HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (historical) A rigorous training regimen for Spartan men in preparation for army service.
2. In ancient Greek music, tempo or pace; rhythmical movement.
3. Melodic motion upward or downward by successive scale-steps: same as ductus in medieval music.

adv

1. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England) Alternative form of ago

verb

1. (transitive) to follow like a dog, harass, torment; bully

verb

1. To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties).
2. To envelop in fog or smoke.
3. To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.).

intj

1. (dated, dialectal, Ireland) by God

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.

verb

1. (now rare) past participle of beget

adj

1. (slang, Northern Ireland) Insane, off the rails.

noun

1. (South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
2. (historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
3. A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.

verb

1. (Britain, Ireland) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
2. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.

noun

1. (Australia) A swim or bathe; a bath.
2. (UK) Alternative form of booger: a piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril.
3. (UK, engineering) A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
4. (archaic, often capitalized, usually with definite article) The Devil.
5. (engineering) A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
6. (figuratively) A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
7. (golf) A score of one over par on a hole.
8. (military, aviation) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
9. (military, aviation, slang) Synonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.
10. A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
11. Alternative spelling of bogie (“one of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle”)

verb

1. (Australia) To swim; to bathe.
2. (golf) To make a bogey.

noun

1. (Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, US, by extension, rail transport, also attributively) One of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle.
2. (Britain, colloquial) A piece of dried mucus in or removed from the nostril.
3. (Britain, dated, India, rail transport) A railway carriage.
4. (Northern England) A low, hand-operated truck, generally with four wheels, used for transporting objects or for riding on as a toy; a trolley.
5. (aviation, by extension) A set of wheels attached to one of an aircraft's landing gear, or the structure connecting the wheels in one such set.
6. (aviation, military, slang) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
7. (chiefly US, slang) A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
8. A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.

noun

1. (dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.
2. A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.

noun

1. A bayou or waterway.
2. A species of seabream native to the eastern Atlantic, Boops boops.

verb

1. (nautical) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward.

noun

1. (now historical) The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.

verb

1. To bilge.
2. To swell out.

verb

1. (intransitive) To bulge or swell out.
2. (transitive) To cause to leak.

noun

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

noun

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

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. (transitive) To remove the moisture or fog from.
2. (transitive, informal) To make intelligible; to free from confusion.

noun

1. (slang, ethnic slur) A Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America.

adj

1. (Australia) Dodgy.

noun

1. (slang) A line of work.
2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
3. An act of dodging.

verb

1. (archaic) To go hither and thither.
2. (photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
3. (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
6. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To trick somebody.

noun

1. plural of doge

noun

1. (US, regional, colloquial) A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.

noun

1. (obsolete) An expression of praise.
2. A statement or disquisition in praise of someone who has died.
3. Specifically, the statement made by a new member of the French Academy about his predecessor.

noun

1. (archaic) praise, eulogy; inscription on a tombstone, epitaph

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To lengthen out; to prolong.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To put away; to separate; to keep off.

verb

1. (transitive) To bog down.

prep

1. Obsolete form of among.

noun

1. (Classical philosophy) A task or function of a creature.
2. (physics) Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent.

noun

1. Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses.
2. The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi.

noun

1. (Judaism) The yellow citron (Citrus medica) used in Sukkot ritual.

noun

1. A dull person (especially an older man) who is behind the times, holding antiquated, over-conservative views.

noun

1. (obsolete) A pocket handkerchief.

noun

1. (computing) A Web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
2. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
3. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
4. The act of beating or working iron or steel.

verb

1. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
2. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
3. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
4. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
5. To form or create with concerted effort.
6. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

noun

1. Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces.
2. Misspelling of get-go.

verb

1. (rare) To move in the manner of a gecko; to attach to a vertical or upside-down surface.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of gecko

noun

1. (by extension, rare) Any assembly.
2. (historical) A (legislative or judicial) assembly in Anglo-Saxon England.

noun

1. (archaic) Somebody of a particular turn of mind.

noun

1. (nautical) A staysail that resembles a jib but extends aft beyond the mast.

verb

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

noun

1. (historical) A body of elder statesmen of Japan, formerly used as informal advisors to the Emperor.

noun

1. (geology) A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall.

Proper noun

1. A diminutive of the male given name Geoffrey.

noun

1. (geography, geodesy) The shape, extending through landmasses (continents, etc.), that the surface of the oceans of the Earth would take under the influence of the Earth's gravity and rotation alone, disregarding other factors such as winds and tides; that is, a surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation.

noun

1. A mixture of plaster of Paris and glue used to prepare a surface for painting.
2. A work of art done in gesso.

noun

1. Alternative form of gole (“troops”)
2. Archaic form of ghoul.

noun

1. (dated or Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
2. (obsolete) A group.
3. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
4. A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
5. A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
6. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
7. The planet Earth.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become spherical.
2. (transitive) To make spherical.

noun

1. (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
2. (botany) A globular head of flowers.
3. (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.
4. (obsolete) gloom

verb

1. (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.

verb

1. (archaic) to glare
2. (archaic) to glower

noun

1. (baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.
2. (with definite article) A challenge from one to another.
3. A baseball mitt.
4. An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

verb

1. (baseball, transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
2. (cricket) To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.
3. (transitive) To put a glove or gloves on.

noun

1. (False) appearance.
2. A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.
3. A specious show, a deceit.
4. Flattery.

verb

1. (literary) To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
2. To give a shine to (something or someone).
3. To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.
4. To use flattering language.

noun

1. (astronomy, meteorology) An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a compact blue starter.
2. (magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.
3. (mythology, fantasy) One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature and games, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually even smaller than dwarves and more focussed on engineering than mining.
4. (often derogatory) A banker, especially a secretive international one.
5. A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.
6. A person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.
7. A small statue of a dwarf-like character, often bearded, placed in a garden.
8. The northern pygmy owl, Glaucidium gnoma, a small owl of the western United States.

verb

1. To make a goaf (stack)

noun

1. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
2. (sewing) A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset.
3. (textiles) A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing.

noun

1. plural of goer

noun

1. (obsolete) witchcraft, demonic magic, necromancy

noun

1. (informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.

noun

1. (by extension, fantasy) A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic.
2. (mythology) A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic.

noun

1. plural of gole

noun

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

Proper noun

1. Second-largest city of Belarus.

noun

1. (US, military slang) An opponent in combat or in training.
2. (US, military slang, derogatory) An inept trainee or serviceperson.
3. (historical units of measure, archaic) Alternative form of omer: a former Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.
4. (medical slang, derogatory) An undesirable hospital patient, or a patient who does not need medical care.
5. (slang, derogatory) A dirty, senile, or otherwise unpleasant patient.
6. (slang, derogatory) A stupid, awkward, or oafish person.
7. (slang, informal) A patient who does not respond to medical treatment.
8. A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars.

noun

1. (informal) Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially someone who is bound to die soon.

noun

1. Alternative form of gooney

adj

1. Obsolete spelling of good

adj

1. of or relating to goo
2. soft, sticky and viscous

Proper noun

1. a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

noun

1. (South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
2. (archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
3. (slang, plural geese or gooses) A silly person.
4. (uncountable, historical) An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.
5. A female goose (sense 1).
6. Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks.
7. The flesh of the goose used as food.

verb

1. (British slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
2. (transitive) To stimulate; to spur.
3. (transitive, slang) To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
4. (transitive, slang) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
5. (transitive, slang) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks of (a person).

noun

1. (obsolete) A pool of water to keep fish in; a weir.

adj

1. (textiles) Having a gore or gores.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of gore

noun

1. Someone or something that gores (typically an animal that gores other creatures).

noun

1. plural of gore

verb

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

adj

1. (slang) Gorgeous.

noun

1. (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
2. (archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
3. (archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
4. (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
5. (architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
6. (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
7. (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
8. (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
9. An act of gorging.
10. Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.

verb

1. (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [+ on (object)]
2. (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
3. (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
4. (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

noun

1. Evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having spiny leaves and yellow flowers.

noun

1. (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
2. (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
3. (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
4. (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
5. (slang) An impostor.
6. A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
7. A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
8. A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
9. An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.

verb

1. (intransitive) To use a gouge.
2. (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
3. (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.

Proper noun

1. A peninsula in southern Wales.

noun

1. A ravine or other depression.

noun

1. (slang, UK, countable) A member of a United Kingdom subculture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, musically affiliated with garage rock and electronica, typically wearing baggy clothes and hair in high ponytails.
2. (slang, UK, countable, chiefly West Midlands) A greaser or biker; a member of any alternative subculture, as opposed to a chav or townie.
3. (uncountable) A short-lived subgenre of alternative rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with influences from punk rock, electronic dance music, hip-hop, and psychedelia.

noun

1. A type of rough jacket with a hood.

noun

1. (informal) An act of groping, especially sexually.

verb

1. (obsolete) To examine; to test; to sound.
2. (obsolete) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
3. To intentionally and inappropriately touch or rub against another person, in such a manner as to make the contact appear accidental, for the purpose of one's sexual gratification.
4. To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
5. To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of groat

noun

1. (Druidism, Wicca) A place of worship.
2. A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
3. A small forest.
4. An orchard of fruit trees.

verb

1. (forestry, of trees) To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
2. To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
3. To plough or gouge with lines.

noun

1. (obsolete) A rustic; a country person.

Proper noun

1. of Chinese origin.

noun

1. (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
2. (historical) A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
3. (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
4. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
5. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
6. A collection of objects lodged together.
7. A den or cave.
8. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
9. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
10. An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
11. Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
12. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
2. (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
3. (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
4. (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
5. (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
6. (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
7. (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
8. (transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
9. (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
10. (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.

noun

1. plural of loge

noun

1. (theater, archaic) A piece of fake jewellery, typically made from zinc.

noun

1. (military) The training ground for a horse.
2. (obsolete) A lunge; a thrust.
3. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing.
4. plural of longa

verb

1. (US, transitive) To work (a horse) in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.

adj

1. (dated, now offensive) Black or dark brown in color.
2. (dated, offensive) Relating to a black ethnicity.

noun

1. (dated, now offensive) A person of Black African ancestry.

Proper noun

1. A brand name of major household appliances.
2. A town in Oklahoma.

Proper noun

1. name occasionally transferred from the surname.
2. A hamlet in borough, West Yorkshire, England
3. A ghost town in British Columbia, Canada.
4. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
5. A municipality in Quebec, Canada
6. A small city in Arkansas
7. A village in Illinois
8. A city in Iowa
9. A city in Kansas
10. A town in New York
11. A in North Carolina
12. An unincorporated community in Ohio.
13. A city in Utah
14. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.

adj

1. (architecture) Having an ogee.

noun

1. plural of ogee

Proper noun

1. A city in Minnesota.
2. A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
3. A town and/or a in Wisconsin.

noun

1. (architecture) A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault.
2. (geology) A three-dimensional wave-bulge, characteristic of glaciers that have experienced extreme underlying topographic change.
3. (statistics) The curve of a cumulative distribution function.
4. (weaponry, ballistics) The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket.