HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (broadcasting) A demonstration recording, often intended to show off the talent of an announcer to a prospective employer.

noun

1. (history) The ruler of an archduchy, in particular the Archduchy of Austria.
2. (history) The son or male-line grandson of an emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

noun

1. (rare) A chief king.

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.

verb

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

verb

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

adj

1. somewhat black

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

noun

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

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of chackle

noun

1. Alternative form of charlock (Sinapis arvensis etc.)

adj

1. comparative form of chalky: more chalky

noun

1. (painting) The appearance of non-gloss paint on an exterior surface due to chemical deterioration and removal by weather.
2. Something chalked on a surface.

verb

1. present participle of chalk

noun

1. A quarry where chalk is found.

noun

1. plural of champak

noun

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

noun

1. plural of charkha

verb

1. present participle of chark

noun

1. Any of several yellow-flowered cruciferous weeds of grain fields, especially wild mustard (Sinapis arvensis).

noun

1. Alternative form of tchotchke

verb

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

noun

1. The act of marking with a check mark.
2. The items or amount to which attention is called by a check mark.

noun

1. A man employed to operate a check valve.

noun

1. A seed of this plant, often used as a food.
2. An annual Asian plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods.

noun

1. Gazella bennettii, a species of gazelle found in India, Pakistan and Iran

noun

1. (historical) An old Indian unit of weight, equal to five siccas or one sixteenth of a seer.

noun

1. (British India) A small silver coin (value 1/32 of a rupee) once used in Travancore.

noun

1. plural of chukkar

noun

1. (engineering) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.
2. (vulgar, slang) The glans penis.
3. (vulgar, slang, derogatory) Dickhead, a term of abuse.

adj

1. (informal) cranky; grumpy; bad-tempered
2. (informal) pseudoscientific

noun

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

noun

1. (nautical) A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour.
2. (theater) A stagehand.

verb

1. (intransitive) To work on a boat as a deckhand; crew.

noun

1. (nautical) The underside of a deck (equivalent to a ceiling).

noun

1. Someone who works at a dock.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of hackbut

noun

1. plural of hackler

verb

1. present participle of hackle

noun

1. plural of hackney

verb

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

noun

1. plural of hacksaw

verb

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

noun

1. (obsolete) A bully; a ruffian; an assassin.

noun

1. Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula.

noun

1. plural of haddock

noun

1. A lock of hair.

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. (firearms) The position when the cock of a gun is at the first notch.

verb

1. (firearms) To set the cock of a firearm at the first notch.

noun

1. plural of hammock

verb

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

noun

1. A hold for restraining another person by immobilizing their hand.
2. A locking mechanism that operates by hand.
3. A restraint that attaches to the wrist, especially a shackle or handcuff.
4. Immobilization of the hand.

verb

1. To lock by means of a handlock.
2. To restrain by holding so as to immobilize the hand.
3. To restrain with, or as with, a handlock.

verb

1. To pick or harvest by hand.
2. To select carefully and with individual attention.

adj

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

noun

1. A book with a solid binding.

noun

1. A plant, the steeplebush, of either species Spiraea tomentosa, of eastern North American, or Spiraea douglasii, of western North America.

noun

1. (nautical) A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.

noun

1. plural of hassock

adj

1. Having or characterised by hassocks, or clumps of vegetation.

noun

1. (US) A room, in a theatre or other such venue, in which hats and other garments may be stored.
2. Rare spelling of háček.

noun

1. plural of hatrack

noun

1. A cap incorporating a cloth hanging down the sides and back, to protect the ears and neck; often created ad hoc by placing a kerchief on the head and holding it in place with a cap.

noun

1. A person who causes havoc.

noun

1. plural of haycock

noun

1. plural of hayrack

noun

1. plural of hayrick

noun

1. (canoeing) A standing wave in a rapid.
2. (programming) The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack)
3. A dish composed of a starchy food (rice, tortillas, crackers, etc.) topped by a protein (beans, cheese, meat, etc.) in combination with fresh vegetables, assembled on the plate by the diner.
4. A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.

noun

1. A wrestling move where the attacker puts their arm tightly round their opponent's head, which the opponent can't easily escape from.

verb

1. (transitive) To restrain in a headlock.

noun

1. (UK, regional) A European green woodpecker, Picus viridis.
2. (UK, regional) A lesser spotted woodpecker, Dryobates minor.
3. (UK, regional, archaic) A blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of hijack

adj

1. Of a vehicle, aircraft, vessel, computer, etc.: whose control has been seized by force

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of hijack

noun

1. (computing) Hijackware.
2. Someone who hijacks.

noun

1. plural of hoecake

noun

1. plural of hogback

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. plural of hopsack

noun

1. plural of hotcake

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. (rare) A motorkhana that takes place on a frozen lake.

noun

1. A jack (in any of the senses referring to types of fish).

noun

1. (dated, Australia) A pot (incorporating a cup) used to make tea

noun

1. plural of kachina

noun

1. (India) Synonym of groundnut (“Arachis hypogaea”)

adj

1. Dated form of cathodic.