| purist | (noun) someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words) | - |
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| quest | (noun) the act of searching for something | Synonyms: seeking |
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| (noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuance, pursuit |
| (verb) seek alms, as for religious purposes | - |
| (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, request |
| (verb) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs | Synonyms: bay |
| (verb) search the trail of (game) | - |
| (verb) make a search (for) | - |
| quickest | (adverb) most quickly | Synonyms: fastest |
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| quietist | (noun) a religious mystic who follows quietism | - |
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| racialist | (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief that one racial group is superior to others | Synonyms: racist |
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| racist | (adjective) discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion | Synonyms: anti-Semite, antiblack |
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| (adjective) based on racial intolerance | - |
| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief that one racial group is superior to others | Synonyms: racialist |
| radiobiologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms | - |
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| radiochemist | (noun) a chemist who specializes in nuclear chemistry | Synonyms: nuclear chemist |
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| radiologist | (noun) a medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: radiotherapist |
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| radiotherapist | (noun) a medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: radiologist |
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| rainforest | (noun) a forest with heavy annual rainfall | Synonyms: rain forest |
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| rapist | (noun) someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse | Synonyms: raper |
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| rationalist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of rationalism | - |
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| (noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: positivist |
| reactionist | (adjective) opposed to political or social liberalism or reform | Synonyms: far-right, reactionary |
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| readjust | (verb) adjust anew | Synonyms: readapt |
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| (verb) adjust again after an initial failure | Synonyms: reset |
| realist | (noun) a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them | - |
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| (noun) a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style | - |
| (noun) a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly | - |
| rearmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: backmost, hindermost, hindmost |
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| rebroadcast | (noun) a broadcast that repeated at a later time | - |
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| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
| recast | (verb) cast again, in a different role | - |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: remold, remould |
| (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: reforge, remodel |
| receptionist | (noun) a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors | - |
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| recidivist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, reversionist |
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| (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, repeater |
| recitalist | (noun) a musician who gives recitals | - |
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| redbreast | (noun) small Old World songbird with a reddish breast | Synonyms: Erithacus rubecola, Old World robin, robin, robin redbreast |
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| reductionist | (adjective) of or relating to the theory of reductionism | - |
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| reforest | (verb) forest anew | - |
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| reformist | (adjective) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | Synonyms: progressive, reform-minded |
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| (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: crusader, meliorist, reformer, social reformer |
| regest | (noun) (archaic, obsolete) A register. | - |
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| religionist | (noun) a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot | - |
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| repast | (noun) the food served and eaten at one time | Synonyms: meal |
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| repost | (noun) A post on social media that has already been posted | - |
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| request | (noun) the verbal act of requesting | Synonyms: asking |
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| (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: petition, postulation |
| (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, quest |
| (verb) ask (a person) to do something | - |
| (verb) inquire for (information) | - |
| reservist | (noun) a member of a military reserve | - |
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| resist | (verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | Synonyms: hold out, stand firm, withstand |
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| (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: fend, stand |
| (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, baulk, jib |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, protest |
| (verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: defy, refuse |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, reject |
| rest | (noun) freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) | Synonyms: ease, relaxation, repose |
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| (noun) a support on which things can be put | - |
| (noun) a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration | - |
| (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, remainder, residual, residue, residuum |
| (noun) a state of inaction | - |
| (noun) euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, sleep |
| (noun) a pause for relaxation | Synonyms: relief, respite, rest period |
| (verb) be at rest | - |
| (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: remain, stay |
| (verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: breathe, catch one's breath, take a breather |
| (verb) give a rest to | - |
| (verb) not move; be in a resting position | - |
| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: perch, roost |
| (verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: pillow |
| (verb) put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying | - |
| (verb) be inactive, refrain from acting | - |
| (verb) have a place in relation to something else | Synonyms: lie |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: repose, reside |
| reversionist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, recidivist |
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| revisionist | (noun) a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position | - |
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| revivalist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, gospeller |
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| revolutionist | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, subversive, subverter |
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| rheumatologist | (noun) a physician specializing in rheumatic diseases | - |
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| rhinolaryngologist | (noun) a specialist in the disorders of the ear or nose or throat | Synonyms: ear-nose-and-throat doctor, ENT man, otolaryngologist, otorhinolaryngologist |
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| rightist | (adjective) believing in or supporting tenets of the political right | Synonyms: right-wing |
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| (noun) a member of a right wing political party | Synonyms: right-winger |
| rightmost | (adjective) farthest to the right | - |
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| rinderpest | (noun) an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes | Synonyms: cattle plague |
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| ritualist | (noun) an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms | - |
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| (noun) a social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies | - |
| roast | (adjective) (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven | Synonyms: roasted |
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| (noun) negative criticism | Synonyms: knock |
| (noun) a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion | Synonyms: joint |
| (verb) cook with dry heat, usually in an oven | - |
| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule |
| robust | (adjective) sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction | - |
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| (adjective) strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity | - |
| (adjective) marked by richness and fullness of flavor | Synonyms: full-bodied, racy, rich |
| (adjective) rough and crude | - |
| romanticist | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticistic |
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| (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romantic |
| (noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: sentimentalist |
| roost | (noun) a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep | - |
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| (noun) a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds | - |
| (verb) settle down or stay, as if on a roost | - |
| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: perch, rest |
| roughcast | (noun) a rough preliminary model | - |
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| (noun) a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls | - |
| (verb) hew roughly, without finishing the surface | Synonyms: rough-hew |
| (verb) apply roughcast to | - |
| (verb) shape roughly | - |
| royalist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: monarchist |
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| rudderpost | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderstock |
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| ruralist | (noun) an advocate of rural living | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: countryman |
| rust | (adjective) of the brown color of rust | Synonyms: rust-brown, rusty |
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| (noun) A strong reddish brown color. | - |
| (noun) any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants | Synonyms: rust fungus |
| (noun) the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water | Synonyms: rusting |
| (noun) a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi | - |
| (noun) a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture | - |
| (verb) become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid | Synonyms: corrode |
| (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: corrode, eat |
| (verb) become coated with oxide | - |
| sadist | (noun) someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain on others | - |
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| sadomasochist | (noun) someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism | - |
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| sandblast | (noun) a blast of wind laden with sand | - |
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| (verb) grind with a sandblast | - |
| satirist | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ironist, ridiculer |
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| sawdust | (noun) fine particles of wood made by sawing wood | - |
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| saxist | (noun) a musician who plays the saxophone | Synonyms: saxophonist |
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| saxophonist | (noun) a musician who plays the saxophone | Synonyms: saxist |
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| scenarist | (noun) a writer of screenplays | - |
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| schist | (noun) any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers | - |
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| scholiast | (noun) a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author) | - |
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| scientist | (noun) a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences | - |
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| sciolist | (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dabbler, dilettante |
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| seacoast | (noun) the shore of a sea or ocean | Synonyms: coast, sea-coast, seashore |
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| secessionist | (noun) an advocate of secessionism | - |
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| sectarist | (noun) a member of a sect | Synonyms: sectarian, sectary |
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| secularist | (noun) an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education | - |
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| segregationist | (noun) someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart | Synonyms: segregator |
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| seismologist | (noun) a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth | - |
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| semanticist | (noun) a specialist in the study of meaning | Synonyms: semiotician |
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| semifinalist | (noun) one of four competitors remaining in a tournament by elimination | - |
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| seminarist | (noun) a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) | Synonyms: seminarian |
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| sensationalist | (noun) someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention | Synonyms: ballyhoo artist |
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| sensualist | (noun) a person who enjoys sensuality | - |
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| sentimentalist | (noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: romanticist |
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| separationist | (noun) an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) | Synonyms: separatist |
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| separatist | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: breakaway, fissiparous |
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| (noun) an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) | Synonyms: separationist |
| sericulturist | (noun) a producer of raw silk | - |
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| serologist | (noun) a medical scientist who specializes in serology | - |
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| sexist | (adjective) discriminatory on the basis of sex (usually said of men's attitude toward women) | - |
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| (noun) a man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women | Synonyms: male chauvinist |
| shamanist | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanistic |
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| shirtwaist | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaister |
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| shitlist | (noun) a list of people who are out of favor | Synonyms: black book, blacklist |
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| shitpost | (noun) A poor quality and controversial Internet post | - |
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| shortlist | (noun) a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen | Synonyms: short list |
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| (verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
| sideroblast | (noun) an erythroblast having granules of ferritin | - |
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| signpost | (noun) a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way | Synonyms: guidepost |
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| (verb) mark with a signpost, as of a path | - |
| simulcast | (noun) a broadcast that is carried simultaneously by radio and television (or by FM and AM radio) | - |
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| slowest | (adverb) most slowly | - |
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| slugfest | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fistfight, fisticuffs |
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| socialist | (adjective) advocating or following the socialist principles | Synonyms: socialistic |
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| (noun) a political advocate of socialism | - |
| sociobiologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior | - |
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| sociolinguist | (noun) a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication | - |
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| sociologist | (noun) a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society | - |
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| sodalist | (noun) a member of a sodality | - |
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| sodomist | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: bugger, sod, sodomite |
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| soloist | (noun) a musician who performs a solo | - |
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| somnambulist | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: noctambulist, sleepwalker |
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