10-letter words that end in ter
- freshwater — of or living in water that is fresh or not salt: freshwater fish.
- frustrater — One who or that which frustrates.
- gangbuster — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gangmaster — a person who recruits and manages temporary or migratory labourers, esp for seasonal agricultural work
- gas fitter — a person who installs gas pipes and apparatus in buildings.
- gas heater — heating appliance that runs on gas
- gaussmeter — a magnetometer for measuring the intensity of a magnetic field, calibrated in gauss.
- get better — recover
- gillnetter — One who fishes using a gillnet.
- glossmeter — an instrument for measuring the reflectivity of a surface.
- gloucester — Duke of, Humphrey.
- goldbeater — a person who pounds gold into thin leaves for use in gilding
- goniometer — an instrument for measuring solid angles, as of crystals.
- gradienter — an instrument on a transit for measuring angles of inclination in terms of their tangents.
- gravimeter — an instrument for measuring the specific gravity of a solid or liquid.
- gray water — dirty water from sinks, showers, bathtubs, washing machines, and the like, that can be recycled, as for use in flushing toilets.
- grey water — household waste water that can be reused for some purposes without purification, e.g. bath water, which can be used to water plants
- gunfighter — a person highly skilled in the use of a gun and a veteran of many gunfights, especially one living during the frontier days of the American West.
- gyrocopter — autogiro.
- had better — that which has greater excellence or is preferable or wiser: the better of two choices.
- haemometer — A hemadynamometer.
- haircutter — A barber.
- half-liter — a unit of capacity equal to 500 cubic centimeters.
- haptometer — a mechanical device for measuring the sense of touch.
- hard water — water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty.
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- headmaster — the person in charge of a private school.
- headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- hectoliter — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
- hectometer — a unit of length equal to 100 meters, or 328.08 feet. Abbreviation: hm.
- hektoliter — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
- hektometer — a unit of length equal to 100 meters, or 328.08 feet. Abbreviation: hm.
- helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
- heliometer — a telescope with a divided, adjustable objective, formerly used to measure small angular distances, as those between celestial bodies.
- heptameter — a verse of seven metrical feet.
- herrnhuter — Moravian (def 4).
- high water — water at its greatest elevation, as in a river.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- huntmaster — (chiefly, fantasy) The leader of a hunt.
- hydrometer — an instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid, commonly consisting of a graduated tube weighted to float upright in the liquid whose specific gravity is being measured.
- hyetometer — an instrument used to measure rainfall
- hygrometer — any instrument for measuring the water-vapor content of the atmosphere.
- hypermeter — a verse or line containing additional syllables after those proper to the meter.
- hypocenter — focus (def 5).
- hypsometer — thermobarometer (def 1).
- ice skater — An ice skater is someone who skates on ice.
- iconometer — an instrument for finding the size of an object by measuring its image