HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.

noun

1. A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.
2. A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.

verb

1. (transitive) To wrap in a shawl.

noun

1. plural of slaw

verb

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

noun

1. (medicine, dated) milk sickness

verb

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

noun

1. (US, dialect) The hooded merganser.

noun

1. Alternative form of spall
2. Scattered or ejected spittle.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To say in a rough manner.
2. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit.

noun

1. (UK, dialectal) A gutter in a candle.
2. A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
3. A low tract of moist or marshy land.
4. A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
5. A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
6. Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.

verb

1. Alternative form of sweal (melt and waste away, or singe)

verb

1. (intransitive) To burn slowly.
2. (intransitive) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
3. (transitive) To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
4. (transitive, dialectal) To consume with fire; burn.
5. (transitive, dialectal) To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.

adj

1. (Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent.
2. (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.

adv

1. (Canada, US, informal) Very well.

noun

1. (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
2. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
3. (informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
4. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
5. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
6. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
7. A bulge or protuberance.
8. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
9. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
10. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
11. The act of swelling; increase in size.
12. The 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 be raised to arrogance.
2. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
3. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
4. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
5. (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
6. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
7. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
8. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
9. To protuberate; to bulge out.

verb

1. Pronunciation spelling of so help.

verb

1. (obsolete outside dialects) To die.
2. (obsolete outside dialects) To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter
3. (obsolete) simple past tense of swell

noun

1. (Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass.
2. (by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
3. (by extension, figurative) Anything disgusting or worthless.
4. (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
5. (informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
6. (informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.

verb

1. (intransitive, of a liquid) To move around or over a surface.
2. (transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
3. (transitive) To feed swill to (pigs).
4. (transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
5. (transitive) To wash (something) by flooding with water.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To inebriate; to fill with drink.

noun

1. (fishing) The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait.
2. A twist or coil of something.
3. A whirling eddy.

verb

1. (figuratively) To circulate.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.
3. To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl.

adj

1. (poetic) Obsolete form of swollen.

noun

1. (now rare) A vent or chimney or pipe, especially one leading into a furnace or bellows.
2. (obsolete) The anus, rectum or posterior.

noun

1. A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete, transitive) To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".
2. (transitive) To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
3. (transitive) To dry by using a towel.
4. (transitive) To hit with a towel.

noun

1. A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
2. A net or dragnet used for trawling.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fish from a slow-moving boat.
2. (intransitive) To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.

noun

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of twill

noun

1. (weaving) A pattern, characterised by diagonal ridges, created by the regular interlacing of threads of the warp and weft during weaving.
2. A cloth or portion of cloth woven in such a pattern.

verb

1. (transitive) To weave (cloth, etc.) so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A quilt.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To cross-stitch in quincunx fashion so as to connect two thicknesses together.

noun

1. (slang) A prison guard.
2. A little twist of some substance; a swirl.
3. A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
4. Any rotating movement; a spin.

verb

1. (intransitive) To perform a twirl.
2. (transitive) To rotate rapidly.
3. (transitive) To twist round.

noun

1. (obsolete) A crime, an illegal action.
2. (obsolete) A fine exacted from a transgressor of the law.
3. Absence of law; lawlessness.

verb

1. (transitive) To deprive of the authority or character of law.
2. (transitive) To put beyond the protection of the law; to outlaw.
3. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, law) To fine.

verb

1. (obsolete, derogatory, transitive) To baptize.

noun

1. (orthography) A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and y.
2. (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.

verb

1. (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).

noun

1. plural of wail

verb

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

adj

1. tending to wail; complaining

noun

1. A remote manipulation system in which a slave device mimics the motions of a master device manipulated directly by the operator.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of wale

noun

1. (Australia, India) A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse.
2. (structural engineering) A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress.

noun

1. plural of wale

verb

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

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of walk

noun

1. plural of walk

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of wallah

noun

1. (US, slang) The vagina.
2. plural of wall

verb

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

adj

1. (Of eyes) unusually pale; misaligned, sideways-looking, affected by strabismus.

noun

1. (Britain, slang) A fool.
2. (colloquial, London and Essex) A large pickled gherkin or cucumber.

verb

1. (colloquial, obsolete, Essex) Alternative pronunciation (and hence spelling) of value

Proper noun

1. Variant of Welsh and Welch.

adj

1. Liable to roll over.

noun

1. (informal) A simple task.
2. A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
3. A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).

verb

1. (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).
3. (intransitive, transitive, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
4. (transitive) To move with fanfare.

adv

1. In a wan or pale manner.

adj

1. (archaic) Warlike.

verb

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

verb

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

noun

1. (archaic) A forest or wood.
2. (archaic) An open country.

noun

1. plural of weal

noun

1. (skiing) Alternative form of wedeln

noun

1. A person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one.

verb

1. To fail to fulfill an obligation.
2. To fail to repay a small debt.

noun

1. plural of weld

verb

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

noun

1. plural of well

verb

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

adv

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Almost; nearly.

noun

1. (countable, informal) Wellington boot.
2. (uncountable, informal) Force on a pedal or increase to any fuel or power for an engine or motor.
3. (uncountable, informal) Force or effort.

verb

1. (derogatory, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
2. (derogatory, sometimes offensive) To go back on one's word.

noun

1. plural of welt

verb

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

adv

1. (UK, informal) Ineffectually, feebly, showing no strength of character.
2. In a wet manner.

noun

1. (by extension) Any species of Cetacea.
2. (figuratively) Something, or someone, that is very large.
3. (figuratively, as "whale of a ___") Something, or someone, that is excellent.
4. (finance, informal) An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.
5. (gambling) In a casino, a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable.
6. (marketing, by extension) A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them.
7. Any one of numerous large marine mammals comprising an informal group within infraorder Cetacea that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises.

verb

1. (intransitive) To hunt for whales.
2. (slang, transitive) To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly.

noun

1. A light colour of the iris in horses; the state of being walleyed.

noun

1. (medicine) A rattling or uvular utterance of the r-sound.

noun

1. (UK, dialect, Cornwall, mining) A mine.
2. A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc.

verb

1. (uncommon) Synonym of wale.

noun

1. (UK, slang, archaic) A crown coin; a "cartwheel".
2. (archaic, informal) A bicycle or tricycle.
3. (automotive) A wheelrim.
4. (computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.
5. (figurative) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
6. (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
7. (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
8. (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
9. (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
10. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
11. (slang, archaic) A dollar.
12. A Catherine wheel firework.
13. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
14. A manoeuvre in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.
15. A potter's wheel.
16. A round portion of cheese.
17. A spinning wheel.
18. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
19. The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.

verb

1. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
2. (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
3. (intransitive, dated) To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
4. (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
5. (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
6. (transitive) To roll along on wheels.
7. (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.

noun

1. (archaic) Pimple
2. A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
3. Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.

noun

1. (poetic, also figuratively) A surge of water.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
2. (transitive, archaic) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.

intj

1. Alternative form of welp (“well”)

noun

1. (derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
2. (obsolete) A kind of ship.
3. A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
4. A young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
5. One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive, of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth.

conj

1. (Northern England, Scotland) Until.
2. (media, public policy) Used to denote an individual experiencing racial profiling when performing a seemingly benign activity.
3. Although.
4. As long as.
5. During the same time that.

noun

1. (Philippines) an uncertain short moment
2. (US) an uncertain long period of time
3. An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To elapse, to pass.
2. (transitive) To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.
3. (transitive, now only in combination with away; see also while away) To pass (time) idly.
4. Alternative spelling or misspelling of wile.

Noun

1. A kind of mollusk; a whelk.
2. The scoter.

noun

1. (informal) (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial.
2. A confused tumult.
3. A rapid series of events.
4. An act of whirling.
5. Dizziness or giddiness.
6. Something that whirls.

verb

1. (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
2. (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
3. (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
4. (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.

adj

1. (mining) As yet unworked.
2. (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
3. Entire, undivided.
4. Sound, uninjured, healthy.

adv

1. (colloquial) In entirety; entirely; wholly.

noun

1. An entirety.
2. Something complete, without any parts missing.

noun

1. (anatomy) Any volution, as for example in the human ear or fingerprint.
2. (botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
3. (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
4. A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle.
5. Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.

verb

1. (intransitive) To form a pattern of concentric circles.

verb

1. (obsolete) To carry out, to bring about.
2. (obsolete) To command, rule over; to possess or own.
3. (obsolete) To control, to guide or manage.
4. To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.
5. To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.

intj

1. (radio communications) Used to indicate agreement and compliance.

noun

1. A species of South American tree, Anadenanthera colubrina.

noun

1. plural of wild
2. wilderness

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of wile

noun

1. plural of wile

Proper noun

1. A male given name.

noun

1. Geijera parviflora, a small tree or bush found in inland parts of eastern Australia, and grown elsewhere for its drought tolerance and its graceful willow-like weeping form.

noun

1. plural of will

verb

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

adj

1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Self-willed; willful.
2. (obsolete) Willing; favourable; ready; eager.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) A fish basket.
2. (UK dialectal) A willow basket.
3. (UK, childish) Term of abuse.
4. (espionage) A person who is manipulated into serving as a useful agent without knowing it.
5. (hypocoristic, slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, childish) the penis.
6. Alternative form of willow

verb

1. To cleanse wool or cotton, etc. with a willy, or willow.

Proper noun

1. name, a contraction of Wilhelmina.

noun

1. plural of wilt

verb

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

Proper noun

1. A river in Europe that flows for around 42 km (26 mi) through Belgium and Luxembourg; it empties into the Sauer near Goebelsmuhle.
2. One of the twelve cantons of Luxembourg, located in the north-west of the country.
3. A municipality with city status in the canton of Wiltz, that lies on the river Wiltz.

adj

1. (obsolete) Joyous; winsome; pleasant; gracious; goodly.

adv

1. (chiefly dialectal) Quietly.
2. (obsolete) Delightfully; pleasantly.

noun

1. Alternative form of volok (“unit of land measurement”)

noun

1. Alternative form of weld (“the herb”)

adj

1. Obsolete spelling of woeful

noun

1. plural of wold

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of wolf

noun

1. Misspelling of wolves.

verb

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

adj

1. wolfish; like a wolf

noun

1. Diminutive of wolf

noun

1. (UK, slang) Alternative form of wally

verb

1. Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.
2. To behave like a wolf.

noun

1. Archaic form of weld (“dyer's rocket”).

verb

1. (nautical) To wind a chain or rope around in order to strengthen (especially a mast or yard).

noun

1. plural of wool

adj

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of woolly

noun

1. (archaic) Age, era.
2. (by extension) Any other astronomical body which may be inhabitable, such as a natural satellite.
3. (computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
4. (countable) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
5. (fiction) A realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
6. (informal, singular or plural, followed by "of") A great amount.
7. (metonymically, with "the") A majority of people.
8. (tarot) The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
9. (uncountable, with "the") The Earth.
10. (video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
11. (with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general.
12. (with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
13. A very large extent of country.
14. An individual or group perspective or social setting.
15. The Universe.

verb

1. To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.
2. To make real; to make worldly.

noun

1. Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

verb

1. (archaic) Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.
2. (archaic) Wanted to.
3. (chiefly archaic) Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only".
4. (chiefly archaic, transitive or control verb) Might desire; wish (something).
5. (obsolete) Wished, desired (something).
6. Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
7. Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
8. Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
9. Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
10. Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
11. Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
12. Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
13. Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
14. Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
15. Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To cry like a cat; to waul.

adv

1. In a wry manner.

adj

1. (Northern England (Yorkshire), Scotland) Of an object: derisorily small, tiny; of a person: puny, stunted.
2. (Scotland) gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled.

noun

1. (chiefly South Australia) Alternative spelling of wurley.