HANGMAN SOLVER

prep

1. (dialect) behind

adv

1. (UK dialectal) behind

adv

1. (archaic) Nigh; near; close by (to).

prep

1. (archaic) Nigh; near.

noun

1. plural of ankh

adj

1. Ash-colored; pale; anemic, anaemic; appalled.
2. Made from the wood of the ash-tree.
3. Of or resembling ashes.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become pale
2. (transitive, intransitive) To turn into ash; make or become ashy

noun

1. (South Asia) A general strike, shutdown, or other form of protest used in South Asia in which a substantial portion of the population stays home and does not report to work.

noun

1. Behen album or white behen: a thistle native to western and central Asia, Centaurea behen
2. Behen officinarum: Cucubalis behen or Oberna behen, synonyms for Silene vulgaris
3. Behen rubrum or red behen: said in some sources to be Salvia haematodes (now Salvia pratensis subsp. haematodes), but in other sources to be Statice limonium, which is a synonym for Limonium vulgare.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A bathroom surface which holds the washbasin, a vanity.
2. (Australia, New Zealand) A kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter.
3. (geology) A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.
4. (government) A long seat for politicians in a parliamentary chamber.
5. (law) The people who decide on the verdict; the judiciary.
6. (law, figuratively) The place where the judges sit.
7. (sports) The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.
8. (sports, figuratively) The number of players on a team able to participate, expressed in terms of length.
9. (surveying) A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall.
10. (weightlifting) The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.
11. A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms.
12. A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.
13. A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.
14. A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
15. A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.
16. The dignity of holding an official seat.

verb

1. (slang) To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.
2. (transitive and intransitive, colloquial) To lift by bench pressing
3. (transitive) To furnish with benches.
4. (transitive) To place on a bench or seat of honour.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.
6. (transitive, sports) To remove a player from play.
7. Alternative spelling of bentsh

noun

1. (India, Kenya, Uganda, else slang) Cannabis and preparations thereof.

noun

1. (US, informal) A considerable amount.
2. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
3. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
4. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
5. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
6. (smoking) An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
7. (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
8. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
9. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
10. An informal body of friends.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
2. (intransitive) To form a bunch.
3. (intransitive) To protrude or swell
4. (transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
5. (transitive) To gather into a bunch.

noun

1. (India) Alternative form of bund (pond)

noun

1. (Britain) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
2. (chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
3. (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
4. (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
5. (surveying) A long measuring tape.
6. (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
7. (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
8. A livery collar, a chain of office.
9. A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
10. A series of interconnected things.
11. A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
12. A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
13. That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.

verb

1. (computing) To be chained to another data item.
2. (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
3. (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
4. (figurative) To obligate.
5. (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
6. (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
7. (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
8. (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
9. (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
10. (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).

noun

1. (India) Chickpeas.
2. (India, cooking) A dish principally made from chickpeas or chickpea paste.

noun

1. (often italicized) A traditional harp of central and southwest Asia

noun

1. (India) The large spiral shell of several species of sea conch, much used in making bangles, especially Turbinella pyrum.

verb

1. (US) To eat noisily; to champ or chomp.

noun

1. (music) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
2. A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
3. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
4. Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
2. To sing or intone sacred text.
3. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
4. To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.

noun

1. Alternative form of sheng (Chinese wind instrument)

noun

1. (countable) Synonym of China rose, in its various senses.
2. (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, Australia, South Africa) Synonym of friend.
3. (countable, games, chiefly US, obsolete) A glazed china marble.
4. (countable, music) A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
5. (uncountable) Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
6. (uncountable) Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.
7. (uncountable) Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (chiefly US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as fine or good china.
8. (uncountable, chiefly US, dated) Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
9. (uncountable, dated) Tea from China, (particularly) varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
10. (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.

noun

1. (Southern England, Vancouver) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
2. (aeronautics) A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
3. (nautical) A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
4. (nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
5. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
6. The back of the blade on a scythe.
7. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
8. The spine of an animal.
9. The top of a ridge.

verb

1. (obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break.
2. (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
3. To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

intj

1. The sound of metal or glass clinking.

noun

1. (Scotland, slang) Cocaine.
2. (countable) A ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.
3. (uncountable, slang) Money (from the sound of a cash register ringing up an amount).
4. (zoology) A high-pitched mating call made by the male kakapo.
5. A pair of small bowl-shaped finger cymbals made of thick and heavy bronze, used in the music of Thailand and Cambodia.

verb

1. (MLE, slang) To stab.
2. (zoology, intransitive) Of the male kakapo: to make its high-pitched mating call.
3. To chink or clink; to make a ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.

noun

1. (countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
2. (figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
3. (uncountable, colloquial, now rare) Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
4. A chip or dent in something metallic.
5. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
6. Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”)
7. Alternative letter-case form of Chink

verb

1. (intransitive) To crack; to open.
2. (intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
3. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
4. (transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
5. (transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.

noun

1. A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.

noun

1. plural of chin

verb

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

noun

1. Obsolete form of chintz.

adj

1. (slang, of an animal) Adorably fat or large.

noun

1. (slang) An adorably fat or large creature, particularly a cat.
2. Alternative form of chank (“type of shell”)

noun

1. (geology) A period of time between two geomagnetic reversals.

noun

1. (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
2. (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
3. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
4. A part of something that has been separated.
5. A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.

verb

1. (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
2. (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
3. (transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
4. (transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.

noun

1. (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
2. (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
3. A milk churn.
4. A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
5. Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
6. Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.

verb

1. (US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
2. (finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
3. (informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
4. (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
5. (of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
6. (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
7. (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.

noun

1. (card games) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
2. (informal) A firm hold.
3. (informal) Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
4. (informal) Something that is very easy to do.
5. A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.

verb

1. (card games) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
2. To bring to certain conclusion.
3. To tighten down.

noun

1. A Jewish priest: direct male descendant of the Biblical high priest Aaron, brother of Moses.

noun

1. (architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
2. A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
3. A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
4. Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”)
5. The shell of this sea animal.

verb

1. To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
2. To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.

noun

1. A handcrafted sailboat with a motor or lateen sails, resembling a dhow, that is used in the Maldives.

noun

1. (India, chiefly in the plural) Any of the flat valleys lying parallel to the base of the Himalayas, and between the rise of that mountain mass and the low tertiary ranges known as the sub-Himalayan or Sivalik Hills, or rather between the interior and exterior of these ranges.

Proper noun

1. A daughter of Jacob and Leah.
2. name of biblical origin. Alternative form of Dina.

noun

1. (dialectal) A push; knock; bump.
2. (golf) A fat hit from a claggy lie.
3. (informal, rare) A leisurely meal between lunch and dinner in the late afternoon or early evening (about 3-5 p.m.), usually instead of lunch or dinner.

verb

1. (Britain) To jog, especially with the elbow.
2. (Scotland) To gore with the horns, as a bull.
3. (Tyneside) To crash into; to bump into.
4. (Tyneside) To knock against; to hit, punch

noun

1. (dialect, Yorkshire) an iron sledgehammer

noun

1. Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis. syn. Fringilla carduelis).
2. Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae.
3. Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.

verb

1. To hunt for finches, to go finching.

noun

1. (meteorology) A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.
2. A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland.

noun

1. plural of fohn

noun

1. (slang, uncommon) A sexual encounter at lunchtime.

verb

1. To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks as a punishment.

noun

1. (music) A style of Maltese folk singing

Proper noun

1. Capital city of the province of East Flanders, Belgium.

noun

1. A sudden snapping of the teeth.

verb

1. (Tyneside) To run away.
2. (figurative) To clash together violently.
3. (transitive) To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.
4. (transitive) To grind between the teeth.

verb

1. Misspelling of hadn't.

noun

1. A wavy line found on steel products that have been hardened differentially, with soft and hard steel sections, where the tempered steel is separated from the softer parts by the hamon.

noun

1. (obsolete) A rich goblet, especially one used on state occasions.

noun

1. A curve or arc, especially in architecture or in the design of a ship.
2. The arc of smaller radius at the springing of an elliptical or many-centred arch.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To raise, to elevate.

noun

1. Alternative form of hance
2. Alternative form of haunch

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To snap at something with the jaws.

noun

1. plural of hand

verb

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

adj

1. (slang) Physically violent; tending to use one's fists.
2. Easy to use, useful.
3. Nearby, within reach.
4. Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
5. Of a person: dexterous, skilful.

noun

1. (MLE, slang) A handgun.
2. (childish) The hand.
3. (mostly used by Germans) Synonym of mobile phone
4. (vulgar, slang) A hand job.

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of hang

verb

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

noun

1. (Islam) Any person, from before the time of Muhammad, who followed a non-pagan monotheistic religion.

noun

1. plural of hank

noun

1. (colloquial) Abbreviation of handkerchief.

noun

1. (architecture) That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
2. (historical) A fee payable to the Hanse, particularly its entrance fee and the impost levied on non-members trading in its area.
3. (historical) Alternative form of Hanse, a merchant guild or a former commercial league of German cities.
4. (historical) The guildhall of a Hanse.

noun

1. plural of hant

noun

1. (now archaic, dialectal or rare) Brains.

noun

1. (dialect) A ghost.
2. A lair or feeding place of animals.
3. A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.

verb

1. (intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.
2. (intransitive, now rare) To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
3. (transitive) To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
4. (transitive) To make uneasy, restless.
5. (transitive) To stalk; to follow.
6. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
7. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To practise; to devote oneself to.

noun

1. (by extension) A peaceful place.
2. (by extension) A place of safety.
3. A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.

verb

1. To put into, or provide with a haven.

noun

1. Alternative form of hazzan

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive, rare, nonstandard) To make or become hazy

verb

1. (dialectal) past participle of hear

noun

1. (obsolete) Ebony.

Proper noun

1. of English-speakers.
2. A surname of German-speakers, notably of Heinrich Heine, a German poet

Noun

1. A five and a seven as starting cards in Texas hold 'em

noun

1. Misspelling of he-man.