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 |