Words ending with s

'tween decks means: in the space between decks, on a ship

1 chronicles means: the first of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC

1 esdras means: an Apocryphal book consisting of a compilation from I Chronicles and II Chronicles and Ezra and Nehemiah

1 kings means: the first of two Old Testament books telling the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel

1 maccabees means: an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus

11-plus means: (formerly in Britain) an examination taken by 11 and 12 year old students to select suitable candidates for grammar school

15 minutes means: a quarter of an hour

1530s means: the decade from 1530 to 1539

1750s means: the decade from 1750 to 1759

1760s means: the decade from 1760 to 1769

auditory ossicle means: ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear

back-geared means: (of a lathe) equipped with gearing for reducing the speed of the spindle from that of the driving pulley

coriaceous means: resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable

egyptian cotton means: fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton

harvey wallbanger means: a cocktail made of vodka or gin and orange juice and Galliano

haute cuisine means: (French) an elaborate and skillful manner of preparing food

migratory grasshopper means: serious pest of grain-growing and range areas of central and western United States

milk means: produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young

milk means: a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

milk means: any of several nutritive milklike liquids

milk means: a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River

milk means: take milk from female mammals

milk means: add milk to

milk means: exploit as much as possible

morphophoneme means: (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme

mustard plaster means: a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient

neonatal period means: the first 28 days of life

order tuberales means: small order of fungi belonging to the subdivision Ascomycota having closed underground ascocarps

puppet ruler means: a leader or ruler who is chosen by a despot to head a government

quarterlight means: car window consisting of a small pivoted glass vent in the door of a car