10-letter words that end in tor
- originator — to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
- oscillator — Electronics. a circuit that produces an alternating output current of a certain frequency determined by the characteristics of the circuit components.
- ostentator — (archaic) One fond of display; a boaster.
- ovipositor — (in certain female insects) an organ at the end of the abdomen, by which eggs are deposited.
- oxygenator — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- paradoctor — a doctor who parachutes to patients in remote areas.
- penetrator — to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
- percolator — a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up a hollow stem, filters down through ground coffee in a sievelike container, and returns to the pot below.
- persecutor — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- pollinator — to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- postulator — a priest who presents a plea for a beatification or the canonization of a beatus. Compare devil's advocate (def 2).
- praepostor — a senior student at an English public school who is given authority over other students.
- pre-emptor — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- predicator — the verbal element of a clause or sentence.
- premonitor — a person who, or a thing which, forewarns
- preparator — a person who prepares a specimen, as an animal, for scientific examination or exhibition.
- prepositor — praepostor.
- procreator — to beget or generate (offspring).
- procurator — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- progenitor — a biologically related ancestor: a progenitor of the species.
- prohibitor — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- prolocutor — a presiding officer of an assembly; chairperson.
- propagator — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- propraetor — an officer who, after having served as praetor in Rome, was sent to govern a province with praetorial authority.
- proprietor — the owner of a business establishment, a hotel, etc.
- proproctor — a university proctor's substitute or assistant
- prosecutor — Law. prosecuting attorney. a person, as a complainant or chief witness, instigating prosecution in a criminal proceeding.
- prospector — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- protractor — a person or thing that protracts.
- proveditor — (in the Venetian republic) a senior civilian officer in charge of supplies, provisions, and artillery for the city
- punctuator — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- re-enactor — a person who re-enacts something
- redirector — network redirector
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- reprobator — an action taken to demonstrate that a witness should be disqualified or rejected on account of perjury or other cause of invalidity
- respirator — a masklike device, usually of gauze, worn over the mouth, or nose and mouth, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances or the like.
- restitutor — a person who makes restitution
- restrictor — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- retributor — a person who retributes
- row vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written horizontally.
- ruddevator — a control surface functioning both as a rudder and as an elevator.
- rusticator — to go to the country.
- saw doctor — a sawmill specialist who sharpens and services saw blades
- segregator — an instrument for collecting the urine excreted by one kidney only.
- servomotor — a motor or the like forming part of a servomechanism.
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- stimulator — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.