8-letter words starting with ro
- rosemont — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- roseroot — any of certain perennial mountain plants, as Sedum rosea, Sedum rhodiola, or Rhodiola rosea, so called because the roots smell like roses.
- roseslug — any of various types of pest that feed on roses
- rosewall — Ken(neth R.) born 1934, Australian tennis player.
- rosewood — any of various reddish cabinet woods, sometimes with a roselike odor, yielded by certain tropical trees, especially belonging to the genus Dalbergia, of the legume family.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- rosiness — pink or pinkish-red; roseate.
- rosinous — rosiny
- roskilde — a city on the island of Zealand, in E Denmark: a suburb of Copenhagen.
- ross sea — an arm of the Antarctic Ocean, S of New Zealand, extending into Antarctica.
- rossetti — Christina Georgina, 1830–94, English poet.
- rostrate — furnished with a rostrum.
- rosulate — forming a rosette or rosettes.
- roswitha — Hrotsvitha.
- rot away — decay
- rota bed — a bed in an old people's home, reserved for the regular respite care of dependent old people
- rotarian — a member of a Rotary Club.
- rotating — to cause to turn around an axis or center point; revolve.
- rotation — the act of rotating; a turning around as on an axis.
- rotative — rotating or pertaining to rotation.
- rotatory — pertaining to or of the nature of rotation: rotatory motion.
- rotenone — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous heterocyclic compound, C 2 3 H 2 2 O 6 , obtained from derris root: used chiefly as the active ingredient of certain insecticides and in medicine in the treatment of chiggers and scabies.
- rotflmao — (chat) Rolling on the floor laughing my ass (arse) off. An extreme form of ROTFL.
- rotgrass — a type of grass that is thought to cause sheeprot
- roth ira — A Roth IRA is a kind of retirement account where contributions are made with taxed money, and distributions are tax-free.
- rothesay — a town in the Strathclyde region, on Bute island, in SW Scotland: resort; ruins of 11th-century castle.
- rotifera — the phylum or class comprising the rotifers.
- rotiform — shaped like a wheel.
- rototill — to break up (soil) with a rototiller.
- rotovate — to break up (the surface of the earth, or an area of ground) using a Rotavator
- rotproof — resistant to rotting.
- roturier — a person of low rank; plebeian.
- rough it — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- rough on — severe towards
- rough up — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- roughage — rough or coarse material.
- roughest — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- roughish — rather rough: a roughish sea.
- roughleg — any of several kinds of large hawk with feathered legs
- rouleaux — a roll or strip of something, as trimming on a hat brim.
- roulette — a game of chance played at a table marked off with numbers from 1 to 36, one or two zeros, and several other sections affording the players a variety of betting opportunities, and having in the center a revolving, dishlike device (roulette wheel) into which a small ball is spun to come to rest finally in one of the 37 or 38 compartments, indicating the winning number and its characteristics, as odd or even, red or black, and between 1 and 18 or 19 and 36.
- roumania — Romania.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- round in — to haul in on (a line)
- round on — If someone rounds on you, they criticize you fiercely and attack you with aggressive words.
- round to — to turn the bow of a vessel into the wind
- round up — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- rounders — a person or thing that rounds something.
- rounding — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- roundish — somewhat round: a roundish man; roundish furniture.