Body Parts for Hangman 🦴

Clues for every answer

A one-line clue for every answer, easy to hard. They're the same clues the game's 💡 Hint shows, so you can read them out when you run your own game.

Arm

Upper limb of the body; it bends at the elbow and ends in the hand beyond the wrist.

Leg

Lower limb of the body, from the hip down to the foot; each one has thirty bones.

Hand

Grasping body part at the end of the forearm, usually with four fingers and a thumb.

Foot

Weight-bearing end of the leg; a human one has 26 bones and over a hundred muscles, tendons and ligaments.

Head

Uppermost part of the body, joined on by the neck, that holds the brain, the mouth and the main sense organs.

Ear

Organ that lets you pick up sound and keep your balance; it has outer, middle and inner parts.

Eye

Sense organ that reacts to light so you can see; its coloured part is called the iris.

Nose

Main organ of smell, which also warms and moistens the air you breathe in.

Knee

Largest joint in the body, linking the thigh to the lower leg; it works like a modified hinge.

Toe

Digit of the foot; there are normally five on each, and the big one is called the hallux.

Hair

Protein strands that grow from follicles in the skin and are made mostly of keratin.

Chin

Forward pointed part of the face below the lower lip; Neanderthals lacked a well-developed one.

Back

Rear surface of the body, opposite the chest and abdomen, with the spine running down it.

Hip

Ball-and-socket joint where the top of the thigh bone fits into the pelvis, carrying the torso's weight.

Neck

Part of the body that joins the head to the torso and lets the head turn in all directions.

Mouth

Start of the digestive system: it takes in food, makes saliva and holds the teeth.

Lip

One of the soft, movable pair that are the most visible part of the mouth; the top one has a Cupid's bow.

Tooth

Hard part fixed in the jaw for cutting and crushing food; the first set are called milk or baby ones.

Finger

Jointed digit of the hand, tipped with a nail; the index, middle, ring and little ones are examples.

Belly

Everyday word for the abdomen; it can also mean the lower part of an aeroplane's body.

Shoulder

Area where the collarbone, scapula and upper arm bone meet; its ball-and-socket joint lets the arm circle.

Elbow

Hinge joint linking the upper arm bone to the two bones of the forearm.

Ankle

Area where the foot and the leg meet, made up of three joints.

Wrist

Joint area between the forearm and the hand, built around a group of eight carpal bones.

Stomach

Hollow, muscular organ between the oesophagus and small intestine, where acid helps break food down.

Muscle

Soft tissue that can contract and relax to make the body move; a special kind forms the heart's walls.

Throat

Front part of the neck, holding the vocal cords and the passages for food and air.

Tongue

Muscular organ in the mouth, with taste buds on top, that helps you chew, swallow and speak.

Eyebrow

Strip of short hairs that stops sweat dripping down into your sight and helps show feelings.

Forehead

Area of the head between the hairline and the bony ridge above the eyes.

Kneecap

Flat, roundish bone that protects the front of the body's largest joint; also called the patella.

Nostril

One of the two openings you breathe air in and out through, kept apart by a wall called the septum.

Knuckle

One of the finger joints, which some people crack with a popping sound.

Earlobe

Soft bottom part of the flap on each side of your head; no spot on the body is more often pierced.

Eyelid

Thin fold of skin that you blink, spreading tears to keep the cornea moist.

Eyeball

The roughly round organ of sight itself; its white outer layer is the sclera and its clear front the cornea.

Palm

Central front area of the hand, which the fingers can fold over to grip things.

Calf

Back part of the lower leg, whose big muscles join the heel by the Achilles tendon.

Thumb

First digit of the hand, next to the index finger, and the only one opposable to the other four.

Spine

Column of bones running down your back, also called the backbone; it gives vertebrates their name.

Collarbone

Slender S-shaped strut between the shoulder blade and the sternum; doctors call it the clavicle.

Cheekbone

Paired piece of the skull at the upper side of the face, also called the zygomatic or malar.

Fingernail

Protective plate at the tip of each digit of the hand, made of a tough protein called keratin.

Eyelashes

Hairs along the edges of the lids that catch dust and set off a blink when something touches them.

Vertebrae

The bones that stack up to make the spine, usually 33 in a human, which together surround and protect the spinal cord.

Intestine

Long tube that food moves into from the stomach, in two parts: a small one about 6 to 7 m long and a large one.

Windpipe

Tube stiffened by horseshoe-shaped rings that carries air from the larynx down to the lungs.

Ribcage

Bony enclosure around the chest that protects the heart and lungs; a typical human one has 12 pairs.

Jawbone

Largest and lowest piece of the face's skeleton; it holds the lower teeth and is vital for chewing.

Cartilage

Smooth, springy tissue, less hard than bone, that covers the ends of bones at joints.

Abdomen

Region (not an organ) at the front of the torso between the chest and the pelvis; the diaphragm forms its top boundary.

Cranium

Another name for the skull, the bony case that encloses the brain.

Diaphragm

Sheet of muscle across the bottom of the chest; it is the most important muscle for breathing.

Hamstring

Any of the three muscles at the back of the thigh, between the hip and the knee.

Oesophagus

The gullet: a muscular tube, about 25 cm long in adults, that carries food down to the stomach.

Sternum

Long, flat bone in the middle of the chest, shaped roughly like a necktie; also called the breastbone.

Pancreas

Organ behind the stomach that makes insulin and a juice that helps digest food.

Tonsils

Two lymph organs at either side of the back of the throat that help prevent infection.

Patella

Doctors' name for the kneecap, the largest bone in the body that sits inside a tendon or muscle.

Femur

The thigh bone: the only bone in the thigh, and the longest bone in the human body.