A good comeback, retort one thinks of only after the end of discussion or after leaving a social gathering.
The lack of forethought.
Wisdom which comes after the event.
archwife
archwife
noun
A big, masculine wife; a dominating woman; virago.
awfuller
awfuller
adj
comparative form of awful: more awful
bedwarfs
bedwarfs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedwarf
buffware
buffware
noun
Any pottery of a buff colour.
chafewax
chafewax
noun
Alternative form of chaffwax
dewfalls
dewfalls
noun
plural of dewfall
downface
downface
adj
Having or on a downward oriented face.
adv
Further down the face
noun
(dogs) A profile characterized by a downward sloping muzzle.
The face that is oriented downward.
verb
(transitive) To disparage; to cause to lose face.
(transitive, archaic, rare) to persist in an assertion in the face of opposition.
drawfile
dwarfest
dwarfest
adj
(horticulture) superlative form of dwarf: most dwarf
facedown
facedown
adv
Alternative form of face-down
noun
Alternative form of face-down (“a confrontation”)
facewise
facewise
adv
By means of or in terms of the face.
facework
facework
noun
(mining) work done at the face, such as the coalface
(sociology, psychology) The communicative strategies involved in upholding face, or social prestige.
The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
fadeaway
fadeaway
noun
(basketball) A jump shot made while jumping backwards, away from the basket. The goal is to create space between the shooter and the defender, making it much harder to block.
(slang) The ending of a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.
An instance of fading away, of diminishing in proximity or intensity.
fairview
fallowed
fallowed
adj
Of land, ploughed but left unseeded.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fallow
fanshawe
farewell
farewell
adj
Parting, valedictory, final.
intj
Goodbye.
noun
A departure; the act of leaving
A wish of happiness or safety at parting, especially a permanent departure
verb
To bid farewell or say goodbye.
farmwife
farmwife
noun
A farmer's wife.
The wife in a married couple engaged in farming; a wife who shares in the duties of farming, such as farm management, homemaking on the farm, fieldwork, sales and marketing, or other work.
farrowed
farrowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of farrow
fawcette
fawkener
fawniest
fawnlike
fawnlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a fawn.
feastraw
fernshaw
fernshaw
noun
A thicket of ferns.
ferryway
ferwerda
fessways
fessways
adv
Fesswise.
finedraw
finedraw
verb
(transitive) To sew up so finely that the seam is not visible; to renter.
firewall
firewall
noun
(architecture) A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.
(computer security) The software that monitors traffic in and out of a private network or a personal computer and allows or blocks such traffic depending on its perceived threat.
(physics) A hypothetical phenomenon where an observer falling into a black hole encounters high-energy quanta at or near the event horizon.
verb
(intransitive, motor vehicles or aircraft, slang) To use maximum engine power or acceleration.
(transitive, computer security) To block with a firewall.
(transitive, computer security) To protect with a firewall.
fireward
fireward
adj
Which faces a fire; which lies in the direction of a fire; etc.
adv
Toward a fire.
noun
(obsolete) A fire chief.
(obsolete) A fireman.
firmware
firmware
noun
(computing) Something in between hardware and software. Like software, it is created from source code, but it is closely tied to the hardware it runs on.
Software intended for such embedded computer applications.
flatware
flatware
noun
(US) Eating utensils; cutlery, such as forks, knives and spoons.
plates, dishes and other relatively flat crockery.
flatweed
flatweed
noun
Hypochaeris radicata, a low-lying edible perennial herb often found in lawns.
flatwise
flatwise
adv
With a flat side down or otherwise in contact with a flat surface.
flawiest
flawless
flawless
adj
Without flaws, defects, or shortcomings; perfect.
flaxweed
flaxweed
noun
toadflax
flaxwife
fleaweed
fleaweed
noun
A plant, the lady's bedstraw (Galium verum).
fleawood
fleawort
fleawort
noun
A herb, Plantago psyllium, whose seeds are supposed to resemble fleas.
Any of various unrelated plants that are supposed to kill or ward off fleas.
The lady's bedstraw (Galium verum).
flowable
flowable
adj
That is able to flow.
flowages
flowages
noun
plural of flowage
footwear
footwear
noun
Items or an item of clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc.
foreclaw
foreclaw
noun
A front claw.
foredawn
foredawn
noun
The time just before dawn.
verb
To anticipate dawning or emerging.
forepaws
forepaws
noun
plural of forepaw
foreward
foreward
adv
Misspelling of forward.
noun
(obsolete) An advance group; the vanguard.
Misspelling of foreword.
forewarm
forewarn
forewarn
verb
To warn in advance.
forswear
forswear
verb
(intransitive or reflexive) To commit perjury; to break an oath.
(transitive) To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
forwaked
forwaked
adj
(obsolete) tired out with excessive waking or watching
forwaste
forwaste
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To use up; exhaust; render emaciated or feeble; spend wastefully.
(transitive, obsolete) To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
forweary
forweary
adj
(obsolete) Excessively weary; exhausted with fatigue.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To become wearied.
(transitive, obsolete) To weary utterly; tire out.
freeward
freeways
freeways
noun
plural of freeway
fretsaws
fretsaws
noun
plural of fretsaw
fretways
garefowl
garefowl
noun
The great auk.
The razorbill
giftware
giftware
noun
Items designed to be bought as gifts
guffawed
guffawed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of guffaw
halfwise
kalewife
knifeway
lawnleaf
leafwood
leafwork
leafwork
noun
Any design or structure resembling leaves or the pattern of leaves; foliage
leafworm
leafworm
noun
Any caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
leftward
leftward
adj
To or from the left.
lifeward
lifeward
adj
Leading towards life.
adv
Towards life.
lifeways
lifeways
noun
plural of lifeway
peafowls
peafowls
noun
plural of peafowl
refallow
saltwife
sawflies
sawflies
noun
plural of sawfly
seafowls
seafowls
noun
plural of seafowl
selfward
selfward
adj
Towards oneself.
software
software
noun
(computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).
(military) The human beings involved in warfare, as opposed to hardware such as weapons and vehicles.
(mathematics) The shape of a wave function represented by a graph showing some dependent variable as function of an independent variable.
(physics, engineering) The shape of a physical wave, such as sound, electric current or electromagnetic radiation, or its representation obtained by plotting a characteristic of the phenomenon (such as voltage) versus another variable, often time.
waveoffs
waveoffs
noun
plural of waveoff
wayfarer
wayfarer
noun
A traveller, especially one on foot.
A type of glasses, with pointed ends and rounded bottoms.
weakfish
weakfish
noun
Any of several species of game fish, of the genus Cynoscion, found in North American waters.
weariful
weariful
adj
Causing weariness
Very weary; exhausted
weelfard
welfares
welfares
noun
plural of welfare
weogufka
werecalf
westfahl
westfall
wharfage
wharfage
noun
A dock, quay, or pier.
A fee charged for using a wharf.
Wharfs collectively.
wharfmen
wharfmen
noun
plural of wharfman
wharfrae
wheyface
wheyface
noun
One who is pale, as from fear; a coward.
wifecarl
wifeward
wifeward
adv
Toward a wife or wives.
wilfreda
winedraf
wolfbane
wolfbane
noun
Alternative form of wolfsbane
woodleaf
workfare
workfare
noun
(US) A form of welfare in which people are required to work as a condition of receiving aid