| rounders | (noun) an English ball game similar to baseball | - |
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| roundhead | (noun) a brachycephalic person | - |
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| roundhouse | (noun) a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing | - |
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| (noun) workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives | - |
| rounding | (noun) (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals | Synonyms: rounding error |
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| roundness | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular | - |
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| (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: embonpoint, plumpness |
| (noun) the quality of being round numbers | - |
| (noun) the fullness of a tone of voice | Synonyms: rotundity |
| roundsman | (noun) a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on) | - |
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| roundtable | (noun) a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views | Synonyms: round-table conference, round table |
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| roundup | (noun) the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police | - |
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| (noun) the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold | - |
| (noun) a summary list; as in e.g. "a news roundup" | - |
| roundworm | (noun) unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic | Synonyms: nematode, nematode worm |
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| (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: ringworm, tinea |
| rouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: arouser, waker |
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| rousing | (noun) the act of arousing | Synonyms: arousal |
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| roustabout | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: deckhand |
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| rout | (noun) an overwhelming defeat | - |
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| (noun) a disorderly crowd of people | Synonyms: mob, rabble |
| route | (noun) an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation | Synonyms: road |
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| (noun) an established line of travel or access | Synonyms: itinerary, path |
| routemarch | (noun) a long training march for troops | - |
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| router | (noun) (computer science) a device that forwards data packets between computer networks | - |
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| (noun) a worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery | - |
| (noun) a power tool with a shaped cutter; used in carpentry for cutting grooves | - |
| routine | (noun) an unvarying or habitual method or procedure | Synonyms: modus operandi |
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| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, procedure, subprogram, subroutine |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, number, turn |
| routineness | (noun) The state or quality of being routine, of possessing the traits of being quotidian, and repeating a pattern regularly. | - |
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| roux | (noun) a mixture of fat and flour heated and used as a basis for sauces | - |
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| rover | (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, wanderer |
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| (noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: scouter |
| roving | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: vagabondage, wandering |
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| row | (noun) the act of rowing as a sport | Synonyms: rowing |
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| (noun) (construction) a layer of masonry | Synonyms: course |
| (noun) a continuous chronological succession without an interruption | - |
| (noun) an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line | - |
| (noun) a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side | - |
| (noun) a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally) | - |
| (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, run-in, words, wrangle |
| rowan | (noun) Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits | Synonyms: European mountain ash, rowan tree, Sorbus aucuparia |
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| rowanberry | (noun) decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree | - |
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| rowboat | (noun) a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled | Synonyms: dinghy, dory |
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| rowdiness | (noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: disorderliness, roughness, rowdyism |
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| rowdy | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| rowdyism | (noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: disorderliness, roughness, rowdiness |
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| rowel | (noun) a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur | - |
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| rower | (noun) someone who rows a boat | - |
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| rowing | (noun) the act of rowing as a sport | Synonyms: row |
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| rowlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, thole, tholepin |
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| royal | (noun) stag with antlers of 12 or more branches | Synonyms: royal stag |
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| (noun) a sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast | - |
| royalism | (noun) adherence or attachment to a monarchy or to the principle of monarchal government | - |
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| royalist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: monarchist |
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| royalty | (noun) royal persons collectively | Synonyms: royal family, royal house, royal line |
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| (noun) payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property | - |
| rozelle | (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, sorrel |
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