11-letter words that end in ter
- grey matter — You can refer to your intelligence or your brains as grey matter.
- gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
- groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
- half sister — sister (def 2).
- half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
- half-sister — sister (def 2).
- hall porter — concierge
- hand-letter — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- hard hitter — a bowler hat
- hawes water — a lake in NW England, in the Lake District: provides part of Manchester's water supply; extended by damming from 4 km (2.5 miles) to 6 km (4 miles)
- head waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- head-hunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- head-waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headquarter — to situate in headquarters.
- heart-water — a tick-borne disease of cattle, sheep, and goats characterized by fluid accumulation in the pericardial sac. It is caused by the organism Rickettsia ruminantium
- heath aster — a North American wildflower (Aster ericoides) of the composite family, with small, stiff leaves and white flowers, growing in dry, open places; dog fennel
- heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.
- herd tester — a technician trained to test the health and production of milk and butterfat of dairy cows
- hereinafter — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- high-hatter — to snub or treat condescendingly.
- highlighter — a cosmetic used to emphasize some part of the face, as the eyes or the cheekbones.
- hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hip pointer — a painful bruise or torn muscle at the upper ridge of the pelvis
- hip-shooter — a person who acts or talks in a rash, impetuous way
- home center — a large store that specializes in a wide range of materials and supplies for home improvements or repairs.
- honey eater — any of numerous oscine birds of the family Meliphagidae, chiefly of Australasia, having a bill and tongue adapted for extracting the nectar from flowers.
- honey-eater — any of numerous oscine birds of the family Meliphagidae, chiefly of Australasia, having a bill and tongue adapted for extracting the nectar from flowers.
- hot jupiter — any of a class of large, hot, gaseous planets similar to Jupiter in mass but outside our solar system.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
- housesitter — Alternative spelling of house-sitter.
- imagesetter — a printer or typesetting machine for producing professional-quality text with extremely high resolution.
- implementer — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
- ink printer — (printer) A retronym used by Blind users to refer to all printers which are not Braille printers, regardless of whether they actually use ink.
- intercepter — Alternative form of interceptor.
- intercrater — (of a flat plain on a planet's surface) situated between two large craters
- intermitter — A device that controls the intermittent flow of a fluid.
- interpreter — a person who interprets.
- interrupter — a person or thing that interrupts.
- intoximeter — A breathalyzer.
- jack rafter — a rafter having less than the full length of the roof slope, as one meeting a hip or a valley.
- jacklighter — a person who hunts or fishes at night with the aid of a jacklight.
- javel water — sodium hypochlorite, NaOCl, dissolved in water, used as a bleach, antiseptic, etc.
- jet fighter — aeronautics
- job printer — a printer who does letterheads, invoices, announcements, and other miscellaneous work, as distinguished from one who works solely on books, periodicals, etc.
- john sutter — John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- keratometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of the cornea.
- kinesimeter — An instrument for the quantitative measurement of movements.