17-letter words that end in rs
- angostura bitters — a bitter aromatic tonic made from gentian and various spices and vegetable colourings, used as a flavouring in alcoholic drinks
- apostolic fathers — the Fathers of the early Church who immediately followed the Apostles
- asymmetrical bars — a set of parallel bars, having one bar fixed at 230 cm (7 ft, 6 in) and the other at 150 cm (4 ft, 11 in), used by women gymnasts
- at close quarters — If you do something at close quarters, you do it very near to a particular person or thing.
- barchester towers — a novel (1857) by Anthony Trollope.
- board of managers — a group of people responsible for managing an organization
- camp-fire-members — a U.S. organization for girls and boys that emphasizes the building of character and good citizenship through work, health, and love; originally founded for girls (Camp Fire girls) in 1910, it is now open to both boys and girls (Camp Fire members)
- comedy of manners — a comedy dealing with the way of life and foibles of a social group
- conscript fathers — august legislators, esp Roman senators
- dissolve in tears — weep
- fall on deaf ears — the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- fuss and feathers — an excessively elaborate or pretentious display; ostentation.
- golden alexanders — a plant, Zizia aurea, of the parsley family, native to eastern North America, having compound leaves and umbels of yellow flowers.
- horror of horrors — Horror of horrors is used to refer to something that you consider to be the worst part of a situation.
- immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
- japanese slippers — (in Malaysia) casual sandals; flip-flops
- manicure scissors — scissors for manicuring or trimming the nails
- micromanipulators — Plural form of micromanipulator.
- neurotransmitters — Plural form of neurotransmitter.
- not mince matters — to speak frankly
- plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
- safety in numbers — If you say that there is safety in numbers, you mean that you are safer doing something if there are a lot of people doing it rather than doing it alone.
- scattered showers — showers that are scattered across an area, or that occur at intervals throughout the day
- sleeping quarters — the rooms where people sleep in a large building or complex or on a boat etc
- slip-joint pliers — pliers having a sliding joint, permitting the span of the jaws to be adjusted.
- smoke and mirrors — (used with a singular or plural verb) something that distorts or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful deception.
- take no prisoners — to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
- take-no-prisoners — wholeheartedly aggressive; zealous; gung-ho: a businessman with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward dealmaking.
- telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
- the seven sisters — a group of seven liberal arts colleges in the north-eastern United States, comprised of Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley Colleges; they were all founded as institutions for women, although Radclife and Vassar are no longer solely for female students.
- theory of numbers — number theory.
- tolpuddle martyrs — six farm workers sentenced to transportation for seven years in 1834 for administering an unlawful oath to form a trade union in the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset
- twenty-four hours — the time taken by the Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; a whole day
- wear the trousers — to have control, esp in a marriage
- west three rivers — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
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