English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 265 of 430
Descriptive of an art movement, particularly in Slovenia, that looks back to the past, as opposed to avant-garde.
A piece of DNA reverse transcribed from mRNA inserted into a random place in the genome.
The degeneration of faculties in Alzheimer's disease in the reverse order of that in which they were developed as a child.
A medical condition in which the chin is significantly recessed compared to the upper jaw.
A malocclusion in which the maxilla or mandible is further posterior than would be expected.
Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
To retrofit existing models or structures (theoretical or physical) to accommodate environmentally friendly values.
The examination of a body part, or a tissue sample, by shining light from directly behind it.
An infection in the reverse of the normal direction, especially an infection of a mother from a fetus
A form of feedback in a cyclic metabolic pathway in which an end product inhibits an allosteric enzyme that starts the reaction
To project into the past; to insert anachronistically into a historical reconstruction.
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 265. 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.