English Words: R
21,470 words · Page 61 of 430
A worker who works as fast as possible, ignoring the limits on productivity agreed by other workers or by a union.
Working as fast as possible, ignoring the limits on productivity agreed by other workers or by a union.
Describing a family of codes whose higher rate codes have codewords that are prefixes of those of the lower rate codes.
Any of several devices that measure the average rate of radioactive emissions over a specified time interval.
A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
Used to specify a choice or preference; preferably, in preference to. (Now usually followed by than)
The Killian documents controversy, a 2004 controversy involving apparently forged documents critical of George W. Bush's military service.
A colorful analogy or descriptive phrase, characteristic of Dan Rather (born 1931), American journalist and news anchor.
A monoclinic-prismatic lead gray mineral containing arsenic, lead, silver, sulfur, and thallium.
A cleft between the pars distalis and pars intermedia in certain organisms, where the proliferating anterior wall does not fully occupy Rathke's pouch.
A depression in the roof of the developing mouth in front of the buccopharyngeal membrane. It gives rise to the adenohypophysis.
A coastal village on the west side of Lough Swilly, County Donegal, Ireland (Irish grid ref C 2927).
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 61. 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.