English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 124 of 430
Characterized by uncaring, amoral ruthlessness or brutality, especially of a kind seen as reflecting the way of things in nature.
An aboriginal native of the Americas of pre-Columbian lineage. An Indian, Amerind(ian), American Indian, a Native American.
A thin skinned orange colored winter squash, cultivar of species Cucurbita maxima.
A bright red, poisonous oxide of lead, Pb₃O₄, used as a pigment and in glass and ceramics.
A law that is a large-scale attempt by a government to regulate business in the interest of society at large.
A solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber.
A rallying call and statement of protest, concerning police brutality and racially motivated violence against Native American people.
A mixture of solid and metallic oxide-bearing impurities that is a waste product of bauxite refinement.
A day, usually every other year, on which the Comic Relief organisation encourages the public to engage in fundraising for charity.
A notice from Interpol that a person is an international fugitive and should be arrested.
A type of passive, massive and compact elliptical galaxy, that has been little changed over many billions of years, having little internal activity, little to no interaction with other galaxies, little to no new star formation in billions of years. The galaxies typically are many times more massive, and many times smaller, than our Milky Way Galaxy. The redness grows as stars age, which as a population, become redder with time.
A red-colored, ripe, bell or sweet pepper. Unripe peppers of this variety are green and edible but not as sweet.
Something that, in the view of the speaker or writer, enables or compels a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.
A social movement led by Native American youth to demand self-determination for Native Americans in the United States.
Chaetogastra grossa (also identified as Tibouchina grossa), a species of chaetogastran melastome.
An evolutionary hypothesis which proposes that organisms must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate not merely to gain reproductive advantage, but also simply to survive while pitted against other evolving organisms in an ever-changing environment.
Of an Xbox 360 video game console, to experience a general hardware fault, the red ring of death.
A fatal hardware exception in the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console characterised by three or four red indicator LEDs around the power button.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter R contains 21,470 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 430 pages, and you are currently viewing page 124. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "R" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.