| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| roamed | imp. & past participle | of Roam |
| roamer | noun | One who roams; a wanderer. |
| roared | imp. & past participle | of Roar |
| roarer | noun | One who, or that which, roars., A riotous fellow; a roaring boy., A horse subject to roaring. See Roaring, 2., The barn owl. |
| robbed | imp. & past participle | of Rob |
| roband | noun | See Roperand. |
| robber | noun | One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear. |
| robbin | noun | A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds., See Ropeband. |
| robing | present participle & vb. noun | of Robe, The act of putting on a robe. |
| robert | noun | See Herb Robert, under Herb. |
| robust | adjective | Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health., Violent; rough; rude., Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment. |
| rochet | noun | A linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies., A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries., The red gurnard, or gurnet. See Gurnard. |
| rocked | imp. & past participle | of Rock |
| rocker | noun | One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle., One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks., Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water., A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse., A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair., A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle., Same as Rock shaft. |
| rocket | noun | A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad., Damewort., Rocket larkspur. See below., An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display., A blunt lance head used in the joust., To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective. |
| rococo | noun | A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century., Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic. |
| rodent | verb t. | Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer., Gnawing., Of or pertaining to the Rodentia., One of the Rodentia. |
| roiled | imp. & past participle | of Roil |
| rolled | imp. & past participle | of Roll |
| roller | noun | One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts., A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery., One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather., A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; — called also roller towel., A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them., A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man., A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc., ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix., Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or “tumbling” in flight., Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae. |
| rolley | noun | A small wagon used for the underground work of a mine. |
| rollic | verb i. | To move or play in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking. |
| romage | noun & verb | See Rummage. |
| romaic | adjective | Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language., The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic. |
| romant | noun | A romaunt. |
| romany | noun | A gypsy., The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies. |
| romble | verb& noun | Rumble. |
| romish | adjective | Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the Roman Catholic Church; — frequently used in a disparaging sense; as, the Romish church; the Romish religion, ritual, or ceremonies. |
| romist | noun | A Roman Catholic. |
| romped | imp. & past participle | of Romp |
| rondel | noun | A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion., Same as Rondeau., Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth. |
| rondle | noun | A rondeau., A round mass, plate, or disk; especially (Metal.), the crust or scale which forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible. |
| ronion | noun | Alt. of Ronyon |
| ronyon | noun | A mangy or scabby creature. |
| ronnen | obs. p. p. of Renne, to run. | |
| roofed | imp. & past participle | of Roof |
| roofer | noun | One who puts on roofs. |
| rooked | imp. & past participle | of Rook |
| roomed | imp. & past participle | of Room |
| roomer | noun | A lodger., At a greater distance; farther off. |
| roomth | noun | Room; space. |
| rooted | imp. & past participle | of Root, Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart. |
| rooter | noun | One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots. |
| roping | present participle & vb. noun | of Rope |
| ropery | noun | A place where ropes are made., Tricks deserving the halter; roguery. |
| ropily | adverb | In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner. |
| ropish | adjective | Somewhat ropy. |
| roquet | verb t. | To hit, as another’s ball, with one’s own ball., To hit another’s ball with one’s own. |
| rosary | noun | A bed of roses, or place where roses grow., A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted., A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections., A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny. |
| roscid | adjective | Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy. |
| roseal | adjective | resembling a rose in smell or color. |
| roseo- | A prefix (also used adjectively) signifying rose-red; specifically used to designate certain rose-red compounds (called roseo-cobaltic compounds) of cobalt with ammonia. Cf. Luteo-. | |
| rosery | noun | A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1. |
| rosied | adjective | Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses. |
| rosier | noun | A rosebush; roses, collectively. |
| rosily | adverb | In a rosy manner. |
| rosiny | adjective | like rosin, or having its qualities. |
| rossel | noun | Light land; rosland. |
| rostel | noun | same as Rostellum. |
| roster | noun | A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve. |
| rostra | noun pl. | See Rostrum, 2., of Rostrum |
| rotted | imp. & past participle | of Rot |
| rotary | adjective | Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion. |
| rotate | adjective | Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one., To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve., To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office., To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle., To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office. |
| rotche | noun | A very small arctic sea bird (Mergulus alle, or Alle alle) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; — called also little auk, dovekie, rotch, rotchie, and sea dove. |
| roting | present participle & vb. noun | of Rote |
| rotgut | noun | Bad small beer., Any bad spirituous liquor, especially when adulterated so as to be very deleterious. |
| rother | adjective | Bovine., A bovine beast., A rudder. |
| rotten | adjective | Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat., Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting., Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. |
| rotula | noun | The patella, or kneepan. |
| rotund | adjective | Round; circular; spherical., Hence, complete; entire., Orbicular, or nearly so., A rotunda. |
| rouble | noun | A coin. See Ruble. |
| rouche | noun | See Ruche. |
| rouged | imp. & past participle | of Rouge |
| rought | imp. of Reach., imp. of Reck, to care. | |
| rounce | noun | The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; — sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen. |
| rouncy | noun | A common hackney horse; a nag. |
| roundy | adjective | Round. |
| roused | imp. & past participle | of Rouse |
| rouser | noun | One who, or that which, rouses., Something very exciting or great., A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort. |
| routed | imp. & past participle | of Rout |
| router | noun | A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes., A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity. |
| routhe | noun | Ruth; sorrow. |
| roving | present participle & vb. noun | of Rove, The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine., A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2., The act of one who roves or wanders. |
| rowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Row |
| rowett | noun | See Rowen. |