HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (figuratively) By extension, any result or consequence following a major event.
2. An earthquake that follows in the same vicinity as another, usually larger, earthquake (the "mainshock").
3. Emotional and physical distress following a traumatic event.

noun

1. plural of aftershock

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic reddish brown mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.

adj

1. Relating to alkaptonuria

noun

1. A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.

noun

1. A dull green colour, like that of an artichoke.
2. A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.

noun

1. plural of artichoke

noun

1. A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible; the boondocks.

noun

1. (basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.

noun

1. (basketball) A backcourt player.

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

noun

1. plural of backstory

noun

1. (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
2. (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
3. A backhanded stroke or blow.

verb

1. To swim the backstroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. plural of backstroke

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

noun

1. (obsolete) In the London Stock Exchange: a fee paid by a seller on settlement day either to the buyer or to a third party who lends stock, when the seller wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
2. In full normal backwardation: the situation in a futures market where the price for future delivery of a commodity (the forward price) is lower than the price for immediate delivery (the spot price) or nearer delivery, generally arising from a near-term shortage of the commodity.
3. The situation in a stock market where the offer price for stock is lower than the bid price.

noun

1. Colicroot, Aletris farinosa
2. Culver's root, Veronicastrum virginicum
3. Either of two species in the genus Pterocaulon: Pterocaulon pycnostachyum and Pterocaulon virgatum
4. Several plant diseases caused by fungi in the genus Aphanomyces causing that cause roots to rot and turn black.

noun

1. A large shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa, that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.
2. A stick or staff taken from this tree.

noun

1. plural of blackthorn

noun

1. (US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
2. (informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
3. (informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
4. (slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
5. A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
6. A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.

noun

1. plural of blockbuster

noun

1. (archaic) Authorship; literary skill.

noun

1. (by extension, derogatory) Anyone who is seen as supporting authoritarianism.
2. (derogatory) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady

noun

1. plural of bootlicker

noun

1. (mineralogy) Alternate name for delvauxite.

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

noun

1. A genus, Mazama, of short-horned deer from Brazil.
2. A stag in its second year, before its horns have started branching.

noun

1. plural of brocket

Proper noun

1. a city in Massachusetts, USA, which is one of the two county seats of
2. a small town in Montana, USA.
3. an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, USA.
4. a town in Ontario, Canada. The name is formed from Brant, Greenock and Walkerton, places that merged into Brockton.
5. a township in parish, Shropshire, England

noun

1. (slang, rare) A gun.
2. A broom imbued with magic, enabling one to fly astride the handle.
3. The handle of a broom (sweeping tool).

verb

1. (intransitive) To fly on a broomstick, as witches are said to.

noun

1. plural of broomstick

verb

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

noun

1. Hippophae (family Elaeagnaceae), the sea buckthorn.
2. also genus Frangula, especially Frangula alnus, the alder buckthorn.
3. especially genus Rhamnus,
4. especially the common buckthorn or purging buckthorn; Rhamnus cathartica.

noun

1. (mining, historical) A worker who gets coal off at a longwall face.
2. (wrestling) One who uses the cross-buttock throw.

noun

1. cabinetmaking
2. furniture made by a cabinetmaker

noun

1. One who makes cabinets; a practitioner of cabinetwork.

noun

1. The plant Taraxacum officinale.

adj

1. Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.

adv

1. In a cantankerous manner.

noun

1. The state of being cantankerous.

adj

1. That excites or stimulates the heart.

noun

1. A drug that stimulates the heart.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of card stock

verb

1. simple past tense of caretake

noun

1. carpeting generally

adj

1. Resembling a cartoon

noun

1. A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a chariot.

noun

1. (mineralogy) An orthopyroxene-bearing quartz-feldspar rock.

noun

1. plural of charnockite

noun

1. Any of a group of butterflies of the subfamily Nymphalinae whose wings bear a checkered, spotted pattern.

noun

1. common chickweed

noun

1. A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

noun

1. A skeleton (of some fish and of mammal embryos) composed of hyaline cartilage

noun

1. Alternative form of clock-watcher

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cloister.

noun

1. A person who makes cloth.

noun

1. A textile worker.

noun

1. (US) Alternative spelling of coat rack

noun

1. plural of coatrack

noun

1. (fantasy, folklore) A snake or serpent that appears to be hatched of a rooster, or cock's, egg.
2. (mythology) A legendary creature about the size and shape of a dragon or wyvern, but in appearance resembling a giant rooster, with some lizard-like characteristics.
3. (obsolete) Mistress, harlot.
4. (obsolete, figurative) Any venomous or deadly thing.
5. (speculated) The cobra.

noun

1. plural of cockatrice

noun

1. One who engages in a cockfight.

noun

1. (vulgar, slang, derogatory) Term of abuse.
2. One who breeds gamecocks.

noun

1. The condition of being cocksure

noun

1. Alternative form of cock throwing

noun

1. Archaic form of coconut.

adj

1. Having some similarity to a computer.

noun

1. (informal, dated) A computer enthusiast.

noun

1. plural of computernik

noun

1. (US) Censorship of literature and performances because of especially broad definitions of obscenity or immorality.

adv

1. counterclockwise

noun

1. One who partakes in something with others.

adj

1. superlative form of corky: most corky

noun

1. (mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur.

noun

1. (Australia, slang, derogatory) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.
2. (Australia, slang, obsolete) A non-indigenous person born in Australia.
3. (botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
4. (botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.

noun

1. plural of cornstalk

noun

1. Alternative form of counter-attack

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of counterattack

noun

1. One who carries out a counterattack.

verb

1. present participle of counterattack

noun

1. plural of counterattack; alternative spelling of counter-attacks

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterattack; alternative spelling of counter-attacks

noun

1. A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

noun

1. A restriction or limit.
2. A second check (in order to confirm or deny a previous one).

verb

1. To recheck.
2. To restrict or limit by counteracting.

adj

1. (US, Canada) Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

adv

1. (US, Canada) In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

noun

1. (farriery) An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.
2. A mark or token added to those already existing, as a security or proof.

verb

1. (transitive) To apply a countermark to.

verb

1. simple past tense of countersink

noun

1. A shock that travels in the opposite direction to an applied impulse

noun

1. a cylindrical recess, typically machined around a hole to admit a screw so that it sits flush with a surface.

verb

1. (transitive) To cause to sink even with or below the surface.
2. (transitive) To create such a conical recess.

verb

1. present participle of countersink

noun

1. plural of countersink

verb

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

noun

1. (dated) counterfoil

noun

1. (military, sports) The tactic of counterattacking

verb

1. (intransitive) To perform a counterstrike.

noun

1. A blow given in return.
2. A retaliation.

adj

1. (of a bolt or screw) That has a flat conical top allowing it to be inserted flush with a surface

verb

1. past participle of countersink

verb

1. (transitive) To work in opposition to; to counteract.

noun

1. (rare) One who works against something; a saboteur.
2. (rare) One who works at a counter.

verb

1. present participle of counterwork

noun

1. One who lives in the country; a rural dweller.

adj

1. Courteous; polite.
2. Resembling or characteristic of a court.

adj

1. (informal) Eccentric or impractical.

noun

1. (informal) An eccentric, crazy or foolish person.
2. (informal) Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).

noun

1. plural of crackpot

noun

1. An item produced by handicraft.

noun

1. A maker of craftwork.