8-letter words that end in ter
- competer — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- computer — a device, usually electronic, that processes data according to a set of instructions. The digital computer stores data in discrete units and performs arithmetical and logical operations at very high speed. The analog computer has no memory and is slower than the digital computer but has a continuous rather than a discrete input. The hybrid computer combines some of the advantages of digital and analog computers
- confuter — A person who confutes.
- cowriter — a writer who works in collaboration with another writer
- cutwater — the forward part of the stem of a vessel, which cuts through the water
- cytaster — aster.
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- decanter — A decanter is a glass container that you use for serving wine, sherry, or port.
- decenter — to cause to undergo a shift away from what has been its traditional center, focus, orientation, or emphasis
- deemster — the title of one of the two justices in the Isle of Man
- defeater — to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish: They defeated the enemy. She defeated her brother at tennis.
- deflater — a person or device that causes deflation
- dehorter — a person who dehorts
- dejecter — One who casts down, or dejects.
- deluster — remove the lustre from
- demister — A demister is the same as a defogger.
- dempster — Arthur Jeffrey, 1886–1950, U.S. physicist.
- departer — a person who refines metals by separating them from alloys
- depicter — A person who depicts (a specified subject).
- depleter — a thing that depletes something
- deporter — a person or thing that deports
- desalter — an apparatus for desalting
- deserter — A deserter is someone who leaves their job in the armed forces without permission.
- desilter — A desilter is a device, usually a hydrocyclone, at the surface which removes very small particles from the drilling mud.
- detester — Someone who detests, a hater.
- deventer — an industrial city in the E Netherlands, in Overijssel province, on the River IJssel: medieval intellectual centre; early centre of Dutch printing. Pop: 88 000 (2003 est)
- diameter — The diameter of a round object is the length of a straight line that can be drawn across it, passing through the middle of it.
- digester — a person or thing that digests.
- directer — Comparative form of direct.
- disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
- disenter — Obsolete form of disinter.
- disinter — to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- diverter — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- dniester — a river in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains to the Black Sea. About 875 miles (1410 km) long.
- doomster — a doomsayer.
- dopester — a person who undertakes to predict the outcome of elections, sports events, or other contests that hold the public interest.
- dragster — an automobile designed and built specifically for drag racing, especially on a ¼-mi. (402-meter) or ⅛-mi. (201-meter) drag strip.
- dumpster — a large metal bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.
- effecter — effector (def 1).
- embitter — Cause (someone) to feel bitter or resentful.
- enaunter — in case that
- enfetter — Restrain (someone) with shackles.
- enlister — One who enlists.
- executer — Alternative form of executor.
- exhorter — (rare) A person who exhorts.
- expecter — One who expects.
- exporter — One who, or that which, exports: especially a person who or organization that exports or sells goods made in one country for delivery in another country.
- extorter — One who practices extortion.
- eyewater — a lotion for the eyes