4-letter words starting with r
- rota — Nino [nee-naw] /ˈni nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–1979, Italian composer.
- rotc — a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- rote — the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
- roth — Phillip, born 1933, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- roti — roast.
- rotl — a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- roto — rotogravure.
- roue — a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- roup — hoarseness or huskiness.
- rous — (Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- rout — a bellow.
- roux — a cooked mixture of butter or other fat and flour used to thicken sauces, soups, etc.
- rove — to wander about without definite destination; move hither and thither at random, especially over a wide area.
- rowe — Nicholas, 1674–1718, British poet and dramatist, poet laureate 1715–18.
- rrna — ribosomal RNA
- rrsp — Registered Retirement Savings Plan
- rs6k — RISC System/6000
- rscs — (communications) Remote Spooling Communication Subsystem.
- rsgb — Radio Society of Great Britain (amateur radio operators)
- rsno — Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- rsnz — Royal Society of New Zealand
- rspb — Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- rsvp — to reply to an invitation: Don't forget to RSVP before Thursday.
- rtbm — (Unix) Read The Bloody Manual.
- rte. — Rte. is used in front of a number in the names of main roads between major cities. Rte. is a written abbreviation for route.
- rtee — Real Time Engineering Environment: a set of CASE tools produced by Westmount Technology B.V.
- rtfb — (jargon) (By analogy with RTFM) Read The Fucking Binary. Used when neither documentation nor source for the problem at hand exists, and the only thing to do is use some debugger or monitor and directly analyse the assembler or even the machine code. "RTFB" is the least pejorative of the RTF? forms, the anger is directed at the absence of both source *and* adequate documentation rather than at the person asking a question.
- rtfm — (jargon) /R T F M/ Read The Fucking Manual (always abbreviated, sometimes bowdlerised to "Fine" or "Friendly") An (unhelpful) guru's traditional response when someone asks a question in a newsgroup or mailing list which he could have easily answered for himself had he bothered to RTFM. The term may also be used to indicate that you couldn't find the answer in the manual. E.g. "How do I interface Unix to my toaster? And yes, I did RTFM but the FM didn't help and I can't RTFS." Other derived forms include RTFAQ, RTFB, RTM, RYFM and, more recently, STFW. Compare: UTSL.
- rtfo — renewable transport fuels obligation: an obligation placed on fuel suppliers to ensure that a certain percentage of their aggregate sales is made up of biofuels
- rtfs — (jargon) 1. Read The Fucking Source. Variant form of RTFM, used when the problem at hand is not necessarily obvious and not answerable from the manuals - or the manuals are not yet written and maybe never will be. For even trickier situations, see RTFB. Unlike RTFM, the anger inherent in RTFS is not usually directed at the person asking the question, but rather at the people who failed to provide adequate documentation. 2. Read The Fucking Standard; this oath can only be used when the problem area (e.g. a language or operating system interface) has actually been codified in a ratified standards document. The existence of these standards documents (and the technically inappropriate but politically mandated compromises that they inevitably contain, and the impenetrable legalese in which they are invariably written, and the unbelievably tedious bureaucratic process by which they are produced) can be unnerving to hackers, who are used to a certain amount of ambiguity in the specifications of the systems they use. (Hackers feel that such ambiguities are acceptable as long as the Right Thing to do is obvious to any thinking observer; sadly, this casual attitude toward specifications becomes unworkable when a system becomes popular in the Real World.) Since a hacker is likely to feel that a standards document is both unnecessary and technically deficient, the deprecation inherent in this term may be directed as much against the standard as against the person who ought to read it.
- rtgs — An RTGS is a type of electronic transfer where the money is immediately taken from the payer and the payee has access to it right away.
- rtmp — Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
- rtos — Real-Time Operating System
- rtsa — real-time structured analysis
- rtsp — Real Time Streaming Protocol
- rube — Arthur Joseph, 1908–90, U.S. jurist, statesman, and diplomat: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–65; ambassador to the U.N. 1965–68.
- rubi — furigana
- ruby — a red variety of corundum, used as a gem.
- ruck — a fold or wrinkle; crease.
- rudd — a European, freshwater fish, Scardinius erythrophthalmus, of the carp family.
- rude — discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
- rudy — a male given name, form of Rudolf.
- rued — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- ruer — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- rues — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- ruff — a small European freshwater fish, Acerina cernua, of the perch family.
- rufl — Rhodes University Functional Language. A Miranda-like functional language from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa with a SPARC code generator.
- ruga — Usually, rugae. Biology, Anatomy. a wrinkle, fold, or ridge.
- ruhr — a river in W Germany, flowing NW and W into the Rhine. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.