HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative spelling of abhisheka

noun

1. (By association) A stereotypical, Eastern European peasant grandmother-type figure.
2. A traditional floral headscarf worn by an Eastern European woman, tied under the chin.
3. An old woman, especially one of Eastern European descent.
4. Russian doll, matryoshka

noun

1. Any pain or ache in the back.

noun

1. (Britain) Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.

verb

1. To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.

adj

1. (ice hockey) Of a play that uses the back side of the hockey stick
2. (of handwriting) Slanting to the left.
3. (of strokes or throws) In the backhand style

noun

1. (Ultimate Frisbee) the standard throw; a throw during which the disc begins on the off-hand side and travels across the chest to be released from the opposite side.
2. (surfing) the hand towards the back of the board.
3. (tennis) a stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
4. Handwriting that leans to the left
5. The reverse side of the human hand.

verb

1. to execute a backhand stroke or throw
2. to slap with the back of one's hand

noun

1. (broadcasting) Uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or radio station, network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished show.
2. (military) The shipment of material to or through an area from which the material had previously been shipped.
3. (transport) A return trip after delivery of cargo.
4. (travel, aviation, fare construction) Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point).

verb

1. To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted.

noun

1. (soccer) A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
2. (wrestling) A method of tripping or throwing by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back.

verb

1. (soccer) To perform such a kick.
2. (wrestling) To perform such a trip or throw.

noun

1. plural of backhoe

noun

1. (figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
2. (mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
3. A sudden backward motion.
4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

verb

1. To cause or set off a backlash.

noun

1. A rushing backward; a retreat.

noun

1. (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
2. (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
3. The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
4. The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
5. The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.

verb

1. (transitive) To affect with backwash.
2. To clean the oil from wool after combing.
3. To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.

noun

1. (rail transport, informal) A fireman (person who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler on a railroad locomotive).

noun

1. A shop where baked goods are made and sold.

noun

1. (baseball, chiefly in Chicago) A person who specializes in catching home-run and foul balls.
2. (sports) A player who handles the ball skilfully

noun

1. plural of bashlyk

noun

1. (archaeology) An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
2. (nautical) A protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship.

verb

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

Proper noun

1. of origin.

verb

1. (transitive, rare) To make a knight of.

noun

1. plural of berakah

verb

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

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.

noun

1. (ornithology) Written as bill hook: a sharply pointed spike growing from the tip of the upper mandible of the hatchlings of honeyguides, used to destroy the eggs and kill the chicks of the host species.
2. (weaponry) A medieval polearm, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill
3. An agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
4. Written as bill hook: a spiked hook used in offices and shops for hanging bills or other small papers such as receipts.
5. Written as bill-hook: a part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).

verb

1. To use a billhook

adj

1. somewhat black

adj

1. Somewhat blank; more or less blank.

adj

1. Somewhat bleak.

adj

1. Lacking understanding; stupid; obtuse; dull.
2. Like a block in shape or nature; coming across as a block.
3. Rude; clumsy; rough.

noun

1. (by extension) A pole or rod with such a hook at one end.
2. A hook attached to a pole used for pulling or pushing boats, rafts, logs or other objects to or from the side of a boat.

noun

1. Knowledge of books; scholarship.
2. The state or dignity of a book.

noun

1. A shop that sells books.

noun

1. Alternative form of boychik

noun

1. plural of boychik

adj

1. (of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
2. Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.
3. Repulsive

adj

1. (slang, UK, dated) Like a brick, a helpful or reliable person.
2. Resembling or characteristic of brick.

adj

1. Somewhat brisk.

noun

1. (now chiefly historical) A type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering.

adj

1. (obsolete) beastly; brutal

noun

1. (Australia) A prickly annual shrub, Salsola australis
2. (Canada, US) Shrubs of Canada and the central US, Symphoricarpos occidentalis(also known as wolfberry and Symphoricarpos orbicularis (coralberry).

noun

1. A horn of a buck.
2. The royal fern, Osmunda regalis.

adj

1. (slang) Extra, spare.

noun

1. A gift or bribe.
2. A wound that is relatively minor but sufficient to get a soldier sent away from the front to the hospital.
3. An extra portion, ration etc.

noun

1. (chiefly US) Lead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game. [from 18th c.]

noun

1. (woodworking) Alternative form of buhl work

noun

1. (nautical) A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.
2. A pressure-resistant sealed barrier to any fluid in a large structure.
3. A retaining wall along a waterfront.
4. A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft.
5. Mechanically, a partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition.

noun

1. (informal) Any relatives of the above that share the same habitat.
2. Either of two species of antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus or Tragelaphus sylvaticus, considered by some sources to be the single species Tragelaphus scriptus) found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

adj

1. Resembling a bush; bushly.

verb

1. Alternative spelling of bushwhack

noun

1. A book used to record amounts of money received or paid out.

noun

1. plural of chabouk

noun

1. A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beat with a chabuk.

noun

1. plural of chibouk

noun

1. a small grebe, the little grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis.

Proper noun

1. A prophetic book in the Old Testament of the Bible, one of the minor prophets; or the eighth part of the Tere Asar in the Jewish Tanakh.
2. A Jewish prophet of the Old Testament; author of the book that bears his name.
3. definition

noun

1. (archaic, Scilly Isles) The greater shearwater or hagdon.

noun

1. plural of hackbut

noun

1. (American football) An offensive back whose primary jobs are to carry the ball on running plays and to serve as a receiver or blocker on passing plays.
2. (Australian rules football) One of three players (the centre halfback and two halfback flankers) on the line between the centre line and the fullback line.
3. (Canadian football) A defensive back whose primary jobs are to cover the slotback on passing plays and prevent running plays from going to the outside.
4. (field hockey) A player in the halfback position, with both offensive and defensive roles.
5. (field sports) Any of various positions on the field of play between the forwards and the fullbacks.
6. (rugby) The player who feeds the ball into the scrum, and receives the ball as it emerges from the back of the scrum.

verb

1. To play in the position of halfback.

noun

1. (zoology) Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoos or ballyhoos.

noun

1. (US, gambling) A place where illicit bets can be placed.
2. A topically organized book of reference on a certain field of knowledge, regardless of size.

adj

1. (of a book) Having a solid binding.

noun

1. A book with a solid binding.

noun

1. A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses with almonds, flavoured with orange or lemon juice.

noun

1. plural of hauberk

Noun

1. The baked berry of the hawthorn tree, i.e. coarse fare.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of hawksbill

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a herb.

noun

1. A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of cattle.

noun

1. plural of hogback

Proper noun

1. a city in Arizona, USA

noun

1. The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing.
2. The strap or part of the harness so used.
3. restraint (act or result of holding back, device that restrains)

noun

1. The hornfish.

noun

1. (historical) A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.
2. (law) A legal textbook that gives a basic overview of a particular area of law.

noun

1. (by extension) A hump or protuberance on the shoulders or back of an animal.
2. (derogatory, now offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.
3. (figurative) A rounded topographical feature, such as a mountain or hill.
4. A humpback salmon.
5. A humpback whale.
6. A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine).

verb

1. To hunt humpback whales.

noun

1. (Britain) A book containing a collection of hymns.

noun

1. A former Egyptian unit of length, equal to 3.55 metres.

noun

1. plural of ketubah

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of kibosh

verb

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

noun

1. Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes, a variety of the cabbage, having a turnip-shaped edible stem.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of kurbash

noun

1. Any of various plants of the genus Euphorbia.

noun

1. The saddlecloth of a cavalry horse.

noun

1. A North-American hickory (Carya ovata) that has shaggy bark in mature trees; shagbark hickory
2. A West Indian leguminous tree, Pithecellobium micradenium.

adj

1. Able to be shaken.
2. Designed to be shaken.

noun

1. (dated) A book in which a tradesman keeps the accounts.

noun

1. An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.