| acerose | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| aldotetrose | (noun) A four-carbon aldose; for example, threose, erythrose. | - |
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| boytrose | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, botryoidal |
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| dextrose | (noun) an isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits | Synonyms: dextroglucose, grape sugar |
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| erose | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed |
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| ketotetrose | (noun) A monosaccharide that has both a ketone and four carbons. | - |
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| leprose | (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, scabrous, scaly, scurfy |
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| monosaccharose | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharide, simple sugar |
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| morose | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| necrose | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, mortify, sphacelate |
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| operose | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome |
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| porose | (adjective) forming a continuous series of pores | - |
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| primrose | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primula |
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| prose | (noun) ordinary writing as distinguished from verse | - |
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| (noun) matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression | - |
| rockrose | (noun) small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage | Synonyms: rock rose |
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| (noun) any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers | Synonyms: rock rose |
| rose | (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rosaceous, roseate |
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| (noun) a dusty pink color | Synonyms: rosiness |
| (noun) pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began | Synonyms: blush wine, pink wine, rose wine |
| (noun) any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | Synonyms: rosebush |
| saccharose | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent | Synonyms: sucrose |
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| sucrose | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent | Synonyms: saccharose |
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| sunrose | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions | Synonyms: helianthemum, sun rose |
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| tetrose | (noun) any monosaccharide sugar containing four atoms of carbon per molecule | - |
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| tuberose | (noun) a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers | Synonyms: Polianthes tuberosa |
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