English Words: R

21,470 words · Page 342 of 430

Robespierrismnoun

The revolutionary politics of Maximilien de Robespierre.

Robespierristadj

Relating to, or characteristic of Maximilien de Robespierre

Robeyname

A surname originating as a patronymic.

robi-prefix

The IEC prefix meaning 2⁹⁰ = 1,024⁹ = 1,237,940,039,285,380,274,899,124,224. Compare ronna-, meaning 10²⁷ = 1,000⁹ = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, an octillion.

robibytenoun

Strictly, 2⁹⁰ (1024⁹, 1,237,940,039,285,380,274,899,124,224) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) yobibytes, as opposed to a ronnabyte.

robibytesnoun

plural of robibyte

Robichaudname

A surname from French.

Robichauxname

A surname from French.

Robicheauname

A surname from French.

Robicheauxname

A surname from French.

Robideauname

A surname from French.

Robillardname

A surname from French.

robinnoun

Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.

Robin boundary conditionnoun

A type of boundary condition that specifies a linear combination of the value of a function and the value of its derivative at the boundary of a given domain.

robin egg bluenoun

Alternative form of robin's-egg blue.

Robin Hoodname

A legendary English outlaw famous for his skill in archery and his vow to defend the poor and the oppressed against established authority.

Robin Hood effectnoun

The redistribution of economic resources due to which the economically disadvantaged gain at the expense of the economically advantaged.

Robin Hood hashingnoun

A scheme for resolving hash collisions that favors the displacement of the element that is farthest from its home location.

Robin Hood taxnoun

A tax on financial transactions.

Robin Hood's Bayname

A village and bay in Fylingdales parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref NZ9505).

robin redbreastnoun

The European robin.

robin snownoun

A light, brief snow.

robin's-egg blueadj

Of a greenish blue colour, like that of an American robin's egg.

robinetnoun

The chaffinch, or roberd.

Robinettename

A surname from French.

robinianoun

Any member of the genus Robinia.

robininnoun

A flavone glycoside found in the locust Robinia pseudoacacia.

robinlikeadj

Resembling a robin (the bird).

Robinocracynoun

Rule by British statesman Robert Walpole (1676–1745), especially between 1721 and 1742 when he is regarded as the Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Robinow syndromenoun

A rare genetic disorder characterized by short-limbed dwarfism, abnormalities in the head, face, and external genitalia, and vertebral segmentation.

Robinsonname

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Robinson arithmeticnoun

A finitely axiomatized fragment of first-order Peano arithmetic, lacking the axiom schema of mathematical induction.

Robinson Crusoename

A fictional castaway.

Robinson Crusoe Islandname

The second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands.

Robinson projectionnoun

A map projection that is neither equal-area nor conformal, designed as a compromise to show the entire world as a flat image.

Robinson-Schensted correspondencenoun

A bijective correspondence between permutations and pairs of standard Young tableaux of the same shape. It has applications in combinatorics and other areas.

robinsonadenoun

A genre of adventure fiction where a hero is stranded alone on a desert island and has to survive with their own wits.

Robinsonesqueadj

Suggestive of the fictional Robinson Crusoe, a resourceful castaway on a desert island.

Robinsonianadj

Suggestive of the fictional Robinson Crusoe, a resourceful castaway on a desert island.

robinsonitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic bluish lead gray mineral containing antimony, lead, and sulfur.

robiolanoun

An Italian soft-ripened cheese, similar to stracchino.

Robisonname

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Robitussinname

Any of various cold and cough medicines.

Roblname

A surname from German.

roblenoun

California white oak (Quercus lobata).

Robledoname

A surname from Spanish.

Robles' diseasename

onchocerciasis

Robletoname

A surname from Spanish.

Roblettname

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Robleyname

A surname.

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 342. 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.

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