HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative spelling of alkie

noun

1. (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
2. (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
3. (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
4. (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
5. (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
6. (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
7. (obsolete) An omission.
8. (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
9. A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
10. A sudden and obstinate stop.
11. Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".

verb

1. (archaic) To pass over or by.
2. (obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid.
3. (sports, intransitive) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
4. To disappoint; to frustrate.
5. To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
6. To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
7. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
8. To leave or make balks in.
9. To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
10. To refuse suddenly.
11. To stop short and refuse to go on.
12. To stop, check, block.

noun

1. A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent its slipping.
2. A spike on the sole of a boot to prevent slipping, particularly used in logging

verb

1. (possibly dated) Alternative spelling of caulk
2. To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
3. To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.

noun

1. (now rare) A hollow or depression.
2. A pin; brooch; clasp.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) The razorbill.

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. (Scotland or archaic) Each or every

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. (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. Abbreviation of kilocalorie.

noun

1. Synonym of phurba (“Tibetan dagger”)

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Klan

noun

1. (rare, dated) Alternative form of cola (“drink made with kola nut flavoring”)
2. A nut of this tree.
3. A tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown seeds ("nuts") that are the source of cola extract.

noun

1. Archaic form of kraal.

noun

1. A ceremonial exchange system conducted in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea, involving the exchange of bracelets and necklaces, and linked to political authority.
2. A tower, turret or steeple on the Balkans erected during the period of Ottoman domination on the area.

noun

1. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
2. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
3. Archaic form of lakh.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
3. (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
4. (transitive, stative) To be without, to need, to require.

verb

1. (UK, Northern, dialect) To play (in the sense opposed to work).

noun

1. (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
3. (obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.
4. (obsolete) A pit, or ditch.
5. (obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.
6. A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
7. A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
8. In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
9. In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.

verb

1. (chiefly dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
2. (obsolete) To present an offering.
3. To make lake-red.

num

1. (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) One hundred thousand; 100,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,000. Often used with units of money.

adj

1. Of the color of a lake pigment; murky.
2. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a lake.
3. Transparent; said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.

adj

1. (obsolete) Languid; drooping, slack.
2. (obsolete) Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
3. (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)
4. Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.

verb

1. (rare, intransitive) To become lank.

noun

1. (by extension) One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
2. A prank.
3. A romp, frolic, some fun.
4. Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
5. Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

verb

1. To catch larks (type of bird).
2. To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.
3. To sport, engage in harmless pranking.

adj

1. (obsolete) Lax, weak; specifically of the bowels: affected by diarrhoea; loose.

noun

1. (uncountable, chiefly veterinary medicine) Originally of both persons and animals, now only of animals: looseness of the bowels; diarrhoea; (countable) a bout of this ailment.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To have loose bowels; to suffer from diarrhoea.

adj

1. (obsolete) Leaky.

noun

1. (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
2. (mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
3. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
4. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
5. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
6. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
7. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.

verb

1. (intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
2. (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
3. (slang, US) To bleed.
4. (slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.
5. (transitive, figurative, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.

noun

1. (US) A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
2. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
3. (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.
4. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
5. (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
6. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
7. A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
8. A lecture.

verb

1. (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
2. (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
3. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
4. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
5. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
6. (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
7. (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
8. (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.

noun

1. (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
2. (UK, finance, slang, dated) A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).
3. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
4. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
5. (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
6. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
7. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
8. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
9. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
10. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
11. A distance walked.
12. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
13. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
14. A trip made by walking.
15. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.

verb

1. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
2. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
3. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
4. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
5. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
6. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
7. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
8. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
9. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
10. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
11. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
12. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
13. (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
14. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
15. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
16. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
17. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
18. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.