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19-letter words that end in r

  • logical unit number — (storage)   (LUN) A 3-bit identifier used on a SCSI bus to distinguish between up to eight devices (logical units) with the same SCSI ID.
  • lucia di lammermoor — an opera (1835) by Gaetano Donizetti, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor.
  • maximum thermometer — a thermometer designed to show the highest temperature recorded between resettings.
  • mechanical-engineer — the branch of engineering dealing with the design and production of machinery.
  • mediterranean fever — brucellosis.
  • mercurial barometer — mercury barometer.
  • midafternoon prayer — the fifth of the seven canonical hours; none
  • miniature schnauzer — one of a German breed of sturdily built terriers resembling a smaller version of the standard schnauzer, having a wiry, pepper-and-salt, black, or black-and-silver coat, a rectangular head, bushy whiskers, and a docked tail, and originally developed as a farm dog but now raised primarily as a pet.
  • minimum thermometer — a thermometer designed to show the lowest temperature recorded between resettings.
  • muhammadan calendar — Muslim calendar.
  • mulheim an der ruhr — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, near Essen.
  • mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
  • nail polish remover — solvent for removing nail polish
  • nerve growth factor — a protein that promotes the growth, organization, and maintenance of sympathetic and some sensory nerve cells. Abbreviation: NGF.
  • next door neighbour — a person who lives in the house, flat, etc, next to one's home
  • nine--days---wonder — an event or thing that arouses considerable but short-lived interest or excitement.
  • nonplayer character — a character in a tabletop role-playing game who is controlled by the Game Master.
  • north-west frontier — the area roughly equivalent to the present North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, which is the days of the British Raj was regarded as one of the most remote and dangerous outposts of the British Empire
  • northern hog sucker — black sucker.
  • not for much longer — if something will not happen for much longer, it will soon stop happening
  • not worth a cracker — worthless; useless
  • on someone's hammer — persistently demanding and critical of someone
  • one after the other — one at a time
  • one way and another — on balance
  • operations director — a director or senior manager who oversees the efficiency of business operations
  • optical double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • optical mark reader — (hardware)   (OMR) A special scanning device that can read carefully placed pencil marks on specially designed documents. OMR is frequenty used in forms, questionnaires, and answer-sheets.
  • optimising compiler — (programming, tool)   compiler which attempts to analyse the code it produces and to produce more efficient code by performing program transformation such as branch elimination, partial evaluation, or peep-hole optimisation. Contrast pessimising compiler.
  • orange flower water — a distilled infusion of orange blossom, used in cakes, confectionery, etc
  • order of the garter — the highest order of British knighthood, instituted by Edward III about 1348.
  • oxyacetylene burner — a blowpipe for cutting or welding metals at high temperatures
  • oysters rockefeller — oysters topped typically with cooked spinach, cream sauce or butter, bacon, and seasonings, and broiled in a bed of rock salt: served on a half shell
  • parachute spinnaker — a very large spinnaker used on a racing yacht.
  • paraphase amplifier — an amplifier that produces a push-pull output from a single input.
  • peak envelope power — (communications)   (PEP) The maximum power output by a radio transmitter over one complete RF cycle at any modulation.
  • persistent offender — a person who repeatedly breaks the law
  • philadelphia lawyer — a lawyer of outstanding ability at exploiting legal fine points and technicalities.
  • photoelectric meter — an exposure meter using a photocell for the measurement of light intensity.
  • pileated woodpecker — a large, black-and-white American woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus, having a prominent red crest.
  • preach to the choir — to express an opinion to someone who is already in agreement with it
  • promotions director — someone in charge of encouraging the sale of (a product) by advertising or securing financial support
  • property speculator — a person who takes part in property speculation
  • pseudorandom number — (programming)   One of a sequence of numbers generated by some algorithm so as to have an even distribution over some range of values and minimal correlation between successive values. Pseudorandom numbers are used in simulation and encryption. They are pseudorandom not random because the sequence eventually repeats exactly and is entirely determined by the initial conditions. One of the simplest algorithms is x[i+1] = (a * x[i] + c) mod m but this repeats after at most m numbers and successive numbers are closely related. Better algorithms generally use more previous numbers to calculate the next number.
  • put the skids under — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
  • queen street farmer — a businessman who runs a farm, often for a tax loss
  • registration number — number on vehicle licence plate
  • ride roughshod over — shod with horseshoes having projecting nails or points.
  • right-eyed flounder — any of several flatfishes of the family Pleuronectidae, having both eyes on the right side of the head.
  • saber-toothed tiger — any of several extinct members of the cat family Felidae from the Oligocene to Pleistocene Epochs, having greatly elongated, saberlike upper canine teeth.
  • sabre-toothed tiger — any of various extinct Tertiary felines of the genus Smilodon and related genera, with long curved upper canine teeth
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