HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. A plucked lute, originating in the classical and traditional music of Japan, characterized by a pear-shaped body and four or five high frets, giving the instrument a distinctively twangy tone.

Proper noun

1. A Capital: Des Moines.

Noun

1. One of the Native Americans formerly occupying the region now included in the state of Iowa.

noun

1. (Zen Buddhism) A quality of simple or solitary beauty, especially as expressed in various forms of Japanese art or culture.

noun

1. A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

noun

1. (Britain, law, archaic) Often in the form waif and stray, waifs and strays: an article of movable property found of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belong to the Crown, which may grant the right of ownership to them to a lord of a manor.
2. (by extension) A very thin person.
3. (by extension, botany) A plant introduced in a place outside its native range but is not persistently naturalized.
4. (nautical, chiefly whaling, historical) A small flag used as a signal.
5. A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.
6. Something (such as clouds or smoke) carried aloft by the wind.
7. Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance.

verb

1. (transitive) To cast aside or reject, and thus make a waif.

noun

1. A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
2. A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.
3. Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.

verb

1. (intransitive) To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
2. (intransitive) To make a noise like mourning or crying.
3. (intransitive) To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
4. (obsolete) Synonym of wale (“to choose; to select”)
5. (slang, music) To perform with great liveliness and force.
6. (transitive) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.

noun

1. (archaic or literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
2. Alternative form of wean

verb

1. (rare, transitive) To carry.
2. Misspelling of wane.

noun

1. (obsolete) A plank six feet long and one foot across.

verb

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To spend.
2. Nonstandard form of were.

noun

1. plural of wai

intj

1. (informal) Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment.

noun

1. (computing) Short for wait state.
2. (in the plural, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
3. (in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
4. (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
5. A delay.
6. An ambush.

verb

1. (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
2. (intransitive) To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
3. (intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
4. (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
5. (obsolete, colloquial) To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
6. (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
7. (transitive, obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.

noun

1. (Islam) A saint or prophet.
2. A provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.