12-letter words that end in tor
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- horse-doctor — an informal word for a vet who specializes in treating horses
- host adaptor — SCSI adaptor
- house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
- hyperreactor — a person who behaves in a hyperreactive manner
- hypothecator — to pledge to a creditor as security without delivering over; mortgage.
- impersonator — a person who pretends to be another.
- impropriator — A person to whom a benefice is granted as their property.
- improvisator — a person who improvises; improviser.
- incarcerator — A person who incarcerates.
- incorporator — one of the signers of the articles or certificate of legal incorporation.
- interlocutor — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- interoceptor — a receptor, especially of the viscera, responding to stimuli originating from within the body.
- interpolator — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- interrogator — a person who interrogates.
- introspector — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- juris doctor — lawyer's degree
- lie detector — a polygraph used to determine changes in certain body activities, as blood pressure, pulse, breathing, and perspiration, the results of which may be interpreted to indicate the truth or falsity of a person's answers under questioning.
- linear motor — an electric motor in which a movable part moves in a straight line, with power being supplied by a varying magnetic field set up by a fixed part of the system, as a metal rail on the ground.
- loop reactor — A loop reactor is a reactor in which the material is pumped round one or more vessels or stages in a continuous process.
- matriculator — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- method actor — actor who follows the Method
- mis director — Chief Information Officer
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- night editor — an editor responsible for getting a morning newspaper to press, for the night operations of a wire service, or the like.
- nocireceptor — a receptor sensitive to pain
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- noncollector — a person who does not collect things
- nonconductor — a substance that does not readily conduct heat, sound, or electricity.
- optoisolator — A device that transmits a signal optically between two isolated electronic circuits.
- orchestrator — One who orchestrates.
- osmoreceptor — A sensory receptor, primarily found in the hypothalamus of most homeothermic organisms, that detects changes in osmotic pressure.
- panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- participator — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- perseverator — a person who perseverates
- pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
- precipitator — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
- prevaricator — a person who speaks falsely; liar.
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- primogenitor — a first parent or earliest ancestor: Adam and Eve are the primogenitors of the human race.
- prom monitor — (operating system) a small program stored in PROM (or ROM), responsible for both loading the OS and providing some means to analyse OS crashes. It may also have some sort of user interface which can be used to examine and change the contents of memory, control the boot process (specifying arguments to the kernel, or changing where to look for the it), and so forth. The main difference between a PROM monitor and a bootstrap loader is that the PROM monitor regains control when the OS terminates. This may enable a wizard to find out what went wrong if the OS crashed, although it is usually of little help for the average sysadmin.
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- quack doctor — an unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills
- qualificator — (in an ecclesiastical court) an officer charged with examining cases and preparing them for trial.
- radiolocator — radar.
- reciprocator — to give, feel, etc., in return.