11-letter words that end in er
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- busy beaver — (theory) (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
- butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
- buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
- cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
- cadwallader — a male given name.
- calc-sinter — travertine
- call center — A call center is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
- camp robber — Canada jay
- can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
- candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- cane-cutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
- carburetter — Alternative spelling of carburetor.
- card hopper — a device that allows cards of varying thicknesses to be fed individually through an outlet opening in a printer without adjustment
- card reader — a device, no longer widely used, for reading information on a punched card and transferring it to a computer
- cardsharper — (rare) alternative spelling of cardsharp.
- care worker — A care worker is someone whose job involves helping people who have particular problems or special needs, for example in a care home.
- cargo liner — a cargo ship that sails regularly between designated ports according to a published schedule.
- carpetmaker — One who manufactures carpets.
- cartwheeler — a person who performs cartwheels
- cash letter — a deposit list from one bank to another containing items to be credited to the account of the depositing bank.
- cat scanner — a specialized x-ray instrument that displays computerized cross-sectional images of the body, providing a noninvasive means of visualizing the brain, lungs, liver, spleen, and other soft tissue.
- catapultier — a person who fires a catapult
- catercorner — diagonal.
- caterpiller — Archaic spelling of caterpillar.
- caterwauler — to utter long wailing cries, as cats in rutting time.
- cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
- cd recorder — a device that records CDs
- centralizer — A centralizer is a device fitted with a hinged collar to keep the casing or liner in the center of the wellbore.
- chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
- change over — If you change over from one thing to another, you stop doing one thing and start doing the other.
- changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- chansonnier — a writer of chansons
- chanticleer — a name for a cock, used esp in fables
- charbroiler — a grill or other equipment used for charbroiling
- charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
- chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
- checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
- cheerfuller — Comparative form of cheerful.
- cheerleader — A cheerleader is one of the people who leads the crowd in cheering at a large public event, especially a sports event.
- cheesemaker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
- cheeseparer — a skinflint or miser
- chessplayer — a player of chess
- chiffonnier — a high chest of drawers or bureau, often having a mirror on top.