HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. plural of aqua

noun

1. A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.

adj

1. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
2. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
3. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
4. (not comparable) The same in all respects.
5. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
6. (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.

noun

1. (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.
2. A person or thing of equal status to others.

verb

1. (informal) To have as its consequence.
2. (mathematics, copulative) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
3. (transitive) To make equivalent to; to cause to match.

noun

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) A member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians.

noun

1. Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.)

verb

1. (transitive) To dress up; to array; to clothe.
2. (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.
3. (transitive) To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging)
4. (transitive, gaming) To equip oneself with (an item); to bring (equipment) into active use.

noun

1. (Islam) A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.

noun

1. A natural fiber, similar to hemp, obtained from the leaves of the plant Furcraea andina and certain other plants of the genus Furcraea.

noun

1. Abbreviation of headquarters.

Noun

1. A person from Iraq or of Iraqi descent.

Adjective

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Persian Iraq
2. Of, from, or pertaining to Iraq, or the Iraqi people.

noun

1. A kind of tropical hardwood. Malpighia obovata.
2. Sabicu.

noun

1. A South American shrub (Aristotelia chilensis) native to the Valdivian temperate rainforest ecoregion of Chile and southern Argentina.
2. Misspelling of maquis (Mediterranean coastal scrub).
3. The edible berry of this shrub.

noun

1. The nape of the neck.

noun

1. (card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
2. (countable, obsolete) In pique of honour: a matter, a point.
3. (obsolete) A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.
4. (pathology, obsolete, rare) Synonym of pica (“a disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances”)
5. (sewing) Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”)
6. (uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
7. (uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.

verb

1. (obsolete, rare) To express jealousy, resentment, etc. at someone; to become angry or annoyed.
2. (reflexive) To pride (oneself) on something.
3. (reflexive, obsolete) To excite or stimulate (oneself).
4. (transitive, intransitive, card games, archaic or obsolete) To score a pique against (someone).
5. To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
6. To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
7. To take pride in.
8. To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.

noun

1. plural of qaid

noun

1. An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley

Proper noun

1. A silky material made from nylon fibers.

noun

1. (Islam) The direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined as the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca.

noun

1. (Islam) The use of analogy as precedent in Shari'a jurisprudence.

noun

1. plural of qoph

adj

1. Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.

noun

1. (derogatory) A fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an untrained or poorly trained doctor who uses fraudulent credentials to attract patients
2. (figuratively, derogatory) Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.
3. (humorous slang, mildly derogatory) Any doctor.
4. The sound made by a duck.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
2. (obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions.
3. To make a noise like a duck.
4. To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).

Noun

1. An ancient Germanic people who lived in Moravia

noun

1. (music) a set of four tenor drums played by a drummer, typically in a marching band or drum corps
2. (poker slang) four of a kind
3. plural of quad

noun

1. Misspelling of coif.
2. The act of quaffing; a deep draught.

verb

1. To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts.

noun

1. plural of quag

noun

1. (obsolete) A prostitute, so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
2. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
3. Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
2. (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.
3. (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither.
4. (obsolete) To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.
5. (transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone).

noun

1. A trembling or shaking.
2. An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.

verb

1. (intransitive) To tremble or shake.
2. (intransitive, figurative) To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.

adj

1. Inclined to quake; tremulous.

noun

1. (philosophy) An instance of subjective, conscious experience.

noun

1. (archaic, UK dialectal) A calamity or disaster.
2. (archaic, UK dialectal) Mortality; plague; pestilence.
3. (now chiefly in the negative) A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt.
4. A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
5. A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.

verb

1. (intransitive) To have a sickly feeling.

adj

1. Short for quantifiable.
2. Short for quantitative.

noun

1. (finance) A quantitative analyst.
2. A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
3. A vertical shaft used to drive a millstone.
4. Short for quantifier.
5. Short for quantity.

verb

1. (transitive or intransitive) To propel using a quant.

adj

1. (Ireland) (used to suggest emphasis such as "a lot of" or "very" (suggesting an Irish accent).)
2. (dated, Ireland) queer, strange (suggesting an Irish accent)

noun

1. (Falkland Islands, informal) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.
2. (computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
3. (physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
4. A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, eastern, and southeastern Europe as well as the Low Countries, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.

noun

1. (archaic) A medusa or jellyfish.
2. A fire-resistant channel for a burner in a boiler or furnace.

noun

1. (card games) Four successive cards of the same suit.
2. (obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
3. A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.

verb

1. (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
2. (obsolete) To crush or dash to pieces.
3. To defeat decisively, to suppress.

adj

1. Resembling or having a likeness to something.

verb

1. (obsolete) to drink deeply; to quaff.

noun

1. Archaic form of coiata.

adj

1. (Scotland) quiet

noun

1. A shaking; trembling.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To quiver or tremble.

noun

1. (US) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.
2. The harsh call of this or other birds.

verb

1. Of birds, to give loud, harsh vocalisations.

noun

1. plural of quay

noun

1. A tomb structure in the Arab world, particularly an Islamic domed shrine.

noun

1. Alternative form of queek

verb

1. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To faint away.
2. Obsolete form of quail.

noun

1. (Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter.
2. (archaic) A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.

noun

1. (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
2. (LGBT, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
3. (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
4. (construction, obsolete) Ellipsis of queen post.
5. (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
6. (obsolete) A type of flatfish, specifically the lemon sole.
7. (originally UK) A queen scallop.
8. (rare) A queen apple.
9. (slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
10. (slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
11. A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
12. A female monarch.
13. A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
14. A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
15. A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
16. A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
17. An adult female cat capable of breeding.
18. An excellent woman.
19. Ellipsis of queen olive.
20. Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
21. The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
22. s around the queen (sense 6) of the hive, marked with a pink dot]] A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.

verb

1. (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
2. (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
3. (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
4. (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.
6. (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.

adj

1. (Britain, informal, dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in "to feel queer").
2. (Britain, slang) Drunk.
3. (broadly) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc.
4. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Homosexual.
5. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Non-heterosexual or Non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
6. (dated outside Scotland and Ulster) Weird, odd, or different; whimsical.

adv

1. Queerly.

noun

1. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any genderqueer identity.
2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
3. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
4. (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
2. (slang, LGBT, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.
3. (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
4. (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
5. (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.
6. (transitive, dated) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.

noun

1. Alternative form of quaich

noun

1. A source, especially a spring.
2. A subduing.
3. An emotion or sensation which rises suddenly.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
3. (transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
4. (transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
5. To die.

verb

1. (obsolete) To please, to satisfy.

noun

1. A twist; curl.

verb

1. (transitive) To twirl; turn or wind around; coil.

noun

1. A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones.

verb

1. (transitive) To grind; to use a quern.

noun

1. (computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.
2. A question mark.
3. A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).

verb

1. (computing, databases) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
2. (intransitive) To ask a question.
3. (intransitive, publishing) To send out a query letter.
4. (transitive) To ask, inquire.
5. (transitive) To question or call into doubt.
6. (transitive, Internet) To send a private message to (a user on IRC).

noun

1. (education) A short test.
2. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
3. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
4. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
5. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
6. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.

verb

1. (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.
2. (intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
3. (transitive) To search for something; to seek.

noun

1. (Britain, less common in North America) A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).
2. (computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.
3. (heraldry) An animal's tail.
4. (now historical) A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.
5. A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To add to a queue data structure.
2. (intransitive) To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
3. (intransitive) To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
4. To fasten the hair into a queue.

noun

1. plural of quey

noun

1. A small opossum, Didelphis quica, from Guiana and Brazil

adj

1. (archaic) Alive, living.
2. (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
3. (now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
4. Burning, flammable, fiery.
5. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
6. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
7. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
8. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
9. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
10. Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
11. Of water: flowing.

adv

1. Answer quickly.
2. Quickly, in a quick manner.

noun

1. (cricket) A fast bowler.
2. Plants used in making a quickset hedge
3. Quitchgrass.
4. Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
5. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

verb

1. (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
2. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.

noun

1. plural of quid

adj

1. (software) Requiring little or no interaction.
2. Having little motion or activity; calm.
3. Not busy, of low quantity.
4. Not showy; undemonstrative.
5. Not talking much or not talking loudly; reserved.
6. With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.

intj

1. Be quiet.

noun

1. The absence of disturbance or trouble; peace, security.
2. The absence of movement; stillness, tranquility.
3. The absence of sound; quietness.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become quiet or calm.
2. (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become quiet.

noun

1. (British dialect) A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.
2. (UK) A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.
3. (regional, slang) A trick or ploy; a stratagem.
4. (slang) A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute.
5. (slang) The vulva or vagina.

verb

1. (UK) To arrange (the hair) in such a manner.

noun

1. (by extension) Any pen.
2. (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
3. (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
4. A pen made from a feather.
5. A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
6. A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
7. Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
8. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
9. The pen of a squid.

verb

1. (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
2. (figuratively) To write.
3. To decorate with quillwork.
4. To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
5. To pierce or be pierced with quills.

noun

1. A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
2. A quilted skirt worn by women.
3. A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.

verb

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) To beat or thrash.
2. To construct a quilt.
3. To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.

noun

1. (archaic) quinine

noun

1. (physics) A hypothetical fundamental particle; a preon.

Proper noun

1. derived from the Ó Coinn "descendant of Chief".
2. name transferred from the surname.
3. name occasionally used since the 1990s.
4. A town/village/thorp in South Dakota.

noun

1. plural of quin

noun

1. (US, informal) a quin or quintuplet.
2. (card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
3. (fencing) quinte; the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
4. (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
5. (music) An interval of one fifth.
6. (music) The E string of a violin.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of quipu

noun

1. plural of quip

verb

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

noun

1. A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.

noun

1. The tough wood of Platymiscium pinnatum.

noun

1. (archaic) A choir.
2. (bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
3. A book, poem, or pamphlet.
4. One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.
5. One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.

verb

1. (bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.

noun

1. (archaic) A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.
2. (architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit.
3. An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To use verbal tricks or quibbles.
2. (transitive, architecture) To furnish with a quirk or channel.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) move with a wry jerk.
4. Alternative form of querk

verb

1. (chiefly dialectal, Southern US, Midland US) To curl or twirl, or twist or coil (up).

noun

1. A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

verb

1. To strike with a quirt.

noun

1. (UK Midlands) The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.

adv

1. (especially Britain) To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
2. (now rare) With prepositional or adverbial phrases.
3. Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
4. Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
5. Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
6. Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
7. Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
8. With adverbs of manner.
9. With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
10. With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
11. With predicative adjectives.
12. With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
13. With verbs, especially past participles.

intj

1. (chiefly UK) Indicates agreement; exactly so.

noun

1. (bullfighting) A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.

adj

1. (colloquial, Britain) On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.

noun

1. plural of quit

verb

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

Proper noun

1. A city/town in Missouri.

prep

1. (archaic) With respect to.

noun

1. plural of quod

noun

1. (firearms) A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level.
2. (horticulture) A number of apple varieties with a distinctive ribbed appearance, like corners of a coin.
3. (obsolete, nautical) A form of wedge used to prevent casks from moving
4. (printing, historical) A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place.
5. Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.

verb

1. (transitive) To wedge or steady with quoins.

noun

1. A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
2. A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
3. An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
4. The discus used in ancient sports.
5. The flat stone covering a cromlech.

verb

1. (intransitive) To play quoits.
2. (transitive) To throw like quoit.

noun

1. (business, economics) A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.
2. A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.
3. A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

noun

1. A price set for a financial security or commodity.
2. A quotation mark.
3. A quotation; a statement attributed to a person.
4. A summary of work to be done with a set price.

verb

1. (archaic) To observe, to take account of.
2. (commerce, transitive) To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
3. (intransitive) To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
4. (transitive) To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price.
5. (transitive) To repeat (the exact words of a person).

verb

1. (archaic or literary, now defective) simple past tense of quethe; said
2. (defective, modal, auxiliary, nonstandard, archaic) To say.

noun

1. A monetary unit in Saudi Arabia equivalent to a twentieth of a rial.

noun

1. (US) A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard surface.

adj

1. Clumsy.
2. Curt; abrupt.
3. Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
4. Shy; coy.
5. Unfledged; unfeathered.

adv

1. (slang) With a heavy fall; plump.

noun

1. (sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken.
2. A baby rook.
3. A person of a short, fat figure.
4. A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
5. The meat of such a baby bird used as food.

verb

1. (obsolete) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
2. (transitive) To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
3. (transitive) To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) Sloppy mud.
2. (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
3. (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
4. (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
5. A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad.

noun

1. (US, fishing) An oilskin hat; a southwester.

adj

1. Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
2. Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.

noun

1. (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
2. (mining) A small vein of ore.
3. (obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.
4. (slang, Canada, US) Clipping of diddly-squat; something of no value.
5. (weightlifting) A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising (back squat), especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders (barbell back squat).
6. A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
7. A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
8. A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form.
9. A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
10. A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
11. The angel shark (genus Squatina).

verb

1. (Internet) To cybersquat.
2. (dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
3. (exercise) To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
4. (weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.
5. To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
6. To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
7. To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation.

noun

1. (now offensive, ethnic slur) A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.

verb

1. (transitive, electronics) To undergo squegging.

noun

1. (US) Any small firecracker sold to the general public, usually in special clusters designed to explode in series after a single master fuse is lit.
2. (archaic except in idioms) An unimportant, paltry, or mean-spirited person.
3. (automotive) The heating element used to set off the sodium azide pellets in a vehicle's airbag.
4. (dated) A short piece of witty writing; a lampoon.
5. (dated) A writer of lampoons.
6. (film, theater) In special effects, a small explosive used to replicate a bullet hitting a surface.
7. (firearms) A malfunction in which the fired projectile does not have enough force behind it to exit the barrel, and thus becomes stuck.
8. (graphic design) A sketched concept or visual solution, usually very quick and not too detailed.
9. (law) In a legal casebook, a short summary of a legal action placed between more extensively quoted cases.
10. (linguistics) A short article, often published in journals, that introduces theoretically problematic empirical data or discusses an overlooked theoretical problem. In contrast to a typical article, a squib need not answer the questions that it poses.
11. (military) A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.
12. (mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
13. A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc.

verb

1. (colloquial, dated, transitive, intransitive) To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute.
2. To make a sound like a small explosion.

noun

1. (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.
2. (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
3. (slang, motorcycling, derogatory) A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
4. A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
5. Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles

verb

1. (fishing) To fish with the kind of hook called a squid.
2. (parachuting) To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).

noun

1. (Norfolk, uncountable) Nonsense; amusing stories.
2. (derogatory, informal, countable) A person of low status.

verb

1. (transitive, Internet) To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.

noun

1. Alternative form of squizz

noun

1. (Canada) A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel.
2. (by extension, informal) A chef.
3. (historical) An African nominal money of account, equal to 40 cowries.
4. (music) A rhythm used in Latin music, especially Cuban religious rituals.
5. (music) The guitar part of flamenco music.
6. (specifically) A tall white hat with no brim of the sort worn by chefs
7. A type of hat with no brim.
8. A variety of bonnet monkey; toque macaque, Macaca sinica.

noun

1. (slang) A tranquilizer.

verb

1. (slang, transitive) To tranquilize.

noun

1. (Canada) Alternative form of toque
2. A watch cap.

noun

1. (obsolete) whisky