manĝilaro

Two suffixes, stacked, and the sum is exactly the parts. This is the word to show somebody who does not believe the claims made for Esperanto word-building. Start with manĝi, to eat, learned at rank 332. Add -il-, the suffix for the instrument you do something with, and you get manĝilo: an eating implement, one fork or one spoon. Add -ar-, the suffix for a collection of a thing, and you get manĝilaro: the whole set of them, the cutlery in the drawer. English needs a French loanword (cutlery, from coutel, knife) and a Latin one (utensil) and neither of them tells you what they mean. Esperanto needs three syllables you already own.

The stacking is normal, not a trick. -il- and -ar- are two of the sixteen-rules affixes and both are fully productive, so the same double move runs everywhere: arbo a tree gives arbaro a forest, vorto a word gives vortaro a dictionary, ŝtuparo is the collection of ŝtupoj you climb. Order matters and reads left to right: manĝ-il-ar-o is a collection of eating tools, while a hypothetical manĝ-ar-il-o would be a tool for collections of eating. Nobody has to be taught that. The rules are set out in full in word building.

The pieces in the drawer. A kulero is a spoon at rank 2,088, a forko a fork at 2,247, and the knife is tranĉilo - which is itself tranĉi plus the same -il-, a cutting-tool. Three items, and two of the three names are built rather than memorised. Lay them beside a telero and you have the table set. The kitchen vocabulary around all this is collected in kuirarto kaj manĝo, and the parent art itself, kuirarto, arrived only a hundred ranks ago at 2,870.

Singular for the set. Like English cutlery, manĝilaro is a mass: la manĝilaro estas arĝenta, the cutlery is silver. If you mean the individual implements, drop back down a suffix and say manĝiloj.