Words starting with ru
2 letter words starting with ru
- ru — (networking) The country code for the Russian Federation.
3 letter words starting with ru
- rub — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- ruc — (the former) Royal Ulster Constabulary, now superseded by the Police Service of Northern Ireland
- rud — the colour red, or redness
- rue — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- rug — a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design. Compare carpet.
4 letter words starting with ru
- rube — Arthur Joseph, 1908–90, U.S. jurist, statesman, and diplomat: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–65; ambassador to the U.N. 1965–68.
- rubi — furigana
- ruby — a red variety of corundum, used as a gem.
- ruck — a fold or wrinkle; crease.
- rudd — a European, freshwater fish, Scardinius erythrophthalmus, of the carp family.
5 letter words starting with ru
- ruana — a poncholike outer garment of heavy wool, worn especially in the mountains of Colombia.
- rubai — a verse form of Persian origin consisting of four-line stanzas
- rubby — rubbing alcohol, esp when mixed with cheap wine for drinking
- ruben — Douay Bible. Reuben (defs 1, 2).
- ruble — a silver or copper-alloy coin and monetary unit of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, equal to 100 kopecks.
6 letter words starting with ru
- ru-486 — mifepristone.
- ruanda — a member of a people living in Rwanda and the E Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- rubato — having certain notes arbitrarily lengthened while others are correspondingly shortened, or vice versa.
- rubbed — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rubber — (in certain card games, as bridge and whist)
7 letter words starting with ru
8 letter words starting with ru
- rub-down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rubaiyat — (in Persian poetry) a verse form consisting of four-line stanzas
- rubbaboo — a soup made from pemmican boiled in water, sometimes thickened with flour
- rubbishy — full of rubbish: a rubbishy cellar.
- rubboard — a board for scrubbing clothes on
9 letter words starting with ru
- rub-a-dub — the sound of a drum when beaten.
- rubbering — Also called India rubber, natural rubber, gum, gum elastic, caoutchouc. a highly elastic solid substance, light cream or dark amber in color, polymerized by the drying and coagulation of the latex or milky juice of rubber trees and plants, especially Hevea and Ficus species.
- rubberize — to coat or impregnate with rubber or some preparation of it.
- rubbishes — worthless, unwanted material that is rejected or thrown out; debris; litter; trash.
- rubellite — a deep-red variety of tourmaline, used as a gem.
10 letter words starting with ru
- rubberized — coated or impregnated with rubber
- rubberlike — resembling rubber
- rubberneck — to look about or stare with great curiosity, as by craning the neck or turning the head.
- rubberwear — clothing made of rubber
- rubblework — masonry built of rubble or roughly dressed stones.
11 letter words starting with ru
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
- rudesheimer — any of the Rheingau wines from the vineyards near Rüdesheim, a town on the Rhine River in W Germany.
- rudimentary — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
12 letter words starting with ru
- rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
- rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
- rubber-tyred — having a tyre or tyres made of rubber
- rubbernecker — a person who rubbernecks
- ruminatingly — in a ruminating manner
13 letter words starting with ru
- ruanda-urundi — a former territory in central Africa, E of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: formerly part of German East Africa; administered by Belgium as a League of Nations mandate 1923–46 and as a United Nations trust territory 1946–62; now divided into the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi.
- rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
- rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
- rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
14 letter words starting with ru
- rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- rummelgumption — commonsense
- rummlegumption — common sense
- rubber-chicken circuit — a monotonous round of dinners, often featuring chicken, that a lecturer or political candidate is obliged to attend.
- russo-japanese war — the war (1904–1905) between Russia and Japan.
15 letter words starting with ru
- rudimentariness — the state or quality of being rudimentary
- rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
- run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- run-of-the-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
16 letter words starting with ru
- rumour-mongering — the act of spreading rumours
18 letter words starting with ru
- rubidium-strontium dating — a radiometric dating method whereby the ratio of rubidium isotope to strontium in a mineral is used to calculate the age of the mineral, based on the rate of radioactive decay of rubidium to strontium.
23 letter words starting with ru
- rumour/legend/tradition etc has it — You can use has it in expressions such as 'rumour has it that' or 'as legend has it' when you are quoting something that you have heard, but you do not necessarily think it is true.
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