15-letter words that end in r
- camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
- campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
- cape horn fever — illness feigned by malingerers.
- captain's chair — a hardwood armchair having a low, curved back, formed of a single rail supported by spindles, and a saddle seat
- car transporter — a vehicle for carrying automobiles
- cardinal flower — a campanulaceous plant, Lobelia cardinalis of E North America, that has brilliant scarlet, pink, or white flowers
- cardinal humour — any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition
- cardinal number — A cardinal number is a number such as 1, 3, or 10 that tells you how many things there are in a group but not what order they are in. Compare ordinal number.
- cardinal spider — a large house spider, Tegenaria parietina
- careers adviser — a person trained in giving vocational advice, esp in secondary, further, or higher education
- careers officer — a person trained in giving vocational advice, esp to school leavers
- carrier scanner — (security) (Or "wardialer") A program which uses a modem to dial a series of phone numbers (say, from 770-0000 to 770-9999), and keeps a log of what phone numbers answer with a modem carrier. The results of such a search were generally used by people looking to engage in random mischief in random machines. Since the 1980s, wardialers have generally fallen into disuse, partly because of easily available "caller ID" technology, partly because fax machines are now in wide use and would often be logged as a carrier by a wardialer, and partly because there are so many new and more interesting venues for computerised mischief these days.
- cartesian diver — a glass vessel partially filled with water and covered with an airtight membrane, containing a hollow object that is open at the bottom and contains just enough air to allow it to float. Pressing on the membrane compresses the air in the vessel and forces water into the object, causing it to sink; releasing the membrane causes it to rise.
- cartridge paper — an uncoated type of drawing or printing paper, usually made from bleached sulphate wood pulp with an addition of esparto grass
- cassette player — A cassette player is a machine that is used for playing cassettes and sometimes also recording them.
- cast around for — If you cast around for something or cast about for it, you try to find it or think of it.
- casual labourer — a person who is employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
- catarrhal fever — bluetongue.
- category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
- cathedral choir — the choir, traditionally consisting of boys and men, that sings in cathedral services
- cauliflower ear — permanent swelling and distortion of the external ear as the result of ruptures of the blood vessels: usually caused by blows received in boxing
- cavalry officer — an officer in a cavalry regiment
- cerebrovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels and the blood supply of the brain
- cervical cancer — a cancer of the cervix (the lower end of the womb)
- cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
- chamois leather — soft cleaning cloth
- chanson d'amour — love song.
- character actor — A character actor is an actor who specializes in playing unusual or eccentric people.
- charcoal burner — (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning
- charcoal-burner — a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
- cheap assembler — (tool) (CHASM) A shareware assembler for MS-DOS.
- check protector — checkwriter.
- chelsea tractor — a four-by-four
- chest protector — a protective pad worn over the chest by a catcher or umpire to shield the body from foul tips.
- chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
- chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
- children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
- chile saltpeter — sodium nitrate, esp. as found naturally in Chile and Peru
- chinese juniper — a shrub or tree, Juniperus chinensis, of China, Mongolia, and Japan, having scalelike leaves and small, round, purplish-brown fruit.
- chinese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
- chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
- chromatographer — A person skilled in chromatography or who operates a chromatograph.
- church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
- church register — parish register.
- church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
- cigarette paper — a piece of thin paper rolled around tobacco to form a cigarette
- cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
- circuit breaker — A circuit breaker is a device which can stop the flow of electricity around a circuit by switching itself off if anything goes wrong.
- circular buffer — (programming) An area of memory used to store a continuous stream of data by starting again at the beginning of the buffer after reaching the end. A circular buffer is usually written by one process and read by another. Separate read and write pointers are maintained. These are not allowed to pass each other otherwise either unread data would be overwritten or invalid data would be read. A circuit may implement a hardware circular buffer.
- circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.