HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (slang) The hobby of watching rocket launches.
2. Observing or identifying wild birds in their natural environment.

noun

1. (obsolete) A chandler, or maker of candles.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of downdraft

noun

1. Alternative spelling of draftswoman

noun

1. draughtsmanship by a woman

noun

1. (literature, usually uncountable) A literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story.

verb

1. present participle of foreshadow

noun

1. A grandson of one's sibling; a son of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's grandson: fraternal grandnephew. Sister's grandson: sororal grandnephew.)

noun

1. plural of grandnephew

noun

1. Alternative form of grass widowhood

noun

1. A person who clasps and squeezes the hands in an excessive expression of distress.

noun

1. plural of handwringer

noun

1. (by extension) A characteristic trait or hallmark by which somebody may be recognised.
2. Text that was written by hand.
3. The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.
4. The characteristic writing of a particular person.

verb

1. present participle of handwrite

noun

1. plural of handwriting

adj

1. Made by hand, handmade

adj

1. Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly.

adv

1. Synonym of lightward

adj

1. Toward night.

noun

1. A dominating shadow or malign influence.

verb

1. present participle of overshadow

adv

1. So as to overshadow.

verb

1. present participle of rawhide

adj

1. To or from the right.

adv

1. In a rightward direction.

adv

1. Rightward; towards the right.

noun

1. An image produced by means of shadowgraphy.

noun

1. (physics) An optical technique of visualizing patterns of fluid flow by using differences in refractive index
2. A shadow-picture; a radiograph or X-ray photograph; a sciagram.

verb

1. (photography) To take a picture by means of X-ray, radium, or similar source of actinic radiation.
2. (transitive) To outline in a shadow-picture on a screen.

adj

1. Relating to shadowgraphy.

noun

1. An entertainer who produces the silhouettes of animals, etc. by selectively blocking parts of a light source.

noun

1. plural of shadowgraph

noun

1. The creation of shadowgraph images.
2. The selective blocking of a light source in order to produce the silhouettes of animals, etc. as a form of entertainment.

adj

1. (figurative) direct; forthright; frank; sincere
2. easy, simple, uncomplicated, without difficulty
3. proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating

adv

1. In a straightforward manner; straightforwards; straightforwardly.

adv

1. In a straightforward manner.

noun

1. The state or quality of being straightforward.

noun

1. The extraction of teeth, as by a dentist.

adj

1. Not straightforward; oblique, evasive, equivocal, indirect.

noun

1. The state or quality of being unstraightforward; a lack of straightforwardness; obliqueness, evasiveness.

adj

1. That does not withdraw.

noun

1. (now historical) A form of land tenure in Scotland, equivalent to knight service in England.

noun

1. (architecture) A type of wooden siding in which a house is sided with long, thin, overlapping boards.

noun

1. A man who operates a weighbridge.

noun

1. (law, obsolete) A fine imposed on plaintiffs for such a dismissal.
2. (law, obsolete) Retraxit: a dismissal with prejudice based on a plaintiff's withdrawal of the suit.
3. (obsolete) A place to withdraw to: a private chamber or retreat.
4. (obsolete) A sewer or watercourse used for sewerage.

noun

1. withdrawal

verb

1. present participle of withdraw

noun

1. The quality of being withdrawing; a tendency to draw back.

noun

1. A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.

adj

1. Having an obstinately (persistently, stubbornly) perverse/erroneous opinion or judgement.

adv

1. In a wrongheaded manner.

noun

1. The state of being wrongheaded.