Phrase Hound found 24 phrases and 9 compound words that contain quarters. The most common are listed below. Open quarters in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 24
- three-quartersThree of four equal parts (3/4, ¾, 0.75).
- close quartersplural of close quarter: any of several strong wooden barriers erected across the deck of a merchant sailing ship, having loopholes through which muskets could be fired to resist boarding attacks
- living quartersThe rooms where people reside.
- winter quartersA place where a wild animal goes to live or hibernate in the winter; hibernacle.
- quarters of an hourplural of quarter of an hour: fifteen minutes.
- servants' quartersA mother-in-law apartment or garden apartment used for in-house employees.
- academic quartersplural of academic quarter: The traditional fifteen-minutes discrepancy between the time a university lecture nominally will start (according to schedule) and the time it actually starts, used in some educational institutions.
- general quartersA maximum alert level issued on a warship for all personnel to prepare for immediate combat; the state of a warship at maximum combat readiness
- beat to quartersTo summon the crew of a sailing man-of-war to their stations for action against an enemy.
- lamb's quartersChenopodium album, of the goosefoot family, sometimes used as a potherb
- sleeping quartersSynonym of bedroom: A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
- case quartersplural of case quarter: A single 25-cent coin, as opposed to any combination of coins adding up to 25 cents.
- cross-quartersAn ornament of tracery like the four petals of a cruciform flower; a quatrefoil.
- false quartersplural of false quarter: A cleft in the quarter of a horse's foot.
- fat quartersplural of fat quarter: A square piece of fabric measuring 50 centimetres along each side.
- fifth quartersplural of fifth quarter: The hide and fat of a butchered animal, regarded as separate from the meat.
- first quartersplural of first quarter: The waxing lunar phase, from new moon to half way between new moon and full moon.
- gay quartersplural of gay quarter: A part of a city that is largely populated by gay people.
- grand quartersplural of grand quarter: A quarter that is itself quartered.
- last quartersplural of last quarter: The waning lunar phase halfway between full moon and new moon.
- premiership quartersplural of premiership quarter: The third quarter of a match.
- draws and quartersthird-person singular simple present indicative of draw and quarter: To execute (someone) by castration, disembowelling, beheading and quartering.
- hind quartersAlternative form of hindquarters: Either rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
- beat up someone's quartersTo visit for lascivious purposes.
Compound words 9
- lambsquartersAlternative form of lamb's quarters: Chenopodium album, of the goosefoot family, sometimes used as a potherb
- outquartersQuarters situated away from headquarters.
- headquartersThe military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff.
- hindquartersplural of hindquarter: Either rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
- forequartersplural of forequarter: The foreleg, shoulder and surrounding area of the body of a quadruped.
- quartersawedsimple past of quartersaw
- quartersawnpast participle of quartersaw: Cut radially (towards the heart of the log), at right angles to the growth rings, for stability or the production of decorative patterns.
- quartersawsthird-person singular simple present indicative of quartersaw: Cut radially (towards the heart of the log), at right angles to the growth rings, for stability or the production of decorative patterns.
- threequartersRare spelling of three-quarters.