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19,295 words · meanings, pronunciation and origins · ranked by use

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19,295 words · showing 14,401–14,460

  • roll matnounB1The thin foam layer that softens the ground.
  • roll outphraseB22 meaningsTo flatten dough with a rolling pin.
  • roll upphraseB22 meaningsTo turn something over on itself into a roll.
  • roll your eyesphraseB2To turn the eyes upward to show contempt.
  • rollbacknounC1Putting the previous version back after a bad release.
  • roller coasternounB1The fast twisting ride of climbs, drops, and screams.
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roller skatesnounB1
Boots with wheels underneath.
  • rolling pinphraseB1The heavy wooden cylinder you flatten dough with.
  • rolling stocknounC1All the vehicles a railway owns.
  • rolloutnounB2+Releasing something in stages across places or groups.
  • romance/rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/nounB1A love affair, or a story about one.
  • romanianounB1The country of the Carpathian mountains and Dracula's castle.
  • romantic/ɹə(ʊ)ˈmæntɪk/adjectiveB13 meaningsConnected with love between people.
  • romanticism/ɹəʊˈmæntɪsɪzəm/nounC1A movement valuing feeling and nature over reason.
  • romp/ɹɒmp/verbC2To play boisterously, or to win very easily.
  • rondelnounC2A small round plate of armour or a round shield.
  • roof/ɹuːf/nounA22 meaningsThe top covering of a building.
  • roofer/ˈɹufɚ/nounB2The worker who covers and mends roofs.
  • rook/ɹʊk/nounC13 meaningsA large black bird of the crow family that nests in colonies in treetops.
  • rookerynounC2A colony of nests high in the trees.
  • rookie/ˈɹʊki/nounB2Somebody in their first season at a job or a sport.
  • room/ɹʊm/nounA13 meaningsA separate space inside a building.
  • room numbernounA2The figure identifying which room is yours.
  • room servicenounB1Meals brought to your room at your request.
  • roomfulnounB2+A quantity of people or things large enough to fill one whole room.
  • roommate/ˈɹu(m)ˌmeɪt/nounB2A person you share a room or flat with.
  • roost/ɹuːst/verbB2+2 meaningsTo settle somewhere for the night, as birds do.
  • rooster/ˈɹuːstə/nounA2+A male chicken.
  • root/ɹuːt/nounB25 meaningsThe part of a plant that grows underground, holding it in place and taking in water.
  • root causenounB2The real reason underneath a problem.
  • root systemnounB2All the underground parts that anchor and feed a plant.
  • roots/ɹuːts/nounB2The part of dyed hair growing out in its own colour.
  • rope/ɹəʊp/nounA23 meaningsThick strong cord made by twisting fibres together.
  • rosary/ˈɹoʊzəɹi/nounB2A string of beads used for counting prayers.
  • rose/ɹəʊz/nounA24 meaningsA garden flower with soft layered petals and a prickly stem, grown for its scent and given as a gift.
  • rosemary/ˈɹəʊzməɹi/nounB1+A spiky piney herb used in cooking.
  • rosewood/ˈɹoʊzˌwʊd/nounC1A dense dark tropical timber streaked with near-black grain and faintly sweet in smell, prized for guitar fingerboards and fine furniture.
  • rostrum/ˈɹɒstɹəm/nounC2A raised platform to speak or conduct from.
  • rosy/ˈɹəʊzi/adjectiveB22 meaningsPink and healthy.
  • rot/ɹɒt/nounB22 meaningsThe soft decay that destroys damp wood.
  • rota/ˈɹəʊtə/nounB2+A chart saying who works when.
  • rotate/ɹəʊˈteɪt/verbC12 meaningsTo turn around a central point.
  • rotation/ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/nounC12 meaningsTurning around a centre.
  • rote/ɹəʊt/nounC1Learning by repetition without understanding.
  • rotor/ˈɹəʊ.tə/nounB2+The spinning part of a machine or aircraft.
  • rotten/ˈɹɒtn̩/adjectiveB13 meaningsDecayed and no longer fit to eat or use.
  • rotund/ɹəʊ̯ˈtʌnd/adjectiveC12 meaningsRound and plump.
  • rough/ɹʌf/adjectiveB15 meaningsUneven or coarse to the touch, not smooth.
  • roughly/ˈɹʌf.li/adverbB22 meaningsMore or less; give or take a bit.
  • roulette/ɹuːˈlɛt/nounB2+A gambling game played with a spinning numbered wheel.
  • round/ˈɹaʊ̯nd/adjectiveA27 meaningsShaped like a circle or a ball.
  • round downphraseB1To lower a number to the nearest convenient one.
  • round onphraseC1To turn suddenly and attack somebody with words.
  • round robin/ˌɹaʊnd ˈɹɒbɪn/nounC1A competition in which everybody plays everybody.
  • round the bendphraseC1Driven mad or completely irrational.
  • round the clockphraseB2All day and all night without pause.
  • round trip/ˈɹaʊn(d).tɹɪp/phraseB1A journey there and back again on one ticket.
  • round upphraseB1To raise a number to the nearest convenient one.
  • roundabout/ˈɹaʊndəˌbaʊt/nounB1+2 meaningsA circular junction where cars go around a middle island.
  • roundhouse/ˈɹaʊndˌhaʊs/nounC2A circular shed where locomotives were turned and stored.