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14-letter words that end in er

  • conventiongoer — A person attending a convention.
  • cookie monster — (recreation)   (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
  • cotton stainer — any of various heteropterous insects of the genus Dysdercus: serious pests of cotton, piercing and staining the cotton bolls: family Pyrrhocoridae
  • counter jumper — a sales assistant in a shop
  • counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
  • counterpuncher — a boxer who waits for an opponent to attack before punching
  • country singer — a singer of country and western music
  • coupon clipper — a well-to-do person much of whose income is derived from clipping and cashing coupons from coupon bonds.
  • court reporter — a reporter who writes about legal trials
  • cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
  • covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
  • credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
  • crimson clover — an annual clover (Trifolium incarnatum) with elongated heads of deep-red flowers, often grown in the S U.S. as a cover or green-manure crop
  • cross-compiler — a compiler able to create executable code for a platform different from the one the compiler is run on
  • cruft together — (jargon)   To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
  • crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • culture center — the part of a culture area in which the most distinctive traits of the area are concentrated.
  • curtain raiser — a short play preceding a main play.
  • curtain-raiser — A curtain-raiser is an event, especially a sporting event or a performance, that takes place before a more important one, or starts off a series of events.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • cylinder liner — A cylinder liner is a thin-walled hard metal cylinder inserted into a cylinder block of an engine and in which the piston runs.
  • cytophotometer — an instrument for examining cells by determining the intensity or wavelengths of light transmitted through them.
  • dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
  • daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
  • decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
  • decommissioner — a person who decommissions a ship, nuclear reactor, etc
  • deep-fat fryer — a device for cooking food by submerging it in hot fat
  • deep-sea diver — a person who takes part in deep-sea diving
  • deer fly fever — tularemia.
  • delivery order — a document that records an order for delivery of goods
  • demerara-river — a river in E Guyana flowing S to N and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Georgetown. 215 miles (346 km) long.
  • demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
  • demythologizer — a person who removes mythical elements from something
  • device manager — (operating system)   The Microsoft Windows control panel applet used to enable, disable and configure the hardware on which Windows is running. You can launch Device Manager via the Control Panel/System or directly with: rundll32.exe devmgr.dll DeviceManager_Execute (2008-04-16)
  • diamond geezer — a very nice or good man
  • diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
  • dimethyl ether — Dimethyl ether is a compound used as a propellant in aerosol canisters.
  • dinner theater — a restaurant in which a stage production is performed during or after dinner.
  • direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
  • dividend cover — the number of times that a company's dividends to shareholders could be paid out of its annual profits after tax, used as an indication of the probability that dividends will be maintained in subsequent years
  • dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
  • dongle cracker — (security)   Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
  • double dresser — a dresser having two long drawers across its width for most of its height.
  • double drummer — a type of cicada
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