17-letter words that end in er
- psychic energizer — Pharmacology. antidepressant (def 2).
- publicity officer — a person who is employed to get publicity for an organization, or to provide information about it
- quality newspaper — a more serious newspaper which gives detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
- queen's messenger — a person who takes dispatches to or from the sovereign
- rectangle slinger — polygon pusher
- redemption center — a commercial establishment at which trading stamps of a specific brand may be exchanged for merchandise.
- regent honeyeater — a large brightly-coloured Australian honeyeater, Zanthomiza phrygia
- repertory theater — repertory (def 2).
- restraining order — a judicial order to forbid a particular act until a decision is reached on an application for an injunction.
- returning officer — a public official appointed to conduct and preside at an election.
- rift valley fever — a highly infectious viral disease of humans and animals, transmitted by mosquitoes and other insects, occurring in Africa and characterized in humans by headache, fever, eye discomfort, and muscle aches, progressing in some cases to encephalitis, blindness, or internal bleeding.
- rodolphe kreutzer — Rodolphe [raw-dawlf] /rɔˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1766–1831, French violinist.
- saint christopher — Saint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
- saint croix river — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
- sanitation worker — a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage.
- save shoe leather — to avoid wearing out shoes, as by taking a bus rather than walking
- securities dealer — a person who buys and sells securities
- separation center — a place at which military personnel are processed for release from active service.
- september weather — weather characteristic of the month of September, esp in being unpredictable as summer is ending and autumn is beginning
- settlement worker — a person who works with underprivileged people in a settlement house.
- shetland pullover — a thick woollen sweater made from Shetland wool
- sidesaddle flower — a pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea.
- significant other — Sociology. a person, as a parent or peer, who has great influence on one's behavior and self-esteem.
- silicon rectifier — a rectifier consisting of a semiconductor diode using crystalline silicon
- silk manufacturer — a person or business that is involved in the manufacture of silk thread and fabric
- simulated leather — fake leather that is an imitation of real leather and is usually made from a cheaper material
- singer-songwriter — A singer-songwriter is someone who writes and performs their own songs, especially popular songs.
- single-name paper — commercial paper bearing only the signature of the maker.
- small waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Horisme vitalbata, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark
- software engineer — a person who writes computer programs
- southampton water — an inlet of the English Channel in S England
- spark transmitter — a transmitting set that generates electromagnetic waves by the oscillatory discharge from a capacitor through an inductor and a spark gap.
- special messenger — a postal worker who delivers mail by special delivery
- spectrophotometer — an instrument for making photometric comparisons between parts of spectra.
- spectroradiometer — an instrument for determining the radiant-energy distribution in a spectrum, combining the functions of a spectroscope with those of a radiometer.
- spectrum analyser — an instrument that splits an input waveform into its frequency components, which are then displayed
- spectrum disorder — any of a group of disorders each having symptoms that occur on a continuum and certain features that are shared along its spectrum but that manifest in markedly different forms and degrees. See also autism spectrum disorder.
- spotted sandpiper — a North American sandpiper, Actitis macularia, that has brownish-gray upper parts and white underparts, and is spotted with black in the summer.
- square centimeter — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one centimeter on each side. 2 , sq. cm. Abbreviation: cm.
- square millimeter — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one millimeter on each side. 2 , sq. mm. Abbreviation: mm.
- squash vine borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Melittia satyriniformis, that bores into the stems of squash and related plants.
- subsidiary ledger — (in accounting) a ledger containing a group of detailed and related accounts the total of which is summarized in the control account.
- supervision order — an order by a juvenile court requiring a named probation officer or local-authority social worker to advise, assist, and befriend a child or young person who is the subject of care proceedings, over a period of up to three years
- supreme commander — the military officer commanding all allied forces in a theater of war.
- surface condenser — a device condensing steam or vapor by passing it over a cool surface.
- sybase sql server — Adaptive Server Enterprise
- telescopic damper — a device with telescopic parts that reduce vibration in a motor vehicle
- tennessee warbler — a North American wood warbler, Vermivora peregrina, having a gray head, a greenish back, and white underparts.
- tertiary consumer — a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.
- the cold shoulder — a show of indifference; slight