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12-letter words that end in r

  • cryptolocker — (security)   The best known example of the kind of malware known as ransomware. CryptoLocker encrypts files on your computer and then demands that you send the malware operator money in order to have the files decrypted. According to FBI estimates, CryptoLocker had more than 500,000 victims between September 2013 and May 2014. Around 1.3 percent paid to free their files, earning the malware makers around $3 million. The criminal network was smashed by authorities and security researchers in May 2014 and a tool put online to decryt victim's files for free.
  • crystallizer — A crystallizer is a vessel or stage in which a crystal grows from a liquid.
  • cub reporter — A cub reporter is a young newspaper journalist who is still being trained.
  • cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
  • cuiaba-river — a river in SW Brazil. About 300 miles (485 km) long.
  • currency bar — a long narrow iron bar, often sword-like or spear-like in shape, dating from the pre-Roman and Roman period in Britain; the purpose of currency bars is not certain, and while they may have been used in trade, they may have had a ritual significance
  • curry favour — to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
  • curry powder — Curry powder is a powder made from a mixture of spices. It is used in cooking, especially when making curry.
  • curule chair — an upholstered folding seat with curved legs used by the highest civil officials of ancient Rome
  • cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
  • custom-order — to obtain by special or individual order: These wide doors have to be custom-ordered.
  • cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
  • cybertrooper — (in Malaysia) An activist who uses cyberspace.
  • cycle server — (jargon)   A powerful computer that exists primarily for running large batch jobs. The term implies that interactive tasks such as editing are done on other machines on the network, such as workstations.
  • cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
  • cytoanalyzer — an electronic optical device for screening smears of cells suspected of being malignant.
  • d'anjou pear — Anjou pear
  • dairy farmer — a farmer who has a herd producing milk
  • daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
  • daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
  • dance on air — to move one's feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, especially to the accompaniment of music.
  • danube river — a river in central and SE Europe, flowing E from southern Germany to the Black Sea. 1725 miles (2775 km) long.
  • data carrier — any medium, such as magnetic tape, on which data can be recorded
  • david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
  • david turner — (person)   Professor David A Turner. One of the pioneers of functional languages. He designed several languages, including, SASL (1976), KRC (1981), and Miranda, many of which were implemented using combinators and the S-K reduction machine which he defined. He coined the name "ZF expression" for the list comprehension. He worked at UKC and set up a company, Research Software Limited to market Miranda.
  • day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
  • dead soldier — an empty beer or spirit bottle
  • decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
  • deck officer — a ship's officer who is part of the deck crew
  • declinometer — an instrument for measuring magnetic declination
  • decompressor — a device for lowering motor engine compression
  • decorticator — A machine that peels off the fibrous husk, bark or outer layer of some vegetable product; used in the manufacture of animal feed etc.
  • deep freezer — any freezer for quick-freezing and storing food
  • deformed bar — a rod for reinforcing concrete, having surface irregularities, as transverse ridges, to improve the bond.
  • defragmenter — (computing) That which defragments; a program that performs defragmentation.
  • dehumidifier — A dehumidifier is a machine that is used to reduce the amount of moisture in the air.
  • deli counter — a display case in a delicatessen, or one in a supermarket that sells delicatessen
  • demagnetizer — Any device (often a furnace) that is used to remove magnetization.
  • democratiser — one who democratises
  • democratizer — a person or thing that democratizes
  • demonstrator — Demonstrators are people who are marching or gathering somewhere to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
  • dengue-fever — an infectious, eruptive fever of warm climates, usually epidemic, characterized especially by severe pains in the joints and muscles.
  • densitometer — an instrument for measuring the optical density of a material by directing a beam of light onto the specimen and measuring its transmission or reflection
  • dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
  • deprogrammer — a person or thing that removes the effects of brainwashing or indoctrination
  • derwentwater — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Area: about 8 sq km (3 sq miles)
  • desensitizer — Anything that desensitizes.
  • destabilizer — a person who or a thing that destabilizes
  • destined for — headed for; bound for
  • determinator — a person who or a thing that determines
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