| Old English | sp | English |
| Road | n | Old English rad "riding expedition, journey, hostile incursion," from Proto-Germanic *raido (cognates: Old Frisian red "ride," Old Saxon reda, Old High German reita "foray, raid"), from PIE *reidh- "to ride" (see ride (v.)). Also related to raid (n.). In ME., "a riding, a journey;" sense of "open way for traveling between two places" is first recorded 1590s. Meaning "narrow stretch of sheltered water" is from early 14c. 2. the act of riding on horseback. 3. a hostile ride against a particular area; a raid. 4. often in the plural, partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor. 5. a way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. 6. (fig.) path chosen in life or career. 7. an underground tunnel in a mine. 8. a single railway track. 9. (obs) a journey, or stage of a journey |
| Road | phr | "By Road" - using transport along roads |
| Road | phr | "End of the Road" - enforced conclusion/ limit. |
| Road | phr | "Find a Rocky Road Ahead" - be likely to encounter difficulties. |
| Road | phr | "Fork in the Road" - turning point for decisions. |
| Road | phr | "Get Out of My Road" - cease to obstruct a person. |
| Road | phr | "Get the Show on the Road" - get something started |
| Road | phr | "In the Road" - obstructing a thing or person. |
| Road | phr | "Knight of the Road" - a highwayman. |
| Road | phr | "One for the Road" - a final alcoholic drink before departing. |
| Road | phr | "On the Road" - traveling, esp. as a business representative of a company; a performer, hobo or vagabond. |
| Road | phr | "Out of the Road" - out of the way. |
| Road | phr | "Set Someone on the Right Road" - to show a person how to go about doing something. |
| Road | phr | "Take the Road" - set out on a journey. |
| Road apple | n | American slang term for horse dung or droppings originated in the mid 20th century. |
| Road bed | n | The foundation structure of a railroad. 2. the part of the road on which a vehicles travel. 3. the material laid down to form a road. |
| Roadbook | n | A book describing the roads of a istrict or country. 2. a narrative of a journey by road. 3. a log book kept by commercial drivers. |
| Roadbreaker | n | An automatic machine worked by compressed air, for drilling into and breaking up the surface of roads. |
| Road burn | n | (Colloquial) skin injury caused by abrasion with road surfaces. |
| Roadcraft | n | The system or motor car, truck, or motorcycle control. |
| Roaded | adj | Provided or laid out with roads. |
| Roader | n | One who rides or uses the road, a road sweeper or cleaner. |
| Road game | n | A sport contest played away from one's home or own ground. |
| Road gang | n | A crew of men building or repairing roads. |
| Road-going | adj | A vehicle licensed and registered to travel on a road, street, highway etc. |
| Road grit | n | Fravel, sand etc on or beside a road. |
| Road-hog | n | A driver who keeps his vehicle in or near the middle of the road, making it difficult for other drivers to go by. |
| Road-holding | n | The capacity of a moving vehicle to remain stable when cornering at high speeed. |
| Roadhouse | n | A hotel, food outlet, restaraunt on a major road, usually in a rural area, where drivers and travelers can stop for food and refreshment. |
| Roadie | n | An assistant employed by touring band of musicians to erect and maintain equipment. |
| Roadless | adj | Without or lacking sufficient number of roadways or without enough bitumen roads. |
| Roadlessness | n | The situation or fact of lacking sufficient number or roadways or sufficient number of bitumen roadways. |
| Roadlike | adj | Resembling a road or roadway. |
| Roadman | n | A man employed to repair and maintain roads. |
| Roadmaker | n | One who makes roads |
| Road race | n | A race on a public road, not always legal. |
| Roadrunner | n | A fast-running bird of Mexican and US deserts, related to the cuckoo. |
| Roadshow | n | A performance giving by a touring company, esp. a group of pop musicians. 2. a company giving such performances. 3. a radio and television program done on location, esp. a series of programs each from a different venue. 4. a touring political or advertising campaign. |
| Roadside | n | A strip of land beside a roadway. |
| Roadstead | n | A sheltered place, but less sheltered than a harbour, where ships can be anchored or lie safely near shore. 2. a road. |
| Roadster | n | A vessel in a roadstead. 2. a horse for riding. 3. a light carriage. 4. a coach driver or traveller. 5. one who has no fixed place of abode; a vagrant. |
| Roadstone | n | Stone used for the building and maintaining roads. |
| Road sweeper | n | a person who sweeps roads for a living. 2. a machine used to sweep street and roads. |
| Roadway | n | The part of a bridge or railway used for traffic. |
| Roadwork | n | The construction or repair of roads, or other roads involving digging up a road surface. 3. athletic exercise or training involving running on roads. |
| Roadworks | n | Work, as construction, or repairs done on the road. |
| Road-worn | adj | Worn out by long travel |
| Road-worthiness | n | The state or condition of a vehicle fit to be used on roads. |
| Roadworthy | adj | Of a vehicle fit to be used on roads. |
| Roar | vb | To laugh without restraint and heartily. 2. to utter words loudly and forcefully. 3. make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles. 4. emit long loud cries. 5. make a loud noise, as of animal. 6. to act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way. |
| Roar | n | A very loud utterance. 2. a deep prolonged loud noise. 3. the sound made by a lion |
| Roaring | phr | "Do Roaring Business" - - be very successful in business. |
| Roar | phr | "Within a Bull's Roar Of" - be very close to something. |
| Roarer | n | One who or that which roars. 2. a broken winded horse is so called from the noise it makes when breathing. |
| Roaring | n | A loud deep continuous sound, as of some animals, or of the waves of the sea. |
| Roaring | adj | Emitting or uttering a roar, bellowing. 2. characterized by riotous merriment, boisterous. 3. very prosperous or brisk. |
| Roaring drunk | adj | Very drunk and noisy. |
| Roaring-forties | n | Stormy ocean tracts betwen latitudes 40 and 50 degrees south. |
| Roaringly | adv | With, or as if with, a roaring sound. 2. with lively success. |
| Roaring twenties | n | The decade of the 1920s, with its outrageous life style. |
| Rock | n | (1)Late Old English appearing in the word "stanroc". 2. a symbol of solidity and strength. |
| Rock | phr | "On the Rocks" - of a marriage in danger of breaking up. 2. of a alcoholic drink served undiluted with ice cubes. |
| Rock | vb | (2)To move a child gently to and fro in a cradle, in order to soothe. |
| Rock | phr | "Be On the Rocks" - destitute, ruined, bankrupt. |
| Road | phr | "Find a Rocky Road Ahead" - be likely to encounter difficulties. |
| Rock | phr | "Get One's Rocks Off" - have a sexual orgasm. 2. gain enjoyment from. |
| Rock | phr | "Have Rocks in the Head" - be mentally unbalanced. |
| Rock | phr | "House Built Upon a Rock" - typical of a person or a thing whose foundations are sure. |
| Rock | phr | "Rock On" - to party to music, esp. rock-and-roll. 2. to continue to perform rock music. 3. to maintain a lifestyle in keeping with, or inspired by, the rock culture. |
| Rock | phr | "Rock the Boat" - disturb the equilibrium of. |
| Rock | phr | "Rock Up" - to turn up at a place or functions spontaneously or unexpectedly, without notice or prior warning. |
| Rock | phr | "Steady as a Rock" - very steady and reliable. |
| Rock bed | n | Base of rock or a rocky bottom. |
| Rock bottom | n | The basis or foundation of any issue.The very lowest level. |
| Rock bottom | adj | The very lowest. |
| Rock dove | n | The London-pigeon is a semi-domesticated Rock-dove. 2. the European wild pigeon (Columbia livia) parent of domestic varieties. |
| Rock English | n | A mixed patois of English and Spanish spoken by the inhabitants of the rock of Gibraltar. |
| Rocker | n | A rock and roll singer. 2. a fan of rock-and-roll. |
| Rockfish | n | A rock-frequenting goby, basse, wrasse, catfish, etc. |
| Rockiness | n | Quality or condition being rocky. |
| Rocking | n | The act of state of moving to and fro. a mass of metal or a mass of small stones forming the bed of a road. |
| Rocking-frame | n | A special form of mold. 2. the rocking-frame, wave-like, motion producing better and strongest concrete due to consolidation. |
| Rocking-horse | n | The wooden horse mounted on rockers for children to ride on. |
| Rocking-stone | n | A large stone or boulder poised on a limited base so as to be easily swayed to and fro; as the Logan-stone near Land's End. |
| Rocking-tree | n | The axle from which the lay of a weaving loom is suspended. |
| Rockish | adj | Like or resembling a rock. 2. having the characteristics of a rock; stony. |
| Rockless | adj | Lacking rocks. |
| Rocklike | adj | Like or resembling a rock. 2. having the characteristics of a rock; stony. |
| Rock milk | n | Agaric mineral. |
| Rock pool | n | Pool of water among rocks. |
| Rock rose | n | Any plant of the genus 'Cistus Helianthemum, etc., with roselike flowwers. |
| Rock salt | n | Common salt as a solid mineral; halite. |
| Rock shaft | n | In steam-engines, the shaft levers used for working the side-valves. |
| Rock star | n | A famous and successful singer or performer of rock music. |
| Rock-stardom | n | The state or quality of being a rock star. |
| Rock-weed | n | Any one of various coarse seaweeds (genera Fucus and Sargassum ) growing on rocks. |
| Rock wool | n | Inorganic material made into matted fibre, esp. for insulating and soundproofing. |
| Rock work | n | A mound or wall of rocks set with mortar and arranged to imitate a rocky surface. 2. an artificial surface. |
| Rocky | adj | Unsteady, tottering, unstable, tipsy, drunk, swaying. |
| Rocky | adj | Consisting of or abounding in rock. 2. rembling rocks; disposed to rock. 2. tough, unfeeling, hard. 3. disreputable. |
| Rod | n | thin straight bar, esp. of wood or metal. 2. a fishing-line. |
| Rod | phr | "Kiss the Rod" - take one's punishment meekly. |
| Rod | phr | "Make a Rod for One's Own Back" - act in a way that will bring one trouble later. |
| Rod | phr | "Ride the Rods" - to steal a ride by getting on the metal framework underneath a freight train. |
| Rod | phr | "A Rod to Beat Somebody with" - a fact, incident, argument etc that can be used against somebody/ something in order to blame, penalize, impose a course of action. |
| Rod | n | Offshoot, tribe, scion |
| Rodewort | n | The marigold or solsequium kalenda |
| Rod-fisher | n | A Fly-fisherman, an angler. |
| Rod-fishing | n | Fly-fishing, angling. |
| Rodless | n | Lacking a rod or rods. |
| Rod-like | adj | A thin straight piece or bar or material, such as metal or wood, often having a particular function or use, as: a fishing line. |
| Rod-shaped | adj | Shaped like a rod; long cylindrical. 2. a specific form of bacteria. |
| Roe | n | A small species of deer inhabiting various parts of Europe and Asia |
| Roebuck | n | The buck or male of the roe-deer |
| Roe-deer | n | Deer or a deer of the roe-deer; a roe. |
| Rome | n | Also "Roome". The city or state of Rome; the Roman Empire. |
| Rome-penny | n | Peter's penny |
| Rome-scot | n | Tax, rent or contribution levied upon the land and paid to the Romans. see "scot-free" |
| Romeward | adj | Towards or in the direction of Rome |
| Romish | adj | Derogatory term for a Roman catholic. |
| Rood | n | The cross upon which Christ suffered. |
| Rood | n | A measurement of land, paving, digging, building- corresponding to a square pole, varying in length fron 6-8 yards. 2. a measure of timber. 3. a measure of wine |
| Rood | phr | "By the Holy Rood" - an old expletives used by way of assevation. |
| Rood-beam | n | the beam across the entrance to the chancel for supporting the rood. |
| Rood-day | n | The exaltation of the Cross on 14 Sept. or the Invention of the Cross on May 3rd |
| Roodland | n | A plot of land of one rood in size |
| Roodloft | n | Gallery on top of a rood screen. |
| Roodmas | n | Easter |
| Rood-pine | n | The torment and suffering of the Cross |
| Rood-steeple | n | A steeple in a church of cruciform style, rising at the intersection of the transept and nave. |
| Rood-tree | n | The cross upon which Jesus was crucified; the Holy-rood |
| Roof | n | A protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building. 2. protective covering on top of a motor vehicle. 3. an upper limit on what is allowed 4. the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space |
| Roof | vb | Roof provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof. 2. to cover with a roof. |
| Roof | phr | "Bring the Roof Down" - make a lot of noise. |
| Roof | phr | "Go Through the Roof" - of prices reaching extreme or unexpected heights. 2. become very angry. |
| Roof | phr | "Have a Roof Over One's Head" - have somewhere to live. |
| Roof | phr | "Hit the Roof" - become very angry. |
| Roof | phr | "Roof as Fallen In" - an enterprise has collapsed. |
| Roof | phr | "Roof of the World" - a name given to the Pamirs, the great region of mountains covering 30, 000 miles, and devoid of trees and shrubs, and most of it in Tajikistan. |
| Roof | phr | "Roof Over" - put a roof over; cover with a roof. |
| Roof | phr | "Shout from the Rooftop" - tell something to everyone. |
| Roof | phr | "Under One's Roof" - in the same building. |
| Roofer | n | A person who constructs or repairs roofs. |
| Roofing | n | The act of covering with a roof; the roof itself; the matial covering the roof. |
| Roofless | aj | A building or edifice without a roof. 2. without home or sheltered by a roof, living destitute, vagrant. |
| Roof light | n | A window panel built in a roof. 2. a flashing warning light on the top of a police car. 3. an interior light on the ceiling of a motor vehicle. |
| Rooflike | adj | Resembling a roof in some aspect |
| Roofline | n | Outline or silhouette of a collection of roofs |
| Roof of the Mouth | n | The palate. |
| Roof-rat | n | The common black rat. |
| Roof top | n | The outer surface of a roof. 2. the level of a roof. |
| Roof top | phr | "Shout It from the Roof Top" - make a thing embarrassingly public. |
| Roof-tree | n | The main beam or ridge pole of a roof, the roof. 2. abode, dwelling-place, home |
| Roofwards | adv | Towards the roof or roofs. |
| Roofy | adj | Having or abounding in roofs. |
| Rook | n | A black raucous-voiced European and Asian bird or corvine. 2. a sharp, scammer, fraudster, swindler. |
| Rook | vb | To swindle, esp in gaming; defraud, scam, cheat, dishonest in dealing with others. |
| Rooking | n | The act of cheating and deal dishonestly with others. |
| Rooky | adj | Inhabited by rooks; dark gloomy. |
| Room | n | room live and take one's meals at boarding house. 2. an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling. 3. the people who are present in a room. 4. a space for movement. 5. opportunity for. |
| Room | vb | To occupy a room; lodge. |
| Room | phr | "Make Room for" - clear or create a space for a person or thing. |
| Room | phr | "No Room at the Inn" - no room or rooms available. |
| Room | phr | "No Room to Swing a Cat" - a very confined space. |
| Room | phr | "Room and Board" - a situation, which, in exchange for money labor or other consideration, a persomn is provided with a place to live, as well as meals. |
| Room | phr | "Room In" - of a mother or her new baby, to stay together in the same room. |
| Room | phr | "Room Together"- of two persons: share a room together, as a dormitory or some other shared boarding arrangement. |
| Room | sfx | Combined with numbers to form adjectives which tells you how many rooms a house or flat has. |
| Roomed | vb | To occupy a room; lodge. |
| Roomer | n | A lodger occupying a room-mate. |
| Roomful | adj | As many or as much as a room will hold. 2. a number of persons present in a room considered collectively. |
| Roomily | adj | With ample space; spacious. |
| Roominess | n | Spaciousness. |
| Rooming | n | Occupying or sharing a room with one or others |
| Rooming-house | n | A house offering rooms for rent; a boarding house |
| Rooming-in | n | A form of a hospital stay where the mother and newborn baby stay in the same room together and the mother takes as much care of the baby as possible. |
| Roomless | adj | Beiing without a room or rooms. |
| Roomlike | adj | Resembling a room; spacious. |
| Room-mate | n | A person who shares a room with one or more others. |
| Roomsome | adj | Roomy or spacious. |
| Roomth | n | Ample or unconfined space. 2. an office, function or dignity. 2. in the roomth of, in the place of, instead |
| Roomthy | adj | Roomy, unconfined |
| Roomthiness | n | Extension in space. |
| Roomwise | adj | In terms of rooms. |
| Roomy | adj | Of ample dimension, capacious, large, amply spacious. 2. of female animals: of large proportions internally. |
| Roop | n | A cry,a call; hoarseness. |
| Roop | vb | To cry, to roar, to. sound hoarse |
| Roopy | adj | Hoarse, husky of voice. |
| Roost | n | The pole on which a bird nests at night; a perch. 2. a collection of birds nesting together. |
| Roost | vb | To settle down to sleep, as birds on a perch. 2. to perch. |
| Roost | phr | "Chickens Come Home to Roost" - (of a scheme, etc) recoil unfavorably upon the originator. |
| Rooster | n | A domestic cock or fowl. |
| Roostering | n | Out-there, conspicuous, bold and self-satisfied. |
| Root | n | The part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support.
2. (in linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed. 3. a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes. 4. the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation. 5. the place where something begins, where it springs into being 6. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) 7. (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes. 8. a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number. |
| Root | vb | To turn up with the snout, as swine - hence, to tear up by the root. 2. to extirpate, to rummage, to uncover, to root out. |
| Root | phr | "Be Rooted In" - originate in. |
| Root | phr | "Get to the Root of It" - the primary cause of trouble, malfunction, illness, scandal, rumor. |
| Root | phr | "Pull Up Roots" - move somwhere else from a place one has live in for some time. |
| Root | phr | "Put Down One's Roots" - become established or settle in a place. |
| Root | phr | "Rooted to the Ground" - unmoving (although capable of doing so). |
| Root | phr | "Root Out" - get rid of; destroy, annihilate, eliminate. |
| Root | phr | "Root Up" - pull from the ground with roots; uproot. |
| Root | phr | "Strike at the Roots" - to work at the destruction of something. |
| Root | phr | "Take root" - become permanently fixed or established. |
| Root beer | n | An effervescent soft drink made from the extract or roots. |
| Root climber | n | Any plant that climbs by means adventitious roots developed from stems. |
| Root crop | n | A crop grown for its edible value, as the turnip. |
| Root-eater | n | An animal which lives on roots. |
| Rooted | adj | Firmly established. |
| Rootedness | n | The state of being rooted. 2. firmly grounded in character and quality |
| Rooter | n | A plant which when divided, readily sends out new roots. 2. one who or that which roots, as a swine, or tears up as by rooting; a destroyer, eradicator. |
| Root-fast | adj | Firmly held, surely established and settled and held by the roots. |
| Root-fastness | n | State of being firmly held, surely established and settled by the roots. |
| Root-fallen | adj | Of a plant, that has become too large and heavy to support itself , and has fallen over so, uprooting the firm grounding of the plant. |
| Root-hair | n | A fine silky slender tube, the elongation of a cell of the outer layer near the tip of a root, which takes up food-solution from the soil. |
| Root-hardy | adj | Of trees and plants resistant to frosty climate zones. See Drought-hardy. |
| Roothold | n | The firm attachment of a plant to the soil through the growing and spreading of roots. |
| Rootiness | n | The quality of being rooty. |
| Rooting | n | A system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding. 2. the process of forming roots. 3. a method of creating a plant by getting pieces or an existing plant to form roots. |
| Root-leaf | n | A basal leaf, really from the stem |
| Rootless | adj | Of a plant or another thing, having no roots. |
| Rootlessly | adv | In a rootless manner; wanderingly. |
| Rootlessness | n | Having no roots. 2. not belonging to a particular place or society. |
| Rootlike | adj | Resembling a root or roots (of a plant) or some aspect. |
| Root-sheath | n | The tough membrane covering the root portion of a hair. |
| Root stalk | n | An underground rootlike stem; rhizome. |
| Root-stock | n | Original source; origin. 2. a rhizome. 3. a stem that grows entirely underground; a creeping stem. 4. a source from which the off-shoots have arisen; a primitive or first form. |
| Rootword | n | An affix in English. 2. the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the significant |
| Rootwork | n | In horticulture, the mature roots of trees and plants used to create ornamental features in a garden; see: rockwork. 2. in dentistry, treatment of the root of a tooth, especially of the root canal. 3. in southern US Regional US regional (chiefly southern)and chiefly in African-American use: a spell cast using a preparation of plant roots; (more usually) the practice of casting spells using roots. |
| Rooty | adj | Full of or consisting of roots. 2. resembling roots. |
| Rope | n | Thick strings, yarn, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. 2. individual length of such material. 3. cohesive strand of something. 4 a continuous stream 5. in ceramics: a long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand. 6. in computer science: data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character. |
| Rope | vb | To fasten with a rope. 2. catch with a lariat and lasso. |
| Rope | phr | "At End of One's Rope" - at the limit of one's patience. |
| Rope | phr | "Be On the Ropes" - in boxing forced against the ropes by the opponent attack. 2. on the verge of defeat, collapse or ruin. |
| Rope | phr | "Fought Back to the Rope" - fought to the bitter end. |
| Rope | phr | "Give One (some) Rope" - to allow full scope of latitude. |
| Rope | phr | "Give Someone Enough Rope To Hang Themselves" - allow someone sufficient freedom of action to bring about his or her demise. |
| Rope | phr | "Gone Into the Rope-walk" - for barristers taking up practice at the Old Bailey. The allusion is to murder trials there, and the convicted murderers getting the rope. |
| Rope | phr | "Know the Ropes" - to know what to do in any given circumstances. |
| Rope | phr | "Learn the Ropes" - to be taughht the elementary features. |
| Rope | phr | "On a Tight Rope" - fine balanced (figuratively). |
| Rope | phr | "Rope In" - persuade someone to take part in. 2. gather in supporters. |
| Rope | phr | "Rope of Sand" - delusive security. |
| Rope | phr | "Rope off" - separate or enclose an area with rope. |
| Rope | phr | "Rope Somebody In" - persuade somebody to join or become a member of a group. |
| Rope | phr | "Rope Up" - tie a rope around something, thus making it secure. |
| Rope | phr | "She Is On Her High Ropes" - in a distant or haughty temper. |
| Rope | phr | "Show Somebody the Ropes" - teach a beginner how to do something. |
| Rope | phr | "The Rope" - death by hanging; the noose. |
| Rope bridge | n | A Bridge made of rope. |
| Rope-feed | n | Applied to circular saw benches (noow superseded) on which the stuff is pulled through mechanically by a rope. |
| Rope ladder | n | Two long ropes connected by short crosspieces, used as a ladder. |
| Ropeless | adj | Not Having or lacking a rope or ropes. |
| Ropelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of rope. |
| Ropeman | n | Somene who uses a rope, as a cattleman. |
| Ropemanship | n | Skill in rope-walking or climbing using ropes. |
| Roper | n | A cowboy; an expert with a lasso. 2. a roper maker. 3. a crafty person. |
| Rope's end | n | Short piece of rope used to punish by flogging, (esp. sailors) with. |
| Rope-walk | n | AA long covered building where ropes are manufactured. |
| Rope-walker | n | An entertainer performing on a tight-rope; a tight-rope walker. |
| Rope walking | n | Tight-rope walking. |
| Ropeway | n | A railway operated with cables. 2. an overhead system of transportation with small buckets hanging from and running along a suspended cable. |
| Ropework | n | The making, repairing, knotting, splicing and storing of rope. 2. the making of devices rope. |
| Ropeyard | n | A business making ropes; a rope-monger. |
| Rope yarn | n | Material obtained by unpicking rope strands , or used for making them. 2. a piece of rope yarn. 3. a bagatelle. |
| Ropily | adv | Resembling a rope or ropes. 2. forming sticky glutinous string or threads, as some liquids do. |
| Ropiness | n | Having the quality of rope. 2. stinginess, stickiness, viscosity, as of liquors. |
| Ropish | adj | Somewaht ropy. |
| Roping | n | Set or arrangement of ropes. |
| Ropy | adj | Like a rope. 2. of poor quality wine or bread. |
| Rose | n | Something having a dusty purplish pink color. 2. a dusty pink color. 3. any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses . |
| Rose | phr | "A Rose By Any Other Name (Would Smell as Sweet)" - a name title doesn't matter in itself. |
| Rose | phr | "A Rose is a Rose Is a Rose" - a rose is what it it is, and neither is, nor means, more than what it is. |
| Rose | phr | "Be a Bed of Roses" - an easy situation. |
| Rose | phr | "Be no Bed of Roses" - be difficult or uncomfortable. |
| Rose | phr | "Be On a Path Strewn with Roses" -to lead a very pleasant life. |
| Rose | phr | "Come Up smelling Roses" - not have a stain on one's character. |
| Rose | phr | "Everything Coming Up Roses" - everything is going well. |
| Rose | phr | "No Rose Without a Thorn" - there is always something to detract from happiness or pleasure. |
| Rose | phr | "Not Roses all the Way" - full of difficulty or complication. 2. not always a pleasant and easy life, experience, task. |
| Rose | phr | "Rose Between Two Thorns" - something beautiful in the midst of ugliness. |
| Rose | phr | "Roses all the Way" - free from difficulty or complication. |
| Rose | phr | "Under the Rose" - in confidence, under a pledge of secrecy. |
| Rose Alder | n | Also called Corkwood wood, and Rose-leaf Marara. |
| Rose-apple | n | Tropical tree of the genus Syzygium cultivated fot its foliage and fragrant fruit. |
| Rose Ash | n | Flinders Lavicarpa, very similar to yellow-wood Ash. |
| Rose bit | n | A brace bit for countersinking holes in wood or soft metals. |
| Rose-burner | n | A circular burner with many jets used in gas-stoves. |
| Rose-chafer | n | A beautiful green or copper-colored beetle found frequenting roses. |
| Rose-cold | n | A variety of hay fever, assumed to cause rose pollen or fever. |
| Rose comb | n | The flat fleshy red comb of a fowl. |
| Rose drop | n | A medicinal sweet or lolly with a rose-flavored taste. |
| Rose gold | n | An alloy of gold mixed with copper giving pinkish hue. |
| Rose head | n | A rose with a many-sided head, somewhat resembling the petals of a rose. |
| Rose hip | n | A ruit of the rose plant. |
| Rose-hued | adj | Rose colored. |
| Rose leaf | n | A petal of a rose. 2. a leaf of a rose. |
| Roselike | adj | Resembling a rose plant or flower in some aspect of one. |
| Rose madder | n | A pale pink pigment. |
| Rose mallow | n | The hibiscus, also called mallow rose. 2. the hollyhock. |
| Rosen | vb | Consisting of roses; rosy. |
| Rose Nails | n | Wrought nails with rose-shaped projecting heads. |
| Rose red | n | The color rose red. |
| Rose red | adj | Red, like a rose, rose-colored. |
| Roseroot | n | A yellow-flowered plant, Rhodolia roses, with roots smelling like roses when dried. |
| Rose Sunday | n | The fourth Sunday of Lent, exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday. |
| Rose tree | n | A rose plant, esp. a standard rose. |
| Rose water | n | Perfume made from roses. |
| Rose windor | n | A circular window with a series of mullions diverging from the centre, a special feature of Gothic cathedrals. |
| Rose wine | n | A table wine, pinkish in color and made from red grapes. |
| Rosewood | n | Any of several fragrant close-grained dark wood from South america and used in making furniture. 2. a tree yielding rosewood. |
| Rose worm | n | A larva of several species of lepidopterus insects which feed on leaves, buds, blossoms of the rose. |
| Rosewort | n | Roseroot. 2. orpine; another name for the Rosaceae |
| Rosily | adv | In a rosy manner. |
| Rosiness | n | The quality of being rosy, blooming red, blushing. 2. charming, bright, favorable. |
| Rostle | vb | To roast. 2. to burn slightly or parch |
| Rosy | adj | Crimson in colour like the rose; rose-pink. 2. blooming red, blushing. 2. charming, bright, favorable (of chances); optimistic; auguring success. |
| Rot | n | The process of decomposition, decay, putrefaction, molding. |
| Rot | vb | To decay, putrefy, decomposed through death or disease |
| Rot | phr | "Rot Away" - decay to a point where it breaks up or disintegrates. completely. |
| Rot | phr | "Rot off" - fall off, separates (from the main body) because of decay. |
| Rotgut | n | Cheap harmful alcoholic liquor. |
| Rother | n | The ox, an ox, oxen |
| Rotheren | n | Of or belonging to cattle or oxen. |
| Rotherish | adj | Resembling cattle or oxen |
| Rotten | adj | Of animal matter: in a state of decomposition or putrefaction |
| Rotten-apple | n | A bad, esp. morally corrupt person in a group, etc. |
| Rotten-borough | n | A borough able to elect an MP though having very few voters. |
| Rotten-hearted | adj | of a thoroughly bad or corrupt nature or character. |
| Rottenly | adv | In a rotting, decaying, decomposing manner. |
| Rottenness | n | The state or condition of decomposition, decay, putrefaction; deterioration. |
| Rotten-stone | n | A decomposed siliceous limestone used as a powder or substance to polish metals. |
| Rotter | n | A person who is worthless ad thoroughly objectionable on moral and ethic grounds; a scoundrel, a cheater, trickster |
| Rough | adj | Not smooth or level; having bumps, projections, etc.; uneven: a rough surface. 2. not easily traveled over or through because rocky, overgrown, wild, etc.: rough country. 3. shaggy or bristly: an animal with a rough coat.
4. characterized by violent action, motion, agitation, disturbance, or irregularity; 5. stormy; tempestuous: rough weather; boisterous or disorderly. 5. coarse in manner, tastes, etc.; lacking refinement or culture: rough men, rough language. 6. regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls: a rough crowd, neighborhood, etc. 7. lacking refinements, comforts, and conveniences: not refined, polished, or prepared; natural, crude, etc.: a rough diamond. 8. not finished, elaborated, perfected, etc.: a rough sketch not worked out in detail; without claim to be exact or complete; approximate: a rough estimate. 9. requiring muscular energy rather than skill or intelligence: rough labor. 9. severe, difficult, or disagreeable: a rough time. |
| Rough | adv | In a rough manner |
| Rough | phr | "A Bit of Rough" - a (usually male) sexual partner whose toughness or lack of sophistication is the source of attraction. |
| Rough | phr | "Be Rough on Somebody" - treat somebody harshly, or be unfortunate for somebody. |
| Rough | phr | "Feel Rough Edge of One's Tongue" - be talked to severely or in harsh words. |
| Rough | phr | "Get the Rough End of a Stick" - receive or endure harsh treatment. |
| Rough | phr | "Have a Rough Ride" - submit somebody to hard or harsh treatment. |
| Rough | phr | "Live Rough" - live without modern comforts or conveniences. |
| Rough | phr | "Rough and Ready" -serviceable if not elegant or finished. 2. of a person, brusque but reliable. |
| Rough | phr | "Rough and Tumble" - a fight with a number of people taking part in, not with any serious attempt to injure. 2. the rough and competitive nature of life. |
| Rough | phr | "Rough in" - enter roughly or in outline on a drawing. |
| Rough | phr | "Rough It" - to put up with hardship or discomfort. |
| Rough | phr | "Rough Out" - to sketch out, or draw hastily or crudely. 2. plan in broad outline, but not in detail. |
| Rough | phr | "Rough Up" - treat a person with violence; attack violently. 2. push somebody about, tear and dirty his clothes, usually with the intention to frighten him, but not harm him. |
| Rough | phr | "Sleep Rough" - sleep outdoors or not in a proper bed. |
| Rough | phr | "Take the Rough with the Smooth" - accept the disadvantages with the advantages. |
| Rough-and-ready | adj | Rough or crude but effective, not elaborate or over particular. |
| Rough-and-tumble | n | A haphazard fight; a scuffle. |
| Rough-and-tumble | adj | Irregular, scrambling, disorderly. |
| Rough-breathing | n | In linguistics, the absent of an aspirate. |
| Rough-deal | n | Hard or Unfair treatment. |
| Rough-draft | n | First drawing or delineation; first copy of a document, speech. |
| Rough-drawn | adj | Drawn, draft or designed hastily or roughly |
| Rough-dry | v | To dry clothes without smoothing or ironing. |
| Roughen | vb | To make, or become, rough. |
| Rough-footed | adj | Having feathered feet |
| Rough-grind | vb | To grind roughly or so as to leave an unsmoothed skin or uneven surface |
| Rough-handle | vb | Treat or handle roughly. |
| Rough-hew | vb | To cut or saw timber roughly; to shape out roughly. 2. to give crude form to. |
| Rough-hewer | n | One who is a rough hewer of timber. 2. one who does things roughly, lacking in refinement, sophistication, plain, blunt, roughish, uncultivated |
| Rough-hewn | adj | Roughly hewn or shaped out; wrought roughly. 2. of persons, lacking in refinement, sophistication, plain, blunt, roughish, uncultivated. 3. rough-natured, cruel, heartless |
| Rough-house | n | A disturbance or row; boisterous play. |
| Rough-house | vb | Handle things and persons roughly. 2. make a disturbance; act violently. |
| Rough-houseish | adj | In a rather rough-house way. |
| Roughing | vbn | The act of making rough. 2. the fact of undergoing hardship, or living under hard conditions |
| Roughish | adj | On the rough side. |
| Roughly | adv | In a rough manner. 2. approximately (of number). |
| Roughly-speaking | adv | In an approximate sense. |
| Rough neck | n | A rough or rowdy person. 2. a worker on a oil rig. |
| Rough-ride | n | A difficult time or experience. |
| Rough-rider | n | One skilled in breaking-in wild and untamed or wild horses. 2. a rider who rides wild horses or bulls at a rodeo. |
| Roughshod | adj | Of horses, having shoes roughly fitted. |
| Roughshod | vb | Shod with shoes armed wirh spikes. |
| Roughshod | phr | "Ride Rough-shod Over" - treat inconsiderately, high-handed, or arrogantly. 2.: to domineer, terrorize, tyrannize or dictate to |
| Rough-sleeper | n | People sleeping, or bedded down, in the open air (such as on the streets, or in doorways, parks or bus shelters); people in buildings or other places not designed for habitation (such as barns, sheds, car parks, cars, derelict boats. |
| Rough-spun | adj | Of a garment woven from roughly spun yarn. 2. unpolished, rough and ready, uncultured, unsophisticated. |
| Rough-tongue | n | A habit of speaking rudely; or rudeness in speaking. |
| Roughwork | n | Preliminary or provisional work. 2. colloquial: violence. 3. task requiring the use of force. |
| Roughy | adj | (Slang) In Australia, an outsider in a sporting contest, election, any kind of ballot for a position. |
| Roun | n | A dark, mysterious or esoteric saying; a secret or mystery. 2. a runic letter. 3. that which is written; writing, a book, an epistle. 4. Counsel, consultation, esp. of a private or secret nature; a whisper; secret counsel. 5, a speech or discourse. 6. a song; a cry or a call. 7. a form of speech, a language as in the English roun. |
| Rouner | n | A whisperer, a tale-bearer |
| Rouning | n | Whispering, murmurming, in secret consultation |
| Rouningly | adv | In a whisper. |
| Rout | vb | To snore (from OE: hrutan). |
| Rove | adj | Scabby, leprous, scaly, crusty, rind-hard. |
| Row | n | A continuous chronological succession without an interruption, as three years in a row. 2. an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line. 3. a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side. 4. a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally). |
| Row | n | The act of rowing as a sport |
| Row | vb | Propel with oars. |
| Row | adj | Roughly, angrily, fiercely (variant of rough.) |
| Row | phr | "Hard Row to Hoe" - a difficult task. |
| Row | phr | "In a Row" - consecutively. |
| Row (1) | phr | "Row Over" - complete the course of a boat race with little effortowing to the absence or inferiority of the competitors. |
| Row boat | n | A rowing boat: a small boat propelled by oars. |
| Row house | n | A terrace house. |
| Rowing boat | n | A row boat. |
| Rowlock | n | A deviceon a boat's gunwale , esp. a pair of thole-pins, serving as a fulcrum for an oar and keeping it in place. |
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