HANGMAN SOLVER

adv

1. In the manner of a bachelor; (as though) living alone as a single man.

noun

1. (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
2. (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
3. The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
4. The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
5. The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.

verb

1. (transitive) To affect with backwash.
2. To clean the oil from wool after combing.
3. To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backwash

noun

1. (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.

noun

1. plural of backwash

noun

1. A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

noun

1. Any form of switch that is activated barometrically (by a change in pressure)

noun

1. (India, historical) A cook.

Adverb

1. Towards a beach.

noun

1. Clothing suitable for wearing on the beach, though not necessarily for swimming in.

Proper noun

1. of origin.

noun

1. A wood largely populated with beech trees.
2. The wood of beech trees (Fagus spp.).

noun

1. plural of beechwood

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bench-warmer

noun

1. plural of benchwarmer

noun

1. the structure supporting a model railway layout
2. work performed at a workbench

Proper noun

1. A lieutenancy area and historic county in the Scottish Borders.

verb

1. (transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.

verb

1. (transitive) To astonish, amaze.
2. (transitive) To cast a spell upon.
3. (transitive) To fascinate or charm.

adj

1. (Of a person) entranced, charmed, fascinated, as though subject to a magical influence.
2. Under a spell; subject to an act of witchcraft.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bewitch

noun

1. The state or quality of being bewitched.

noun

1. One who bewitches; an enchanter.

noun

1. plural of bewitchery

noun

1. The power of bewitching or fascinating; charm.

verb

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

adj

1. Bewitching; alluring; fascinating; amazing.

adj

1. Enchanting.

noun

1. The act by which somebody is bewitched; a curse or enchantment.

adv

1. In a bewitching manner

noun

1. The state or quality of being bewitching.

noun

1. The characteristic of being bewitched.

noun

1. plural of bewitchment

noun

1. (countable) A wood largely populated with birch trees (Betula spp.).
2. (uncountable) The wood from a birch tree.

noun

1. A session of observing and identifying birds.

verb

1. (intransitive) To take part in birdwatching; to observe and identify birds.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of birdwatch

verb

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

noun

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

noun

1. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
2. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
3. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
4. (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
5. (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

verb

1. (transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
2. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
3. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

noun

1. One who blackwashes.

noun

1. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
2. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
3. The application of a coating of blackwash.

verb

1. present participle of blackwash

noun

1. A factory that manufactures bleach.

noun

1. (US, military, slang) A jet fighter.
2. A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.

verb

1. To apply a blowtorch to something.

verb

1. past participle of blowtorch

noun

1. plural of blowtorch

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of blowtorch

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

noun

1. (poetic) A path or route formed by the branches of trees.

Proper noun

1. a city in Lower Saxony, Germany; Brunswick

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Braunschweiger (a sausage).

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

verb

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

noun

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

noun

1. A perennial herb, Melanthium virginicum, having a branched cluster of pale flowers

verb

1. Alternative spelling of bushwhack

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. Synonym of chambermaid

noun

1. (archaic) An uncultured rustic person.

verb

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

adj

1. (finance, of a poison pill) Allowing for a particular type of bid that does not trigger the flip-in.
2. Capable of being chewed.
3. Chewy.

noun

1. A medicine supplied in a form that can be chewed.
2. Anything that is chewable; anything that is able to be chewed.

noun

1. Vaccaria hispanica, an annual herb with blue-grey waxy herbage and pale pink flowers, native to Eurasia.

noun

1. A machine in which long pieces of metal are drawn through a drawplate, die, or series of dies, to change the shape, size, cross-sectional area, physical properties, or surface finish of the metal.

noun

1. Alternative form of elbow chair

noun

1. (historical) A kind of wheelbarrow used to carry new-made bricks to the hacks or racks where they are dried.

noun

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

Noun

1. A member of a street gang in London, England, circa 1700.
2. A ruffian or bully.

adj

1. (ceramics) Of a delicate purplish-pink colour suggesting peach blooms; applied especially to a style of Chinese porcelain.

noun

1. A large bowl used for making or serving punch (the beverage).

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.

adj

1. capable of being switched

noun

1. (aviation) A flight path consisting of a series of steep ascents and descents, generally flown as a stunt.
2. (chiefly Britain) A path or road having a series of steep ascents and descents.
3. (chiefly Canada, US, road transport) A sharp bend in a path or road which causes a traveller to almost reverse their direction of travel, especially one of a series of such bends on an incline; a hairpin bend; also a path or road having such a series of bends.
4. A railway track on a steep slope in a zigzag formation, in which a train travels in a reverse direction at each switch.
5. A railway track on which there are steep ascents and descents, a train moving partially or fully by the force of gravity using the momentum generated when descending to travel up an ascending part of the track; especially (Britain, dated), such a track built for fun rides at an amusement park; a type of rollercoaster.

verb

1. (intransitive) To take a zigzag course or path.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of switchback

noun

1. plural of switchback

noun

1. A folding knife with a blade which opens automatically (under spring pressure) when a button is pressed.

verb

1. (intransitive) To spring open or up.
2. (transitive) To attack or cut with a switchblade.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden move or transition.

noun

1. plural of switchblade

verb

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

noun

1. (electrical engineering) A large piece of power-distribution equipment that directs electricity to multiple loads.
2. (telecommunications) The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient.

noun

1. plural of switchboard

noun

1. (US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
2. (derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
3. (slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
4. A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
5. A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
6. An atavism.
7. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
8. Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout

noun

1. plural of throwback

noun

1. (figuratively) A weakness that can be taken advantage of.
2. A screw that can be turned with the thumb and fingers.
3. An instrument of torture used to crush the fingers.

noun

1. plural of thumbscrew

verb

1. (transitive) To free from a curse or enchantment.

adj

1. Not bewitched.

adj

1. Not bewitching.

noun

1. The cancellation of a spell cast upon somebody or something.

verb

1. present participle of unbewitch

adj

1. That cannot be chewed.

noun

1. Something that cannot be chewed.

adj

1. Not eschewable; imposible to eschew.

adj

1. That cannot be watched; that does not bear watching.

adj

1. That can be watched.
2. That is worth watching; interesting or thrilling to watch

noun

1. Something to be watched, or worth watching.

noun

1. a band of leather, metal etc that fastens a wristwatch to the wrist; a watchstrap

noun

1. plural of watchband

noun

1. (geology) A landform (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale.
2. (historical) A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curves above the waterline from vertical to horizontal.

noun

1. A wild duck, the canvasback.

Proper noun

1. A village in Nebraska.