Phrase Hound found 19 phrases and 9 compound words that contain stairs. The most common are listed below. Open stairs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 19
- Penrose stairsAn impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to depict such a loop.
- below stairsOn a floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies; below the main floor of a multi-floor building.
- cyclopean stairsA glaciated valley that has several consecutive hanging valleys or riegels (ridges) giving the appearance of an enormous staircase.
- above-stairsAlternative form of above stairs.
- witches' stairssteep staircase with alternate half treads.
- riot stairsA flight of stairs that is constructed to deliberately disrupt the natural strides of people walking or running on them.
- back stairsAlternative spelling of backstairs: A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.
- I'll go to the foot of our stairsExpressing astonishment.
- emergency stairsA fire escape.
- fire stairsA fire escape.
- missing stairsplural of missing stair: A member of a community who is widely but privately known within that community for abusiveness or other harmful behavior that has not been addressed.
- screw stairsplural of screw stair: spiral staircase
- trap stairsstairs leading to or from a trapdoor
- disappearing stairsSynonym of attic ladder: A usually retractable ladder used to access an attic through an attic door.
- I'll go to the foot of my stairsAlternative form of I'll go to the foot of our stairs: Expressing astonishment.
- pair of stairsA flight of stairs
- pairs of stairsplural of pair of stairs: A flight of stairs
- up stairsArchaic form of upstairs: Located on a higher floor or level of a building.
- I'll go to the foot of the stairsAn exclamation of astonishment, often after someone has said something shocking or unbelievable.
Compound words 9
- backstairsA staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.
- abovestairsAlternative form of above stairs.
- belowstairsAlternative form of below stairs: On a floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies; below the main floor of a multi-floor building.
- understairsA basement or cellar constructed, or accessed, from underneath the stairs.
- downstairsLocated on a lower floor.
- CarstairsA village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9346).
- BroadstairsA coastal town on the Isle of Thanet, in Broadstairs and St Peter's parish, Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3967).
- airstairsOne set of airstairs.
- forestairsplural of forestair: The stairs at the front of a building, traditionally those used by the occupants rather than by tradesmen, etc.