HANGMAN SOLVER

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 backchat

verb

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

noun

1. The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.

noun

1. (grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
2. (statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.

verb

1. (grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.

noun

1. (surveying) A measurement of a previously shot point, used to set the angle to zero when occupying a new position.
2. (surveying) A measurement or reading taken back towards a point of known elevation, used to calculate the height of the surveying instrument (theodolite, transit, total station).
3. The rear sight of a firearm.

verb

1. (surveying) To shoot a backsight.

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

noun

1. plural of buckshot

noun

1. plural of bucktooth

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. An upper tooth that protrudes further than the bottom teeth.

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 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. superlative form of chalky: most chalky

noun

1. Lip balm.

noun

1. plural of chatchka

noun

1. plural of chatchke

noun

1. Alternative form of chewstick (“plant”)

noun

1. (dentistry) An interocclusal record made by placing a plastic material (that subsequently hardens) between the upper and lower teeth

noun

1. A list of tasks to be completed, names to be consulted, conditions to be verified and similar.
2. An inventory, especially of species.

verb

1. (transitive) To add to a checklist.

intj

1. (by extension) Said when one has placed a person in a losing situation with no escape.
2. (chess) Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game.

noun

1. (figuratively, by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
2. The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.

verb

1. (transitive, by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
2. (transitive, chess) To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.

noun

1. plural of checkout

adj

1. superlative form of cheeky: most cheeky

noun

1. An old Russian dry measure, approximately 26.24 litres; one fourth of an osmina.

noun

1. A twig with a frayed end, used for cleaning the teeth.
2. Any of various plants in the genus Gouania used for oral hygiene, especieally Gouania lupuloides, of the Caribbean.

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.

adj

1. superlative form of chunky: most chunky

adj

1. Resembling cloth.

noun

1. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs

verb

1. To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.

noun

1. twilight at cockcrow; daybreak.

noun

1. (archaic) A cockfight.

noun

1. plural of cockshut

noun

1. (fishing) A fishing line made from linen threads twisted together.

noun

1. Decorative work made from gatch.

noun

1. Alternative form of half-track

Proper noun

1. A city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States.

noun

1. plural of hardtack

noun

1. A car with a sloping, hinged rear door that opens upwards.
2. The door itself.

noun

1. plural of haystack

noun

1. (printing, historical) A straight piece of furniture placed at the head of a form, between the chase and the type.
2. A stick-like device strapped to a paralysed person's head to allow them to perform activities such as typing on a keyboard.

noun

1. (mining) A headframe.
2. (rail transport) A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe, also used on some bogies.
3. A beam that supports a bell.
4. A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
5. A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that supports a rotating part
6. The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.

adj

1. Very despondent or sorrowful.

Proper noun

1. Alfred Hitchcock, English filmmaker

noun

1. (radio, advertising) Alternative form of hitchhiker (“advertisement at the end of a programme”)

verb

1. (by extension) To be carried along with something else.
2. To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road, generally by either sticking out one's finger or thumb or holding a sign with one's stated destination.

noun

1. plural of huckster

verb

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

noun

1. The activities of a huckster.

noun

1. (Canada, US) A spotlight or lamp mounted on a car.

verb

1. (hunting, US, Canada) To shine a jacklight or spotlight on an animal, usually a deer, to aid in hunting at night.

noun

1. A common mechanical component used to transfer or synchronize rotational force in a machine.
2. A wheelless axle used to turn the wheels of a locomotive.

verb

1. To transfer or synchronize rotational force by means of a jackshaft.

noun

1. A smith who makes jacks.

Proper noun

1. A long peninsula in the Russian Far East, lying between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk.

adj

1. Alternative form of cathartic

noun

1. (obsolete) A kitchen servant; a cook.
2. (obsolete) A stove for cooking.

noun

1. (dated) A kitchen cabinet with shelves, drawers, and various other features such as a weighing-scale.

noun

1. (obsolete) The body of servants employed in the kitchen.

noun

1. plural of klatsch

noun

1. Rule by judges.

noun

1. Persistent complaining.

verb

1. present participle of kvetch

noun

1. plural of latchkey

noun

1. (gambling, slang) someone who only bets when they are sure they will win
2. one who practices locksmithing

noun

1. Alternative form of maulstick

noun

1. A small folded sheet of cardboard containing rows of cardboard matches, generally with a striker on the outside.

noun

1. Early type of firearm, using a smoldering piece of cord to fire the powder in the firing pan.
2. The gunlock used in such a weapon, having a slow smouldering match, see: slow match.

verb

1. To do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage.

noun

1. (engineering) A mark inscribed on a component to aid alignment with the rest of an assembly.

noun

1. plural of mutchkin

noun

1. (historical) An ornamental cravat, usually white.

noun

1. A motor car whose rear window makes an angle with its back segment

noun

1. A strong, coarse cloth used for packaging

noun

1. (derogatory) A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.
2. (figurative) Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one whole piece.
3. A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.

verb

1. To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together.
2. To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric.

adj

1. Of or relating to pickthanks.

noun

1. A sycophant, a yes-man; one who meddles, tattles, informs (often in order to curry favour).

Noun

1. A toothpick.

noun

1. (casual, loosely) Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
2. (rare) A tuning fork.
3. A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
4. An agricultural tool comprising a fork with sparse, light tines, attached to a long handle, used for pitching hay (especially loose hay) high up onto a stack (as on a wagon or haystack, or into a haymow).

verb

1. (transitive) To toss or carry with a pitchfork.
2. (transitive, figurative) To throw suddenly.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of pitch (the tarry substance).

noun

1. The work of a coal miner who is paid in a share of the mined material.

verb

1. To thicken again.

adj

1. Having rickets.

adj

1. Made of sackcloth.

noun

1. (usually with “and ashes”, also figurative) Garments worn as an act of penance.
2. A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.

noun

1. (British Columbia, Washington, Pacific Northwest) Any body of saltwater, especially the ocean.

noun

1. (uncountable) A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings; drywall

verb

1. To install and finish sheetrock.

noun

1. A dessert made with such a cake, typically having layers of cream and fruit.
2. A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.

noun

1. plural of sketcher

adj

1. comparative form of sketchy: more sketchy

adv

1. In a sketchy manner.

noun

1. Something drawn briefly and basically; a sketch.

verb

1. present participle of sketch

noun

1. Alternative spelling of sketch pad

Proper noun

1. a town in the metropolitan borough of West Midlands, England

noun

1. (South Africa) The shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis)
2. A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.

Proper noun

1. The capital and largest city of Sweden.

noun

1. (music) An old musical instrument, the pibgorn.

Proper noun

1. An English habitational surname from a place in Yorkshire
2. William Makepeace Thackeray English novelist
3. Bal Thackeray, Indian politician

adj

1. (archaic) Without thatch; (by extension) having no roof.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of thicken

noun

1. Any substance added to something in order to thicken it; a thickening agent; a binder.
2. That which thickens.

adj

1. Having thickets.

noun

1. Any of several species of Australian songbirds of the genus Pachycephala.
2. Someone stupid.

adj

1. Applied to various kinds of plant characterized by thick leaves.

noun

1. (countable) A layer.
2. (uncountable) The property of being thick (in dimension).
3. (uncountable) The quality of being thick (in consistency).
4. (uncountable, countable) A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
5. (uncountable, informal) The property of being thick (slow to understand).

noun

1. plural of thickset

adj

1. (zoology) Applied to various creatures having a thick skin.

noun

1. A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sensitiveness; a dullard.

noun

1. (archaic) A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster.
2. The thornback guitarfish (Platyrhinoidis triseriata), a species of ray in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean.
3. The thornback ray or thornback skate (Raja clavata), a species of ray in the Atlantic Ocean.
4. The thornback skate (Dentiraja lemprieri), a fish endemic to Australia.

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. (Canada, US) A small nail-like tack with a slightly rounded head that can be pressed into place with light pressure from the thumb; used for hanging light articles on a wall or noticeboard.

verb

1. (transitive) To fix or attach something with a thumbtack.

noun

1. plural of thwacker

noun

1. The action or sound of a thwack; a beating.

verb

1. present participle of thwack

noun

1. A small, usually wooden, stick, often pointed at both ends, for removing food residue from between the teeth.

verb

1. (transitive) To spear (food) on a toothpick.
2. (transitive) To transfer (a sample of bacteria, etc.) by means of a toothpick.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a torch.

noun

1. (American football) The result of a play (usually a kickoff or punt) in which the ball passes out the back of the end zone or a team otherwise gains possession of the ball in their own end zone.

noun

1. (archaic) The manufacturer's official identifying sign, impressed into a pewter object.
2. (archaic, rare) A symbol, sign, or other inscribed indication used to aid the alignment, calibration, or other adjustment of a measuring device or scientific instrument.

noun

1. plural of tuckahoe

verb

1. (intransitive) To become less thick.
2. (transitive) To make less thick.

noun

1. The work produced by watchmaking; the mechanical arrangements making up a watch (portable timepiece).

adj

1. superlative form of whacky: most whacky

noun

1. A whipstock; the handle of a whip.

noun

1. (by extension) The driver of a carriage.
2. The stock, or rigid handle, of a whip.

noun

1. A wild duck, the canvasback.