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14-letter words that end in er

  • cayenne pepper — Cayenne pepper or cayenne is a red powder with a hot taste which is made from dried peppers and is used to flavour food.
  • center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
  • channel surfer — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • charge carrier — an electron, hole, or ion that transports the electric charge in an electric current
  • charles sumner — Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
  • charter member — A charter member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • check register — A check register is a record of transactions in a checking account.
  • cheese skipper — a dipterous fly, Piophila casei, whose larvae feed on cheese and move by jumping: family Piophilidae
  • chemical toner — toner (def 4).
  • chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
  • chest expander — a device for strengthening the chest muscles, consisting of two handles attached to strong springs or elastic cords that the user pulls apart across the chest
  • chest register — the lower register of the voice, in which the lower range of tones is produced
  • cheyenne river — a river flowing NE from E Wyoming to the Missouri River in South Dakota. About 500 miles (800 km) long.
  • chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
  • chief engineer — the senior engineer on board a ship
  • child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
  • childbed fever — puerperal fever.
  • chiller-diller — chiller (def 2).
  • chimney corner — a recess that contains a seat in a large open fireplace; inglenook
  • chloride paper — a relatively slow printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride: used mostly for contact prints.
  • chrome leather — leather tanned with chrome.
  • church integer — (theory)   A representation of integers as functions invented by Alonzo Church, inventor of lambda-calculus. The integer N is represented as a higher-order function which applies a given function N times to a given expression. In the pure lambda-calculus there are no constants but numbers can be represented by Church integers. A Haskell function to return a given Church integer could be written: unchurch c = c (+1) 0 See also von Neumann integer.
  • cimarron-river — a river flowing E from NE New Mexico to the Arkansas River in Oklahoma. 600 miles (965 km) long.
  • civil engineer — A civil engineer is a person who plans, designs, and constructs roads, bridges, harbours, and public buildings.
  • clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
  • clock repairer — a person who mends clocks, watches, etc
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
  • coconut butter — a solid form of coconut oil
  • coffee grinder — A coffee grinder is a machine for grinding coffee beans.
  • colorado river — a state in the W United States. 104,247 sq. mi. (270,000 sq. km). Capital: Denver. Abbreviation: CO (for use with zip code), Col., Colo.
  • colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
  • colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
  • columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
  • come a cropper — If you say that someone has come a cropper, you mean that they have had an unexpected and embarrassing failure.
  • comfort letter — an informal statement assuring the financial soundness or backing of a company.
  • commercializer — to emphasize the profitable aspects of, especially at the expense of quality: to commercialize one's artistic talent.
  • common carrier — a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers
  • common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
  • compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
  • complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
  • complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
  • compound meter — any time signature in which the upper figure is a multiple of 3, as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, etc.
  • compute server — (computer, parallel)   A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
  • conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
  • concrete mixer — a device used for mixing cement, sand, gravel, or other substances to make concrete; it has a rotating drum in which the concrete is mixed
  • congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
  • contact number — a person's telephone number
  • control center — an administrative or operational center for a group of related activities: the control center for the new military offensive.
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