English words: rooburger to rootlessness

300 English words, part 82 of 97 of the words starting with R, A to Z. 32 have a page of their own.

English words rooburger to rootlessness

rooburger noun: A burger made with kangaroo meat.
Roocooyen noun: A native people of French Guiana.
rood noun /ɹuːd/: A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
rood beam noun: A beam across the chancel of a church for supporting the rood.
rood goose noun: The barnacle goose.
rood-loft noun: A gallery over the rood-screen.
rood screen noun /ˈɹuːd skɹiːn/: A carved screen that separated the chancel and nave in a medieval church; it originally carried a large crucifix; in continental Europe it often featured a...
rood-steeple noun: A spire built over the entrance to the chancel.
rood-tree noun: The cross on which Jesus was crucified
roodebok noun: A South African antelope, the pallah.
Roodepoort proper noun: A town in the Gauteng province of South Africa.
roodloft noun: Alternative spelling of rood-loft.
roof noun, verb /ɹuːf/: The external covering at the top of a building.
roof assembly noun: an assembly of interacting roof components including the roof deck, vapor retarder (if needed), insulation and roof covering.
roof-brain chatter noun: incoherent, idle thoughts "at the top of the brain"
roof comb noun: The structure that tops a pyramid in monumental Mesoamerican architecture, typically consisting of two walls leaning on each other, covered with plaster and...
roof curb noun: A raised frame used to mount mechanical units (such as air conditioning or exhaust fans), skylights, etc. on a roof.
roof deck noun: The flat layer of construction materials to which the weather impervious layers are attached to a form a roof. It is known as the "roof deck", and they may...
roof flap noun: An aerodynamic flap on top of a race car, serving as an emergency spoiler to prevent the vehicle from lifting off the ground.
roof garden noun: A garden on the roof of a building.
roof knocking noun: The practice of dropping a nonexplosive or low-yield device on a target around 10 to 15 minutes before a bombing in order to caution any civilians present...
roof light noun: A window (or set of windows) set into a roof of a buildig in order to admit light
roof of the mouth noun: The upper internal surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities, found in humans and some other mammals.
roof over verb: To place a roof over an outdoor area.
roof over one's head noun: A place to live or reside; shelter.
roof over the head noun: Alternative form of roof over one's head.
roof-plate noun: A wall plate that receives the lower ends of the rafters of a roof.
roof prism noun: A reflective optical prism containing a section where two faces meet at a 90° angle, resembling the roof of a building. Reflection from the two 90° faces...
roof rabbit noun: cat meat
roof rack noun: A rack attached to the top of a car or other vehicle, used to hold luggage or similar items.
roof rake noun: a long-handled tool for pulling snow off a roof.
roof rat noun: The black rat.
roof riding noun: Riding illegally on the roof of a train (or car, bus, etc) for the thrills.
roof square noun: 100 square feet
roof tax noun: A tax based on house prices, proposed as an alternative to the poll tax in the 1990s.
roof tile noun: Any tile designed to be used for the external part of a roof.
roof tree noun: The ridgepole of a peaked roof, especially that of a house.
roof turret noun: Synonym of ridge turret.
roofage noun: Roofing; material used to make a roof, or the roof itself.
roofball noun /ˈɹuːfbɔːl/: A game in which players attempt to keep a ball in play by alternately bouncing it off a sloping roof.
roofbeam noun: Any of the beams that form a roof.
roofbolt noun, verb: A safety bolt installed in the roof of an underground mine.
roofbolter noun: A machine for installing roofbolts.
roofbox noun: A specially contrived opening above a doorway, usually aligned to mark an astronomical event.
roofed adjective, verb: Having a roof, or a particular kind of roof.
roofed turtle noun: Any of the obsolete genus Kachuga of Asian turtles, now placed in Batagur and Pangshura.
roofer noun /ˈɹufɚ/: A craftsman who lays, or repairs roofs.
roofful noun: A quantity that sits on a roof.
roofgarden noun: Alternative form of roof garden.
roofie noun, verb /ˈɹuː.fi/: Synonym of rohypnol: flunitrazepam, a hypnotic drug (sleeping pill), sometimes used as a date rape drug.
roofied adjective, verb: Affected by or under the influence of roofies.
roofing noun, verb: Material used on the outside of a roof, such as shingles.
roofing bone noun: Any of the bones covering the brain, eyes, and nostrils in bony fishes and all land-living vertebrates.
roofing nail noun: Any of various designs of nails used to fasten roofing materials to a substrate, with large heads intended to minimize the risk of leaks.
roofing tile noun: roof tile
roofing tin noun: terne (tin-based alloy)
roofless adjective: Without a roof, open to the sky.
rooflessness noun: Absence of a roof.
rooflet noun: A small roof or covering.
rooflight noun: Alternative form of roof light.
rooflike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a roof.
roofline noun: The profile of a roof or a series of roofs.
roofpeak noun: The peak of a building's roof.
roofplate noun: Alternative form of roof-plate.
roofscape noun: A landscape above ground formed by roofs of buildings.
roofspace noun: The space inside a roof (between the roof and the ceiling).
roofspall noun: debris from the roof (and walls) of a cave or similar shelter
roofstone noun /ˈɹuːfˌstəʊ̯n/: The stone or rock layer immediately above a coal seam.
rooftile noun: Alternative form of roof tile.
rooftop noun /ˈɹuːfˌtɒp/: The area atop a roof.
rooftopper noun: A person who takes selfies or videos with expansive and vertiginous urban views and cityscapes, usually, but not always, from locations restricted to the...
rooftopping noun: A form of urban exploration by accessing a rooftop to acquire skyline photography, often done illegally with the risk of personal injury.
rooftree noun /ˈɹuːftɹiː/: The primary beam of a roof; the ridgepole; hence, the roof itself.
roofward adverb: Toward the roof.
roofwise adverb: In the manner of a roof.
roofwork noun: Construction work done on a roof.
roofy adjective, noun: Having roofs.
rooibok noun: The impala.
rooibos noun /ˈɹɔɪ.bɒs/: A shrub (Aspalathus linearis) from which a tisane (herbal tea) is made.
rooibos tea noun: A beverage made from the rooibos plant.
rooibosch noun: Alternative form of rooibos.
rooigras noun: A perennial grass, Themeda triandra, that has large red-brown spikelets
rooikat noun: caracal
rook noun, verb /ɹʊk/: A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
rook and rabbit rifle noun: Synonym of rook rifle.
rook lift noun: A tactic in which a rook is moved off the back rank to a position past its pawns.
rook polynomial noun: A generating polynomial of the number of ways to place non-attacking rooks on a generalized form of chessboard.
rook rifle noun: An English single-shot dropping block or break-action small-calibre rifle for shooting rooks and rabbits.
rook's pawn noun: A pawn on the rook's file; i.e., the a-file or h-file.
rooker noun: A person who rooks (cheats or swindles).
rookeried adjective: Having a rookery.
rookery noun: A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
rookie adjective, noun, verb /ˈɹʊki/: An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
rookie card noun: A sports card that is the first to feature an athlete after that athlete has participated in the highest level of competition within his or her sport.
rookie numbers noun: Low numbers or a small amount of something, especially seen as signaling one's inexperience or naïveté.
rookielike adjective: Characteristic of a rookie; amateurish, naive.
rooking noun, verb: An act or instance of cheating or swindling.
rookish adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a rook (bird).
rookless adjective: Without rooks (the birds).
rooklet noun: A little rook (type of bird).
rooklike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a rook.
rookus noun: Alternative form of ruckus.
rookwise adjective, adverb: Moving exclusively in cardinal directions, as a rook moves in chess
Rookwood proper noun: A suburb of Sydney in the Cumberland council area, New South Wales, Australia.
rooky adjective: full of rooks.
rool verb: To raggle; to ruffle.
roolie adjective: Peaceful; still.
roolya-boolya noun: Alternative form of ruaille buaille (“commotion; rowdiness; uproar; hubbub”).
roolyeh-boolyeh noun: Alternative form of ruaille buaille (“commotion; rowdiness; uproar; hubbub”).
room adjective, adverb, noun, verb /ɹʊm/: An opportunity or scope (to do something).
room air noun: The natural, unassisted air that humans breathe in everyday environments; it contains a stable concentration of approximately 21% oxygen.
room and board noun: A place of lodging with daily meals (board), usually provided in return for rent or other considerations.
room and pillar noun: A variant of breast stoping in which the mined material is extracted across a horizontal plane, creating horizontal arrays of rooms and pillars.
room by the hour noun: A room rented by the hour, usually used for sexual liaisons.
room divider noun: A screen or piece of furniture placed so as to divide a room into separate areas.
room for a pony noun: minimum trappings of the minor landed gentry
room for doubt noun: Eventuality.
room for maneuver noun: Synonym of wiggle room.
room in verb: Of a mother and her new baby; to stay together in the same room.
room meat noun: Person(s) present in a passive way or to make up the numbers; bystander(s).
room of doom noun: A cave behind a waterfall that is filled with the crashing water, a potential hazard for canoes or kayaks.
room party noun: A small fan gathering, typically held in a hotel room.
room-scale adjective: Of a virtual reality system: designed to allow users to walk around freely in a designated area, with their real-life motion reflected in the simulated...
room service noun: The provision of food, drink, and other refreshments to a guest room.
room set noun: Alternative form of roomset.
room spray noun: perfume marketed for spraying in a room.
room temp noun: Clipped compound of room temperature.
room temperature noun: A normal temperature of a room in which people live; typically 20 to 23°C (68 to 73°F); neither heated nor cooled.
room temperature challenge noun: A notional challenge where the goal is to die.
room temperature I.Q. noun: Alternative form of room-temperature IQ.
room temperature IQ noun: A below average IQ.
room to maneuver noun: Alternative form of room for maneuver.
room tone noun: The ambient sounds in a room or on a set.
roomage noun: Space; place; room.
roomal noun: Alternative form of romal (“Indian handkerchief”).
roomaul noun: Alternative form of romal (“Indian handkerchief”).
roomba noun /ˈɹuːm.bə/: Alternative letter-case form of roomba.
roomer adverb, noun: A person who rents a room.
roomette noun: A small private compartment, for one person, in a railroad sleeping car.
roomf noun: A roommate who is also one’s OOMF (a social media follower, most notably on Twitter).
roomful adjective, noun: The amount that a room can hold, especially the number of people that can fit into a room.
roomie noun: A roommate.
roomily adverb: In a roomy manner; spaciously.
roominess noun: The quality of being roomy
rooming house noun: A house which rents out furnished apartments.
rooming in noun, verb: The practice of placing the newborn in a crib near the mother's bed, instead of in a nursery, during the hospital stay.
roomkeeper noun: A person employed by a hotel or similar establishment to clean, maintain and restock the rooms.
roomless adjective: Without a room.
roomlessness noun: Absence of room or rooms.
roomlet noun: A little room or room-like space.
roomlike adjective: Resembling a room.
roomly adjective: roomy; spacious
roommate noun /ˈɹu(m)ˌmeɪt/: A person with whom one shares a room, as in a dormitory, barracks, rooming house, or apartment.
roommatehood noun: The state of being a roommate.
roommateless adjective: Without a roomate; not having a roommate.
roommately adjective: Of or befitting a roommate.
roommateness noun: The state of individuals being or acting like roommates.
roommateship noun: The state or relationship of being roommates.
roomscale adjective: Alternative form of room-scale.
roomset noun: A model or part of a showroom etc. furnished to look like a room in a house.
roomsome adjective /ˈɹʊmsəm/: Characterised or marked by room or roominess; spacious.
roomspace noun: The amount of space within a room.
roomth noun /ɹʊmθ/: Room; sufficient space for a person or thing to occupy; place.
roomthy adjective /ˈɹʊmθi/: roomy; spacious
roomward adverb: Toward a room.
roomwise adverb: In terms of rooms.
roomy adjective, noun /ˈɹuːmi/: Spacious, expansive, comfortable.
roon adjective, noun: A shred or remnant (usually of cloth).
rooned adjective: Ruined; utterly spoiled or destroyed.
Rooney proper noun /ˈɹuːni/: A surname from Irish.
Rooneyesque adjective: Reminiscent or characteristic of Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr. in 1920), American film actor and entertainer.
roop noun, verb /ɹuːp/: To cry; shout.
Roopa proper noun: A female given name from Sanskrit.
rooped up adjective: Suffering from any affection of the throat or chest which renders the voice hoarse.
roopit adjective: Hoarse; husky.
roopy adjective: Hoarse.
roorbach noun /ˈɹuɹˌbæk/: A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue.
roorback noun: Alternative form of roorbach.
Roorda proper noun: A surname.
Roorkee proper noun: A city and municipal corporation in the state of Uttarakhand, India.
roorkee chair noun: An iconic, lightweight, and portable folding campaign chair designed for British military officers in the late 19th century.
roosa oil noun: Grass oil.
roose verb: To flatter or praise.
Roosevelt proper noun /ˈɹoʊ.zə.vɛlt/: An American surname from Dutch; borne by a political family who produced two presidents of the United States.
Roosevelt elk noun: Cervus canadensis roosevelti, the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk in North America.
Rooseveltian adjective: Relating to the Roosevelt family, an American political family including Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), 26th president of the United States, and Franklin...
Rooseveltiana noun: Objects, materials, or documents relating to the Roosevelt family.
Rooseveltism noun: Rooseveltian politics
rooseveltite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, bismuth, and oxygen.
Rooshian noun: Pronunciation spelling of Russian, representing dialectal English.
Roosian noun /ˈɹuːʃ(ə)n/: Pronunciation spelling of Russian.
Roosmalens' dwarf marmoset noun: A New World monkey (Callithrix humilis or Callibella humilis), about 5-6 inches tall at adulthood.
roost noun, verb /ɹuːst/: The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
roostcock noun: The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
rooster noun /ˈɹuːstə/: A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
rooster booster noun: Synonym of chicken cannon.
rooster sauce noun: sriracha sauce
rooster-tail noun: Alternative form of roostertail.
roosterfish noun: A game fish of species Nematistius pectoralis, sole species of family Nematistiidae, found in the warmer waters of the East Pacific from Baja California to...
roosterhead noun: Synonym of shooting star (“flowering plant”).
roosterhood noun: The state or period of being a rooster.
roosterish adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a rooster.
roosterless adjective: Without a rooster.
roosterlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a rooster.
roosterly adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a rooster.
roosterness noun: The quality of being a rooster, or having characteristics typical of a rooster; cockiness.
roostership noun: A term of address for a rooster.
roostertail noun, verb: A violent fountain or spray, especially one caused by a moving vehicle or boat.
roosting noun, verb: The place or period where a creature roosts.
roostmate noun: A bird that shares a roost with another.
root noun, verb /ɹuːt/: The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to...
root about verb: To forage by poking the snout here and there.
root account noun: Synonym of root (“the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration”).
root and branch adjective, adverb: Total, thorough, sweeping, complete, radical, drastic.
root-and-brancher noun: A member of the English Independents, who advocated local congregational control of religious and church matters, without any wider ecclesiastical or...
root around verb: Alternative form of root about.
root bark noun: The bark from the roots of a woody plant.
root beer noun /ˈɹuːt ˌbɪə/: A beverage, most often a carbonated soft drink made from a combination of vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark,...
root beer float noun: A dessert consisting of root beer poured over vanilla ice cream, so that the ice cream floats.
root-bound adjective: Alternative form of rootbound.
root canal noun: The hollow part of the root of a tooth, containing the nerve and blood vessels.
root cap noun: A cap of cells covering the growing extremity of a root.
root cause noun, verb: An initiating cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest.
root cellar noun, verb: A structure built underground or partially underground and used to store vegetables, fruits, nuts, and other foods; it may be under a house or near one.
root disease noun: Any of several plant diseases affecting the root system.
root doctor noun: A person who uses roots and other herbal remedies for healing.
Root effect noun: A physiological phenomenon in fish hemoglobin, whereby an increased proton or carbon dioxide concentration (lower pH) lowers hemoglobin's affinity and...
root extraction noun: The process or result of computing the nth root of a real or complex number.
root-fallen adjective: Of a plant, that has become too large and heavy to support itself, and has fallen over, so uprooting itself.
root field noun: splitting field
root fly noun: Delia radicum, the cabbage fly, a pest on crops.
root for verb: To support (a favored person, team, or result).
root gap noun: The intentional separation or gap at the root of a weld joint between the workpieces being joined.
root hair noun: The rhizoid of a vascular plant; a tubular outgrowth of a trichoblast, a hair-forming cell on the epidermis of a plant root.
root hardy adjective: Of a plant, whose roots can survive freezing temperatures and harsh winter conditions.
root kit noun: Alternative spelling of rootkit.
root-knot nematode noun: Any nematode of the genus Meloidogyne, which parasitize the roots of various plants.
root mean square noun: The square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of a set of numbers or values.
root mean square velocity noun: The root mean square of the velocities of all the molecules in a volume of gas; directly proportional to its temperature in the case of an ideal gas.
root morpheme noun: A monomorphemic stem, irreducible into more meaningful elements.
root nodule noun: A specialized organ that forms on the roots of certain plants, primarily legumes, as a result of a symbiotic interaction between the plant and...
root noun noun: In Indo-European languages and Proto-Indo-European, an archaic type of noun formed by adding inflectional endings directly to the root, with no intermediate...
root of all evil noun: Something that is perceived to be a root cause of all the world's evil.
root of scarcity noun: Synonym of mangelwurzel.
root of unity noun: An element of a given field (especially, a complex number) x such that for some positive integer n, xⁿ = 1.
root out verb: To remove or abolish completely.
root parsley noun: A type of parsley with a large edible root (Petroselinum crispum Radicosum Group or Petroselinum crispum ssp. tuberosum).
root plant noun: A plant or kind of plant that is used for its roots or tubers, sometimes distinguished from a tuber plant.
root position noun: a position of a chord when the root is the lowest note
root pressure noun: The pressure (the result of osmosis) exerted by the roots of vascular plants that moves water into the leaves and causes guttation.
root-rocker noun: A musician who plays roots-rock.
root rot noun: Any of several plant fungal diseases caused by having overwet roots.
root sheath noun: The coleorhiza.
root system noun: The structure comprising the roots of a plant.
root tea noun: A type of herbal tea made from any of various roots, sometimes with other ingredients such as leaves and flowers; traditionally mainly a folk medicine (on...
root up verb: To dig or pull up by the roots.
root user noun: Synonym of root (“the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration”).
root vegetable noun: A vegetable whose edible part is the root, such as the carrot, potato, or onion.
root vole noun: A vole of species Microtus oeconomus.
root word noun: A prefix in an English word derived from Greek or Latin.
root zone noun: The region of soil in which the roots of plants can effectively extract water and nutrients essential for growth.
rootable adjective: That can be rooted.
rootage noun: The process of forming roots.
rootball noun: The mass of roots and associated soil that comes up with a plant lifted from the soil or from a container.
rootbark noun: Alternative spelling of root bark.
rootbeer noun: Alternative spelling of root beer.
rootbound adjective: Having outgrown its pot, so that the roots are cramped and tangled.
rootcap noun: Alternative form of root cap.
rootch verb: Alternative form of rutch (“slide”).
rooted adjective, verb /ˈɹuːtɪd/: Having roots, or a certain type of roots.
rooted to the floor adjective: Synonym of rooted to the spot.
rooted to the ground adjective: Synonym of rooted to the spot.
rooted to the spot adjective: Not moving or flinching due to surprise.
rooted tree noun: A tree in which one vertex has been designated as the root.
rootedly adverb: In a rooted manner; ingrainedly.
rootedness noun: The state or quality of being rooted
rooter noun: One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
rootery noun /ˈɹuːtəɹi/: A stumpery
rootfast adjective: Firmly rooted.
rootfastness noun: The quality of being rootfast.
rootfinder noun: An algorithm for finding roots of an equation.
rootfinding noun: The process of finding the root of an equation.
Rooth proper noun: A surname.
roothair noun: Alternative form of root hair.
roothold noun /ˈɹuːthəʊld/: Attachment by means of roots.
roothole noun: A hole in the ground formed by the growth of plant roots.
rootin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of rooting.
rootin'est tootin'est adjective: Alternative form of rootinest tootinest.
rootin' tootin' adjective /ˈɹuːtn̩ ˈtuːtn̩/: Loudly exciting or impressive; boisterous, riotous.
rootiness noun: The quality of being rooty.
rooting noun, verb: A system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding.
rooting hormone noun: A hormone administered to "encourage" root growth and increase the success rate of taking root.
rooting interest noun: a desire for, or interest in, the success of a particular person or group, often a sports team
rooting reflex noun: a reflex in infants in which the head is turned towards any stimulus; used to find the nipple
rooting tooting adjective: Alternative spelling of rootin' tootin'.
rootkit noun, verb: A set of software tools used by a third party to gain unauthorized access to a computer system and control the system while concealing itself from the user.
rootle verb /ˈɹuːtəl/: to dig into the ground, with the snout.
rootless adjective: Of a plant or another thing, having no roots.
rootlessly adverb: In a rootless manner.
rootlessness noun: The property of being rootless.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under R: 28,843 words, in 97 parts.