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10-letter words that end in ter

  • postmaster — the official in charge of a post office.
  • pre-easter — an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
  • pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
  • pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
  • pump-water — water that has been sourced from under soil level by means of a pump
  • pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
  • quadcopter — A rotorcraft propelled by four rotors.
  • quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
  • quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
  • radiometer — Also called Crookes radiometer. an instrument for demonstrating the transformation of radiant energy into mechanical work, consisting of an exhausted glass vessel containing vanes that revolve about an axis when exposed to light.
  • ratiometer — (in three-color photography) a device for determining the exposure factors of the filters to be used.
  • red duster — a red ensign having the Union Jack as a canton, flown by most British merchant ships.
  • red setter — breed of hunting dog
  • red-letter — marked by red letters, as festival days in the church calendar.
  • rencounter — a hostile meeting; battle.
  • reredorter — a privy at the back of a monastic dormitory
  • reregister — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
  • residenter — an inhabitant, resident
  • ringmaster — a person in charge of the performances in a circus ring.
  • ripsnorter — something or someone exceedingly strong or violent: a ripsnorter of a gale.
  • rose-water — having the aroma or fragrance of rose water.
  • rug-cutter — a person who jitterbugs.
  • sailboater — a person who sails a boat
  • salt water — water containing a large amount of salt.
  • salzgitter — a city in Lower Saxony, in central Germany, SE of Hanover.
  • sandlotter — a youngster who plays baseball in a sandlot.
  • schumpeter — Joseph Alois [uh-lois] /əˈlɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, U.S. economist, born in Austria.
  • scotometer — a device used for measuring a scotoma's size, shape and intensity
  • sea letter — a document issued to a merchant vessel, esp in wartime, authorizing it to leave a port or proceed freely
  • sea slater — a large (2.5 cm or 1 in.) nocturnal isopod, Ligea oceanica, that lives in cracks in rocks or walls around the high-water mark
  • shearwater — any of several long-winged petrels of the genus Puffinus that appear to shear the water with their wing tips when flying low.
  • shipfitter — a person who forms plates, shapes, etc., of ship according to plans, patterns, or molds.
  • shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
  • shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
  • shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
  • showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
  • six-footer — a person who is roughly six feet tall.
  • six-seater — a vehicle vehicle providing seats for six people
  • slot meter — a meter into which coins are inserted, in advance, to pay for electricity (as opposed to a meter that records the amount of electricity the customer has used, for which they are later billed, usually each quarter)
  • sob sister — a journalist who writes human-interest stories with sentimental pathos.
  • soda niter — a white or transparent mineral, sodium nitrate, NaNO 3 , used chiefly as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of sulfuric and nitric acids and potassium nitrate.
  • soda water — an effervescent beverage consisting of water charged with carbon dioxide.
  • songwriter — a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.
  • sou'wester — a waterproof hat, often of oilskin, having the brim very broad behind and slanted, worn especially by seamen.
  • spirometer — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
  • spot meter — an exposure meter that measures light reflected from only a small area of a subject or scene.
  • stadimeter — an instrument for determining the distance between an observer and an object of known height by measurement of the angle subtended by the object.
  • stepsister — one's stepfather's or stepmother's daughter by a previous marriage.
  • stillwater — a city in N Oklahoma.
  • stimpmeter — a machine used in golf to measure the speed of a putting green
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