English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 302 of 430
A musical ornament consisting of a trill on a long-short dotted rhythm accelerating to end on either a tremolo or a regular trill.
An engine of war used in the Middle Ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. After the 14th century it was furnished with small cannon.
A synthetic analog of guanosine with chemical formula C₈H₁₂N₄O₅ that inhibits viral nucleic acid synthesis and is used as a broad-spectrum antiviral drug especially in the treatment of respiratory syncytial virus infection and chronic hepatitis C.
A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position and give rigidity to the framework.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal pink mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.
A moorland location with a railway station and viaduct in Ingleton parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD7779).
The dale or upper valley of the River Ribble in North Yorkshire, England (OS grid refs SD85, SD86, SD87).
An eastern suburb and ward in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5630).
A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
Sugar cane; specifically, striped varieties of sugar cane grown in the southern United States.
A ceremonial or formal opening of a building or street performed by cutting a ribbon stretched across the entrance.
Any of various grasses with light and dark stripes running the length of the leaves, especially Phalaris arundinacea; common in horticulture as an ornamental plant.
A species (Histriophoca fasciata) of true seal found in the Arctic and subarctic regions of the North Pacific Ocean.
Any of several lampriform fish, of the family Trachipteridae, having long, ribbon-like bodies.
A 19th-century popular movement of Catholics in Ireland, active against landlords and their agents, and opposed to the ideology of the Protestant Orange Order.
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 302. 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.