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13-letter words that end in er

  • depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
  • desert cooler — (in India) a cooling device in which air is driven by an electric fan through wet grass
  • device driver — (operating system)   Software to control a hardware component or peripheral device of a computer such as a magnetic disk, magnetic tape or printer. A device driver is responsible for accessing the hardware registers of the device and often includes an interrupt handler to service interrupts generated by the device. Device drivers often form part of the lowest level of the operating system kernel, with which they are linked when the kernel is built. Some more recent systems have loadable device drivers which can be installed from files after the operating system is running.
  • diadem spider — a common Eurasian spider, Araneus diadematus, that constructs orb webs: family Argiopidae
  • diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
  • dietary fiber — fiber (def 9).
  • diethyl ether — ether (def 1).
  • digital meter — A digital meter is a meter that gives a separate reading, in the form of a decimal number, for each given input quantity.
  • direct-mailer — a person or firm engaged in direct-mail advertising.
  • distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • divine mother — the creative, dynamic aspect of the Godhead, the consort or Shakti of Brahma, Vishnu, or Shiva, variously known as Devi, Durga, Kālī, Shakti, etc.
  • divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
  • doppler laser — a technique for measuring the shift in frequency between the source and reflected radiation of a laser.
  • dorothy dixer — a parliamentary question asked by a member of the government so that the minister may give a prepared answer
  • dos requester — (networking)   An MS-DOS client that provides transparent redirection of printing and file accesses to a network server. It handles levels 3, 4 and 5 of the Open Systems Interconnect seven layer model. A DOS requester under Novell NetWare will interface to a network card driver with an ODI interface, and will be either a single executable (netx.exe) or a set of VLMs that are loaded on demand. In the IBM/Microsoft LAN Manager/SMB world, where the name DOS redirector is more common, there will be an NDIS interface driver and a net.exe executable.
  • double boiler — a utensil consisting of two pots, one of which fits partway into the other: water is boiled in the lower pot to cook or warm food or melt a substance in the upper.
  • double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
  • double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
  • double-dipper — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
  • double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
  • double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
  • drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
  • drug smuggler — trafficker in illegal substances
  • early adopter — a person who uses a new product or technology before it becomes widely known or used.
  • earning power — business: ability to profit
  • east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
  • editorializer — One who editorializes.
  • edmund gunter — Edmund, 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer: inventor of various measuring instruments and scales.
  • edward jenner — Edward, 1749–1823, English physician: discoverer of smallpox vaccine.
  • eighth-grader — someone who is in the eighth grade at school
  • electioneerer — One who electioneers.
  • empty quarter — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
  • engine driver — sb who drives a train
  • ensign-bearer — a soldier whose responsibility was to carry a Company's ensign
  • enteric fever — typhoid
  • esthesiometer — an instrument for measuring the sensitivity of the sense of touch, esp. one for testing how far apart two points pressed against the skin have to be for the points to be felt as separate
  • evening paper — a newspaper that comes out in the evening
  • excimer laser — a type of gas laser that emits powerful pulses of ultraviolet radiation used in weapons, industrial, or medical research: this radiation is emitted as the short-lived excimers, dimeric molecules that can only exist when a component is energized into an excited state, return to their ground states
  • exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
  • fabric filter — A fabric filter is a type of filter in which solids are removed from a gas by passing it though a fabric.
  • fairy-slipper — Calypso (def 2).
  • fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
  • farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
  • father lasher — a large sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scorpius, occurring in British and European coastal waters
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