19-letter words containing r, w
- geraldton waxflower — an evergreen shrub, Chamelaucium uncinatum, native to W Australia, cultivated for its pale pink flowers
- germander speedwell — a speedwell, Veronica chamaedrys, having blue flowers.
- giant silkworm moth — any silkworm moth of the family Saturniidae.
- goodwill ambassador — an ambassador who shows goodwill to another country, organization, etc, on behalf of his or her own country, organization, etc
- gorzow wielkopolski — a city in NW Poland, on the Warta River.
- graphic workstation — (graphics, computer) A workstation specifically configured for graphics works such as image manipulation, bitmap graphics ("paint"), and vector graphics ("draw") type applications. Such work requires a powerful CPU and a high resolution display. A graphic workstation is very similar to a CAD workstation and, given the typical specifications of personal computers currently available in 1999, the distinctions are very blurred and are more likely to depend on availability of specific software than any detailed hardware requirements.
- 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.
- greenwich mean time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
- grosse pointe woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- half wave rectifier — A half wave rectifier removes the negative component of an alternating signal leaving only the positive part.
- half-wave rectifier — a rectifier that changes only one half of a cycle of alternating current into a pulsating, direct current.
- 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
- highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
- horseshoe whipsnake — a long slender fast-moving nonvenomous snake, Coluber hippocrepis, of Eurasia
- hydroelectric power — electricity generated by water
- imperial war museum — a museum in London, founded in 1920, containing material related to military operations involving British and Commonwealth forces since 1914
- indeterminate vowel — schwa.
- indwelling catheter — a hollow tube left implanted in a body canal or organ, especially the bladder, to promote drainage.
- information highway — information superhighway
- information warfare — the use of electronic communications and the internet to disrupt a country's telecommunications, power supply, transport system, etc
- irish water spaniel — one of an Irish breed of large water spaniels having a thick, curly, liver-colored coat, a topknot of long, loose curls, and a thin, tapering tail covered with short hair.
- james clerk maxwell — Elsa, 1883–1963, U.S. professional hostess and author.
- japanese lawn grass — an Asiatic creeping grass, Zoysia japonica, used especially in the southeastern U.S., having purplish spikelets and rootstalks that send up numerous tough, wiry shoots.
- 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.
- jeweler's saw frame — a U -shaped steel frame with a handle and clamps that hold a piercing saw.
- 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.
- knock-down-drag-out — marked by unrelenting violence: a knock-down-drag-out fight.
- know a thing or two — be experienced in sth
- 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
- long-and-short work — an arrangement of rectangular quoins or jambstones set alternately vertically and horizontally.
- 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
- mccarran-walter act — the Immigration and Nationality Act enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1952 that removed racial barriers to immigration and empowered the Department of Justice to deport immigrants or naturalized citizens engaging in subversive activities.
- mermaid's wineglass — a colony of green algae, Acetabularia crenulata, of warm seas, having a cup-shaped cap on a slender stalk.
- 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