| rouge | (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, blusher, paint |
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| (verb) redden by applying rouge to | - |
| rougeberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, bloodberry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant |
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| rouged | (adjective) marked by the use of various kinds of red makeup | - |
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| rough | (adjective) having or caused by an irregular surface | Synonyms: unsmooth |
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| (adjective) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped | - |
| (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky |
| (adjective) not shaped by cutting or trimming | Synonyms: uncut |
| (adjective) ready and able to resort to force or violence | Synonyms: pugnacious |
| (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, scratchy |
| (adjective) full of hardship or trials | Synonyms: rocky |
| (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, approximative |
| (adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: boisterous, fierce |
| (adjective) unkind or cruel or uncivil | Synonyms: harsh |
| (adjective) unpleasantly stern | Synonyms: harsh |
| (adjective) not perfected | - |
| (adjective) (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse | - |
| (adjective) not carefully or expertly made | Synonyms: crude |
| (noun) the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short | - |
| (adverb) with rough motion as over a rough surface | Synonyms: roughly |
| (adverb) with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly') | Synonyms: roughly |
| (verb) prepare in preliminary or sketchy form | Synonyms: rough in, rough out |
| roughage | (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
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| 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 | - |
| roughdried | (adjective) (of laundry) dried but not ironed | - |
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| roughen | (verb) make rough or rougher | - |
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| roughened | (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, cracked |
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| roughhewn | (adjective) of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing | Synonyms: rough-cut |
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| roughhouse | (verb) engage in rough or disorderly play | - |
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| roughish | (adjective) somewhat rough | - |
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| roughleg | (noun) large hawk of the Northern Hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers | Synonyms: Buteo lagopus, rough-legged hawk |
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| roughly | (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: about, approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, some |
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| (adverb) with rough motion as over a rough surface | Synonyms: rough |
| (adverb) with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly') | Synonyms: rough |
| roughneck | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| roughness | (noun) harsh or severe speech or behavior | - |
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| (noun) a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven | Synonyms: raggedness |
| (noun) the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses | Synonyms: harshness |
| (noun) an unpolished unrefined quality | Synonyms: crudeness |
| (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: indentation, pitting |
| (noun) used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather | Synonyms: choppiness, rough water |
| (noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: disorderliness, rowdiness, rowdyism |
| roughrider | (noun) a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle | - |
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| roughshod | (adjective) unjustly domineering | Synonyms: heavy-handed |
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| (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious |
| (adjective) (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping | - |