9-letter words that end in r
- ask after — If someone asks after you, they ask someone how you are.
- asmoulder — in a smouldering or slowly burning manner
- asphalter — a person who spreads a layer of asphalt
- aspirator — a device employing suction, such as a jet pump or one for removing fluids from a body cavity
- assaulter — a sudden, violent attack; onslaught: an assault on tradition.
- assembler — An assembler is a person, a machine, or a company which assembles the individual parts of a vehicle or a piece of equipment such as a computer.
- asskicker — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
- astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
- at anchor — If a boat is at anchor, it is floating in a particular place and is prevented from moving by its anchor.
- atmometer — an instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation of water into the atmosphere
- attainder — (formerly) the extinction of a person's civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony
- attempter — One who attempts.
- attolaser — a high-power laser capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
- attracter — to draw by a physical force causing or tending to cause to approach, adhere, or unite; pull (opposed to repel): The gravitational force of the earth attracts smaller bodies to it.
- attractor — a person or thing that attracts.
- au revoir — goodbye
- augmenter — a person or thing that augments.
- augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
- auricular — of, relating to, or received by the sense or organs of hearing; aural
- auslander — (in a German-speaking country) a foreigner
- austemper — to harden (steel) by heating and quenching to render it austenitic.
- autocoder — (language) Possibly the first primitive compiler. AUTOCODER was written by Alick E. Glennie in 1952. It translated symbolic statements into machine language for the Manchester Mark I computer. Autocoding later came to be a generic term for assembly language programming.
- automaker — An automaker is a company that manufactures cars.
- autometer — a small device inserted in a photocopier to enable the process of copying to begin and to record the number of copies made
- autotimer — a device for turning a system on and off automatically at times predetermined by advance setting
- auxometer — an instrument measuring the magnifying power of lenses
- avascular — (of certain tissues, such as cartilage) lacking blood vessels
- avuncular — An avuncular man or a man with avuncular behaviour is friendly and helpful towards someone younger.
- axis deer — an Asian deer, Cervus (Axis) axis, of India and Sri Lanka, having a reddish-brown coat spotted with white.
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- babymaker — Somebody who gives birth to a baby.
- bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
- back door — a door at the rear or side of a building
- back four — the defensive players in many modern team formations: usually two fullbacks and two centre backs
- back gear — (in a lathe) one of several gears for driving the headstock at various speeds.
- back-door — secret; furtive; illicit; indirect.
- backbiter — to attack the character or reputation of (a person who is not present).
- backorder — Commerce. an order or part of an order waiting to be filled.
- backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
- backwater — A backwater is a place that is isolated.
- bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
- bad paper — a less-than-honorable discharge from military service.
- balikesir — city in NW Asiatic Turkey: pop. 173,000
- balladeer — a singer of ballads
- balladier — a person who sings ballads.
- ballaster — someone who supplies ballast for a ship; someone who ballasts
- ballister — (obsolete) A crossbow.
- baltassar — Belteshazzar.
- balthazar — a wine bottle holding the equivalent of sixteen normal bottles (approximately 12 litres)
- bandelier — Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840–1914, U.S. anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian, born in Switzerland.