19-letter words that end in r
- fashion coordinator — a person in a department store or other establishment who coordinates activities centered upon or related to fashion, as fashion themes, shows, displays, and promotion.
- feather-tail glider — pygmy glider.
- female impersonator — a male performer who dresses as and impersonates women.
- fifth-wheel trailer — a horizontal ring or segment of a ring, consisting of two bands that slide on each other, placed above the front axle of a carriage and designed to support the forepart of the body while allowing it to turn freely in a horizontal plane.
- fighter-interceptor — a fighter plane used for the defense of a region against air attack, especially by attacking bombers.
- first degree murder — the most serious category of murder
- first-degree murder — Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
- flannelmouth sucker — a sucker, Catostomus latipinnis, of the Colorado River and its tributaries.
- focal plane shutter — an opaque shield in a camera, lying in the focal plane of the lens, that, when tripped, admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second
- focal-plane shutter — a camera shutter situated directly in front of the film.
- franco-prussian war — the war between France and Prussia, 1870–71.
- front-end processor — a small computer or other dedicated device that performs preliminary processing of data for a host computer.
- full-wave rectifier — a rectifier that transmits both halves of a cycle of alternating current as a direct current.
- gaius julius caesar — Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), (or Caius) [key-uh s] /ˈkeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), Julius, c100–44 b.c, Roman general, statesman, and historian.
- gentleman-pensioner — (formerly) a gentleman-at-arms.
- geomagnetic equator — an imaginary line on the earth's surface, the plane of which passes through the center and is midway between the geomagnetic poles.
- geraldton waxflower — an evergreen shrub, Chamelaucium uncinatum, native to W Australia, cultivated for its pale pink flowers
- gestational carrier — surrogate mother (def 3).
- give one credit for — to commend one for
- go under the hammer — to be offered for sale by an auctioneer
- goodwill ambassador — an ambassador who shows goodwill to another country, organization, etc, on behalf of his or her own country, organization, etc
- grandfather's chair — wing chair.
- grasshopper warbler — a Eurasian warbler Locustella naevia
- great idaean mother — Cybele.
- great-granddaughter — a granddaughter of one's son or daughter.
- 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 weakness for — be fond of
- heavy-water reactor — a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water as moderator
- henry the navigator — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
- high-flying tippler — a variety of domestic pigeon bred mainly for flying
- hold no terrors for — If something holds no terrors for you, you are not at all frightened or worried by it.
- hydroelectric power — electricity generated by water
- immigration officer — official administrating incoming foreigners
- in descending order — starting with the biggest, most important, highest etc and continuing in decreasing order to end with the smallest, least important, lowest, etc
- incremental plotter — a device that plots graphs on paper from computer-generated instructions
- indwelling catheter — a hollow tube left implanted in a body canal or organ, especially the bladder, to promote drainage.
- information officer — someone whose job is to give information to people
- internal translator — (language, mathematics) (IT) An early compiler for mathematics developed by A.J. Perlis et al at Carnegie Tech ca 1957. IT was originally written for the Burroughs 205, then the IBM 650. IT was the forerunner of RUNCIBLE, GATE, CORRELATE and GAT. IT source code was converted to PIT, thence to SPIT. IT-2 produced machine language directly, IT-3 developed at Carnegie added double-precision floating-point.
- ionotropic receptor — a receptor that functions directly by opening ion channels that enable specific ions to stream in an out of the cell
- jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
- junction transistor — a bipolar transistor consisting of two p-n junctions combined to form either an n-p-n or a p-n-p transistor, having the three electrodes, the emitter, base, and collector
- keep an eye out for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- king's remembrancer — (in Great Britain) a judiciary official who collects debts owed to the king.
- large munsterlander — a strongly built gun dog with a long dense black-and-white coat
- left-luggage locker — a coin-operated locker in which luggage can be left
- lieutenant governor — a state officer next in rank to a governor, who takes the governor's place in case of the latter's absence, disability, or death.
- lightning conductor — A lightning conductor is a long thin piece of metal on top of a building that attracts lightning and allows it to reach the ground safely.
- like a dog's dinner — dressed smartly or ostentatiously
- locomotive engineer — engineer (def 3).