List of English Words Ending With ‘OIR’

Here is a list of words that end with ‘oir.’ There is a total of 31 ‘oir’ ending words with their definition in this list. Many English words are no longer used in literary works. So, those are not included here.

Abattoir

  • A place where animals are butchered slaughterhouse

Antechoir

  • A space enclosed or reserved for the clergy and choristers at the entrance to a choir
  • The division of a divided choir that is farther away from the sanctuary

Bonsoir

  • Good evening

Boudoir

  • A woman’s dressing room, bedroom, or private sitting room
  • A woman’s bedroom or private room for dressing or resting

Choir

  • An organized company of singers (as in a church service)
  • A group of instruments of the same class
  • An organized group of persons or things
  • A division of angels
  • The part of a church occupied by the singers or by the clergy

Coir

  • A stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut

Couloir

  • A steep mountainside gorge

Devoir

  • Duty, responsibility
  • A usually formal act of civility or respect

Grattoir

  • Thumb flint

Loir

  • Edible dormouse

Manoir

  • A manor house or country residence in a french-speaking country

Mattoir

  • A coarse punch used by engravers for making a rough surface on etching ground or on the naked copper to produce an effect after printing that is very similar to stippled lines

Memoir

  • An official note or report memorandum
  • A narrative composed from personal experience
  • Autobiography
  • Biography
  • An account of something noteworthy report

Mouchoir

  • Handkerchief

Noir

  • Crime fiction featuring hard-boiled cynical characters and bleak sleazy settings
  • Film noir
  • Having a bleak and darkly cynical quality of the kind associated with hard-boiled crime fiction and film noir

Peignoir

  • A woman’s loose negligee or dressing gown

Perloir

  • A steel punch of half-bead form used especially for modeling balls on metal and for cutting foil to be inserted in enamel

Pissoir

  • A public urinal usually located on the street in some european countries

Pochoir

  • A stencil process for making colored prints or adding color to a printed key illustration

Polissoir

  • A tool consisting of a flat wooden block with a long iron or steel handle and used in glass manufacturing for flattening out split cylinders of blown glass an implement used for polishing or grinding

Rafraîchissoir

  • A small table or stand having a marble top with wells sunk into it especially for containing plants or flowers

Remontoir

  • A device to give a uniform impulse to a pendulum or balance

Renoir

  • Jean 1894–1979 son of auguste renoir french film director and writer
  • (pierre-) auguste 1841–1919 french painter

Reservoir

  • A place where something is kept in storesuch as
  • An artificial lake where water is collected and kept in quantity for use
  • A part of an apparatus in which a liquid is held
  • Supply, store
  • An extra supply reserve

Retrochoir

  • The space left in a church behind the high altar or choir enclosure sometimes used as a chapel and occasionally containing a second choir enclosure
  • The space beyond the line of the eastern face of the altar in an apsidal church

Sautoir

  • A chain, ribbon, or scarf worn about the neck with the ends forming a st. andrew’s cross in front
  • A long gold chain often set with precious stones usually with a pendant hanging from it

Tamanoir

  • Giant anteater

Terroir

  • The combination of factors including soil, climate, and sunlight that gives wine grapes their distinctive character

Trottoir

  • Footpath, sidewalk

Voussoir

  • One of the wedge-shaped pieces forming an arch or vault

Ébauchoir

  • A chisel used to roughhew sculpture