HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀 (ʾ), Classical Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (aleph) and Arabic ا (ʾalif).

adj

1. Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended.
2. Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive

det

1. (as pronoun) A quantity (of something) that is fully sufficient; plenty.
2. A fully sufficient or abundant quantity of; enough or more than enough.

noun

1. (fencing) An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of appeal

noun

1. (Christianity) The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
2. (baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball.
3. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
4. (ice hockey, slang) An assist.
5. (in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.
6. (informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
7. (slang) A CB radio enthusiast.
8. A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
9. A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
10. Any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing produced by a plant such as a gall or cone, especially if produced by a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.
11. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica, such as a globe, ball, or breast.
12. The Adam's apple.
13. The wood of the apple tree.

verb

1. (obsolete) To form buds, bulbs, or fruit.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become apple-like.

adv

1. yelping.

verb

1. (transitive, chiefly passive, obsolete) To lap or wrap around (someone or something); to envelop, to surround.

noun

1. (euphemistic) Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
2. (music, slang, uncountable) A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
3. A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.

verb

1. (intransitive) To emit one or more bleeps.
2. (transitive) To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.

noun

1. (Scotland) A thin membrane or small piece of skin.

noun

1. (mining) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.
2. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of caple (horse)
3. Alternative form of kappal (“ship”)

verb

1. (intransitive, Northern England) To gossip, particularly in a forthright manner.
2. (intransitive, Northern England) To speak rudely or out of turn.

noun

1. A bird, the northern flicker.

noun

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A cry; an appeal; a call.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To give a call; cry out; appeal.
2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To be loquacious; tattle; gossip.
3. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal, often with 'on') To tell lies about; inform against (someone).
4. (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call to oneself; invite; summon.
5. (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call by the name of; name.
6. (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call upon; cry out to.
7. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To report; relate; tell.

verb

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of clepe

noun

1. A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.

verb

1. To refine by means of a cupel.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of Delft (“style of earthenware”)

noun

1. (music) A traditional woodwind instrument used in Serbian, Croatian and Montenegrin music.
2. A mark once used in margins to draw attention to something in text.

adj

1. (of time or music) Having two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure.
2. (poetry) Having two beats in each foot.
3. (rare) Double.

verb

1. (intransitive, dated) To run away from home (for any reason).
2. (intransitive, of a married person) To run away from home with a paramour.
3. (intransitive, of an unmarried person) To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement.

verb

1. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
2. (transitive) To deport.
3. (transitive) To remove from membership.
4. To eject or erupt.

noun

1. Alternative form of flype (“a fold or flap”)

verb

1. Alternative form of flype

noun

1. (mathematics) A transformation of a knot involving a 180° rotation of a tangle
2. A fold or flap, especially of the brim of a hat

verb

1. (Scotland, dated, transitive) To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as when putting on or taking off a stocking.

noun

1. (heraldry) A roundel purpure (purple circular spot).

noun

1. plural of help

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action.
2. (transitive) To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation.

noun

1. (historical, medicine) A pleasant-tasting liquid medicine in which other nauseous medicines are taken.
2. A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs, especially mint, and sometimes alcohol.

noun

1. The Guatemalan stinging ant Ectatomma tuberculatum.

noun

1. plural of kelp

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of kelpie (shapeshifting spirit).

noun

1. Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on the front of a jacket or coat that are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between.

noun

1. (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
2. (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
3. (theology) A fall or apostasy.
4. A decline or fall in standards.
5. A pause in continuity.
6. A temporary failure; a slip.
7. A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
8. An interval of time between events.
9. memory lapse

verb

1. (intransitive) To become void.
2. (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
3. (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
4. To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
5. To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.

noun

1. plural of leap

noun

1. (botany, obsolete) A sterile transformed stamen.

noun

1. Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.

noun

1. (figurative) Synonym of outcast: A person who is shunned, a pariah.
2. A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.

verb

1. (figurative, now rare) Synonym of disfigure.
2. (figurative, now rare) Synonym of infect.
3. (figurative, now rare) Synonym of ostracize.
4. (figurative, now rare) Synonym of taint.
5. (now rare) To afflict with leprosy.

adj

1. (obsolete) pleasant; jocose

noun

1. (slang, US) A young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.

noun

1. (botany, rare, obsolete) Any layer of algae, lichens, or other substance producing a leprosylike appearance on the surfaces of plants.
2. (medicine, archaic) Synonym of leprosy.
3. (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of psoriasis.

noun

1. (obsolete) leprosy

noun

1. (proscribed) Alternative form of lepton
2. plural of lepton (coin)

noun

1. A pause or period of slackening.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of lope

noun

1. (ropemaking) A swivel placed at one end of the ropewalk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.
2. One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper.

noun

1. plural of lope

verb

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

noun

1. A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
2. A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.

noun

1. A tree of the genus Acer, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.
2. The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance

noun

1. plural of olpe

noun

1. (Scotland, dated) Cyclopterus lumpus, the lumpsucker or lumpfish.

noun

1. (botany) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.
2. (botany) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

adj

1. (obsolete) Enclosed with a paling.
2. (obsolete) Striped.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of pale

adj

1. comparative form of pale: more pale

noun

1. plural of pale
2. plural of palea

verb

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

noun

1. (heraldry) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

noun

1. (Britain, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
2. (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
3. (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
4. (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
5. (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
6. (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
7. (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
8. (law) The whole jury.
9. (law, Scotland) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
10. (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
11. (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
12. (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
13. (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
14. (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
15. (obsolete) A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
16. A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
17. A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
18. A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
19. A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
20. A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To enter (jury members) on an official list of jurors; to empanel.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To fit (an animal, especially a mule or ass) with a panel or simple padded saddle.
3. (transitive) To fit (a room etc.) with panels.

noun

1. (obsolete) A nasty encounter.
2. (obsolete) Parley; talk.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To talk; to converse; to parley.

noun

1. (India, historical) A village head man.

noun

1. plural of peal

verb

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

noun

1. (euphemistic, vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
2. (figurative) A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip that is operationally useful for decision-making.
3. (figuratively) Something precious.
4. (obsolete) A jewel or gem.
5. (uncountable, typography, printing, dated) The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as 5-point.
6. A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.
7. A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
8. A fringe or border.
9. A light-colored tern.
10. A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
11. A whitish speck or film on the eye.
12. Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
13. One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

verb

1. (intransitive) To hunt for pearls
2. (intransitive) To resemble pearl or pearls.
3. (intransitive, surfing) Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.
4. (intransitive, surfing) To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
5. (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
6. (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.
7. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.

adj

1. Of or relating to the foot.

noun

1. (equestrianism, humorous) A stirrup.
2. (medicine) an orthopedic structure or a footlike part.
3. (music) An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
4. (music) The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ.
5. A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano

verb

1. To operate a bicycle.
2. To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.

noun

1. (archaic) A kind of antelope, the rhebok, Pelea capreolus.

noun

1. plural of peel

verb

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

noun

1. plural of pelf

noun

1. (art, historical) A crescent-shaped design used in mosaics.
2. (botany) A flat apothecium with no rim.
3. (historical) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped.
4. (microbiology) A crescent-shaped sheet of microtubules that encircles the base of the flagella of a protozoan.

noun

1. plural of pelt

verb

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

adj

1. Of or relating to punishment.
2. Serving as a place of punishment.
3. Subject to punishment; punishable.

noun

1. (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
2. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
3. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.

verb

1. (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.

noun

1. (botany) One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.
2. A lobe of a rose (geometric shape).
3. Term of endearment.

verb

1. To spread out from, like the petals of a flower

noun

1. (historical) A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.
2. (historical) A subdivision of the priestly caste in ancient Egypt, headed by a phylarch.

noun

1. plural of pileum

adj

1. (iron manufacturing) Formed from a pile or fagot.
2. Having a pile or nap.
3. Having a pile or point; pointed.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of pile

noun

1. plural of pileus

noun

1. One who piles something

noun

1. (informal, piles of) A large amount of.
2. (pathology) Haemorrhoids.
3. Many women get piles when pregnant.
4. plural of pile

verb

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

noun

1. One of the squares that make up a pixel art work or a zoomed in image in a computer.
2. One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.

verb

1. To create computer graphics by editing individual pixels.

noun

1. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
2. (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
3. (horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
4. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
5. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
6. (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
7. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
8. (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
9. A location or position in space.
10. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
11. A role or purpose; a station.
12. A state of mind.
13. An area of the body, especially the skin.
14. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
15. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
16. Any area of the earth: a region.
17. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
18. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
19. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
20. The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
21. The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
22. The position as a member of a sports team.
23. The position of a contestant in a competition.

verb

1. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
2. (intransitive, racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
3. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
4. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
5. (transitive) To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar).
6. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
7. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
8. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
9. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
10. (transitive, passive) To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.

noun

1. (astronomy) A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun.
2. (geography, obsolete) A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.

adj

1. Of a surface: flat or level.

noun

1. (Northern UK) A sycamore.
2. (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
3. (computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.
4. (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
5. (countable, carpentry) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
6. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.
7. (entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
8. (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
9. A level of existence or development.
10. A level or flat surface.
11. A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc. (Compare wing, airfoil, hydrofoil.)
12. An airplane; an aeroplane.

verb

1. (nautical, of a boat) To move in a way that lifts the bow out of the water.
2. (transitive, carpentry) To smooth (wood) with a plane.
3. To glide or soar.

noun

1. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
3. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
4. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
5. (baseball) Home plate.
6. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
7. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
8. (dated) An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
9. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
10. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
11. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
12. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
13. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
14. (geology) A tectonic plate.
15. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
16. (heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.
17. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
18. (historical) Plate armor.
19. (military) trauma plate.
20. (music) A record, usually vinyl.
21. (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
22. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
23. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
24. (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
25. (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
26. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
27. A course at a meal.
28. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
29. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
30. A material covered with such a layer.
31. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
32. A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
33. A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
34. A vehicle license plate.
35. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
36. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
37. Precious metal, especially silver.
38. The contents of such a dish.

verb

1. (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
2. (baseball) To score a run.
3. (philately) (particularly with early British stamps) to identify the printing plate used.
4. (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
5. (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
6. (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
7. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
8. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.

verb

1. (intransitive) To beg, beseech, or implore.
2. (transitive) To discuss by arguments.
3. (transitive) To offer by way of excuse.
4. (transitive, intransitive, copulative) To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.

noun

1. plural of plea

verb

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

noun

1. (botany) A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.
2. (sewing) A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
3. A plait.

verb

1. (transitive) To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.
2. To plait.

noun

1. (US, military, slang) A freshman cadet at a military academy.
2. (historical, obsolete) The plebs, the plebeian class.
3. (historical, usually in the plural) A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens.
4. (obsolete) The similar lower class of any area.

noun

1. (historical) The plebeian class of Ancient Rome.
2. The common people, especially (derogatory) the mob.
3. plural of pleb

noun

1. (UK dialectal) A plot of ground.

noun

1. (music, countable) A song in this style
2. (music, uncountable) A style of Puerto Rican music having a highly syncopated rhythm and often satirical lyrics
3. plural of plenum

noun

1. (zoology) the abdomen of a crustacean

noun

1. plural of plew

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of ply

noun

1. One who plies.
2. attributive form of pliers

noun

1. plural of plie
2. plural of ply

verb

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

noun

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which a word is repeated so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality.

noun

1. (archaic, literary and poetic) A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle.
2. (archaic, literary and poetic) A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration.
3. (astronomy) An arc of glowing material (chiefly gases) erupting from the surface of a star.
4. (botany) A large and flexible panicle of an inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
5. (figurative) A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
6. (geology) Short for mantle plume (“an upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere”).
7. A cloud formed by a dispersed substance fanning out or spreading.
8. An upward spray of mist or water.
9. More fully gill plume: a feathery gill of some crustaceans and molluscs.
10. Short for plume moth (“a small, slender moth of the family Pterophoridae”).
11. The furry tail of certain dog breeds (such as the Samoyed) that curls over their backs or stands erect.
12. The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
13. Things resembling a feather.

verb

1. (by extension) To peel, to strip completely; to pillage; also, to deprive of power.
2. (falconry, obsolete) Of a hawk: to pluck the feathers from prey.
3. (intransitive) Of a dispersed substance such as dust or smoke: to fan out or spread in a cloud.
4. (transitive, also figurative) To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes.
5. (transitive, archaic) To strip (a bird) of feathers; to pluck.
6. (transitive, reflexive) Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence (figurative), to prepare for (something).
7. (transitive, reflexive, by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate.

noun

1. A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a Saint Andrew's cross.
2. Alternative spelling of plier

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of pole

noun

1. (obsolete) An extortioner.
2. A horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle.
3. One who propels a boat using a pole.