English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 327 of 430
To perform a painful or unpleasant, but necessary, action quickly so as to minimize the pain or fear associated with it.
An Internet troll who leaves deliberately offensive messages on online memorials to the deceased.
A Dutch-American villager who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a changed world, having missed the American Revolution; (by extension) someone or something stuck in the past.
An area of vegetation around a body of water that gives benefits to the ecosystem in the body of water. It can provide shade, a food source, and a buffer against pollution from outside sources.
A doctrine of riparian rights, based on the principle that the owners of riparian land had the right to remove reasonable amounts of water from the river, but others did not.
A type of vivarium that mimics a shoreline or riverbank, featuring a large water area with minimal land, usually represented by semi-aquatic plants emerging from the water.
A pyrazolodiazepinone derivative with anxiolytic effects, structurally related to certain benzodiazepine drugs.
Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
A type of weedy grass, Bromus diandrus, with sharp seeds having awns with one-way bristles that make them hard to remove from clothing or animal fur.
A type of fence made of criss-crossed pairs of wood poles, which was fairly common in western rangeland before the introduction of barbed wire.
Designating a range of mountains once thought to be located in northern Europe, later considered mythological or identified with the Urals.
A translucent green chlorite mineral of micaceous structure; a hydrous silicate of alumina, magnesia, and iron.
A musician in the ripieno portion of an orchestra, especially as opposed to a soloist or concertino section.
The part of a concerto grosso in which the ensemble plays together; contrasted with the concertino.
A deliberate slowdown in the transfer rate when reading data from a DVD, so as to reduce the amount of noise from the drive.
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 327. 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.