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13-letter words that end in er

  • cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
  • chain printer — a line printer in which the type is on a continuous chain, used to print computer output
  • chapel de fer — a medieval open helmet, often having a broad brim for deflecting blows from above.
  • charles lever — Charles James ("Cornelius O'Dowd") 1806–72, Irish novelist and essayist.
  • cheerer-upper — a person or thing that cheers a person up: A good joke is the best cheerer-upper.
  • cheese grater — an implement for grating cheese
  • chemin de fer — a gambling game, a variation of baccarat
  • cherry pepper — a variety of pepper, Capsicum annuum cerasiforme, having rounded, usually pungent fruit.
  • cherry picker — a hydraulic crane, esp one mounted on a lorry, that has an elbow joint or telescopic arm supporting a basket-like platform enabling a person to service high power lines or to carry out similar operations above the ground
  • cherry-picker — a moveable boom, having a bucketlike attachment at its top that is large enough to carry a worker: used for repairing telephone lines, pruning trees, etc.
  • chest freezer — a freezer shaped like a chest with a door that opens by lifting up
  • chicken adder — milk snake.
  • chicken liver — the liver of chicken, considered as food
  • chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
  • chief-officer — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
  • chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
  • choker-setter — (in logging) a worker whose job is to fasten a choker to logs.
  • chopped liver — cooked liver chopped with onions and hard-boiled eggs and seasoned.
  • choreographer — A choreographer is someone who invents the movements for a ballet or other dance and tells the dancers how to perform them.
  • church father — any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
  • cicada killer — a black or rust-colored digger wasp, Sphecius speciosis, with a yellow-banded abdomen, that preys on cicadas.
  • cigar lighter — a small, portable implement containing fuel which produces a flame with which to light a cigarette
  • circuit rider — (formerly) a minister of religion who preached from place to place along an established circuit
  • citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
  • civil righter — a civil rightist.
  • claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
  • class teacher — a teacher who teaches a class
  • clever-clever — clever in a showy manner; artful; overclever
  • client-server — (programming)   A common form of distributed system in which software is split between server tasks and client tasks. A client sends requests to a server, according to some protocol, asking for information or action, and the server responds. This is analogous to a customer (client) who sends an order (request) on an order form to a supplier (server) who despatches the goods and an invoice (response). The order form and invoice are part of the "protocol" used to communicate in this case. There may be either one centralised server or several distributed ones. This model allows clients and servers to be placed independently on nodes in a network, possibly on different hardware and operating systems appropriate to their function, e.g. fast server/cheap client. Examples are the name-server/name-resolver relationship in DNS, the file-server/file-client relationship in NFS and the screen server/client application split in the X Window System.
  • cliff dweller — (usually initial capital letter) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S., who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs.
  • cliff-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
  • clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
  • clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
  • clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
  • clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
  • cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
  • coffee filter — a paper filter used when making coffee
  • coffin corner — any of the corners of a football field formed by a goal line and side line: punts are sometimes directed to a coffin corner so that the ball will go out of bounds near the opponent's goal line
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
  • cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
  • colour filter — a thin layer of coloured gelatine, glass, etc, that transmits light of certain colours or wavelengths but considerably reduces the transmission of others
  • come a stumer — to crash financially
  • command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
  • common gender — in English, a noun that is the same whether it is referring to either gender, such as cat, people, spouse.
  • common prayer — the liturgy of public services of the Church of England, esp Morning and Evening Prayer
  • common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
  • common scoter — a sea duck of northern regions, Melanitta nigra. The male plumage is black with white patches around the head and eyes
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