12-Letter Words Ending in R

""He who, or that which, accommodates.""

One who accomplishes.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

TAKEOVER the act of assuming control

One liberates all but last of fit soldiers

An assassin.

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

Support for burning light

MENORAH

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

One making maps

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

Map-maker

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

One who manipulates the spine

Joint manipulator

Spine manipulator

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

Comparative adjective or agent noun

CURRICULAR

Codiscover

One working jointly

Fellow worker

Cream perhaps no longer in favour of Australian novelist

One who commemorates.

Head of police organisation

Government official.

Senior policeman

From banisher to bullhorn (wordplay)

Person (good at) imparting news etc

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

Concession

Conversationalist

Mars, for one

Sweet maker/seller

Seller of sweets

Spanish adventurer of the 16th century

Pizarro or Cortes

16th-century Spanish invader of Peru

CONSOLIDATE Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

""CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

One who contemplates.

Gainsayer.

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.

""CORROBORATE To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.""

""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

""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.""

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.""

One who determines.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Phonograph Records

One who dispossesses.

One who spreads (something) widely

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

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

""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

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.""

EXTRAPOLATE

FESTIVAL a time of celebration

Flameproof

Weapon used in heated dispute (wordplay)

Criticize a pitcher (wordplay)

Gun firing burning liquid

Foreshadow

FORMULARIZE To reduce to a forula; to formulate.

""FRACTIONATE To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.""

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

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

One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.

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

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.""

""An improviser, or improvvisatore.""

Angle-measuring device

One of a number of persons who gets a company incorporated; one of the original members of a corporation.

""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

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

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

Inquisitor used terror to gain conversion

Questioner

One making a search or enquiries

One making a search or enquiry

Private eye

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.

An instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder; a lithotrite.

""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

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

MICROMANAGE

""Any of the proteinaceous cylindrical hollow structures that are distributed throughout the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, providing structural support and assisting in cellular locomotion and transport.""

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.""

English word

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.

""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

Material such as glass or porcelain

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.

""One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.""

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

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

""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

""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

One who prevaricates.

To reign terribly following Victorian old ancestor

Victorian old chap conversely including one's forefather

One who proselytes.

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

""RATIOCINATE To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.""

""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.""

It's cooler in Alaska

Keeps cool in kitchen

Where not to put your bananas.

One who remonstrates; a remonsrant.

Verb with prefix re-

""The process of reproducing, reprinting, or copying graphic material especially by mechanical, photographic, or electronic means.""

""SPIROMETER An instrument for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs, or the volume of air which can be expelled from the chest after the deepest possible inspiration. Cf. Pneumatometer. Pneumatometer.""

One who brings back to life or consciousness

""RHABDOME a rodlike structure in the retinula, also RHABDOM""

""The art of representing objects in perspective, especially as applied in the design and painting of theatrical scenery.""

The classroom (anagram)

Teacher of fish (wordplay)

Instructor at Eton, say

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""SCINTILLATE To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.""

""An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.""

Of muscular response to nervous stimuli

Small-time farmer (2 words)

Type of tenant farmer in the USA

Landworker's allotment failure

Marksman pointed gun (wordplay)

Annie Oakley, for one

Sniper, e.g

SHORTCHANGE

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

""Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the appleleaf skeletonizer. as, the appleleaf skeletonizer.""

""Slang One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.""

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

Apparatus measuring wavelengths

Scientific instrument

Instrument for measuring refractive indices

Schenkel, for one

Masters consultant, say

One who knows the score

Newspaper man.

Specialist reporter

One of those in the media talking about the club - the one reporting the fights

Copier of a dictator's words

One versed in shorthand

Court employee

One of a set of isomers whose molecules have the same atoms bonded to each other but differ in the way these atoms are arranged in space.