English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 32 of 430
A special excursion by train which is run in order to allow people to experience rail travel which is not available using timetabled passenger services.
A South American beetle of the family Malacodermidae that exhibits red and green luminescence.
A key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees.
A standardized time arrangement formerly used by railways to overcome the confusion caused by varying local times at different stations.
A reissue, at no extra charge, of a ticket for a baseball game or other outdoor event postponed or interrupted because of rain.
The interruption of an outdoor event because of rain, with the expectation that it would continue later.
A planted depression or hole that allows rainwater runoff from impervious urban areas, such as roofs and driveways, to be absorbed into the ground.
Any gutter designed to carry away rain, such as an eavestrough on a building or a drain on a motor vehicle's roof rack.
A type of lamp, popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that moves droplets of water or oil along filaments to create the illusion of falling rain.
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 32. 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.