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9-letter words that end in or

  • disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
  • disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
  • disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
  • dissector — to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
  • disseizor — a person who disseizes
  • divinator — a diviner
  • dominator — to rule over; govern; control.
  • doukhobor — a member of an independent religious sect originating in Russia in the 18th century, believing in the supreme authority of the inner voice and in the transmigration of souls, rejecting the divinity of Christ and the establishing of churches, and expressing opposition to civil authority by refusing to pay taxes, do military service, etc.
  • dynamotor — an electrical machine having a single magnetic field and two independent armature windings of which one acts as a motor and the other a generator: used to convert direct current from a battery into alternating current
  • either-or — presenting an unavoidable need to choose between two alternatives
  • embraceor — a person guilty of embracery
  • emendator — One who emends or critically edits.
  • escalator — A moving staircase consisting of an endlessly circulating belt of steps driven by a motor, conveying people between the floors of a public building.
  • escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
  • estimator — A rule, method, or criterion for arriving at an estimate of the value of a parameter.
  • evaluator — Agent noun of evaluate; one who evaluates.
  • excavator — A person who removes earth carefully and systematically from an archaeological site in order to find buried remains.
  • excelsior — Used in the names of hotels, newspapers, and other products to indicate superior quality.
  • excerptor — One who makes excerpts.
  • execrator — a person who execrates or makes an execration
  • exhibitor — A person who displays works of art or other items of interest at an exhibition.
  • expeditor — Alternative spelling of expediter.
  • expositor — A person or thing that explains complicated ideas or theories.
  • extractor — A machine or device used to extract something.
  • fabulator — a person who fabulates, a story-teller
  • federator — federated; allied.
  • fermentor — The vessel in which fermentation takes place.
  • fire door — a door through which a boiler or furnace is fired or through which the fire is inspected.
  • five-door — a car with five doors
  • flap door — Also called falling door. a door hinged at the bottom so as to fall downward and outward.
  • four-door — (of a vehicle) having two doors on each side
  • fructidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the twelfth month of the year, extending from August 18 to September 16.
  • fumigator — a person or thing that fumigates.
  • garnishor — (legal) A person who garnishes; one who obtains a garnishment against another.
  • generator — a machine that converts one form of energy into another, especially mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
  • gladiator — (in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators.
  • glossator — a person who writes glosses; glossarist.
  • go in for — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • graduator — One who determines or indicates graduation.
  • grosvenor — Gilbert Hovey, 1875–1966, U.S. geographer, writer, and editor.
  • guarantor — a person, group, system, etc., that guarantees.
  • hatinator — a small decorative hat, worn on social occasions
  • hawksmoor — Nicholas, 1661–1736, English architect.
  • helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
  • hesitator — Alternative spelling of hesitater.
  • hoped-for — Hoped-for is used to describe something that people would like to happen, and which they usually think is likely or possible.
  • hygristor — an electronic component the resistance of which varies with humidity
  • ideomotor — of or relating to involuntary motor activity caused by an idea. Compare sensorimotor (def 1).
  • ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
  • immolator — One who offers in sacrifice.
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