13-letter words that end in or
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- reinvigorator — something that gives new life and energy (to something)
- remote sensor — any instrument, such as a radar device or camera, that scans the earth or another planet from space in order to collect data about some aspect of it
- retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
- rory o'connor — Also called Roderic. ?1116–98, king of Connaught and last High King of Ireland
- safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- script doctor — one who revises or alters a script to improve it.
- selling floor — floor (def 10).
- semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
- send away for — order by post
- senior editor — chief publishing manager
- shut the door — put up a barrier
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
- skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
- slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
- south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
- starter motor — A starter motor is an electric motor for starting an engine.
- state senator — a member of a state senate
- stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
- subcontractor — Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
- swinging door — a door that swings open on being pushed or pulled from either side and then swings closed by itself.
- tangoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by touch.
- tax collector — sb employed to gather taxes
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- tour operator — agent organizing package holidays
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- truck tractor — tractor (def 2).
- truck-tractor — a powerful motor-driven vehicle with large, heavy treads, used for pulling farm machinery, other vehicles, etc.
- type ii error — the error made in the statistical testing of a hypothesis by accepting the null hypothesis when it is actually false.
- vagodepressor — decreasing or mimicking the decrease of the activity of the vagus nerve.
- vanity mirror — a small mirror contained in the sun visor of a car
- vasoinhibitor — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- venetian door — a doorway having a form similar to that of a Palladian window.
- watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
- word of honor — a pledge of one's honor that a specified condition, bargain, etc., will be fulfilled; oath; promise.
- writ of error — a writ issued by an appellate court to the court of record where a case was tried, requiring that the record of the trial be sent to the appellate court for examination of alleged errors.