English Words: R

21,470 words · Page 429 of 430

Rywingatename

A 2004 Polish scandal, involving an offer of bribery, that brought Leszek Miller's government to an end.

Ryzhivkaname

A village in Bilopillia urban hromada, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1719.

ryōnoun

A gold currency unit in the shakkanhō system in pre-Meiji Japan.

ryūnoun

Alternative form of ryu.

ryūhanoun

Alternative form of ryuha.

Ryūjinname

A dragon god also known as Watatsumi and Suijin, the tutelary deity of the sea in Japanese mythology.

ryūtekinoun

a transverse flute used in the gagaku music of Japan

Rzeczpospolitaname

The Polish endonym referring to the Polish State, Rzeczpospolita Polska, the official Polish name for the Republic of Poland.

rzehakinidnoun

Any member of the Rzehakinidae family of foraminifera.

Rzepskiname

A surname from Polish.

Rzeszówname

A city in southeastern Poland.

Rzeznikname

A surname.

Rzhevname

A town in Tver Oblast, Russia, situated on the Volga river.

Rzhevskyname

A fictional young cavalry officer who appears in numerous popular Russian jokes that poke fun at social sophistication and decorum while interacting with various characters from the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

Rzhyshchivname

A city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Râmniceluname

A commune of Brăila County, Romania.

Râmnicu Săratname

A city in Buzău County, Romania.

Râmnicu Vâlceaname

A city in Vâlcea County, Romania.

Râu de Moriname

A commune of Hunedoara County, Romania.

Râșcaname

A commune of Suceava County, Romania.

Räuchermannnoun

Raachermannel, incense smoker

Réaumurnoun

Réaumur scale, a temperature scale in which the boiling point of water is 80 degrees and its freezing point is 0 degrees.

Réaumur scalename

A temperature scale on which 0 °C is 0 and 100 °C is 80.

Récamier's operationnoun

Curettage of the uterus.

réchauffénoun

A dish of food that has been reheated.

réclamenoun

Publicity; an advertisement.

réduitnoun

a fortified structure such as a citadel or a keep into which the defending troops can retreat when the outer defences are breached.

Rényi entropynoun

A quantity that generalizes various notions of entropy, including Hartley entropy, Shannon entropy, collision entropy, and min-entropy.

réseaunoun

A system of lines forming small squares of standard size, which is photographed, by a separate exposure, on the same plate with star images to facilitate measurements, detect changes of the film, etc.

résuménoun

Alternative spelling of resume (“a summary, especially of employment history”).

Réunionname

An island, overseas department, and administrative region of France, located in the Indian Ocean to the west of Mauritius and to the east of Madagascar.

Río de la Plataname

The River Plate.

Río de Oroname

One of the two territories (the other being Saguia el-Hamra) that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969; it had been taken as a Spanish colonial possession in the late 19th century.

Río Grande de San Miguelname

A river in El Salvador.

Río Negroname

A province in central Argentina. Capital: Viedma.

Rîbnițaname

A town in Moldova.

Rîșcaniname

A city and district of Moldova.

rôlenoun

Dated spelling of role.

röck dötsnoun

Synonym of heavy metal umlaut.

römeritenoun

A yellow-brown triclinic mineral containing iron, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulphur.

Römertopfnoun

An unglazed clay pot for cooking food in.

röntgennoun

a unit of exposure to ionizing radiation

röntgeniumnoun

Rare spelling of roentgenium.

Röntgenizeverb

To render (air or other gas) conducting by the passage of X-rays.

röstinoun

A traditional breakfast dish in Germanophone Switzerland (originally from Bern canton) made from potatoes, fried in a pan with butter or fat and widely varying other ingredients such as bacon, onions, cheese, apples or fresh herbs.

Rövarspråketname

A type of wordplay that originated in Sweden in which the consonants of words are doubled, with the letter o inserted between them.

Rüdesheimernoun

A white wine from Rüdesheim on the Rhine, opposite Bingen.

Rāgarājaname

A deity in Tibetan Buddhism and some other Asian Buddhist traditions who is revered for transforming worldly lust into spiritual awakening.

Rāhuname

The ascending lunar node. An asura and god of the solar eclipse.

Rātananame

A Maori Christian church founded in New Zealand.

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 429. 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.

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