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.
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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
