English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 125 of 430
One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states. Its parish seat is in Coushatta.
Any of the red-painted electrical streetcars and subway trams operated by the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, Canada, especially the classic models used during the early and mid-20th century.
One of the outhouses with a red metal roof that have been built across Philmont Scout Ranch.
A children's game played by two lines of players, with players sent one at a time to the opposing team's line to attempt to pull apart their linked hands.
Fearmongering on the topic of a rise in communism that will threaten Western nations, especially from Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc in the past, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc. but also from any leftist movement.
A long, narrow sea between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula; links the Suez Canal with the Arabian Sea.
A member of the UDD (National United Front for Democracy) who supported Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (and subsequent Thaksin-affiliated parties) in the conflict in Thailand after the 2006 coup d'etat.
A red sky at dusk usually indicates a high atmospheric pressure system from the west, denoting stable weather, whereas a red sky at dawn usually indicates a low atmospheric pressure system from the west, denoting unstable weather.
An upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, a large but weak luminous flash that appears directly above an active thunderstorm system and is coincident with a powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike.
A type of shrubby tree of species Euphorbia cotinifolia, native to Central and South America and cultivated in other tropical climates.
A police intelligence unit specializing in infiltrating, conducting countermeasures, and gathering intelligence on political and social groups.
A state of the United States voting Republican in a given election, tending to vote Republican in general, or having a typically conservative mindset.
A member of a traditionalist faction of Muscogee Creek people in the American Southeast in the early 19th century, who led a resistance movement against European-American encroachment and assimilation.
A form of strawberry tongue (glossitis) where the tongue's white coating is lost and a dark red, erythematous surface is revealed, interspaced with the hyperplastic fungiform papillae.
The period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which racial riots took place in more than three dozen cities across the United States, as well as in one rural county in Arkansas.
A tisane (herbal tea) beverage made from various bush plants native to southern Africa, especially rooibos or honeybush.
An independent group employed to challenge an organization by assuming an adversarial role or point of view.
Coordinated violence committed by communists, socialists, or other left-wing groups against (actual or perceived) class enemies.
An algal bloom of sufficient quantity to cause discoloration (often red) in a body of water; red tides can potentially cause irritation or death to exposed creatures.
A tabloid newspaper, particularly one of those considered to have lower journalistic standards than the broadsheets.
A small, sweet, round Chinese dumpling with sticky glutinous rice flour skin wrapped around a sweet filling, moulded to resemble a tortoise shell.
A loosely-defined culture in the United States associated with small-town culture and the Republican Party.
An insidious communist presence; a communist who has infiltrated capitalist society.
A set of constituencies, in the Midlands, Northern England and North East Wales, which have historically tended to support the Labour Party.
A surge of voters supporting the candidates of the Republican Party during an election (especially a midterm election), which results in the party making significant gains.
A wedding ceremony in the Soviet Union in which the couple pledged loyalty to the state or communism in addition to reciting marriage vows.
A species of earthworm, Eisenia fetida, or an individual thereof, especially when used as bait for fishing.
An instance of a male getting menstrual fluid on his face while performing cunnilingus.
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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 125. 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.