A Dabus builds a word the way a mason builds a wall: hold up a picture for its whole spelling, then chip away the letters you don't need. What's left, read in order, is the word.
PICTURE = its full spelling, added · −X = a letter chipped off that picture · a bare letter = added on its own, no picture needed
every equation below is checked letter-by-letter — it always resolves to exactly the word you typed. no AI, no lookup service: it's a plain search over a fixed dictionary, running in this page.