8-letter words that end in r
- alistair — a masculine name
- all over — All over a place means in every part of it.
- all-over — upper; higher up.
- all-star — An all-star cast, performance, or game is one which contains only famous or extremely good performers or players.
- all-year — taking up, extending through, or occurring continually during a year: an all-year activity.
- allocher — any of the variant forms of a chereme.
- allosaur — any large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the genus Antrodemus (formerly Allosaurus), common in North America in late Jurassic times: suborder Theropoda (theropods)
- allotter — a person who allots
- alveolar — of, relating to, or resembling an alveolus
- ambedkar — Bhimrao Ramji [beem-rou rahm-jee] /ˈbim raʊ ˈrɑm dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1893–1956, Indian politician and jurist.
- ambusher — One who ambushes.
- amritsar — a city in India, in NW Punjab: centre of the Sikh religion; site of a massacre in 1919 of unarmed supporters of Indian self-government by British troops; in 1984 the Golden Temple, fortified by Sikhs, was attacked by Indian troops with the loss of many Sikh lives. Pop: 975 695 (2001)
- analyser — An analyser is a piece of equipment which is used to analyse the substances that are present in something such as a gas.
- analyzer — An analyzer is a piece of equipment used to analyze the substances that are present in something such as a gas.
- ancaster — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- animater — animator
- animator — An animator is a person who makes films by means of animation.
- anointer — One who anoints.
- anovular — not associated with or accompanied by ovulation
- answerer — someone who answers
- ant bear — a large, ant-eating, edentate mammal (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) of Central America and tropical South America, with a long, shaggy tail; giant anteater
- anteater — An anteater is an animal with a long nose that eats termites or ants. Anteaters live in warm countries.
- anterior — Anterior describes a part of the body that is situated at or towards the front of another part.
- antiquer — a person who alters the appearance of objects to give an antique quality
- antiwear — preventing deterioration as a result of use
- appealer — an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea.
- appearer — a person who appears
- appeaser — to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
- appellor — the accuser or prosecutor
- appender — (computing) A software component that appends data to a computer file.
- apporter — (obsolete) A bringer in; an importer.
- appriser — a person who appraises
- apprizer — An appraiser.
- approver — a person who approves
- arbitrer — arbitrator.
- archiver — One who, or that which, archives.
- argufier — a person who argufies
- armchair — An armchair is a big comfortable chair which has a support on each side for your arms.
- armourer — An armourer is someone who makes or supplies weapons.
- arranger — An arranger is a musician who arranges music by other composers, either for particular instruments or voices, or for a particular performance.
- arrester — a person who arrests
- arrestor — Also, arrestor. a person or thing that arrests.
- ascender — the part of certain lower-case letters, such as b or h, that extends above the body of the letter
- asperger — a developmental disorder characterized by severely impaired social skills, repetitive behaviors, and often, a narrow set of interests, but not involving delayed development of linguistic and cognitive abilities: now considered one of the autism spectrum disorders.
- asperser — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
- assailer — One who assails; an assailant.
- assenter — a person who agrees or complies
- assentor — any of the eight voters legally required to endorse the nomination of a candidate in a parliamentary or local election in addition to the nominator and seconder
- asserter — One who makes an assertion.