HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. plural of abaciscus

noun

1. (archaic) Stealing cattle on a large scale.
2. (law) Carrying away by force, especially of animals.

noun

1. (archaic) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements; abaciscus.

noun

1. plural of abacus

adj

1. (biology) Of or pertaining to something at its lowest point; designating the part opposite to the apex.

noun

1. plural of abbacy

noun

1. (obsolete) An abbacy.

adj

1. (rare) Abdicating; renouncing.

noun

1. One who abdicates.

verb

1. (intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
2. (transitive) To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To depose.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard.
6. (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of.

noun

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of abducens nerve.

adj

1. (obsolete) Drawing away from the median axis of the body, as a muscle; see etymology abducting.

noun

1. (neuroanatomy) An abducens nerve.
2. That which abducts.

verb

1. present participle of abduce

adj

1. Having been kidnapped; having become the victim of an abduction

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of abduct

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. (heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
2. (law) Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
3. Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.

noun

1. (rare) Abeyance.

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of clinoclase

noun

1. Adherence; compliance; conformity.
2. The act of abiding or continuing; abode; stay; continuance; dwelling.

adv

1. In an abject fashion; with great shame; desperately.

noun

1. (medicine) The congenital absence of both arms

verb

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

noun

1. (obsolete) apricot

noun

1. Either of the ratlike rodents that form the genus Abrocoma; rat chinchilla.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of abscise

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of abscissin

noun

1. (geometry) The first of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.
2. (geometry) The horizontal line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the abscissa (sense above) is shown.

noun

1. A dark lantern used in church to read prayers etc during a service.

verb

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

noun

1. (historical) A kind of dark lantern.

noun

1. plural of absence

adj

1. (archaic) Absent-minded.
2. (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
3. (dance) Lacking a story.
4. (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
5. (music) Absolute.
6. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
7. (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
8. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
9. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
10. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
11. Insufficiently factual.
12. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
13. Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
14. Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.

noun

1. (art) An abstract work of art.
2. (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
3. (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
4. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
5. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
6. Concentrated essence of a product.
7. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
8. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.

verb

1. (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
2. (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
3. (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
4. (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
5. (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
6. (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
7. (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
8. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
9. (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
10. (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
11. (transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
12. He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
13. To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.

verb

1. (transitive, biology, mycology) To cut off, as in abstriction; abjoint

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To encumber; to crush; to overwhelm.

adj

1. (rare) Embittered; having a sour disposition or nature.

verb

1. (transitive) To exasperate; to irritate.
2. (transitive) To make bitter or sour.

adj

1. superlative form of acerb: most acerb

noun

1. (countable) Something harsh (e.g. a remark, act or experience).
2. Harshness, bitterness, or severity
3. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

noun

1. An acetabulum.
2. An ancient Roman measure, equivalent to about one eighth of a pint.

adj

1. (archaic) Of an acre; per acre.

noun

1. acrobatics
2. acrobats collectively

noun

1. plural of acrobat

verb

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

noun

1. A form of exercise, designed to enhance one's cardiovascular fitness, normally performed to music.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of air brick

noun

1. The title of the governor or chief magistrate of the Jews in Alexandria under the Ptolemies and Roman emperors.

Proper noun

1. A province in south-central Spain, in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha
2. The capital city of the province of Albacete

noun

1. A longfin tuna, a large marine fish (Thunnus alalunga) of warm seas, having edible flesh.

adj

1. (rare) Growing or becoming white.

noun

1. Alternative form of albacore

noun

1. (historical) A bench at the front of an alehouse or inn where drinkers can sit.

noun

1. plural of alembic

noun

1. (computer graphics, 3D models) A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.
2. A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of ambiance

adj

1. Causing or relating to amblosis; abortifacient.

noun

1. plural of ambsace

adj

1. Showing friendliness or goodwill.

adv

1. characterized by an absence of antagonism, especially in commonly difficult situations
2. friendly; in an amicable manner.
3. out-of-court

adj

1. (medicine) Of or pertaining to anabasis
2. (of a warm air current) rising (up a slope)

noun

1. Short for anabatic wind.

adj

1. Of or relating to anabolism.

noun

1. An anabolic steroid.

adj

1. (anatomy) Relating to the anus and pubis.

noun

1. Any of various trees of the genus Montanoa.

noun

1. (botany) A plant midway in height between a shrub and a tree; a dwarf tree.
2. (mycology) A branched hypha in some fungi.
3. (mycology) The site at which a symbiotic fungus attaches to the roots of a plant and exchanges nutrients, etc., with it.
4. (zoology) A clump of feather-like cilia (hairlike structures).

adj

1. Relating to, or resembling, asbestos.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to ascorbic acid or its derivatives

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of ascribe

verb

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

noun

1. plural of babiche

noun

1. A Turkish or Moroccan slipper having no heel.

noun

1. (card games) A card game resembling chemin de fer with many forms - usually entailing the player(s) betting against two or three hands dealt - also bearing some similarities to blackjack.

adj

1. (obsolete) Set or adorned with pearls.
2. Having many berries.

adj

1. fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.

noun

1. A priest of Bacchus.

noun

1. (prosody) Synonym of bacchius

adj

1. (rare) jovial or drunken

noun

1. (prosody) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

noun

1. (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
2. (obsolete) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
3. (obsolete) Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.
4. (obsolete) An unmarried woman.
5. A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
6. A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
7. Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
8. The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree.

noun

1. (obsolete) The body of young aspirants for knighthood.

adj

1. (biology) Relating to a bacillus.
2. (biology) Shaped like a rod or staff.

noun

1. (figurative, by extension) Something which spreads like bacterial infection.
2. Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
3. Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.

noun

1. Any pain or ache in the back.

noun

1. A band that passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

noun

1. (music) The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.

noun

1. (gymnastics, dance) A move in which the performer bends backwards until the hands touch the floor or catches him/herself with the hands.

verb

1. To perform such a move.

noun

1. One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.

verb

1. (informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
2. To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
3. To speak badly of an absent individual.

noun

1. (figuratively) Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
2. (figuratively) Courage, fortitude, or strength.
3. The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.

adj

1. (UK dialectal) Retrospective.

adv

1. (UK dialectal, of time) Long ago; in the past.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
2. (UK dialectal) Retrospect; hindsight.
3. (UK dialectal) backwater
4. (figuratively) Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
5. A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
6. A cast or throw back.

verb

1. (UK dialectal) To change retrospectively; reverse.
2. To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.

noun

1. (Britain) Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.

verb

1. To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.

noun

1. (dated) A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
2. The hairstyle produced by backcombing.

verb

1. To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look.

noun

1. An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date.

verb

1. To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back door, which can be used attributively.

verb

1. Alternative spelling of back door

noun

1. An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

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.

noun

1. (music) A lever in the coupler of an organ.
2. (wrestling) A fall or throw on the back.

noun

1. (US) Reserve support personnel.
2. (US) That which backfills; a replacement.
3. (literature) Material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action.
4. The material that has been used to refill an excavation.

verb

1. (US) To provide reserve support.
2. (US) To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.
3. (archaeology) To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and/or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.
4. (gaming) To enter an online game that's already in progress, replacing a player who left early.
5. To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.

noun

1. (firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire
2. A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
3. An explosion in other equipment.
4. An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.

verb

1. (of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc.) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
2. (of an engine) To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
3. To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.

noun

1. (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
2. (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

verb

1. To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
2. To perform a backflip (rotation of body).

noun

1. The flow of a fluid (through a pipe etc.) in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended.

verb

1. To flow in the wrong or backward direction.

noun

1. (backgammon) A game in which a player blocks the opponent's progress by forming two or more points in the opponent's home board.
2. An indirect strategy in which one attempts to achieve one's goals by maneuvering behind the scenes.

adj

1. (ice hockey) Of a play that uses the back side of the hockey stick
2. (of handwriting) Slanting to the left.
3. (of strokes or throws) In the backhand style

noun

1. (Ultimate Frisbee) the standard throw; a throw during which the disc begins on the off-hand side and travels across the chest to be released from the opposite side.
2. (surfing) the hand towards the back of the board.
3. (tennis) a stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
4. Handwriting that leans to the left
5. The reverse side of the human hand.

verb

1. to execute a backhand stroke or throw
2. to slap with the back of one's hand

noun

1. (broadcasting) Uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or radio station, network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished show.
2. (military) The shipment of material to or through an area from which the material had previously been shipped.
3. (transport) A return trip after delivery of cargo.
4. (travel, aviation, fare construction) Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point).

verb

1. To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted.

noun

1. (soccer) A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
2. (wrestling) A method of tripping or throwing by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back.

verb

1. (soccer) To perform such a kick.
2. (wrestling) To perform such a trip or throw.

noun

1. plural of backhoe

noun

1. plural of backing

noun

1. Land that lies behind or beyond some primary settlement or development.

noun

1. (figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
2. (mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
3. A sudden backward motion.
4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

verb

1. To cause or set off a backlash.

adj

1. (of a person) having an uncovered back, having a back that shows skin
2. having no back, said of things that typically have backs, such as chairs or dresses

noun

1. (publishing) A list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to the frontlist of more recent titles.

verb

1. (transitive) To hold back a student's application (to a college etc.) based on whether a preferred candidate declines their offer.
2. (transitive, publishing) To place (a book) on a backlist.

noun

1. plural of backlog

adj

1. farthest back

noun

1. plural of backout

noun

1. A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
2. A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.

verb

1. (intransitive) To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.
2. (intransitive) To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
3. (transitive, rare) To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.

noun

1. A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.
2. The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.

noun

1. A rushing backward; a retreat.

noun

1. plural of backsaw

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back seat

verb

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