English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 395 of 430
A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, and the front and bottom left uncut.
A historical county of Scotland abolished in 1975, and now a part of the Scottish Borders council area.
A Sarmatian people documented between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD, first east of the Dnieper, and later near the borders of Roman Dacia and Moesia.
A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL154955).
An acronym used to remember the color sequence of the visible spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
A nonalcoholic cocktail made with a cola soda (typically Coca-Cola) and grenadine syrup, garnished with a maraschino cherry.
An undertaking to take all thirteen tricks with the suit of the face-up card as trump.
Any of species Neotragus pygmaeus of antelopes of west Africa, that are the smallest known.
The method by which a constitutional monarch (or a viceroy in a colony or dominion) formally approves and promulgates an act of his or her nation's parliament, thus making it a law.
A ritual of two or more persons holding another person by the arms and legs, face up, while bumping them repeatedly on the floor. In modern times it is a lighthearted affair, generally performed only on a young person's birthday with the number of bumps corresponding to the person's age in years. Historically it was a hazing.
A type of Scottish burgh founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter; these were legally abolished in 1975.
An unidentified flowering plant of Javan mountains formerly classified as Primula imperialis, now considered a nomen dubium.
Any fish that, when taken, immediately becomes the personal property of the monarch by royal prerogative, as in the United Kingdom and formerly the Kingdom of France.
The immediate family and principal courtiers and servants of a royal personage, especially a monarch; an organization with roles and departments that supports the functions of such a personage.
An oak tree in which King Charles II hid, and a popular name for public houses in the United Kingdom, past and present.
An easy or straightforward procedure for achieving a goal; a procedure that requires little effort.
One of a set of four first-magnitude stars, Aldebaran, Regulus, Antares and Fomalhaut, regarded by ancient Persians as the guardians of the sky.
A set of railway carriages dedicated for the use of the monarch or other members of a royal family.
A staff or rod traditionally wielded by a king or royalty symbolising power and authority; sceptre.
A document issued by a monarch which confers rights or privileges on the recipient, or has the effect of law.
The first-person plural pronoun as traditionally used in formal speech by any royal personage to refer to themselves, most especially a sovereign in their role as the monarch.
A market town and civil parish with a town council in north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0682).
A garnish of a consommé made with unsweetened cooked custard, usually cut into decorative shapes.
Impassioned allegiance to or advocacy of the establishment, maintenance, and/or interests of a particular king, royal house, or kingly dynasty; sometimes extended to the same of a non-royal (i.e., grand ducal, imperial, or other) family or sovereign; often contrasted with monarchism.
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 395. 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.