10-letter words starting with ro
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock-faced — (of a person) having a stiff, expressionless face.
- rock-hound — a geologist.
- rock-solid — Something that is rock-solid is extremely hard.
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- rocker arm — a rocking or oscillating arm or lever rotating with a moving shaft or pivoted on a stationary shaft.
- rocker cam — a cam with a rocking or reciprocating motion.
- rocket gun — any weapon that uses a rocket as a projectile, as a rocket launcher or bazooka.
- rockhopper — a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus, of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- rocky hill — a town in central Connecticut.
- rodentlike — belonging or pertaining to the gnawing or nibbling mammals of the order Rodentia, including the mice, squirrels, beavers, etc.
- rodfishing — angling or fishing using a fishing rod
- roentgeno- — indicating X-rays
- roger, sir — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
- rogue male — a conventionally masculine man who is a cold-hearted loner
- rogue wave — a random, enormous ocean wave that sometimes travels at an angle to prevailing seas.
- roisterers — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- roistering — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- roisterous — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- role model — a person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially by younger people.
- rolf kraki — a possibly historical Danish king of the 9th century, the subject of an Old Icelandic saga and in accounts by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus: involved in great battles with his stepfather, Adils of Sweden.
- roll cloud — arcus.
- roll joint — (in sheet-metal work) a joint formed by rolling together and flattening the edges of adjoining sheets.
- roll round — to recur, as in a cycle
- rollerball — ballpoint pen
- rollicking — carefree and joyous: They had a rollicking good time.
- rollocking — a very severe telling-off; dressing-down
- rom. cath. — Roman Catholic
- roma gypsy — a member of a people scattered throughout Europe and North America, who maintain a nomadic way of life in industrialized societies
- roman arch — a semicircular arch.
- roman bath — public spa
- roman mile — a unit of length used by the ancient Romans, equivalent to about 1620 yards (1480 meters).
- roman nose — a nose having a prominent upper part or bridge.
- roman pace — an ancient Roman unit of measurement, equal to 5 Roman feet or about 58 U.S. inches (147 cm).
- roman ride — a method of horseback riding in which a person stands astride a pair of horses.
- romancical — relating to or dealing with romance
- romanesque — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction with narrow openings, features such as the round arch, the groin vault, and the barrel vault, and the introduction or development of the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, and central and western towers for churches.
- romany rye — a man who is not a Gypsy but associates with the Gypsies, speaks their language, etc.
- romeoville — a town in NE Illinois.
- rondoletto — a name given to the third movement of a symphony
- rood spire — a spire over the crossing of a church.
- roodepoort — an industrial city in NE South Africa, in the Witwatersrand. Pop: 172 601 (2001)
- roof guard — any device for preventing snow from sliding off a sloping roof.
- roof light — a window built into a roof to admit light and ventilation
- roof panel — The roof panel is the section of material, usually sheet metal, that forms the roof of a vehicle.
- roof space — the attic space inside a roof
- room clerk — a clerk at a hotel who assigns rooms to guests, keeps the guest register, sorts the incoming mail, etc.
- room rates — the rates charged daily for hotel rooms
- rooming-in — an arrangement in some hospitals that enables postpartum mothers to keep their babies with them in their rooms rather than in a separate nursery.