17-letter words that end in or
- a poor excuse for — a very inferior example of
- acidity regulator — a substance, such as citric acid, added to food to change or maintain its pH value
- adjunct professor — a professor employed by a college or university for a specific purpose or length of time and often part-time.
- antidazzle mirror — a rear-view mirror for road vehicles that only partially reflects headlights behind
- artistic director — a person in charge of the artistic direction of a theatre company
- balance of terror — military deterrence based on the possession of weapons of mass destruction by opponents in a conflict
- beat the drum for — to attempt to arouse interest in
- bone marrow donor — a person who donates bone marrow
- bull's-eye mirror — a circular, convex, ornamental mirror.
- buncher resonator — See under Klystron.
- california condor — either of two large, New World vultures of the family Cathartidae, Gymnogyps californianus (California condor) or Vultur gryphus (Andean condor) the largest flying birds in the Western Hemisphere: the California condor is almost extinct; the Andean condor is greatly reduced in number and rare in many areas.
- cardioaccelerator — a substance that increases the heart rate.
- carry a torch for — If you say that someone is carrying a torch for someone else, you mean that they secretly admire them or love them.
- catcher resonator — See under Klystron.
- celestial equator — the great circle lying on the celestial sphere, the plane of which is perpendicular to the line joining the north and south celestial poles
- college professor — a lecturer or researcher who works in a college
- converter reactor — a nuclear reactor for converting one fuel into another, esp one that transforms fertile material into fissionable material
- corporate sponsor — a business that sponsors a particular type of event
- course protractor — a navigational instrument for measuring the bearing of a course as given on a chart, having a disk calibrated in degrees and an arm pivoted about the center of the disk.
- cutaneous quittor — a purulent infection of horses and other hoofed animals, characterized by an acute inflammation of soft tissue above the hoof and resulting in suppuration and sloughing of the skin and usually lameness.
- d-shell connector — (hardware) One of the family of connectors: DA-15, DB-25, DC-37, DD-50, DE-9, and DEH-15 [VGA]. The "D" is the shape of the shell, the next letter determines connector size, and the number is the maximum pin count.
- democritus junior — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
- division of labor — a production process in which a worker or group of workers is assigned a specialized task in order to increase efficiency.
- drop on the floor — To react to an error condition by silently discarding messages or other valuable data. "The gateway ran out of memory, so it just started dropping packets on the floor." Also frequently used of faulty mail and netnews relay sites that lose messages. See also black hole, bit bucket.
- elevator operator — a person who operates a platform raised or lowered in a vertical shaft to transport people from floor to floor in a building
- factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
- fendalton tractor — a four-wheel drive recreational vehicle
- four on the floor — a four-speed manual transmission having the gearshift set into the floor.
- four-on-the-floor — a four-speed manual transmission having the gearshift set into the floor.
- garage proprietor — a person who owns a commercial establishment in which motor vehicles are repaired, serviced, bought, and sold
- garbage collector — refuse collector, dustman
- go for the doctor — to make a great effort or move very fast, esp in a horse race
- have feelings for — to be emotionally or sexually attracted to
- have no words for — to be incapable of describing
- in the market for — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- lagging indicator — A lagging indicator is an economic indicator that changes following a change in the economy, such as unemployment.
- lan administrator — (job) A person who installs and maintains LAN hardware and software. A LAN administrator troubleshoots network usage and computer peripherals. He installs new users, performs system backups and data recovery, and resolves LAN communications problems.
- leading indicator — A leading indicator is an economic indicator that changes before a change in the economy, and that can be used to predict future economic or financial activity.
- level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
- literary executor — a person entrusted with the publishable works and other papers of a deceased author.
- lobster thermidor — a dish of cooked lobster meat placed back in the shell with a cream sauce, sprinkled with grated cheese and melted butter, and browned in the oven.
- man enough to/for — If you say that a man is man enough to do something, you mean that he has the necessary courage or ability to do it.
- managing director — manager who oversees a project
- mileage indicator — a device on a vehicle such as a car, plane, etc which indicates the number of miles travelled
- military governor — the military officer in command of a military government.
- omnia vincit amor — love conquers all things
- pocket calculator — an electronic calculator small enough to be carried on one's person.
- program generator — a computer program that can be used to help to create other computer programs
- protection factor — a figure representing the relative degree of protection from the sun's rays afforded by a particular sunscreen
- public prosecutor — an officer charged with the conduct of criminal prosecution in the interest of the public.
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