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13-letter words that end in er

  • concertmaster — The concertmaster of an orchestra is the most senior violin player, who acts as a deputy to the conductor.
  • connate water — Connate water is water which is trapped in rock pores.
  • conning tower — a superstructure of a submarine, used as the bridge when the vessel is on the surface
  • contact paper — Photography. sensitized paper on which a contact print is made.
  • control tower — A control tower is a building at an airport from which instructions are given to aircraft when they are taking off or landing. You can also refer to the people who work in a control tower as the control tower.
  • conventioneer — Conventioneers are people who are attending a convention.
  • cookie cutter — A cookie cutter is a tool that is used for cutting cookies into a particular shape before you bake them.
  • cookie-cutter — having the same configuration or look as many others of a given kind; identical: rows of cookie-cutter houses.
  • cooling tower — A cooling tower is a very large, round, high building which is used to cool water from factories or power stations.
  • costardmonger — a costermonger
  • cotransporter — (biochemistry) An integral membrane protein that actively transports molecules by using the concentration gradient of one molecule or ion concentration to force the other molecule or ion against its gradient.
  • cotton mather — Cotton, 1663–1728, American clergyman and author.
  • cotton picker — a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
  • councilmember — a member of a council, especially a legislative council.
  • counter-order — an order which revokes a previous order
  • counter-power — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
  • counterfeiter — made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine; not genuine; forged: counterfeit dollar bills.
  • counterjumper — a clerk in a retail store.
  • counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
  • countersniper — designed to act against or eliminate snipers
  • country fever — malaria.
  • court plaster — a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds
  • crash barrier — A crash barrier is a strong low fence built along the side of a road or between the two halves of a motorway in order to prevent accidents.
  • cream cracker — Cream crackers are crisp dry biscuits which are eaten with cheese.
  • crime-fighter — any person, as a law-enforcement officer or government official, who works to prevent crime or to enforce criminal laws.
  • crisis center — a central facility, telephone answering service, etc., where people may obtain informed help or advice in a personal crisis.
  • cross-dresser — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.
  • cross-trainer — a type of athletic shoe designed to be used in more than one type of activity.
  • crossing over — the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the diplotene stage of meiosis. It results in the rearrangement of genes and produces variation in the inherited characteristics of the offspring
  • crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
  • crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
  • crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
  • cryptographer — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
  • currant borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Ramosia tipuliformis, that bores into the stems of currants.
  • cushion cover — a fabric cover, often with a decorative design, designed to protect a cushion
  • cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
  • cutter number — a code combining decimal numbers with letters from an author's surname, used in an alphabetizing system.
  • cybersquatter — the registration of a commercially valuable Internet domain name, as a trademark, with the intention of selling it or profiting from its use.
  • cyberthriller — A thriller whose plot hinges on cyberspace.
  • daily-breader — a commuter.
  • darling river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands and flowing southwest to the Murray River. Length: 2740 km (1702 miles)
  • data transfer — (data)   Copying or moving data from one place to another, typically via some kind of network (e.g. Asynchronous Transfer Mode, File Transfer Protocol) or local data connection (bus, SCSI, IDE, SATA).
  • death chamber — a room in which someone has died
  • decelerometer — an instrument for measuring deceleration
  • decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
  • deflectometer — An instrument that measures the deflection of structures when loads are applied.
  • demineralizer — a substance or device that causes demineralization
  • demultiplexer — a type of electronic circuit which receives a single input signal and selects one of multiple possible output routes to which to transmit the signal
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