11-letter words starting with ro
- role strain — the stress or strain experienced by an individual when incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single social role.
- roll around — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- roll center — The roll center is the center about which a vehicle body rolls.
- roll on sth — If you say roll on something, you mean that you would like it to come soon, because you are looking forward to it.
- roll-around — equipped with wheels or casters so as to be easily movable from one location to another: a roll-around kitchen counter.
- roll-necked — (of a garment) having a high neck that may be rolled over
- rolled gold — filled gold.
- rolled oats — oat grains that have been flattened under rollers
- roller gate — (on certain dams) a cylindrical gate that rises and falls by rotating against inclined racks.
- roller mill — any mill that pulverizes, flattens, or otherwise changes material, as grain, by passing it between rolls.
- roller rink — a rink for roller-skating.
- rollerblade — (often lowercase) to skate on in-line skates.
- rollerdrome — a venue for roller-skating to music
- rollerskate — a form of skate with four wheels or rollers instead of a runner, for use on a sidewalk or other surface offering traction.
- rollicksome — rollicking; frolicsome.
- rolling pin — a cylinder of wood or other material, usually with a short handle at each end, for rolling out dough.
- rolls-royce — a make of very high-quality, luxurious, and prestigious British car. The Rolls-Royce company is no longer British-owned
- roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
- roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
- roman curia — the judicial and executive organizations of the papal see comprising the government of the Catholic Church.
- roman peace — the establishment and maintenance of peace by armed force.
- roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
- roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
- roman snail — a large edible European snail, Helix pomatia, the usual escargot of menus, erroneously thought to have been introduced to northern Europe by the Romans
- romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
- romanticist — an adherent of romanticism in literature or art (contrasted with classicist).
- romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- romper room — a playroom for very young children.
- rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
- rood screen — a screen, often of elaborate design and properly surmounted by a rood, separating the nave from the choir or chancel of a church.
- roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
- rooibos tea — tea prepared from any of several species of Borbonia or Aspalanthus, believed to have tonic properties
- room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
- room mother — a female volunteer, often the mother of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
- roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
- roostertail — a full spray or cloud, as of water in the wake of a speeding boat or dust from a speeding car
- root around — rummage
- root bridge — (communications, hardware, networking) A bridge which continuously transmits network topology information to other bridges, using the spanning tree protocol, in order to notify all other bridges on the network when topology changes are required. This means that a network is able to reconfigure itself whenever a network link (e.g. another bridge) fails, so an alternative path can be found. The presence of a root bridge also prevents loops from forming in the network. The root bridge is where the paths that frames take through the network they are assigned. It should be located centrally on the network to provide the shortest path to other links on the network. Unlike other bridges, the root bridge always forwards frames out over all of its ports. Every network should only have one root bridge. It should have the lowest bridge ID number.
- root cellar — a cellar, partially or wholly underground and usually covered with dirt, where root crops and other vegetables are stored.
- root doctor — herb doctor.
- root ginger — the rhizome of the ginger plant.
- root nodule — a swelling on the root of a leguminous plant, such as the pea or clover, that contains bacteria of the genus Rhizobium, capable of nitrogen fixation
- roots music — reggae, esp when regarded as authentic and uncommercialized
- rope dancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- rope ladder — ladder made primarily of rope
- rope socket — either of a pair of matching fittings fastened to the ends of lengths of wire rope to join them together.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- rope-a-dope — a method of tiring out a boxing opponent by pretending to be trapped on the ropes while the opponent expends energy on punches that are blocked