English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 399 of 430
An undergarment worn over a diaper to prevent leakage through the fabric, similar to plastic pants but made from rubber.
A toy, made from rubber or rubber-like plastic, shaped like a duck; usually a floating bathtub toy.
The practice in which a programmer attempts to solve a bug by explaining their code to an inanimate object, such as a rubber duck.
A species of aquatic caecilian, Typhlonectes natans, found in Colombia, Venezuela, and possibly Trinidad and Tobago.
In a commercial passenger airliner, the dense, forest-like profusion of suspended tubes, straps, bags, and masks which results when large numbers of oxygen masks are deployed.
A sporting event at the end of a series in which the opponents are tied in terms of events won and lost.
Rubber pants (plastic pants); or, more strictly, rubber pants that resemble panties.
Convincing quasi-scientific explanations used in science fiction to aid the suspension of disbelief.
Of a person, organization, or process, making decisions or approving matters routinely or without real power.
An early American animation style with the use of simple flowing curves for characters' limbs.
A technique in which one point or object moves while attached to another point or object, as when dragging out a new shape in a drawing program.
A person who rubbernecks; someone who cranes their neck as though it were made of rubber to see something (such as a tourist attraction) or to watch an event (such as an accident); a rubberneck.
The act of slowing down whilst driving a vehicle, in order to see the scene of an accident.
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 399. 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.