English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 418 of 430
Text (such as a title) printed at the top of every (or every other) page of a book, newspaper, etc.
The operating of a new engine (especially that of a motor vehicle) at less than its normal speed until proper working has been established.
A branding iron which is not bent into the shape of the mark but rather requires the user to write the desired brand (and thus allows writing any brand).
The portion of the field between the basepath and the foul ball line in which a batter is allowed to run without causing or receiving interference. Also referred to as runner's lane.
The order in which people, exhibitions, etc. are presented at an event or on a recording.
Permission given in an agreement allowing one railway company to run trains over certain tracks belonging to another railway company.
One of the two rails of a railway track with which the wheels of a train make contact.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see running, sore.; an ulcer that oozes pus.
A start to a race in which a contestant is already at full speed before reaching the starting line or take-off point.
That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
A line of text that overruns the available space, either breaking to a new line within the column or violating the margin.
A staged event, usually on a railfans' excursion, where a train runs past a group of photographers, who photograph the scene.
A system of land tenure in which farmland was divided into irregular strips and allocated to tenants in rotation; a strip of such land.
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 418. 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.