HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. The three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes matacus

noun

1. Someone who apes something

noun

1. (chiefly US, Philippines) A belch.

verb

1. (intransitive) To emit a burp.
2. (transitive) To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp.
3. (transitive) To open (a container of fermenting substance) to allow the release of accumulated gas.
4. (transitive) To utter by burping

noun

1. Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.

verb

1. (obsolete) To say; to tell.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To find fault with; to censure.
3. To complain about a fault; to harp on.

noun

1. Alternative form of corp.

adj

1. (chiefly UK, Canada, US, colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of poor quality.

intj

1. (slang, vulgar) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.

noun

1. (gambling, dice games) A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
2. (obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
3. (slang, mildly vulgar) Faeces/feces.
4. (slang, mildly vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.
5. (slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Nonsense; something untrue.
6. (slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.

verb

1. (India, mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To bullshit.
2. (mildly vulgar, slang, intransitive) To defecate.
3. (mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).

noun

1. (offensive) A cripple.
2. (rehabilitation, generally self-referential) A person with a disability.

verb

1. (dance) To do a Crip Walk.
2. (disability studies) To apply a disability justice perspective to something.

noun

1. (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
2. (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation; a craw.
3. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
4. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
5. (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
6. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
7. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
8. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
9. A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
10. A rocky outcrop.
11. A short haircut.
12. An entire oxhide.
13. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
14. The act of cropping.
15. The lashing end of a whip.
16. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.

verb

1. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
2. (transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
3. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
4. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
5. (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
6. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
7. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

adj

1. Short; brittle (both literally and figuratively).

noun

1. Alternative form of croup (the rump of a horse)

intj

1. (slang) A placeholder for unimportant details, blah blah blah.
2. (slang) Draws attention to an act of foolishness or stupidity.

noun

1. (slang) A person who acts stupidly or foolishly; a person who derps.
2. (slang) A stupid mistake, stupidity.
3. (uncountable) The constant repeating of an opinion after facts have proved it incorrect, especially as a rhetorical tactic.

verb

1. (slang) To act stupidly or foolishly
2. (slang) To make a stupid mistake
3. (slang, of eyes) To point in different directions; (of a person) To have a facial expression with one's eyes pointing in different directions.

noun

1. (now chiefly South Africa) A village or small town; a town considered provincial.

noun

1. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
2. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
3. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
4. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
5. (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
6. A drop of a liquid.
7. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.

verb

1. (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
2. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
3. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
4. (intransitive) To leak slowly.
5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
6. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
7. (transitive) To let fall in drops.

noun

1. (American football) A dropped pass.
2. (American football) Short for drop-back.
3. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
4. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
5. (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
6. (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
7. (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
8. (chiefly Australia, Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
9. (chiefly Britain) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
10. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
11. (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
12. (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
13. (informal) Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
14. (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
15. (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
16. (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
17. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
18. (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
19. (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
20. (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
21. (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
22. (pinball) Short for drop target.
23. (rugby) Short for drop kick.
24. (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
25. A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
26. A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
27. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
28. A release (of music, a video game, etc).
29. An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
30. An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
31. Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
32. Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
33. Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
34. Short for drop hammer and drop press.
35. The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
36. The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
37. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
38. Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.

verb

1. (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
2. (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
3. (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
4. (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
5. (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
6. (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
7. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
8. (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
9. (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
10. (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
11. (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
12. (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
13. (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
14. (intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.
15. (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
16. (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
17. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
18. (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
19. (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
20. (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
21. (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
22. (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
23. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
24. (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
25. (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
26. (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
27. (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
28. (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
29. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
30. (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
31. (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
32. (transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
33. (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
34. (transitive, archaic) To cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate.
35. (transitive, computing) To present the user with a more basic interface.
36. (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
37. (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
38. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
39. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
40. Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
41. To impart (something).
42. To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
43. To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
44. To perform (rap music).
45. To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
46. To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of frappuccino.

verb

1. (nautical) To draw together tightly; to secure by many turns of a lashing.
2. (transitive) To strike or beat.

noun

1. A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement for use while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.

name

1. A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.

verb

1. (by extension) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).
2. (computing) To use a program such as grep to search in a file.

noun

1. (archaic except rail transport) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
2. (chiefly Southern California slang) A long time.
3. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
4. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
5. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
6. (figurative) A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
7. (figurative) Assistance; help or encouragement.
8. (figurative) Control, power or mastery over someone or something; a tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
9. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
10. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
11. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
12. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
13. A handle or other place to grip.
14. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
15. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
16. Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza; the flu.

verb

1. (dialectal) To trench; to drain.
2. (transitive) Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon.
3. (transitive) To firmly hold the attention of.
4. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.

noun

1. (Scotland) A grain sieve.
2. (colloquial) A harmonica.
3. (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
4. Any instrument of the same musicological type.
5. Short for harp seal.

verb

1. (transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.
2. (transitive) To play on (a harp or similar instrument).
3. (transitive, archaic) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
4. (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject.

noun

1. (colloquial) A reptile or amphibian.
2. (colloquial) Herpes.

noun

1. (Cumbria, Ireland, Northumbria, Yorkshire, games) The act of knocking one's pace-egg (“a coloured hard-boiled egg traditionally made at Easter”) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact, an Easter custom in many countries.

verb

1. (transitive, Cumbria, Ireland, Northumbria, Yorkshire, games) To knock (a pace-egg) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact.

noun

1. (mathematics, computing) Abbreviation of linear interpolation.
2. (uncountable) A sweet secretion, produced by the larvae of the family Psyllidae, that forms scales on eucalyptus leaves.
3. One of the lice whose larvae produce this secretion.

verb

1. (mathematics, computing) To interpolate linearly.

noun

1. (geology) A hypothesized shifting of four geologic blocks: northeast Africa west of Red Sea and north of the Ethiopian valley, the Arabian Peninsula, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa east of the rift valleys, which is used to explain the structural features of the area.

noun

1. (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
2. (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
3. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
4. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
5. (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
6. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
7. (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
8. (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
9. (slang) A pair of breasts
10. (slang) A pair of testicles
11. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
12. One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
13. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
14. Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
15. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
16. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)

verb

1. (computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth
2. (intransitive) To come together for mating.
3. (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
4. (obsolete, intransitive) To become worse, to deteriorate.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To impair, to make worse.
6. (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
7. (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
8. (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.

adj

1. (UK, Australia, slang) very drunk

noun

1. (US, education, informal) Clipping of paraprofessional educator.
2. (historical) A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
3. (medicine) A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
4. Clipping of paragraph.
5. Clipping of paraplegic.
6. Clipping of paratrooper.

noun

1. Alternative form of park (partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown)

noun

1. (archaic, literary) A leopard; a panther.
2. (colloquial) Partner; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation

verb

1. (Ireland, slang) To sharpen a pencil.
2. (transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
3. (transitive, often with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
4. To trim the hoof of a horse.

noun

1. Alternative form of peri

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
2. (UK) An inventory of matériel.
3. (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
4. A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
5. A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation.
6. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
7. An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.
8. An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.
9. An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
10. An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.

verb

1. (Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)
2. (intransitive, dated) To promenade or drive in a park.
3. (intransitive, dated, of horses) To display style or gait on a park drive.
4. (intransitive, slang) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose.
5. (transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.
6. (transitive) To bring together in a park, or compact body.
7. (transitive) To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
8. (transitive, baseball) To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.
9. (transitive, finance) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.
10. (transitive, informal) To defer (a matter) until a later date.
11. (transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.
12. (transitive, oyster culture) To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.

noun

1. A young leveret.
2. Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.

noun

1. plural of par

verb

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

adj

1. Fractional; partial.

adv

1. Partly; partially; fractionally.

noun

1. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
2. (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
3. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
4. (mathematics, dated) A factor.
5. (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
6. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
7. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
8. A distinct element of something larger.
9. A fraction of a whole.
10. A group inside a larger group.
11. A section of a document.
12. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
13. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
14. Duty; responsibility.
15. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
16. Position or role (especially in a play).
17. Share, especially of a profit.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
2. (intransitive) To leave the company of.
3. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
4. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
5. (transitive) To divide in two.
6. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
7. (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
8. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
9. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
10. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
11. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

noun

1. (Jamaica) avocado, alligator pear
2. A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.
3. A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
4. An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
5. Choke pear (a torture device).
6. The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).

noun

1. (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
2. A comrade; a companion; an associate.
3. A look; a glance.
4. A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
5. Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
6. Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).

verb

1. (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
2. (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To come in sight; to appear.
4. To make equal in rank.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of père

adj

1. (colloquial) Clipping of perfect.
2. (grammar) Abbreviation of perfective.
3. (philately) Abbreviation of perforated. When followed by a number, eg, perf 14, this indicates the number of perforations per two centimetres.

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of perforation. (of postage stamps or photographic film)
2. (informal) Clipping of performance.

verb

1. (informal) Clipping of perforate.

adv

1. (usually in scholarly contexts) Abbreviation of perhaps.

noun

1. (Persian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being.

adj

1. (obsolete) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.

noun

1. (informal) Perquisite.
2. (video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
3. A percolator, particularly of coffee.

verb

1. (dated) To peer; to look inquisitively.
2. (intransitive) To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
3. (intransitive, informal) Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
5. (obsolete) To perch.
6. (transitive) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
7. (transitive, informal) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.

noun

1. (informal) A permutation.
2. A combination of outcomes (not a permutation) that a gambler bets on in the football pools.
3. Short for permanent wave (“hairstyle”).

verb

1. To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc.

noun

1. A honey buzzard; Pernis apivorus.
2. part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle

verb

1. To take profit of; to make profitable.

adj

1. (architecture) Clipping of perpendicular.

noun

1. (slang, law enforcement) Perpetrator.

pron

1. (rare, nonstandard) That which belongs to per, theirs (singular): possessive case of per, used in place of a noun.

adj

1. (archaic) Especially of children or social inferiors: cheeky, impertinent.
2. (obsolete) Clever.
3. (obsolete) Open; evident; unhidden.
4. (of a part of the body) Well-formed; shapely.
5. (of a person) Attractive.
6. Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.

noun

1. (obsolete) An impudent person.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To behave with pertness; to misbehave.

noun

1. (slang) A pervert.

verb

1. (slang) To stare at others in a perverted manner, especially whilst thinking sexual thoughts about them.

noun

1. (architecture) A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof, or the hinges of a gate.
2. A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
3. A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
4. A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.

noun

1. A ripple; a twist or curl.

verb

1. (intransitive) To ripple or swirl, especially of water.
2. (transitive) To cause to revolve or spin.
3. (transitive) To twist or wind, especially into a cord or braid etc.

noun

1. A cone-shaped spool or bobbin on which thread or yarn is wound, used most often for weaving.
2. The amount of thread wound on a shuttle or reel.

verb

1. (transitive) To wind (yarn) onto a pirn, usually by means of a pirn winder.

adj

1. Deficient in a specified way.
2. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
3. Inadequate, insufficient.
4. Of low quality.
5. Used to express pity.
6. With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

noun

1. (countable, originally chiefly Scotland) A poor person.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of poor cod.
3. (plural only) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To become poor.
2. (obsolete) To call poor.
3. (transitive, rare) Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.

noun

1. A tiny opening in the skin.
2. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.

verb

1. to meditate or reflect in a steady way.
2. to study meticulously; to go over again and again.

noun

1. (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
2. (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
3. (slang) A shag; a fuck; an act of coitus.
4. (uncountable) The meat of a pig; swineflesh.

verb

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).

noun

1. (countable, informal, chiefly in the plural) A pornographic work.
2. (uncountable, informal) Material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a sensational manner.
3. (uncountable, informal) Pornography.
4. (uncountable, informal, often humorous) Material that provides illicit gratification of an obsessive or unhealthy interest in something.

adj

1. (nautical) Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel when facing the bow.

noun

1. (Australia) A suitcase or schoolbag.
2. (archaic) The manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage. See also portance.
3. (computing) A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.
4. (computing) A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port (hardware) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
5. (computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.
6. (computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.
7. (curling, bowls) A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.
8. (informal) The portfolio of a model or artist.
9. (medicine) A small medical appliance installed beneath the skin, connected to a vein by a catheter, and used to inject drugs or to draw blood samples.
10. (military) The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.
11. (nautical, aviation, uncountable) The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
12. (now Scotland, historical) An entryway or gate.
13. (rowing) A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.
14. A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
15. A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
16. A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.
17. An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
18. An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made.
19. Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making.

verb

1. (US, government and law) To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.
2. (computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform. Porting (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
3. (military) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
4. (nautical, transitive, chiefly imperative) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.
5. (telephony, transitive) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one telephone service provider to another.
6. To carry, bear, or transport. See porter.

adj

1. (archaic) porous

noun

1. (colloquial) A downpour, or flood of precipitation.
2. Something, or an amount, poured.
3. The act of pouring.

verb

1. (impersonal) To rain hard.
2. (intransitive) Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
3. (intransitive) To flow, pass or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
4. (intransitive) To move in a throng, as a crowd.
5. (transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
6. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
7. (transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
8. Misspelling of pore.

noun

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal, dated) A horse.

noun

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position.
2. (nautical, historical) A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour.
3. (nautical, historical) A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter.
4. A type of dinghy with a flat bow.

adj

1. (obsolete) Cunning, astute.

noun

1. (UK, slang) A fool.
2. (now Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
3. (slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
4. (slang) The female genitals.

adv

1. (archaic or formal) Please; used to make a polite request
2. Alternative form of pray tell (“I ask you (insincerely)”)

verb

1. (obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
2. (obsolete) To implore, to entreat, to request.
3. (religion) To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
4. To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
5. To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.

adj

1. (informal) Abbreviation of predefined.

noun

1. (chiefly programming) Abbreviation of predecessor.
2. (countable, informal) Abbreviation of predicate.
3. (countable, informal, among vorarephiles) Abbreviation of predator.
4. (informal) Abbreviation of predefinition.
5. (uncountable, medicine) Abbreviation of prednisolone.
6. (uncountable, medicine) Abbreviation of prednisone.

verb

1. (MLE, MTE, Caribbean and their expatriates) to heed, to take notice of or pay attention to

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of preference.

noun

1. (informal) A prematurely born infant.

noun

1. (Britain, uncountable) Homework, work set to do outside class time, used widely in public schools and preparatory schools but not state schools.
2. (Philippines) preparatory level; the last two levels or the fourth and fifth years of preschool; the two levels before first grade.
3. (countable) Preparation.
4. (informal, countable) A prep school.
5. (informal, countable) A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
6. Abbreviation of preposition.
7. Alternative form of PrEP

verb

1. (informal) To prepare.

noun

1. Abbreviation of present.
2. Clipping of presentation.
3. plural of pre

verb

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

adj

1. Abbreviation of previous.

noun

1. (US, university slang) A president, especially of a university.
2. Prefix.

noun

1. (archaic) Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war
2. (archaic) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
3. A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
4. A person or thing given up as a victim.
5. That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured
6. The victim of a disease.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act as a predator.

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of president.

noun

1. The plant privet.

noun

1. (Britain, archaic, thieves' cant) A petty thief or pickpocket.
2. (Britain, archaic, thieves' cant) A tinker.
3. (archaic) A conceited dandy; a fop.
4. A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.

verb

1. (slang, dated) To filch or steal.
2. To copulate.
3. To ride.

adj

1. formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice
2. prudish, straight-laced

noun

1. (plants) privet

verb

1. (dated) To dress or act smartly.
2. (dated) To make affectedly precise or proper.

noun

1. (northern UK, dialectal) Alternative spelling of preen

noun

1. Abbreviation of priority.

noun

1. (Internet slang) A private account.
2. (computing, informal, usually in the plural) Clipping of privilege.

noun

1. A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail.

adv

1. (dictionaries, text messaging) Clipping of probably.

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of problem.

noun

1. Abbreviation of procedure.
2. Abbreviation of processor.
3. Abbreviation of programmed random occurrence.

verb

1. (video games) To cause a special event to occur.

noun

1. (Ireland, UK, slang, sometimes derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Prod.
2. (demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.
3. (programming, slang, uncountable) Short for production (“the live environment”).
4. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
5. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
6. A poke.
7. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.

verb

1. (transitive) To poke, to push, to touch.
2. (transitive) To prick with a goad.
3. (transitive, informal) To encourage, to prompt.

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of professor.
2. (informal) Clipping of profit.

adj

1. Abbreviation of progressive.

noun

1. (UK, university slang, dated) A proctor.
2. (computing, informal) A program.
3. (dialect) A pointed instrument.
4. (informal, music) Progressive rock.
5. (informal, politics) A progressive.
6. (obsolete) Plunder; booty.
7. (obsolete, slang) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
8. (obsolete, slang) Provisions, food and supplies, particularly for a journey.
9. (slang) Progesterone.

verb

1. (Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.
2. (meteorology) To prognosticate, forecast.
3. (obsolete) To seek food and wealth as opposed to pursuing spiritual goals.
4. (obsolete, slang) To seek food, goods, or money by low arts, such as begging, trickery, or abuse of power.
5. (obsolete, slang) To steal; to rob; to filch.
6. (obsolete, usually of an animal) To feed and care for oneself, as opposed to being fed and cared for by someone (like a domesticated animal).
7. To programme.

noun

1. (Britain) A promenade concert.
2. (Britain, abbreviation) A promenade.
3. (US) A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g,. near the end of the academic year.

noun

1. (Internet, leetspeak) Deliberate misspelling of porn, initially to bypass internet filters.
2. Abbreviation of pronoun.
3. Abbreviation of pronunciation.

noun

1. (astronautics) propellant (“rocket fuel”)
2. (gambling, informal) Short for proposition player.
3. (rugby) The player on either side of the hooker in a scrum.
4. (theater, film) An item placed on a stage or set to create a scene or scenario in which actors perform.
5. A proposition, especially on an election-day ballot.
6. An item placed within an advertisement in order to suggest a style of living etc.
7. An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.
8. Any of the seashells in the game of props.
9. The propeller of an aircraft.

verb

1. (intransitive) To play rugby in the prop position.
2. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To support or shore up something.
3. (transitive, usually with "up" - see prop up) To position the feet of (a person) while sitting, lying down, or reclining so that the knees are elevated at a higher level.
4. To manually start the engine of a propeller-driven aircraft with no electric starter by pulling vigorously on one of the propeller blades using the hands, so that the propeller can catch ignition.

noun

1. plural of pro

adj

1. (archaic) Brave, valiant, gallant.

noun

1. (nautical) The front part of a vessel
2. A vessel
3. Alternative form of proa

noun

1. (US, Rhode Island) The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes.

adj

1. (Bermuda, slang) A lot of.
2. (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
3. (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
4. (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
5. Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
6. Free of foreign material or pollutants.
7. Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
8. Mere; that and that only.

adv

1. (Liverpudlian, Scotland) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

noun

1. Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”)
2. One who, or that which, is pure.

verb

1. (golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cleanse; to refine.

noun

1. A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried.
2. In Bali and other parts of Indonesia, a palace, or other residence of a member of the royal family or ruling class.