English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 361 of 430
The modern Greek language, deriving from terminology designating speakers of Greek from the former Byzantine Empire.
Ellipsis of romaine lettuce (“a type of lettuce having long crisp leaves forming a slender head”).
A society founded in the 19th century to promote the romanization of the Japanese language.
A long quirt attached to the end of a set of closed reins that are connected to the bridle of a horse, and used to assist in moving cattle.
A bridge and railway station in Dolwyddelan community, Conwy borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH7151).
The form of script used in ancient Rome until about the 3rd century AD for Latin handwriting.
An ancient empire based out of Rome, which succeeded the Roman Republic and existed between 27 B.C.E. and 476 C.E. in the west (and until 1453 C.E. in the east; see Byzantine Empire), encompassing vast territories in Europe, Asia and Africa, stretching from Britain and Germany to Spain, North Africa and the Persian Gulf.
A form of public entertainment characterized by violence, degradation and suffering.
An ancient Roman unit of itinerant distance of 1000 paces (mille passus, hence also "mile" from Latin mille, "1000"). Indirectly standardized to 5000 Roman feet by Agrippa in 29 BC. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile is empirically estimated to have been around 1481 meters (1620 yards, 4860 English feet, 0.92 English miles); compared with a modern mile, which is 5280 feet.
A quantity of tax paid by electorates or other constituent states to the Holy Roman Empire. Abbreviated as RM.
A gesture in which the arm is held out straight, with palm down and fingers touching; sometimes associated with modern fascist movements.
A self-intersecting mapping of the real projective plane into three-dimensional space, with an unusually high degree of symmetry.
A “thesis novel”: a novel that is didactic rather than entertaining, often taking the form of social commentary.
A piece of fiction, especially a novel, in which the principal or main narrative (or "frame story") is interrupted by secondary narratives.
The unilateral painless periorbital swelling associated with the acute stage of Chagas' disease.
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 361. 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.