12-letter words that end in per
- mine-sweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
- name-dropper — a person who indulges in name-dropping.
- offset paper — paper used in a printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- party pooper — a person who hasn't the interest or vitality to participate actively in a social party and whose mood, attitude, or personality lessens others' enjoyment; killjoy.
- party popper — party favour: explosive streamer
- pepper-upper — something, as a food, beverage, or pill, that provides a quick but temporary period of energy and alertness.
- picker-upper — something that restores one's depleted energy or depressed spirits; pick-me-up.
- pork-chopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
- pot-walloper — (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.
- powder paper — Pharmacology. charta (def 2).
- road sweeper — a person who sweeps roads
- rock chopper — a Roman Catholic
- run-of-paper — R.O.P.
- saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
- screen-wiper — windshield wiper.
- sharecropper — a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
- show stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- show-stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- silver paper — silver foil.
- smoke jumper — an employee of the forest service parachuted to strategic spots in fighting forest fires
- springkeeper — a salamander
- stormtrooper — Stormtroopers were members of a private Nazi army who were well-known for being violent.
- streetkeeper — in the past, a person employed to keep order and control in the streets
- sunday paper — a newspaper which is only published on Sundays
- sweet pepper — a variety of pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, having a mild-flavored, bell-shaped or somewhat oblong fruit.
- teeny bopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
- teeny-bopper — a teenage girl, especially a young one.
- tissue paper — a very thin, almost transparent paper used for wrapping delicate articles, covering illustrations in books, copying letters, etc.
- toilet paper — a soft, lightweight, sanitized paper used in bathrooms for personal cleanliness.
- tree creeper — a person or thing that creeps.
- trevor-roper — Hugh (Redwald) [red-wawld] /ˈrɛd wɔld/ (Show IPA), 1914–2003, British historian.
- truck camper — a type of camper designed to be mounted on a pickup truck.
- typing paper — paper for typing on
- under-keeper — a person who guards or watches, as at a prison or gate.
- vellum paper — a creamy coloured heavy paper resembling vellum
- voting paper — a ballot.
- wall creeper — a small, gray and crimson Old World bird, Tichodroma muraria, that inhabits cliffs in mountainous areas.
- warmer-upper — something that provides one with invigorating warmth: Hot soup is a good warmer-upper after skiing.
- water pepper — a widely distributed annual plant, Polygonum hydropiper, of marshes and bogs, characterized by acrid, peppery-tasting leaves.
- weeny-bopper — a child of 8 to 12 years, esp a girl, who is a keen follower of pop music
- white pepper — a condiment prepared from the husked dried berries of the pepper plant, used either whole or ground.
- wicketkeeper — the player on the fielding side who stands immediately behind the wicket to stop balls that pass it.