12-letter words that end in es
- aristophanes — ?448–?380 bc, Greek comic dramatist, who satirized leading contemporary figures such as Socrates and Euripides. Eleven of his plays are extant, including The Clouds, The Frogs, The Birds, and Lysistrata
- armed forces — The armed forces or the armed services of a country are its military forces, usually the army, navy, marines, and air force.
- arthroscopes — Plural form of arthroscope.
- arthrospores — an isolated vegetative cell that has passed into a resting state, occurring in bacteria and not regarded as a true spore.
- arthrotomies — Plural form of arthrotomy.
- assassinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assassinate.
- asynchronies — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- at all times — all the time, constantly
- autochthones — Alternative spelling of autochthons.
- backsplashes — Plural form of backsplash.
- backstitches — Plural form of backstitch.
- bactericides — Plural form of bactericide.
- balletomanes — Plural form of balletomane.
- bank charges — penalties charged by a bank to a customer, for example when the customer's account is overdrawn or if a cheque is not honoured
- bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
- baptisteries — Plural form of baptistery.
- barbiturates — any of a group of barbituric acid derivatives, used in medicine as sedatives and hypnotics.
- basses-alpes — former name of Alpes-de-Haute Provence.
- bathyscaphes — Plural form of bathyscaphe.
- bathyspheres — Plural form of bathysphere.
- beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
- bed of roses — If you say that a situation is not a bed of roses, you mean that it is not as pleasant as it seems, and that there are some unpleasant aspects to it.
- bedroom eyes — sexy eyes
- betweentimes — between other activities; during intervals
- bitter aloes — a bitter purgative drug made from the leaves of several species of aloe
- bitter lakes — two lakes, the Great Bitter Lake and Little Bitter Lake in NE Egypt: part of the Suez Canal
- book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
- book of odes — a collection of 305 poems compiled in the 6th century b.c. by Confucius.
- border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
- buenos aires — the capital of Argentina, a major port and industrial city on the Río de la Plata estuary: became capital in 1880; university (1821). Pop: 13 349 000 (2005 est)
- callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
- camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
- candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
- cannibalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cannibalize.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- canvas shoes — soft shoes with a canvas upper
- capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
- capacitances — Plural form of capacitance.
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- car expenses — incidental money spent on the operation of a car during the performance of a job, commission, etc, usually reimbursed by an employer or allowable against tax
- carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- carpet tiles — small pieces of carpeting laid as tiles to cover a floor
- cataphoreses — Plural form of cataphoresis.
- catastrophes — Plural form of catastrophe.
- catchphrases — Plural form of catchphrase.
- catheterizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of catheterize.
- cecil rhodes — Cecil John, 1853–1902, English colonial capitalist and government administrator in southern Africa.
- celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
- centerpieces — Plural form of centerpiece.