esprit de l'escalier

These user-created lists contain the word ‘esprit de l'escalier’.

• Logolepsy

  "Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...

  Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...

• Tricky Words from French

  Loanwords from French -- both established and wet behind the ears -- that are tricky to spell or pronounce properly.

  trompe l'oeil, hors d'oeuvre, oeuvre, objet d'art, objet trouvé, contretemps, milieu, métier, mise en scène, mise en place, éclat, faineant and 64 more...

• New Words

  idiopathic, quidditas, cloacal, peregrination, cyclamen, expatiate, pedantic, salonniere, manque, pelagic, exogenous, pellucid and 83 more...

• Loan words from French

  gite, coq au vin, dernier cri, clique, hors d'œuvre, touché, naïve, coquette, bourgeois, contretemps, flâneur, film noir and 63 more...

• Theres a word for that?

  people are too specific

  spacefaring, sett, koumiss, epitaph, hymenium, esprit de l'escalier, tachophobia, mise en place, quoin, podfading, tower of strength, cantatrice and 9 more...

• words

  diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...

• Dewitful

  visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise

  revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...

• jmjarmstrong's list

  Words that I used to know.

  geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...

• Favorite Foreign Words

  cacahuatl, soixante, betelgeuse, tchotchke, tsetse, eau, que, aufgezeignet, xocoatl, quetzalcoatl, prosek, da and 82 more...

• Rhetoric

  the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse, including the figures of speech.
  
  the study of the effective use of language.

  Apophasis, bradylogia, trialogue, diastole, ho'omalimali, esprit de l'escalier, epanorthosis, Aposiopesis, metonymy, meiosis, zeugma, chiasmus and 30 more...

• perhapsolutely's Words

  polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...

• two

  more

  et cetera, id est, contraption, aphid, stat, magnum opus, foundry, ◬, klaxon, virago, sleuth, hoosegow and 88 more...

• Look up List

  Lookup = a noun
  Look up = a verb

  eggcorn, esprit de l'escalier

• redrabbit's list

  parastructure, noblesse oblige, esprit de l'escalier, connive, sanctimony, kabuki dance

• Words Describing Things I've Always T...

  Words for concepts or things that are extremely useful but for some reason not widely known.

  selcouth, leucomelanous, philtrum, esprit de l'escalier, resistentialism