10-letter words containing eter
- discreeter — Comparative form of discreet.
- dosemeters — Plural form of dosemeter.
- dosimeters — Plural form of dosimeter.
- drosometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of dew formed on a given surface.
- durometers — Plural form of durometer.
- econometer — a device in a car that informs the driver of how much fuel they are consuming
- ergometers — Plural form of ergometer.
- eternalism — (philosophy) The view that time resembles space and thus past and future events are in some sense coexistent.
- eternalist — a person who believes in the eternal existence of matter or the world
- eternality — The condition of being eternal; endlessness.
- eternalize — (transitive) To make eternal; to immortalize.
- eternities — Plural form of eternity.
- eternizing — Present participle of eternize.
- eudiometer — A graduated glass tube in which mixtures of gases can be made to react by an electric spark, used to measure changes in volume of gases during chemical reactions.
- fathometer — (nautical) A depth finder that uses sound waves to determine the depth of water.
- femtometer — fermi. Symbol: fm.
- flowmeters — Plural form of flowmeter.
- gasometers — Plural form of gasometer.
- gaussmeter — a magnetometer for measuring the intensity of a magnetic field, calibrated in gauss.
- glossmeter — an instrument for measuring the reflectivity of a surface.
- goniometer — an instrument for measuring solid angles, as of crystals.
- gravimeter — an instrument for measuring the specific gravity of a solid or liquid.
- groceteria — a grocery store in which customers pick up products from shelves and pay for them on leaving the store, as opposed to one in which they are served by a shop assistant
- haemometer — A hemadynamometer.
- haptometer — a mechanical device for measuring the sense of touch.
- hectometer — a unit of length equal to 100 meters, or 328.08 feet. Abbreviation: hm.
- hektometer — a unit of length equal to 100 meters, or 328.08 feet. Abbreviation: hm.
- heliometer — a telescope with a divided, adjustable objective, formerly used to measure small angular distances, as those between celestial bodies.
- heptameter — a verse of seven metrical feet.
- heterarchy — (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
- heteroatom — an atom other than carbon in the ring structure of a heterocyclic compound.
- heterocyst — one of the enlarged nitrogen-fixing cells occurring along the filaments in some blue-green algae.
- heterodont — (of most mammals) having teeth of different types
- heterodoxy — heterodox state or quality.
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- heterogamy — heterogamous state.
- heterogeny — the condition or state of being heterogenous
- heterogony — the alternation of dioecious and hermaphroditic individuals in successive generations, as in certain nematodes.
- heterokont — any organism that possesses two flagella of unequal length. Heterokonts include diatoms and some other algae
- heterology — Biology. the lack of correspondence of apparently similar organic structures as the result of unlike origins of constituent parts.
- heteronomy — the condition of being under the domination of an outside authority, either human or divine.
- heteronyms — Plural form of heteronym.
- heterophil — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
- hexameters — Plural form of hexameter.
- hydrometer — an instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid, commonly consisting of a graduated tube weighted to float upright in the liquid whose specific gravity is being measured.
- hyetometer — an instrument used to measure rainfall
- hygrometer — any instrument for measuring the water-vapor content of the atmosphere.
- hypermeter — a verse or line containing additional syllables after those proper to the meter.
- hypsometer — thermobarometer (def 1).
- iconometer — an instrument for finding the size of an object by measuring its image