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11-letter words that end in per

  • morse taper — a taper that is one of a standard series used in the shank of tools to fit a matching taper in the mandrel of a machine tool
  • mosstrooper — a marauder who operated in the mosses, or bogs, of the border between England and Scotland in the 17th century.
  • music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
  • nailclipper — a small mechanical device for clipping the fingernails or toenails.
  • namedropper — A person who name-drops.
  • order paper — a list indicating the order in which business is to be conducted, esp in Parliament
  • paratrooper — a member of a military infantry unit trained to attack or land in combat areas by parachuting from airplanes.
  • park-keeper — A park-keeper is a person whose job is to look after a park.
  • peacekeeper — a person who maintains or restores peace and amity; mediator: Mother was the peacekeeper in our family.
  • pill popper — a person who takes pills regularly and in quantity.
  • planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
  • porkchopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
  • potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • rear bumper — the bar at the back of a vehicle which protects it if it bumps into something
  • red snapper — any of several snappers of the genus Lutjanus, especially L. campechanus, a large food fish of the Gulf of Mexico.
  • rough paper — paper that is used for writing a rough copy
  • sand hopper — beach flea.
  • sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
  • scorekeeper — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
  • scrap paper — rough paper for scribbling on
  • shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
  • show jumper — A show jumper is a person who takes part in the sport of show jumping.
  • showstopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes to forest fires inaccessible to ground crews.
  • soft-soaper — a person who flatters or cajoles, especially for reasons of self-interest or personal advantage: a soft-soaper specializing in rich, elderly women.
  • stockkeeper — a person responsible for inventorying and monitoring stock levels
  • storekeeper — a person who owns a store.
  • strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
  • super-duper — extremely good, powerful, large, etc.; very super; marvelous or colossal.
  • teenybopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
  • time-keeper — a person or thing that keeps time.
  • touch paper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • trade paper — a newspaper publishing news of a specific profession or business.
  • transhipper — a person who tranships
  • tub-thumper — a vociferous supporter or promoter, as of a cause.
  • underdamper — a piano damper that is found below the hammers
  • underkeeper — an assistant custodian or keeper
  • wall pepper — a small Eurasian crassulaceous plant, Sedum acre, having creeping stems, yellow flowers, and acrid-tasting leaves
  • wallcreeper — A Eurasian songbird related to the nuthatches, having mainly gray plumage with broad bright red wings, and living among rocks in mountainous country.
  • waxed paper — Waxed paper is the same as wax paper.
  • wheeltapper — (UK, rail transport) Formerly, a railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
  • white paper — paper bleached white.
  • woodchipper — a motor-driven machine that cuts wood into chips.
  • woodchopper — a person who chops wood, especially one who fells trees.
  • woodcreeper — any of numerous New World tropical songbirds of the family Dendrocolaptidae, having stiffened tail feathers and creeperlike habits.
  • workshopper — a person who has a workshop, especially in a home, for working with tools, usually as a hobby.
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