HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. The most senior of the five great officers of state in the medieval French royal court.
2. The official title of the steward in a medieval English nobleman's household.
3. The servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal.

noun

1. either of two flaps attached to a cap that cover the ears

noun

1. A compellation for an elf.

noun

1. A blinder on a horse's bridle.

noun

1. The leader of an atoll of Tokelau.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of feldspar

noun

1. Synonym of redtop (“the grass Agrostis vulgaris”)

noun

1. (now historical) A fivepenny; a fivepenny bit.
2. (slang) A flick-knife.

noun

1. plural of fipple

noun

1. A pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun.

noun

1. A pot used to hold or carry fire.
2. An early incendiary device, an earthenware pot filled with combustible materials and ignited through a hole in the bottom.

adj

1. Fitted with a flap.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of flap

noun

1. (colloquial, chiefly historical) A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum or displaying daring freedom or boldness; now particularly associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
2. (colloquial, historical) A young girl usually between the ages of 15 and 18, especially one not "out" socially.
3. (hunting) A young game bird just able to fly, particularly a wild duck.
4. (plumbing) A flapper valve.
5. (rock climbing) Any injury that results in a loose flap of skin on the fingers, making gripping difficult.
6. (slang) The hand.
7. A flipper; a limb of a turtle, which functions as a flipper or paddle when swimming.
8. One who or that which flaps.

noun

1. An African lark Mirafra rufocinnamomea; properly the flappet lark

noun

1. Alternative spelling of flea pit

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of flip

noun

1. (cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
2. (dated, slang) The hand.
3. (dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
4. (informal, US) Television remote control, clicker.
5. (theater) A small flat used to support a larger one.
6. A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.
7. A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.
8. A kitchen spatula.
9. In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming.
10. Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin.
11. Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit.

verb

1. To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of flop

noun

1. (US, slang) A person who deliberately falls down on a slippery floor or in front of an automobile etc. so as to claim compensation.
2. (skittles) The knocking down of all nine pins in one go.
3. One who flops.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of flump

noun

1. Condition of possessing any enemies.
2. enmity

noun

1. Stupidity.
2. The dress or actions of a fop.

noun

1. An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.

noun

1. Either of the paws of an animal's foreleg, homologous to the hand in humans.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) An erect tuft of hair.
2. (nautical) A platform at the top of the foremast, supported by the trestle trees.
3. (obsolete) A fop; one who sports a foretop.
4. (obsolete) In the phrase, to take time (or occasion or opportunity) by the foretop, meaning "to boldly seize an opportunity".
5. (obsolete) The lock of hair which grows on top of the forehead; the corresponding part of a wig.
6. (obsolete) The top of the head; the top of the forehead.
7. The forelock of a horse.
8. The front seat at the top of a horse-drawn vehicle.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To pine away.
2. (transitive, archaic) To waste away through suffering or through torment.
3. 1924, G. M. Cookson, Prometheus Bound

verb

1. (intransitive, chiefly obsolete) To exhaust (oneself) with weeping; weep excessively; (of a vine) to bleed excessively.

noun

1. (obsolete) A blusterer; a rowdy.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of frap

noun

1. plural of frappe

noun

1. (obsolete) One who deals in frippery or old clothes.

noun

1. (obsolete) A frivolous young woman.

verb

1. (transitive) To wrinkle; crumple; ruffle; disorder.

adj

1. Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.

adj

1. feeling hope
2. inspiring hope

noun

1. Someone who is hoping for success or victory, especially as a candidate in a political election.

intj

1. The sound of something flopping heavily, or moving along in a flopping manner.

noun

1. A Berliner (doughnut with sweet filling).

noun

1. A coarse American composite weed, Polymnia uvedalia, now Smallanthus uvedalia.

adj

1. Full of leaps: requiring one to leap or making many leaps.

noun

1. (obsolete) workmanship

noun

1. As much (text etc.) as a page will hold.

noun

1. (historical) A small horse with a smooth, ambling gait, popular in the Middle Ages with nobles and women for riding (contrasted with a warhorse).

noun

1. Alternative form of paraffle

noun

1. A pheasant of the genus Pavo or Afropavo, notable for the extravagant tails of the males; a peacock (unspecified sex).

noun

1. Alternative spelling of pinfold

adj

1. (biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
2. (botany) Of flowers, having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).
3. (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a completed action.
4. (mathematical analysis) Of a set: equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A'.
5. (mathematics) Of a number: equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
6. (music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
7. (obsolete) Innocent, guiltless.
8. (obsolete) Well informed; certain; sure.
9. (of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.
10. Excellent and delightful in all respects.
11. Fitting its definition precisely.
12. Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
13. Without fault or mistake; thoroughly skilled or talented.

noun

1. (grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
2. (historical, Christianity) A leader of the Cathar movement.
3. (video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.

verb

1. (law) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.
2. (transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.

noun

1. (law) Specifically, in warfare, an illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack.
2. A state or act of deceit.
3. A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust

noun

1. plural of perfin

verb

1. (by extension, transitive) To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
2. (intransitive) To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.
3. (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
4. (intransitive) To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.
5. (transitive) To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
6. (transitive) To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).
7. (transitive) To do (something); to execute.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.

noun

1. (cosmetics) A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.
2. A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor

verb

1. (transitive) To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

adj

1. Alternative form of perfumey

verb

1. (transitive) To force a fluid to flow over or through something, especially through an organ of the body.
2. (transitive) To permeate or suffuse something, especially with a liquid or with light.

adj

1. pestiferous

verb

1. To pester or annoy
2. To treat with a pesticide

verb

1. (intransitive) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
2. (intransitive, figurative) To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
3. (transitive, figurative) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
4. To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
5. To immobilize with fright.
6. To produce rigidity akin to stone.

noun

1. (historical, numismatics) One hundredth of the former German mark (Deutsche Mark).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of piaffe

noun

1. A dressage movement in which a horse trots in a stationary position while using high lifting of the legs.

noun

1. plural of piaffe

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of piedfort (“unusually thick coin”)

noun

1. (music) A form of oboe
2. (music) A particular organ stop

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of piffle

noun

1. A blathering fool.

verb

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

noun

1. Any of various mesembryanthemums of the genus Carpobrotus, native to coastal areas of Australia, and producing edible fruits.

verb

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

noun

1. petty theft

noun

1. A bristly structure forming part of a hearing organ on the heads of hawkmoths of the subtribe Choerocampina, used in detecting the echolocation sounds of insectivorous bats.

noun

1. (firearms) An obsolete kind of brass cartridge in which the priming compound is ignited by striking a small pin which protrudes radially from just above the base of the cartridge.

noun

1. Enough tobacco to fill a pipe for smoking.

verb

1. (transitive) To make plebeian; to vulgarize.

noun

1. Enough to fill a poke; a bagful or sackful.

noun

1. A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species.
2. Any of several species of butterfishes in the genus Pampus.
3. The black pomfret, Parastromateus niger.
4. The golden pomfret, Trachinotus blochii.

noun

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, derogatory, slang) A male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
2. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, derogatory, slang) A pansy, an effeminate man.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of pouff
2. simple past tense and past participle of pouffe

noun

1. plural of pouffe

noun

1. plural of prefab

noun

1. (Roman Catholicism) The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.
2. A title or epithet.
3. An introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
4. The beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book.

verb

1. (transitive) To give a preface to.
2. (transitive) To introduce or make a comment before (the main point).

noun

1. (broadcasting) An audio fade prepared before broadcast.

verb

1. (broadcasting, transitive) To fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance.
2. (manufacturing, transitive) To give (clothing, etc.) a faded appearance at the time of manufacture.

noun

1. (Britain) A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.
2. (historical) An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
3. A commander.
4. The head of a county in Albania or Romania.
5. The head of a department in France.
6. The head of a prefecture in Japan.

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To file in advance.

verb

1. (transitive) To fill in advance.

verb

1. (obsolete) To limit beforehand.

adj

1. Before the occurrence of a fire.

verb

1. Alternative form of pre-fire.

noun

1. (archaeology) The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
2. (linguistics) A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.
3. An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.

verb

1. Misspelling of perform.
2. To shape something before some other operation.

adj

1. Before the start of life

verb

1. (transitive) To sift in advance.

adj

1. (obsolete) Disposed to take prey.
2. (obsolete) Rich in prey.

intj

1. (obsolete) A familiar salutation or welcome offered by a host before a meal or drinks are served.

adj

1. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain
2. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
3. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
4. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.

noun

1. (Freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
2. A person or thing that is profane.

verb

1. (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
2. (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate

noun

1. (law) The production or display of recorded evidence in court.

verb

1. (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
2. (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
3. (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
4. (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.
5. (transitive, chiefly passive) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
7. (transitive, now rare) To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).

noun

1. (obsolete) An attempt, an essay.
2. An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To attempt or essay of one's own accord; to undertake or propose to undertake.
2. (transitive, reflexive) To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.

noun

1. (Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
2. (archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
3. (architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
4. (civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
5. (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
6. (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
7. (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
8. (figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
9. (military slang) An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
10. (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.
11. Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
2. (transitive) To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
3. (transitive) To draw in profile or outline.
4. (transitive, engineering) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
5. To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.

adj

1. abundant or generous to the point of excess.

verb

1. (obsolete) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of proof

noun

1. A chamber used in baking that encourages fermentation of dough by yeast through warm temperatures and controlled humidity.
2. A printer used to make proofing copies that look like how it will come out of the press.
3. One who proofs.

noun

1. plural of puffer

noun

1. An act of puffing.
2. Excessive public praise.

adj

1. comparative form of puffy: more puffy

noun

1. Something small and puffy.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of purfle

noun

1. plural of purfle

verb

1. To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
2. To become gangrenous.
3. To corrupt; to make foul.
4. To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.
5. To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.

noun

1. (entomology) The last segment of the abdomen of some insects

adj

1. (obsolete) Given to the commission of rape.

noun

1. An act or instance of reproving or of reprobating; a rebuke, a reproach, an admonition.

verb

1. To proof again.

noun

1. Enough to fill a skep; a basketful.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To speak explicitly or in detail (often used with of).
2. (transitive) To bring about a specific result.
3. (transitive) To include in a specification.
4. (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of spiff

verb

1. (intransitive) To fuss or bustle.

adj

1. (of an email) Made to appear to have come from someone other than the real sender.
2. Parodied.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of spoof

noun

1. Someone who spoofs.

verb

1. (transitive) To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle or stun.

adj

1. (chemistry) Describing an NMR resonance at a lower frequency to that of a reference signal
2. (sports) Away from the defending team's end of the playing field

verb

1. (poetic, archaic) To blaze or shine brightly.

noun

1. (poetic) A flaring upward.

verb

1. (intransitive, poetic) To flare upward.

adj

1. (obsolete) Full of weeping or lamentation.