HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (By association) A stereotypical, Eastern European peasant grandmother-type figure.
2. A traditional floral headscarf worn by an Eastern European woman, tied under the chin.
3. An old woman, especially one of Eastern European descent.
4. Russian doll, matryoshka

noun

1. plural of babushka

noun

1. (broadcasting) Uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or radio station, network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished show.
2. (military) The shipment of material to or through an area from which the material had previously been shipped.
3. (transport) A return trip after delivery of cargo.
4. (travel, aviation, fare construction) Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point).

verb

1. To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backhaul

verb

1. present participle of backhaul

verb

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

noun

1. (US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
2. (now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.

noun

1. plural of backhouse

noun

1. A rushing backward; a retreat.

noun

1. plural of backrush

noun

1. (UK dialectal) Bakery.
2. A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
3. A building principally containing ovens.

noun

1. plural of bakehouse

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bashi-bazouk

adj

1. Alternative spelling of bathykolpian

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. A shrub of the genus Coleogyne

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, iron, lead, manganese, oxygen, vanadium, and zinc.

adj

1. (immunology) Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
2. (medicine) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
3. Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

noun

1. (construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
2. (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
3. (sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.
4. Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.

noun

1. plural of breakthrough

noun

1. (baseball) Synonym of brushback pitch

noun

1. A person who makes brushes.

noun

1. The manufacture of brushes.

Proper noun

1. a city in West Virginia, USA

Proper noun

1. A place name:
   1. A town in Buckinghamshire, England.
   2. A former city in Quebec, Canada, merged into Gatineau in 2002.
   3. An unincorporated community in Colorado, USA, named after a railroad official.
   4. A census-designated place in Florida, USA.
   5. A village in Illinois, USA.
   6. An unincorporated community in Iowa, USA, named after Buckingham County, VA.
   7. A former city in Texas, USA, now part of Richardson, Texas.
   8. A census-designated place and county seat of Buckingham County in Virginia, USA.
2. A dukedom in the English peerage.
3. An English habitational surname derived from the place name.

Proper noun

1. An inland county of England bounded by Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Greater London, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

noun

1. (Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
2. (cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
3. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
4. (slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
5. (slang) Pubic hair.
6. An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]

noun

1. A poor and unskilled farmer.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.

noun

1. plural of buckwheat

Proper noun

1. A city in Uzbekistan, founded in the 6th century

noun

1. (nautical) A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.
2. A pressure-resistant sealed barrier to any fluid in a large structure.
3. A retaining wall along a waterfront.
4. A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft.
5. Mechanically, a partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition.

adj

1. Furnished with a bulkhead or bulkheads.

noun

1. bulkheads in general

noun

1. plural of bulkhead

verb

1. (US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.

noun

1. (US) The driver of a bullock team.

Proper noun

1. A language of northwestern Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.

verb

1. Alternative spelling of bushwhack

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) The activity of hiking or backpacking.

verb

1. present participle of bushwalk

verb

1. to ambush
2. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack

noun

1. (Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
2. (US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
3. (US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
4. (dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
5. A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).

noun

1. plural of bushwhacker

noun

1. criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
2. fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
3. travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

verb

1. present participle of bushwhack

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of chabuk

noun

1. plural of chabouk

noun

1. (now historical) A long whip formerly used as an instrument of punishment in India and parts of the Middle East.

noun

1. plural of chabuk

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beat with a chabuk.

Proper noun

1. A prophetic book in the Old Testament of the Bible, one of the minor prophets; or the eighth part of the Tere Asar in the Jewish Tanakh.
2. A Jewish prophet of the Old Testament; author of the book that bears his name.
3. definition

noun

1. An arquebusier.

noun

1. plural of hackbut

Noun

1. An arquebusier.

noun

1. (less common) A similar shirt of scale mail, plate, leather, or other armor material.
2. A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless.

noun

1. plural of hauberk

noun

1. (obsolete) A vulgar, ignorant country fellow.

verb

1. (intransitive, US) To break into a house, typically to burgle it.
2. (transitive, US) To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.

noun

1. A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.

noun

1. plural of housebreaker

noun

1. The act of breaking into another person's house with unlawful intent.

verb

1. (animal training) present participle of housebreak

verb

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

noun

1. A type of coarse, absorbent cotton or linen fabric used for making towels.

noun

1. (by extension) A hump or protuberance on the shoulders or back of an animal.
2. (derogatory, now offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.
3. (figurative) A rounded topographical feature, such as a mountain or hill.
4. A humpback salmon.
5. A humpback whale.
6. A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine).

verb

1. To hunt humpback whales.

adj

1. Being a humpback bridge.
2. Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical condition.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of humpback

noun

1. plural of humpback

verb

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

noun

1. (derogatory) A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.
2. A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back.
3. One who is stooped or hunched over.

adj

1. Having an abnormally curved or hunched back

noun

1. plural of hunchback

adj

1. Resembling a husband.

Noun

1. An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.

noun

1. A traditional Jewish marriage contract that outlines the rights and responsibilities of the groom in relation to the bride.

noun

1. plural of ketubah

Proper noun

1. A river in Turkey and Syria, the largest perennial tributary to the Euphrates.

noun

1. Alternative form of khutbah

noun

1. (Islam) A talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer, or at other special occasions.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of kurbash

noun

1. A whip or strap about a yard in length.

verb

1. (transitive) To beat with a kurbash.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of kurbash

noun

1. plural of kurbash

verb

1. present participle of kurbash

noun

1. Alternative form of marsh buck

adj

1. Like a mountebank; using or suggesting quackery.

noun

1. (botany) Any of the genus Muehlenbeckia of maidenhairs.

adj

1. Not of or relating to a bulkhead.

noun

1. (historical) A spiked helmet worn by German troops, especially during the First World War.

verb

1. (intransitive) To take part in exciting romantic adventures.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of swashbuckle

noun

1. A daring adventurer.
2. A kind of period adventure story with flashy action and lighthearted tone.
3. A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant sword play.

adj

1. Alternative form of swashbuckling

noun

1. plural of swashbuckler

noun

1. adventure and excitement; that which is swashbuckling

verb

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

adj

1. Adventurous, exciting.

noun

1. The mark left by a thumb.

noun

1. (Canada, US) A small nail-like tack with a slightly rounded head that can be pressed into place with light pressure from the thumb; used for hanging light articles on a wall or noticeboard.

verb

1. (transitive) To fix or attach something with a thumbtack.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of thumbtack