10-letter words that end in eter
- mileometer — device calculating miles travelled
- millimeter — a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter and equivalent to 0.03937 inch. Abbreviation: mm.
- multimeter — a device consisting of one or more meters, as an ammeter and voltmeter, used to measure two or more electrical quantities in an electric circuit, as voltage, resistance, and current.
- myriameter — Alternative form of myriametre.
- nephometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of cloud cover in the sky.
- nitrometer — an apparatus for determining the amount of nitrogen or nitrogen compounds in a substance or mixture.
- ombrometer — An instrument for measuring rainfall.
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
- pelvimeter — an instrument used to measure the pelvis
- pentameter — a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
- phonometer — a device for measuring the intensity of a sound.
- photometer — an instrument that measures luminous intensity or brightness, luminous flux, light distribution, color, etc., usually by comparing the light emitted by two sources, one source having certain specified standard characteristics.
- piezometer — any of several instruments for measuring the pressure of a fluid or the compressibility of a substance when subjected to such a pressure.
- planimeter — an instrument for measuring mechanically the area of plane figures.
- planometer — surface plate.
- pleximeter — a small, thin plate, as of ivory, placed against the body to mediate the blow of a plexor.
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
- radiometer — Also called Crookes radiometer. an instrument for demonstrating the transformation of radiant energy into mechanical work, consisting of an exhausted glass vessel containing vanes that revolve about an axis when exposed to light.
- ratiometer — (in three-color photography) a device for determining the exposure factors of the filters to be used.
- schumpeter — Joseph Alois [uh-lois] /əˈlɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, U.S. economist, born in Austria.
- scotometer — a device used for measuring a scotoma's size, shape and intensity
- slot meter — a meter into which coins are inserted, in advance, to pay for electricity (as opposed to a meter that records the amount of electricity the customer has used, for which they are later billed, usually each quarter)
- spirometer — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- spot meter — an exposure meter that measures light reflected from only a small area of a subject or scene.
- stadimeter — an instrument for determining the distance between an observer and an object of known height by measurement of the angle subtended by the object.
- stimpmeter — a machine used in golf to measure the speed of a putting green
- tachometer — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tachymeter — any of several instruments for rapidly determining distances, directions, and differences of elevation.
- taseometer — an instrument for measuring stresses within structures
- tensimeter — manometer.
- tetrameter — Prosody. a verse of four feet.
- tintometer — a precision instrument for comparing tints or colors with those used as arbitrary standards.
- tribometer — an instrument used to estimate rubbing friction
- tromometer — an instrument used to measure very slight earth tremors
- urinometer — a device for assessing the specific gravity of urine; a hydrometer for use on urine specimens.
- variometer — Electricity. an instrument for measuring inductance, consisting essentially of an inductor with two or more coils whose relative position may be changed to vary the inductance.
- vibrometer — a vibrograph that measures the amplitude of vibrations.
- viscometer — a device for measuring viscosity.
- voltameter — a device for measuring the quantity of electricity passing through a conductor by the amount of electrolytic decomposition it produces, or for measuring the strength of a current by the amount of such decomposition in a given time.