| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| roughte | of Reck | |
| roadbed | noun | In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel. |
| roadway | noun | A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages. |
| roaming | present participle & vb. noun | of Roam |
| roaring | present participle & vvb. noun | of Roar, A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation., An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5. |
| roasted | imp. & past participle | of Roast |
| roaster | noun | One who roasts meat., A contrivance for roasting., A pig, or other article of food fit for roasting. |
| robbing | present participle & vb. noun | of Rob |
| robbery | noun | The act or practice of robbing; theft., The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. |
| robinet | noun | The chaffinch; — called also roberd., The European robin., A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones. |
| robinia | noun | A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia). |
| rocking | present participle & vb. noun | of Rock, Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking. |
| rocklay | noun | See Rokelay. |
| rockery | noun | A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants. |
| rodomel | noun | Juice of roses mixed with honey. |
| rodsmen | plural | of Rodsman |
| rodsman | noun | One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party. |
| roebuck | noun | A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds. |
| roedeer | noun | The roebuck. |
| roguery | noun | The life of a vargant., The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices., Arch tricks; mischievousness. |
| roguish | adjective | Vagrant., Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish., Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch. |
| roiling | present participle & vb. noun | of Roil |
| roinish | adjective | See Roynish. |
| roister | verb i. | To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent., See Roisterer. |
| rokeage | noun | Alt. of Rokee |
| rokelay | noun | A short cloak. |
| rolling | present participle & vb. noun | of Roll, Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball., Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair., Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land. |
| rollway | noun | A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream. |
| romance | noun | A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like., An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance., A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance., The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages)., A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza., Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance., To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories. |
| romancy | adjective | Romantic. |
| romanic | noun | Of or pertaining to Rome or its people., Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal, etc., Related to the Roman people by descent; — said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues. |
| romanza | noun | See Romance, 5. |
| romaunt | noun | A romantic story in verse; as, the “Romaunt of the Rose.” |
| romeine | noun | Alt. of Romeite |
| romeite | noun | A mineral of a hyacinth or honey-yellow color, occuring in square octahedrons. It is an antimonate of calcium. |
| romekin | noun | A drinking cup. |
| romping | present participle & vb. noun | of Romp, Inclined to romp; indulging in romps. |
| rompish | adjective | Given to rude play; inclined to romp. |
| ronchil | noun | An American marine food fish (Bathymaster signatus) of the North Pacific coast, allied to the tilefish. |
| rondeau | noun | A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule., See Rondo, 1. |
| rondure | noun | A round; a circle., Roundness; plumpness. |
| rongeur | noun | An instrument for removing small rough portions of bone. |
| roofing | present participle & vb. noun | of Roof, The act of covering with a roof., The materials of which a roof is composed; materials for a roof., Hence, the roof itself; figuratively, shelter., The wedging, as of a horse or car, against the top of an underground passage. |
| rooflet | noun | A small roof, covering, or shelter. |
| rooking | present participle & vb. noun | of Rook |
| rookery | noun | The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves., A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc., The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals., A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings., A brothel. |
| rooming | present participle & vb. noun | of Room |
| roomage | noun | Space; place; room. |
| roomful | adjective | Abounding with room or rooms; roomy., As much or many as a room will hold; as, a roomful of men. |
| roomily | adverb | Spaciously. |
| roomthy | adjective | Roomy; spacious. |
| roosted | imp. & past participle | of Roost |
| rooster | noun | The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. |
| rooting | present participle & vb. noun | of Root |
| rootcap | noun | A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza. |
| rootery | noun | A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening. |
| rootlet | noun | A radicle; a little root. |
| ropalic | adjective | See Rhopalic. |
| rorqual | noun | A very large North Atlantic whalebone whale (Physalus antiquorum, or Balaenoptera physalus). It has a dorsal fin, and strong longitudinal folds on the throat and belly. Called also razorback. |
| rosacic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red precipitates of urine. See Uric. |
| rosalia | noun | A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence. |
| roseate | adjective | Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers., resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips. |
| rosebay | noun | the oleander., Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron., An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in Europe and North America; — called also great willow herb. |
| rosebud | noun | The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open. |
| roseine | noun | See Magenta. |
| rosella | noun | A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow. |
| roselle | noun | a malvaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) cultivated in the east and West Indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for making tarts and jelly and an acid drink. |
| roseola | noun | A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; — called also rose rash. |
| rosette | noun | An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, — used as an ornament or a badge., An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration., A red color. See Roset., A rose burner. See under Rose., Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand., A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard. |
| rosland | noun | heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land. |
| rosolic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (called rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, formerly, corallin. |
| rostral | adjective | Of or pertaining to the beak or snout of an animal, or the beak of a ship; resembling a rostrum, esp., the rostra at Rome, or their decorations. |
| rostrum | noun | The beak or head of a ship., The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; — so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators., Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker., Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds., The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera., The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina., The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn., Same as Rostellum., The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic., A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form. |
| rotting | present participle & vb. noun | of Rot |
| rotated | imp. & past participle | of Rotate, Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate. |
| rotator | noun | that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis., A revolving reverberatory furnace. |
| rotchet | noun | The European red gurnard (Trigla pini). |
| rotella | noun | Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotella, native of tropical seas. |
| rotifer | noun | One of the Rotifera. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| rotular | adjective | Of or pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan. |
| rotunda | adjective | A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. |
| rotundo | noun | See Rotunda. |
| roturer | noun | A roturier. |
| rouging | present participle & vb. noun | of Rouge |
| roughen | verb t. | To make rough., To grow or become rough. |
| roughly | adverb | In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely. |
| roulade | noun | A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel’s oratorios. |
| rouleau | noun | A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll. |
| rounded | imp. & past participle | of Round, Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11. |
| roundel | adjective | A rondelay., Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle., A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries., A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle., A bastion of a circular form. |
| rounder | noun | One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly., A tool for making an edge or surface round., An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football. |
| roundly | adverb | In a round form or manner., Openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply., Briskly; with speed., Completely; vigorously; in earnest., Without regard to detail; in gross; comprehensively; generally; as, to give numbers roundly. |
| rousant | adjective | Rising; — applied to a bird in the attitude of rising; also, sometmes, to a bird in profile with wings addorsed. |
| rousing | present participle & vb. noun | of Rouse, Having power to awaken or excite; exciting., Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie. |
| routing | present participle & vb. noun | of Rout |
| routine | noun | A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning., Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit. |
| routish | adjective | Uproarious; riotous. |
| rowable | adjective | That may be rowed, or rowed upon. |
| rowboat | noun | A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails. |
| rowdies | plural | of Rowdy |
| roweled | imp. & past participle | of Rowel |
| rowlock | noun | A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar. |
| rowport | noun | An opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather. |
| royalet | noun | A petty or powerless king. |
| royally | adverb | In a royal or kingly manner; like a king; as becomes a king. |
| royalty | noun | The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty., The person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the presence of royalty., An emblem of royalty; — usually in the plural, meaning regalia., Kingliness; spirit of regal authority., Domain; province; sphere., That which is due to a sovereign, as a seigniorage on gold and silver coined at the mint, metals taken from mines, etc.; the tax exacted in lieu of such share; imperiality., A share of the product or profit (as of a mine, forest, etc.), reserved by the owner for permitting another to use the property., Hence (Com.), a duty paid by a manufacturer to the owner of a patent or a copyright at a certain rate for each article manufactured; or, a percentage paid to the owner of an article by one who hires the use of it. |
| roynish | adjective | Mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome. |
| royster | noun | Alt. of Roysterer |
| roytish | adjective | Wild; irregular. |