HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (cooking) A fine-meshed conical strainer.

noun

1. plural of chiton

noun

1. plural of chopin

noun

1. (architecture) Alternative form of cornice
2. One of several decorative rings around the barrel of a cannon; the next ring from the muzzle backwards.

verb

1. present participle of cosh

noun

1. (figuratively) a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
2. (finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.
3. (historical) A pad supporting a woman's hair.
4. (historical) The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.
5. (historical) The rubber of an electrical machine.
6. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
7. A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
8. A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
9. A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling on, resting one's head on etc.
10. An engraver's pad.
11. The pillow used in making bone lace.

verb

1. To absorb or deaden the impact of.
2. To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
3. To furnish with cushions.
4. To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.

verb

1. (transitive) To remove the horns of.

adj

1. (of a person) Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical.
2. Characteristic of a (university) don.

noun

1. The position or role of a don.

adj

1. Like a drone; slow; sluggish.

noun

1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
2. (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
3. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
4. (uncountable) Popular trends.
5. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

verb

1. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
2. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
3. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
4. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.

adj

1. Somewhat or rather fond.

adj

1. (fantasy) Belonging to a race of gnomes.
2. Resembling a gnome; gnomelike.
3. aphoristic; gnomic

adj

1. Totally reprehensible.

noun

1. plural of heroin

noun

1. (biochemistry) Any of various simple water-soluble proteins that are rich in the basic amino acids lysine and arginine and are complexed with DNA in the nucleosomes of eukaryotic chromatin.

noun

1. plural of hoggin

noun

1. Leather tanned from a hog's skin.

verb

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

verb

1. present participle of hoise

noun

1. plural of honkie
2. plural of honky

adj

1. Somewhat like horn; hard.

noun

1. Someone who plays the horn (any of several kinds of musical instruments).

noun

1. The military punishment of placing somebody on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged.

verb

1. present participle of horse

noun

1. (computing) Running and maintaining a computer system on someone's behalf.
2. (obsolete) A battle.

verb

1. present participle of host

noun

1. (architecture) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
2. (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
3. (nautical) A houseline.
4. (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
5. (uncountable) Residences, collectively.
6. (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
7. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
8. A niche for a statue.
9. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.

verb

1. present participle of house

noun

1. The act of shooting or moving rapidly inward, as a baseball that is pitched with a curve.

adj

1. (of a wind) Blowing from the sea to the land.
2. Close to (especially in sight of) a shore.

adv

1. Near the shore.
2. Towards the shore.

adv

1. (obsolete) truly

adj

1. Resembling iron.

noun

1. An isoline indicating equal cloud cover.

verb

1. present participle of josh

adj

1. It was a longish time before I received a reply to my letter.
2. Somewhat long.

adj

1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a monk or monasticism.
2. Tending to self-denial; ascetic.

adj

1. Influenced by the moon.
2. Like or resembling the moon.
3. Variable as the moon; fickle; flighty; capricious.

noun

1. (colloquial) Any time close to noon; midday or thereabouts.

noun

1. (slang) A session of eating; a feast.

verb

1. present participle of nosh

noun

1. (obsolete) A nurse.

verb

1. (intransitive) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To gain nourishment.
3. (transitive) To encourage; to foster; to stimulate
4. (transitive) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.
5. (transitive) To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.
6. (transitive)To cherish; to comfort.
7. (transitive, of a person) To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.

Proper noun

1. A city in Nigeria, located on the eastern bank of the Niger river.

adj

1. (climbing) Without having previously seen the terrain.

verb

1. (climbing, transitive) To perform a climb without having previously seen the terrain.

noun

1. A method of teaching elementary reading based on the phonetic interpretation of normal spelling.
2. Acoustics.
3. Phonetics.
4. The study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling.

noun

1. plural of phony

adj

1. Obsolete form of roynish.

Proper noun

1. A major school of esoteric Buddhism in Japan.

noun

1. (now dialectal) A cattleshed.

noun

1. The act of fitting an animal with horseshoes.

verb

1. present participle of shoe

noun

1. The act by which somebody is shooed away.

verb

1. present participle of shoo

noun

1. Temporary bracing used to prevent something, such as a tunnel, trench, or wall, from collapse.

verb

1. present participle of shore

noun

1. The act of one who shoves.

verb

1. present participle of shove

noun

1. A result, a judgement.
2. An occasion when something is shown.

verb

1. present participle of show

noun

1. plural of siphon

verb

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

adj

1. snow-white

Proper noun

1. Any of a group of closely related languages or dialects centred on the middle stretches of the in West Africa, and used as a lingua franca in that region.
2. The Songhai Empire.

Noun

1. Any member of a West African people who speak the Songhai languages.

adj

1. (obsolete) Consisting of or containing songs.
2. (rare) Characteristic of a song; songlike

noun

1. The position or state of being a son.

adv

1. Some time in the not so distant but not yet definable future.

adj

1. Characteristically like stone; stony.

verb

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of astonish

adj

1. Alternative form of tonish

adj

1. (obsolete) Pertaining to or inhabiting a town, urban.
2. (often in combination) Characteristic of a (certain type of) town.

verb

1. (transitive) To bring back down (something previously hoisted).