9-letter words starting with R
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter R. This section showcases how R at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with R, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| recognize | 21 | express greetings upon meeting someone | - |
| religious | 10 | concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church | religious texts |
| recording | 13 | the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth |
| returning | 10 | tending to be turned back | - |
| represent | 11 | perform (a play), especially on a stage | - |
| recommend | 16 | push for something | The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day |
| reception | 13 | the act of receiving | - |
| rehearsal | 12 | a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert) | he missed too many rehearsals |
| regarding | 12 | - | - |
| recovered | 15 | freed from illness or injury | appears to be entirely recovered |
| relations | 9 | mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | - |
| requested | 19 | asked for | the requested aid is forthcoming |
| remaining | 12 | not used up | saved the remaining sandwiches for supper |
| recognise | 12 | express greetings upon meeting someone | - |
| reporting | 12 | the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | - |
| respected | 14 | receiving deferential regard | a respected family |
| residence | 12 | a large and imposing house | - |
| radiation | 10 | the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay | - |
| receiving | 15 | - | - |
| reference | 14 | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | requests for character references are all too often answered evasively |
| righteous | 13 | characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice | the...prayer of a righteous man availeth much |
| realistic | 11 | representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | realistic portraiture |
| referring | 13 | - | - |
| repeating | 12 | the act of doing or performing again | - |
| regularly | 13 | in a regular manner | letters arrived regularly from his children |
| rebellion | 11 | organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | - |
| releasing | 10 | emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | - |
| revealing | 13 | disclosing unintentionally something concealed | - |
| rejection | 18 | (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign | rejection of the transplanted liver |
| replacing | 14 | the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another | replacing the star will not be easy |
| realizing | 19 | - | - |
| robberies | 13 | - | - |
| reflected | 15 | (especially of incident sound or light) bent or sent back | reflected light |
| raspberry | 16 | a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | - |
| reluctant | 11 | unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom | a reluctant smile |
| revolting | 13 | highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | revolting food |
| reproduce | 14 | repeat after memorization | - |
| reduction | 12 | the act of decreasing or reducing something | - |
| reservoir | 12 | lake used to store water for community use | - |
| remarried | 12 | - | - |
| resistant | 9 | disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | - |
| reasoning | 10 | thinking that is coherent and logical | - |
| recycling | 17 | the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products | - |
| restraint | 9 | the state of being physically constrained | dogs should be kept under restraint |
| rehearsed | 13 | - | - |
| repressed | 12 | characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions | repressed rage turned his face scarlet |
| repulsive | 14 | so extremely ugly as to be terrifying | a repulsive mask |
| roadblock | 18 | a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | - |
| ravishing | 16 | stunningly beautiful | a ravishing blonde |
| riverside | 13 | the bank of a river | - |
| rewarding | 14 | providing personal satisfaction | a rewarding career as a paramedic |
| relevance | 14 | the relation of something to the matter at hand | - |
| redundant | 11 | more than is needed, desired, or required | yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant |
| reconcile | 13 | come to terms | - |
| renovated | 13 | - | - |
| remainder | 12 | a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | - |
| radically | 15 | in a radical manner | she took a radically different approach |
| resurrect | 11 | return from the dead | - |
| retaliate | 9 | make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil | The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing |
| restoring | 10 | - | - |
| recession | 11 | the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | - |
| residency | 15 | the act of dwelling in a place | - |
| rearrange | 10 | put into a new order or arrangement | Please rearrange these files |
| reassured | 10 | having confidence restored; freed from anxiety | reassured by her praise he pressed on |
| racetrack | 17 | a course over which races are run | - |
| reinforce | 14 | strengthen and support with rewards | Let's reinforce good behavior |
| reckoning | 16 | a bill for an amount due | - |
| recurring | 12 | coming back | - |
| registrar | 10 | someone responsible for keeping records | - |
| retreated | 10 | people who have retreated | he had only contempt for the retreated |
| regulated | 11 | controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law | well regulated industries |
| refreshed | 16 | with restored energy | - |
| resonance | 11 | having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | - |
| ridiculed | 13 | - | - |
| repugnant | 12 | offensive to the mind | morally repugnant customs |
| racehorse | 14 | a horse bred for racing | - |
| refueling | 13 | the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | - |
| reverence | 14 | regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | - |
| retrieved | 13 | - | - |
| readiness | 10 | prompt willingness | readiness to continue discussions |
| recipient | 13 | a person who receives something | - |
| renounced | 12 | - | - |
| replicate | 13 | make or do or perform again | He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick |
| requiring | 19 | - | - |
| remission | 11 | a payment of money sent to a person in another place | - |
| relocated | 12 | settled in a new location | - |
| rendering | 11 | a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | - |
| resilient | 9 | elastic; rebounds readily | as resilient as seasoned hickory |
| revolving | 16 | - | - |
| reprimand | 14 | censure severely or angrily | - |
| repellent | 11 | serving or tending to repel | I find his obsequiousness repellent |
| routinely | 12 | - | - |
| receptive | 16 | ready or willing to receive favorably | receptive to the proposals |
| relieving | 13 | - | - |
| riverbank | 18 | the bank of a river | - |
| realising | 10 | - | - |
| reprogram | 14 | - | - |
| reconnect | 13 | - | - |
| reimburse | 13 | reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | - |
| recapture | 13 | capture again | recapture the escaped prisoner |
| recollect | 13 | recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | - |
| repayment | 16 | the act of returning money received previously | - |
| retriever | 12 | a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game | - |
| resentful | 12 | full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will | resentful at the way he was treated |
| repairman | 13 | a skilled worker whose job is to repair things | - |
| rewinding | 14 | - | - |
| renewable | 14 | capable of being renewed; replaceable | renewable energy such as solar energy is theoretically inexhaustible |
| recruiter | 11 | an official who enlists personnel for military service | - |
| regulator | 10 | a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | - |
| rewriting | 13 | editing that involves writing something again | - |
| reminisce | 13 | recall the past | - |
| resolving | 13 | analysis into clear-cut components | - |
| rationing | 10 | the act of rationing | during the war the government imposed rationing of food and gasoline |
| replenish | 14 | fill something that had previously been emptied | - |
| retrieval | 12 | the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) | - |
| rendition | 10 | an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning |
| retention | 9 | the power of retaining and recalling past experience | - |
| reinstate | 9 | bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | - |
| rejoicing | 19 | the utterance of sounds expressing great joy | - |
| ransacked | 16 | wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | - |
| redheaded | 15 | having red hair and usually fair skin | - |
| redeeming | 13 | bringing about salvation or redemption from sin | redemptive (or redeeming) love |
| rummaging | 15 | - | - |
| radiology | 14 | (radiology) examination of the inner structure of opaque objects using X rays or other penetrating radiation | - |
| reconvene | 14 | meet again | The bill will be considered when the Legislature reconvenes next Fall |
| rainwater | 12 | drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds | - |
| rainstorm | 11 | a storm with rain | - |
| reputable | 13 | having a good reputation | a reputable business |
| regaining | 11 | getting something back again | - |
| reclusive | 14 | withdrawn from society; seeking solitude | lived an unsocial reclusive life |
| regretful | 13 | feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | felt regretful over his vanished youth |
| rewritten | 12 | - | - |
| reclaimed | 14 | delivered from danger | - |
| reptilian | 11 | any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms | - |
| reachable | 16 | easily approached | - |
| rectangle | 12 | a parallelogram with four right angles | - |
| reflector | 14 | optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece | - |
| recharged | 16 | - | - |
| reclining | 12 | the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position | - |
| rightness | 13 | conformity to fact or truth | - |
| roadhouse | 13 | an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling | - |
| relegated | 11 | - | - |
| refresher | 15 | a course that reviews and updates a topic for those who have not kept abreast of developments | - |
| rastafari | 12 | (Jamaica) a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music | - |
| recurrent | 11 | recurring again and again | - |
| rectifier | 14 | a person who corrects or sets right | a rectifier of prejudices |
| reiterate | 9 | to say, state, or perform again | - |
| repulsion | 11 | intense aversion | - |
| remodeled | 13 | - | - |
| resurface | 14 | appear again | The missing man suddenly resurfaced in New York |
| requisite | 18 | anything indispensable | a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained |
| radiating | 11 | diverging from a common point | - |
| repossess | 11 | claim back | - |
| repentant | 11 | feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | - |
| redefined | 14 | - | - |
| relishing | 13 | taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | - |
| resonator | 9 | an electrical circuit that combines capacitance and inductance in such a way that a periodic electric oscillation will reach maximum amplitude | - |
| rerouting | 10 | - | - |
| rationale | 9 | (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | the rationale for capital punishment |
| rainmaker | 15 | American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain | - |
| recordist | 12 | - | - |
| revulsion | 12 | intense aversion | - |
| reshuffle | 18 | shuffling again | the gambler demanded a reshuffle |
| reservist | 12 | a member of a military reserve | - |
| resonated | 10 | - | - |
| reanimate | 11 | give new life or energy to | - |
| rampaging | 15 | - | - |
| reportage | 12 | the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | - |
| reuniting | 10 | - | - |
| rusticate | 11 | suspend temporarily from college or university, in England | - |
| refectory | 17 | a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery) | - |
| refurbish | 17 | make brighter and prettier | we refurbished the guest wing |
| rereading | 11 | - | - |
| retracted | 12 | drawn back and in | a cat with retracted claws |
| runaround | 10 | - | - |
| roughness | 13 | the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses | - |
| roundness | 10 | the fullness of a tone of voice | there is a musky roundness to his wordiness |
| rearguard | 11 | a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body | - |
| rapacious | 13 | devouring or craving food in great quantities | a rapacious appetite |
| reformist | 14 | favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | - |
| repellant | 11 | serving or tending to repel | - |
| retractor | 11 | surgical instrument that holds back the edges of a surgical incision | - |
| roquefort | 21 | French blue cheese | - |
| rabbinate | 13 | rabbis collectively | - |
| rectified | 15 | having been put right | - |
| reprobate | 13 | a person without moral scruples | - |
| retardant | 10 | any agent that retards or delays or hinders | flame-retardant |
| rulership | 14 | the position of ruler | - |
| raconteur | 11 | a person skilled in telling anecdotes | - |
| raincheck | 20 | - | - |
| redbreast | 12 | small Old World songbird with a reddish breast | - |
| reexamine | 18 | look at again; examine again | - |
| reputedly | 15 | - | - |
| removable | 16 | able to be obliterated completely | - |
| retentive | 12 | good at remembering | a retentive mind |
| resultant | 9 | the final point in a process | - |
| retracing | 12 | - | - |
| resetting | 10 | - | - |
| reversion | 12 | returning to a former state | - |
| ruination | 9 | an event that results in destruction | - |
| roughshod | 17 | unjustly domineering | a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition |
| relatable | 11 | - | - |
| refinance | 14 | renew the financing of | - |
| reunified | 13 | - | - |
| rheumatic | 16 | of or pertaining to arthritis | - |
| reacquire | 20 | - | - |
| radiogram | 13 | a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | - |
| rectitude | 12 | righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | - |
| refilling | 13 | filling again by supplying what has been used up | - |
| reflexive | 22 | a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent | - |
| repertory | 14 | a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule | - |
| repudiate | 12 | cast off | The parents repudiated their son |
| repackage | 18 | - | - |
| reserving | 13 | - | - |
| reselling | 10 | - | - |
| rigmarole | 12 | a long and complicated and confusing procedure | all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time |
| reverting | 13 | tending to return to an earlier state | - |
| redevelop | 15 | formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | - |
| reductive | 15 | characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment | their views of life were reductive and depreciatory |
| recombine | 15 | cause genetic recombination | should scientists recombine DNA? |
| reprieved | 15 | - | - |
| repelling | 12 | highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | - |
| rethought | 16 | - | - |
| revelling | 13 | - | - |
| retrocede | 12 | - | - |
| resettled | 10 | settled in a new location | - |
| responder | 12 | someone who responds | - |
| rudiments | 12 | the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural) | he mastered only the rudiments of geometry |
| roughneck | 19 | a cruel and brutal fellow | - |
| ragpicker | 18 | an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood | - |
| radiantly | 13 | in a radiant manner | the bride smiled radiantly |
| racketeer | 15 | carry on illegal business activities involving crime | - |
| reducible | 14 | capable of being reduced | reducible to a set of principles of human nature |
| reeducate | 12 | - | - |
| reconfirm | 16 | confirm again | You must reconfirm your flight reservations |
| reticence | 13 | the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | - |
| retelling | 10 | - | - |
| retinitis | 9 | inflammation of the retina | - |
| retailing | 10 | the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers | - |
| resection | 11 | surgical removal of part of a structure or organ | - |
| riotously | 12 | in a tumultuous and riotous manner | - |
| ridgeline | 11 | a long narrow range of hills | - |
| rockslide | 16 | a landslide of rocks | - |
| roundworm | 15 | infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | - |
| razorback | 26 | a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States | - |
| rapturous | 11 | feeling great rapture or delight | - |
| racialism | 13 | discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race | - |
| racialist | 11 | a person with a prejudiced belief that one racial group is superior to others | - |
| recasting | 12 | changing a particular word or phrase | - |
| recharger | 15 | - | - |
| recompose | 15 | - | - |
| relevancy | 17 | the relation of something to the matter at hand | - |
| relapsing | 12 | a failure to maintain a higher state | - |
| reprehend | 15 | express strong disapproval of | - |
| renovator | 12 | a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | - |
| revenging | 14 | - | - |
| rhymester | 17 | a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | - |
| rustproof | 14 | treated against rusting | - |
| rowdiness | 13 | rowdy behavior | - |
| rebalance | 13 | - | - |
| redrawing | 14 | - | - |
| reconquer | 20 | conquer anew | The country reconquered the territory lost in the previous war |
| reignited | 11 | - | - |
| repressor | 11 | an agent that represses | - |
| reproving | 15 | expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | - |
| repulsing | 12 | - | - |
| remoulade | 12 | - | - |
| remediate | 12 | set straight or right | - |
| retardate | 10 | - | - |
| reversely | 15 | - | - |
| rocambole | 15 | European leek cultivated and used like leeks | - |
| reworking | 17 | - | - |
| revocable | 16 | capable of being revoked or annulled | a revocable order |
| rhythmics | 22 | - | - |
| ruinously | 12 | in a ruinous manner or to a ruinous degree | ruinously high wages |
| raucously | 14 | in a rowdy manner | - |
| rancidity | 15 | the state of being rancid; having a rancid scent or flavor (as of old cooking oil) | - |
| rancorous | 11 | showing deep-seated resentment | - |
| recreance | 13 | - | - |
| recumbent | 15 | lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | - |
| recapping | 16 | - | - |
| recessive | 14 | an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical | - |
| rebounder | 12 | - | - |
| reclaimer | 13 | - | - |
| refocused | 15 | - | - |
| reflexion | 19 | a likeness in which left and right are reversed | - |
| refection | 14 | a light meal or repast | - |
| reframing | 15 | - | - |
| refutable | 14 | able to be refuted | - |
| refurnish | 15 | furnish with new or different furniture | We refurnished the living room |
| repletion | 11 | eating until excessively full | - |
| repurpose | 13 | - | - |
| repayable | 16 | subject to repayment | business loans are usually repayable in regular installments |
| reshingle | 13 | - | - |
| respecter | 13 | a person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative | X is no respecter of Y |
| rigorisms | 12 | - | - |
| ringbones | 12 | - | - |
| ringdoves | 14 | - | - |
| ringingly | 14 | - | - |
| ringleted | 11 | (of hair) shaped into ringlets | - |
| ringnecks | 16 | - | - |
| ringsider | 11 | - | - |
| ringsides | 11 | - | - |
| ringstand | 11 | - | - |
| ringbolts | 12 | - | - |
| ringbarks | 16 | - | - |
| rigorists | 10 | - | - |
| rigsdaler | 11 | - | - |
| rigwiddie | 15 | - | - |
| rigwoodie | 14 | - | - |
| rijstafel | 19 | dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | - |
| rillettes | 9 | - | - |
| rillmarks | 15 | - | - |
| rimesters | 11 | - | - |
| ringsters | 10 | - | - |
| ringtails | 10 | - | - |
| ringtones | 10 | - | - |
| ripplings | 14 | - | - |
| riprapped | 16 | - | - |
| ripsawing | 15 | - | - |
| riroriros | 9 | - | - |
| risaldars | 10 | - | - |
| riskiness | 13 | a state of danger involving risk | - |
| ritenutos | 9 | - | - |
| ritonavir | 12 | a protease inhibitor (trade name Norvir) used in treating HIV | - |
| rippliest | 13 | - | - |
| rippingly | 17 | - | - |
| ringwombs | 17 | - | - |
| ringworks | 17 | - | - |
| ringworms | 15 | - | - |
| rinseable | 11 | - | - |
| riparians | 11 | - | - |
| ripienist | 11 | - | - |
| riposting | 12 | - | - |
| ritornell | 9 | - | - |
| riddlings | 12 | - | - |
| ridglings | 12 | - | - |
| ridiculer | 12 | a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | - |
| ridicules | 12 | - | - |
| rieslings | 10 | - | - |
| rifampins | 16 | - | - |
| rifamycin | 19 | - | - |
| riffraffs | 21 | - | - |
| ridgeways | 17 | - | - |
| ridgetree | 11 | - | - |
| riderless | 10 | - | - |
| ridership | 15 | - | - |
| ridgeback | 19 | - | - |
| ridgelike | 15 | - | - |
| ridgeling | 12 | a colt with undescended testicles | - |
| ridgepole | 13 | a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | - |
| ridgetops | 13 | - | - |
| riflebird | 15 | velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail | - |
| rifleries | 12 | - | - |
| rigadoons | 11 | - | - |
| rightmost | 15 | farthest to the right | in the rightmost line of traffic |
| rightsize | 22 | - | - |
| rightward | 17 | - | - |
| rigidised | 12 | - | - |
| rigidises | 11 | - | - |
| rigidized | 21 | - | - |
| rigidizes | 20 | - | - |
| rightless | 13 | - | - |
| rightists | 13 | - | - |
| rigatonis | 10 | - | - |
| rigaudons | 11 | - | - |
| rightable | 15 | - | - |
| rightably | 18 | - | - |
| rightened | 14 | - | - |
| rightings | 14 | - | - |
| rightisms | 15 | - | - |
| rigidness | 11 | the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe | - |
| roastings | 10 | - | - |
| rocailles | 11 | - | - |
| rockabies | 17 | - | - |
| rockabyes | 20 | - | - |
| rockaways | 21 | - | - |
| rockbound | 18 | abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps | - |
| rockcress | 17 | noxious cress with yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium | - |
| rockeries | 15 | - | - |
| robustest | 11 | - | - |
| roburites | 11 | - | - |
| roborants | 11 | - | - |
| robotised | 12 | - | - |
| robotises | 11 | - | - |
| robotisms | 13 | - | - |
| robotized | 21 | - | - |
| robotizes | 20 | - | - |
| robotries | 11 | - | - |
| rocketeer | 15 | - | - |
| rocketers | 15 | - | - |
| rocketing | 16 | - | - |
| rockworks | 22 | - | - |
| rodfisher | 16 | - | - |
| rodgersia | 11 | - | - |
| roentgens | 10 | - | - |
| roestones | 9 | - | - |
| rogations | 10 | - | - |
| rogerings | 11 | - | - |
| rogueries | 10 | - | - |
| rockweeds | 19 | - | - |
| rockwater | 18 | - | - |
| rockfalls | 18 | - | - |
| rockhound | 19 | - | - |
| rockiness | 15 | the quality of abounding in rocks and stones | due to the rockiness of the land it was quickly dry even after a heavy rain |
| rockingly | 19 | - | - |
| rocklings | 16 | - | - |
| rockroses | 15 | - | - |
| rockshaft | 21 | - | - |
| rogueship | 15 | - | - |
| roaringly | 13 | - | - |
| ritornels | 9 | - | - |
| rivalling | 13 | - | - |
| rivalries | 12 | - | - |
| rivalrous | 12 | eager to surpass others | - |
| rivalship | 17 | - | - |
| rivelling | 13 | - | - |
| riverains | 12 | - | - |
| riverbeds | 15 | - | - |
| rivalless | 12 | - | - |
| rivalizes | 21 | - | - |
| ritualise | 9 | make or evolve into a ritual | - |
| ritualism | 11 | exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship | - |
| ritualist | 9 | an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms | - |
| ritualize | 18 | make or evolve into a ritual | The growing up of children has become ritualized in many cultures |
| ritziness | 18 | - | - |
| rivalised | 13 | - | - |
| rivalises | 12 | - | - |
| rivalized | 22 | - | - |
| riverboat | 14 | - | - |
| riverhead | 16 | - | - |
| riverless | 12 | - | - |
| roadcraft | 15 | - | - |
| roadkills | 14 | - | - |
| roadshows | 16 | - | - |
| roadsides | 11 | - | - |
| roadstead | 11 | a partly sheltered anchorage | - |
| roadsters | 10 | - | - |
| rizzoring | 28 | - | - |
| rizzering | 28 | - | - |
| riverlike | 16 | - | - |
| riverward | 16 | - | - |
| riverways | 18 | - | - |
| riverweed | 16 | - | - |
| rivetings | 13 | - | - |
| rivetting | 13 | - | - |
| rizzaring | 28 | - | - |
| roadworks | 17 | - | - |
| riddances | 13 | - | - |
| rewedding | 15 | - | - |
| rewrapped | 17 | - | - |
| rewriters | 12 | - | - |
| rewrought | 16 | - | - |
| rezeroing | 19 | - | - |
| rhabdoids | 16 | - | - |
| rhabdomal | 17 | - | - |
| rewording | 14 | changing a particular word or phrase | - |
| reweighed | 17 | - | - |
| rewelding | 14 | - | - |
| rewetting | 13 | - | - |
| rewidened | 14 | - | - |
| rewinders | 13 | - | - |
| rewinning | 13 | - | - |
| rewirable | 14 | - | - |
| rhabdomes | 17 | - | - |
| rhabduses | 15 | - | - |
| rhachides | 18 | - | - |
| rhatanies | 12 | - | - |
| rheobases | 14 | - | - |
| rheobasic | 16 | - | - |
| rheochord | 18 | - | - |
| rheocords | 15 | - | - |
| rheologic | 15 | of or relating to rheology | - |
| rheometer | 14 | an instrument for measuring the flow of liquids (especially arterial blood) | - |
| rheometry | 17 | - | - |
| rhapsodic | 17 | feeling great rapture or delight | - |
| rhapsodes | 15 | - | - |
| rhachilla | 17 | - | - |
| rhachises | 17 | - | - |
| rhachitis | 17 | - | - |
| rhamnoses | 14 | - | - |
| rhamnuses | 14 | - | - |
| rhamphoid | 20 | - | - |
| rhaphides | 18 | - | - |
| rhapontic | 16 | - | - |
| rheophile | 17 | - | - |
| reweaving | 16 | - | - |
| reversing | 13 | - | - |
| reviewals | 15 | - | - |
| reviewers | 15 | - | - |
| reviewing | 16 | - | - |
| revilings | 13 | - | - |
| reviolate | 12 | - | - |
| revisable | 14 | - | - |
| revisions | 12 | - | - |
| revisited | 13 | - | - |
| revictual | 14 | - | - |
| revibrate | 14 | - | - |
| revertant | 12 | - | - |
| reverters | 12 | - | - |
