English Words: R

21,470 words · Page 406 of 430

ruffle someone's feathersverb

To unease, cause discomfort to someone.

Able to be ruffled.

Having ruffles.

Having no ruffle.

The act of ruffling.

A ruffian, bully, or villain, especially a 16th-17th-century vagabond operating under the guise of a maimed soldier or sailor.

Without a ruff.

Resembling or characteristic of a ruff.

The quality of being ruffly.

The action of the verb ruffle

Having many ruffles.

Woods, hedges or bushes.

Alternative form of roughneck (“rowdy person”).

A surname from Italian.

A placename:

A village in Rufforth with Knapton parish, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5251).

Alternative spelling of roofie.

rufigallic acidnoun

An acid obtained from gallic acid as a brown or red crystalline substance.

A triazole derivative used as an anticonvulsant

A yellowish-red crystalline substance related to anthracene and obtained from opianic acid.

A city in western Senegal.

The official currency of the Maldives, equal to 100 laari.

The antibiotic 7-fluoro-6-(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)-10-oxo-4-thia-1-azatricyclo[7.3.1.0^(5,13)]trideca-5(13),6,8,11-tetraene-11-carboxylic acid.

Rufoname

A surname from Italian or Spanish.

rufobrunneousadj

Of a dark reddish-brown colour.

rufoferruginousadj

Of a rusty red colour.

Of a reddish-tawny colour.

reddish-brown

A phenol derivative of anthracene which on oxidation produces a red dyestuff related to anthraquinone.

of a reddish colour

rufous grasswrennoun

Amytornis whitei, a species of Australian grasswren.

rufous-crowned bee-eaternoun

Merops americanus, a species of bee-eater endemic to the Phillipines.

rufous-tailed hawknoun

Buteo ventralis, a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family, found in southern Argentina and Chile

rufous-vented ground-cuckoonoun

Neomorphus geoffroyi, a large terrestrial species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family

The quality of being rufous or reddish.

ruftnoun

Belching.

A loose-fitting hood for birds, used in falconry.

Somewhat rufous.

Either of two persons mentioned in the New Testament (in Mark 15:21 and Romans 16:13).

rugnoun

A partial covering for a floor.

rug munchernoun

Someone who performs cunnilingus.

An Arab.

rug rankingnoun

The practice of setting a secretary's pay in proportion to the status of the person the secretary works for.

Alternative form of rugrat.

An Arab.

To put a rug on a horse

Having shaggy hair, shock-headed.

A sudden revelation that completely contradicts the assumptions one has been led to believe.

ruganoun

A fold, crease or wrinkle.

Alternative spelling of rugelach.

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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 406. 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.

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