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19-letter words containing r, o, w, e

  • draw the color line — to impose or accept the color line
  • draw the curtain on — to end
  • drawing-room comedy — a light, sophisticated comedy typically set in a drawing room with characters drawn from polite society.
  • dwight d eisenhower — Dwight David ("Ike") 1890–1969, U.S. general and statesman: Chief of Staff 1945–48; 34th president of the U.S. 1953–61.
  • east-west relations — relations between the United States and its allies in the western alliance and the Soviet Union, it allies and other Communist countries, especially during the period between the end of World War II and the fall of the Soviet regime
  • endowment assurance — a form of life insurance that provides for the payment of a specified sum directly to the policyholder at a designated date or to his beneficiary should he die before this date
  • endowment insurance — Endowment insurance is a type of life insurance that pays a particular sum directly to the policyholder at a stated date, or to a beneficiary if the policyholder dies before this date.
  • extradition warrant — a warrant for somebody's extradition
  • feather-duster worm — any tube-dwelling polychaete worm of the families Sabellidae and Serpulidae, the numerous species having a crown of feathery tentacles used in feeding and respiration.
  • fellow countrywoman — a fellow countrywoman is a female citizen of the same state as the person speaking, writing, or being referred to
  • fellow-servant rule — the common-law rule that the employer is not liable to an employee for injuries resulting from the negligence of a fellow employee.
  • first world problem — a fairly minor problem, frustrating situation, or complaint associated with a relatively high standard of living, as opposed to the more serious problems associated with poverty: I’m bored with all my electronic gadgets—such a first world problem!
  • flowering raspberry — a shrub, Rubus ordoratus, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of showy purplish or rose-purple flowers and inedible, dry, red fruit.
  • follow-up interview — a second interview following an initial interview
  • for better or worse — If you say that something has happened or been done for better or worse, you mean that you are not sure whether the consequences will be good or bad, but they will have to be accepted because the action cannot be changed.
  • forward engineering — (process)   The traditional process of moving from high-level abstractions and logical, implementation-independent designs to the physical implementation of a system. Contrast reverse engineering.
  • forward integration — the acquisition of all or part of a distribution chain by a firm that sells the goods distributed, so that the firm becomes or become closer to the direct seller of the goods
  • framework agreement — an agreement that sets the limits and scope for further negotiation, discussion, etc
  • geraldton waxflower — an evergreen shrub, Chamelaucium uncinatum, native to W Australia, cultivated for its pale pink flowers
  • gorzow wielkopolski — a city in NW Poland, on the Warta River.
  • grasshopper sparrow — a brown and white North American sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum, having a buffy breast and a buzzing insectlike song.
  • grasshopper warbler — a Eurasian warbler Locustella naevia
  • great wall of china — a system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria: completed in the 3rd century b.c., but later repeatedly modified and rebuilt. 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
  • greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • grosse pointe woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • have a problem with — to be unable to understand or do
  • have a weakness for — be fond of
  • heavy-water reactor — a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water as moderator
  • horseshoe whipsnake — a long slender fast-moving nonvenomous snake, Coluber hippocrepis, of Eurasia
  • hydroelectric power — electricity generated by water
  • indeterminate vowel — schwa.
  • information warfare — the use of electronic communications and the internet to disrupt a country's telecommunications, power supply, transport system, etc
  • jewel in sb's crown — If you refer to an achievement or thing as the jewel in someone's crown, you mean that it is considered to be their greatest achievement or the thing they can be most proud of.
  • junior bantamweight — a boxer weighing up to 115 pounds (51.7 kg), between flyweight and bantamweight.
  • junior middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 154 pounds (69.3 kg), between welterweight and middleweight.
  • junior welterweight — a boxer weighing up to 140 pounds (63 kg), between lightweight and welterweight.
  • know better than to — not to be so stupid as to
  • lay down one's arms — to stop fighting; surrender
  • lean over backwards — to make a special effort, esp in order to please
  • let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
  • low insertion force — (hardware)   (LIF) PGA/SPGA sockets with no handle. The integrated circuit is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most motherboard processor sockets are now ZIF rather than LIF.
  • mary wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
  • maternity allowance — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a payment made to a pregnant woman who usually works but does not qualify for statutory maternity pay, normally from 11 weeks before confinement for a period of 18 weeks
  • mother-in-law plant — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
  • motorway restaurant — a restaurant on a motorway
  • mouse-ear chickweed — any of various similar and related plants of the genus Cerastium
  • nasty piece of work — malicious person
  • nathaniel hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • neighbourhood watch — a scheme under which members of a community agree together to take responsibility for keeping an eye on each other's property, as a way of preventing crime
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