10-letter words that end in ter
- bogtrotter — a highly offensive term for an Irish person
- bonesetter — a person who sets broken or dislocated bones, esp one who has no formal medical qualifications
- bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
- box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
- box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
- breakwater — A breakwater is a wooden or stone wall that extends from the shore into the sea and is built in order to protect a harbour or beach from the force of the waves.
- brewmaster — a person who is in charge of brewing beer in a brewery
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- browbeater — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- bus master — (architecture) The device in a computer which is driving the address bus and bus control signals at some point in time. In a simple architecture only the (single) CPU can be bus master but this means that all communications between ("slave") I/O devices must involve the CPU. More sophisticated architectures allow other capable devices (or multiple CPUs) to take turns at controling the bus. This allows, for example, a network controller card to access a disk controller directly while the CPU performs other tasks which do not require the bus, e.g. fetching code from its cache. Note that any device can drive data onto the data bus when the CPU reads from that device, but only the bus master drives the address bus and control signals. See also distributed kernel.
- bushbeater — a person who conducts a thorough search to recruit talented people, as for an athletic team.
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- cake eater — a ladies' man.
- calcsinter — travertine.
- campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
- canecutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
- cat litter — absorbent material, often in a granular form, that is used to line a receptacle in which a domestic cat can urinate and defecate indoors
- catchwater — a drain or ditch which catches water
- ceilometer — a device for determining the cloud ceiling, esp by means of a reflected light beam
- centiliter — A centiliter is a unit of volume in the metric system equal to ten milliliters or one-hundredth of a liter.
- centimeter — A centimeter is a unit of length in the metric system equal to ten millimeters or one-hundredth of a meter.
- chichester — a city in S England, administrative centre of West Sussex: Roman ruins; 11th-century cathedral; Festival Theatre. Pop: 27 477 (2001)
- clapometer — a device that measures applause
- clay eater — (in the South Atlantic States) a term used to refer to a poor, uneducated person from a rural area.
- clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
- clinometer — an instrument used in surveying for measuring an angle of inclination
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
- codecenter — (programming) (Formerly Saber-C) A proprietary software development environment for C programs, offering an integrated toolkit for developing, testing, debugging and maintainance.
- colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
- cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
- come-outer — an outspoken or very active supporter of a cause, especially a reformer or a social activist.
- complotter — One who complots; a conspirator.
- confronter — Someone who or something which confronts.
- copromoter — a joint promoter
- copycutter — an employee of a newspaper who separates copy into takes to facilitate printing.
- copywriter — A copywriter is a person whose job is to write the words for advertisements.
- coulometer — an electrolytic cell for measuring the magnitude of an electric charge by determining the total amount of decomposition resulting from the passage of the charge through the cell
- covenanter — a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyclometer — a device that records the number of revolutions made by a wheel and hence the distance travelled
- cystometer — a device for determining the reaction of the urinary bladder to increased internal pressure.
- datacenter — a facility equipped with or connected to one or more computers, used for processing or transmitting data.
- day letter — a telegram sent during the day at a slightly cheaper rate
- dead water — water eddying beside a moving hull, especially directly astern.
- decremeter — an instrument for measuring the damping of an electromagnetic wave train.
- deep water — having, requiring, or operating in deep water: deepwater shipping; deepwater drilling for oil.