HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (US, offensive, ethnic slur) An Albanian.

noun

1. (slang, Australia) An alcoholic.
2. A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives. Apparently the species has since gone extinct.

adj

1. (informal) Allosexual and/or alloromantic; experiencing sexual and/or romantic attraction.

intj

1. Alternative spelling of 'allo (“hello”).

noun

1. (informal) One who is allosexual and/or alloromantic.

noun

1. Alternative form of allod

noun

1. (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica.
2. A plant of the genus Aloe.
3. A strong, bitter drink made from the juice of such plants, used as a purgative.

adj

1. Leaning over on one side; lopsided.

adj

1. (Scotland) alight; ablaze

adv

1. (nautical) Towards the lower part of a vessel; towards the lower rigging or the decks.
2. (now chiefly Scotland) Low down.

prep

1. (Scotland) Below.

adv

1. (conjunctive, focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too.
2. (obsolete) To the same degree or extent; so, as.

noun

1. (colloquial, music) An alto saxophone
2. A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
3. A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.

adj

1. Alternative form of AWOL

noun

1. Half a coconut shell, used in Fiji as a cup for drinking alcohol.

noun

1. (astronomy) A large cloud of gas.
2. (dialect) A bubble; a bleb.
3. (sports, slang) A score of zero.
4. A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
5. A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
6. Alternative spelling of BLOB
7. Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob (a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy).
8. The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
2. (intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
3. (transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto; to cover with blobs.
4. (transitive) To drop in the form of a blob or blobs.

noun

1. A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union.
2. A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.

noun

1. (backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.
2. (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
3. (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
4. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.

verb

1. (intransitive) to soak up or absorb liquid.
2. (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
3. (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
4. (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
5. (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
6. (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
7. (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
8. (transitive) to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.

adj

1. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
2. (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
3. (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
4. (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
5. (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
6. (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
7. (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
8. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
9. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
10. A bloom, state of flowering.
11. A damaging occurrence.
12. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
13. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
14. A strong wind.
15. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
16. The act of striking or hitting.

verb

1. (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
2. (UK, slang, archaic) To expose, or inform on.
3. (dated) To talk loudly; boast; brag.
4. (figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
5. (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
6. (intransitive) (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
7. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
8. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
9. (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
10. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
11. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
12. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
13. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
14. (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
15. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
16. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
17. (slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
18. (slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
19. (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
20. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
21. (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
22. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
23. (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
24. (transitive) To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
25. (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
26. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
27. (transitive, historical, military, of a person) To blow from a gun.
28. (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
29. (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
30. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
31. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
32. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
33. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.

noun

1. (Scotland, archaic) A bubbling.
2. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
3. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
4. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
5. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
2. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
3. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
4. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
5. (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
6. (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
8. (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
9. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

noun

1. A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.

adj

1. (Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
2. (Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
3. (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
4. Courageous, daring.
5. Full-bodied.
6. Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
7. Steep or abrupt.
8. Visually striking; conspicuous.

noun

1. (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To become bold or brave.
2. (transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.

noun

1. (Scotland) A small closet.
2. (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
3. (colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
4. (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
5. Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
6. Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
7. The trunk or stem of a tree.

verb

1. (intransitive) To belch.
2. (intransitive) To gush out.
3. (intransitive) To heave.
4. (intransitive) To vomit; retch.
5. (transitive) To belch out; give vent to; ejaculate.

noun

1. (Scotland) An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
2. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.

verb

1. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

noun

1. (US law enforcement) A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.
2. (attributive) a type of punch; an uppercut.
3. A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
4. A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.
5. A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.

verb

1. (transitive, nonce word) To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
2. To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
3. To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

adv

1. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

noun

1. (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
2. (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
3. (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
4. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
5. A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
6. A burst of speed or efficiency.
7. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
8. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
9. A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
10. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
11. A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
12. A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
13. A sudden event, action or emotion.
14. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
15. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
16. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

verb

1. (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
2. (intransitive) To escape.
3. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
4. (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
5. (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
6. (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
7. To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
8. To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
9. To secure a door by locking or barring it.
10. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
11. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
12. To sift, especially through a cloth.
13. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
14. To swallow food without chewing it.
15. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

noun

1. (programming) A Boolean variable, one whose value is either true or false.

verb

1. (slang) To relax.

noun

1. A curved handle.

noun

1. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
2. (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
3. (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
4. (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.
5. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
6. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
7. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
8. A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
9. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
10. As much as is held by a bowl.
11. The action of bowling a ball.
12. The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
13. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
14. The round hollow part of anything.

verb

1. (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
3. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
4. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
5. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

noun

1. (biochemistry, medicine) Abbreviation of cholesterol.

noun

1. A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
2. A stupid person; a dolt.
3. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
4. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.

verb

1. (transitive) To pelt with clods.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
3. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

Proper noun

1. name, an spelling of

noun

1. (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
2. A blockage.
3. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
4. A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
5. That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

verb

1. (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
2. (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
3. To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
4. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
5. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.

noun

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground.
2. (slang) My Little Pony-themed pornography.

verb

1. (slang) To masturbate to My Little Pony-themed pornography.
2. To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.

noun

1. A silly person.
2. A solidified mass of any liquid.
3. A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.

verb

1. (intransitive) To form a clot or mass.
2. (transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.

noun

1. Something which holds the greatest attention; the chief point of interest.

verb

1. (transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
2. (transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
3. (transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.

noun

1. (countable) A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
2. (countable) A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
3. (countable) A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.
4. (uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
5. charcoal.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be converted to charcoal.
2. (intransitive) To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
3. (transitive) To burn to charcoal; to char.
4. (transitive) To mark or delineate with charcoal.
5. (transitive) To supply with coal.

noun

1. (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
2. (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
3. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
4. A cylinder of clay.
5. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
6. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.

verb

1. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
2. To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
3. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
4. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
5. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.

noun

1. (dated) plural of colon
2. A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
3. A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.
4. The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.

adj

1. (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
2. (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
3. (informal) Not radioactive.
4. (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
5. (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
6. (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
7. (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
8. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
9. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
10. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
11. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
12. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
13. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
14. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
15. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
16. Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
17. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
18. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
19. Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
20. Without electrical power being supplied.

adv

1. (slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
2. At a low temperature.
3. Without preparation.

noun

1. (medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
2. (slang) rheum, sleepy dust
3. (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
4. A condition of low temperature.

noun

1. (Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
2. Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).
3. Cabbage.

noun

1. (often attributive, bacteriology) Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To hug or embrace.

noun

1. (computing) co-location

noun

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for colposcopy.
2. Alternative form of collop

noun

1. plural of col

noun

1. (biblical) A young camel or donkey.
2. (cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
3. (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
4. (nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
5. A young crane (bird).
6. A young male horse.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
3. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

noun

1. Any bird of either of the genera Colius or Urocolius, endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.

adj

1. (informal) (followed by with) Able to tolerate; to be fine with.
2. (informal) (of a pair of people) holding no grudge against one another; having no beef.
3. (informal) In fashion and fancy, part of or befitting the most leading trends and habits of the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
4. (informal) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
5. (informal) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
6. (informal) Very interesting or exciting.
7. (sarcastic) (of an act or situation) annoying, irritating.
8. Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
9. Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
10. Calmly audacious.
11. Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
12. Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
13. Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
14. Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.

noun

1. A calm temperament.
2. A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
3. The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.

verb

1. (intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
2. (intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.
3. (transitive) To kill.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
5. (transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm.

noun

1. (metonymically) A monk.
2. (nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
3. (nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
4. (obsolete, Britain) A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.
5. A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
6. A mask that covers the majority of the head.
7. A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
8. A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
9. A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.

verb

1. (Yorkshire) To scrape together
2. (transitive) To make a monk of (a person).
3. To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
4. To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.

noun

1. (organic chemistry) any organic compound having two hydroxy functional groups

noun

1. (Britain, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
2. (archaic) A Sorrow or grief; dolour.
3. (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
4. (law, Scotland) Dolus.
5. A boundary; a landmark.
6. Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
7. Money or other goods given as charity.

verb

1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

noun

1. plural of dolus

noun

1. (US, Australia) A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
2. (US, dated, now possibly offensive) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl.
3. (US, obsolete) A dollar.
4. (rail transport) A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal gantry.
5. (slang, sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman.
6. A kind of barrier used in horse racing.
7. A toy in the form of a human.
8. Obsolete form of dal.
9. The smallest or pet pig in a litter.

noun

1. plural of dol

noun

1. (derogatory) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.

verb

1. (obsolete) To behave foolishly.

noun

1. Alternative form of dowle

Proper noun

1. A city in Nevada, USA

phrase

1. (Corporate slang) Initialism of enough, let's move on.

noun

1. (photography) Synonym of metol (“p-methylaminophenol sulfate”)

Proper noun

1. A city in Arizona

noun

1. (organic chemistry) An organic compound containing a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of phyllo

noun

1. (UK, slang) Spittle or phlegm, especially a piece of spittle or phlegm that has been spat out.

verb

1. (UK, slang) To spit or to gob.
2. To flop; to move or behave in a loose or uncoordinated way.

noun

1. A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.

noun

1. A low, flat mass of floating ice.

noun

1. (Australia, informal, derogatory) A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.
2. (Internet slang) A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service.

verb

1. (theater) To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
2. (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
3. (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.
4. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
5. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
6. (transitive, Australia, agriculture) To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
7. (transitive, UK, slang) To sell.

adv

1. Right, squarely, flat-out.
2. With a flopping sound.

intj

1. Indicating the sound of something flopping.

noun

1. (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
2. (computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
3. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
4. (slang) A flophouse.
5. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
6. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
7. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
2. (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
3. (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
4. (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
5. (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
6. (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
7. (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
8. (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).

noun

1. A film of yeast that develops on the surface of some wines during fermentation, induced deliberately during the production of sherry.

noun

1. (Scotland) A morass or marsh.
2. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
3. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
4. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
5. (software) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
6. A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
7. Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
8. Smoothness or continuity.
9. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
10. The emission of blood during menstruation.
11. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
12. The rising movement of the tide.

verb

1. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
2. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
3. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
4. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
5. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
6. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
7. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
8. (transitive) To allow (a liquid) to flow.
9. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
10. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
11. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.

noun

1. (mining, historical) A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.
2. A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.

noun

1. (aerodynamics, aviation) Clipping of aerofoil/airfoil.
2. (authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.
3. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
4. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
5. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
6. (hunting) The track of an animal.
7. (hydrodynamics, nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
8. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
9. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
10. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
11. A very thin sheet of metal.
12. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
13. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.

verb

1. (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
2. (nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
3. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.
4. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
5. (transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.
6. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
7. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
8. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.

noun

1. (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
2. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
3. (collective) A group of sheep or goats.
4. (computing theory) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
5. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.
6. (figuratively) Home, family.
7. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
8. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
9. (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
10. A bend or crease.
11. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
12. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
13. An act of folding.
14. Any correct move in origami.
15. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
2. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
3. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
4. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
5. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
6. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
7. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
8. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
9. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
10. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
11. To confine animals in a fold.
12. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
13. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of foal

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.

adj

1. (knitting) Abbreviation of following.

adj

1. (informal) Foolish.

noun

1. (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
2. (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
3. (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
4. (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
5. (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Buddy, dude, man.
6. (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.

verb

1. (archaic) To make a fool of; to make act the fool.
2. To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
3. To trick; to deceive.

adj

1. (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
2. (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
3. (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
4. (of the weather) Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.
5. (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
6. (technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
7. Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
8. Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
9. Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
10. Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.

noun

1. (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
2. (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
3. (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become clogged.
2. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
3. (intransitive, basketball) To commit a foul.
4. (transitive) To clog or obstruct.
5. (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
6. (transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
7. (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
8. To come into contact or collide with.

adj

1. (obsolete) foul

noun

1. (archaic) A bird.
2. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
3. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade Galloanserae.

verb

1. To hunt fowl.

noun

1. (Commonwealth) Dated spelling of jail.

noun

1. Fruit of the scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum)

noun

1. (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
2. (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
3. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.

verb

1. (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
2. To stick in globs or lumps.

noun

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for glomerulus.

verb

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of glaum.
2. (intransitive, informal) To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
3. (transitive, informal) To take, steal.

noun

1. (informal, countable) A gooey blob of some substance.
2. (informal, uncountable) Any gooey substance.

verb

1. (dialectal or archaic) To stare in amazement.
2. (transitive, archaic) To swallow greedily.
3. (transitive, informal) To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.

noun

1. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
2. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
3. The light given off by a glowing object.

verb

1. (Internet slang, alt-right) to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
2. (Internet slang, alt-right) to expose someone to the authorities.
3. (copulative) To radiate thermal heat.
4. (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
5. (intransitive, Internet slang) To be related to or part of an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
6. (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
7. To display intense emotion.
8. To emit light as if heated.
9. To gaze especially passionately at something.
10. To shine brightly and steadily.

noun

1. (sports) In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
2. (sports) The act of placing the object into the goal.
3. A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
4. A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
5. A result that one is attempting to achieve.

verb

1. (Gaelic football, Australian rules football) To score a goal.

noun

1. (historical, biblical) A person who, as the nearest relative of another, has certain obligations toward them, such as having to free them from slavery, to repurchase their property if sold through poverty, and to avenge their murder.

noun

1. Alternative form of golah

adj

1. (of commercial services) Premium, superior.
2. (programming, of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.
3. Having the colour of gold.
4. Made of gold.
5. Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.

adv

1. of or referring to a gold version of something

noun

1. (countable or uncountable) A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.
2. (countable) A gold medal.
3. (countable) The bullseye of an archery target.
4. (figuratively) Anything or anyone that is very valuable.
5. (slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.
6. (uncountable) A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.
7. (uncountable) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.

symbol

1. ☉ (alchemy)

verb

1. To appear or cause to appear golden.

noun

1. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Golf from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
2. (sports) A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.

verb

1. (computing) To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)
2. (intransitive) To play the game of golf.

noun

1. A traditional dance and masquerade of the Baoulé people of the Ivory Coast.

name

1. (dialect, euphemistic) God

noun

1. (heraldry) Alternative form of golpe

noun

1. (Ireland, slang) An annoying person; an idiot; a dishonest person.
2. (Ireland, slang) Vulva.

verb

1. (obsolete, Scotland) To weep angrily; to howl.

noun

1. (advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.
2. (art, religion, iconography) a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
3. (astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
4. (automotive) Short for halo headlight.
5. (medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
6. (motor racing) A rollbar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.
7. (religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
8. A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
9. Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
10. The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.

verb

1. (transitive) To encircle with a halo.

intj

1. (informal) Hello, hi, hey.

adj

1. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.

noun

1. (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
2. (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
3. (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
4. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
5. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
6. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
7. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
8. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
9. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
10. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
11. A grasp or grip.
12. A place where animals are held for safety
13. An act or instance of holding.
14. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
15. As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
16. Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
17. Power over someone or something.
18. Something reserved or kept.
19. The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
20. The ability to persist.
21. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
22. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
23. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.

verb

1. (archaic) To derive right or title.
2. (archaic) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.
3. (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
4. (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
5. (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
6. (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
7. (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
8. (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
9. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
10. (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
11. (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
12. (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
13. (transitive) To contain or store.
14. (transitive) To detain.
15. (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
16. (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
17. (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
18. (transitive) To reserve.
19. To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
20. To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
21. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
22. To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
23. To take place, to occur.

adj

1. Obsolete spelling of whole.

noun

1. (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
2. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
3. (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
4. (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
5. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
6. (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
7. (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
8. (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
9. (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
10. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
11. (informal) A container or receptacle.
12. (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
13. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
14. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
15. (slang, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
16. (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
17. (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
18. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
19. An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
20. In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.

verb

1. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
2. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
3. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
4. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
5. (transitive, by extension) To destroy.

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.

noun

1. (dialect, chiefly West Yorkshire(?), Scotland, Orkney) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet. Often the word is used in Norse-influenced place-names. See also holme.
2. (obsolete outside dialects) The holly.
3. A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.
4. An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
5. Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.
6. Small island, islet.