Reverse Dictionary: FORE – FORL

FOREBODE – verbs
– HALSEN to predict, to divine, to conjecture; to forebode evil, to anticipate bad news; to speak evil …1814 Eng. dial.
– OMINATE † to prognosticate from omens; to augur, to forebode …1582
 
FOREBODING – adjectives
– OORIE of things: uncanny, filled with foreboding, strange and disquieting …1877 Sc.
foreboding – adverbs 
– EERIELY dismally, drearily, in a foreboding way …1819 Sc.
foreboding – nouns 
– OMINATION † the act of omening or presaging; foreboding …1589
– OOM an inkling, suspicion, notion, foreboding …1880 Sc.
– SUGGESTION †* a foreboding, apprehension …1748
 
FORECAST – verbs
– AIM to suppose, to conjecture; to anticipate, to forecast, to expect …1877 Eng. dial.
– CAST † to conjecture as to the future; to anticipate; to forecast …c1384
 
FORECASTING – nouns
– BEFORE-CASTING † forecasting, pre-calculation …1388
 
FORECLOSE – verbs
– BEFORE-BAR † to preclude, to foreclose …c1449
 
FOREFATHER – person
– ELDER † a parent; an ancestor, a forefather; hence, a predecessor, one who lived in former days; usually in plural …971
– ELDFATHER † a grandfather; a forefather in general, an ancestor …c1000
 
FOREGOING – adjectives
– TOFOREGOING † foregoing, preceding, antecedent …1387-8
 
FOREGROUND – adverbs
– UP FRONT in the foreground …1970s
 
FOREHEAD – nouns
– CENTER LEAD the forehead …1920s US rhyming sl.
– SINCIPUT the forehead 
forehead – person
– SPAMHEAD – (derogatory) one who has a notably large forehead …2001 UK juvenile sl.
 
FOREIGN – adjectives
– BEYOND-SEA ultramarine, outlandish, foreign …1498
– BROUGHT-ON of a person: from outside the community; foreign …1939 Amer. dial.
– BRUNG-ON of a person: from outside the community; foreign …1911 Amer. dial.
– DAGO foreign …1900 Aust. sl.
– ELELENDISH † of another land, foreign …a1000
– ELENGE † strange, foreign …1678 obs. exc. Sc.
– EXTERRANEOUS foreign, of another country; coming from abroad …1656
– FARANT belonging to another place or district, ‘foreign’ …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FAR-COME foreign, from a distance …1590
– FARLAND † coming from a distance; foreign …a1595 Sc.
– FURRIN foreign …1895 humorous
– GOOK (derogatory) foreign; spec. Italian or East Asian; later, usually Korean or Vietnamese …1920s US sl.
– OFF-COMED from a distance, foreign, strange …1882 Eng. dial.
– OFFSHORE foreign ..1997 US sl.
– OOTERAL strange, foreign …Bk1905 Sc.
– OUTLAND foreign, alien …1942 Amer. dial.
– OUTLANDISH foreign. from outside one’s own community …1815 Amer. dial.
– PARLEYVOO French; foreign …1828 Sc.
– ULTRAMARINE coming from beyond the sea, foreign …1656
– UNCO unknown, strange; unusual; foreign …c1410 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– UNICUNDE † native, foreign …c1205
– WOG foreign …1956 UK sl.
– XENOPHOBIC afraid of foreigners or of something foreign …1912
foreign – adverbs
– OUTLAND to a foreign or alien place …1938 Amer. dial.
foreign – nouns 
– EILLAND †* a foreign land …a1300
– FARAWAY SCREED foreign news, a letter from abroad …Bk1900 Sc.
– GABBIE-LABBIE † confused talking; the way in which we think foreigners talks when we don’t know their language …1824 Sc.
– XENOMANIA a mania or insane fancy for foreigners, or for things foreign …1879
– XENOPHILISM love of foreigners or of something foreign …1912
– XENOPHOBY fear of foreigners or of something foreign …1909
foreign – person  (includes FOREIGNER)
– BARBAR † a foreigner, one whose language and customs differ from the speaker’s …1382 
– BARBARIAN a foreigner, one whose language and customs differ from the speaker’s …1549
– BARBARIC † a foreigner, one whose language and customs differ from the speaker’s …1388
– BISCUIT BEGGAR (derogatory) a person of foreign background; an American Indian …1966 Amer. dial.
– BOHUNK (often derogatory) an immigrant from central or southeastern Europe, esp. one of inferior class, and often specifically applied to a Hungarian; a Bohemian; a foreigner …1903 Amer. dial.
– BOHUNKUS (often derogatory) an eastern or southeastern European, esp. of the working class; a Bohemian; a foreigner …1924 Amer. dial.
– DAGE a foreigner, an immigrant …1955 Aust. sl.
– DAGO (derogatory or offensive) any form of foreigner …1910s sl.
– DEGO (derogatory) orig. a Spaniard, Portuguese, or other Caucasian of southern Europe or Latin America; broadly, a foreigner …1832 US sl.
– EXULATE † a person sent into or living in exile; a person compelled or choosing to live in a foreign country or a place not regarded as home …c1470
– FARANG a foreigner …1949 US soldiers in Vietnam usage
– FURRINER a foreigner …1849 humorous
– GAIJIN a foreigner; a non-Japanese person (Japanese) …1968
– GEEK (derogatory) a dark-skinned or yellow-skinned foreigner;  a native of the Philippines, the Southwest Pacific and adjacent areas; an East Asian person of any nationality; any  usually non-European foreigner …1963 US military sl.
– GINZO * (usually offensive) a person of Italian origin; an Italian; hence, any foreigner …1931 US sl.
– GOOK 1. (derogatory) a foreigner, esp. East Asian …1910s sl., orig. US military
2. (derogatory) any foreigner …1910s sl., orig. US military
– HEAVEN-BURSTER † a name given in Western Polynesia and New Zealand to a foreigner, as having broken in from another world outside …1861
– HEDGEHOG (derogatory) a foreigner, esp. a Black or Asian person …1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘wog’
– JABONEY a greenhorn; a newly-arrived foreigner; an inept, stupid or inexperienced person; a guy or fellow …1931 Amer. dial.
– JABRONEY, JABRONI a newly immigrated foreigner; hence someone inexperienced or unsophisticated; an inept or stupid person; a guy or fellow …1960 US sl.
– JOHNNY FOREIGNER (usually derogatory) a personification of a foreign person, usually with ironic reference to British xenophobia …1990 Brit. sl.
– MOUNSEER any foreigner …1838 UK sl.
– OUTLANDER a person of foreign nationality; one not a native; a foreigner, a stranger …1605
– OUTLANDISHER a foreigner …1895 Amer. dial.
– OUTLAW a foreigner; a stranger, an outsider …1968 Amer. dial.
– SARACEN a foreigner, anyone not British-born …1865 Eng. dial.
– SLEEPING DICTIONARY a foreign woman with whom a man has a sexual relationship and from whom he learns the rudiments of her language …1928 sl.
– UITLANDER an outlander; one from another country …1892
– UNCO a stranger, a foreigner …1787 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– WOG (derogatory or offensive) a foreigner …1942 sl.
foreign – person, other
– XENOMANIAC a person having an insane fancy for foreigners or for something foreign …1879
– XENOPHIL(E) a person fond of or attracted by foreign things or people …1948
– XENOPHOBE – one who has a morbid fear or hatred of foreigners …1922
foreign – phrases 
– CAME OVER WITH THE CATTLE BOAT said of foreigners …20C Brit. sl.
– CAME OVER WITH THE MORMONS said of foreigners …20C Brit. sl.
– CAME OVER WITH THE MORONS said of foreigners …20C Brit. sl.
– CAME OVER WITH THE ONION BOAT said of foreigners …20C Brit. sl.
 
FOREKNOWLEDGE – nouns
– BEFORE-WITTING † foreknowledge …c1400
 
FOREMAN – person
– ADAM a foreman , a superintendent …1903 sl. 
– AUGER, AUGUR an important person; a foreman …1903 Amer. dial.
– BENCH BOSS a working foreman in a factory, esp. in a pottery …1894 Amer.
– BIG AUGER an important person; a boss; a foreman …1868 US West usage
– BIG BULL in logging: the general superintendent; a foreman …1942 Amer. dial.
– BIG SAVAGE in logging: the general superintendent; a foreman …1942 Amer. dial.
– BIG SQUEEZE a boss or foreman; an important person; the leader of a gang; the head of any organization …1912 US sl. 
– BIG STICK a person of authority, as a police officer or foreman; a marshal …1966 Amer. dial.
– BILLY GORMAN a foreman or ganger …1880 UK rhyming sl. 
– BULL a foreman or boss, esp. in a logging camp …1930 Amer. dial.
– BULL OF THE WOODS a foreman or boss, esp. in a logging camp …1872 Amer. dial.
– EL SEGUNDO a foreman, an underboss …1967 Amer. dial.
– GAFF the leader of a body of workmen – a foreman or overseer …Bk1877 Eng. dial. 
– GAFFER † an employer, a boss, a foreman; a master, a ‘governor’ …a1659 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GANG BOSS * the leader or foreman of a gang of workers or labourers …1863
– GANG-DROVER the overseer, foreman, or head of a gang of workmen; the supervisor or master of a gang of field-labourers hired by a farmer …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GANGER an overseer or foreman of a gang of workers; also, a member of a work-gang …1836
– GANG LEADER * the leader or foreman of a gang of workers or labourers …1775
– GANGMAN a member of a gang of workers or labourers; a foreman or overseer of such a gang …1830
– GANGSMAN the overseer, foreman, or head of a gang a gang of labourers or workmen …1803
– GANGSTER * a foreman or member of a gang of workers …1913
– HANDSHAKER a foreman …Bk1962 Amer. automobile plant workers’ usage
– HEAD-BEETLER any foreman or man in charge of workmen …Bk1864 Eng. dial.
– HEADBOMBARDIER a foreman; any person in charge …Bk1997 Ulster sl.
– HEAD BOTTLE WASHER a person in authority; a foreman …1915 sl.
– HEAD COOK AND BOTTLE WASHER a person in authority; a foreman …1849 sl.
– HEAD KNOCK a person having primary authority; a boss, a foreman, etc. …1944 US Black sl.
– HEAD KNOCKER a person having primary authority; a boss, a foreman, etc. …1886 US sl.
– HEADMAN a man placed in charge of other workers, labourers, etc., esp. on a farm; a foreman, an overseer; a senior subordinate …1725
– HEAD PUSH a boss, a foreman, a supervisor …1905 Amer. dial.
– HEAD SQUEEZE a boss or foreman; an important person; the leader of a gang; the head of any organization …1966 Amer. dial.
– INDUNA a person, esp. a Black person, in authority; a foreman …M20 S. Afr.
– MAIN SQUEEZE a boss or foreman; an important person; the leader of a gang; the head of any organization …1896 Amer. sl.
– MAISTRY a master workman, a foreman; applied also to a skilled workman, e.g. a cook, a tailor …1798 Indian
– NEARDY a person in authority, a master, a parent, a foreman …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– OLD MAN a superintendent, a foreman, a boss …1830 US sl.
– PANNIKIN BOSS a person with a modest amount of authority; a minor boss; a foreman …1898 Aust. sl.
– PANNO a foreman …1957 Aust. sl.
– PENNY-DOG an assistant foreman …1929 US mining and logging usage
– RAMROD a boss, a superintendent, a foreman, a person in charge, esp. one who is a rigid disciplinarian …1880 Amer. dial.
– RAMRODDER a boss, a superintendent, a foreman, a person in charge, esp. one who is a rigid disciplinarian …1970 Amer. dial.
– SCRATCH BOSS an assistant, subordinate, or acting foreman of a crew of workers …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCRATCH FOREMAN an assistant, subordinate, or acting foreman of a crew of workers …1965 Amer. dial.
– SECUNDO a foreman, an underboss …1936 Amer. dial.
– SEGUNDO a foreman, an underboss …1903 Amer. dial.
– SIR RAG the chief of a band of servants or workers; a foreman or overseer …1891
– STRAW BOSS a subordinate or assistant foreman …1894 orig. US
– WALKER a head foreman, a superintendent …1952 Amer. dial.
– WALKING BOSS a head foreman, a superintendent …1868 Amer. dial.
– WANDERING BOSS a head foreman, a superintendent …1959 Amer. dial.
– YED-BEETLER the head beetler, the head man of a company of beetlers; also, applied figuratively to any foreman or man in charge; a superintendent of a job …Bk1875 Eng. dial.
 
FOREMOST – adjectives
– FIRST-BEST foremost; in first place …1858 Amer. dial.
– UP FRONT foremost …1950s sl.
foremost – adverbs 
– NEEMEST foremost …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
foremost – verbs 
– BEAR THE BELL to take the first place; to have foremost rank or position, to be the best; to excel, to be pre-eminent …c1374
 
FORENOON – nouns
– YEARE † the forenoon …1721 Eng. dial.
– YEENDER the forenoon …c1663 N. Eng. dial.
 
FORENSICS – nouns
– QUACKERY, THE forensic scientists; a forensic science department …1971 UK police sl.
forensics – person
– LAB HOUND a forensic scientist …1958 US police usage
– QUACKERY, THE forensic scientists …1971 UK police sl. 
 
FOREPLAY – nouns
– BIT OF SLAP AND TICKLE sexual foreplay, necking …1910s sl.
foreplay – verbs
– GUDDLE to do sexual foreplay; to feel a woman; to rudely grasp a woman’s private parts or the breasts …E19 Brit. sl.
– GUZZLE to indulge in sexual foreplay; to ‘neck’ …1930s sl.
 
FORERUNNER – person
– HARBINGER one that goes before and announces the approach of someone; a forerunner …a1550
– HERALD a person who precedes and announces the approach of another; a forerunner; a precursor …1597
– VAUNT-COURIER one who goes or is sent out in advance in order to prepare the way or to announce the approach of another; a forerunner; a harbinger, a messenger …1561
 
FORESEE – verbs
– BEAR IN HAND to conjecture, to think; to foresee; to hold or maintain an opinion …1863 Eng. dial.
 
FORESHOW – verbs
– HALSEN † to augur, to foreshow by auspices, to prognosticate …1586
 
FORESIGHT – adjectives
– OMNIPRUDENT † having universal foresight, or exercising universal providence …1642
– PROSPICIENT †* having foresight, provident …1654
 
FORESIGHTED – adjectives
– LONG-HEADED discerning, shrewd, foresighted …1806 Amer. dial.
 
FOREST – nouns
– BOSQUE a forest; a dense growth of trees and underbrush; a clump of trees …1771 Amer. dial.
– ELFIN FOREST a thicket, a scrub forest …1955 Amer. dial.
– PINERY a pine forest; a region characterized by pine forests …1818 Amer. dial.
– PINEY WOODS a region of pine forest …1791 Amer. dial.
– SKID ROAD a forest track over which logs are dragged …1880 Amer. logging usage
– VERD † green parts of woods, forest verdure …1641
– WARD † a part or division of a forest …1425
forest – person  (includes FORESTER)
– BATILBABY † an officer in forests …Bk1880
– FERNHOPPER a forester …1955 Amer. foresters’ usage
– NEMOPHILIST * one who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a lover of the woods …1860
– PAIKIE a day labourer; one employed in forestry …1911 Sc.
– PYKIE a day labourer; one employed in forestry …1911 Sc.
– RANGER a forest officer, a gamekeeper …1455 arch.
– SALTUARY † a forester, a ranger …1674
– SAVERCOLL a wood-cutter or sawyer, a forester …1825 Sc.
– VERDER † a verderer; a judicial officer of the forests …a1625
– VERDERER a judicial officer of the King’s forest sworn to maintain and keep the assizes of the forest, and also to view, receive, and enrol the attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses of the forest, of vert and venison …1541-2
– VERDIER † a verderer; a judicial officer of the forests …1611
– VERDOUR †* a judicial officer of the King’s forest sworn to maintain and keep the assizes of the forest, and also to view, receive, and enrol the attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses of the forest, of vert and venison …1502
– WARDEN OF THE FOREST he who has the principal government of all things belonging to the forest, and the check of all the other officers …Bk1706
 
FORESTALL – verbs
– LICK THE FAT FROM THE BEARD OF † to forestall the results of a person’s enterprise or industry …1548
– OBVIATE † to anticipate; to forestall …1712
 
FORETASTE – nouns
– HANDSEL the first use, experience, trial, proof, or specimen of anything; first taste, foretaste, first fruits; often with the notion of its being auspicious of what is to follow …1573
– HANSEL the first use, experience, trial, proof, or specimen of anything; first taste, foretaste, first fruits; often with the notion of its being auspicious of what is to follow …1573
 
FORETELL – verbs
– ABODE † to presage, prognosticate, be ominous of …1593
– BEFORE-SAY † to predict, to foretell …1382
– FARSEE to foretell the future …1944 Amer. dial.
– READ to predict, to foretell …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– VATICINATE to speak as a prophet or seer; to utter predictions; to foretell events ….1623
 
FORETELLING – nouns
– ABODANCE †* a foretelling, prefiguring, portending, omen …c1630 obs. rare
– ABODEMENT † a foreboding, presage, or omen …1593
– HARIOLATION † a foretelling or soothsaying …1656
 
FORETHOUGHT – nouns
– ADVICE † forethought, prudence, wisdom …1375
– FAR-CAST † the act of casting one’s thoughts to a distance; forethought, shrewdness, cunning …c1400
– FAR-CASTING † forethought, cunning …c1400
forethought – person 
– FAR-CASTER † one who exercises forethought …c1400
 
FOREVER – adjectives & adverbs (also see TIME)
– ALL DAYS † always, forever …c1000
– EVER AND END forever, continually; for a very long time …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– EVER AND ON forever, continually; for a very long time …Bk1900 Sc.
– FOR GOOD AND ALWAYS forever …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FOR KEEPS forever …1861
– FOREVER AND AMEN forever …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SINCE ADAM WAS A BOY for a long time …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SINCE FANNY WAS A GIRL’S NAME for a long time …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SINCE GOD KNOWS WHEN for a long time …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SINCE GOD WAS A LITTLE BOY for a long time …1959 Amer. dial.
– SINCE HECK WAS A PUP for a long time …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– ‘TILL ALL IS BLUE forever …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ‘TILL HELL FREEZES OVER forever …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ‘TILL LOS ANGELES RIVER WETS ITS BED forever …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ‘TILL THE COW GIVES BEER forever …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ‘TILL THE COWS COME HOME forever …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– WITHOUT TIME † forever, eternally …a1400
forever – nouns
– DOG’S AGE a long time …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DONKEY’S YEARS a long time …Bk1942 Amer. colloq.
 
FOREWARNED – adjectives
– AUND forewarned …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– UNAWARED † not forewarned …1652
 
FORGE – verbs
– DECEIT †* to construct deceitfully, to forge a document …1484
– FAKE to counterfeit or forge; hence, to make or shape for a fraudulent or deceptive purpose …1812 sl., orig. criminals’ usage
– FAKE UP to counterfeit or forge; hence, to make or shape for a fraudulent or deceptive purpose; to falsify …1851 sl., orig. criminals’ usage
– FALSE † to counterfeit money; to forge a document …a1300
– FAUNTLEROY to act as a forger …E19 US sl.
– PHONEY UP to counterfeit, to forge …1942 sl., chiefly US
– RAISE to forge cheques …1940s UK criminals’ sl.
– SCRATCH to forge banknotes and other papers …1859 US sl.
– SHAM ABRAHAM to forge bank paper …c1778 sl.
 
FORGED – nouns
– GAMMY MONICKER a forged signature …1851 UK criminals’ sl.
– PAPER a forged or useless cheque or other financial instrument …20C US sl.
– PAPER-HANG the passing of counterfeit money or forged securities …1976 US sl.
– P.L. a forged personal cheque …1920s forgers’ sl.
– QUEER counterfeit money; forged banknotes or bonds …1812 sl.
– QUEER SCREENS forged banknotes …19C UK criminals’ sl.
– SILVER BEGGAR a counterfeit banknote or forged document …M19 sl.
forged – verbs
– PASS PAPER to used forged cheques, stolen credit cards, etc. …1970s sl.
 
FORGER – person
– BENE-FEAKER OF GYBES a forger of passes and similar documents …L17 sl.
– BILL-POSTER a forger; one who passes counterfeit currency …1934 criminals’ sl.
– BLACKSMITH a forger …1906 UK criminals’ sl.
– DANDY-MASTER a forger of gold coins; the head of a counterfeiting gang …1883 criminals’ sl.
– FABRICATOR one who frames a false statement or forges a document; a forger …1795
– FAKER a counterfeiter; a forger …1612 sl.
– FALSARY † one who forges a document; a forger …1579
– FALSER † a falsifier, a forger, a counterfeiter …1340
– FALSE WRITER † a forger …1580
– LETTER-MONGER † a forger of letters … 1699 nonce word
– OLD BAILEY UNDERWRITER a forger …1831 criminals’ sl.
– PAPER-HANGER someone who passes forged or fraudulent cheques …1914 sl., orig. US
– PENMAN a counterfeiter, a forger …1865 sl.
– RAISER a criminal who specializes in forging increases in the amount payable to an otherwise legitimate cheque or security …1950 US sl.
– SCRATCHER a counterfeiter; a forger …1859 sl., orig. US
 
FORGERY – nouns
– FAKEMENT a forgery; a begging letter; a petition …1839 sl.
– FALSE † fraud, falsehood, treachery; in early use, counterfeiting of coin; forgery …c1000
– FALSEHOOD † deception, falsification, imposture; a forgery, counterfeit …1340 obs. or arch.
 
FORGET – verbs
– BEGET to forget …1746 Eng. dial.
– CHECK (OUT) to forget or ignore something, often deliberately …1996 UK sl.
– DISRECOLLECT to forget, to fail to remember …1940 Amer. dial.
– DISREMEMBER to forget, to be unable to remember …1815
– DRAW A BLANK to forget suddenly …Bk1995 US sl.
– MADDLE to become confused or bewildered; to forget …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MISREMEMBER to forget …1909 Amer. dial.
– OBLIGHT † to forget …1547
– OBLITE † to forget …1547
– OBLIVE †* to forget …c1500
– OBLIVIATE †* to forget, to commit to oblivion …1661
– SPONGE IT OUT to forget something; to wipe something from one’s memory …L19 US sl.
– TINE to let slip from one’s remembrance; to forget …1513 chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial.
– UNBETHINK to forget …1825 Eng. dial.
– WANT † to fail to recollect, to forget …c1381
 
FORGETFUL – adjectives
– BUZZED OUT dreamily or eerily out of touch with reality; disoriented, forgetful, dazed …1980 Amer. sl.
– ELAPSIVE †* apt to let slip, forgetting, forgetful …1652
– IMMEMOR †* unmindful, forgetful …1535 Sc.
– IMMEMORIOUS †* unmindful, forgetful …1602
– OFF ONE’S KNOW out of one’s mind; forgetful from a failing memory …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SHORT IN ONE’S MIND forgetful …1908 Amer. dial.
– STUCK OUT lazy, forgetful; deprived …1970s US prison sl.
forgetful – person
– GARTLE-HEAD † a heedless, forgetful person; a thoughtless person …1691 Eng. dial.
– GATTLE-HEAD † a forgetful, careless, and thoughtless person …1691 Eng. dial.
– GUTTLE-HEAD † a heedless, forgetful person; a thoughtless person …1691 Eng. dial.
– NOODLE a stupid, unthinking, or forgetful person …Bk1974 Amer. colloq.
– OBLIVIONIST one who holds a theory of, or favours, oblivion; one who forgets …1658-9
– SIEVE-HEAD a forgetful person …Brit. sl.
forgetful – verbs
– HAVE A HEAD LIKE A SIEVE to be very forgetful …1984 sl.
 
FORGETFULNESS – adjectives
– LETHEAN pert. to or causing oblivion or forgetfulness of the past …c1645
– LETHY †* causing oblivion or forgetfulness of the past …1613
forgetfulness – nouns 
– ILL-MINDINGS forgetfulness …1863 Sc.
– LETHE in Greek mythology: a river in Hades, the water of which produced, in those who drank it, forgetfulness of the past; hence, the ‘waters of oblivion’ or forgetfulness of the past …1567
– OBLIVISCENCE the fact of forgetting or state of having forgotten; forgetfulness …1774
– OBLIVIUM † oblivion; forgetfulness …1699
– OUBLIANCE † forgetting, forgetfulness, oblivion …c1477
 
FORGETTABLE – adjectives
– OBLIVISCIBLE able or likely to be forgotten, forgettable …1905
 
FORGETTING – adjectives
– ELAPSIVE †* apt to let slip, forgetting, forgetful …1652
 
FORGIVE – verbs
– LOOK OVER to disregard, to forgive, to overlook …1887 Amer. dial.
 
FORGIVEN – adjectives
– IGNOSCIBLE †* fit to be forgiven or pardoned; tolerable …1656
 
FORGIVENESS – adjectives
– REMISSIBLE – admitting forgiveness (085A Sheridan)
– VENIAL worthy of pardon, forgiveness, or remission; not grave or heinous; pardonable …a1300
forgiveness – nouns 
– IGNOSCENCY †* forgiveness; forgiving spirit …1647
– LESNESS † absolution, redemption, forgiveness of sins …c950
– VENY † pardon or forgiveness; a request for this; the gesture of kneeling or prostrating oneself as in indication of penitence and desire for pardon …a1225
 
FORGIVING – adjectives
– ABSOLVATORY pardoning, forgiving; belonging to a discharge or acquittal …Bk1611
forgiving – verbs 
– MAKE A BIG FELLER OF ONESELF to give the impression that one is generous or forgiving …c1945 Aust. sl.
 
FORGOTTEN – for a thing whose name is forgotten, see THING and/or NAMELESS
 
FORGOTTEN – adjectives
– BLOTTO absolutely forgotten …1930s sl., orig. US
– DEAD of people: forgotten …M19 US Black sl.
– DILLING passing from memory, being forgotten …Bk1900 Sc.
– OBLIVISCIBLE able or likely to be forgotten, forgettable …1905
– UNBETHOUGHT forgotten …1874 Eng. dial.
forgotten – nouns 
– ANCIENT HISTORY something completely forgotten, esp. past romances …Amer. sl.
– OBLIVISCENCE the fact of forgetting or state of having forgotten; forgetfulness …1774
forgotten – person  (also see UNKNOWN)
– ANCIENT HISTORY someone completely forgotten, esp. past romances …Amer. sl.
– DINGLEFUZZY used in place of a person’s name which has been forgotten …1975 US sl.
– GISMO, GIZMO anyone with an unknown or forgotten name …World War II Amer. sl.
– MR. DOOZANBERRY a man whose name is unknown …1914 Amer. dial.
– SAM a name used when someone’s proper name has been forgotten, esp. used of women …1952 sl.
– THING-A-MERRY a person whose name is forgotten or unknown …1818 sl.
– THING-A-ME-TOY a word used when the name of the person or thing referred to is forgotten or unknown; a curious article, especially one of unknown use and little value; a person of small account …1865 Eng. dial.
– THINGUM a thing or person whose name the speaker cannot recall, does not know, or is reluctant to speak …1824 Amer. dial.
– THINGUMYDOOCHY a person whose name is not known or cannot for the moment be recalled …1914 Amer. dial.
– WHAT-D’YE-CALL’EM anyone for whom one cannot provide the name …L16 sl.
– WHAT’S-HER-NAME a substitute for a woman’s name that is not known or remembered …1816 sl.
– WHAT’S-HIS-NAME a substitute for a man’s name that is not known or remembered …1697 sl.
– WHATSIS any gadget or a name used for an object or person when the correct name is forgotten or to be avoided …19C US sl.
– WHATSISFACE a substitute for a man’s name that is not known or remembered …1967 sl., orig. & chiefly US
– WHATSIT someone whose name is not known or remembered …1898 sl.
– WHAT’S-YOUR-NAME used in addressing a person whose name is not known or remembered …1757 sl.
– WHATZISFACE a substitute for a man’s name that is not known or remembered …1967 sl., orig. & chiefly US
– WHATZIT any gadget or a name used for an object or person when the correct name is forgotten or to be avoided …19C US sl
– WHAZZIT any gadget or a name used for an object or person when the correct name is forgotten or to be avoided …19C US sl.
– WHOOSIS someone whose name is not known or remembered …1923 sl.
– WHOOSIT, WHOOZIT someone whose name is not known or remembered …1948 sl.
– WHOSIS someone whose name is not known or remembered …1923 sl.
– WHOSIT, WHOZIIE someone whose name is not known or remembered …1948 sl.
– WHOZITS a name for an object or person whose name is forgotten …M20 US sl.
– WOSSNAME a person whose name is not known, forgotten, etc. …20C sl.
forgotten – verbs
– FALL BETWEEN THE CRACKS to be ignored, overlooked, mismanaged, or forgotten, esp. because of ambiguity in definition or understanding …1970s Amer. sl.
– GO OUT OF HEAD to be forgotten …1877 Sc.
– SLIP BETWEEN THE CRACKS to be ignored, overlooked, mismanaged, or forgotten, esp. because of ambiguity in definition or understanding …1970s Amer. sl.
 
FORGIVEN – adjectives
– VENIAL easily forgiven excused or forgiven …13C 
 
FORK – nouns
– DUKE OF YORK a fork …1992 UK rhyming sl.
– FANG the prong of a fork of any kind …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FANGLES the prongs of a fork …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– SILVER FORK a wooden skewer used as a chopstick when forks were scarce …1870 Winchester usage
– TANG a sharp point or spike; the pin of a buckle; one of the prongs of a fork; a prong or tine of a stag’s horn …1688 Eng. dial.
– TINE the prong of a fork; the point of any implement …1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TING the prong of a fork; a ‘tine’ …1777 Eng. dial.
 
FORLORN – adjectives
– BESTEAD circumstanced, situated, generally in an evil sense; hence, destitute, forlorn; overcome, oppressed …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– LIKE A DYING DUCK IN A THUNDERSTORM cast down in spirit; very down in the mouth; having a forlorn and hopeless expression; depressed, dejected …1874
– LIKE A SHAG ON A ROCK forlorn, lonely …1929 Aust. colloq.
– WAFF of persons and places: forlorn, melancholy; solitary, said of one who is in a strange place where he has not a single acquaintance …1724 Sc.