an agent that destroys or inhibits the activity of microorganisms that cause disease
sanitizer in American English
(ˈsænɪˌtaizər)
noun
a substance or preparation for killing germs, designed for use esp. on food-processing equipment
Word origin
[1945–50; sanitize + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1945–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: beeper, on-line, poison pill, shootout, taxi squad-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)