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15-letter words that end in r

  • crystal counter — an instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity of high-energy radiation, in which particles collide with a crystal and momentarily increase its conductivity
  • cuisine minceur — a style of cooking, originating in France, that limits the use of starch, sugar, butter, and cream traditionally used in French cookery
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
  • current limiter — a device, as a resistor or fuse, that limits the flow of current to a prescribed amount, independent of the voltage applied.
  • curtain shutter — a focal-plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of which determines the length of exposure.
  • customs officer — a person employed by a customs service
  • cuticle remover — a substance used to remove the cuticle from around the base of one's nails
  • daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
  • dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
  • data link layer — (networking)   Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
  • database server — A stand-alone computer in a local area network that holds and manages the database. It implies that database management functions, such as locating the actual record being requested, is performed in the server computer. Contrast with file server, which acts as a remote disk drive and requires that large parts of the database, for example, entire indexes, be transmitted to the user's computer where the real database management tasks are performed. First-generation personal computer database software was not designed for a network; thus, modified versions of the software released by the vendors employed the file server concept. Second-generation products, designed for local area networks, perform the management tasks in the server where they should be done, and consequently are turning the file server into a database server.
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • decubitus ulcer — a chronic ulcer of the skin and underlying tissues caused by prolonged pressure on the body surface of bedridden patients
  • depletion layer — a region at the interface between dissimilar zones of conductivity in a semiconductor, in which there are few charge carriers
  • deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
  • desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
  • diastereoisomer — a type of isomer that differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms in the molecule, but is not a mirror image; a stereoisomer that is not an enantiomer
  • dichroic filter — an optical colour filter operating on the principle of wave interference between closely spaced reflecting surfaces, rather than by colour absorption
  • digital carrier — (hardware, communications)   A medium which can carry digital signals; broadly equivalent to the physical layer of the OSI seven layer model of networks. Carriers can be described as baseband or broadband. A baseband carrier can include direct current (DC), whereas broadband carriers are modulated by various methods into frequency bands which do not include DC. Sometimes a modem (modulator/demodulator) or codec (coder/decoder) combines several channels on one transmission path. The combining of channels is called multiplexing, and their separation is called demultiplexing, independent of whether a modem or codec bank is used. Modems can be associated with frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and codecs with time division multiplexing (TDM) though this grouping of concepts is somewhat arbitrary. If the medium of a carrier is copper telephone wire, the circuit may be called T1, T3, etc. as these designations originally described such. T1 carriers used a restored polar line coding scheme which allowed a baseband signal to be transported as broadband and restored to baseband at the receiver. T1 is not used in this sense today, and indeed it is often confused with the DS1 signal carried.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • disk controller — (hardware, storage)   (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • distilled water — water from which impurities, as dissolved salts and colloidal particles, have been removed by one or more processes of distillation; chemically pure water.
  • do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
  • dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
  • domain squatter — (web)   An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
  • dominical altar — a high altar.
  • dongola leather — a leather similar to kid, made from goatskin, sheepskin, or calfskin.
  • donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
  • drift indicator — an instrument that indicates the amount of drift of an aircraft.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • early-type star — any massive hot star of spectral type O, B, or A
  • ease the rudder — to reduce the angle the rudder makes with the fore-and-aft line so that the vessel will turn more gradually
  • easter islander — a native or inhabitant of Easter Island
  • eating disorder — any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • egyptian jasper — a type of jasper, generally with zones of colour, found in desert regions of Egypt
  • electric cooker — a device for cooking which is powered by electricity
  • electric guitar — electrically-amplified guitar
  • electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
  • electrocutioner — A person who carries out an execution by means of electricity.
  • electroreceptor — A cell or organ responsible for electroreception.
  • eleventh-grader — a student in the eleventh grade of high school
  • english speaker — a person who speaks English as a first, or second mother tongue
  • ennerdale water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • exchange server — Microsoft Exchange
  • exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
  • executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
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