11-letter words that end in ter
- disembitter — to remove (an attitude of) bitterness
- distributer — a person or thing that distributes.
- dolorimeter — an instrument used in dolorimetry.
- down-easter — a full-rigged ship built in New England in the late 19th century, usually of wood and relatively fast.
- downlighter — Downlight.
- drillmaster — a person who trains others in something, especially routinely or mechanically.
- drop letter — a letter that is mailed to a local address at a post office without city delivery or a rural delivery service and must be picked up by the addressee.
- drum-beater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- drunkometer — a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a person's breath to determine the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.
- dumb barter — a form of barter practiced among some peoples, in which the goods for exchange are left at and taken from a preselected spot without the exchanging parties ever coming face-to-face.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dynamometer — An instrument that measures the power output of an engine.
- fare-beater — a person who illegally avoids paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.
- farm-sitter — a person who takes temporary charge of a farm during the absence or incapacity of the owner.
- fillibuster — Alternative form of filibuster.
- fire master — (in Scotland) the person in charge of a fire brigade
- firefighter — a person who fights destructive fires.
- firelighter — Small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires.
- firestarter — One who starts fires.
- first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
- flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
- fluorimeter — fluorometer.
- fluorometer — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
- flushometer — a device for flushing toilets that uses system pressure rather than gravity and automatically shuts off after a measured amount of water flow in order to conserve water.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- forequarter — the forward end of half of a carcass, as of beef or lamb.
- form letter — a standardized letter that can be sent to any number of persons, occasionally personalized by inserting the name of each recipient in the salutation.
- form master — a teacher or member of a school's staff designated as being in charge of a certain form
- fort sumter — a fort in SE South Carolina, in the harbor of Charleston: its bombardment by the Confederates opened the Civil War on April 12, 1861.
- foul matter — Printing. materials, as manuscript, galleys, or proofs, that have been superseded by revised proofs or galleys or by the bound book, and have been returned to the publisher by the printer.
- four-poster — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- four-seater — a vehicle providing seats for four people
- frankfurter — Felix, 1882–1965, U.S. jurist, born in Austria: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–62.
- free skater — a person who takes part in a figure-skating competition
- free stater — a native or inhabitant of a Free State.
- fresh water — water that is not salty
- fugitometer — an instrument used for measuring the fastness to light of dyed materials
- gallivanter — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
- game master — the person who organizes or directs the story and play in a role-playing game. Abbreviation: GM.
- gas lighter — device: produces flame
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- giant otter — a large brown South American river otter, Pteronura brasiliensis, having a creamy chest patch and a long flat tail with a flanged border, hunted for its hide: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
- gill-netter — a person who uses a gill net in fishing.
- glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
- goddaughter — a female godchild.
- gradiometer — any instrument used to measure a gradient, as the rate of change of the geomagnetic field. Compare gradient (def 3a).
- grandmaster — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grasscutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- gray matter — Anatomy. nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, that contains fibers and nerve cell bodies and is dark reddish-gray. Compare white matter.