10-Letter Words Ending in R

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

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

Nail polish brush, for example

Cosmetician's device.

Device used as a swab.

Water-skier's next of kin

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

He's debased (wordplay)

Fieldstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Musician at a dance (wordplay)

Agent noun (-or)

Creator of life in a bookshop (wordplay)

A life's work for him

One who can tell your story

""A macromolecule in a living organism that is formed by linking together several smaller molecules, as a protein from amino acids or DNA from nucleotides.""

Rebel MP has reformed, so he swears!

One who reviles

Impious one

Library menace (wordplay)

Librarian's bane?

Librarian's bane (wordplay)

Ruling (or, more modestly, intelligence)

Support presiding wisdom

'Solvers need this book' (The Sun's ruling)

Person on a trail

Man running for office.

Party man in action.

CAPTIVATE To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

One who wants in on the deal

One holds hands during the game

World Series participant

Hold copper (anagram)

Clumsy person (wearing heavy shoes?)

Ultralight balloon (wordplay)

COMPOSER one who writes music

Peddler of Bibles, tracts, etc.

Pedlar disconcerted poor cutler

Pedlar of religious works

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

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

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

Ranch worker to show fear taking blow

One who's at home on the range

Vaquero "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" (nonverbal)

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

DEADPAN to act without emotion

One who deciphers.

COMPOSER one who writes music

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

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

One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

Radio-active employee

Railroad man.

One who blames or dispraises.

Wasteful father (wordplay)

Guard of sorts

Reluctant car dealer (wordplay)

One on duty at building's entrance

Pigskin specialist of yore

Field goal attempter, once

Business machine.

ENCIPHER to write in a secret code

EPIGRAPH an engraved inscription

""EUPHEMIZE To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions.""

Device that turns liquid to gas

Air conditioner component

Fridge device

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

Count on him to find the dirty bits

One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.

Medicine-cabinet gadget

Liquid dispenser

Pipette kin

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Confusion about right climbing plant for each insect

Lady Chatterley's lover, for one

Lucky poacher (wordplay)

Breeder of birds for shooting

Entry attendant; butterfly

Doorman's kin

One of 18 that might take its toll (wordplay)

Student of Earth's features

Person studying the physical aspects of the earth

It will help smooth things over

One looking to get around a girl parking - a real smoothie!

Hugo Allen is such a footballer!

Competitor for the Vezina Trophy

Hockey player

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.""

Seven-foot line

7-foot line

A bit lucky, perhaps, for Half a Sixpence

Equine political demand?

Hack's capacity for work (wordplay)

Engine's stable capacity (wordplay)

Hydroelectric power.

A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.

CENTER to place at the middle point

""An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.""

Trafficker retains a French solicitor

International dealer retains a French pimp

Licence in publishing

License to publish.

"Let it be printed."

One winging it

Demon dog is bound to be one deviating imaginatively (wordplay)

One able to wing it is person getting better all round

""IMPROVISE To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.""

""A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2. Injector, n., 2.""

Nile porter disturbed uninvited guest

Person who meddles in others' affairs

Bury's runner, one entering uninvited

""One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties.""

Tillie the Toiler

Moe (wordplay)

Job that involves cutting

He may make the earth move

Plant pest.

Waterway worker has food in cupboard

Canal worker

Canal employee identified by hair and ring

Botany A minute opening in the ovule of a seed plant through which the pollen tube usually enters.

Goby sometimes found on the beach

Goby that might be found on the beach

Damaging allegations by captain bringing fish

The "3" in "6 x 3 = 18"

Young producer, calculating type

Device for intensifying some effect

Like most brain neurons

Agitated till our MP pens article with numerous extreme points

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Nitpicky

SPEAKER one who {speaks=v}

Insect's egg-laying apparatus

Egg-laying organ in insects and some fishes

Conductor on the run (wordplay)

One leading during a race

Horse that shows the way

Painful

Morphine, for example

One shouldn't feel hurt when it's used

Aspirin, for instance

One carrying a coffin

One approaching a hearse

Principal lamenter may be seen as such

PALLETIZE

Freestone ring wearer (wordplay)

Chef, at times (wordplay)

Help ran, and upset cook (wordplay)

The process or craft of making paper.

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

Indian pipe smoker (wordplay)

Indian pipe smoker?

Keep camera rolling for arbitrator

Peacocky

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

PELLETIZE

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

Insure plan (anagram)

Writer, inward-looking, from Iberia

Sticking out, in a way

Verse line of 20 ac feet

Line of verse with five metrical feet

Typical Shakespearean line

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

A fine speaker? One may be boring

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

One who personates.

Plaintiff makes appeal to HM

One with a suit may give tip to Ernie

One collecting autographs

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Pitiful

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

Print-shop employee

Pleasant

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

Bee, at times

POLLINIZE

One versed in various learning.

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

Informal discussion Fr.

Negotiations leading up to a treaty

Informal consultation

""One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.""

One who prescribes.

""THEATER a building for dramatic presentations, also THEATRE""

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make pretty, esp in a trivial fashion; embellish prettification   n""

Priestly

Princely

Currier or Ives

One who proclaims.

One producing young

Progenitor

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

A paid athlete has to go down deeper

Father, for good measure, organised riot

Originator, as of a musical style

One standing in for man or father

Writer of computer code

Scott Adams job before "Dilbert"

Computer coder

One who speaks for another.

Royal Albert Hall regular

Walker - concert goer

Square dancer, at times

Spelling bee official

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

Decorous reptile

Breeder supplying mock croc, auditors find? On the contrary!

Diffuser

A prophet.

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

""An ancient Roman official, appointed to be the chief administrator of a province after serving his term of office as praetor.""

Owner (of a business)

Titleholder is Perot, prior to change

Name on the door, often

""One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.""

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

""A course of study for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in a college or university, conducted in the manner of a seminar.""

He's disclaimed (wordplay)

One with a miner role (wordplay)

49er, for example

Yes to farm aid!

Like John Deere (wordplay)

Angling gear (wordplay)

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

""One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.""

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.

Account-making official

Recorder to prepare reports about a terror pup

PACKAGER one that {packages=v}

Judge, at times

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

One who repudiates.

Paint booth breathing apparatus

Clean air contraption

Safety equipment worn in paint booth

Epitaph for a bull (wordplay)

Person or event noted for intensity

Wild thing

""1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus , of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head""

Funambulist

Equilibrist

Acrobat

Funambulist

SAILPLANE

That which saponifies; any reagent used to cause saponification.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A man in control of his craft (wordplay)

One i/c vessel - tramp is she, perhaps (wordplay)

Skipper

E.g. newsagent

Irish operator is such a person in trade

Little Nell's Grandfather, for example

Robber holding up store (wordplay)

One needing a fence (wordplay)

Criminal (in a retail context)

SIMPLE to gather medicinal plants

Picture on a big-city postcard, perhaps

High-rise building (wordplay)

*Chicago's Sears Tower, for one

Slippery

Snippety

Risky market trader, ponderous type

Second embezzler is better

Adirondack ski center.

Of or pertaining to a spiracle.

One discovers how much inspiration there has been

Splendid

Splotchy

One who splutters.

Strip for action!

Tracksuit perhaps fits uphill runner

Exhibits flower with spikes, say

Faux pa (wordplay)

Onassis to Caroline Kennedy

Mother's new husband

Domestic climbing aid

Decorator's platform

Ceiling painter's need

Non-blood relation

A relation by marriage

Stereotypically wicked member of 3

Fairy tale meanie

Fairy tale meany

One of Cinderella's taunters

Maker of terms or conditions.

STOCKPILE

Section of a body of laws

SUPERLIE to lie above

Celestial; heavenly

A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.

Country militarily supreme

U.S.S.R. or U.S.A.

The United States, for example

Excellent material for furniture