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16-letter words that end in r

  • canadian soldier — the mayfly.
  • candlelit dinner — a meal for a couple which is illuminated by a candle or candles, esp in order to create a romantic mood
  • canine distemper — distemper1 (def 1a).
  • cape cod lighter — a device for lighting a fire, as in a fireplace, consisting of a lump of nonflammable material on a metal rod, that is soaked in kerosene or the like and lighted with a match.
  • cape may warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica tigrina, olive-green striped with black on the wings and back and yellow striped with black on the breast.
  • carbonless paper — a sheet of paper impregnated with dye which transfers writing or typing onto the copying surface below without the necessity for carbon pigment
  • cardiotachometer — a device for counting heartbeats, usually displaying the number of beats per minute
  • cartridge player — an audio or video system that reads cartridges of magnetic tape
  • casting director — the person in charge of choosing of actors for a production
  • category planner — A category planner is a person whose job to plan and co-ordinate future inventory and sales volume in one or more product categories.
  • catering manager — the person in charge of the catering in a place or at an event
  • cavity resonator — a conducting surface enclosing a space in which an oscillating electromagnetic field can be maintained, the dimensions of the cavity determining the resonant frequency of the oscillations. It is used in microwave devices for frequencies exceeding 300 megahertz
  • central cylinder — stele (def 4).
  • cerulean warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica cerulea, the male of which is blue above and white below.
  • channel islander — a person who comes from one of the Channel Islands
  • character armour — the defence an individual exhibits to others and to himself or herself to disguise his or her underlying weaknesses: a term coined by William Reich
  • charles chandler — Charles Frederick, 1836–1925, U.S. scientist, educator, and public-health expert.
  • check-in counter — The check-in counter at an airport or hotel is the counter or desk where you check in.
  • checkout counter — a checkout
  • childcare center — a place or business offering childcare for working parents
  • childcare worker — someone who takes care of children in return for money
  • chinese calendar — the former calendar of China, in which the year consisted of 12 lunar months with an intercalary month added seven times every 19 years to reconcile the lunar year of 354 days with the solar year of 365 days, time being reckoned in 60-year cycles with the first cycle dating from 2637 b.c.
  • chocolate eclair — a finger-shaped cake made of choux pastry, filled with cream and iced with chocolate
  • christmas dinner — the main meal on Christmas day, eaten any time in the afternoon or evening
  • christmas factor — a protein implicated in the process of blood clotting, the lack of which causes Christmas disease
  • christmas hamper — a collection of seasonal delicacies, often housed in a wicker hamper, which people or organizations give as Christmas presents
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
  • circuit analyzer — multimeter.
  • clarified butter — butter with the water and milk solids removed, used for cooking at high temperatures without burning
  • cloak-and-dagger — A cloak-and-dagger activity is one which involves mystery and secrecy.
  • cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
  • combination door — an outside door having a frame into which different types of panels can be inserted, as a screen for summer or storm sash for winter.
  • commercial paper — a short-term negotiable document, such as a bill of exchange, promissory note, etc, calling for the transference of a specified sum of money at a designated date
  • committee member — a member of a committee
  • commodity dollar — the unit of a proposed system of currency, that would have a fluctuating gold value determined at regular intervals on the basis of an official index of the prices of key commodities
  • community center — A community center is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
  • companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
  • composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
  • concert promoter — an organizer of concerts and concert tours
  • condensed matter — crystalline and amorphous solids and liquids, including liquid crystals, glasses, polymers, and gels
  • content provider — A content provider is a company that supplies material such as text, music, or images for use on websites.
  • continuous miner — continuous cutter.
  • convector heater — A convector heater is a heater that heats a room by means of hot air.
  • corkscrew flower — snailflower.
  • corporate ladder — the hierarchy of posts with a particular corporation or corporations in general
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