10-letter words that end in ter
- in plaster — If you have a leg or arm in plaster, you have a cover made of plaster of Paris around your leg or arm, in order to protect a broken bone and allow it to mend.
- instituter — a person who institutes or founds.
- instructer — (obsolete) One who instructs.
- interester — (organic chemistry) Describing reactions between esters.
- interrater — Between raters.
- ironmaster — the master of a foundry or ironworks; a manufacturer of iron.
- jetfighter — a fighter aircraft powered by a jet engine or engines.
- job setter — a worker who readies or adjusts machinery for tooling on the production line.
- jumpmaster — a person who supervises the jumping of paratroopers or other parachutists.
- kicksorter — a multichannel pulse-height analyser used esp to distinguish between isotopes by sorting their characteristic pulses (kicks)
- kid sister — younger female sibling
- koeksister — (South Africa) A traditional Malay confection consisting of a deep-fried twisted or plaited doughnut dipped in syrup immediately after cooking.
- lackluster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lactometer — an instrument for determining the specific gravity of milk.
- landwaiter — a British customs officer who enforces import-export regulations, collects import duties, etc.
- lay sister — a woman who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed in her order chiefly in manual labor.
- leafcutter — Alternative spelling of leaf-cutter.
- leafletter — a small flat or folded sheet of printed matter, as an advertisement or notice, usually intended for free distribution.
- leominster — a city in N Massachusetts.
- like water — lavishly; freely
- line eater — (messaging) 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the Usenet software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text. The bug was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab. This bug was quickly personified as a mythical creature called the "line eater", and postings often included a dummy line of "line eater food". Ironically, line eater "food" not beginning with a space or tab wasn't actually eaten, since the bug was avoided; but if there *was* a space or tab before it, then the line eater would eat the food *and* the beginning of the text it was supposed to be protecting. The practice of "sacrificing to the line eater" continued for some time after the bug had been nailed to the wall, and is still humorously referred to. The bug itself is still (in mid-1991) occasionally reported to be lurking in some mail-to-netnews gateways. 2. NSA line eater.
- linecaster — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
- linguister — an interpreter
- loadmaster — an aircrew member responsible for the loading and stowage of cargo aboard an aircraft.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- lollywater — a sweet soft drink, especially one brightly colored.
- look after — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- loremaster — (chiefly, fantasy) A wise person with knowledge of history, genealogy and ancient poetry and possibly magic as well.
- lust after — desire sexually
- macrometer — An instrument for determining the size or distance of inaccessible objects by means of two reflectors on a common sextant.
- make after — to set off in pursuit of; chase
- make water — colloquial
- manchester — a city in NW England: connected with the Mersey estuary by a ship canal (35½ mi. [57 km] long).
- manifester — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manumitter — An emancipator from slavery, someone who manumits.
- meat-eater — a person or animal that eats meat
- meatometer — A device to measure the width of a human's urinary meatus.
- medicaster — A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.
- metacenter — the intersection between two vertical lines, one through the center of buoyancy of a hull in equilibrium, the other through the center of buoyancy when the hull is inclined slightly to one side or toward one end: the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the initial stability of the hull.
- micrometer — micron (def 1).
- microtiter — A titer obtained by the use of very small amounts of reagents.
- mileometer — device calculating miles travelled
- milliliter — a unit of capacity equal to one thousandth of a liter, and equivalent to 0.033815 fluid ounce, or 0.061025 cubic inch. Abbreviation: ml.
- millimeter — a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter and equivalent to 0.03937 inch. Abbreviation: mm.
- minehunter — a naval vessel that searches for mines by electronic means
- mischanter — mishanter.
- misconster — Obsolete form of misconstrue (16th-17th c.).
- mistruster — One who mistrusts.
- moa hunter — the name given by anthropologists to the early Māori inhabitants of New Zealand
- mug punter — a customer or client who is gullible and easily swindled