14-letter words that end in r
- colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
- columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
- come a cropper — If you say that someone has come a cropper, you mean that they have had an unexpected and embarrassing failure.
- comfort letter — an informal statement assuring the financial soundness or backing of a company.
- commercializer — to emphasize the profitable aspects of, especially at the expense of quality: to commercialize one's artistic talent.
- common carrier — a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers
- common divisor — a number that is a submultiple of all the numbers of a given set.
- common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
- companion star — companion1 (def 6).
- company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
- complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
- compound meter — any time signature in which the upper figure is a multiple of 3, as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, etc.
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
- compute server — (computer, parallel) A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
- computer error — an error attributed to the action of a computer
- conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
- concrete mixer — a device used for mixing cement, sand, gravel, or other substances to make concrete; it has a rotating drum in which the concrete is mixed
- conducted tour — A conducted tour is a visit to a building, town, or area during which someone goes with you and explains everything to you.
- conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
- congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
- contact number — a person's telephone number
- contract labor — labor coercible by the enforceable provisions of a contract.
- control center — an administrative or operational center for a group of related activities: the control center for the new military offensive.
- conventiongoer — A person attending a convention.
- cookie monster — (recreation) (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
- corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
- cotton stainer — any of various heteropterous insects of the genus Dysdercus: serious pests of cotton, piercing and staining the cotton bolls: family Pyrrhocoridae
- council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
- counter jumper — a sales assistant in a shop
- counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
- counterpuncher — a boxer who waits for an opponent to attack before punching
- country singer — a singer of country and western music
- coupon clipper — a well-to-do person much of whose income is derived from clipping and cashing coupons from coupon bonds.
- court circular — (in countries having a monarchy) a daily report of the activities, engagements, etc, of the sovereign, published in a national newspaper
- court of honor — the planning body of a girl-scout troop, composed of patrol leaders, the troop scribe, the troop treasurer, and the adult troop leader.
- court reporter — a reporter who writes about legal trials
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- crimson clover — an annual clover (Trifolium incarnatum) with elongated heads of deep-red flowers, often grown in the S U.S. as a cover or green-manure crop
- cross-compiler — a compiler able to create executable code for a platform different from the one the compiler is run on
- cruft together — (jargon) To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
- crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
- culture center — the part of a culture area in which the most distinctive traits of the area are concentrated.