HANGMAN SOLVER

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bail

noun

1. (law) One who holds bailed property; one who takes possession of the property of another (called a bailor) in order to keep that property safe for the other.
2. A person who is granted bail.

noun

1. (cricket, dated) A delivery in which the ball hits one or both bails but does not dislodge them.
2. (cricket, dated) A delivery that heads towards the bails after pitching.
3. (law) Alternative form of bailor
4. A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.
5. One who bails or lades.

noun

1. (in certain proper names) A prison or court of justice.
2. The outer wall of a feudal castle.
3. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.

noun

1. (Scotland) A bailiff.
2. (Scotland) A municipal officer in Scotland corresponding to an English alderman.
3. (Scotland) The chief magistrate of a Scottish barony or part of a county, with functions like a sheriff's.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bait

noun

1. (Internet, slang) A troll who deliberately posts aggravating messages on a message board to elicit responses.
2. Agent noun of bait; one who baits, as a fishhook.

adj

1. Covered with baize.

noun

1. plural of baize

noun

1. (India) Alternative form of bajri (“pearl millet”)

noun

1. plural of baker

noun

1. (uncountable, US) Baked goods.
2. A shop in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
3. The trade of a baker.

noun

1. Alternative form of balché

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bald

verb

1. (intransitive) To become bald
2. (transitive) To make bald

adj

1. comparative form of bald: more bald

noun

1. (birdwatching, slang) The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).
2. (informal, often derogatory) Somebody who is bald.
3. (slang) A fish, the baldchin groper.

noun

1. (obsolete) A whale or other large fish.
2. (physiology, uncountable) The keratinous material that makes up the plates in the mouth of the baleen whale, Mysticeti, which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry.
3. (zoology, countable) A baleen whale,

noun

1. plural of baler

noun

1. A pole or frame raised as a sea beacon or landmark.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of balk

noun

1. A person who stands on a rock or eminence to observe shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass.
2. One who, or that which balks.

adj

1. (in combination) Having a specified kind or number of balls.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of ball

adj

1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Very cool, especially due to extravagance.

noun

1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) One who has swag and lives an extravagant lifestyle.
2. (slang) One who plays basketball; a basketballer.
3. (vulgar) A person having sexual intercourse
4. A person employed to divide molten metal into separate balls before it is hammered out.

noun

1. (figurative) Any intricate series of operations involving coordination between individuals.
2. (heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.
3. (music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.
4. A classical form of dance.
5. A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
6. The company of persons who perform this dance.

verb

1. To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.

noun

1. plural of balteus

verb

1. (intransitive) To tumble; dance clumsily.
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To become tangled or matted.
3. (transitive) To tread down in a clumsy manner.
4. (transitive, UK dialectal) To tangle; clot; mat (as in the hair).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bam

noun

1. Synonym of banat

adj

1. Divided into bands.
2. Marked with bands of colour.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of band

noun

1. (birdwatching) Someone who bands birds
2. A device for putting metal bands around crates.

noun

1. An Irish measure of two feet in length.

adj

1. Alternative form of bhanged
2. Having the hair styled in bangs.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bang

noun

1. (Britain) A firework that makes a bang.
2. (Britain, New Zealand, Australia, food, slang) A sausage.
3. (Britain, music, slang) A powerfully energetic piece of music, especially dance music.
4. (Britain, sexuality, slang) A man's penis.
5. (Britain, sexuality, slang) A woman's breast.
6. (Britain, slang, by extension) Any particularly good or pleasing thing.
7. (US, automotive, slang) A car or an engine; referring to the cylinders of an engine in a car. From the explosive bangs on every cylinder firing.
8. (US, crime, slang) Clipping of gangbanger; a member of a gang.
9. (automotive, slang) An old, worn-out car. From a stereotypical one backfiring, making banging noises.
10. (curling) One of the rocks that end up crashing against another, making banging sounds, after a throw.
11. (curling) One of the rocks that results in a score at the finish of an end.
12. (military, slang) A Bangalore torpedo.
13. (sexuality, slang) A person who has sex.

noun

1. (dialectal) The cut branch of a tree; a large, rough stick; the largest piece of wood in a bundle of twigs
2. A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.

verb

1. (intransitive) (falconry) to beat about in the air; flutter: said of a hawk which does not rise steadily and then swoop down upon its prey.
2. (intransitive) to flap or hang down loosely, as a hat brim or an animal's ear.
3. (obsolete or dialectal) to waste away little by little; squander carelessly; fritter (away).
4. (transitive, obsolete) to beat about or beat down, as corn by the wind.
5. If we bangle away the legacy of peace left us by Christ, it is a sign of our want of regard for him. — Duty of Man.

adj

1. Of a cheque, deposited in a bank.
2. Piled high.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bank

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
2. (mining) A banksman.
3. (obsolete) A money changer.
4. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
5. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
6. One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
7. The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
8. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

noun

1. A sweet almond dessert pastry that originated in the Netherlands.

adj

1. Forbidden; not allowed.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of ban

adj

1. Exceptional; very good.

noun

1. (Internet, television) A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content.
2. (by extension) A military or administrative subdivision.
3. (by extension) The military unit under such a flag or standard.
4. (by extension, figurative) A cause or purpose; a campaign or movement.
5. (heraldry) The principal standard of a knight.
6. (journalism) The title of a newspaper as printed on its front page; the nameplate; masthead.
7. A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation.
8. A large piece of cloth with a slogan, motto, or emblem carried in a demonstration or other procession or suspended in some conspicuous place.
9. A type of administrative division in Inner Mongolia and Tuva, made during the Qing dynasty; at that time, Outer Mongolia and part of Xinjiang were also divided into banners.
10. Any large sign, especially when made of soft material or fabric.
11. One who bans something.

verb

1. (transitive) To adorn with a banner.
2. (transitive, journalism) To display as a banner headline.

noun

1. Alternative form of bank (“underwriter or controller of a card game”)

noun

1. Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.

verb

1. (UK, dialect) To haggle; cheapen the price.
2. (intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
3. (intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
4. (transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
5. (transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
6. (transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.
7. (transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.

adj

1. (heraldry) Bearded (also applied to roses, referring to the leaves between the petals).
2. (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.
3. (of language, etc.) Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
4. Having barbs

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barb

noun

1. (biology) Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark.
2. A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle.
3. A freshwater fish of the genus Barbus or other closely related genera.

noun

1. (Canada) A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.
2. A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
3. A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.

verb

1. (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
2. To cut the hair or beard of (a person).

noun

1. A dog of a small-bodied breed with long curly hair.
2. Any larva of an indefinite number of species of the beetle family Coccinellidae, that is covered in waxy threads and feeds on aphids and similar small prey.
3. Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal) A barbecue (apparatus for grilling).
2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal) A barbecue (event: cookout).

noun

1. Obsolete form of barbel.

adj

1. (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor
2. Wearing rich caparisons.

adj

1. Rude and insolent; bolshie.

noun

1. (Australia) The edible larva of an insect.
2. (Scotland) A minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by Robert Burns.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of barège

adv

1. (archaic) merely.
2. (degree) Almost not at all.
3. (degree) By a small margin.

adj

1. superlative form of bare: most bare

verb

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of bear
2. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of bare

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barf

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barge

noun

1. A crewman of a working barge.

noun

1. (obsolete) The manager of a barge.
2. One who barges or shoves.

noun

1. plural of barge

verb

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

noun

1. (mineralogy) A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO₄.

adj

1. (in combination) Having the specified kind of bark.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bark

adj

1. (poetic) Made of bark.

verb

1. (intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To become hard or form a crust, like bark.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To tan or dye with bark.

noun

1. (historical) A person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation.
2. (obsolete) A tanner.
3. (video games) A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
4. A machine used to remove unneeded bark from wood.
5. A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
6. A shelf-talker.
7. Someone or something who barks.
8. The spotted redshank.

noun

1. (Singapore) seed of Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi)
2. A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.

noun

1. plural of barman

Proper noun

1. An English topographic surname for someone who owned, lived in, or worked in a barn.
2. An English habitational surname for someone from the place of the same name in Surrey.
3. A town originally in Surrey, now a district of London.

noun

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) hair (on one's head)

adj

1. (obsolete, UK, slang) insane crazy, loony.

noun

1. (UK, Australia, slang) A minor physical fight.
2. (UK, Australia, slang) A noisy argument.
3. (US dialect, Boston) A student at Harvard University.
4. (US, pejorative slang) A police officer, usually one perceived as inferior or overzealous.
5. (film, television) Synonym of blimp (“soundproof cover for a video camera”)
6. (obsolete, Harvard University slang) A poor recitation.
7. (obsolete, UK, slang) A hoax, a humbug, something that is not genuine, a rigged or unfair sporting contest.
8. (obsolete, UK, slang) A lark, a romp, some fun.

verb

1. (UK, Australia) To argue, to quarrel.
2. (obsolete, Harvard University slang) To recite badly; to fail.

noun

1. (colloquial) A barn occupant.
2. (colloquial) A barn owl or barn swallow.

noun

1. (archaic) Any small sailing vessel.
2. A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged

adj

1. Having bars; striped.
2. Prevented, either by a physical barrier or by conditions.

verb

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of barr
2. simple past tense and past participle of bar

noun

1. (US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.
2. (archaic) A tube.
3. (baseball) A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
4. (biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
5. (countable) A round vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
6. (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
7. (obsolete) A jar.
8. (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
9. (television) A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
10. (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
11. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
12. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
13. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
14. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.

verb

1. (intransitive) To assume the shape of a barrel; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit barrel distortion, where the sides bulge outwards.
2. (intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
3. (transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

adj

1. (not comparable) Unable to bear children; sterile.
2. Bleak.
3. Mentally dull; stupid.
4. Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
5. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.

noun

1. An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.

noun

1. A non-SI unit of gas permeability.
2. One who or that which bars.

noun

1. plural of barre

noun

1. A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers.
2. The flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

noun

1. An exchange of goods or services without the use of money.
2. The goods or services used in such an exchange.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To exchange goods or services without involving money.

noun

1. plural of barye

noun

1. Alternative form of barite

adv

1. In a base manner

adj

1. superlative form of base: most base

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bash

noun

1. (UK, slang) A trainspotter.
2. (informal) One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people.
3. (military, slang) A rainproof sheet for sleeping under.
4. (television, film) A kind of small floodlight.
5. One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.

noun

1. plural of bash

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bask

noun

1. Any of various species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Urothemis, endemic to Africa and Asia.
2. One who or that which basks; agent noun of bask.
3. Short for basking shark.

noun

1. (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
2. (LGBT, slang) The male genitalia and region surrounding it.
3. (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
4. (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
5. (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
6. (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
7. (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
8. (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
9. (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
10. (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
11. (obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
12. (slang) The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.
13. (uncountable) The game of basketball.
14. A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
15. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
16. A singlestick with a basket hilt.
17. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.

verb

1. (transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
2. (transitive, publishing) To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.

noun

1. A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature.
2. The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist.

noun

1. plural of bass

noun

1. (geology) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
2. (uncountable, card games) A card game resembling faro.
3. A basset hound.

verb

1. (geology, intransitive) To incline upward so as to appear at the surface.

adj

1. Having been cooked by basting.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of baste

noun

1. A tool for basting meat with fat or gravy.
2. One who bastes.

noun

1. plural of baste

verb

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

noun

1. A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bath
2. simple past tense and past participle of bathe

noun

1. A bathing costume
2. A sunbather
3. One who bathes (cleans oneself with water, for example in a bathtub).
4. One who gives a bath to another.
5. One who immerses oneself in water for pleasure or refreshment: one who swims (for example at a lake or beach).

verb

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

noun

1. A short bat for beating clothes when washing them.

noun

1. plural of batman

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bat

adj

1. (obsolete) fertile; fruitful; productive

noun

1. (UK, Eton College, obsolete) A small allowance of food collegers receive from their dames (matrons) in addition to their college allowance
2. (UK, Oxford University, chiefly in the plural) Fees charged by a college for accommodation and living expenses.
3. (UK, Oxford University, chiefly in the plural, obsolete) Provisions ordered from the kitchen and buttery.
4. (UK, law, obsolete) A single combat.
5. Archaic spelling of battle.

verb

1. (intransitive, Oxford University) To stand indebted in the college-books for provisions and drink from the buttery.
2. (intransitive, Yeshivish) To waste, especially time.
3. (transitive) To make fertile.
4. (transitive, Yeshivish) To nullify.
5. (transitive, intransitive, Oxford University) To supply with provisions from the buttery.

noun

1. (nautical) A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc., used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.
2. (theater) In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.
3. A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.
4. The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.
2. (intransitive) To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.
3. (intransitive) To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.
4. (intransitive) To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.
5. (intransitive, figurative) To feed (on); to revel (in).
6. (nautical) To fasten or secure a hatch etc using battens.
7. (transitive) To fertilize or enrich, as land.
8. (transitive) To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.
9. To furnish with battens.

noun

1. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
2. (cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.
3. (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
4. (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
5. (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
6. (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
7. (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
8. A paste of clay or loam.
9. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

verb

1. (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
2. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
3. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
4. (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
5. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
6. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

adj

1. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) Fertile; fruitful.
2. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening.

noun

1. (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
2. (military, clipping of) battle buddy
3. (military, now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
4. (military, obsolete) The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
5. A contest, a struggle.

verb

1. (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
2. (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
3. To feed or nourish (someone or something).
4. To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.

noun

1. (countable, hunting) A hunt performed in this manner.
2. (uncountable, hunting, often attributively) A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc.

noun

1. A springboard in a circus or gymnasium.

noun

1. (historical) A silver coin minted in Bern, Switzerland from the 15th century until the mid-19th century, equal to 10 rappen.