16-letter words that end in r
- engineer officer — a ship's officer who is qualified to be in charge of the vessel's propulsion and other machinery
- erymanthian boar — a wild boar that ravaged the district around Mount Erymanthus: captured by Hercules as his fourth labour
- erythrocytometer — an instrument for counting the number or measuring the size of red blood cells in a sample of blood
- executive member — a member of an executive committee
- exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
- exotic shorthair — a short-haired variety of domestic cat with a stocky body, developed through crossing Persian cats with American shorthairs
- expectant mother — a pregnant woman
- extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
- external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
- extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
- farmer's reducer — a solution of ferricyanide and hypo for reducing density and increasing contrast in a negative.
- fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
- father confessor — confessor (def 2).
- federal register — a bulletin, published daily by the U.S. federal government, containing the schedule of hearings before Congressional and federal agency committees, together with orders, proclamations, etc., released by the executive branch of the government.
- feel-good factor — When journalists refer to the feel-good factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
- feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
- fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
- fellow traveller — a companion on a journey
- feme-sole trader — a married woman who is entitled to carry on business on her own account and responsibility, independently of her husband.
- fertility factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
- finance director — financial manager
- finance minister — a member of a government in charge of the financial affairs of a state etc
- fire-tube boiler — any boiler for generating steam by passing hot gases and other combustible products through tubes (fire tubes) immersed in water to a chimney or uptake.
- first balkan war — Balkan War (def 1).
- first-aid worker — someone who is trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
- first-time buyer — someone who is buying his or her first house
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
- flat-bed plotter — a mechanized drafting device, usually computer driven, incorporating a moving pen whose horizontal and vertical range in two dimensions is limited only by the size of the bed of the device.
- flat-bed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
- flatheaded borer — the larva of a metallic wood-boring beetle, having an expanded and flattened anterior end.
- flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
- flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
- flotation collar — an inflatable device worn around the neck to keep the wearer afloat when in danger of drowning
- flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
- follow-my-leader — a game in which the players must repeat the actions of the leader
- follow-up letter — a letter sent as a follow-up to an initial letter or to a telephone call, meeting, etc
- foot in the door — If you say that something helps someone to get their foot in the door or their toe in the door, you mean that it gives them an opportunity to start doing something new, usually in an area that is difficult to succeed in.
- footsteps editor — the technician who adds sound effects, such as doors closing, rain falling, etc, during the postproduction sound-dubbing process
- foreign minister — (in countries other than the U.S.) a cabinet minister who conducts and supervises foreign and diplomatic relations with other states. Also called, especially British, foreign secretary. Compare secretary of state (def 1).
- formation packer — A formation packer is a substance that is used as a seal between the casing and the borehole so that part of the hole can be tested.
- fortin barometer — an adjustable cistern barometer, the most common of those employing mercury.
- four-leaf clover — a clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the usual three, purported to bring good luck.
- free enterpriser — a person who practices or advocates free enterprise.
- friedrich wohler — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1800–82, German chemist.
- front and center — If a topic or question is front and center, a lot of attention is being paid to it or a lot of people are talking about it.
- front-end loader — a loader having a shovel or bucket at the end of an articulated arm located at the front of the vehicle.
- functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
- fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.