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14-letter words that end in ter

  • fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
  • feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
  • feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
  • fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
  • first minister — In the Scottish Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly, the First Minister is the leader of the ruling party.
  • fitness center — A fitness center in a hotel is a large room, usually containing special equipment, where people go to do physical exercise and get fit.
  • flame arrester — A flame arrester is a device which stops a flame from spreading along a pipe or tube.
  • flat character — an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author.
  • floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
  • for the better — by way of improvement
  • fore-and-after — Nautical. a sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig. a beam running fore and aft across a hatchway to support hatch covers laid athwart the hatchway. a vessel having a sharp stern; a double ender.
  • fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fortune-hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
  • geothermometer — a thermometer for measuring temperatures below the surface of the earth
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • giant anteater — a large, narrow-bodied anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, having a long, tapering snout and extensile tongue, powerful front claws, and a shaggy gray coat marked with a conspicuous black band.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • grammaticaster — (derogatory) A pedantic, inferior grammarian.
  • green verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
  • gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
  • haemocytometer — an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • hash character — (character)   "#", ASCII character 35. Common names: number sign; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp; crunch; hex; INTERCAL: mesh. Rare: grid; crosshatch; octothorpe; flash; ITU-T: square, pig-pen; tictactoe; scratchmark; thud; thump; splat. The pronunciation of "#" as "pound" is common in the US but a bad idea; Commonwealth Hackish has its own, rather more apposite use of "pound sign" (confusingly, on British keyboards the pound graphic happens to replace "#"; thus Britishers sometimes call "#" on a US-ASCII keyboard "pound", compounding the American error). The US usage derives from an old-fashioned commercial practice of using a "#" suffix to tag pound weights on bills of lading. The character is usually pronounced "hash" outside the US. The name "octothorpe" was made up by a Bell Labs supervisor, Don Macpherson.
  • helter-skelter — in headlong and disorderly haste: The children ran helter-skelter all over the house.
  • idle character — a transmitted control character that holds a position but does not appear in the output at the receiver.
  • impact printer — (printer)   The earlier, noisier kind of printer where part of the mechanism comes into contact with the paper. The term would only be only used in contrast to "non-impact printer". Examples include line printer, daisy wheel printer, golf ball printer, dot matrix printer, Braille printer.
  • index register — (processor)   A register found in some CPUs, whose contents can be added to the address operand to give the effective address. Incrementing the index register then allows the program to access the next location in memory and so on, making it very useful for working with arrays or blocks of memory. Index registers first appeared around April 1949 in the Manchester Mark I. The Mark I's index register's contents were simply added to the entire instruction, thus potentially changing the opcode (see The story of Mel)!
  • inkjet printer — a high-speed typing or printing process in which charged droplets of ink issuing from nozzles are directed onto paper under computer control.
  • intensitometer — a device used to measure x-ray intensity in radiography in order to determine correct exposure time.
  • interferometer — Optics. a device that separates a beam of light into two ray beams, usually by means of reflection, and that brings the rays together to produce interference, used to measure wavelength, index of refraction, and astronomical distances.
  • intervalometer — an automatic device for operating the shutter of a camera at regular intervals, as in making aerial photographs.
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • kilogram-meter — a meter-kilogram-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one kilogram when its point of application moves through a distance of one meter in the direction of the force; approximately 7.2 foot-pounds. Abbreviation: kg-m.
  • knuckle-duster — brass knuckles.
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
  • left-of-center — holding liberal views in politics; left-wing.
  • lincoln center — a centre for the performing arts in New York City, including theatres, a library, and a school
  • little theater — generally noncommercial drama, usually of an experimental nature and directed at a limited audience.
  • message center — an office or other area where incoming and outgoing messages, mail, etc., are received and transmitted, as by telephone, computer, or messenger.
  • meteoric water — ground water that has recently originated from the atmosphere
  • micropyrometer — an optical pyrometer used to measure the temperature of small glowing bodies.
  • milk and water — If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water.
  • milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
  • milling cutter — any of various rotating toothed cutters used in a milling machine to cut or shape metal parts
  • millivoltmeter — A voltmeter that is sensitive enough to produce readings on the millivolt scale.
  • morale booster — You can refer to something that makes people feel more confident and cheerful as a morale booster.
  • multicharacter — (of a book, play, film, etc) involving or relating to several characters
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