HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (biology, of the eyes of an insect) That lack cones

noun

1. (sports, countable) One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce.
2. (sports, uncountable) A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Boche.

noun

1. (British, Ireland, slang) the human head
2. (dated) The kind of marble used in the game of bonce about.

noun

1. A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
2. A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.

verb

1. To appear in a cameo role.

noun

1. (gambling) Any of the deflectors positioned around a roulette wheel, shaped like upside-down boats.
2. (slang) An oversize, usually older, luxury car.
3. A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.

verb

1. To ride or paddle a canoe.

noun

1. The tree Erythrina crista-galli.

noun

1. A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
2. cellophane

noun

1. Alternative spelling of coelom

noun

1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.

noun

1. (historical) An Anglo-Saxon churl.

noun

1. plural of cero

noun

1. plural of chous

noun

1. (electronics) A choking coil.
2. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
3. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
4. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
5. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
6. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
7. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.

verb

1. (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
2. (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
3. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
4. (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
5. (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
6. (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
7. (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
8. (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
9. (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
10. (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
11. (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
12. (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
13. (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
14. (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
15. To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

noun

1. (obsolete) A choir or chorus.
2. A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.

verb

1. (Scotland, dialect) To steal.
2. (US, dated) To do chores.

noun

1. (law) A thing; personal property.

verb

1. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of choose
2. simple past tense of choose
3. simple past tense of chuse

noun

1. Archaic spelling of cloak.

noun

1. (cytology) A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.
2. (informal) A person who is exactly like another person, in terms of looks or behavior.
3. A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
4. A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.

verb

1. (transitive) To create a clone of.

adj

1. (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
2. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
3. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
4. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
5. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
6. (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
7. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
8. (now rare) Closed, shut.
9. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
10. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
11. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
12. At a little distance; near.
13. Intimate; well-loved.
14. Marked, evident.
15. Narrow; confined.
16. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
17. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
18. Short.
19. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.

noun

1. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
2. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
3. (aviation, travel) The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
4. (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
5. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
6. (music) A double bar marking the end.
7. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
8. (now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field.
9. (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
10. A cathedral close.
11. A grapple in wrestling.
12. An end or conclusion.
13. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.

verb

1. (Philippines) To turn off; to switch off.
2. (baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
3. (figurative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
4. (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
5. (marketing) To make a sale.
6. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
7. (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
8. (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
9. (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
10. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
11. To come to an end.
12. To grapple; to engage in close combat.
13. To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
14. To move so that an opening is closed.
15. To obstruct (an opening).
16. To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.

noun

1. (obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.

noun

1. (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
2. (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
3. (geography) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
4. (horticulture, cooking) One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.
5. (uncountable, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

verb

1. simple past tense of cleave

noun

1. (education) A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text.

noun

1. (nautical) small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of cock

noun

1. (computing) A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.

adj

1. Encoded; written in code or cipher.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of code

noun

1. Abbreviation of congressional delegation. Government-paid trips abroad, designed to give lawmakers first-hand knowledge of matters relevant to their legislation.

noun

1. (computing) A programmer.
2. A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses.
3. A person who assigns codes or classifications.

noun

1. plural of code

verb

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

noun

1. A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
2. An early manuscript book.
3. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

noun

1. plural of coed

Proper noun

1. The Titan of intelligence; the father of Leto and Asteria.

noun

1. cogeneration; a combination heating plant and power generator.

noun

1. (chiefly Scotland) A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.

noun

1. A Jewish priest: direct male descendant of the Biblical high priest Aaron, brother of Moses.

adj

1. Intoxicated with cocaine.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of coke

noun

1. (category theory, informal) cokernel
2. (derogatory, slang) A cocaine addict, a cokehead
3. The industrial plant in which coke is manufactured

noun

1. plural of coke

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of colead

noun

1. plural of cole

noun

1. (obsolete) A lower servant in a church.

noun

1. coalfish, Pollachius virens

noun

1. plural of coma (“cometary dust cloud, etc”)
2. plural of coma (“cometary nuclear dust cloud”)

noun

1. A cirque.
2. A valley, often wooded and often with no river

noun

1. (figuratively) One who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory.
2. One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning.
3. One who arrives.

noun

1. (music) The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.

verb

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

noun

1. (astronomy) A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
2. A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.
3. Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.

noun

1. A French count.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of conn

verb

1. (transitive, rare) To direct a ship.

adj

1. (conical) Shaped like a cone.
2. (of an area) segregated or delineated by traffic cones

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cone

noun

1. (slang, Canada, Ireland) A zoot tapered to a conical shape.

noun

1. plural of cone

verb

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

noun

1. (Jamaica) the Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii), a hutia endemic to Jamaica
2. Alternative spelling of cony (fish).
3. Alternative spelling of cony (rabbit).

noun

1. (architecture) Alternative form of congé: an apophyge or cavetto.
2. (historical, obsolete) Alternative form of congy, congius, ancient Roman units of liquid measure and mass.
3. Alternative form of congee: a leavetaking, a farewell.

verb

1. Synonym of congee: to take leave, to bid farewell, in various senses; to bow, to curtsey, etc.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of coo

intj

1. (informal, chiefly Australia, UK) Used to attract someone's attention.

noun

1. (Australia, informal, onomatopoeia) A long, loud call used to attract attention when at a distance, mainly done in the Australian bush.
2. (Australia, informal, with "within", also figuratively) A short distance; hailing distance.

verb

1. (intransitive, Australia, informal) To make such a call.

noun

1. One who coos.

intj

1. Alternative spelling of cooee

Proper noun

1. for a cook, or a seller of cooked food.

adj

1. Clad in a cope.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cope

noun

1. The copaiba tree.

noun

1. (Britain) A floating grogshop supplying the North Sea fishing industry.
2. One who copes.

verb

1. (Britain) To supply the North Sea fishing industry from a floating grogshop.

noun

1. plural of cope

verb

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

noun

1. A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
2. Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
3. Any woodland or woodlot.

verb

1. (transitive, horticulture) To plant and preserve.
2. (transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.

noun

1. A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.

adj

1. (obsolete) crooked

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of core

noun

1. (geology) A device used to take core samples for analysis
2. A utensil for removing the core from apples and similar fruit or vegetables

noun

1. plural of core

verb

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

noun

1. (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
2. (obsolete) A (living) body.

noun

1. Alternative form of corf

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cose

verb

1. Alternative form of cozen.

noun

1. plural of cos

verb

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

noun

1. (algebra, group theory) The set that results from applying a group's binary operation with a given fixed element of the group on each element of a given subgroup.

adj

1. Archaic spelling of cosy.

adj

1. (Scotland) Cosy.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cote

noun

1. plural of cote

noun

1. Alternative form of coath

noun

1. (US, Canada, automotive) A car with two doors (variant of coupé).
2. A shallow glass or glass dish, usually with a stem, in which sparkling wine or desserts are served.
3. A two-seater car, normally a sports car. (variant of coupé)
4. An area of forest where harvesting of wood is planned or has taken place.
5. An ice cream dessert served in a coupe glass; the glass it is served in.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cove

noun

1. A clique that shares common interests or activities.
2. A family, group or assembly of vampires.
3. A formal group or assembly of witches.

adj

1. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
2. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.

noun

1. (combinatorics, topology) A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
2. (construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
3. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
4. (dated) A swindler's confederate.
5. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
6. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
7. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
8. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
9. (music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
10. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
11. (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
12. A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
13. A cover charge.
14. A lid.
15. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
16. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
17. The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
18. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
19. The top sheet of a bed.

verb

1. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
2. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
3. (intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
4. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
5. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
6. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
7. (sports) To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
8. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
9. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
10. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
11. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
12. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
13. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
14. To be enough money for.
15. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
16. To deal with or include someone or something.
17. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
18. To provide insurance coverage for.
19. To traverse or put behind a certain distance.

noun

1. plural of cove

verb

1. (intransitive) To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession.
2. (transitive) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
3. (transitive) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.

noun

1. (Britain, slang, dated) A man.
2. A brood of partridges, grouse, etc.
3. A group of 8–12 (or more) quail.
4. A party or group (of persons or things).
5. Coordinate terms: flock, gaggle, host

verb

1. (intransitive) To brood; to incubate.

adj

1. For quotations using this term, see Citations:cowed.
2. Frightened into submission.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cow

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of cowan (one uninitiated in the secrets of Freemasonry).

verb

1. (intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.
4. (transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.

Proper noun

1. A town on the north coast of the Isle of Wight, England.

noun

1. (Britain, Northumbria) A left-handed person.
2. (Britain, Northumbria) A pill, especially of the drug ecstasy.

noun

1. plural of coxa

adj

1. Having a cox

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cox

noun

1. plural of cox

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of coy

adj

1. comparative form of coy: more coy

Proper noun

1. A town in Oklahoma, US.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of coze

verb

1. (archaic) To cheat; to defraud; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
2. (intransitive) To become cozy; (by extension) to become acquainted, comfortable, or familiar with.

noun

1. plural of coze

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of cosie

noun

1. (Christianity) The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services.
2. A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.

Proper noun

1. King of Thebes, noted primarily in the stories of Antigone and Oedipus.

noun

1. (UK, East Anglia) A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.
2. (music) Alternative form of croma (“a quaver”)
3. plural of croma

verb

1. (UK, East Anglia) To use a crome.

noun

1. (archaic) An old woman.
2. (obsolete) An old ewe.
3. (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
4. An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
5. An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.

noun

1. (India) ten million; 10,000,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,000. Often used with units of money.