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15-letter words that end in er

  • freedom fighter — a fighter for freedom, especially a person who battles against established forces of tyranny and dictatorship.
  • frozen shoulder — joint stiffness at top of arm
  • furniture mover — person: removal worker
  • gallant soldier — a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • gas thermometer — a device for measuring temperature by observing the change in either pressure or volume of an enclosed gas.
  • general manager — supervisor
  • general officer — an officer ranking above colonel.
  • general partner — a partner with unlimited liability for the debts of the partnership.
  • get it together — to achieve one's full potential, either generally as a person or in a particular field of activity
  • giant schnauzer — one of a German breed of large working dogs, resembling a larger and more powerful version of the standard schnauzer, having a pepper-and-salt or pure black, wiry coat, bushy eyebrows and beard, and a docked tail set moderately high, originally developed as a cattle herder but now often used in police work.
  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • give the finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
  • godfather offer — a takeover bid pitched so high that the management of the target company is unable to dissuade shareholders from accepting it
  • good and proper — thoroughly
  • grabber pointer — (operating system)   A mouse pointer sprite in the shape of a small hand that closes when a mouse button is clicked, indicating that the object on the screen under the pointer has been selected.
  • grammar checker — a utility that allows the user to check a document for errors of grammar
  • green sandpiper — a species of sandpiper, Tringa ochropus, with a greenish back and wings
  • gregorian water — a mixture of water, salt, ashes, and wine, blessed and sprinkled over the altar in the consecration of a church.
  • griffith-joyner — Florence, known as Flojo. 1959–98, US sprinter, winner of two gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games
  • ground engineer — an engineer qualified and licensed to certify the airworthiness of an aircraft
  • ground observer — a person stationed in a position on the ground to watch, follow, and report on flights of aircraft, especially of enemy aircraft.
  • guadalupe river — a river in SE Texas, flowing SE to the San Antonio River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
  • guardian reader — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
  • gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
  • guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
  • haematachometer — (dated) An apparatus for measuring the velocity of the blood.
  • hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
  • hanging glacier — a glacier situated on a shelf above a valley or another glacier; it may be joined to the lower level by an icefall or separate from it
  • hardware dealer — a person or shop who deals in metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • health minister — a government minister who is responsible for health
  • heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
  • heaviside layer — E layer.
  • height-to-paper — the standard height of type, measured from the foot to the face, in the U.S. 0.918 of an inch (2.33 cm).
  • hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
  • historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
  • hole-and-corner — secretive; clandestine; furtive: The political situation was full of hole-and-corner intrigue.
  • hook and ladder — a fire engine, usually a tractor-trailer, fitted with long, extensible ladders and other equipment.
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • horned cucumber — a tropical African plant, Cucumis metuliferus, having fruit with spiky, orange skin and jellylike pulp that tastes like cucumbers.
  • horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • host-host layer — transport layer
  • house of prayer — house of God.
  • hunter-gatherer — a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
  • ice-cream maker — a device used in making ice cream
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