A social trend towards living a simpler, less ambitious life with a better work-life balance.
verb
present participle of downshift
fanwright
fanwright
noun
(historical) A person who makes fans for use in winnowing.
featherwing
fellowshiping
fellowshipping
fellowshipping
verb
present participle of fellowship
feuchtwanger
fliegerabwehrkanone
flowcharting
flowcharting
noun
(computing) the design and construction of flowcharts
foreshadowing
foreshadowing
noun
(literature, usually uncountable) A literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story.
verb
present participle of foreshadow
foreshowing
foreshowing
noun
The act or an instance of showing something, usually an event, ahead of time; a prognostication
verb
present participle of foreshow
freewheeling
freewheeling
adj
Unbounded by rules or conventions; unrestrained.
verb
present participle of freewheel.
freewheelingness
hingeflower
howfing
ludwigshafen
nightfowl
shufflewing
shufflewing
Noun
The hedge sparrow.
snowflight
straightforwardness
straightforwardness
noun
The state or quality of being straightforward.
swordfishing
swordfishing
verb
present participle of swordfish
unstraightforward
unstraightforward
adj
Not straightforward; oblique, evasive, equivocal, indirect.
unstraightforwardness
unstraightforwardness
noun
The state or quality of being unstraightforward; a lack of straightforwardness; obliqueness, evasiveness.
weatherproofing
weatherproofing
noun
(UK) The practice of protecting a building and its interior from the elements/weather and wind or Something protecting the interior of a building or similar from weather and wind
verb
present participle of weatherproof
weightlifting
weightlifting
noun
(sports) A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.
A form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
wharfing
wharfing
noun
(engineering) A technique of facing seawalls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.
The material for constructing a wharf.
verb
present participle of wharf
wharfinger
wharfinger
noun
(chiefly historical) The owner or manager of a wharf.
wharfingers
wharfingers
noun
plural of wharfinger
whiffing
whiffing
noun
A mode of fishing with a hand line for pollock, mackerel, etc.