12-letter words that end in r
- consolidator — a person or thing that consolidates
- contaminator — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- contemplator — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- contradicter — One who contradicts.
- contradictor — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- controverter — One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.
- conventicler — One who supports or frequents conventicles.
- conventioner — a conventioneer.
- copper river — a stream in S Alaska, flowing through the SE part. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- coproprietor — a joint proprietor
- coprosecutor — one of two or more joint prosecutors.
- coresearcher — a joint researcher
- corn-cracker — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
- corner chair — a chair having an approximately square seat with a leg at each corner and a back extending around two adjacent sides.
- correctioner — a person who administers correction
- corroborator — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- corset cover — an undergarment, as a camisole, worn over the upper part of a corset.
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- costermonger — a person who sells fruit, vegetables, etc, from a barrow
- cotortfeasor — (legal) A joint tortfeasor.
- countenancer — One who countenances, favours, or supports.
- counteracter — Something that counteracts.
- counteroffer — A counteroffer is an offer that someone makes, for example, for a house or business, in response to an offer by another person or group.
- counterorder — An order (command) made in opposition to a previous one.
- counterpower — an opposing power
- countertenor — A countertenor is a man who sings with a high voice that is similar to a low female singing voice.
- courtesy car — a car that is lent to c customer by a garage or insurance company
- couscoussier — A double-chambered steamer used to prepare couscous.
- cover letter — A cover letter is the same as a covering letter.
- coxless four — a boat for four oarsman and no cox
- crane driver — a person who drives a crane
- crank letter — a hostile or fanatical letter, often sent anonymously.
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- creep feeder — a pen so constructed as to exclude larger animals while permitting young animals to enter and obtain feed.
- crepe rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of colourless or pale yellow crinkled sheets, prepared by pressing bleached coagulated latex through corrugated rollers: used for the soles of shoes and in making certain surgical and medical goods
- crepe-hanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- cri de coeur — a cry from the heart; heartfelt or sincere appeal
- crime writer — a writer who writes detective fiction
- crime-buster — a law officer who specializes in fighting large-scale organized crime
- crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
- crop sprayer — a device for spraying crops
- cross colour — distortion in a colour television receiver in which high-frequency luminance detail is interpreted as colour information and reproduced as flashes of spurious colour
- cross-bearer — a person who carries or holds a cross, especially in a religious procession.
- cross-border — Cross-border trade occurs between companies in different countries.
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- crossbencher — A member of the British parliament, or a similar assembly, who does not vote regularly with either the government or the main opposition party.
- crossdresser — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.
- crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
- crown antler — the topmost prong of a stag's antler.
- crown cutter — a hollow, thin-walled cylinder having teeth formed radially on the end and used for cutting round holes out of thin, flat stock.