HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (obsolete) Of a person, feeling cold.

Proper noun

1. A region of the Philippines located at south-eastern Luzon.
2. The language of the native inhabitants of the region.

Noun

1. The inhabitants of the region.

noun

1. (UK) Solitary confinement.
2. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
3. (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
4. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
5. (cricket) A blockhole.
6. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
7. (cricket) The popping crease.
8. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
9. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
10. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
11. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
12. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
13. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
14. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
15. (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
16. (slang) The human head.
17. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
18. (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
19. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
20. A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
21. A cellblock.
22. A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
23. A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
24. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
25. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
26. A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
27. A roughly cuboid building.
28. A section of split logs used as fuel.
29. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
30. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
31. A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
32. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
33. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
34. Misspelling of bloc.
35. Something that prevents something from passing.
36. The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

verb

1. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
2. (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
3. (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
4. (transitive) To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
5. (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
6. (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
7. (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
8. (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
9. (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
10. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
11. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To knock (a person's hat) down over their eyes.
12. (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
13. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).

noun

1. plural of bloc

noun

1. A curved, tapered metal tube which connects the reed of several double reed woodwind instruments (such as the cor anglais, bassoon, and contrabassoon) to the rest of the instrument.
2. A cylindrical glass vessel with a short wide neck.

Proper noun

1. name of Italian origin. English equivalents: Charles, Carl

noun

1. (architecture) Alternative form of carrel (“small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study”).
2. (historical) A round dance accompanied by singing.
3. (specifically) A (usually traditional) religious or secular song sung at Christmastime.
4. A ballad or song of joy.

verb

1. (intransitive) To sing carols; especially to sing Christmas carols in a group.
2. (intransitive) To sing in a joyful manner.
3. (intransitive, historical) To participate in a carol (a round dance accompanied by singing).
4. (transitive) To praise or celebrate in song.
5. (transitive) To sing (a song) cheerfully.

noun

1. A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
2. cellophane

noun

1. Alternative spelling of coelom

noun

1. (historical) An Anglo-Saxon churl.

noun

1. (on fixed-blade knives) The portion where the heel meets the bolster.
2. (on folding knives) The indentation of a pocket-knife blade where it joins the tang.
3. An unsharpened portion of a knife blade at the base of the blade, near the handle of the knife.
4. The region of a knife where such a portion is, or would be if it existed; the region may be arranged as a grip, guard, or combination thereof (a finger choil), or it may be a notch demarking the end of the sharpened edge (a sharpening choil).

noun

1. A female cholo (Mexican or Hispanic gang member, or somebody with similar characteristics).

noun

1. (fashion) A short-sleeved blouse worn under a sari; an Indian underbodice.

noun

1. (derogatory) A Mexican or Hispanic gang member, or somebody perceived to embody similar characteristics.

noun

1. (obsolete) A perennial onion plant, Allium fistulosum, commonly called Welsh onion.

noun

1. A cigar whose wrapper is very light tan or yellowish.

noun

1. (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
2. (figurative) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
3. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
4. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

verb

1. (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
2. (transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
3. (transitive, figurative) To cover up, hide or conceal.

adj

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Of earthenware.

noun

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Earthenware.
2. (obsolete) Clay.

verb

1. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To gutter (as a candle).
2. (transitive, obsolete) To make cloam.

noun

1. (Britain) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
2. (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
3. (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
4. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
5. (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
6. A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
7. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
8. A time clock.
9. An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.
10. The seed head of a dandelion.

verb

1. (Britain, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
2. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To hatch.
3. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
4. (slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something.
5. (transgender slang) To identify someone as being transgender.
6. (transitive) To measure the duration of.
7. (transitive) To measure the speed of.
8. (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
9. (transitive, Britain, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
10. (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.

noun

1. plural of clod

noun

1. (historical) An allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

noun

1. plural of clog

verb

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

verb

1. (Scotland, intransitive) To fall heavily

noun

1. Archaic spelling of cloak.

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of climb

noun

1. The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.

verb

1. (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs.
2. (transitive) To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound.

noun

1. (cytology) A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.
2. (informal) A person who is exactly like another person, in terms of looks or behavior.
3. A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
4. A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.

verb

1. (transitive) To create a clone of.

noun

1. (conlanging, humorous) Synonym of conlang

verb

1. (obsolete) past participle of cling

noun

1. (fishing) A stick-like tool used to strike the surface of the water and produce a sound that causes nearby fish to attack the bait.
2. The abrupt sound of two hard objects coming into contact.

noun

1. Alternative form of kloof

intj

1. The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.

noun

1. plural of clop

verb

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

adj

1. (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
2. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
3. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
4. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
5. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
6. (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
7. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
8. (now rare) Closed, shut.
9. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
10. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
11. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
12. At a little distance; near.
13. Intimate; well-loved.
14. Marked, evident.
15. Narrow; confined.
16. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
17. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
18. Short.
19. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.

noun

1. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
2. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
3. (aviation, travel) The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
4. (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
5. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
6. (music) A double bar marking the end.
7. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
8. (now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field.
9. (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
10. A cathedral close.
11. A grapple in wrestling.
12. An end or conclusion.
13. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.

verb

1. (Philippines) To turn off; to switch off.
2. (baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
3. (figurative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
4. (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
5. (marketing) To make a sale.
6. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
7. (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
8. (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
9. (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
10. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
11. To come to an end.
12. To grapple; to engage in close combat.
13. To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
14. To move so that an opening is closed.
15. To obstruct (an opening).
16. To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.

noun

1. (obsolete) The game of ninepins.
2. A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis; founder.

noun

1. (obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.

noun

1. (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
2. (countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
3. (in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
4. (metaphoric) Appearance; seeming.
5. (metaphoric) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
6. A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
7. Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.

noun

1. plural of clot

verb

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

noun

1. (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
2. (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
3. (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
4. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
5. (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
6. A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
7. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
8. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
9. A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
10. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
11. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
12. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
13. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
2. (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
3. (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
4. (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
5. (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
6. (transitive) To make obscure.
7. (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
8. (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
9. Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.

noun

1. (Scotland) A blow or impingement.

verb

1. (Scotland, transitive) To inflict a blow on; punch.
2. (Scotland, transitive) To make a dent or bump on; ding.

noun

1. (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
2. (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
3. (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
4. (baseball, informal) A home run.
5. (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
6. (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
7. (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
8. A clout nail.
9. Influence or effectiveness, especially political.

verb

1. Dated form of clot.
2. To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
3. To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
4. To hit, especially with the fist.
5. To join or patch clumsily.
6. To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.

noun

1. (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
2. (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
3. (geography) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
4. (horticulture, cooking) One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.
5. (uncountable, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

verb

1. simple past tense of cleave

noun

1. (obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
2. (obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
3. A clownfish.
4. A person who acts in a silly fashion.
5. A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
6. A stupid or badly-behaved person.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion.
2. (transitive, African-American Vernacular) To ridicule.

verb

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

noun

1. (education) A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text.

noun

1. plural of coal

verb

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

adj

1. Covered in, or containing, coal.
2. Resembling coal.

noun

1. (nautical) small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.

noun

1. Abbreviation of congressional delegation. Government-paid trips abroad, designed to give lawmakers first-hand knowledge of matters relevant to their legislation.

noun

1. plural of coil

verb

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

noun

1. plural of cola

Proper noun

1. name, transferred from the surname.
2. One of two villages in England.
3. A village in the Isle of Man.
4. A city in Kansas, USA, and the county seat of Thomas County.
5. A city and town in Wisconsin.

Noun

1. A soft, moist, mild cheese made with a washed-curd process.

noun

1. plural of cold

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of colead

noun

1. plural of cole

noun

1. (obsolete) A lower servant in a church.

noun

1. coalfish, Pollachius virens

adj

1. Relating to the colon; colonic.

noun

1. (pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems).
2. A medicinal plant used to relieve such symptoms.
3. Severe fussiness and crying, especially of infants with certain medical conditions.

noun

1. The American quail or bobwhite, or related species.

noun

1. plural of collum

adj

1. (Britain, dialect) black as coal

noun

1. (Britain, dialect) A blackbird
2. (Britain, dialect) Soot.
3. (dated) Alternative spelling of collie

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) to make black, as with coal

noun

1. (mathematics) Abbreviation of cologarithm.

noun

1. (anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum. (Because the colon is the largest part of the large intestine (constituting most of it), it is often treated as synonymous therewith in broad or casual usage.)
2. (obsolete) A husbandman.
3. (palaeography) A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.
4. (rare) The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
5. (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
6. A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.
7. The punctuation mark ":".

adj

1. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

noun

1. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
2. (figuratively) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
3. (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
4. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
5. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
6. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
7. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
8. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
9. (medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
10. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
11. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
12. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
13. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
14. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
15. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
16. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
17. A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
18. A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
19. A paint.
20. An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
21. These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).

verb

1. (informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
2. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
3. (mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
4. (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
5. (transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
6. (transitive) To give something color.
7. To affect without completely changing.

noun

1. plural of colt

verb

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

noun

1. oilseed rape (Brassica napus), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil, valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes.

noun

1. A flat, pan-like clay or metal griddle used to cook tortillas or other foods.

adj

1. Shaped like a cone or funnel; conic.

verb

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

adj

1. Misspelling of coolly.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of coolie

noun

1. A resinous exudation from various tropical trees, especially Hymenaea courbaril and Schinus terebinthifolia, used chiefly in making varnishes and printing ink.

adj

1. Having the orange-pink colour of coral.
2. Made of coral.

noun

1. (countable) A somewhat yellowish orange-pink colour; the colour of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
2. (countable) Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
3. (historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
4. (uncountable) A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
5. The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.

noun

1. (botany, obsolete) A corolla.

noun

1. Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

verb

1. (obsolete except Tyneside) past participle of can
2. Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
3. Used to politely ask for permission to do something.
4. Used to politely ask for someone else to do something.
5. Used to show the possibility that something might happen.
6. Used to suggest something.
7. simple past tense of can

noun

1. (Australia) A billabong, or stagnant pool.

noun

1. plural of cowl

verb

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

adj

1. (anatomy) sciatic (relating to the hip)
2. (zoology) Relating to a coxite

Proper noun

1. A town in Oklahoma, US.

adv

1. In a coy manner.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of cruel

verb

1. (archaic, intransitive) To murmur or mutter.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a growling noise, as the stomach.

noun

1. A cycle rickshaw
2. A tuk-tuk.

noun

1. (organic chemistry) cymene

noun

1. Abbreviation of cytology.

noun

1. (music) A soft-toned organ stop.

adj

1. Of the wind; referring to the action or the power of wind.

noun

1. (Christianity) A religious congregation.
2. A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
3. A large number of people.
4. A lock of wool or hair.
5. A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
6. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
7. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.herd/flock
8. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.

verb

1. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
2. (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
4. To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow.
5. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.

noun

1. plural of floc

adj

1. (medicine) Limited to a small area.
2. Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus.

noun

1. (Wicca) An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic.
2. (geometry, obsolete) One of two lines perpendicular to the axis of a cone such that the cosine of the angle between the line and the axis is equal to the ratio of the cosines o the semiangles of the cone.
3. A major point of interest; an attraction.
4. A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system.
5. A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals.
6. An exemplar of a concept.
7. The central or most important element of something; a focal element.
8. The individual who is the focus of a study or review, when the study or review is based on that individual's interactions with others.

adj

1. Of or relating to foliage; pteroylglutamic, as in folic acid.

noun

1. (slang) Synonym of LOH (light observation helicopter)
2. A similar fish in one of three other families of Cypriniformes: Botiidae, Balitoridae, and Gyrinocheilidae.
3. Any true loach, of the family Cobitidae.