17-letter words that end in or
- put in a word for — to make favourable mention of (someone); recommend
- quantity surveyor — A quantity surveyor is a person who calculates the cost and amount of materials and workers needed for a job such as building a house or a road.
- recoverable error — a program error that can be corrected and does not cause the program to fail or irretrievably lose data.
- refuse destructor — someone responsible for or something that destructs or destroys rubbish and waste
- rheumatoid factor — an antibody that is found in the blood of many persons afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis and that reacts against globulins in the blood.
- rotary cultivator — a machine for breaking up and tilling soil, consisting of a series of blades mounted on a revolving power-driven shaft
- school counsellor — a counsellor who is based in a school
- set one's cap for — a close-fitting covering for the head, usually of soft supple material and having no visor or brim.
- sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
- stockbroker tudor — a modern style of architecture popular in affluent suburban areas that is imitative of Tudor architecture
- strange attractor — Physics. a stable, nonperiodic state or behavior exhibited by some dynamic systems, especially turbulent ones, that can be represented as a nonrepeating pattern in the system's phase space.
- subtractive color — cyan, yellow, or magenta, as used in the subtractive process of color photography.
- swash plate motor — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and converts reciprocating motion to rotation
- synchronous motor — a synchronous machine that acts as a motor.
- tabernacle mirror — a mirror of c1800, having columns and a cornice, usually gilt, with a painted panel over the mirror.
- take to the floor — If you take to the floor, you start dancing at a dance or disco.
- terminal operator — A terminal operator is a company that manages a place where oil or petrochemical products are stored.
- the factory floor — all the workers in a factory
- the past anterior — a French tense: the pluperfect
- through the floor — If you say that prices or sales have fallen through the floor, you mean that they have suddenly decreased.
- voltage regulator — a device that controls or maintains the voltage of an electrical circuit. Abbreviation: VR.
- weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
- wind chill factor — A wind chill factor is a measure of the cooling effect of the wind on the temperature of the air.
- wind-chill factor — the apparent temperature felt on the exposed human body owing to the combination of temperature and wind speed.
- wireless operator — a radio operator