| brut | (adjective) (of champagne) extremely dry | - |
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| brutal | (adjective) disagreeably direct and precise | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brute, brutish |
| (adjective) punishingly harsh | Synonyms: unrelenting |
| (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
| brutalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalization |
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| (noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalization |
| (noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalization |
| brutalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
| (verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalize |
| brutality | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, savagery |
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| (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: ferociousness, savagery, viciousness |
| brutalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalisation |
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| (noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalisation |
| (noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalisation |
| brutalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
| (verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalise |
| brutally | (adverb) in a vicious manner | Synonyms: savagely, viciously |
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| brute | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish |
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| (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna |
| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, savage, wildcat, wolf |
| brutish | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brute |
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| brutishly | (adverb) in the manner of a beast | Synonyms: bestially, in a beastly manner |
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| crutch | (noun) anything that serves as an expedient | - |
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| (noun) a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking | - |
| druthers | (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: preference |
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| fruticose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticulose, shrubby |
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| fruticulose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticose, shrubby |
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| inscrutability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to investigate | - |
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| inscrutable | (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, deep, mysterious, mystifying |
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| inscrutably | (adverb) in an inscrutable manner | - |
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| overutilisation | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overuse, overutilization |
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| overutilization | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overexploitation, overuse, overutilisation |
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| rut | (noun) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape | Synonyms: groove |
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| (noun) a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels) | - |
| (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: estrus, heat, oestrus |
| (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: furrow, groove |
| (verb) be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals | - |
| rutabaga | (noun) the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food | Synonyms: swede, swedish turnip, yellow turnip |
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| (noun) a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root | Synonyms: Brassica napus napobrassica, rutabaga plant, swede, Swedish turnip, turnip cabbage |
| ruth | (noun) a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others | Synonyms: commiseration, pathos, pity |
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| ruthenium | (noun) a rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinum | Synonyms: atomic number 44, Ru |
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| rutherford | (noun) a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second | - |
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| rutherfordium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized | Synonyms: atomic number 104, element 104, Rf, unnilquadium, Unq |
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| ruthful | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: contrite, remorseful, rueful |
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| ruthfulness | (noun) a state of gloomy sorrow | Synonyms: mournfulness, sorrowfulness |
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| ruthless | (adjective) without mercy or pity | Synonyms: pitiless, remorseless, unpitying |
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| ruthlessly | (adverb) in a ruthless manner | - |
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| ruthlessness | (noun) mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity | Synonyms: pitilessness |
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| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, mercilessness, pitilessness |
| rutile | (noun) a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic and plutonic rocks and is a major source of titanium | - |
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| rutted | (adjective) full of ruts | Synonyms: rutty |
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| ruttish | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, randy, steamy, turned on |
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| rutty | (adjective) full of ruts | Synonyms: rutted |
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| scrutineer | (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: canvasser |
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| scrutinise | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinize |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinize, size up, take stock |
| scrutiniser | (noun) a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care | Synonyms: scrutinizer |
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| scrutinize | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinise |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinise, size up, take stock |
| scrutinizer | (noun) a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care | Synonyms: scrutiniser |
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| scrutiny | (noun) the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) | Synonyms: examination |
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| (noun) a prolonged intense look | - |
| strut | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: prance, swagger |
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| (noun) brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression | - |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, swagger, tittup |
| struthiomimus | (noun) small light-boned toothless dinosaur resembling an ostrich in size and proportions | - |
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| suffrutescent | (adjective) of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year | - |
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| suffrutex | (noun) low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base | Synonyms: subshrub |
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| truth | (noun) the quality of being near to the true value | Synonyms: accuracy |
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| (noun) a fact that has been verified | - |
| (noun) a true statement | Synonyms: true statement |
| (noun) conformity to reality or actuality | Synonyms: the true, trueness, verity |
| truthful | (adjective) expressing or given to expressing the truth | Synonyms: true |
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| (adjective) conforming to truth | - |
| truthfully | (adverb) with truth | - |
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| truthfulness | (noun) the quality of being truthful | - |
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| untruth | (noun) a false statement | Synonyms: falsehood, falsity |
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| untruthful | (adjective) not expressing or given to expressing the truth | - |
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| untruthfully | (adverb) in a mendacious and untruthful manner | Synonyms: mendaciously |
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| untruthfulness | (noun) the quality of being untruthful | - |
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