brick wall
stumblingblock
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lie in the way
over
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backside
let
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run into a brick wall
hoop
hit
hurdle
climbing gym
mazework
tunnel
climbing wall
roadblock
barrier
hang-up
hitch
vault
snag
rub
sweep aside
no matter what happens
flake
bounce
whatever may come
jump'n'run
come hell or high water
defy
dare
escape route
challengee
dyno
hurdlework
elastostatics
labyrinthine
get around
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difficulty
counterchallenge
ladder wall
tail block
fairway
clutch
hurdlesome
zoom
capade
stymie
testpiece
break through
over and under
obstacle-ridden
descent
step climb
bunk-up
clamber
confrontation
flash
hop pole
overstep
send
Korbut flip
stile
springboard
jump off
rope wall
work one's way up
black diamond
prosaccade
beta
lead climber
hurdlemaker
pons asinorum
woody
bar
top out
cameration
ropeline
mount
water jump
sept
warping post
waterbar
climb
climbing hold
extramaze
scramble
riser
skin
shinny
waterbreak
shin
backside
labyrinthine
hurdlesome
obstacle-ridden
extramaze
no matter what happens
whatever may come
come hell or high water
brick wall
stumblingblock
barricade
foreset
let
sticks
stumbling block
hoop
hurdle
climbing gym
mazework
tunnel
climbing wall
roadblock
barrier
hang-up
hitch
vault
snag
rub
flake
jump'n'run
escape route
challengee
dyno
hurdlework
elastostatics
embuggerance
difficulty
ladder wall
tail block
fairway
clutch
zoom
capade
stymie
testpiece
over and under
descent
step climb
bunk-up
clamber
confrontation
hop pole
overstep
Korbut flip
stile
springboard
rope wall
work one's way up
black diamond
prosaccade
beta
lead climber
hurdlemaker
pons asinorum
woody
bar
cameration
ropeline
mount
water jump
sept
warping post
waterbar
climb
climbing hold
riser
waterbreak
lie in the way
run into a brick wall
hit
hurdle
sweep aside
bounce
defy
dare
get around
counterchallenge
break through
flash
send
jump off
top out
clamber
scramble
skin
shinny
shin
prep
- From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.
- Concerning or regarding.
- More than; to a greater degree.
- Across or spanning.
- Indicating relative status, authority, or power
- Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding.
- Finished with; done with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two.
- In such a way as to cover.
- As compared to.
- Divided by.
- On top of; above; higher than; further up.
- Beyond; past; exceeding; too much or too far.
- Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.
- While using, especially while consuming.
adv
- To an excessive degree; overly.
- From one side of something to another, passing above it.
- Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
- From an upright position to a horizontal one.
- From one position or state to another.
- Overnight (throughout the night).
- Again; another time; once more; over again.
- Horizontally; left to right or right to left.
adj
intj
noun
adj
noun
noun
- An obstacle or hindrance.
- The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.
- The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
verb
- To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
- Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.
- To cause (+ bare infinitive).
- To allow the release of (a fluid).
- To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
- To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone.
- To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
noun
- An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
- The hoopoe.
- A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
- A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
- A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
- A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
- A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
- The game of basketball.
- The rim part of a basketball net.
- A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
- A jockey.
- A hoop earring.
- A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
verb
verb
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To affect negatively.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
adj
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
pron
noun
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- An underground or underwater passage.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
verb
- To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol).
- To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- To dig a tunnel.
noun
- An obstacle or impediment.
- A structure that bars passage.
- A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- The lists in a tournament.
- A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- A boundary or limit.
verb
noun
- an unforeseen obstacle
- a period of time spent in military service
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls
- a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
verb
noun
- A paling; a hurdle.
- A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A wire rack for drying fish.
- The meat of the gummy shark.
- Dogfish.
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
- A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
verb
verb
- To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
- To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- To leave.
- To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
- To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- To move rapidly (between).
- To attack unexpectedly.
- To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
- To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
- To return undelivered.
- To turn power off and back on; to reset.
noun
- A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
- Drugs.
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- The sack, dismissal.
- Swagger.
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- A bang, boom.
- A talent for leaping.
- A good beat in music.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
noun
verb
- To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
- To visit numerous different places.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- To be sexually promiscuous.
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
verb
noun
- A difficult maneuver
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- An important or critical situation.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
adj
verb
noun
- A quick ascent.
- A humming noise from something moving very fast.
- A big increase.
- An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally.
- A video teleconferencing call.
intj
- Suggesting something moving quickly
- Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase
- Representing a humming sound
verb
noun
verb
verb
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To burst out into violence.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To perform a flash.
- To be visible briefly.
- To make visible briefly.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To communicate quickly.
adj
- Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
- Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
- Having plenty of ready money.
- Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
noun
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pool.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A form of military insignia.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- A very short amount of time.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
verb
- To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
- To care.
- To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
- To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
- To pitch.
- To bring to a certain condition.
- To cause to be or to happen; to bring, bring about; (archaic) to visit: (Referring to blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant. (Referring to curse or punishment) To inflict. Sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
- To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
noun
- An operation in which data is transmitted.
- An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.
- A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
- A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
- A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
noun
- A symbol representing a steep and relatively difficult trail, typically 40% gradient or above.
- anthracite
- A black synthetic diamond, specifically a CVD polycrystalline diamond or HPHT polycrystalline compact diamond.
- hematite
- boron carbide
- A member of the new affluent black middle class in South Africa, characterized by conspicuous consumption.
- carbonado, a natural diamond that is black in colour
noun
- Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
- Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
- The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
- Sideslip angle.
- The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
- Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
- The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.
- A beta particle or beta ray.
- An academic grade better than a gamma and worse than an alpha.
- In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.
adj
- Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.
- Designates the second in an order of precedence.
- Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
- Associated with the beta male/female archetype.
verb
noun
- A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A drilling or tamping rod.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- The counter of such premises.
- The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- The crossbar.
- Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
- Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- One of those musical sections.
- A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
verb
- To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- To prohibit.
- To lock or bolt with a bar.
prep
noun
- the act of climbing something
- a lightweight horse kept for riding only
- a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
- a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place
- something forming a back that is added for strengthening
verb
noun
- A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.
- a reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent the formation of cavities in the casting as the metal shrinks on cooling.
- A Manx cat with a showable short tail.
- A pipe connecting an individual exhaust port of an internal combustion engine to the muffler, particularly on aircraft.
- A strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines.
- A vertical utility conduit, pipe or path between floors of a building for placement of cables (e.g. telephone, networking), or to convey fluids (e.g. gas, water).
- Someone or something which rises.
- The main body of a bow.
- The vertical part of a step on a staircase.
verb
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
- remove the bark of a tree
- remove the skin from
noun
- a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
- an outer surface (usually thin)
- body covering of a living animal
- a person's skin regarded as their life
- a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent
- a person whose head is bald or shaved
- the rind of a fruit or vegetable
- a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal
noun
- A barrier built across a steeply sloping road or trail in order to direct the flow of water and prevent erosion.
- Any artificially constructed system or device to halt the destructive flow of water.
- A breakwater.
- The time elapsed from an underwater explosion or seismic event until the arrival of the resulting energy wave at a hydrophonic detector.
- The formation of beads of water on a smooth surface, especially when used as an indicator of impurities on the surface.
- A break in the smooth surface of a body of water, such as a ripple, whitecap, or the roughness that results from water flowing over an uneven surface.
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