English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 338 of 430
A cut through a hill or mountain for the purposes of building a road through it, rather than over it.
The degree to which a motor vehicle maintains a stable "grip" on the road surface, without tilting, skidding, etc.
An inn or similar establishment situated beside a road beyond the jurisdiction of a town or city. In the centuries before motor vehicles, such inns were places for travellers to stop at night during multi-day journeys, besides being public houses for their local countryfolk.
One of the crew for a musical group or other travelling stage production, especially a stagehand or technician.
Of or characteristic of a road or roadways; associated with being on the road or with road travel.
A transport or logistics company that carries passengers or goods by operating buses or trucks on roads.
Either of two species of fast-running bird in the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family native to North and Central America, the lesser roadrunner (Geococcyx velox) and, especially, the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus).
The visual elements of a road, including adjoining natural and non-natural features such as trees and open spaces, etc, that combine to form the road's character.
A partly sheltered anchorage; a stretch of water near the shore where vessels may ride at anchor, but with less protection than a harbour.
Any type of stone or stone product, such as shingle, flints, crushed stone, etc used as a construction material for building roads.
A trial or practice run of a piece of equipment in its intended usage environment to check for errors before final deployment.
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 338. 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.