HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. yellowfin tuna

noun

1. Alternative spelling of ayah

noun

1. (countable) A helper; an assistant.
2. (countable) Alternative form of aide (“an aide-de-camp”)
3. (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.
4. (countable, Britain) An exchequer loan.
5. (countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
6. (countable, chiefly in the plural, horse racing) The rider's use of hands, legs, voice, etc. to control the horse.
7. (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
8. (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.

verb

1. (climbing) To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.
2. (transitive) To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.

verb

1. (Northern England, rare) To drive.

adj

1. (obsolete) Painful; troublesome.

noun

1. (obsolete) An ailment; trouble; illness.
2. The awn of barley or other types of corn.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
2. (transitive) To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)

noun

1. (obsolete) Conjecture; guess.
2. Initialism of America Online. AIM; AOL Instant Messenger.
3. Intention or goal
4. The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target
5. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
6. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, such as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.

verb

1. (intransitive) To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive
2. (intransitive) To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To guess or conjecture.
4. (transitive) To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group
5. (transitive) To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object

noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An air conditioner or the processed air it produces.
2. (historical, medicine) understood as a particular local substance with supposed effects on human health.
3. (historical, philosophy, alchemy) understood as one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
4. (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
5. (music) A song, especially a solo; an aria.
6. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific gas.
7. (physics) understood as a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
8. (snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) A jump in which one becomes airborne.
9. (uncountable) Publicity.
10. (uncountable, meteorology) The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere
11. (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
12. (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near vacuum of outer space.
13. A breeze; a gentle wind.
14. A feeling or sense.
15. A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
16. A television or radio signal; (by extension) media broadcasts in general.

verb

1. (Britain, MLE, slang) To ignore (a person).
2. (intransitive) To be broadcast.
3. (transitive) To broadcast (a television show etc.).
4. Pronunciation spelling of are.
5. To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
6. To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
7. To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.

noun

1. plural of ai

noun

1. (Scotland) An oat.
2. An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.

noun

1. Any bird of the genus Crotophaga in the cuckoo family.
2. plural of anus

noun

1. (Internet slang, informal) An avatar displayed by a user's profile on a social networking site.

intj

1. (Internet slang) Eye dialect spelling of bye.

noun

1. A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
2. A people of the Yunnan province of China.

noun

1. (cycling) Shorts which are held up by suspenders.
2. (sports) A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities.
3. (sports) A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race.
4. A bibcock.
5. A north Atlantic fish (Trisopterus luscus), allied to the cod.
6. A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat.
7. An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
8. Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem.
9. The upper part of an apron or overalls.

verb

1. (informal) To beep (e.g. a car horn).
2. (intransitive, archaic) To drink heartily; to tipple.
3. (transitive) To dress (somebody) in a bib.

noun

1. (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
2. An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
3. An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make an attempt.
2. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
3. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
4. (transitive) To invite; to summon.
5. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
6. (transitive) To offer as a price.
7. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
8. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.

adj

1. (informal) Adult; (of a child) older.
2. (informal) Fat.
3. (informal) Important or significant.
4. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
5. (informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
6. (informal, slang, rare, of somebody's age) Old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
7. (informal, transitive with of) Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
8. (informal, with on) Enthusiastic (about).
9. (of a city) Populous.
10. (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
11. (sometimes figurative) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
12. Of great size, large.
13. Popular.

adv

1. Hard.
2. In a boasting manner.
3. In a large amount or to a large extent.
4. In a loud manner.
5. On a large scale, expansively.
6. You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.

noun

1. (BDSM) The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.
2. (in the plural) The big leagues, big time.
3. (university slang) A initiated member of a sorority who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
4. An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
5. One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To dwell; have a dwelling.
2. (reflexive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To locate oneself.
3. (transitive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To build; erect; fashion.
4. (transitive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To inhabit; occupy.

num

1. Abbreviation of billion.

noun

1. (slang) woman

abbrev

1. (text messaging) Contraction of being.

noun

1. (MLE, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.
2. (computing) Clipping of binary.
3. (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
4. (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
5. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
6. A container for rubbish or waste.
7. Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.

verb

1. (Britain, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
2. (chiefly Britain, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
3. (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been
4. (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
5. (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.

adj

1. (informal) biological.

noun

1. (South Africa, informal) bioscope; cinema
2. (informal) Clipping of biology.
3. Clipping of biography.
4. biographical sketch

adv

1. Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

noun

1. plural of bi

adj

1. (chiefly in combination) Having been bitten.

noun

1. (BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
2. (MLE) A gun.
3. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
4. (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value.
5. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
6. (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
7. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
8. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
9. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
10. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
11. (now US) A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.
12. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
13. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
14. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
15. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
16. A portion of something.
17. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
18. A small amount of something.
19. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
20. Short for bit part.
21. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
22. The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
23. The cutting iron of a plane.
24. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.

verb

1. (informal in US, archaic in UK) past participle of bite, bitten
2. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
3. simple past tense of bite

noun

1. (UK, informal) biscuits

noun

1. (slang) Business.

Verb

1. To create visuals using computer-generated imagery; to apply visual effects.

noun

1. (Hong Kong) The chek or Hong Kong foot, a unit of length standardized as 0.371475 meters.
2. (Mainland China) The Chinese unit of length standardized in 1984 as ¹/₃ of a meter.
3. (Taiwan) The Taiwanese unit of length standardized as ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter, identical to the Japanese shaku.
4. (philosophy) A life force in traditional Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, etc, related (but not limited) to breath and circulation.
5. Clipping of chihuahua.
6. The Chinese foot, a traditional Chinese unit of length based on the human forearm.
7. The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.

noun

1. (informal) cigarette

adj

1. (biology) Having two mutations on two genes on the same chromosome of a homologous pair.
2. (chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a coordination compound in which the two instances of a particular ligand are adjacent to each other.
3. (chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the same side of the bond.
4. (cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus nearer to the endoplasmic reticulum.
5. Cisgender (or sometimes cissexual): not trans (transgender or transsexual) nor non-binary.

noun

1. (derogatory, now rare) Clipping of citizen: a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman.
2. Clipping of citation.

adj

1. Abbreviation of civil.

noun

1. Abbreviation of civilisation.

noun

1. (computing) The measure of characters that can be stored in each inch of magnetic tape
2. (graphic design, typography) The measure of a number of typeset font characterss per inch used or supported by a digital display device

noun

1. A dibber (gardening tool)
2. One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.

verb

1. (Scouting) Alternative form of dyb
2. To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for the purpose of planting a bulb or seed
3. To move in a rapid, cautious manner; especially, with movement like a mouse or rat.

verb

1. (nonstandard, especially Southern US, African-American Vernacular) past participle of do
2. simple past tense of do

noun

1. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
2. (semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
3. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
4. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
5. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
6. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
7. An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
8. Any small cubical or square body.
9. Obsolete spelling of dye
10. The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.

verb

1. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
2. (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
3. (intransitive, figurative, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
5. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
6. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
7. (intransitive, of a legislative bill or resolution) To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
8. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
9. (intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
10. (now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause:
11. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
12. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
13. (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:
14. (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
15. (uncommon, nonstandard outside video games) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):
16. (video games, slang) To lose a game.
17. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
18. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
19. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
20. followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:
21. followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences:
22. followed by of; general use:

noun

1. (UK, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
2. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
3. (cricket) An innings.
4. (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
5. (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
6. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
7. A cutting, sarcastic remark.
8. A thrust; a poke.
9. An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
10. The occupation of digging for gold.

verb

1. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
2. (dated slang) To understand.
3. (dated slang, transitive) To appreciate, or like.
4. (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
5. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
6. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
8. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
9. To thrust; to poke.

adj

1. (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
2. (music) Clipping of diminished.
3. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
4. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
5. Not bright or colorful.

noun

1. (archaic) Dimness.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become darker.
2. (transitive) To make something less bright.
3. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
4. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct

noun

1. (Islam) Alternative spelling of deen (“religion, faith, religiosity”).
2. A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.

verb

1. (intransitive) (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
2. (intransitive) To make a din, to resound.
3. (transitive) To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
4. (transitive) To repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody.

noun

1. (UK, dialect, uncountable, Birmingham) Fried bread.
2. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
3. (archaic) A dipped candle.
4. (birdwatching, colloquial) The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
5. (bodybuilding) A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
6. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
7. (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.
8. (dance) A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
9. (finance, informal) A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
10. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
11. (informal) A diplomat.
12. (informal) A foolish person.
13. (turpentine industry) The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
14. (uncountable) The moist form of snuff tobacco.
15. A dip stick.
16. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
17. A sauce for dipping.
18. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
19. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
20. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
21. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.

verb

1. (birdwatching, colloquial) To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
2. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
3. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
4. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
5. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
6. (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
7. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.
8. (transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
9. (transitive) To immerse for baptism.
10. (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
11. (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
12. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
13. (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
14. (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
15. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
16. (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
17. (transitive) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
18. (transitive, dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
19. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
20. To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.

adj

1. Abbreviation of direct.

adv

1. Abbreviation of directly.

noun

1. (computing) Abbreviation of directory.
2. Abbreviation of direction.
3. Abbreviation of director.

det

1. (slang or pronunciation spelling) This.

noun

1. (Norse mythology) Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore.
2. Alternative form of diss

verb

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of diss

adj

1. (Canada, obsolete) Indicator of a declared surname originating from Canadian French.

noun

1. (information theory) decimal digit
2. (obsolete) A word; a decree.
3. (obsolete, rare) A ditty, a little melody.
4. The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code.

verb

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England) To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit).
2. (obsolete) To close up.

noun

1. (UK, Eton College, school slang) A division; a lesson.
2. (UK, Winchester College) division; a subject with multidisciplinary scope.
3. (UK, slang) A foolish person; an idiot.
4. (UK, uncountable, slang) Divinity, as a school subject.
5. (mathematics, computing) A function, implemented in many programming languages, that returns the result of a division of two integers.
6. (military) A division.
7. (vector calculus) Divergence; a kind of differential operator.
8. (web design) A section of a web page, or the div element that represents it in HTML code.
9. Alternative form of daeva

Noun

1. Do it yourself.

Verb

1. To perform oneself a task usually relegated to an expert.

Adjective

1. do-it-yourself

noun

1. Initialism of dots per inch.

noun

1. (obsolete) plural of duo

det

1. (rare, nonstandard) Belonging to em, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to the singular their and coordinate with his and her.
2. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:eir.
3. |en

noun

1. (category theory) Abbreviation of epimorphism.
2. (medical jargon) epinephrine
3. (medicine, colloquial) Abbreviation of epidural.
4. (medicine, colloquial) Abbreviation of episiotomy.
5. A syringe or autoinjector filled with epinephrine, most frequently used for the treatment of acute allergic reactions to avoid or treat the onset of anaphylactic shock.

Proper noun

1. Federation of British Industry (1916–1965), forerunner of CBI (Confederation of British Industry).

Noun

1. Fixed-bit index.
2. Female body inspector.

noun

1. (informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
2. (informal, rare) A liar.
3. (medicine, informal) The fibula.
4. (neologism) A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.

verb

1. (archaic, thieves' cant, boxing) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike.
2. (informal, intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.

noun

1. (nautical) A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike.
2. (nautical) A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship).
3. (nautical, slang) The penis.
4. A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.
5. A small thick piece of anything.
6. A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.

verb

1. To support a topmast using a fid.

intj

1. (archaic) Often followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage.

noun

1. (Newfoundland, dated) a raisin (dried grape)
2. (colloquial, dated) A person's figure; dress or appearance.
3. A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
4. A small piece of tobacco.
5. Abbreviation of figure. (diagram or illustration)
6. The Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana". (Cultivar of Musa acuminata.)
7. The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
8. The piece of ginger root used in figging.
9. The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.

verb

1. (colloquial, dated, transitive) To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
2. (intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
3. (obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
4. (obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
5. (soap-making, dated) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
6. (transitive, rare) To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.

noun

1. (chess) Alternative form of alfil.
2. A Nordic dairy product, similar to yogurt, but using different bacteria which give a different taste and texture.

noun

1. (UK, formerly Australia, slang) a five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
2. (US, slang, dated) a five-dollar bill; the sum of five dollars.
3. (film, television, road signs) The finish, the end
4. (ichthyology) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
5. A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
6. A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
7. A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
8. A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
9. A similar structure on the tail of a bomb, used to help keep it on course.
10. A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
11. An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.

verb

1. (intransitive) (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water.
2. (intransitive) To swim in the manner of a fish.
3. (transitive) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
4. (transitive) To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.

noun

1. (US, obsolete) fippenny bit

noun

1. (chiefly countable) A conifer of the genus Abies.
2. (chiefly countable) Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris).
3. (uncountable) Wood of such trees.

adj

1. (Britain, informal, chiefly slang) Sexually attractive; good-looking; fanciable.
2. Adapted to a purpose or environment.
3. In good shape; physically well.
4. Prepared; ready.
5. Suitable, proper.

noun

1. (advertising) Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
2. (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
3. (bridge) The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.
4. (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
5. (statistics) Goodness of fit.
6. A seizure or convulsion.
7. A sudden burst (of an activity).
8. A sudden outburst of emotion.
9. Conformity of elements one to another.
10. The degree to which something fits.
11. The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.

verb

1. (African-American Vernacular, Southern US, dated) simple past tense and past participle of fight; fought.
2. (intransitive) To be in harmony.
3. (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape
4. (intransitive) To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.
5. (intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
6. (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.
7. (transitive) To adjust.
8. (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
9. (transitive) To be in agreement with.
10. (transitive) To be suitable for.
11. (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
12. (transitive) To equip or supply.
13. (transitive) To make ready.
14. (transitive) To tailor; to change to the appropriate size.
15. (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
16. To be proper or becoming.

noun

1. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
2. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
3. A determination of location.
4. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
5. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
6. A repair or corrective action.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
2. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
3. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
4. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
5. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
6. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
7. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
8. (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
9. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
10. (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
11. (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
12. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
13. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
14. (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
15. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

verb

1. Archaic form of fizz.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of ghee

noun

1. (New Zealand) plasterboard.
2. (video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
3. A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
4. A castrated male cat or ferret.
5. A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
6. A male cat; a tomcat.

verb

1. (New Zealand) To install plasterboard.
2. (transitive, video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.
3. Pronunciation spelling of give.
4. To fasten in place with a gib.

noun

1. A disease caused by coenurosis of the brain, most commonly found in sheep and canids.

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of GIF

noun

1. (Southern England, by extension) A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
2. (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
3. (by extension) Any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
4. (chiefly Britain, school slang (Eton College), archaic or dialectal) A person with an odd appearance; also, a foolish person.
5. (fishing) Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).
6. (informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).
7. (obsolete) A fanciful impulse; a whim; also, a joke.
8. (obsolete) A frivolous, playful, or wanton young woman; a giglet or giglot.
9. (obsolete) A top which is made to spin by tying a piece of string around it and then throwing it so that the string unwinds rapidly; a whipping-top.
10. (road transport, historical) A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
11. (slang, archaic or Britain, dialectal) Fun; frolics.
12. (slang, chiefly sciences) Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.
13. A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.
14. Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.

verb

1. (US, military) To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
2. (by extension) To work at any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
3. (film, music, television, theater) To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.
4. (intransitive) Sometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).
5. (intransitive) To catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.
6. (music) To play (a musical instrument) at a gig.
7. (transitive) To make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.
8. (transitive) To spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.