12-letter words that end in rs
- northwesters — Plural form of northwester.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- on all fours — all four limbs or extremities; the four legs or feet of an animal or both arms and both legs or both hands and both feet of a person: The cat rolled off the ledge but landed on all fours.
- opinionators — Plural form of opinionator.
- ornithopters — Plural form of ornithopter.
- orthocenters — Plural form of orthocenter.
- out of doors — outside, outdoors
- out of hours — Something that happens out of hours happens at a time that is not during the usual hours of business or work.
- out-of-doors — Also, out-of-door. outdoor.
- out-quarters — the outlying area of a building or district
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- petrodollars — Petrodollars are a unit of money used to calculate how much a country has earned by exporting petroleum or natural gas.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- school hours — the period of the day when school is open
- seed oysters — oyster spat; very young oysters, esp. at the stage suitable for transplanting
- shoe repairs — repairs to shoes
- ski trousers — warm padded trousers used for skiing
- stadia-hairs — a method of surveying in which distances are read by noting the interval on a graduated rod intercepted by two parallel cross hairs (stadia hairs or stadia wires) mounted in the telescope of a surveying instrument, the rod being placed at one end of the distance to be measured and the surveying instrument at the other.
- stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stockholders — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- the flickers — the cinema
- the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the shudders — a feeling of horror, repugnance, etc.
- the three rs — the three skills regarded as the fundamentals of education; reading, writing, and arithmetic
- the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- three cheers — three shouts of hurrah given in unison by a group to honour someone or celebrate something
- three rivers — a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
- true colours — If you see someone in their true colours or if they show their true colours, you realize what they are really like.
- under orders — If you are under orders to do something, you have been told to do it by someone in authority.
- underdrawers — an undergarment for the lower part of the body, typically covering at least part of the legs. Compare drawer (def 2).
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
- whoremongers — Plural form of whoremonger.
- windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- wire cutters — tool: pliers
- wisenheimers — Plural form of wisenheimer.
- withoutdoors — out of doors.
- woodchippers — Plural form of woodchipper.
- woodchoppers — Plural form of woodchopper.
- work wonders — have a transforming effect