English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 323 of 430
A cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs.
A ruler or chieftain who distributed rings or other valuable gifts to loyal warriors, thanes, or retainers as a means of rewarding service and reinforcing bonds of allegiance and mutual obligation.
A species of parakeet, Psittacula krameri, prevalent in Asia and famous for escaping domestication and establishing wild populations in Britain.
The sound transmitted back to a caller to indicate that the telephone they are calling is ringing.
A Caribbean fusion of music genres with an associated philosophy and aesthetic based on communication.
To remove the bark, phloem, and cambium from a tree in a ring all the way around its trunk, thereby normally killing the tree.
A type of osteoarthritis affecting any of several bones (particularly the coffin joint or pastern) of a horse's leg or foot, marked by bone growth.
The stage in a black hole merging event where the gravitational wave amplitude reaches its peak.
The tendency for individual members of a group to become increasingly less productive as the size of their group increases.
A solution that is isotonic with blood and used for intravenous application in humans with significant blood loss.
A team sport played on ice on skates and primarily by women, the players using sticks to control a rubber ring and attempting to score goals by landing it in the opponents' net.
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 323. 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.