| ruse | (noun) a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) | Synonyms: artifice |
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| rush | (adjective) done under pressure | Synonyms: rushed |
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| (adjective) not accepting reservations | Synonyms: first-come-first-serve |
| (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rushing |
| (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rushing |
| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: spate, surge, upsurge |
| (noun) a sudden burst of activity | - |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, thrill |
| (noun) grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems | - |
| (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hasten, hurry, look sharp |
| (verb) urge to an unnatural speed | Synonyms: hurry |
| (verb) attack suddenly | - |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) run with the ball, in football | - |
| (verb) cause to move fast or to rush or race | Synonyms: race |
| rushed | (adjective) done under pressure | Synonyms: rush |
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| rusher | (noun) a person who rushes; someone in a hurry; someone who acts precipitously | - |
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| (noun) someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory | - |
| (noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball | - |
| rushing | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rush |
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| (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rush |
| rushlight | (noun) a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick | Synonyms: rush candle |
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| rushlike | (adjective) resembling rush or sedge | Synonyms: sedgelike |
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| rushy | (adjective) abounding in rushes | - |
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| rusk | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread, zwieback |
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| russet | (adjective) of brown with a reddish tinge | - |
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| (noun) a reddish brown homespun fabric | - |
| 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 | - |
| rusted | (adjective) having accumulated rust | - |
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| rustic | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the fields or country | Synonyms: agrestic |
| (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countrified, countryfied |
| (noun) an unsophisticated country person | - |
| rusticate | (verb) lend a rustic character to | - |
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| (verb) give (stone) a rustic look | - |
| (verb) send to the country | - |
| (verb) suspend temporarily from college or university, in England | Synonyms: send down |
| (verb) live in the country and lead a rustic life | - |
| rustication | (noun) the action of retiring to and living in the country | - |
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| (noun) banishment into the country | - |
| (noun) the construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner | - |
| (noun) temporary dismissal of a student from a university | - |
| (noun) the condition naturally attaching to life in the country | - |
| rusticism | (noun) a rural idiom or expression | Synonyms: ruralism |
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| rusticity | (noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: gaucherie |
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| rustiness | (noun) ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being coated or clogged with rust | - |
| rusting | (noun) the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water | Synonyms: rust |
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| rustle | (noun) a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind | Synonyms: rustling, whisper, whispering |
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| (verb) make a dry crackling sound | - |
| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: lift |
| (verb) forage food | - |
| rustler | (noun) someone who steals livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle thief |
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| rustless | (adjective) without rust | - |
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| rustling | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: murmurous, soughing, susurrous |
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| (noun) the stealing of cattle | - |
| (noun) a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind | Synonyms: rustle, whisper, whispering |
| rustproof | (adjective) treated against rusting | Synonyms: rustproofed |
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| rustproofed | (adjective) treated against rusting | Synonyms: rustproof |
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| rusty | (adjective) of the brown color of rust | Synonyms: rust-brown, rust |
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| (adjective) ancient | Synonyms: hoary |
| (adjective) covered with or consisting of rust | - |
| (adjective) impaired in skill by neglect | Synonyms: out of practice |