5-letter words starting with r
- rolfe — John, 1585–1622, English colonist in Virginia (husband of Pocahontas).
- rolla — a city in S central Missouri.
- rollo — Also called Rolf, Roy, Hrolf, Rolf the Ganger. a.d. c860–931? Norse chieftain: 1st duke of Normandy 911?.
- roman — a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- romeo — the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- romus — a son of either Aeneas or Ascanius: sometimes believed to be the founder of Rome.
- ronan — a king who killed his son, Mael Fothartaigh, after his wife had falsely accused the boy of attempting to seduce her, and who was himself killed by the children of Mael Fothartaigh.
- ronco — any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- ronde — a typeface imitative of upright, somewhat angular, handwriting.
- rondo — a work or movement, often the last movement of a sonata, having one principal subject that is stated at least three times in the same key and to which return is made after the introduction of each subordinate theme.
- roneo — to duplicate (a document) from a stencil
- ronin — a samurai who no longer serves a daimyo, or feudal lord.
- ronne — a seaport on W Bornholm island, Denmark, in the S Baltic Sea: stone quarries.
- roofs — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- roofy — having or abounding in roofs
- rooky — full of or frequented by rooks.
- rooms — lodgings or quarters, as in a house or building
- roomy — affording ample room; spacious; large.
- roopy — hoarse
- roosa — a type of grass
- roose — to flatter or praise
- roost — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- rooti — bread.
- roots — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- rooty — abounding in or consisting of roots.
- roper — decoy, esp one lures people into a gambling house
- ropey — If you say that something is ropey, you mean that its quality is poor or unsatisfactory.
- roque — a form of croquet played on a clay or hard-surface court surrounded by a low wall off which the balls may be played.
- rorem — Ned, born 1923, U.S. composer and author.
- rosas — Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- roset — resin; rosin.
- roshi — the religious leader of a group of Zen Buddhists.
- rosie — a female given name, form of Rose.
- rosin — Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- rospa — Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
- rosse — William Parsons, Third Earl of, William Parsons.
- rösti — a Swiss dish consisting of grated potato formed into a cake, sometimes with onion, fried, and topped with cheese
- rosys — a female given name, form of Rose.
- rot13 — /rot ther'teen/ [Usenet: from "rotate alphabet 13 places"], v. The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each English letter with the one 13 places forward or back along the alphabet, so that "The butler did it!" becomes "Gur ohgyre qvq vg!" Most Usenet news reading and posting programs include a rot13 feature. It is used to enclose the text in a sealed wrapper that the reader must choose to open - e.g. for posting things that might offend some readers, or spoilers. A major advantage of rot13 over rot(N) for other N is that it is self-inverse, so the same code can be used for encoding and decoding.
- rotal — relating to wheels or rotation
- rotch — a little auk
- roter — routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure: the rote of daily living.
- rotfl — (chat) (Or "ROFL") Rolling on the floor laughing (or rolls...). Used in chat, MUD, news. See also ROTFLMAO, ROTFLOL.
- roton — a quantum of vortex motion
- rotor — Electricity. a rotating member of a machine. Compare stator (def 1).
- rotos — rotogravure.
- rotte — rote2 .
- rouen — a department in NW France. 2449 sq. mi. (6340 sq. km). Capital: Rouen.
- roues — a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- rouge — any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.