HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

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

noun

1. (nautical) The compartment nearest the stern in the hold of a ship

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. One who opposes a skeptical viewpoint.

noun

1. Opposition to a skeptical viewpoint.

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.

noun

1. (historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
2. A blindly loyal bureaucrat.

noun

1. plural of apparatchik

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.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of asphalt.

Noun

1. A member of an indigenous people of the

Proper noun

1. The language of these people.

noun

1. (UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
2. (underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
3. A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.
4. A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
5. A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
6. Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.

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. (drugs) The rolling a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion
2. (firearms) The rearmost surface applied to the grip especially of a pistol below a possible beavertail.
3. A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
4. A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
5. An anchoring strap, passed around the waist or hips, for a small loom.
6. The backbone of a book.

verb

1. To apply or make into a backstrap.

adj

1. Swept back.

adj

1. (finance) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
2. Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
3. Having been legally declared insolvent.

noun

1. (UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
2. One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.

verb

1. (transitive) To force into bankruptcy.

noun

1. plural of bankruptcy

noun

1. (finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt

verb

1. present participle of bankrupt

noun

1. (obsolete) bankruptcy

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.

adv

1. In a bankrupt manner.

noun

1. plural of bankrupt

verb

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

noun

1. (dated) bankruptcy

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. (biology) plankton living in the bathyal zone

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.

noun

1. (obsolete) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
2. (obsolete, nautical, slang) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean.
3. The dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.

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. (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.

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. (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. Alternative spelling of bucket shop

noun

1. One who manufactures carpets.

noun

1. The manufacture of carpets.

noun

1. carpeting generally

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a caterpillar.

noun

1. A quarry where chalk is found.

noun

1. Lip balm.

noun

1. (by extension) Someone who does not give freely.
2. Someone who stingily avoids spending money.

noun

1. plural of cheapskate

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

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

adj

1. Showing chutzpah; not showing due respect; impudent; impertinent; brazen.

noun

1. A clapperboard.
2. A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.

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

adj

1. Having some similarity to a computer.

noun

1. (informal, dated) A computer enthusiast.

noun

1. plural of computernik

noun

1. One who partakes in something with others.

noun

1. (historical) A stick or switch used among some Native Americans for making or counting a coup.

adj

1. (informal) Eccentric or impractical.

noun

1. (informal) An eccentric, crazy or foolish person.
2. (informal) Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).

noun

1. plural of crackpot

noun

1. The flowering plant Arum maculatum that has arrow-shaped leaves and a cluster of scarlet berries.
2. The related plant Arum italicum.

noun

1. plural of cuckoopint

adj

1. (computing) Of an application or website, designed to be run or viewed on a personal computer.
2. Designed for use on a desk or similar piece of furniture.

noun

1. (computing) A desktop computer.
2. (computing) A personal computer, as opposed to computers for business or server purposes.
3. (computing, graphical user interface) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.
4. (computing, graphical user interface, synecdoche) The wallpaper of this interface.
5. The top surface of a desk.

noun

1. plural of desktop

noun

1. (biology) A dikaryotic mycelium.

noun

1. (slang) A useless person of inferior intellect; a dipshit.
2. A stick or rod used to measure the depth of a liquid. Often used to check the level at which a liquid in an opaque or inaccessible tank or reservoir stands; gauge.

verb

1. (mechanical engineering) To measure the level of a fluid using a dipstick.
2. To check (a person) for their understanding of something, as of a lesson, or attitude toward something.

noun

1. plural of dipstick

verb

1. To make a road be no longer a turnpike.

noun

1. (aviation) A thin hollow tube installed vertically in the bottoms of fuel tanks of many large aircraft, used to check fuel levels; now mostly superseded by the floatstick.

adj

1. Alternative form of ectodynamorphic

adj

1. (figuratively) (Of memory) which is very good
2. Resembling or characteristic of an elephant.

verb

1. (transitive, archaic, Scotland) To pack up.

noun

1. Plankton normally living in the top hundred fathoms of a body of water (at a depth of about 180 metres or less).

adj

1. Relating to epiplankton

adj

1. (anatomy) Above or outside the endoskeleton; epaxial.

noun

1. Alternative form of episcotister

noun

1. (zoology) A pelagic morph capable of sexual reproduction.