12-letter words containing tor
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- ethnohistory — The branch of anthropology concerned with the history of peoples and cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- ex-directory — phone number: not listed publicly
- exaggeratory — Exaggerative.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- expectorants — Plural form of expectorant.
- expectorated — Simple past tense and past participle of expectorate.
- exprobratory — acting as a reproach
- exterminator — Someone or something that exterminates.
- exteroceptor — A sensory receptor that receives external stimuli.
- extortionary — Of, relating to, or typical of extortion.
- extortionate — (of a price) much too high; exorbitant.
- extortioners — Plural form of extortioner.
- extortionist — A person who tries to obtain something through force or violence; a racketeer.
- facilitators — Plural form of facilitator.
- facilitatory — That serves to facilitate.
- factor group — quotient group.
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- factory acts — laws relating to factories
- factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- factory work — work in a factory
- fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- flagellators — Plural form of flagellator.
- flagellatory — relating to flagellation
- fracastorius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (97 km) in diameter.
- fractionator — Chemistry. an apparatus for fractional distillation. Compare cracker (def 10).
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- galactorrhea — an abnormally abundant flow of milk in a lactating woman.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- gladiatorial — of or relating to gladiators or to their combats.
- gladiatorian — (dated) Of or relating to gladiators or to combat in general; gladiatorial.
- grallatorial — belonging or pertaining to the wading birds, as the snipes, cranes, storks, and herons, many species of which have very long legs.
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- historically — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- historicized — Simple past tense and past participle of historicize.
- historiology — (obsolete) a discourse on history.
- horror story — a story, movie, etc., that entertains or fascinates by shocking or frightening, especially by an emphasis on bloodshed or supernatural forces.
- horse-doctor — an informal word for a vet who specializes in treating horses
- host adaptor — SCSI adaptor
- house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
- hyperreactor — a person who behaves in a hyperreactive manner
- hypothecator — to pledge to a creditor as security without delivering over; mortgage.
- il trovatore — an opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illuminatory — Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.