| rollerblading | (noun) skating using Rollerblades | - |
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| rollick | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| rollicking | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, sportive |
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| rollickingly | (adverb) in a carefree manner | Synonyms: boisterously |
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| rolling | (adjective) uttered with a trill | Synonyms: rolled, trilled |
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| (noun) propelling something on wheels | Synonyms: wheeling |
| (noun) the act of robbing a helpless person | - |
| (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, pealing, roll |
| rollmops | (noun) a pickled herring filet that has been rolled or wrapped around a pickle | - |
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| rollover | (noun) the act of changing the institution that invests your pension plan without incurring a tax penalty | - |
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| rolypoliness | (noun) the property of having a plump and round body | Synonyms: chubbiness, pudginess, tubbiness |
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| romaic | (adjective) relating to modern Greece or its inhabitants or its language | - |
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| romaine | (noun) lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head | Synonyms: cos, cos lettuce, romaine lettuce |
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| roman | (noun) a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions | Synonyms: roman letters, roman print, roman type |
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| romance | (noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romanticism |
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| (noun) a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | - |
| (noun) a story dealing with love | Synonyms: love story |
| (noun) a relationship between two lovers | Synonyms: love affair |
| (verb) tell romantic or exaggerated lies | - |
| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander |
| (verb) have a love affair with | - |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, solicit, woo |
| romantic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romanticist, romanticistic |
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| (adjective) not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic | Synonyms: quixotic, wild-eyed |
| (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, amorous |
| (noun) a soulful or amorous idealist | - |
| (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romanticist |
| romantically | (adverb) in a manner expressive of love or romance | - |
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| (adverb) in an idealistic and unrealistic manner | - |
| romanticisation | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticization, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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| romanticise | (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticize |
| romanticism | (noun) impractical romantic ideals and attitudes | - |
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| (noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romance |
| 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 |
| romanticistic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticist |
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| romanticization | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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| romanticize | (verb) act in a romantic way | - |
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| (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticise |
| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticise |
| romish | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistic, papistical, popish, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist |
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| romp | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, frolic, gambol, play |
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| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
| (noun) a girl who behaves in a boyish manner | Synonyms: hoyden, tomboy |
| (verb) win easily | - |
| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, run around, skylark, sport |
| (verb) run easily and fairly fast | - |
| romper | (noun) a one-piece garment for children to wear at play; the lower part is shaped like bloomers | Synonyms: romper suit |
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| (noun) a person who romps or frolics | - |
| rondeau | (noun) a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas | Synonyms: rondel |
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| (noun) a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata | Synonyms: rondo |
| rondel | (noun) a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas | Synonyms: rondeau |
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| rondelet | (noun) a shorter form of rondeau | - |
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| rondo | (noun) a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata | Synonyms: rondeau |
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| roneo | (verb) make copies on a Roneograph | - |
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| rood | (noun) representation of the cross on which Jesus died | Synonyms: crucifix, rood-tree |
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| roof | (noun) a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building | - |
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| (noun) protective covering on top of a motor vehicle | - |
| (noun) an upper limit on what is allowed | Synonyms: cap, ceiling |
| (noun) the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space | - |
| (verb) provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof | - |
| roofed | (adjective) covered with a roof; having a roof as specified (often used in combination) | - |
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| roofer | (noun) a craftsman who lays or repairs roofs | - |
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| roofing | (noun) the craft of a roofer | - |
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| (noun) material used to construct a roof | - |
| roofless | (adjective) not having a roof | - |
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| (adjective) physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security | Synonyms: dispossessed, homeless |
| rooftop | (noun) the top of a (usually flat) roof | - |
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| rooftree | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridge, ridgepole |
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| roofy | (noun) street names for flunitrazepam | Synonyms: circle, forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roach, rope, rophy |
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| rooibos | (noun) South African shrub having flat acuminate leaves and yellow flowers; leaves are aromatic when dried and used to make an herbal tea | Synonyms: Aspalathus cedcarbergensis, Aspalathus linearis |
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| rook | (noun) common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow | Synonyms: Corvus frugilegus |
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| (noun) (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard | Synonyms: castle |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| rookery | (noun) a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks) | - |
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| rookie | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, greenhorn |
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| room | (noun) an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling | - |
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| (noun) the people who are present in a room | - |
| (noun) space for movement | Synonyms: elbow room, way |
| (noun) opportunity for | - |
| (verb) live and take one's meals at or in | Synonyms: board |
| roomer | (noun) a tenant in someone's house | Synonyms: boarder, lodger |
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| roomette | (noun) a small private compartment for one on a sleeping car | - |
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| roomful | (noun) the quantity a room will hold | - |
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| roomie | (noun) an associate who shares a room with you | Synonyms: roommate, roomy |
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| roomily | (adverb) with ample room | Synonyms: spaciously |
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| roominess | (noun) spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building) | Synonyms: capaciousness, commodiousness, spaciousness |
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| (noun) intellectual breadth | Synonyms: capaciousness |
| roommate | (noun) an associate who shares a room with you | Synonyms: roomie, roomy |
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| rooms | (noun) apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) | Synonyms: suite |
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| roomy | (adjective) (of buildings and rooms) having ample space | Synonyms: spacious |
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| (noun) an associate who shares a room with you | Synonyms: roomie, roommate |
| 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 |
| rooster | (noun) adult male chicken | Synonyms: cock |
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| root | (noun) the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair | - |
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| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, radical, root word, stem, theme |
| (noun) a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes | Synonyms: etymon |
| (noun) the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation | Synonyms: solution |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, rootage, source |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent |
| (noun) (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | - |
| (noun) a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number | - |
| (verb) take root and begin to grow | - |
| (verb) cause to take roots | - |
| (verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: settle, settle down, steady down, take root |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: rootle, rout |
| (verb) plant by the roots | - |
| (verb) cheer for | - |
| (verb) come into existence, originate | - |
| rootage | (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, source |
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| (noun) a developed system of roots | Synonyms: root system |
| (noun) fixedness by or as if by roots | - |
| rootbound | (adjective) having the roots matted or densely tangled | - |
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| (adjective) (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots | Synonyms: potbound |
| rooted | (adjective) absolutely still | Synonyms: frozen, stock-still |
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| rooter | (noun) an enthusiastic devotee of sports | Synonyms: fan, sports fan |
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| rooting | (noun) the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow | - |
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| rootle | (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rout |
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| rootless | (adjective) wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community | Synonyms: vagabond |
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| rootlet | (noun) small root or division of a root | - |
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| roots | (noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage | - |
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| rootstalk | (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstock |
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| rootstock | (noun) root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstalk |
| rope | (noun) a strong line | - |
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| (noun) street names for flunitrazepam | Synonyms: circle, forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roach, roofy, rophy |
| (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: leash |
| (verb) catch with a lasso | Synonyms: lasso |
| ropebark | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, wicopy |
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| ropedancer | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropewalker |
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| ropemaker | (noun) a craftsman who makes ropes | Synonyms: rope-maker, roper |
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| roper | (noun) a craftsman who makes ropes | Synonyms: rope-maker, ropemaker |
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| (noun) a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses | - |
| (noun) a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game) | - |
| ropewalk | (noun) workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made | Synonyms: rope yard |
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| ropewalker | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropedancer |
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| ropeway | (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, tram, tramway |
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| ropey | (adjective) of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong | Synonyms: ropy |
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| (adjective) (British informal) very poor in quality | Synonyms: ropy |
| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropy, stringy, thready |
| rophy | (noun) street names for flunitrazepam | Synonyms: circle, forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roach, roofy, rope |
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| ropiness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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| roping | (noun) capturing cattle or horses with a lasso | - |
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| ropy | (adjective) of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong | Synonyms: ropey |
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| (adjective) (British informal) very poor in quality | Synonyms: ropey |
| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, stringy, thready |
| roquette | (noun) erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender | Synonyms: arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa, garden rocket, rocket, rocket salad |
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| roridula | (noun) either of 2 species of the genus Roridula; South African viscid perennial low-growing woody shrubs | - |
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| rorqual | (noun) any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin | Synonyms: razorback |
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| rosacea | (noun) a skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance | Synonyms: acne rosacea |
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| rosaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Rosaceae | - |
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| (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rose, roseate |
| rosary | (noun) a string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics) | Synonyms: prayer beads |
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| 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 |
| roseate | (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rosaceous, rose |
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| rosebay | (noun) late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers | Synonyms: Rhododendron maxima |
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| rosebud | (noun) (a literary reference to) a pretty young girl | - |
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| (noun) the bud of a rose | - |
| rosebush | (noun) any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | Synonyms: rose |
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| rosefish | (noun) large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe | Synonyms: ocean perch, Sebastes marinus |
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| (noun) North Atlantic rockfish | Synonyms: ocean perch, redfish |
| rosehip | (noun) the fruit of a rose plant | Synonyms: hip, rose hip |
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| roselle | (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, rozelle, sorrel |
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| rosemaling | (noun) a Scandinavian style of carved or painted decoration (as on furniture or walls or dinnerware) consisting of floral motifs | - |
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| rosemary | (noun) extremely pungent leaves used fresh or dried as seasoning for especially meats | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated for its fragrant grey-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery | Synonyms: Rosmarinus officinalis |
| roseola | (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: efflorescence, rash, skin rash |
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| rosette | (noun) an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor | - |
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| (noun) circular window filled with tracery | Synonyms: rose window |
| (noun) a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground) | - |
| (noun) rhizoctinia disease of potatoes | Synonyms: little potato, russet scab, stem canker |
| rosewood | (noun) any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black | Synonyms: rosewood tree |
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| (noun) hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork | - |
| rosilla | (noun) a sneezeweed of southwestern United States especially southern California | Synonyms: Helenium puberulum |
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| rosin | (noun) any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules | Synonyms: resin |
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| (verb) rub rosin onto | - |