7-letter words starting with ri
- rigours — strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
- rigsdag — the former parliament of Denmark, consisting of an upper house and a lower house: replaced in 1953 by the unicameral Folketing.
- rikisha — jinrikisha.
- rikishi — a sumo wrestler
- riksdag — the parliament of Sweden, consisting of an upper house and a lower house.
- riksmal — Bokmål.
- rilievi — relief2 (defs 2, 3).
- rilievo — relief2 (defs 2, 3).
- rim man — copyreader (def 2).
- rimbaud — (Jean Nicolas) Arthur [zhahn nee-kaw-lah ar-tyr] /ʒɑ̃ ni kɔˈlɑ arˈtür/ (Show IPA), 1854–91, French poet.
- rimfire — (of a cartridge) having the primer in a rim encircling the base. Compare center-fire (def 1).
- rimland — the area situated on the outer edges of a region
- rimless — glasses: without full frames
- rimming — the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- rimrock — rock forming the natural boundary of a plateau or other rise.
- rimshot — the deliberate simultaneous striking of the head and the rim of a drum
- rinceau — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- ring in — to give forth a clear resonant sound, as a bell when struck: The doorbell rang twice.
- ring up — to give forth a clear resonant sound, as a bell when struck: The doorbell rang twice.
- ringbit — (in horse racing) a piece of equipment worn by a horse which has a ring at the end that is passed through the horse's mouth
- ringent — gaping.
- ringgit — a paper money, cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of Malaysia, equal to 100 sen.
- ringing — a ringing sound, as of a bell or bells: the ring of sleigh bells.
- ringlet — a curled lock of hair.
- ringman — the ring finger
- ringtaw — a game of marbles in which players attempt to knock other players' marbles out of a ring
- rinsin' — excellent; wonderful
- rinsing — an act or instance of rinsing.
- rioting — a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- riotise — riotous behaviour and excess
- riotous — (of an act) characterized by or of the nature of rioting or a disturbance of the peace.
- rip off — a rent made by ripping; tear.
- rip-off — a rent made by ripping; tear.
- rip-rap — broken stones loosely deposited in water or on a soft bottom to provide a foundation and protect a riverbed or river banks from scour: used for revetments, embankments, breakwaters, etc
- rip-saw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- ripcord — a cord on a parachute that, when pulled, opens the parachute for descent.
- ripieni — tutti (defs 3, 4).
- ripieno — tutti (defs 3, 4).
- riposte — a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke: a brilliant riposte to an insult.
- rippier — a fish seller
- ripping — Chiefly British Informal. excellent; splendid; fine.
- rippler — a person who ripples flax, hemp, etc.
- ripples — the repercussions of an event or situation experienced far beyond its immediate location
- ripplet — a small ripple.
- ripstop — a type of woven fabric that is resistant against tears and rips
- riptide — a tide that opposes another or other tides, causing a violent disturbance in the sea.
- risc os — (operating system) (Reduced Instruction Set Computer Operating System) The operating system originally developed by Acorn Computers for their Archimedes family of personal computers. RISC OS replaced the Arthur operating system used on the first Archimedeses. It is written in ARM assembly code and distributed on ROM so it takes up no disk space and takes no time to load. It supports cooperative multitasking with memory management and includes a graphical user interface or "WIMP". It is written in a highly modular style and makes extensive use of vectors so it is easy to modify and extend by loading new modules in RAM. Many system calls (called "SWIs" - software interrupts) are available to application programmers and some of these are available as user comands via a built-in command-line interpreter. RISC OS also supported outline fonts when only bitmap fonts were available on most other platforms. Following the virtual demise of Acorn, development of RISC OS 4 was taken over by RISCOS Ltd on 1999-03-05 and released on 1999-07-01.
- rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- rise up — move upwards
- risible — causing or capable of causing laughter; laughable; ludicrous.