Phrase Hound found 22 phrases and 15 compound words that contain timers. The most common are listed below. Open timers in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 22
- big-timersplural of big-timer: A major player in the field in question: someone who is in the big time
- first-timersplural of first-timer: a person engaging in any activity for the first time
- old-timersplural of old-timer: One who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience.
- one-timersplural of one-timer: A shot, made from a teammate's pass, which is not stopped before shooting.
- part-timersplural of part-timer: Someone who is employed, or does something, part-time.
- sand timersplural of sand timer: An instrument for measuring the passage of time by the passage of sand through a narrow opening.
- short-timersplural of short-timer: A soldier during the Vietnam War who had less than two months to serve.
- old timers' diseaseAlternative form of old timer's disease: Eggcorn of Alzheimer's disease (“a disorder involving loss of mental functions resulting from brain tissue changes”).
- all-timersplural of all-timer: Someone or something very enduringly successful; one of the best of all time.
- chess timersplural of chess timer: A chess clock.
- egg timersplural of egg timer: A small version of an hourglass used to time the boiling of an egg.
- full-timersplural of full-timer: One who is employed, or otherwise engaged in an activity, on a full-time basis.
- good-timersplural of good-timer: A person who devotes themselves to having fun; especially, a hedonist.
- half-timersplural of half-timer: One who works only half the usual time.
- kitchen timersplural of kitchen timer: A device that can be set for a number of minutes (usually up to one hour) that sounds an alarm such as a bell or buzzer when the specified amount of time has elapsed; commonly used when cooking or baking.
- nine-timersplural of nine-timer: A word that covers two triple-word squares, so that the overall value of the letters is multiplied by nine.
- over-timersplural of over-timer: An employee who works overtime.
- self timersplural of self timer: A device on a camera that provides a delay between pressing the shutter release and the shutter's firing, for example to give the photographer time to join a group of people being photographed.
- small-timersplural of small-timer: A person who is limited to small, petty or unimportant things.
- two-timersplural of two-timer: A person who two-times another.
- watchdog timersplural of watchdog timer: An electronic or software timer used to detect and recover from computer malfunctions by generating a timeout signal if it is not periodically reset by the system.
- whole-timersplural of whole-timer: One who is employed, or otherwise engaged in an activity, on a full-time basis.
Compound words 15
- oldtimersplural of oldtimer: An elderly person.
- multimersplural of multimer: A protein consisting of multiple monomers.
- autotimersplural of autotimer: An automatic timer.
- blocktimersplural of blocktimer: A broadcaster selling blocks of airtime for use by others.
- daytimersplural of daytimer: An AM radio station that is only allowed to broadcast during the daytime.
- eggtimersplural of eggtimer: A small version of an hourglass used to time the boiling of an egg.
- flexitimersplural of flexitimer: One who works on a flexitime arrangement.
- Lattimersplural of Lattimer: A surname.
- longtimersplural of longtimer: One who has been a resident, member, etc. for a long time.
- Maritimersplural of Maritimer: A native or inhabitant of the Maritime provinces.