English Words: R

21,470 words · Page 33 of 430

rain offverb

to cancel (an event) due to excessive rain

rain on someone's paradeverb

To spoil someone's celebration.

rain or shineadv

Regardless of the circumstances; (more literally) regardless of the state of the weather.

rain pitchforksverb

To rain heavily.

rain shadownoun

An area of diminished precipitation on the lee side of mountains, caused by the prior release of moisture on the windward side.

rain showernoun

A short, mild period of rainfall.

rain treenoun

A tropical American tree (Albizia saman) having bipinnate leaves, globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens, and sweet-pulp pods eaten by cattle, also used as an ornamental.

rain-coatnoun

Archaic form of raincoat.

rain-soakedadj

Alternative spelling of rainsoaked.

rain-wrappedadj

Surrounded by rain, usually used when referring to tornados whose visual detection is obscured or shrouded by falling rain.

Rainaname

A surname.

rainbandnoun

A dark band in the yellow portion of the solar spectrum near the sodium line, caused by the presence of water vapour in the atmosphere, and hence sometimes used in weather predictions.

rainbirdnoun

Any of the coucal species Centropus supercilliosus, Centropus cupreicadus, Centropus senegalensis.

rainbootnoun

A waterproof boot to protect the wearer from rain; a Wellington boot.

rainboundadj

Unable to move or proceed because of heavy rain.

rainbownoun

A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.

rainbow antnoun

Any ant of the genus Iridomyrmex.

rainbow babynoun

A baby that is conceived after a miscarriage or other loss of a baby.

rainbow bombnoun

A nuclear bomb detonated at a high altitude.

rainbow bridgename

The road between the realm of the gods and the realm of men in Heathenry which appears in the form of a rainbow; Bifrost.

rainbow capitalismnoun

The involvement of capitalism and consumerism in the LGBT movement.

rainbow ceilingnoun

Synonym of pink ceiling.

rainbow coalitionnoun

A government consisting of a coalition of three or more parties, particularly parties with divergent ideologies.

rainbow eranoun

A period in the early 1970s when Amtrak operated a fleet of used equipment that still carried the paint schemes of their previous owners.

rainbow flagnoun

A rainbow-striped flag, typically consisting of six horizontal bars (from top to bottom: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet), used as a symbol of LGBT pride and LGBT social movements.

rainbow herbicidenoun

Any of a group of herbicides used by the United States military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, the best-known and mostly widely used being Agent Orange.

rainbow kissnoun

A supposed sex act in which a man and a woman who is menstruating simultaneously perform oral sex on each other, followed by a kiss where the couple mix semen and period blood in their mouths (which makes the so-called "rainbow").

rainbow mafianoun

Synonym of alphabet mafia.

rainbow mantis shrimpnoun

Synonym of peacock mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus).

Rainbow Nationname

South Africa after the end of apartheid

rainbow partynoun

A supposed group sex event in which numerous women, each wearing a different color of lipstick, perform oral sex on one man.

rainbow plantnoun

Any of the Australian carnivorous plants in the genus Byblis.

rainbow runnernoun

The marine fish species Elagatis bipinnulata, which is brilliantly striped yellow and blue

rainbow sharknoun

A species of cyprinid; Epalzeorhynchos frenatum.

rainbow sharkminnownoun

Synonym of rainbow shark.

rainbow shotnoun

A high arcing shot into the basket.

rainbow tablenoun

A table of surjective functions used to decrypt a text that was coded using a hash table.

rainbow unicornsnoun

Alternative form of rainbows and unicorns.

rainbow washingnoun

The practice of a company presenting itself as gay-friendly to improve its brand image.

rainbow-collaradj

Of or pertaining to LGBT people in the workplace.

rainbowedadj

Resembling, involving, or illuminated with a rainbow; patterned with the colours of the rainbow.

rainbowfishnoun

Any of the small colourful freshwater fish in the family Melanotaeniidae, native to northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia.

rainbowishadj

Resembling a rainbow.

rainbowismnoun

The disregarding or sugarcoating of race-related issues using the idea of the Rainbow Nation.

rainbowlikeadj

Resembling a rainbow; displaying a range of colours.

rainbows and unicornsnoun

A wonderful (but often unrealistic) scenario.

rainbowyadj

Resembling a rainbow.

rainburnnoun

A notional burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to heavy rain.

rainburstnoun

A sudden shower of rain.

raincapenoun

A cape worn to protect the wearer from 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 33. 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.

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