HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (music) An abrupt pause or stop; an abruption.

noun

1. A person afflicted with amblyopia.

adj

1. (anatomy) Relating to the anus and pubis.

noun

1. (figurative) Any background situation.
2. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
3. An image that serves as a visual background.
4. The setting or background of an acted performance.

verb

1. (transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.

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.

noun

1. A shop where baked goods are made and sold.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of band-stop

Proper noun

1. A deity which medieval Christians mistakenly imagined that pagans, the Knights Templar and (sometimes) Muslims worshipped, and which figures into some modern occultist and Satanic religions.

noun

1. (cytology, immunology) A white blood cell responsible for inflammatory reactions during immune response.
2. One of the endocrine basophilic cells of the adenohypophysis, including gonadotrophs and thyrotrophs.

noun

1. (informal) A tall, thin person.
2. A thin pole for supporting bean vines.

adv

1. In abundance.

det

1. (US, informal) Much, many, a lot of.

noun

1. A musician or aficionado of the bebop genre.

noun

1. plural of bedpost

noun

1. plural of bellhop

verb

1. (transitive) To pommel; to beat, as with a stick.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.

adj

1. (obsolete) betrothed or engaged to be married (compare with: spoken for)

verb

1. past participle of bespeak

verb

1. (transitive) To marry

noun

1. plural of bimorph

noun

1. (rare) A biographical essay.
2. An early device to show moving pictures on a screen.

verb

1. (rare, transitive) To write a biography of.

noun

1. The property of being a biophage, a living organism that feeds on other living organisms.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of biophor

noun

1. (biology) Any plant that obtains nourishment from the bodies of insects (or other once-living organisms)

noun

1. (biology) Any living matter, but especially germinal or forming matter; matter possessing reproductive vitality; protoplasm, especially in its relation to living processes and development.

noun

1. (biology) a mass or cell of bioplasm that is a unit of living matter; an independently existing mass of living matter

noun

1. plural of biopsy

verb

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

noun

1. (South Africa, India, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, dated) A cinema or movie theatre.
2. An early form of movie projector

noun

1. (medicine) the examination of a body to determine if it is alive or dead

noun

1. plural of biotope

noun

1. plural of biotype

adj

1. Relating to a biotype.

adj

1. producing two offspring from one pregnancy; twinning

noun

1. (organic chemistry) Any compound that has two phenolic hydroxy groups; such a phenolic derivative of biphenyl

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bishop

noun

1. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
2. (US, countable) A road so paved.
3. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).

verb

1. (US) To pave with blacktop.

noun

1. plural of blooper

verb

1. present participle of bloop

noun

1. A burner that burns a fuel in air to produce a hot flame; a blowtorch

noun

1. (chemistry) a narrow tube through which a jet of air is directed onto a flame; used in the analysis of minerals etc and in jewelry manufacture
2. (glassblowing) a long narrow pipe, rotated in the hands, upon which glassware is blown
3. a weapon through which darts may be shot by blowing; a blowgun

noun

1. plural of bluetop

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bolt rope

noun

1. Alternative form of bonspiel

noun

1. A tournament in the sport of curling.

verb

1. Alternative spelling of book-keep

noun

1. A shop that sells books.

noun

1. A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea.

noun

1. Alternative form of bough pot

noun

1. (nautical) A spar projecting over the prow of a sailing vessel to provide the means of adding sail surface.

Proper noun

1. A town in Dorset, England

noun

1. Brachiaria ramosa (browntop millet)
2. Common bent (Agrostis capillaris)
3. Microstegium spp.

verb

1. (transitive) To make resistant to insects.

noun

1. Any of various bullheads (fish).

noun

1. Synonym of liana

noun

1. A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts

noun

1. (in China) A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.

noun

1. A joint or coadjutant bishop.

noun

1. plural of copaiba

adj

1. Able to be copied.

noun

1. (Quebec, UK) A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers.
2. (programming, COBOL) A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate.
3. A student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.

noun

1. plural of copyboy

noun

1. (obsolete) A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet. [14th–18th c.]
2. (obsolete) Things displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate. [16th–19th c.]
3. (obsolete) Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food.
4. A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.

verb

1. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to epiboly

noun

1. A probe used for studying the earth.

noun

1. plural of hipbone

noun

1. (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favour of the opposing side, and then they are refuted one by one.

noun

1. A board held on the lap as a simple lap desk.

noun

1. The routing of a signal, data stream, etc. from its origin back to the origin, primarily as a means of testing the transmission or transportation infrastructure.

adj

1. (chemistry) lyophobic

noun

1. (chemistry) a lyophobic substance

adj

1. Resistant to incursion by a mob.

noun

1. A skirting board (to protect a wall from wet mops)

verb

1. (Scotland, law, transitive) To obey (a judgement or decree).

adj

1. Capable of being opened.

adj

1. (textiles, of a twist) Right-handed or "Z shaped", with individual fibers pointing up and to the right when the thread, yarn, or rope is vertical.

noun

1. Either of two species of bird in the genus Anastomus of the stork family Ciconiidae, with a distinctive gap between the mandibles of the closed bill.

adj

1. Able to be operated or used
2. Able to be put into operation; practicable
3. Able to be treated by surgery

adv

1. (medicine) Such that it allows an operation to take place.

adj

1. Capable of being opined or thought.

noun

1. (obsolete) Opprobrium.

adj

1. (obsolete) nourishing

noun

1. plural of pageboy

noun

1. A box used to hold an artist's paints.

verb

1. (cooking, transitive) To broil in a pan.

noun

1. (US, dialect) A bird, the upland sandpiper.

noun

1. A male who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round

noun

1. (geometry) The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
2. (rhetoric) The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.

noun

1. (rhetoric) similitude; comparison

noun

1. A bomb dropped by parachute.

verb

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

noun

1. (South Africa, historical) A kind of internal passport used during apartheid to limit the movements of citizens outside of their homelands or designated areas.
2. (banking) A customer's record of deposits and withdrawals from a savings account at a bank, typically recorded in a small booklet. The bank keeps its own record, which is final in any dispute.
3. (dated) A book that passes between a trader and a customer, used to record credit purchases.

adj

1. (boxing) Being or using a style of boxing with the hands kept close to the face to defend it.
2. (of clothing) with holes, slits or transparent fabric to reveal what is normally hidden.

intj

1. Boo (when showing oneself unexpectedly).

noun

1. (games) A game for a small child in which one covers one's face, then suddenly reveals it, saying "Boo!" or "Peekaboo!".

verb

1. (intransitive) To peep out.

noun

1. A board that has a pattern of holes into which pegs are fitted; used especially to record the score in some card games.
2. A perforated form of hardboard.

verb

1. (transitive) To fit or furnish with pegboard.

noun

1. plural of pegbox

Proper noun

1. A town in Pembrokeshire, Wales

noun

1. plural of peribolus

Proper noun

1. The god and personification of nightmares; a son of Hypnos and Pasithea, or Nyx and Erebus.

Adjective

1. Of or relating to Phoebe or Phoebus
2. Of or relating to the Sun. Solar.

noun

1. A condition affecting dogs or other animals in the Arctic, characterized by aggressive behavior and seizures.
2. A condition affecting the Inuit peoples in winter, characterised by a period of frenzied activity or irrational behaviour, followed by unconsciousness or stupor.

noun

1. plural of pibroch

noun

1. plural of pigboat

noun

1. plural of pinbone

noun

1. (US, American football) A book of strategies (plays) for use in American football (and by extension other sports or disciplines).
2. (US, figurative) A set of commonly employed tactics and strategies.
3. A book containing the text of a play or plays.
4. A book of games and amusements for children.

noun

1. plural of playboy

adj

1. (American spelling) That can be plowed.

noun

1. Alternative form of ploughbote

noun

1. plural of plowboy

noun

1. (botany) A plant of the genus Plumbago; leadwort.
2. (mineralogy, now chiefly historical) Graphite.