HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. A Persian ewer.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make white.

noun

1. (South Africa) Either species of Polyprion, the wreckfishes.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of baff

Proper noun

1. A region of Nunavut
2. An island in Nunavut, Baffin Island.
3. Baffin Bay.

noun

1. (US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
2. A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
3. An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.

verb

1. (intransitive) To struggle in vain.
2. (now rare) To foil; to thwart.
3. (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
4. (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
5. To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.

noun

1. Alternative form of bafta (“fabric”)

noun

1. A large assortment.
2. An amount; the contents of one full bag.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of barf

noun

1. (slang, derogatory) a person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment
2. (slang, derogatory) a promiscuous person, especially a woman, who frequents bars hoping to find sexual partners

adj

1. (archaic) Full of obstructions.

noun

1. Enough people to fill a bar.

verb

1. (chemistry) To make more basic (less acidic)

adj

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Rich; fertile, as in reference to land or soil.

verb

1. (transitive) To befool; make a fool of.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To confound or stupefy.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beef

noun

1. (slang) A person with a beefy build.
2. A cow used for beef and not milk.

noun

1. Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.

verb

1. (intransitive) To happen.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To fall.
3. (transitive) To fall upon; fall all over; overtake
4. (transitive) To happen to.

verb

1. simple past tense of befall

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To make filthy; befoul; soil.

verb

1. (passive, obsolete) To be found; be.
2. (transitive, archaic) To find; discover.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To invent; contrive.

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To decorate with a flag or flags; to hang a flag or flags on.

verb

1. (transitive) To pester, as fleas do.

verb

1. (transitive) To spatter or cover with foam.

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone).

adv

1. At an earlier time.
2. At the front end.
3. In advance.

conj

1. (informal) Rather or sooner than.
2. In advance of the time when.

prep

1. At a higher or greater position than, in a ranking.
2. Earlier than (in time).
3. In front of in space.
4. In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items.
5. In store for, in the future of (someone).
6. In the presence of.
7. Under consideration, judgment, authority of (someone).

verb

1. (figuratively) To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
2. (specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
3. To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
4. To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.

verb

1. (transitive) To entrust; endow.
2. (transitive) To give a gift or gifts to; bestow or present with gifts.
3. (transitive) To give as a gift.

noun

1. (when adopted by someone else) One's role or rightful place; stead or authority.
2. The interest, benefit, or wellbeing of someone or something.

noun

1. (dated) That which is advantageous to a person; behalf, interest, advantage, profit, benefit.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of beleave

noun

1. (architecture) A part of a large tower or steeple, specifically for containing bells.
2. (architecture) A tower or steeple specifically for containing bells, especially as part of a church.
3. (dialectal) A shed.
4. (obsolete) A movable tower used in sieges.
5. (obsolete) An alarm-tower; a watchtower containing an alarm-bell.

noun

1. (countable) Something believed.
2. (in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.
3. (uncountable) Religious faith.
4. (uncountable) The quality or state of believing.
5. Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.
6. Mental acceptance of a claim as true.

verb

1. (archaic) To puff out.
2. (archaic, transitive) To puff; praise fulsomely; bepraise.

adj

1. (of a person) Pained by the loss of someone.
2. Deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bereave

Proper noun

1. A short-lived secessionist state in southern Nigeria in the late 1960s.

noun

1. (archaeology) A double-sided stone tool

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of biff

noun

1. A deep-red cooking apple native to Britain.
2. Such an apple baked and flattened as a snack, popular in Norfolk.

adj

1. Of two kinds.
2. Twofold, double.

noun

1. (carpentry) A door, window, shutter, or divider consisting of two equal panels hinged together so that it opens by folding the panels against each other.
2. A crease or turn that causes something to double back on itself.
3. A sheet of paper or cardboard folded in half along a crease down the center.
4. A wallet, billfold, or carrying case with a single fold, so that it opens like a book.

adj

1. Having two distinct forms

noun

1. Enough to fill a bin.

noun

1. plural of bluff

verb

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

adj

1. (poker) Inclined to bluff; bluffing.
2. Having bluffs, or bold steep banks.
3. Inclined to be brusque.

noun

1. (fishing) The fly at the end of the leader.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, informal) An engineer or scientist, especially one engaged in technological or military research.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, informal, by extension) A person with specialized knowledge or skills, especially one who is socially awkward; (in a weaker sense) an intellectual; a smart person.

noun

1. plural of boffo

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To convert into, or make, good.

noun

1. One of several dipterous insects of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which are parasites on many animals, including humans.

noun

1. (music) A comic opera

verb

1. (transitive) To make bouffant.

noun

1. A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva, the last survivor of the order Amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the United States.

noun

1. as much as a box will hold

noun

1. (usually in the plural) A very short, close-fitting type of underpants.
2. plural of brief

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buff

adj

1. Comparative form of buff: more buff.

noun

1. (UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
2. (chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
3. (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
4. (computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
5. (figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
6. (mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
7. (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
8. (rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
9. (rail transport) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
10. (telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
11. A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
12. A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
13. An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.

verb

1. (chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
2. (computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
3. To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.

noun

1. (aviation, uncountable) The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
2. (countable) A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
3. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
4. A small low stool; a hassock.
5. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.

verb

1. (transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
2. (transitive, figurative) To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
3. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
4. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

noun

1. (obsolete) A sort of coarse material.

noun

1. (obsolete) A buffalo.

verb

1. (intransitive) To puzzle; to be at a loss.

noun

1. Synonym of buffont

adj

1. (rare) drunk.

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of confabulation (“a casual chat or talk”).

verb

1. (intransitive, informal) Clipping of confabulate (“to speak casually with somebody; to chat”).

adj

1. Alternative form of Fabian

Proper noun

1. name, of historical use in English.

adj

1. Known only in fables; fictitious.
2. Made known by fables or reputation; legendary, famed.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of fable

noun

1. A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.

noun

1. plural of fable

verb

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

noun

1. (archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
2. (archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
3. (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
4. (now rare) An edifice or building.
5. (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
6. A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
7. The framework underlying a structure.
8. The texture of a cloth.

verb

1. (transitive) To cover with fabric.

noun

1. (narratology) A series of events forming the basis of a story or narrative.

noun

1. (obsolete, slang) A hand.

adj

1. Deficient in physical strength.
2. Lacking force, vigor, or effectiveness in action or expression; faint.

verb

1. (obsolete) To make feeble; to enfeeble.

adv

1. In a feeble manner.

Noun

1. A particular fungicide.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of fib

noun

1. (informal) A liar.

noun

1. plural of fiber

adj

1. (especially in combination) Having (a specified form of) fibres.

noun

1. plural of fibre

noun

1. (biology) Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants
2. A fine fibre or filament

noun

1. A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood.
2. An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.
3. An elastic, insoluble, whitish protein produced by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen and forming an interlacing fibrous network in the coagulation of blood.

verb

1. To apply fibrin sealant to a surgical site to either stop bleeding or for surgical flap closure.

noun

1. (anatomy) The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg.
2. An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.

noun

1. The male hemp plant.

verb

1. (intransitive, dialectal) To fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely.

adj

1. (mathematics) Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.
2. (of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
3. (of writing, etc.) overwrought.
4. Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.

noun

1. (obsolete) A fan.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of flambé

adj

1. (slang) full of saliva

noun

1. (aviation, slang) An aircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft.
2. (printing, historical, slang) A man employed to clear the printed copies from the printing-press.

noun

1. plural of flyby

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of fob

noun

1. (meteorology) A white arc or circle, similar to a rainbow, which can appear in the sky in foggy conditions as sunlight passes through small airborne water droplets.

adj

1. (obsolete) Weak; feeble.

noun

1. (chiefly in the plural) A quirk, idiosyncrasy, or mannerism; an unusual habit that is slightly strange or silly.
2. (fencing) Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte.
3. A weakness or failing of character.

noun

1. (programming) A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words; compare foo, bar.
2. (slang) A serious mistake.

verb

1. Alternative spelling of forbade, the simple past tense of forbid.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To bar in; to shut up.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To bar, fend off, ward off.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To exclude, deny.

Proper noun

1. A ghost town in California
2. A town in New South Wales, Australia.
3. A city in North Dakota, USA

verb

1. (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
2. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
3. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

adv

1. Alternative form of forby

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To mock; deride; defame; publish the misdeeds of.

Proper noun

1. a coastal town within Sefton borough, Merseyside, England. Formerly in Lancashire.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of fub

noun

1. (Britain) A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.
2. (sports, American football, Canadian football) A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.

verb

1. (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
2. (slang, obsolete) Of a man, to sexually underperform.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
4. (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
5. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
6. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
7. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.

verb

1. (obsolete, rare) To weaken.