12-Letter Words Ending in R

""ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

One who accomplishes.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

Large oval stadium with tiers

Hollywood Bowl, for example

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

TAKEOVER the act of assuming control

Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.

Background

""A sensory nerve ending that is stimulated by changes in pressure, especially one in the walls of blood vessels such as the carotid sinus.""

English word

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; sometimes called simply clabber. clabber.

Member of the smart set.

Man-about-town in Paris

Brainstorm

A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

Type of ranch hand

Tamer of wild horses

Cowboy, at times

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

A craftsperson of excellent character

He's a fine script writer

Support for burning light

MENORAH

'Ringer' vehicle ailing on climbing trip round head of Eskdale

Corrupt Northerner of 1865.

Scalawag's confederate

Non-local candidate

One making maps

Occupation that the bad chef might be better at (wordplay)

Map-maker

Fast food - begs cure here (anagram)

Lunch-counter specialty.

Fast food product

One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

One who describes or makes a map of a district or region.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

Codiscover

One who commemorates.

Head of police organisation

Government official.

Senior policeman

""An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.""

Concession

Mars, for one

Sweet maker/seller

Seller of sweets

One who contemplates.

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.

One who supports or frequents conventicles.

""PROPRIETOR One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill. as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.""

RESEARCHER One who researches.

""One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.""

Fruit and veg seller

Fruit/veg seller

Barrow boy

""One who countenances, favors, or supports.""

I'll give you $100 for that buffet table, for example

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Singer getting note say, below bar

A singing bank teller (wordplay)

Singer with note heard at end of bar

""CRYSTALLIZE To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.""

""A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Floscuculi). Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Floscuculi).""

""He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.""

""A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.""

Device for reducing moisture content of the atmosphere

""MAGNETIZER One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.""

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Dealer's test drive vehicle

Car wearing dealer plates, often

Participant in a public protest

""An instrument for determining optical or photographic density. A variety capable of measuring optical density of a sample at a number of different wavelengths, is called a spectrophotometer.spectrophotometer.""

""Inflected form of PROGRAMMER Inflected form of PROGRAMME That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.""

SENSITIZER An agent that sensitizes.

One who determines.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Phonograph Records

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

One who dispossesses.

One who spreads (something) widely

Pertaining to a diverticulum.

Ghostly double of a live person

Living person's double

Ghostly lookalike of a human

Back-to-back baseball games

July 4th tradition.

Marathon at Camden Yards

Reproved apes (anagram)

Wiretapper, for example

Secret listener

Instrument for measuring differences in potential

One making a copy by coating a mould with deposited copper

Same as Incumbrancer. Incumbrancer.

Nice word for a speculator (wordplay)

Nice word for a risker of capital

One who is his/her own boss

""The outermost layer of cuticle of an arthropod exoskeleton, composed mostly of wax.""

""EQUILIBRATE To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.""

Ethnic anthropologist

University student in demonstration before the queen

Researcher's former name required, transiting border

Former wife edges around new one that's adventurous

One who takes property for the public benefit

One who extemporizes.

""An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.""

Ridder of rats in 1918?

Ridder of rats in 1918 (wordplay)

Schwarzenegger, today (wordplay)

""A sense organ, such as the ear, that receives and responds to stimuli originating from outside the body.""

Firefighting apparatus

Firefighting equipment

Located or occurring outside the nucleus of a cell.

EXTRAPOLATE

FESTIVAL a time of celebration

One speaking at length to block legislation

Flameproof

Weapon used in heated dispute (wordplay)

Criticize a pitcher (wordplay)

Gun firing burning liquid

Foreshadow

FORMULARIZE To reduce to a forula; to formulate.

Instrument for measuring small electric currents

Instrument for detecting small electric currents - mangrove et al (anagram)

Man got a lever working, device in physics lab (wordplay)

One who gesticulates.

Tittle-tattler

Good spoonerism made up about leader of group, a tattler

Show-off (1975-80)

*Showboating type

Show-off

He makes sure the rough isn't too rough

One who uses a stimpmeter

Golf course maintenance person

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.

Quibbler (2 words)

One disputing cowboy shirt retail price, at first

Quibbler

Handicraft

An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.

Harquebusie

German rabbit stew

Rabbit stew

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Certain analyst, slangily

Fickle lover having courage to wave

One who causes overwhelming distress

Narrow defeat, for example

Travel agent perhaps is taking a break

Tourist in rank beset by wild blow

Feast day for God and tourist

Kid with no commute

Nectar-feeding bird

HORSEWHIP A whip for horses.

Demolition worker who shows criminal intent

Burglar

Take in rope for craftsman

Job that involves ladder climbing

Man with a ladder

Hydrocrack

""One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters.""

REACTOR one who {reacts=v}

One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

Another name for an artist or illustrator

IMMORTALIZE To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.

One pretending to be another

Impressionist painter's room in a mess

Entertainer making many appearances (wordplay)

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

Angle-measuring device

CHANGER one that {changes=v}

CLUSTER to form into groups

""Between lammell\'91 or lamin\'91; as, interlamellar spaces.as, interlamellar spaces.""

""Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein. as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein.""

Person who takes part in a conversation

Participant in a dialogue

Involved in conversation to disclose tricolour net

""One who meddles with, or intrudes into, the affairs of others.""

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

A specialized sensory nerve receptor that receives and responds to stimuli originating from within the body.

One who interpleads.

""One who interpolates; esp., one who inserts foreign or spurious matter in genuine writings.""

Inquisitor used terror to gain conversion

Questioner

In deep space

Let star liner make such a voyage

Occurring between stars

A person within a large corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk-taking and innovation.

One making a search or enquiries

One making a search or enquiry

Private eye

North American word for a hangover

Kids of early comics

North American word for a state of emotional distress

Type of printer

A device that pulverizes kidney stones and gallstones by passing shock waves through a water-filled tub in which the patient sits.

""Pl. macronuclei (-kl - ) The larger of two nuclei present in ciliate protozoans, which controls nonreproductive functions of the cell, such as metabolism.""

Instrument for measuring earth's field

Ho ho ho, maybe

Crime of unpremeditated killing

Bloke's mirth is killing

Fellow switched future car brand

Maker of goods

Fabricator makes things up presumably

One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.

""MATERIALIZE To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.""

A trader.

""A white crystalline compound, Cl 3 CCH(C 6 H 4 OCH 3 ) 2 , used as an insecticide.""

MICROMANAGE

Electronic development of the 1960's

Small digital electronic device

Laptop, for example

One who misconceives.

MOLLYCODDLE a pampered darling; an effeminate man; a milksop.

A person who is deemed to be worthless or despicable; -- obscene and highly offensive.

""Any of various fishes, especially of the genera Haplochromis and Tilapia, that carry their eggs and young in the mouth.""

""Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells. as, multinuclear cells.""

A composer of fables.

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

""NATIONALIZE To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.""

One doing embroidery

Seamstress

An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

Hot spot regular

""CHARACTER A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.""

""COLLECTOR One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. as, a collector of coins.""

COLLINEAR

Nonconform

CROSSOVER the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis.

LANDOWNER An owner of land.

""MOLECULAR Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc. as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc.""

""PERFORMER One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp. as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.""

Inflected form of RESPONDER Inflected form of RESPOND to {answer=v}

President, for one.

Functionary from ticket endings

Last year's winner not skating - he's got a job

An apparatus for measuring the acuity of the sense of smell.

ORCHESTRATE to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition.

Or that scorer, perhaps (wordplay)

Speaker reserves royal box for arranger

Speaker keeps royal box for the organiser

Academic Type A personality

Hardly a slacker

*Person who constantly exceeds expectations

ENGINEER to arrange or contrive

Too well known

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

""A device for measuring the penetrating power of radiation, especially x-rays.""

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

Geology ()

One versed or skilled in phonography.

Snappy guy (wordplay)

One will put you in the picture

Job taking snaps

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

""(Chemistry) a polymeric material that is sensitive to light: used in printing plates, microfilms, etc.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

""Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.""

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

""A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the inverted mordente.inverted mordente.""

AMPLIFIER One who or that which amplifies.

""One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness.""

Inflected form of MEDITATOR Inflected form of MEDITATE to consider thoughtfully

Inflected form of PROCESSOR Inflected form of PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

One who prevaricates.

To reign terribly following Victorian old ancestor

Victorian old chap conversely including one's forefather

Any game show contestant (wordplay)

Clay, for one.

Professional athlete.

One who proselytes.

""An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.""

""RATIONALIZE To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.""

RECIPROCATE To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

""One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.""