9-letter words that end in ter
- forgetter — One who forgets, fails to remember something.
- formatter — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- fraudster — A person who practices fraud; a swindler.
- freighter — a vessel used mainly for carrying cargo.
- gannister — ganister
- gas meter — an apparatus for measuring and recording the amount of gas produced or consumed, especially such an apparatus metering the amount of household gas piped into a dwelling.
- gasometer — an apparatus for measuring and storing gas in a laboratory.
- gauleiter — the leader or chief official of a political district under Nazi control.
- get after — to pursue or attack
- gigaliter — Alternative spelling of gigalitre.
- gigameter — Alternative spelling of gigametre.
- gnateater — any small, long-legged antbird of the genus Conopophaga, of South America.
- go-getter — an enterprising, aggressive person.
- godsister — The daughter of one's godparent.
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- graywater — dirty water from sinks, showers, bathtubs, washing machines, and the like, that can be recycled, as for use in flushing toilets.
- greywater — Alternative spelling of gray water.
- hamfatter — a second-rate or ineffectual actor
- harvester — a person who harvests; reaper.
- hazemeter — transmissometer.
- headwater — A tributary stream of a river close to or forming part of its source.
- hereafter — after this in time or order; at some future time; farther along.
- hesitater — One who hesitates.
- hexameter — a dactylic line of six feet, as in Greek and Latin epic poetry, in which the first four feet are dactyls or spondees, the fifth is ordinarily a dactyl, and the last is a trochee or spondee, with a caesura usually following the long syllable in the third foot.
- hippiater — (rare) A veterinarian specializing in horse care.
- hodometer — Dated form of odometer.
- hollister — a town in W California.
- hot water — trouble; a predicament: His skipping classes will get him into real hot water when exam time comes.
- ice water — water chilled with or as if with ice.
- ice-water — water chilled with or as if with ice.
- iceboater — a person who races iceboats, especially as a hobby or in competition.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- imprinter — a person or thing that imprints.
- in venter — conceived but not yet born
- infighter — A person who indulges in infighting.
- inflicter — One who inflicts.
- inhabiter — inhabitant.
- inheriter — Alternative form of inheritor.
- inhibiter — a person or thing that inhibits.
- inshelter — to put in a shelter
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- instanter — immediately; at once.
- jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
- jerkwater — Informal. insignificant and out-of-the-way: a jerkwater town.
- jetsetter — a fashionable social set composed of wealthy people who travel frequently by jetliner to parties and resorts.
- kiloliter — a unit of volume, equal to 1000 liters; a cubic meter. Abbreviation: kl.
- kilometer — a unit of length, the common measure of distances equal to 1000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile. Abbreviation: km.
- konimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of dust in the air.
- lancaster — the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York (def 1).
- lankester — Sir Edwin Ray, 1847–1929, English zoologist and writer.