riverplains
plural of riverplain

riverport
A port along a river.

riverports
plural of riverport

riverrun
The course a river shapes through a landscape

riverscape
A landscape that features a river.

riverscapes
plural of riverscape

riverwalk
A pedestrian street or pathway alongside a river, providing a space for outdoor activity.

riverwalks
plural of riverwalk

riverwash
Sediment deposited by a river.

riverwashes
plural of riverwash

riverway
The segment of a river or route on a river which is traversed by watercraft.

riverways
plural of riverway

roadbank
A roadside bank of earth, typically in a rural environment

roadcut
A cut through a hill or mountain for the purposes of building a road through it, rather than over it.

roadcuts
plural of roadcut

roadhead
A terminus of a road (either of its ends).

roadheads
plural of roadhead

robinsonade
A genre of adventure fiction where a hero is stranded alone on a desert island and has to survive with their own wits.

robinsonades
plural of robinsonade

rockaway
A light, low, four-wheeled carriage with standing top, open at the sides, but with waterproof curtains for bad weather.
A similar but heavier carriage, enclosed except at the front, and with a door at each side.

rockaways
plural of rockaway

rockband
A rock formation that encircles a hill or mountain, separating other kinds of terrain that are above and below it.
Alternative form of rock band (band that plays rock music).

rockbands
plural of rockband

rockburst
A sudden, violent collapse of rock under stress, especially in a mine

rockbursts
plural of rockburst

rockeries
plural of rockery

rockery
A section of a garden made from decorative rocks and alpine plants.
A natural area where many seals breed.

rockfill
A dam's embankment of compacted free-draining granular earth, often containing rocks, with an impervious zone.

rockfills
plural of rockfill

rockhole
A natural watering hole in the rock; a gnamma.

rockpicker
A farmer or laborer reducing the stoniness of farm fields by picking out the rocks. A role played periodically, not a vocation.
A person, machine, or machine component that cleans out the rocks during ore dressing.

rockpickers
plural of rockpicker

rockpicking
Reducing the stoniness of farm fields by picking out the rocks. A task performed periodically, not a vocation.
Cleaning out the rocks during ore dressing. Done by a person, machine, or machine component.

rockwren
A small wren endemic to the South Island of New Zealand, Xenicus gilviventris.

rockwrens
plural of rockwren

rodizio
A Brazilian all-you-can-eat restaurant, most especially a churrascaria steakhouse restaurant which primarily serves grilled meats.

rodizios
plural of rodizio

rodogram
A form of variogram that plots the square root of spatial differences

rodograms
plural of rodogram

rogaining
A sport of long-distance cross-country navigation, involving both route planning and navigation between checkpoints using a variety of map types.

rollerskiing
A form of cross-country skiing using rollerskis

romerito
seepweed, sea blite.

rond
A bank of a river or a canal.

ronds
plural of rond

rongorongo
An early glyphic writing system of Easter Island, written in reverse boustrophedon and as yet undeciphered.

roofspace
The space inside a roof (between the roof and the ceiling).

roofspaces
plural of roofspace

roofspall
debris from the roof (and walls) of a cave or similar shelter

roofspalls
plural of roofspall

rooftop
The area atop a roof.
The top layer of a roof; the material covering or composing a roof.

rooftops
plural of rooftop

rookeries
plural of rookery

rookery
A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
A crowded tenement.
A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
That part of the barracks occupied by subalterns.

roomage
Space; place; room.

roomlet
A little room or room-like space.

roomlets
plural of roomlet

rooteries
plural of rootery

rootery
A stumpery

rootogram
A frequency graph in which one axis is scaled by the square root of the frequencies, so as to emphasize the smaller values.

rootograms
plural of rootogram

ropewalk
A place where rope is made, a rope factory.
A long straight narrow lane, or a covered pathway, where long strands of material were laid before being twisted into rope.
Any narrow walkway that has rope handrails.

ropewalks
plural of ropewalk

rosarium
A rose-garden.

rosariums
plural of rosarium

rosebed
A flowerbed where roses are grown.

roseries
plural of rosery

rosery
A rose garden

roseta
plural of rosetum

rosetum
A rose garden.

rosland
Moorish or watery land.

rosmarine
Dew from the sea.
Rosemary.

rotlet
a point torque

rotonda
A roundabout; traffic circle.
A road intersection, not necessarily circular in shape.

rotondas
plural of rotonda

routeway
A way along which a route can be followed; a road or path.

routeways
plural of routeway

roval
A motor racecourse composed of a road course section and a portion of a banked oval track.

rovals
plural of roval

royalme
A kingdom, a realm.

royalmes
plural of royalme

royalsail
A royal (square sail over the topgallant sail).

royalsails
plural of royalsail

royd
A forest clearing.

royds
plural of royd

roza
A garden, especially one at a mausoleum.

ruffmans
Woods, hedges or bushes.

rulership
A position in which one rules or has sovereignty over others.

rumicin
A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock (curled dock; Rumex crispus)

rumna
A chase, or reserved hunting-ground.

rumnah
Alternative form of rumna.

rumnahs
plural of rumnah

rumnas
plural of rumna

rumspringa
A period of adolescence for some members of the Amish that begins around the age of 14–16 and ends when a youth chooses baptism within the Amish church or instead leaves the community.

rumspringas
plural of rumspringa

runcicantellation
The simultaneous state of runcination and cantellation.

runcicantellations
plural of runcicantellation

runcicantitruncation
The simultaneous state of runcination, cantellation and truncation.

runcicantitruncations
plural of runcicantitruncation

runcinid
Any sea slug in the family Runcinidae.

runcinids
plural of runcinid

runcitruncation
The simultaneous state of runcination and truncation.

runcitruncations
plural of runcitruncation

runholding
The lease of a run, generally a sheep farm.
The run itself.

runholdings
plural of runholding

ruralism
Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living.
Rural living.
The state or quality of being rustic.
A rural idiom or expression.

ruralisms
plural of ruralism

rushbearing
A rural festival when the parish church was strewn with rushes, between haymaking and harvest.

rushbearings
plural of rushbearing

rustication
Residence in the country.
The act or process of rusticating.
The result of having been rusticated.
The process of posting a person or relocating a unit from London (or a command HQ) to elsewhere in the country.

rustications
plural of rustication

ruth
Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
Repentance; regret; remorse.
Sorrow; misery; distress.
Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.

ruths
plural of ruth

rytina
steller; a kind of sea cow

rytinas
plural of rytina

ryu
A Japanese school of a specific discipline, usually martial arts.

ryuha
A Japanese school of a specific discipline, usually martial arts.

ryukin
A short deep-bodied fancy goldfish of Chinese origin, with a characteristic hump in the shoulder region.

ryukins
plural of ryukin

ryus
plural of ryu

sacate
Alternative spelling of zacate.

sacbe
A raised paved road built by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

sacbeob
plural of sacbe

sacbes
plural of sacbe

saccoi
plural of saccos

saccos
Alternative form of sakkos.

sackhole
A borehole, bored into sea ice, that collects surface brine

sackholes
plural of sackhole

sacralgia
Pain in the sacral region.

sacraria
plural of sacrarium

sacraries
plural of sacrary