culture of aboriginal peoples
2. The quality of being aboriginal.
3. The spiritual bonds between the aboriginal people and their place of heritage.

noun

1. (obsolete) Abortment; abortion

noun

1. (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.
2. (computing) The function used to abort a process.
3. (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
4. (now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
5. (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.

verb

1. (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
2. (intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
3. (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
4. (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
5. (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
6. (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
7. (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
8. (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
9. (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.

adj

1. (biology) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped.
2. Brought forth prematurely.
3. Checked in normal development at an early stage.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of abort

noun

1. (derogatory) One who has an abortion.
2. (rare) One who performs an abortion.
3. One who or that which aborts.

noun

1. plural of aborter

noun

1. An agent responsible for an abortion (the destruction of a fetus); abortifacient.
2. The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

adj

1. (archaic, medicine) Reproductively sterile or miscarrying.

noun

1. (archaic, medicine) Abortifacient; an agent producing abortion.

adj

1. (pharmacology) Producing miscarriage.

noun

1. (pharmacology) A drug or an agent that induces an abortion.

noun

1. An extract manufactured from the bacterium Brucella abortus, and is used to study contagious abortions in cattle.

verb

1. present participle of abort

noun

1. (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
2. (figuratively) A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.
3. (figuratively) Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc.
4. (medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus; either naturally as a spontaneous abortion (now usually called a miscarriage), or deliberately as an induced abortion.
5. (now rare) An aborted foetus; an abortus.
6. The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.

adj

1. (rare) Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive.

noun

1. (chiefly derogatory) A person who advocates for or supports the legality of abortion.
2. (now sometimes offensive) A person who performs abortions, especially illegally or secretly.

noun

1. plural of abortionist

noun

1. plural of abortion

adj

1. (biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.
2. (medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
3. (obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural.
4. (pharmacology, medicine, rare, attributive) Causing abortion; abortifacient
5. Coming to nothing; failing in its effect. .
6. Made from the skin of a still-born animal.

noun

1. (obsolete) A fruitless effort.
2. (obsolete) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient.
3. (obsolete) Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cause an abortion; to render without fruit.

adv

1. In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

noun

1. (countable) The result or product of being abortive.
2. (uncountable) The quality of being abortive.

adj

1. Causing abortion; abortifacient.

noun

1. A substance that induces abortion; an abortifacient.

noun

1. plural of abort

verb

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

noun

1. An aborted fetus, especially one aborted in early pregnancy.
2. An abortion.

noun

1. plural of abortus

noun

1. Alternative form of above stairs.

noun

1. A device which measures the resistance of surfaces to abrasion.

noun

1. (psychoanalysis) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross.

noun

1. plural of abreaction

noun

1. (archaic) Absolute renunciation; repudiation; retraction.

noun

1. (obsolete) A snatching away.

adj

1. (archaic) Abrogated; abolished.

verb

1. (molecular biology, transitive) To block a process or function.
2. (transitive) To put an end to; to do away with.
3. (transitive, law) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of abrogate

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of abrogate

noun

1. The act of abrogating; a repeal by authority; abolition.

noun

1. plural of abrogation

adj

1. Tending or designed to abrogate.

noun

1. Agent noun of abrogate; one who abrogates.

noun

1. plural of abrogator

noun

1. A bushy wormwood from Europe, sometimes used in the brewing of beer., southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum.

noun

1. A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained from abrotanum, C₂₁H₂₂N₂O.

noun

1. (music) An abrupt pause or stop; an abruption.

noun

1. (archaic) A sudden termination or interruption.
2. A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.

noun

1. (mineralogy) A basaltic-trachyandesite rock containing phenocrysts of olivine and augite

adj

1. (rare) comparative form of absolute: more absolute

adj

1. Serving to absolve; absolving; giving absolution.

adj

1. Conferring absolution; absolutory.

noun

1. (Scotland, law) A decision or decree made by a court in favour of the defendant in a given action; dismissal.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to a dismissal or an acquittal.

noun

1. The state or quality of being absorbable.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of absorbent

adj

1. (medicine) Inducing or increasing absorption (of a drug).

noun

1. (medicine) Any such medicine that induces absorption.

adj

1. Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.

noun

1. (chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.
2. (medicine) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
3. (physiology, pluralized, now rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
4. Anything which absorbs.

noun

1. plural of absorbent

noun

1. (obsolete) absorption

noun

1. Misspelling of absorption.

adj

1. absorbed

verb

1. (archaic) past participle of absorb

noun

1. (optics, physics) Absorbed radiation and incident radiation in a ratio format; a measurement that shows how well a surface absorbs radiation.

noun

1. plural of absorptance

noun

1. A instrument that computes the absorption rate by measuring the pressure of the gas; a colorimeter for liquids.
2. An instrument used to measure the amount of radiation or light absorbed.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to the measurement of absorption.

noun

1. (chemistry, physics) the imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action, of radiant energy; the process of being neutrons being absorbed by the nucleus; interception.
2. (electrical engineering) The retaining of electrical energy for a short time after it has been introduced to the dielectric.
3. (meteorology) The process in which incident radiant energy is retained by a substance (such as an air mass) by conversion to some other form of energy (such as heat).
4. (obsolete) engulfing; swallowing up, as of bodies or land.
5. (physiology) in living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs; taking in by various means, such as by osmosis.
6. Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind.
7. Mental assimilation.
8. assimilation; incorporation.

adj

1. Relating to absorption.

noun

1. plural of absorption

adj

1. Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.

noun

1. Any substance that absorbs.

adv

1. In an absorptive way.

noun

1. The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.

noun

1. (analytical chemistry) The constant a in the Beer's law relation A = abc, where A is the absorbance, b the path length, and c the concentration of solution. Also known as absorptive power. Formerly known as absorbency index; absorption constant; extinction coefficient.
2. (thermodynamics) The fraction of radiation absorbed by a surface to the total radiation incident on the surface.
3. The quality of being absorptive; absorptiveness.

noun

1. (archaic) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.

noun

1. (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
2. (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
3. (computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
4. (computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.
5. (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
6. (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
7. (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
8. A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
9. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
10. Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
11. Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
12. An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
13. An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
14. Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
15. The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
16. The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
17. The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
18. The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.

adj

1. Pertaining to abstraction.

noun

1. The creation, principles, or ideals of abstractions, in particular art.
2. The presentation of ideas in an abstract manner.

adj

1. Related or tending to abstractionism, particularly art.

noun

1. (art) Someone who supports or creates abstract art.
2. An idealist.

noun

1. plural of abstractionist

noun

1. plural of abstraction

adj

1. (obsolete) Obtained from plants by distillation.

noun

1. (dated, historical, UK) A clerk of a certain title or grade in the British civil service.
2. Alternative form of abstracter

noun

1. plural of abstractor

noun

1. (biology, mycology) A method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.

noun

1. (rare) The act of thrusting away.

adv

1. (nautical) With the length athwartship.

adj

1. (botany) Having the fruit covered with spines.

adj

1. Spine-bearing.

noun

1. (paleontology) A tubular spine in some bryozoans.

noun

1. Alternative form of acanthopterygian

noun

1. (zoology) A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.

adj

1. (zoology) Acanthopterygious
2. (zoology) Spiny-winged.

adj

1. (zoology) Similar to an acanthopterygian.

noun

1. (zoology) Any fish of the superorder Acanthopterygii.