12-letter words that end in tor
- refrigerator — a box, room, or cabinet in which food, drink, etc., are kept cool by means of ice or mechanical refrigeration.
- reperforator — (especially in teletype transmission) a machine for punching a duplicate perforated paper tape of incoming messages so that they may later be retransmitted: used for automatic typesetting.
- resuscitator — a person or thing that resuscitates.
- reverberator — to reecho or resound: Her singing reverberated through the house.
- rheoreceptor — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
- rocket motor — engine of a spacecraft
- scarificator — a person who scarifies.
- scintillator — a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.
- screen actor — a film actor
- scsi adaptor — (hardware) (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
- sensorimotor — Psychology. of or relating to motor activity caused by sensory stimuli. Compare ideomotor.
- series motor — A series motor is a direct current motor that has two windings that are in series, with the same current flowing through each.
- significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
- snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
- stabilizator — a stabilizer
- subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
- subordinator — a conjunction introducing a subordinate clause, as when in They were glad when I finished.
- svga monitor — (hardware, graphics) A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
- teleoperator — a robotic device controlled from a distance by a human operator: usually used to provide safety for the operator, as in working with radioactive materials
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- third sector — the segment of a nation's economy that is made up of neither public nor business concerns, as nonprofit health or educational institutions.
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- witch doctor — a person in some societies who attempts to cure sickness and to exorcise evil spirits by the use of magic.
- woman doctor — a female doctor