15-letter words that end in r
- claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
- clerical collar — a stiff white collar with no opening at the front that buttons at the back of the neck; the distinctive mark of the clergy in certain Churches
- climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
- clotting factor — any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur
- cobble together — If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly.
- cockfight chair — a chair designed to be sat on backward, having a bell seat and a crest rail that serves as an armrest.
- cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
- coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
- coldwater-river — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- come up for air — rise to water's surface
- commit to paper — to write down; record
- committal order — the document that commits someone to prison
- common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
- company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
- competition car — a car that has been modified to compete in racing
- compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
- concrete number — a number referring to a particular object or objects, as in three dogs, ten men
- concurrent user — one of several simultaneous users of a computing resource such as a computer program or file
- confederate war — the American Civil War.
- conference pear — a variety of pear that has sweet and juicy fruit
- constant dollar — a dollar valued according to its purchasing power in an arbitrarily set year and then adjusted for price changes in other years so that real purchasing power can be compared by giving prices as they would presumably be in the base year.
- contact breaker — a switching device used in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine which controls the timing of the spark that ignites the spark plug
- contact printer — an apparatus used for making contact prints, having a frame for holding printing paper and negatives together and a light source for making an exposure.
- contour feather — any of the feathers that cover the body of an adult bird, apart from the wings and tail, and determine its shape
- contract killer — a person hired to commit a murder
- contrapropeller — one of two propellers, usually attached to a ship or aircraft, which rotates in the opposite direction to the other
- council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
- counterattacker — a person who counter-attacks
- counterreformer — a reformer who acts in opposition to another reform
- counting number — natural number
- country dweller — a person who lives in the country
- court of honour — a military court that is instituted to investigate matters involving personal honour
- courting mirror — a small mirror of c1800 having a border and cresting of glass painted with leaves and flowers in imitation of a Chinese style.
- covering letter — A covering letter is a letter that you send with a parcel or with another letter in order to provide extra information.
- cpu info center — (processor) An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
- cradle snatcher — someone who marries or has an affair with a much younger person
- crawler tractor — a tractor with a continuous roller belt over cogged wheels on each side, for moving over rough or muddy ground
- crawling horror — (jargon) Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
- cream of tartar — Cream of tartar is a white powder used in baking.
- credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
- credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.
- criminal lawyer — a lawyer who deals with criminal rather than civil cases
- crocodile river — a river in N South Africa, rising north of Johannesburg and flowing north-westerly into the Marico River on the Botswanan border; a tributary of the Limpopo
- croque-monsieur — a sandwich filled with ham and cheese, either dipped in egg batter or buttered on the outside, and toasted or grilled
- cross assembler — an assembler that runs on a computer other than the one for which it assembles programs
- cross of valour — the highest Canadian award for bravery
- cross-assembler — An assembler which runs on one type of processor and produces machine code for another. There is a set of 6502, 68xx and Zilog Z80 and 8085 cross-assemblers in C by <[email protected]> and Alan R. Baldwin. They run under MS-DOS and could be compiled to run under Unix and on the Amiga and Atari ST. See also fas.
- cry blue murder — to make an outcry