10-Letter Words Ending in R

Abstract

ABSTRACT to draw away

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

One who acquires.

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c\'best. c\'best.""

Previous incumbent

Forerunner.

Forerunner

Powerful drug-treatment class

Like chemotherapy drugs

Nail polish brush, for example

Cosmetician's device.

Device used as a swab.

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

BACKLASH to cause a reaction

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

Agent noun (-or)

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

Ring sailor? No time, he complains

Faultfinding type

One who raised the foundation

Eleemosynar, for example

Supporter's complaint about new player

""An apparatus in which a suspension of microorganisms in a liquid are used to perform chemical reactions, as in synthesis of pharmaceutical agents or the conversion of harmful waste to less harmful substances. The reactor consists of a vessel to contain the suspension of microorganisms, plus a variety of attached devices used to control the reaction.""

Othello

1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers

1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers

One fond of dining on tongue (wordplay)

Subservient one

Suck-up

""BRACHIATE Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.""

Construction worker's course (wordplay)

Wall builder, maybe

Building trades worker

A muscle of the cheek; so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

Strutting dancer

Certain dancer

""Wood A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazelbrown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood. Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.""

A collar cut off for summer (wordplay)

The button counter (wordplay)

Arithmetician's gadget

CALENDER to smooth by pressing between rollers

Zodiacal adjustor (wordplay)

Person on a trail

Man running for office.

Party man in action.

Projecting beam fixed at one end only

Kind of arch or bridge

Beam fixed at one end

CAPTIVATE To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

A nicer bear mauled sharpshooter

Soldier calling about a container

Cavalry soldier

""CARABINE a carbon compound, also CARABIN""

He keeps moving house

Choke's locale

It mixes air with gasoline

Fuel-injector ancestor

Name on a Visa

Place to keep your 'plastic'

Place to keep your "plastic"

One who wants in on the deal

One holds hands during the game

World Series participant

Careful

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Laborer making watch covers (wordplay)

Investigator of family problems, say

Social agency investigator

Severe critic to have fresh go at racist

One who makes a listing or inventory

Lynx becomes list maker

He should make the list

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

A photoelectric instrument for ascertaining cloud heights.

New Year's Eve figure.

Jubilant one

Dec. 31 figure

Small metric unit

Unit equal to 0.338 fluid ounce

.6102 cubic inch

Almost two-fifths of an inch

*Approximate width of a pencil

Unit, as a Salk vaccine.

Made rebel clear off, being a bit brainy (wordplay)

Daring sportsman (wordplay)

U.S. space shuttle

Professor in Doyle novels.

Lucky rollover for 20 (wordplay)

Govt. finance minister

German head's luck with press spin

Lighting up (wordplay)

Is it involving candle hire (wordplay)

The light fantastic (wordplay)

When tennis players meet in transition

Shifting of position.

Workplace activity, sometimes

Her erotica (anagram)

Ben Hur, for one

Ben Hur (wordplay)

CHARMING charm

Working hard with officer in Cabinet

Ornamental cabinet.

Setter keeps fine rosebowl initially in a cabinet

Account king gives to historian

One has The Times ordered

One who records important events

One who enters the services

Regular worshipper

A pious type, Winston, fit to move the queen

Churchly

Film buff, say, could make one grimace

I see picture blur once image runs

One sees pictures to make one grimace

""One who, or that which, circulates.""

One who classifies.

Of or pertaining to the clavicle.

Full-dress coat, colloquially

Basic part of a tool kit

Puller or pounder

Tool in forestry to measure slope, vertical angles and tree heights

Convert mile - not v. tricky if you have surveyor's instrument

Hold copper (anagram)

Clumsy person (wearing heavy shoes?)

Ultralight balloon (wordplay)

Cobwebby

Large beetle

Large beetle destructive of vegetation - frock cache (anagram)

A worthless or despicable person; -- intended as disparaging and invariably offensive.

COMPOSER one who writes music

One who helps call the shots

""DISCOVER to find out, also DISCOURE, DISCURE""

A joint executor.

""INVENTOR one who invents, also INVENTER""

INVESTOR one who {invests=v}

Allot micro-switch to subsidiary telescope

Peddler of Bibles, tracts, etc.

Pedlar disconcerted poor cutler

Pedlar of religious works

""Pl. columellae (-m l ) Any small columnlike structure in various plants and animals, often forming the central axis of development for the organism or an anatomical structure.""

Take by force

Take by force.

Forcibly take mad McEnroe away

Makes changes to AC/DC perhaps for bad actor entertaining old Mike with dog

Device for reversing current short journey on a rocky height

An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

Rival clubs promote changes covering it

Sporting contest entrant

Entrant in race scheming to crop time

Member of the "cavil-ry"?

Member of the "cavil-ry" (wordplay)

Faultfinding type

Mulch over first person or typesetter

Print shop employee

Newspaper employe.

""One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines. as, a compounder of medicines.""

Impeller on a jet engine

Supercharger

Leading Romanian composer's work with a forceful air

Black-eyed Susan.

Prairie blossom

One who confounds.

Defiant one.

Did he get the building bug (wordplay)

Party to an agreement

His work is constructive

It's a game changer

One holding the reins

Officer who checks expenditures.

One working with another

Man of the day, a high point for team member (wordplay)

One working together with old film star and another caught out

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.

PRISONER one that is imprisoned

PRODUCER one that {produces=v}

PROMOTER one who {promotes=v}

Keeps the paper united with impression of custodian

An editor who prepares text for publication.

Producer of text for ad

Public relations position

Author who wrote pricy composition

Catholic sect keeps wagon for shoemaker

Old shoemaker in business with change in drawer

Scented foot-growth (wordplay)

Scented foot-growth?

Hokey Bloomer (wordplay)

""A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.""

CORRELATE To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.

TRANSFER to move from one place to another

""Any of an extinct order (Cotylosauria) of massive primitive reptiles of the Carboniferous and Permian periods that included the ancestors of all of the reptiles. Also called root reptile , stem reptile .""

A device for determining the amount of a substance released during electrolysis by measuring the electrical charge.

Member of a county administration

Adviser; a senior diplomat

Breakdown specialist

Adviser

17th century fighter for the Kirk

One wanting religious liberty? Witches aren't different

The party who makes a covenant.

Ranch hand (wordplay)

Lasso in front of train (wordplay)

Lasso part of train (wordplay)

Ranch worker to show fear taking blow

One who's at home on the range

Vaquero "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" (nonverbal)

""CRITICIZE same as criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.""

""A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow.""

A soldier armed with a cuirass.

Farmer

Pl. curricula (-l ) or curriculums All the courses of study offered by an educational institution.

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

""A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.""

One who deciphers.

COMPOSER one who writes music

Embezzler.

Embezzler

""Computer Science A word, phrase, or alphanumeric character used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system.""

One who desecrates; a profaner.

Profaner

""One who, or that which, desiccates.""

""One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.""

Denial of responsibility

Medic rails about refusal to take responsibility

Refusal to admit detective worked miracles

One's out to make reductions

One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.

Talent scout, perhaps

Marie Curie, for radium and polonium

U. S. satellite.

Discreet

Radio-active employee

Railroad man.

Distinct

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Longshoreman

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

Tabby's friend (wordplay)

Tabby's friend?

Pound worker (wordplay)

DOMINICK an American breed of chickens

Pigskin specialist of yore

Field goal attempter, once

Business machine.

User of outdoor air to reduce energy consumption

A muscle which helps ejaculation.

One who makes clear

He explains cryptic clue to arid characters

ENCIPHER to write in a secret code

""One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.""

""One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.""

One who enunciates or proclaims.

A creator? I'd set out to be different!

Rot and acid are sent back for one to exterminate

One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

Liar

""Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root. as, a fascicular root.""

Headgear fashionable to Africans

Knot a scarf into eye-catching headgear

Ladies' headdress

FICTION an invented or false story

Finnicky

FLUORESCE

Bird one's seen on the web (wordplay)

Winger tucking contract inside leaflet

Shrewd fielder in sticky leg trap

""Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.""

G.I.'s small trunk

G.I.'s trunk

Soldier's stowage

Predicter (of, eg, weather)

Rain man (wordplay)

One predicting the future

""An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.""

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Day-rate charger, perhaps

Outside worker (wordplay)

Charitable surgeon (wordplay)

A great boaster; a blusterer.

Bird changing tack? Grouse!

Insect-eating bird such as the whippoorwill

Boat for stylists (wordplay)

Trimmer, perhaps

Barber.

Headachy

It's about 26.4 gallons

Abbr. hm A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters. See Table at measurement .

Cheer pilot going off in this (wordplay)

Igor Ivan Sikorsky's 1939 good idea

Sikorsky's brainchild

""A white or tan powder, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , formerly used as a pesticide, that is highly toxic to humans and is a suspected carcinogen.""

One with a pick-up line (wordplay)

One looking for a free ride (wordplay)

Thumbs up for a seeker of cheap travel

CENTER to place at the middle point

"What's your sign?" perhaps

What's your sign? perhaps

Vacationer in Siberia (wordplay)

One who inculcates.

Indecent

Innocent

Immunity bestower of sorts

Doctor, at times

One who vaccinates

Teacher measures hill after short climb

One who makes the grade

He trains this month with old policemen by the hill

One who intercedes; an intercessor; a mediator.

He makes acquaintances

Variety show emcee, for example

Manly pneumatic tool (wordplay)

Men's club craftsman (wordplay)

It pounds the pavement

Tillie the Toiler

Bereft of brilliance

Lacking brilliance or vitality

Like a rookie bootblack's efforts (wordplay)

A chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lachrymator.lachrymator.

Moe (wordplay)

Job that involves cutting

He may make the earth move

Biconvex

Customer service agent (wordplay)

Ray Lewis, for one

Party policy enthusiast (wordplay)

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

Waterway worker has food in cupboard

Canal worker

Canal employee identified by hair and ring

""One who, or that which, lubricates.""

Plotter in country besieged by dull soldiers

Leader of men taking a country to right is seen as a plotter

""A large letter, either capital or uncial, used in writing or printing.""

Criminal testosterone (wordplay)

Fellow-broker may be a gangster

Agent in pursuit of man is a criminal

One who masticates.

Test God as Cupid (wordplay)

Dolly Levi, for one

Boxing's Don King (wordplay)