HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Any plant of the genus Akebia, especially the invasive plant Akebia quinata.

adj

1. (in combination) Having specified type of back.
2. (in combination) Having specified type of backing.
3. (obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of back

adj

1. (phonetics) comparative form of back: more back

noun

1. One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs an entrant in a contest, or who supports an enterprise by funding it.

noun

1. (Scotland) A shallow wooden trough for carrying ashes, coals, etc.

noun

1. (colloquial) A ride on the back of a bicycle or motorbike.

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.

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. 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. (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.

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.

adj

1. (often in combination) Having a beak.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beak

noun

1. (slang, Antarctica) A scientist.
2. A drinking vessel without a handle, sometimes for the use of children.
3. A flat-bottomed vessel, with a lip, used as a laboratory container.
4. A mug.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beck

noun

1. (archaic) A European fish, Pagrus pagrus

noun

1. (England, dialect, historical) A spade for digging turf in the Fens.
2. (nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
3. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
4. (nautical) The clevis of a pulley block.
5. (nautical, slang) A pocket in clothing.
6. (obsolete) chough (the bird)
7. (sewing) A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.
8. A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
9. An eye in the end of a rope.

noun

1. A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.
2. A sign made without words; a beck.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To seem attractive and inviting
2. (transitive, intransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To darken.

verb

1. (transitive) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

noun

1. An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.

verb

1. (transitive) To duck or immerse thoroughly; submerge.

verb

1. (reflexive) To behave or dress as a duke.
2. (transitive) To make a duke.

noun

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) A disappointment; trick.

verb

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To deceive; disappoint; jilt.

verb

1. (archaic, Scotland) To play a trick on, make a fool of.

noun

1. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) An illusion; trick; cheat.

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To befool; deceive; balk; jilt.

verb

1. (transitive) to kiss intensely or excessively
2. (transitive, rare) to kiss repeatedly; cover with kisses.

verb

1. (transitive) To girdle or encircle.
2. (transitive) To knit.

verb

1. (transitive) To acknowledge; own; confess.
2. (transitive) To know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To lick or lick about.

adv

1. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England) Likely, probably, perhaps, haply.

noun

1. An object of affection or liking.

verb

1. (impersonal) To be pleasing to; please.
2. (transitive) To be like; resemble.
3. (transitive) To like; be pleased with.
4. (transitive) To make like; simulate.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To lock up or lock in place; hold tight; fasten.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To look about or around; look over or across; look after; give a look to; look at.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To mask; cover or conceal with a mask; conceal.

verb

1. (archaic) To ridicule or mock.
2. (transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.
3. (transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout.
4. (transitive, archaic) To make up as something else, to make into an imitation or semblance

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To beseech; entreat.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To take oneself.
2. (reflexive, archaic) To commit to a specified action.
3. (reflexive, archaic) To take oneself to; go or move; repair; resort; have recourse.
4. (transitive) To beteach.
5. (transitive, archaic) To commend or entrust to; to commit to.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; lay hold of; take.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To take over to; take across (to); deliver.

verb

1. (intransitive, dialectal) To talk repeatedly.
2. (transitive, chiefly dialectal, sometimes reflexive) To talk about; discuss; tell; count; give an account (of).

verb

1. simple past tense of betake

verb

1. (intransitive) To keep awake; watch.
2. (transitive) To awaken thoroughly; keep awake.
3. (transitive) To spend waking; watch through.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To watch over (a body); observe funeral rites for.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To watch; keep watch over; guard.

verb

1. (transitive) To work around or about; surround.
2. (transitive) To work over; rework; edit.
3. (transitive) To work, as with thread; embroider.

noun

1. Alternative form of beylic

noun

1. (Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
2. (Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
3. A skirmish; an encounter.
4. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
5. The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.

verb

1. (of rain) To patter.
2. To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
3. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
4. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

noun

1. plural of biker

noun

1. plural of bikie

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bilk

noun

1. A cheat, especially one who evades payment.

adj

1. (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland and Northern England) Made of birch; birchen.

Noun

1. a kind of American cross country ski race.

noun

1. plural of bleak

adj

1. (obsolete) bleak

noun

1. plural of bloke

noun

1. (US, dialect, archaic, New York) A large basket woven from oak splints.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bonk

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of book

noun

1. (obsolete) A scholar; a scribe.
2. One who makes a reservation.
3. One who records transactions, such as reservations.

noun

1. (informal) A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.

adj

1. (Australia, slang, obsolete) excellent; wonderful; bonzer.

noun

1. A small grove or copse of trees, a thicket.

adj

1. (mechanical engineering, rail transport, aviation, of a wheel) Equipped with brakes (the vehicle-stopping devices).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of brake

noun

1. One who brakes.

noun

1. plural of brake

verb

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

noun

1. plural of break

verb

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

noun

1. (Scotland) Pants, breeches.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of brekkie

adj

1. (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
2. (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
3. (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
4. (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
5. (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
6. (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
7. (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
8. (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
9. (of land) Uneven.
10. (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
11. (of skin) Split or ruptured.
12. (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
13. (software, informal) Badly designed or implemented.
14. (sports and gaming, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
15. Fragmented; in separate pieces.
16. Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
17. Non-functional; not functioning properly.

verb

1. past participle of break

adj

1. comparative form of broke: more broke

noun

1. (computing) An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.
2. A mediator between a buyer and seller.
3. A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.
4. A stockbroker.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.
2. (transitive) To act as a broker in; to arrange or negotiate.

verb

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

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of brook

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of broke

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buck

noun

1. (mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
2. (mining) One who bucks ore.
3. A horse or other animal that bucks.

noun

1. (MTE, slang) an insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
2. (UK, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
3. (aviation, mechanical engineering, uncommon) A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
4. (basketball, informal) A field goal.
5. (basketball, informal) The basket.
6. (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
7. (informal, chiefly in the plural) A great deal of anything.
8. (informal, chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
9. (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
10. (slang, humorous) A helmet.
11. (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
12. A bucket bag.
13. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
14. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
15. The amount held in this container.
16. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
17. The pitcher in certain orchids.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
2. (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
3. (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
4. (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
5. (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
6. (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
7. (transitive, Australia, slang) To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
8. (transitive, UK, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

noun

1. (Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
2. (US, baking) A cake baked with fresh fruit and a streusel topping.
3. (countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
4. (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
5. A contorted expression, as of the face.
6. A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
7. A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.

verb

1. (Scotland) To unite in marriage.
2. (intransitive) To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
3. (intransitive) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
6. (transitive) To fasten using a buckle.
7. (transitive) To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
8. To buckle down; to apply oneself.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bulk

noun

1. (nautical) A bulk dry goods cargo ship.
2. (nautical) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
3. A person who bulks (gains body mass).
4. Anything, such as a dietary supplement or an exercise, that helps a person to gain body mass.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bunk

noun

1. (Britain, chiefly historical) A large bin or container for storing coal, often built outdoors in the yard of a house.
2. (Britain, slang) One who bunks off; a truant from school.
3. (US, regional) The menhaden, any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium.
4. (golf) A hazard on a golf course consisting of a sand-filled hollow.
5. (military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
6. (nautical) A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine; (by extension) the quantity of fuel needed to replenish that container.
7. (paintball) An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
8. (rail transport) The coal compartment on a tank engine.
9. (slang) A kitchen worktop.
10. A sort of box or chest, as in a window, the lid of which serves as a seat.

verb

1. (Nigeria) To steal bunker fuel by illicitly siphoning it off.
2. (by extension, Britain, informal) To place (someone) in a position that is difficult to get out of; to hinder.
3. (golf) To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker.
4. (nautical) Of a vessel: to take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine.
5. (paintball) To fire constantly at (an opponent hiding behind an obstacle), trapping them and preventing them from firing at other players; also, to eliminate (an opponent behind an obstacle) by rushing to the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.
6. Often followed by down: to take shelter in a bunker or other place.
7. To load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine.

noun

1. Familiar term of address.
2. a small cabin with a bunk or bed(s), a free-standing bedroom or sleeping area separate from the main house or cottage, which may or may not have other facilities (a fully outfitted outbuilding with a kitchen or bathroom would be a guest house and not a bunkie)
3. bunkmate, someone with which one shares a bunk bed.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of burke

noun

1. (UK, slang, historical) One who burkes; one who murders in order to sell the body to an anatomist, surgeon, etc.

noun

1. plural of burke

adj

1. Wearing a busk.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of busk

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada, US) A person who makes money by passing the hat (soliciting donations) while entertaining the public (often by playing a musical instrument) on the streets or in other public area such as a park or market.

noun

1. (obsolete) A small bush.
2. (obsolete) A sprig or bouquet.
3. (obsolete) Part of a garden devoted to shrubs.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive, often reflexive) To prepare or equip; make ready; set out; hurry about; bustle

verb

1. (intransitive) To disembark.
2. (transitive) To unload goods from an aircraft or ship.
3. (transitive, forestry) To remove the bark from a tree, especially one that has been felled.
4. (transitive, veterinary medicine) To devocalize (a dog).

verb

1. (transitive) To remove part of the beak of a chicken or other bird to prevent pecking in chicken farms.

verb

1. (transitive) To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.

verb

1. to throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone

verb

1. (transitive) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
2. (transitive) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.
3. To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane.
4. To start, begin.

verb

1. to hide or conceal in leaves

Proper noun

1. A dormant volcano in the Caucasus, on the border between North Ossetia, Russia and Georgia.

noun

1. plural of kebab

verb

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

noun

1. cudgel, staff

noun

1. plural of kebob

verb

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

noun

1. A style of gamelan music based on a five-tone scale, with marked changes in tempo.