HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A stream.
2. (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
3. (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
4. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
5. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
6. (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
7. (uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
8. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
9. A sensation resembling such an injury.
10. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
11. The act of burning something with fire.
12. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

verb

1. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
2. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
3. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
4. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
5. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
6. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
7. (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
8. (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
9. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
10. (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
11. (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
12. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
13. (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
14. (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
15. (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
16. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
17. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
18. (transitive, computing, by extension) To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
19. (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.
20. (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
21. (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
22. (transitive, slang) To betray.
23. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
24. (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
25. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
26. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

noun

1. (US) a chest of drawers for clothes
2. a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
3. an office

noun

1. (chiefly US, Philippines) A belch.

verb

1. (intransitive) To emit a burp.
2. (transitive) To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp.
3. (transitive) To open (a container of fermenting substance) to allow the release of accumulated gas.
4. (transitive) To utter by burping

noun

1. (Britain) Alternative spelling of burl
2. (engineering) A revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces used to grind hard products in a grinder or mill.
3. (historical) A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
4. 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry:
5. 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia:
6. 2003, Thomas Howard Crofts, Fifteenth-century Malory, page 290:
7. 2012, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur:
8. 2015, James B. Tschen-Emmons, Artifacts from Medieval Europe, page 280:
9. A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
10. A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.
11. A burr knot or burl.
12. A rough humming sound.
13. A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
14. A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
15. A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
16. A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.
17. And when his body was against the burr of the spear, he took his sword in both his hands and he swung the sword above his head, and he smote King Arthur with the edge of the sword upon the helmet.
18. Many saddles, especially those for use on warhorses, had high burr plates and cantles. this was especially important when knights began using stirrups and the couched lance.
19. The ear lobe.
20. The front of it was defended by an iron-plate, called a vam-plat, that is, an avant-plate, and behind it was a broad iron ring, called a burr.
21. The knot at the bottom of an antler.
22. We are made to witness a cathartic shuffling-off of mortalities and of hatreds: Mordred's pulling himself up to the 'burr' of Arthur's spear is Malory's own detail and one of the most memorable in the book.
23. burr or ring of iron behind the hand

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a rough humming sound.
2. (transitive) To pronounce with a uvular "r".

noun

1. plural of bur

noun

1. (obsolete) A burrow.
2. A borough; a manor

verb

1. (transitive) To place in the ground.
2. (transitive) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
3. (transitive, figurative, humorous) To outlive.
4. (transitive, figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
6. (transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
7. (transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
8. (transitive, often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
9. To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.

adj

1. (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

adv

1. (Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.

noun

1. (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
2. (Canada) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
3. (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
4. (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
5. (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
6. (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
7. (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
8. (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
9. (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
10. (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
11. (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
12. A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
13. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
14. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
15. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.

verb

1. (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
2. (transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
3. To become bushy (often used with up).
4. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
5. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

noun

1. (by extension) A corset.
2. (obsolete) A kind of linen.
3. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.

verb

1. (intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
3. (nautical) To tack, cruise about.
4. (obsolete) To go; to direct one's course.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

noun

1. (archaic) A kiss.
2. A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
3. Archaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).

verb

1. (intransitive) To kiss.
2. (transitive, now often poetic or dialectal) To kiss (either literally or figuratively).

adj

1. (slang) Without any money, broke, bankrupt.

noun

1. (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
2. (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
3. (slang) A disappointment.
4. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
5. (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
6. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
7. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
8. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
9. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.

verb

1. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
2. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
3. (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
4. (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
5. (intransitive, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen.
6. (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
7. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
8. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
9. (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
10. (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone) for a crime.
11. (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), To deflower
12. (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
13. (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.

adj

1. Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
2. Engaged in activity or by someone else.
3. Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
4. Officious; meddling.

noun

1. (slang, UK, Liverpudlian, derogatory) A police officer.

verb

1. (transitive) To rush somebody.
2. (transitive, usually reflexive) To make somebody busy or active; to occupy.

noun

1. (informal) Phenylbutazone.

noun

1. plural of but

verb

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

noun

1. (Canada, US, Philippines, slang) The buttocks (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
2. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
3. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
4. (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
5. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
6. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
7. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
8. (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
9. (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
10. (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
11. (obsolete, West Country) Hassock.
12. (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
13. (slang) A used cigarette.
14. (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
15. (slang, metonymically) Body; self.
16. (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
17. A mark to be shot at; a target.
18. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
19. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
20. A thrust in fencing.
21. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
22. The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
23. The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
24. The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
25. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
26. The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
27. The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.

verb

1. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
2. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
3. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

noun

1. plural of buy

verb

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

noun

1. (informal) A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.
2. (informal) A telephone call or e-mail.
3. (informal) Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes.
4. (uncountable) Synonym of fizz-buzz (“counting game”)
5. A continuous humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.
6. A whisper.
7. The audible friction of voiced consonants.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To drink to the bottom.
2. (aviation) To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over a specified area, as to make a surprise pass.
3. (by extension) To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.
4. (chiefly of an insect) To fly while making such a sound.
5. (colloquial) To show a high level of activity and haste, energization or excitement, to be busy as a bee in one’s actions but perhaps mentally charged.
6. (intransitive) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.
7. (transitive) To communicate with (a person) by means of a buzzer.
8. (transitive) To cut the hair in a close-cropped military style, or buzzcut.
9. (transitive) To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
10. (transitive) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly.
11. Of a group of people, to talk about some interesting topic excitedly.

noun

1. A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
2. Pronunciation spelling of calf.

noun

1. (mineralogy) An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.

noun

1. (Britain, historical, often capitalized, used on maps) An entry to a mill lead taken from a burn or stream (a mill lead (or mill waterway) is generally smaller than a canal but moves a large volume of water).
2. (anatomy, obsolete except in specific senses) A membrane.
3. (cooking) Caul fat.
4. (historical) A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.
5. (woodworking) A strip or block of wood used to distribute or direct clamping force.
6. The amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth (traditionally considered to be good luck).
7. The surface of a press that makes contact with panel product, especially a removable plate or sheet.
8. The thin membrane which covers the lower intestines; the omentum.

noun

1. (Scotland) Cup.

noun

1. (baking) Choux pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake with a sweet filling.
2. (fashion) A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's clothing.

noun

1. (LGBT slang, countable) An overweight or obese gay man.
2. (by extension) Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
3. (slang, countable) A chubby, plump person.
4. (uncountable) Excess body fat.
5. A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus)
6. A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat.
7. An erection (erect penis).
8. In Europe, its close relatives, notably the fallfish.
9. In North America, the black bass.

abbrev

1. (West Country, obsolete) I could

noun

1. (US, slang) A gross, physically unappealing person.
2. (chiefly US, Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) A person on the political right, and/or who holds socio-political views seen as regressive or bigoted.

verb

1. (obsolete) To champ; to bite.

noun

1. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Native American descent.
2. A dog that is a cross between a pug and a chihuahua.
3. A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.
4. A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival.
5. A large gulp of drink.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make dull explosive sounds.
2. (intransitive) To move or travel whilst making such sounds.
3. (intransitive, by extension) To move or travel at a steady, although not especially fast, pace.
4. (transitive, UK slang, derogatory) To solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner.
5. (transitive, slang) To drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action/without breathing; to chugalug. Usually chanted at the person who is drinking.

noun

1. (dated) A friend; a pal.
2. (dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
3. (fishing, chiefly Canada, US) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks
4. (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
5. The chum salmon

verb

1. (fishing, transitive, intransitive) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
2. (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
3. (intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.
4. (transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
5. (transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany.

adj

1. (Hong Kong) Overwhelming; intense.

intj

1. A parting salutation: bye, see you later.
2. A strong voicing of agreement, approval, or thanks: awesome!, cheers!, ta!, thanks!.

noun

1. (India, dated) An island or shoal in a river.

verb

1. (Hong Kong) To do something overwhelming or intense.

intj

1. (archaic) An expression of impatience.

noun

1. A repeated short, low vocal sound made by guinea pigs, thought to express interest or curiosity.

verb

1. (intransitive) To produce this sound.

noun

1. Something which holds the greatest attention; the chief point of interest.

noun

1. (archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
2. (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
3. A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
4. A club sandwich.
5. A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
6. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
7. A playing card marked with such a symbol.
8. An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
9. An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
10. An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
11. The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.

verb

1. (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
2. (intransitive) To join together to form a group.
3. (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
5. (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
6. (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
7. (transitive) To hit with a club.
8. (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
9. (transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
10. (transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
11. We went clubbing in Ibiza.

noun

1. (now rare) A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.
2. An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.
3. Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
4. Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)

verb

1. To provide someone with information which he or she lacks (often used with "in" or "up").
2. To provide with a clue.

Proper noun

1. Cluj-Napoca

adj

1. (obsolete) Silent; glum.

intj

1. (obsolete) Silence; hush

noun

1. (obsolete) Silence.

Proper noun

1. name, an alternative spelling of Canute (Scandinavian Knut) in historical context.

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of could

noun

1. (US, historical, of Native Americans) A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery.
2. (bridge) One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
3. (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
4. A coup d'état.
5. A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
6. A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a coup.

intj

1. Non-vulgar interjection expressing annoyance, anxiety, etc.; sugar, damn.

noun

1. (countable) A contemptible person.
2. (uncountable) A fast-paced game, loosely based on billiards or pool, with many players participating at the same time.
3. (uncountable) Dirt, filth or refuse.
4. (uncountable, euphemistic) Feces; excrement.
5. (uncountable, figuratively, by extension) Something of poor quality.
6. (uncountable, skiing, snowboarding) A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to travel.
7. (uncountable, slang, US, military and students) Venereal disease, or (by extension) any disease.
8. Mixed impurities, especially wear and corrosion products in nuclear reactor coolant.

verb

1. (transitive) To clog with dirt or debris.

noun

1. Obsolete form of crumb.

adj

1. Short; brittle (both literally and figuratively).

noun

1. Alternative form of croup (the rump of a horse)

noun

1. A leglike part; shank
2. The shin (tibia and fibula)
3. plural of cru

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A dwarf.
2. (mining) A cross-measure tunnel or drift.
3. The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.

noun

1. (climbing) The hardest point of a climb.
2. (heraldry) A cross on a coat of arms.
3. A puzzle or difficulty.
4. The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
5. The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.

noun

1. (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
2. (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
3. (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
4. A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube
5. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
6. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

verb

1. (intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.
2. (transitive) To cut into cubes.
3. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
4. (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

noun

1. plural of cub

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of coca

noun

1. (derogatory, slang) A weakling.
2. (derogatory, slang) One who meekly and submissively acts against their own interests, or those of their own race, gender, class, religion, etc.
3. (slang) A cuckold or (uncommon) cuckquean.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To punish (someone) by putting them in a cucking stool.
2. (slang, transitive) To cuckold, to be sexually unfaithful towards.
3. (slang, transitive) To turn into a cuckold or cuckquean, to cheat with the partner of (someone).
4. (slang, transitive, derogatory) To fool and thus lower the status of, to exploit the trust or tolerance of (to one's own benefit and the other's disadvantage); to make into a cuck (one who acts against their own interests).
5. (slang, transitive, derogatory) To weaken or emasculate.

noun

1. plural of cud

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cue

noun

1. plural of cue

verb

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

noun

1. (Scotland) The scruff of the neck.
2. (informal, plural only) handcuffs
3. (obsolete) glove; mitten
4. A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
5. the end of a pants leg, folded up
6. the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist

verb

1. (intransitive) To fight; to scuffle; to box.
2. (transitive) To furnish with cuffs.
3. (transitive) To handcuff.
4. (transitive) To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.
5. To buffet.

noun

1. (informal) A cucumber.

noun

1. (farming, agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
2. (seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.
3. (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
4. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
5. A selection.
6. An organised killing of selected animals.

verb

1. (nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
2. To gather, collect.
3. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
4. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
5. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.

noun

1. (botany) the stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge
2. anthracite, especially when found in small masses
3. waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack.

adj

1. (neologism, music) Alternative form of kvlt.
2. Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
3. Of or relating to a cult.

noun

1. (chiefly derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.
2. (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
3. The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint.

verb

1. Obsolete form of cond (to con (a ship)).

noun

1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, countable, vulgar) An unpleasant or difficult experience or incident.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, UK, vulgar, positive, countable) (with words funny, good) A person (mostly between male friends); compare bastard.
3. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, countable) An objectionable object or item.
4. (vulgar, countable and uncountable) A woman, women, or bottom (i.e. submissive partner, not the top) as a source of sex.
5. (vulgar, countable) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
6. (vulgar, offensive, countable) An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand more usually a man).

noun

1. (nautical) An ordinary seaman.

noun

1. A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, bearing the symbol of a cup or chalice.
2. plural of cup

verb

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

noun

1. (American spelling, Canadian spelling) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
2. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
3. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
4. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
5. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
6. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.

verb

1. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.
2. (transitive) To bend or curve.
3. (transitive) To bring to a stop beside a curb.
4. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
5. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
6. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
7. (transitive) To rein in.
8. (transitive, slang) Ellipsis of curb stomp.

noun

1. The coagulated part of any liquid.
2. The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.
3. The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.

verb

1. (intransitive) To form curd; to curdle.
2. (transitive) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.

noun

1. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
2. (figurative) A solution to a problem.
3. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
4. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
5. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
6. A process of solidification or gelling.
7. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
8. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
9. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
2. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
3. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
4. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
6. (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
7. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
8. (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
9. (transitive) To restore to health.
10. To preserve (food), typically by salting.

noun

1. A limestone containing cherts

noun

1. (American football) A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
2. (agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
3. (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
4. (calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted rm curl; or ⃑∇⨯⃑(·), that generates this field.
5. (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
6. (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
7. (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
8. A curved stroke or shape.
9. A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
10. A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
11. {{ux|en|The curl of the vector field ⃑F(x,y,z) is the vector field operatorname curl,⃑F≡⃑∇⨯⃑F=((∂F_z)/(∂y)-(∂F_y)/(∂z),(∂F_x)/(∂z)-(∂F_z)/(∂x),(∂F_y)/(∂x)-(∂F_x)/(∂y)).}}

verb

1. (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
2. (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
3. (intransitive) To move in curves.
4. (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
5. (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
6. (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
7. (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
8. To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
9. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
10. To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.

verb

1. (archaic, intransitive) To coo like an owl.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To purr like a cat.

noun

1. plural of cur

adj

1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
2. Short or concise.

verb

1. (obsolete, rare) To cut, cut short, shorten.

adj

1. (Tyneside, slang) Excellent, very good.
2. Cushy.

noun

1. (colloquial, sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.
2. Alternative form of kush (“marijuana”)
3. Synonym of cuisse (“armor for the thigh”)

noun

1. A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme.

noun

1. (architecture) A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture.
2. (astrology) A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
3. (dentistry) Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.
4. (figuratively) An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
5. (geometry) A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.
6. A point of transition.
7. A sharp point or pointed end.

verb

1. (slang) To behave in a reckless or dangerous manner.

noun

1. (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse word.
2. (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse.
3. (dated, chiefly US, colloquial, derogatory) A fellow, person.

verb

1. (chiefly US, colloquial) To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.

noun

1. Abbreviation of custody.
2. Abbreviation of customer.

adj

1. (especially mathematics) Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
2. Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
3. Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
4. Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
5. Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
6. Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, dated or historical, with "the") Corporal punishment at school.
2. plural of cut

verb

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

noun

1. A crude or amateurish painting.
2. A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
3. Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
2. (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter excessively or grossly.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

noun

1. (Scotland and Northern England, archaic) A blow, a heavy thump.
2. A piece of something, especially something with an irregular shape.

noun

1. (South Africa) Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii).

noun

1. Any species of the genus Octodon, especially Octodon degus, a small, caviomorph rodent native to Chile.

noun

1. Alternative form of doob (“doob grass”)

noun

1. A species of colobine Old World monkey, making up the genus Pygathrix.

noun

1. The doum palm.

noun

1. (Scotland) A cigarette butt.
2. (Scotland) The bottom end of something; the human buttocks.

adj

1. Expressing gloom or melancholy.
2. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
3. Unyielding and obstinate.

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of doubt

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.

adj

1. (wine) Sweet.

noun

1. (dialectal, Northern England) Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.

verb

1. To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
2. To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
3. To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
4. To forcefully teach something.

noun

1. (Canada, US, informal) Short for drugstore.
2. (obsolete) A drudge.
3. (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
4. A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
5. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
6. Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.

verb

1. (dialect) simple past tense and past participle of drag
2. (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
3. (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
4. (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.

noun

1. (Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
2. (US) Synonym of construction barrel
3. (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
4. (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
5. (informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
6. (now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
7. (now rare) A small hill or ridge of hills.
8. (slang, chiefly UK) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
9. A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
10. A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
11. A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
12. Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.

verb

1. (intransitive) To beat a drum.
2. (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
4. Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
5. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
6. To throb, as the heart.

noun

1. (astrology) Dwadasama.
2. (mathematics) An unordered pair.
3. A pair or couple.