HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Prickling.

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. (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. 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.

verb

1. To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.

noun

1. (music) Synonym of spinback
2. Spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands.

verb

1. (music) To play a section of a record in reverse, as a disc jockey; to apply spinback.
2. (transitive) To spin (a ball) with this motion.

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.

noun

1. (computing, dated) A word wrap feature that restores a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
2. A portion of something that is wrapped backward.

verb

1. (computing, dated) To restore a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
2. To wrap around the back of something.

noun

1. (Canada, US) Whitebark raspberry (Rubus leucodermis).
2. (cooking) An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
3. (obsolete, UK, US, dialectal) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus).
4. A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown.

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. (Australia) Of a horse, to jump upwards with arched back and head down in an attempt to throw its rider.
2. (Australia) To take part in a buckjumping competition.

noun

1. plural of calpack

noun

1. A soft sheepskin leather especially used for gloves.

noun

1. The use of a cape, in bullfighting, to distract the bull

noun

1. A person or company that manufactures caps (the headgear).

noun

1. plural of caprock

noun

1. A quarry where chalk is found.

noun

1. plural of champak

noun

1. A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts

noun

1. plural of checkup

noun

1. A seed of this plant, often used as a food.
2. An annual Asian plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods.

noun

1. Archaic form of chipmunk.

noun

1. A squirrel-like rodent of the genus Tamias, native mainly to North America.

verb

1. (transitive) To fill (one's mouth or cheeks) with food.
2. (transitive) To speed up (an audio recording, especially a song), to make the voices high-pitched.
3. (transitive) To stuff (food) into one's mouth or cheeks, sometimes as part of competitive eating.

noun

1. (obsolete) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten until it is thin.

noun

1. A cross between an American cocker spaniel and a miniature poodle.

noun

1. plural of cockpit

noun

1. A blade for tying to the foot of a gamecock.
2. A kind of grass (Echinochloa crus-galli).
3. A kind of hawthorn (Crataegus crus-galli).

noun

1. A shop that sells cooked food.

noun

1. (Quebec, UK) A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers.
2. (programming, COBOL) A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate.
3. A student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.

noun

1. Alternative form of copy desk

noun

1. plural of cowpoke

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 crackup

noun

1. The pin that attaches a connecting rod to a crank

adj

1. (obsolete) Sick in the stomach, especially from excess in eating or drinking.

noun

1. plural of cupcake

noun

1. someone who makes cups

noun

1. Alternative form of dabchick

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. (Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent or useless person.
2. (professional wrestling) a kick made to the opponent by leaping into the air and kicking with both feet before dropping to the ground.
3. (soccer) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.

verb

1. to make a dropkick
2. to score via a dropkick

noun

1. A game played by bowling a small ball at such pins.
2. plural of duckpin

noun

1. A pond that is populated by ducks.

verb

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

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of an epic.

noun

1. (US) flapjack; pancake

noun

1. (Britain) A bar made of (though not limited to) rolled oats, butter, golden syrup, and brown sugar, baked in a tray.
2. (US) A pancake.

noun

1. (by extension) Anything tiny or insignificant.
2. Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.

verb

1. To bespeckle with tiny spatters of color.
2. To inspect in minute detail to ensure that something contains no flaws; nitpick.

noun

1. (colloquial, dated) A traveller's bag.

verb

1. To pick or harvest by hand.
2. To select carefully and with individual attention.

verb

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

noun

1. (US, rare) A pawnshop.

noun

1. plural of hopsack

noun

1. (by extension) A hump or protuberance on the shoulders or back of an animal.
2. (derogatory, now offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.
3. (figurative) A rounded topographical feature, such as a mountain or hill.
4. A humpback salmon.
5. A humpback whale.
6. A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine).

verb

1. To hunt humpback whales.

verb

1. (transitive, rare) To place into a pocket.

noun

1. plural of jackpot

noun

1. Any of a number of North American fish in the sucker genus Moxostoma

adj

1. (UK, dialect, Northern England, obsolete) Easily known or seen; obvious; apparent.

noun

1. plural of ketchup

noun

1. (computing) A mechanical device whose keys are pressed, individually or in combination, to punch holes in punched cards or paper tape that correspond to particular characters.
2. (computing) An electric machine with a keyboard that has the same function.

verb

1. To use such a device or machine

Proper noun

1. An Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe.
2. The language spoken by this people.

Noun

1. A member of this tribe.

noun

1. (obsolete) A changeling.

noun

1. plural of kingcup

adj

1. (historical) Relating to the klephts.

noun

1. (chiefly US) A case of canvas or leather, for carrying items on the back.
2. (cryptography) A set of values from which a subset is chosen.

verb

1. To go hiking while burdened with a knapsack, usually overnight or for longer.

noun

1. plural of kneecap

noun

1. (plural only) Small dumplings of Eastern European origin, filled with meat or cheese and served usually in soup.

noun

1. Alternative form of kreplach

adj

1. (anatomy, pathology) Relating to, or exhibiting, kyphosis.

noun

1. Synonym of lickspittle

noun

1. (countable) A stick of this makeup.
2. (countable, colloquial) A dog's penis.
3. (uncountable) Makeup for the lips.

verb

1. (transitive) To apply lipstick to; to paint with lipstick.

Proper noun

1. an unincorporated community in Manitoba, Canada.
2. a city in Illinois, USA.
3. an unincorporated community in Indiana, USA.
4. an unincorporated community in Kentucky, USA.
5. a town in Louisiana, USA.
6. a city and a town in New York, USA. The city is the county seat of
7. a ghost town in Ohio, USA.

noun

1. (cartography) A trench dug in the ground to mark a boundary or other imaginary line.

verb

1. to dig a such a trench

noun

1. (figuratively) Close connection, unison, rigid synchronization.
2. (military) A step whereby the toe of one man is brought very close to the heel of the man in front.
3. An inflexible, rigid or stifling pattern.

noun

1. The routing of a signal, data stream, etc. from its origin back to the origin, primarily as a means of testing the transmission or transportation infrastructure.

noun

1. Alternative form of lobstick

noun

1. (music, historical) In an old pianoforte movement, a rod that raises the damper as the key is depressed.
2. The long handle of a mop.

noun

1. plural of mudpack

verb

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

noun

1. plural of nutpick

verb

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

noun

1. A container intended to hold smaller containers.

verb

1. (intransitive) To pack too much.

noun

1. Either of two species of passerine bird in the genus Buphagus, in the monotypic family Buphagidae, endemic to sub-Saharan African savannah.

noun

1. A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.

verb

1. (intransitive) To tumble down through a series of obstacles.

adj

1. Capable of being packed.

adj

1. Having been placed in a package.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of package

noun

1. A comic book studio that produces content for comic book publishers on demand.
2. A person who packages.
3. A tool or machine used to package objects.

noun

1. plural of package

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of packet

noun

1. plural of packing

adj

1. Of valve: without a packed gland for stem sealing, having a metal diaphragm instead.

noun

1. (chiefly US) A backpack, knapsack, rucksack or similar bag packed with provisions or personal items, especially as carried by a traveller or a hiker, and often slung over the shoulder.

noun

1. Alternative form of paktong

noun

1. Goods carried in a pack, especially those for sale by a peddler.

Proper noun

1. A ghost town in California.
2. A city in Iowa.

noun

1. plural of paddock

verb

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

noun

1. plural of padlock

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of pancake

noun

1. plural of pancake

adj

1. Experiencing or in a state of panic.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of panic

noun

1. circumvention of an access restriction to a physical site by passing one's access card to another person after having entered

noun

1. plural of payback

noun

1. (US) Money received on payday as payment for work performed.

noun

1. (sometimes derogatory) Someone who publicly opposes armed conflict in general, or a particular conflict, or who publicly opposes the proliferation of weapons.

noun

1. A baby peafowl.

noun

1. plural of peacock

adj

1. Of a horse: showy in motion; holding itself high while running.
2. Proud and boastful.

noun

1. A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.
2. The barrel of a wooden pump.

noun

1. plural of petcock

noun

1. Obsolete form of physics.
2. plural of physick

verb

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

adj

1. (archaic) Resembling medicine.

adj

1. Able to be picked.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of pickax

noun

1. plural of pickaxe

verb

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

adv

1. Archaic form of pickaback.

verb

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

noun

1. (Canada) Walleye, A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.
2. A freshwater fish of the genus Esox.
3. A wading bird, the dunlin.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of picket

noun

1. Someone who pickets; one participating in a demonstration or posted on a picket line.