| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| roadless | adjective | Destitute of roads. |
| roadside | noun | Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively. |
| roadster | noun | A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides., A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads., A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track., One who drives much; a coach driver., A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country. |
| roasting | present participle & vb. noun | of Roast, a. & n., from Roast, v. |
| roborant | adjective | Strengthening., A strengthening medicine; a tonic. |
| roborate | verb t. | To give strength or support to; to confirm. |
| roborean | adjective | Alt. of Roboreous |
| robustly | adverb | In a robust manner. |
| rochelle | noun | A seaport town in France. |
| rockaway | Formerly, a light, low, four-wheeled carriage, with standing top, open at the sides, but having waterproof curtains which could be let down when occasion required; now, a somewhat similar, but heavier, carriage, inclosed, except in front, and having a door at each side. | |
| rockelay | noun | Alt. of Rocklay |
| rockered | adjective | Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel. |
| rocketed | imp. & past participle | of Rocket |
| rocketer | noun | A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket. |
| rockfish | noun | Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa., The striped bass. See Bass., Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus., An American fresh-water darter; the log perch. |
| rockless | adjective | Being without rocks. |
| rockling | noun | Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels. |
| rockrose | noun | A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense. |
| rockweed | noun | Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus. |
| rockwood | noun | Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood. |
| rockwork | noun | Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough., A rockery. |
| rodentia | adjective | An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order. |
| rodomont | noun | A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio., Bragging; vainly boasting. |
| roestone | noun | Same as Oolite. |
| rogation | noun | The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree., Litany; supplication. |
| rogatory | adjective | Seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission. |
| rollable | adjective | Capable of being rolled. |
| romanced | imp. & past participle | of Romance |
| romancer | noun | One who romances. |
| romanish | adjective | Pertaining to Romanism. |
| romanism | noun | The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion. |
| romanist | noun | One who adheres to Romanism. |
| romanize | verb t. | To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms., To convert to the Roman Catholic religion., To use Latin words and idioms., To conform to Roman Catholic opinions, customs, or modes of speech. |
| romansch | noun | The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin. |
| romantic | adjective | Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking., Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind., Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets., Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; — applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. |
| romeward | adverb | Toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church., Tending or directed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church. |
| roncador | noun | Any one of several species of California sciaenoid food fishes, especially Roncador Stearnsi, which is an excellent market fish, and the red roncador (Corvina, / Johnius, saturna). |
| rondache | noun | A circular shield carried by foot soldiers. |
| roodebok | noun | The pallah. |
| roofless | adjective | Having no roof; as, a roofless house., Having no house or home; shelterless; homeless. |
| rooftree | noun | The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself. |
| roomfuls | plural | of Roomful |
| roomless | adjective | Being without room or rooms. |
| roommate | noun | One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum. |
| roomsome | adjective | Roomy. |
| roorback | noun | Alt. of Roorbach |
| roorbach | noun | A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue. |
| roosting | present participle & vb. noun | of Roost |
| rootless | adjective | Destitute of roots. |
| ropeband | noun | A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar. |
| ropewalk | adjective | A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured. |
| ropiness | noun | Quality of being ropy; viscosity. |
| roration | noun | A falling of dew. |
| rorulent | adjective | Full of, or abounding in, dew., Having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew. |
| rosalgar | noun | realgar. |
| rosarian | noun | A cultivator of roses. |
| rosaries | plural | of Rosary |
| rosebush | noun | The bush or shrub which bears roses. |
| rose-cut | adjective | Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; — said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n. |
| rosedrop | noun | A lozenge having a rose flavor., A kind of earring., A ruddy eruption upon the nose caused by drinking ardent spirits; a grog blossom. |
| rosefish | noun | A large marine scorpaenoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt. |
| rosehead | noun | See Rose, n., 4., A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head. |
| roselite | noun | A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite. |
| rosemary | noun | A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy. |
| rose-red | adjective | Red as a rose; specifically (Zool.), of a pure purplish red color. |
| roseroot | noun | A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; — so called because the roots have the odor of roses. |
| rosewood | noun | A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra. |
| roseworm | noun | The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds. |
| rosewort | noun | Roseroot., Any plant nearly related to the rose. |
| rosiness | noun | The quality of being rosy. |
| rosselly | adjective | Loose; light. |
| rostella | plural | of Rostellum |
| rostrate | adjective | Alt. of Rostrated |
| rostrula | plural | of Rostrulum |
| rostrums | plural | of Rostrum |
| rosulate | adjective | Arranged in little roselike clusters; — said of leaves and bracts. |
| rotacism | noun | See Rhotacism. |
| rotalite | noun | Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod. |
| rotating | present participle & vb. noun | of Rotate |
| rotation | noun | The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution., Any return or succesion in a series., Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity. |
| rotative | adjective | turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational. |
| rotatory | adjective | Turning as on an axis; rotary., Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles., Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization., A rotifer. |
| rotifera | noun | An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits. |
| rotiform | adjective | Wheel-shaped; as, rotiform appendages., Same as Rotate. |
| roturier | noun | A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land. |
| roughdry | verb t. | in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing. |
| roughhew | verb t. | To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber., To give the first form or shape to; to form rudely; to shape approximately and rudely; to roughcast. |
| roughish | adjective | Somewhat rough. |
| roughleg | noun | Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough-legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. |
| rouleaux | plural | of Rouleau |
| rouleaus | plural | of Rouleau |
| roulette | noun | A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game., A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots., A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint., the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid. |
| rounding | present participle & vb. noun | of Round, Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish., Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; — called also service., Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11. |
| roundish | adjective | Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. |
| roundlet | noun | A little circle. |
| roundtop | noun | A top; a platform at a masthead; — so called because formerly round in shape. |
| round-up | noun | The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. |
| roundure | noun | Roundness; a round or circle. |
| rovingly | adverb | In a wandering manner. |
| rowdydow | noun | Hubbub; uproar. |
| rowdyish | adjective | Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy. |
| rowdyism | noun | the conduct of a rowdy. |
| rowelled | of Rowel | |
| roweling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rowel |
| roxburgh | noun | A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut. |
| royalism | noun | the principles or conduct of royalists. |
| royalist | noun | An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government. |
| royalize | verb t. | to make royal. |
| roytelet | noun | A little king. |