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14-letter words that end in rs

  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • knickerbockers — Also, knickerbockers [nik-er-bok-erz] /ˈnɪk ərˌbɒk ərz/ (Show IPA). loose-fitting short trousers gathered in at the knees.
  • knuckledusters — Plural form of knuckleduster.
  • league leaders — the team at the top of a league
  • lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
  • locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
  • lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
  • maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
  • man of letters — highly educated man
  • microcomputers — Plural form of microcomputer.
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
  • musical chairs — Also called going to Jerusalem. a game in which players march to music around two rows of chairs placed back to back, there being one chair less than the number of players, the object being to find a seat when the music stops abruptly. The player failing to do so is removed from the game, together with one chair, at each interval.
  • neurocomputers — Plural form of neurocomputer.
  • nine-to-fivers — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
  • oceanographers — Plural form of oceanographer.
  • off the shears — (of a sheep) newly shorn
  • one-liner wars — (games, programming)   A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see write-only language and line noise). The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly hairy primitive set. A similar amusement was practiced among TECO hackers and is now popular among Perl aficionados. (2 = 0 +.= T o.| T) / T <- iN where "o" is the APL null character, the assignment arrow is a single character, and "i" represents the APL iota.
  • open to offers — If you are open to offers, you are willing to do something if someone will pay you an amount of money that you think is reasonable.
  • osmoconformers — Plural form of osmoconformer.
  • pinking shears — shears that have notched blades, for cutting and simultaneously pinking fabric or for finishing garments with a notched, nonfraying edge.
  • pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
  • public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
  • quartermasters — Plural form of quartermaster.
  • racing colours — the colours painted on a racing car to represent the nation of the car or driver
  • random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
  • restauranteurs — the owner or manager of a restaurant.
  • sailing orders — the final orders given to a ship's commander before sailing, concerning matters such as time of departure, destination, etc
  • samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
  • seven sleepers — seven Christian youths from Ephesus who were walled up in a cave by the Emperor Decius in 250 ad and, according to legend, slept for 187 years
  • shopping hours — the times during which shops are open
  • short trousers — knee-length trousers formerly worn by small boys
  • single honours — a British university degree course that involves study in a single area
  • southern stars — the Australian women’s national cricket team
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • stars and bars — U.S. History. the flag adopted by the Confederate States of America, consisting of two broad horizontal bars of red separated by one of white, with a blue union marked with a circle of white stars, one for each Confederate state. Compare Southern Cross (def 2).
  • sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
  • substantiators — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
  • the cordeliers — a political club founded in 1790 and meeting at an old Cordelier convent in Paris
  • three-quarters — Three-quarters is an amount that is three out of four equal parts of something.
  • till all hours — until very late
  • to cut corners — If you cut corners, you do something quickly by doing it in a less thorough way than you should.
  • trade barriers — any regulation or policy that restricts international trade, especially tariffs, quotas, etc.
  • twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
  • up to the ears — very deeply
  • visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
  • walking papers — notice of dismissal
  • weightwatchers — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • whistleblowers — Plural form of whistleblower.
  • winkle-pickers — shoes or boots with very pointed narrow toes, popular in the mid-20th century
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