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12-letter words that end in or

  • joint author — a person who shares the writing of a book, article, etc, with another
  • juris doctor — lawyer's degree
  • kidney donor — someone who donates one of their kidneys to be transplanted into another person
  • king's color — a white ceremonial ensign with a royal cipher, flown on special occasions by the British Royal Navy.
  • 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.
  • look out for — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • 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.
  • mark out for — to select for or note as selected for
  • marston moor — a former moor in NE England, west of York: Cromwell's victory over the Royalists 1644.
  • matriculator — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
  • method actor — actor who follows the Method
  • methoxychlor — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 6 H 1 5 Cl 3 O 2 , used as an insecticide.
  • mis director — Chief Information Officer
  • miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
  • muffle color — Ceramics. a color fired onto an object in a muffle kiln.
  • night editor — an editor responsible for getting a morning newspaper to press, for the night operations of a wire service, or the like.
  • night terror — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
  • no match for — If one person or thing is no match for another, they are unable to compete successfully with the other person or thing.
  • 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.
  • one's senior — a person older than oneself
  • 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.
  • out of favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
  • out of humor — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
  • panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
  • parade armor — ornamented armor worn only for ceremonial purposes.
  • parity error — (storage, communications)   An error discovered by the inclusion of a parity bit.
  • 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.
  • pearl harbor — a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.
  • pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • perseverator — a person who perseverates
  • pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • poster color — poster paint.
  • 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.
  • preprocessor — a program that performs some type of processing, as organization of data or preliminary computation, in advance of another program that will perform most of the processing.
  • 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
  • put down for — If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing.
  • quack doctor — an unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills
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