HANGMAN SOLVER

Proper noun

1. A city in southwest Nigeria.

noun

1. (mineralogy) A sulfide mineral of lead, copper and bismuth.

noun

1. The Japanese red pine, Pinus densiflora.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to akinesia: akinesic.

noun

1. plural of akvavit

noun

1. (geology) A form of granite composed chiefly of quartz and feldspars

noun

1. (historical) A stake or pole serving as a sign at an alehouse or inn, often with a garland or "bush" attached.

noun

1. (zoology) The segment of an insect's body to which the wings are attached; the thorax or mesosoma.

noun

1. (now historical) A universal solvent sought by the alchemists.

noun

1. plural of alkanet

noun

1. homogentisic acid

verb

1. (organic chemistry) To add one or more alkyl groups to a compound, especially by reacting with an alkylating agent

noun

1. plural of amtrack

noun

1. (mineralogy) Any of a group of mixed carbonate minerals, principally of calcium with iron, magnesium and manganese.

adj

1. Opposing banks (financial institutions).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of antic

noun

1. (archaic) One who performs antics; a comic performer.

noun

1. (politics) One who declares himself king in opposition to a reigning monarch, especially in an electoral monarchy.

adj

1. Preventing leaks.

adj

1. Opposing masks.

noun

1. Obsolete form of antimasque.

adj

1. Opposed to nuclear weapons.

noun

1. (informal) One who opposes nuclear weapons.

adj

1. (of a brake system) Designed to maintain traction on a slippery surface.
2. (of a surface) Designed to increase friction, and thereby reduce the possibility of skid.

noun

1. (aviation) Antiskid braking.

adj

1. (military) Of weapons or tactics, designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles.

noun

1. plural of artwork

noun

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos (or paten) used during the Eucharist to prevent the veil covering the chalice and diskos from touching the host on the diskos.
2. (US, sports, figuratively) A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.
3. (dated) A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
4. (figuratively) Something which is of little importance or which is marginal; a footnote.
5. Something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol.
6. The star-shaped symbol *, which is used in printing and writing for various purposes, including to refer a reader to a note at the bottom of a page or in a margin, and to indicate the omission of letters or words; a star.

verb

1. (transitive) To mark or replace (text, etc.) with an asterisk symbol (*; noun sense 1.1); to star.

Proper noun

1. An English and Irish patronymic surname.

adj

1. Trickling.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of attack

noun

1. Someone who attacks.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of an aunt.

adj

1. Pertaining to an autarky; self-sufficient.

noun

1. A kind of large lemur, the indri (Indri indri).

noun

1. (music) The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.

noun

1. One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.

verb

1. (informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
2. To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
3. To speak badly of an absent individual.

adj

1. (UK dialectal) Retrospective.

adv

1. (UK dialectal, of time) Long ago; in the past.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
2. (UK dialectal) Retrospect; hindsight.
3. (UK dialectal) backwater
4. (figuratively) Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
5. A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
6. A cast or throw back.

verb

1. (UK dialectal) To change retrospectively; reverse.
2. To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.

noun

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

verb

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

noun

1. An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date.

verb

1. To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date.

noun

1. (publishing) A list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to the frontlist of more recent titles.

verb

1. (transitive) To hold back a student's application (to a college etc.) based on whether a preferred candidate declines their offer.
2. (transitive, publishing) To place (a book) on a backlist.

adj

1. farthest back

noun

1. plural of backout

noun

1. A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.
2. The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of back seat

verb

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

verb

1. (transitive) to attack someone (especially verbally) unfairly in a deceitful, underhand, or treacherous manner, especially when they're not present in the place or situation that it happens. (as if stabbing them in the back). See backbite.

noun

1. (nautical) A part of the rigging of a sailing ship extending from masthead the top of the mast to the back of the ship; they support the strain on all upper masts and provide additional support to the shrouds when the wind is abaft the beam.
2. A strengthening or supporting piece that is built into the back of something.

noun

1. (obsolete) A baker.

noun

1. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

noun

1. (US) Verbal impudence or argumentative discourse, given in response.

verb

1. (transitive) To respond to in an aggressively disputatious, often sarcastic or insolent manner.

noun

1. Alternative form of Bakelite

noun

1. (obsolete) Any baked product (such as a pie)

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.

adj

1. superlative form of balky: most balky

noun

1. (geology) A form of trachyandesite

noun

1. (now historical) A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary.
2. A piece of paper currency.

adj

1. (finance) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
2. Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
3. Having been legally declared insolvent.

noun

1. (UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
2. One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.

verb

1. (transitive) To force into bankruptcy.

adj

1. superlative form of barky: most barky

noun

1. Baskets collectively.
2. The process of weaving unspun vegetable fibers to make a basket.

verb

1. present participle of batik

adj

1. superlative form of beaky: most beaky

noun

1. plural of beatnik

Proper noun

1. of origin.

noun

1. (obsolete) The front or back part of the frame of a bedstead.

noun

1. plural of bedtick

adj

1. Wearing a kilt.

verb

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

noun

1. plural of berakah

verb

1. (transitive) To mark or cover with streaks.

verb

1. present participle of betake

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.

verb

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

noun

1. A hand tool consisting of a crank which holds a fitted rotating drill bit tip, designed to bore holes in rigid materials, by cutting a disc in a spiral fashion.

noun

1. plural of bittock

adj

1. superlative form of black: most black

noun

1. (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
2. (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
3. A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
4. A temporary loss of consciousness.
5. A temporary loss of memory.
6. An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.

verb

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of black out

noun

1. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
2. (US, countable) A road so paved.
3. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).

verb

1. (US) To pave with blacktop.

adj

1. superlative form of blank: most blank

noun

1. plural of blanket

verb

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

adj

1. (dated, euphemistic) damnable, damned
2. Resembling or related to a blanket.

adj

1. superlative form of bleak: most bleak

noun

1. (construction) A void that is deliberately not filled with concrete, so that it can be used to insert something else such as pipework.

noun

1. A coonhound of a certain breed originating in the United States,

verb

1. (Internet slang) To ignore (a message) sent via a social messaging app, especially one where a reply is expected or requested.

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.

adj

1. Resembling a boat

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bolt (mechanical fastener).
2. Resembling or characteristic of a bolt, as of lightning.

noun

1. A South African antelope of genus Damaliscus

noun

1. plural of booklet

noun

1. A schoolfellow; an associate in studying.

noun

1. A support used to maintain a book or sheet when reading.

noun

1. (obsolete) A small boot or gaiter.
2. (obsolete) The boot (torture device).
3. A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout.

noun

1. a V-shaped, or forked, device for pulling off boots.

noun

1. (US) A toady or sycophant.

verb

1. (intransitive) To engage in fawning, servile behavior.
2. (transitive) To seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior.

adj

1. superlative form of bosky: most bosky

noun

1. plural of bowknot

noun

1. plural of bracket

verb

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

adj

1. Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to mainstream success.

noun

1. (aviation) The point at which visibility returns after passing through cloud.
2. A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
3. A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
4. An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
5. An escape from prison.
6. An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).

noun

1. (figurative) A criticism or uncomplimentary remark.
2. A piece of brick used as a weapon, especially if thrown, or placed in something like a sock and used as a club.

verb

1. (transitive) To attack by throwing brickbats.
2. (transitive, figurative) To assail with criticism.

adj

1. superlative form of brisk: most brisk

noun

1. plural of brisket

noun

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

noun

1. plural of britska

noun

1. plural of britzka

noun

1. plural of brocket

Proper noun

1. a city in Massachusetts, USA, which is one of the two county seats of
2. a small town in Montana, USA.
3. an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, USA.
4. a town in Ontario, Canada. The name is formed from Brant, Greenock and Walkerton, places that merged into Brockton.
5. a township in parish, Shropshire, England

noun

1. (mineralogy) A dark brown mineral form of titanium dioxide, with the chemical formula TiO₂.

noun

1. A little brook.