| role | (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: function, office, part |
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| (noun) normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting | - |
| (noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: function, purpose, use |
| (noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | Synonyms: character, part, persona, theatrical role |
| roleplay | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, playact |
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| roleplaying | (noun) acting a particular role (as in psychotherapy) | - |
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| roll | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude | - |
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| (noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) | Synonyms: bowl |
| (noun) the act of throwing dice | Synonyms: cast |
| (noun) walking with a swaying gait | - |
| (noun) anything rolled up in cylindrical form | - |
| (noun) photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light | - |
| (noun) a list of names | Synonyms: roster |
| (noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | Synonyms: scroll |
| (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, pealing, rolling |
| (noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore | Synonyms: roller, rolling wave |
| (noun) rotary motion of an object around its own axis | Synonyms: axial motion, axial rotation |
| (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, paradiddle |
| (noun) small rounded bread either plain or sweet | Synonyms: bun |
| (noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: bankroll |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, scroll, whorl |
| (verb) execute a roll, in tumbling | - |
| (verb) take the shape of a roll or cylinder | - |
| (verb) show certain properties when being rolled | Synonyms: roll up |
| (verb) boil vigorously | Synonyms: seethe |
| (verb) shape by rolling | - |
| (verb) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ | - |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: twine, wind, wrap |
| (verb) begin operating or running | - |
| (verb) flatten or spread with a roller | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) move by turning over or rotating | Synonyms: turn over |
| (verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: wheel |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, undulate, wave |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: revolve |
| (verb) move, rock, or sway from side to side | - |
| (verb) emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound | - |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, pluck |
| (verb) occur in soft rounded shapes | Synonyms: undulate |
| rollback | (noun) the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw | Synonyms: push back |
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| (noun) reducing prices back to some earlier level | - |
| rolled | (adjective) rolled up and secured | Synonyms: furled |
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| (adjective) especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward | Synonyms: involute |
| (adjective) uttered with a trill | Synonyms: rolling, trilled |
| roller | (noun) a grounder that rolls along the infield | - |
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| (noun) Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers | - |
| (noun) pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground | Synonyms: tumbler, tumbler pigeon |
| (noun) a cylinder that revolves | - |
| (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, curler, hair curler |
| (noun) a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate) | - |
| (noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore | Synonyms: roll, rolling wave |
| rollerblader | (noun) a skater who uses Rollerblades | - |
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| 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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