HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. plural of acknowledgement

noun

1. plural of acknowledgment

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. a stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain

noun

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

noun

1. plural of alpenstock

adj

1. (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland, of movement) in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move.

adv

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britian, Ireland) In an anticlockwise fashion.

noun

1. plural of antiknock

adj

1. (rare) Opposing the farming of livestock.

adj

1. Alternative form of apocatastatic

noun

1. plural of artichoke

adj

1. farthest back

noun

1. plural of backout

noun

1. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstop

verb

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

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. (printing, historical) The handle of a printer's ball.

noun

1. (obsolete) The front or back part of the frame of a bedstead.

verb

1. (transitive) to stock; furnish

noun

1. (medical biology) The study of movements of or within organisms

noun

1. A hand tool consisting of a crank which holds a fitted rotating drill bit tip, designed to bore holes in rigid materials, by cutting a disc in a spiral fashion.

noun

1. plural of bitstock

noun

1. plural of bittock

noun

1. plural of blackout

noun

1. plural of blackthorn

verb

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

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

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.

noun

1. (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.

adj

1. superlative form of blocky: most blocky

noun

1. (countable) The breeding line of a thoroughbred horse or other animal.
2. (uncountable) Thoroughbred animals in general, but especially horses.

noun

1. plural of bloodstock

noun

1. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
2. (historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
3. (usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. (colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

noun

1. plural of bluestocking

noun

1. plural of bontebuck

noun

1. One of a set of bookshelves in a library.

noun

1. plural of bootblack

noun

1. plural of bootjack

verb

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

noun

1. plural of bootlicker

verb

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

noun

1. plural of bottleneck

verb

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

noun

1. plural of brocket

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. Alternative spelling of bucket shop

noun

1. (chiefly US) Lead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game. [from 18th c.]

noun

1. plural of buckshot

noun

1. plural of buttock.

noun

1. The stock in a firearm located in the rear of the firing mechanism where one's shoulder is held when shooting

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.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of card stock

noun

1. The stalk of kale or cabbage

noun

1. (physics) Misconstruction of centistokes (unit of kinematic viscosity)

noun

1. (medicine) A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus.
2. (obsolete) A mass or piece of chalk.

adj

1. Having or resembling chalkstones.

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. plural of checkout

noun

1. plural of checkpoint

noun

1. (climbing) A metal wedge or nut, threaded on a wire, used in rock climbing for protection by wedging it into a crack in the rock.
2. A stone, ranging in size from a boulder to a pebble, which has become wedged in a vertical fissure or cleft.

noun

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

adj

1. superlative form of choky: most choky

noun

1. (biochemistry) Any of several peptide hormones that stimulate the digestion of fat and protein; abbreviated to CCK.

noun

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

noun

1. (ethnic slur) An Asian person.
2. (usually in the plural) An East Asian eating utensil usually used as a pair and held in one hand to grip pieces of food or occasionally to mix liquids or scoop up small pieces of food. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood and measuring approximately 23cm (10 inches) in length.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To pick up (food) using chopsticks.

noun

1. plural of chopstick

Noun

1. A chuck; a pebble.

noun

1. phonolite

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cloister.

noun

1. A basket for holding clothes to be laundered.

noun

1. plural of coatrack

noun

1. plural of cockatoo

noun

1. plural of cockatrice

noun

1. plural of cockboat

noun

1. plural of cockfight

adj

1. superlative form of cocky: most cocky

noun

1. plural of cockloft

noun

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

noun

1. plural of cockpit

noun

1. Any of the genus Dactylis of Eurasian and North African bluegrasses, especially Dactylis glomerata.

noun

1. (slang, vulgar) A photograph of one's penis.

noun

1. (countable, obsolete) A kind of net for catching woodcock.
2. (obsolete) Twilight, when poultry would be shut in for the night.

noun

1. plural of cockshut

noun

1. The condition of being cocksure

noun

1. plural of cocktail

noun

1. The skin of a colt.

noun

1. plural of comatik

noun

1. plural of computernik

Noun

1. a censor; one who censors

noun

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

noun

1. (obsolete) The district to which a constable's power is limited.

adv

1. counterclockwise

noun

1. plural of cookout

noun

1. A stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc.

adj

1. superlative form of corky: most corky

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. 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. plural of counterblockade

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.

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

noun

1. (historical) A stick or switch used among some Native Americans for making or counting a coup.