English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 348 of 430
A mid-1970s genre of reggae characterized by a melodious style and an upbeat drum-focused sound, influenced by rock, funk and other American and British styles.
To perform a jump by blasting a rocket launcher in close proximity to one's character.
A hand-held tube-like device for launching a rocket-propelled explosive device (a missile).
Synonym of rocket scientist (“someone qualified to understand or handle that which is overly complex, detailed or confusing”).
A modern hand-held weapons system, comprising a launcher that fires a small explosive rocket.
A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.
A dam's embankment of compacted free-draining granular earth, often containing rocks, with an impervious zone.
A pale rockfinch, a bird of species Carpospiza brachydactyla, the sole species in genus Carpospiza, native to Asia.
Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically:
Reminiscent of the television series The Rockford Files or its main character, a laid-back blue-collar private investigator.
Any of either of the two species of genus Picathartes of birds endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.
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 348. 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.