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15-letter words that end in er

  • paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
  • paraffin heater — a heater which is fuelled by paraffin
  • parchment paper — a waterproof and grease-resistant paper produced by treating ordinary paper with concentrated sulfuric acid.
  • parish register — the register of the christenings, marriages, and burials in a parish.
  • paroemiographer — a person who writes or collects proverbs
  • passport holder — a person who has a passport
  • pastoral letter — pastoral (defs 11, 12).
  • pastoral prayer — the main prayer in a church service.
  • patent engineer — a person who draws up applications for patents
  • paternity order — a court order which declares a child's paternity
  • peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
  • perseus cluster — a cluster of about 500 galaxies in the direction of the constellation Perseus, grouped around a particular Seyfert galaxy that is an intense radio source (Perseus A)
  • petroleum ether — a volatile mixture of the higher alkane hydrocarbons, obtained as a fraction of petroleum and used as a solvent
  • photomultiplier — an extremely sensitive detector of light and of other radiation, consisting of a tube in which the electrons released by radiation striking a photocathode are accelerated, greatly amplifying the signal obtainable from small quantities of radiation.
  • photosensitizer — a drug, food, or other chemical that increases sensitivity to light and other visible photons
  • phototypesetter — a machine for phototypesetting
  • pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
  • pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • pleasure-seeker — someone who always wants to have pleasure
  • pocket computer — palmtop
  • police reporter — a news reporter assigned to cover a police department for newsworthy events.
  • porcupine river — a river in NW Yukon Territory, Canada and NE Alaska, flowing N and W to the Yukon River. 448 miles (721 km) long.
  • position isomer — any of two or more isomers that differ only in the position occupied by a substituent.
  • positive caster — a person or thing that casts.
  • posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
  • power amplifier — an amplifier for increasing the power of a signal.
  • prairie breaker — breaker1 (def 6).
  • prairie pointer — shooting star (def 2).
  • prairie warbler — an eastern North American wood warbler, Dendroica discolor, olive-green above, yellow below, and striped with black on the face and sides.
  • precinct worker — a worker in a polling or electoral district (such as someone who mans voting, etc)
  • pressure center — the central point of an atmospheric high or low.
  • pressure cooker — a reinforced pot, usually of steel or aluminum, in which soups, meats, vegetables, etc., may be cooked quickly in heat above boiling point by steam maintained under pressure.
  • primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
  • primary insurer — A primary insurer is the insurance company that first sells insurance to a client, who later purchases reinsurance.
  • primary teacher — a teacher in a primary school
  • prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
  • private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
  • probation order — an order imposed by a magistrate or judge under which an offender is sentenced to probation rather than imprisonment
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • program counter — (hardware)   (PC) A register in the central processing unit that contains the addresss of the next instruction to be executed. After each instruction is fetched, the PC is automatically incremented to point to the following instruction. It is not normally manipulated like an ordinary register but instead, special instructions are provided to alter the flow of control by writing a new value to the PC, e.g. JUMP, CALL, RTS.
  • programme-maker — someone who creates programmes for television and radio
  • progress chaser — a person employed to make sure at each stage, esp of a manufacturing process, that a piece of work is on schedule and is delivered to the customer on time
  • project manager — sb who oversees project plan
  • property ladder — progress from cheaper to more expensive housing
  • prostate cancer — cancer of the prostate
  • psion organiser — (computer)   A popular pocket computer from the UK Company Psion plc. The organiser uses a graphical user interface with windows, menus, icons and dialog boxes. There have been several versions so far: Series3a, Series3, HC, MC, OrgII.
  • public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
  • puerperal fever — a systemic bacterial infection of the endometrium characterized by fever, rapid heartbeat, uterine tenderness, and malodorous discharge, chiefly occurring in women after childbirth, usually as the result of unsterile obstetric procedures.
  • purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
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