This page gathers the 4,340 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Dated” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 32 of 44: from “reptilious” to “sacatra”.
- reptilious adj Synonym of reptile: creeping, crawling.
- research noun A particular instance or piece of research.
- resinous adj Negative (of electric charge).
- resistance noun A resistor.
- resolve verb To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
- rest noun A set or game at tennis.
- restroom noun A room (usually in a public building or workplace) set aside for rest and relaxation; breakroom.
- retard noun A person with mental retardation.
- retarded adj Having mental retardation; mentally deficient or underdeveloped.
- retire noun A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
- retrenchment noun A defensive work constructed within a fortification to make it more defensible by allowing defenders to retreat into and fight from it even…
- retroclusion noun An acupressure technique in which the pin passes behind the artery, after its point is made to describe the greater part of a semicircle.
- return verb To retort; to throw back.
- revv verb Dated form of rev (“increase speed of motor”).
- rheocrat noun A kind of motor speed controller permitting gradual variation in speed, and reversal. It is especially suitable for use with motor-driven…
- rhetorical noun A study or exercise in rhetoric.
- rheumatoid noun A person with rheumatoid arthritis.
- rhyme out verb To perform, utter or orate a rhyme.
- ribbon noun Reins for a horse.
- ribroast verb To beat up vigorously.
- rice milk noun Milk boiled and thickened with rice.
- rifle noun A rifleman.
- right adv To a great extent or degree.
- right away adv The traditional call to the driver of a train or other conveyance intimating that it is safe to move off immediately.
- right on intj An expression of enthusiasm or encouragement.
- rigmarole noun Confused and incoherent talk; nonsense.
- ring verb To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
- ring off verb Buzz off; go away; shut up.
- ring the changes verb To trick a shopkeeper into giving too much change.
- ring time noun A time for the exchanging of rings, or for betrothal or marriage.
- rink verb To skate on an ice rink.
- rip noun A worthless horse; a nag.
- riparious adj Growing or living along the banks of rivers
- ripping adj Excellent.
- rise verb To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
- rising prep More than; exceeding; upwards of.
- rivethead noun An automotive assembly line worker.
- road noun A physical way or route.
- roadster noun One who drives much; a coach driver.
- rock and roll verb To have sex.
- rock oil noun Naphtha (liquid petroleum).
- rock scorpion noun A resident of Gibraltar.
- rockaire noun An aeroplane-launched sounding rocket
- rockaway noun A light, low, four-wheeled carriage with standing top, open at the sides, but with waterproof curtains for bad weather.
- Rockefeller Republican noun A moderate or liberal member of the Republican Party of the United States of America, especially one from the northeast of the USA.
- rodent noun A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence; lamer.
- rogue verb To cheat.
- rôle play verb Dated form of roleplay.
- rôle playing noun Dated form of roleplaying.
- rôle playing game noun Dated form of roleplaying game.
- roll on noun A type of corset which is rolled on to the body.
- roman noun A Roman Catholic.
- romancer noun A person who writes romance or adventure stories, especially stories relating to chivalry, knights, heroes, quests, etc.
- Romaphobic adj Exhibiting or relating to Romaphobia (aversion to Roman Catholics and Roman Catholicism).
- rope noun A continuous stream.
- roper noun A ropemaker (a maker of ropes).
- rot verb To talk nonsense.
- roughneck noun A dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer; an ironworker in an ironworks or a steelworker in a steelworks.
- roughrider noun A noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry whose duty is to assist the riding master.
- round noun A rung, as of a ladder.
- round in verb To round up (cattle) by riding around them.
- rout noun A fashionable assembly; a large evening party, a soirée.
- rover noun A restless, unsteady person who does not settle down; specifically (historical), a flirtatious, unfaithful man; a rake.
- rowan noun Dated form of roving (“an elongate bundle of fiber”).
- rowen noun Dated form of roving (“an elongate bundle of fiber”).
- royal noun The Australian decimal currency intended to replace the pound in 1966; was changed to "dollar" before it was actually circulated.
- rub verb To move or pass with difficulty.
- rub down verb To frisk (search by feeling the body and clothing).
- rub up verb To revive one's knowledge of (something); to renew (a skill).
- rubber noun A hardship or misfortune.
- rubber diaper noun An undergarment worn over a diaper to prevent leakage through the fabric, similar to plastic pants but made from rubber.
- rubout noun Synonym of backspace.
- ruby noun The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.
- rule noun A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or…
- rum adj Strange, peculiar.
- rumble noun A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
- rumble seat noun An extra passenger seat or row of seats in a carriage or automobile, typically folding away into a rear storage compartment.
- rummish adj Somewhat rum or peculiar; oddish.
- rummy adj Peculiar; odd.
- run for one's money noun A reasonable opportunity to succeed, perform acceptably, or escape harm, especially in a difficult situation.
- run into verb To reach, to flow into (a body of water).
- run on verb To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on.
- run up verb To erect hastily, as a building.
- run upon sorts verb To use or require a greater number of some particular letters or symbols than the regular proportion, as, for example, when making an index.
- runabout noun A motor car having a single row of seats.
- rune verb To compose or perform poetry or songs.
- rung noun A floor timber in a ship.
- runner noun A trusty (prisoner granted special privileges).
- running hand noun Running script; xingshu.
- running shoe noun Dated form of running shoe.
- runround noun A felon or whitlow.
- rush noun A rusher; a lineman.
- rushing adj Full of activity, busy.
- Russ adj Of or relating to the Russians.
- RuSSian adj Of or pertaining to the Soviet Union.
- rustler noun An alert, energetic, driving person.
- rutty adj In a rut (dull routine).
- ṡ symbol An orthographic ⟨s⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the consonant /z/, as in the word "his".
- Saca noun Dated form of Saka (“a member of any of various peoples formerly inhabiting steppes north of the Iranian plateau”).
- sacatra noun A person having one black and one griffe parent; a person whose ancestry is seven-eighths black and one-eighth white.