HANGMAN SOLVER

Proper noun

1. A city in Nevada, USA

noun

1. plural of elk

noun

1. (music) A genre of Japanese music that originated in the 1960s and often features melodramatic themes.
2. (music) A genre of political songs spread by members of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement of Japan during the Meiji period (1868–1912).

Proper noun

1. A god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.

noun

1. (Australia) An insulated picnic cooler, using ice or refrigerated blocks to keep food and drinks cool.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.

verb

1. (UK, Cockney, vulgar) Pronunciation spelling of fuck.

adj

1. (of people) Insincere
2. Not real; false, fraudulent

noun

1. (archaic) A trick; a swindle
2. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
3. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
4. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

verb

1. (archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
2. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
3. (music, transitive, intransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
4. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
5. (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
6. (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

adj

1. Alternative form of fakey

noun

1. (UK, dialect) The razorbill.

verb

1. (of birds) To wipe the bill on material in order to clean or hone it.
2. Alternative form of feague.

noun

1. (Scotland) The greater or larger part.
2. Effect, value; vigor.

verb

1. (Ireland, slang) To steal.
2. (euphemistic, chiefly Ireland) Alternative form of fuck

verb

1. (UK) To rummage, in order to search for something; to dig amongst articles or move things aside in order to try and find something.
2. Alternative form of firk

noun

1. (UK dialectal) A sore place on the foot.
2. (UK dialectal) Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.
3. (obsolete) A fig.
4. Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.

verb

1. (intransitive) To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
2. (transitive) To give trouble to; vex; perplex.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.

noun

1. (South Africa) Any of several birds in the family Ploceidae native to southern Africa.
2. (chiefly US, slang) A contemptible person.
3. (chiefly US, slang) A strikebreaker.
4. (chiefly US, slang) An informer.

verb

1. (chiefly US, slang) To betray a trust; to inform on.
2. (dialectal, th-fronting) Pronunciation spelling of think.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) A freak; trick; quirk.
2. A stroke; lash.

verb

1. (intransitive) To move quickly; go off or fly out suddenly; turn out.
2. (transitive) To carry away or about; carry; move.
3. (transitive) To drive away.
4. (transitive) To rouse; raise up.

verb

1. (obsolete) To run about; to frisk; to whisk.
2. To rebut an argument line by line, especially on the Internet.

noun

1. (figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism.
2. (informal) A public-relations spokesperson.
3. Anti-aircraft shell fire.
4. Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.

adj

1. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
2. Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
3. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
4. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.

noun

1. (archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
2. (music) Short for folk music.
3. (plural only) A particular group of people.
4. (plural only) People in general.
5. (plural only, plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
6. The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.

noun

1. (Britain, vulgar) The crotch.
2. (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
3. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
4. (colloquial) A forklift.
5. (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
6. (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
7. (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
8. (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
9. (figurative) A decision point.
10. (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
11. (metonymically) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
12. (metonymically) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
13. (metonymically, and analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
14. (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
15. (obsolete) A gallows.
16. (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
17. (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
18. (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
19. A tuning fork.
20. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
21. Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
22. Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
23. Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
24. The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

verb

1. (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
2. (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
3. (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
4. (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
5. (transitive, Britain) To kick someone in the crotch.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
7. (transitive, intransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
8. (transitive, intransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
9. (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.

adv

1. (vulgar, colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no".

intj

1. (strongly vulgar) A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
2. (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.
3. (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing surprise.

noun

1. (vulgar, colloquial) A highly contemptible person.
2. (vulgar, colloquial) A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
3. (vulgar, colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
4. (vulgar, colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

particle

1. (vulgar, slang, especially African-American Vernacular) Used as a shortened form of various common interrogative phrases.

verb

1. (Singapore, vulgar, military slang) To scold.
2. (colloquial, vulgar, intransitive) To be very good, to rule, go hard.
3. (colloquial, vulgar, transitive, Ireland, Britain, Scotland) To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
4. (vulgar, colloquial) To defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
5. (vulgar, colloquial) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
6. (vulgar, colloquial) Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
7. (vulgar, colloquial, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
8. (vulgar, colloquial, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
9. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
10. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To insert one's penis, a dildo, or other object, into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.
11. (vulgar, colloquial, usually followed by up) To break, to destroy.
12. (vulgar, transitive, comedy) To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.

noun

1. (countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
2. (countable) Mental depression.
3. (countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.
4. (obsolete) Touchwood, punk, tinder.
5. (uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
6. (uncountable, music) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.

verb

1. (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
2. (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
3. (transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.

noun

1. (fishing) A type of fish-trap consisting of tubular nets that are supported by hoops.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fish using a fyke.

noun

1. A cuckoo.
2. A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.

verb

1. (colloquial, vulgar) To suck.
2. To stare conspicuously.
3. To stare or gape stupidly.

noun

1. (archaic, derogatory, poetic) Fool; idiot; imbecile.
2. Scorn; derision; contempt.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To jeer; to show contempt for.

noun

1. (Australia, colloquial) A look.
2. (colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun.
3. (colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
4. (colloquial, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
5. (dated) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
6. (uncountable, colloquial) The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream; the philosophy, events, and physical artifacts of geeks; geekness.
7. Have a geek at this.

verb

1. (Cornwall) To look; to peep; to stare about intently.
2. (colloquial) To behave geekishly or in a socially awkward manner, especially when under the influence of drugs or other psycho-active substances, and exhibiting such marked characteristics as hyperactivity, repetitiveness, talkativeness, nervousness, irritability, or paranoia.
3. (colloquial) To enthusiastically engage in or discuss geek-like interests.

Proper noun

1. A city in the province of Limburg, Belgium

noun

1. (originally US slang) A guy, a fellow, especially (derogatory) a foolish, unworldly, or socially inept man; a goof.

noun

1. (New Zealand, military, slang) A sleep; a nap.
2. A small furry toy like an ersatz teddy bear, popularized in wartime when production of real teddies stops.
3. A stupid, ignorant, and/or boorish person.

verb

1. (UK, slang, with "out") To sleep.
2. (US, slang) To lie; to tell an untruth

noun

1. (Rhodesia, derogatory) A black insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War.
2. (US, derogatory) A Vietnamese insurgent in the Vietnam War, particularly a member of the Vietcong.
3. (dated) A foreigner, especially an enemy soldier in wartime.
4. (informal) Grime or mud.
5. (slang) A dull or hapless person.
6. (slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of (South) East Asian descent, especially a Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese or Korean person.

noun

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A cuckoo.
2. (Tyneside) An apple core.
3. (Tyneside, obsolete) The central part of any thing.

verb

1. To make foolish; to stupefy.

noun

1. (slang) An unpleasant sticky substance; goo, gunk.
2. The hybrid offspring of a goose and a duck

noun

1. (countable) A member of the gunk subculture.
2. (uncountable) A subculture of 21st century American males, combining elements of modern gothic culture with punk rock.
3. (uncountable, informal) Dirt or grime; any vague, messy, or unknown substance.

verb

1. To soil or make dirty

noun

1. (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
2. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
3. (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
4. (computing, slang) A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
5. (computing, slang) A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
6. (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
7. (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
8. (computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
9. (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
10. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
11. (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
12. (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
13. (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
14. (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
15. (falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
16. (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
17. (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
18. (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
19. (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
20. (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
21. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
22. (obsolete) A procuress.
23. (obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
24. (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
25. (slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
26. (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
27. (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
28. A dry cough.
29. A food-rack for cattle.
30. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
31. A grating in a mill race.
32. A hacking blow.
33. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
34. A hearse.
35. A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
36. A kick on the shins in football of any type.
37. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
38. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
39. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
40. A tool for chopping.

verb

1. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
2. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
3. (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
4. (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
5. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
6. (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
7. (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
8. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
9. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
10. (intransitive) To cough noisily.
11. (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
12. (obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
13. (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
14. (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
15. (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
16. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
17. (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
18. (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
19. To drive a hackney cab.
20. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
21. To play hackeysack.
22. To strike in a frantic movement.
23. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
24. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
25. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.

noun

1. A covering for the head and body worn by Arabs.

noun

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
2. (Now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.
3. (Now chiefly dialectal) A kind of weapon; a pike.
4. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
5. One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.

verb

1. (UK, dialect) To loiter; to sneak.

noun

1. A Pawnee Indian ceremony celebrating the union of Earth and Heaven and the genesis of life.

noun

1. (Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.
2. (Ulster) Mess, tangle.
3. (nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
4. (obsolete) Hold; influence.
5. (wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
6. A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
7. A rope or withe for fastening a gate.

verb

1. (transitive) To form into hanks.
2. (transitive, UK, dialect) To fasten with a rope, as a gate.

noun

1. (Scots) A whisper

verb

1. (archaic, often imperative) To listen attentively.

noun

1. (obsolete) A basket made of flags or rushes, as for carrying fish.

noun

1. (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
2. (game theory) An uncooperative or purely-selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the Prisoner's Dilemma, alias the Hawk-Dove game.
3. (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
4. A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
5. A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.
6. A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
7. Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
2. (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To expectorate, to cough up something from one's throat.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.

adj

1. Abbreviation of hardback.

intj

1. (euphemistic) Hell.

noun

1. (obsolete) A door, especially one partly of latticework.
2. (weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
3. A bend or winding of a stream.
4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
5. A rack for cattle to feed at.
6. The bolt or latch of a door.

noun

1. Obsolete form of huke.

noun

1. (derogatory) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.

verb

1. To hiccup.

intj

1. Let's go; get moving. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.

noun

1. (American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
2. A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
3. A sharp upward tug to raise something.
4. An abrupt increase.

verb

1. (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
2. (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
3. To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
4. To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
5. To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.

noun

1. (card games) The last card turned up in the game of faro.
2. A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
3. Debt.
4. Installment purchase.
5. Meat from that part of a food animal.
6. Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
7. Prison.
8. The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.

verb

1. (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
2. (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
3. (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
4. To cough while the vomit reflex is triggered; to gag.
5. To produce mucus from coughing or clearing one's throat.

noun

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of hook
2. Something contrived or artificial.

verb

1. (Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.
2. (slang) To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) A hollow cavity.

verb

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig out; make hollow; hollow out.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig up; excavate.
3. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig; dig into; pierce; penetrate; investigate; poke.

intj

1. Imitation of car horn, used, for example, to clear a path for oneself.

noun

1. (informal) A bad smell.
2. Clipping of honky.
3. The cry of a goose.
4. The sound produced by a typical car horn.

verb

1. (informal) To squeeze playfully, usually a breast or nose.
2. (intransitive) To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.
3. (intransitive) To make the vocal sound of a goose.
4. (slang) To have a bad smell.
5. (slang) To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To use a car horn.

noun

1. (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
2. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
3. (UK, slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
4. (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
5. (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
6. (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
7. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
8. (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
9. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
10. (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
11. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
12. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
13. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
14. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
15. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
16. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
17. (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
18. (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
19. (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
20. (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
21. (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
22. (typography) a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
23. (typography, rare) a háček.
24. A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
25. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
26. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
27. A snare; a trap.
28. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
29. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
30. The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
31. The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

verb

1. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
2. (UK, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
3. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
4. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
5. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
6. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
7. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
8. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
9. (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
10. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
11. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
12. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
13. (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
14. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
15. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
16. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
17. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.

noun

1. (Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
2. (dialect) A person's hip.
3. (skiing, snowboarding) A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.

verb

1. (dated) To haggle in trading.
2. (intransitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
3. (mountain biking) To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly.
4. (mountain biking) To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
5. (transitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee a long distance.
6. (transitive, informal) To throw or chuck.
7. (transitive, whitewater kayaking) To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
8. To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
9. To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.

noun

1. (historical) An outer garment (robe or cloak) worn by men and women in Europe in the Middle Ages, either as civilian clothing or over armor.

noun

1. (archaic) A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.
2. (bodybuilding) An excessively muscled person.
3. (by extension) A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
4. (figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
5. (figuratively) A large structure with a dominating presence.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.
2. (intransitive) To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.
3. (transitive) To move (a large, hulking body).
4. (transitive, obsolete except Britain, dialectal) To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
5. To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.
6. To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.

noun

1. (US) A goal or base in children's games.
2. (US, slang) A honyock.
3. (computing) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
4. (informal) A sexually attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
5. A large or dense piece of something.

noun

1. An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm
2. Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
3. The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.
4. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

verb

1. (intransitive) To cough, clear one's throat.
2. (transitive) To remove husks from.
3. (transitive) To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.

noun

1. Alternative form of haik
2. Alternative form of huke

adj

1. (informal) Excessively sentimental.
2. (informal) Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting.
3. (informal) Unwell or upset; in a bad state of mind or health.

noun

1. (as modifier) ikat weaving; ikat fabric.
2. A work woven in this style.
3. Traditional Indonesian decorative technique in which warp or weft threads, or both, are tie-dyed before weaving.

adj

1. (slang, derogatory) ‘Jewish’, seen in a derogatory sense; cunning, supercilious.

noun

1. (slang, derogatory) A Jew.

noun

1. Alternative form of icon (religious image).

noun

1. roe of the salmon, red caviar

adj

1. (Scotland or archaic) Each or every

noun

1. plural of ilk

noun

1. plural of ink

verb

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

adj

1. Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
2. Spattered or stained with ink.

verb

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

adj

1. (Australia) Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).

noun

1. (Canada, US, colloquial) A lumberjack.
2. (India, historical, slang) A sepoy.
3. (UK, regional, now rare, historical) A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.
4. (US) A jackrabbit.
5. (US) A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
6. (apparently does not occur standalone for the genus per se) Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
7. (bowls) A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
8. (card games, originally colloquial) The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
9. (chiefly US) A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
10. (chiefly capitalized) A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
11. (colloquial) A sailor.
12. (colloquial) Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
13. (colloquial) Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
14. (colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit.
15. (countable, now chiefly US) A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
16. (cricket, slang) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
17. (electronics) A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
18. (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
19. (mining, now rare) A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
20. (nautical) A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
21. (nautical, now rare, historical) A jack crosstree.
22. (now historical, regional) A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
23. (now rare) A manual laborer.
24. (obsolete) A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck box.
25. (obsolete) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.
26. (obsolete) A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.
27. (obsolete, slang) A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.
28. (slang) A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
29. (slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
30. (slang, baseball) A home run.
31. (slang, chiefly US) Money.
32. A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
33. A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
34. A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
35. A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
36. A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
37. A pike, especially when young.
38. Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
39. Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
40. Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
41. Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
42. The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
43. The related tree Mangifera caesia.

verb

1. (colloquial, vulgar) To jack off, to masturbate.
2. (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
3. (transitive) To physically raise using a jack.
4. (transitive) To raise or increase.
5. (transitive, colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile.
6. (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
7. To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.

adj

1. (slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.

noun

1. (New York, MTE, MLE, slang) police, a federal government officer.
2. (US) A juvenile male turkey.
3. (US, slang, uncountable) Jamaica ginger.
4. (slang) A police officer, a cop (on foot, rather than in a patrol car).
5. A Discordian prank involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to a targeted individual.

verb

1. (transitive) To play a Discordian prank on (somebody), involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to that person.

noun

1. An African grey parrot, Psittacus erithacus, commonly kept as a cage bird.

adj

1. (computing, slang, rare) Janky.

noun

1. (computing, slang, rare) Perceptible pause in the smooth rendering of a software application's user interface due to slow operations or poor interface design.

noun

1. A seal (stamp or impression of a stamp).

verb

1. (slang, military, Britain) To modify (weaponry) to disadvantage; especially, to attach a tracking device to and covertly monitor the location of (a weapon).
2. Pronunciation spelling of jerk.

noun

1. (Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable.
2. (Caribbean, Jamaica) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
3. (Caribbean, Jamaica) Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui.
4. (Jamaica) a style of cooking in which the main ingredient—which most often is chicken but may also be beef, pork, goat, boar, seafood, or vegetables—is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; the resulting smoke is key to the flavour of the dish. (Compare jerky.)
5. (US, slang, derogatory) A dull or stupid person.
6. (obsolete) A soda jerk.
7. (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
8. (weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.
9. A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
10. A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.

verb

1. (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
2. (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
3. (obsolete) To beat, to hit.
4. (obsolete) To flout with contempt.
5. (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
6. (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
7. (usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
8. To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

noun

1. A quick evasive turn.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a quick evasive turn or turns to confuse pursuers, incoming fire, etc.
2. (intransitive, card games) In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to attempt to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.
3. (transitive) To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn.
4. To elude; to cheat.

noun

1. (Britain, slang, derogatory) A Scotsman.
2. (US, dated computing slang, in combination) A specialist computer programmer.
3. (US, slang) A young male athlete (through college age).
4. (US, slang, derogatory) An enthusiastic athlete or sports fan, especially one with few other interests, often stereotyped as slow-witted person of large size and great physical strength.
5. (informal) A jockey.
6. (slang) A disc jockey.
7. (slang, archaic) A common man.
8. (slang, rare, dated) The penis.
9. An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals especially during sports.

verb

1. (slang) to humiliate
2. (slang) to masturbate
3. (slang) to steal

noun

1. (figuratively) A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.
2. (figuratively) Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected.
3. (figuratively) The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one
4. An amusing story.
5. Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.

verb

1. (intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.
2. (intransitive, followed by with) To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with.
3. (transitive, dated) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.

adj

1. in the nature of a joke; jocular

noun

1. (MLE) Knife.
2. (MLE) Sexual intercourse.
3. (informal, Scotland) A shirtfront; the front of a jumper or T-shirt.
4. A bow or curtsey.
5. A quick movement to evade something.
6. Alternative form of juke (“roadside cafe or bar, esp. with dancing”).

verb

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To dodge; to move quickly to avoid something or to hide; to dart away.
2. MLE form of juke (“to stab, to ching”)

verb

1. Alternative form of juke

noun

1. (Southern US) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
2. (sports) A feint.
3. (uncountable, music) A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.
4. Short for jukebox.
5. The neck of a bird.

verb

1. (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
2. (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer
3. (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
4. (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.
5. to hit
6. to play dance music, or to dance, in a juke
7. to stab
8. to thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse

noun

1. (attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
2. (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
3. (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
4. (nautical) Salt beef.
5. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
6. (slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
7. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
8. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
9. Nonsense; gibberish.
10. Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

verb

1. (transitive, informal) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)
2. (transitive, informal) To throw away.

noun

1. plural of kab

noun

1. plural of kaf

noun

1. A Japanese basket with palanquin slung from a pole and carried by bearers.

noun

1. A New Caledonian endemic bird species, Rhynochetos jubatus, the only surviving member of the family Rhynochetidae.

noun

1. (New Zealand) swamp harrier (Circus approximans)

noun

1. A local governor or leader, especially in North Africa or Moorish Spain; an alcaide.

noun

1. (Scotland, archaic) Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables.
2. A broth made with kale or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner.
3. Alternative form of kale.

noun

1. (Scotland, law) poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.

noun

1. Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands.

adj

1. Misspelling of khaki.

noun

1. a persimmon, more specifically the Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki).

noun

1. (cooking) Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient.
2. (dated, slang) Money.
3. An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
4. Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.

noun

1. A type of British crystalline sweet or candy, similar in appearance to sherbet but made with larger sugar crystals.
2. Alkali, particularly soda ash or potash.
3. The prickly glasswort (Kali turgidum, syn. of Salsola kali).
4. Traditional Philippine stick fighting, a martial art.

noun

1. taro (Colocasia esculenta)

noun

1. (India) The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.
2. A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

noun

1. (geology) A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier.

noun

1. (papercraft) A basic origami paper, usually printed with a colour or pattern on one side.
2. (philosophy) The metaphysical causal generator of motion, life, or divinish aura.
3. (religion, Shinto) An animistic God or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan.

adj

1. (Australia, of males) homosexual
2. (New Zealand, historical) lesbian (in Maori communities)

noun

1. A hiragana or katakana character.
2. The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.

noun

1. (mining, UK, dialect, Cornwall) fluorspar

noun

1. (humorous) Pronunciation spelling of king.
2. (informal) Clipping of kangaroo.
3. A large Chinese water jar.
4. A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.

verb

1. (Android programming, slang) To appropriate someone else's work.

noun

1. (Philippines, slang) A male American.

noun

1. plural of kan

noun

1. (physics) any of four unstable subatomic particles, mesons, they are a combination of a strange quark or antiquark and either an up or down quark or antiquark