5 Letter Words That Start With R

revel

Verb : To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.

Verb : To take delight (in something).

Noun : An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.

rogue

Noun : A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.

Noun : A mischievous scamp.

Noun : A vagrant.

randy

Adjective : (British, informal) Sexually aroused; full of sexual lust.

Adjective : (chiefly Scotland) Rude or coarse in manner.

Noun : (slang, video games) A random.

riant

Adjective : Mirthful, cheerful, smiling, light-hearted.

Adjective : Of a place, landscape or view: having a pleasant appearance, looking bright or cheerful.

rigid

Adjective : Stiff, rather than flexible.

Adjective : Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.

Adjective : Fixed, rather than moving.

rough

Adjective : Not smooth; uneven.

Adjective : Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.

Adjective : Turbulent.

range

Noun : A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.

Noun : A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).

Noun : Selection, array.

right

Adjective : Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true. See also the interjection senses below.

Adjective : Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →

Adjective : Clockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.

ravel

Verb : (transitive) To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.

Verb : (transitive) To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.

Verb : (transitive) (also figuratively) Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.

realm

Noun : (also figurative) A sphere of knowledge or of influence; a domain.

Noun : (archaic or law and rhetoric) A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom.

Noun : (fantasy, roleplaying games) An otherworldly dimension or domain — magical, ethereal, or otherwise.

reach

Verb : (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).

Verb : (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.

Verb : (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.

rouse

Verb : (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.

Verb : To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).

Verb : To provoke (someone) to action or anger.

ruddy

Adjective : Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.

Adjective : Robust and vigorous, like a person with a red complexion (as compared to a pale one).

Adjective : (British, Australia, slang, not comparable) A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.

regal

Adjective : Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.

Adjective : Befitting a monarch.

Adjective : (strictly) Befitting a king or emperor.

raise

Verb : (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.

Verb : To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.

Verb : To cause something to come to the surface of water.

rivet

Noun : A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.

Verb : (transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.

Verb : (transitive, figurative) To command the attention of.

raspy

Adjective : (of sound, especially vocal quality) Rough, raw.

Adjective : Irritable.

ridge

Noun : Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

Noun : The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.

Noun : A chain of mountains.

round

Adjective : (physical) Of shape:

Adjective : Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.

Adjective : Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.

rabid

Adjective : (by extension) Furious; raging; extremely violent.

Adjective : (figurative) Very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous.

Adjective : Affected with rabies.

rangy

Adjective : Slender and long of limb; lanky.

Adjective : Having or permitting range or scope; roomy; commodious.

Adjective : Prone to roaming around.

rally

Noun : A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.

Noun : A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.

Noun : (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)

rapid

Adjective : Very swift or quick.

Adjective : Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)

Noun : (usually in the plural) A rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.

roost

Noun : The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).

Noun : A group of birds roosting together.

Verb : (intransitive, of birds or bats) To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest.

riven

Adjective : Torn apart.

Adjective : Broken into pieces; split asunder.

remit

Verb : (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

Verb : (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.

rummy

Noun : A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.

Adjective : Resembling or tasting of rum.

Adjective : (UK, colloquial, dated) Peculiar; odd.

reign

Noun : The period during which a monarch rules.

Noun : The exercise of sovereign power.

Verb : (intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.

relic

Noun : That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion.

Noun : Something old and outdated, possibly kept for sentimental reasons.

Noun : (religion) A part of the body of a saint, or an ancient religious object, kept for veneration.

rebut

Verb : To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

Verb : To drive back or beat back; to repulse.

rebel

Noun : A person who resists an established authority, often violently.

Verb : (intransitive) To resist or become defiant toward an authority.

Verb : (intransitive, politics) To forcefully subvert the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.

repel

Verb : (transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To cause repulsion or dislike in; to disgust.

reave

Verb : (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.

Verb : (archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.

Verb : (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.

route

Noun : A course or way which is traveled or passed.

Noun : A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.

Noun : A road or path; often specifically a highway.

reply

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.

Noun : A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.

Noun : Something given in reply.

reedy

Adjective : (of a sound or voice) High and thin in tone.

Adjective : (of a person) Tall and thin.

Adjective : Full of, or edged with, reeds.

ratty

Adjective : (figuratively, informal) In poor condition or repair.

Adjective : Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.

Adjective : Infested with rats.

raven

Noun : (countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven (Corvus corax).

Noun : A jet-black color.

Adjective : Of the color of the raven; jet-black.

relax

Verb : (intransitive) To rest and become relieved of stress.

Verb : (transitive) To relieve (someone or someone's mind) of stress; to enable to rest; to calm down.

Verb : (intransitive) To become less severe or tense.

rouge

Noun : Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.

Adjective : Of a reddish pink colour.

Noun : Any reddish pink colour.

rural

Adjective : Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.

Noun : (obsolete) A person from the countryside; a rustic.

refer

Verb : (transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)

Verb : (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.

Verb : (intransitive) To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)

rowdy

Adjective : Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.

Noun : (countable) A boisterous person; a brawler.

Noun : (uncountable, obsolete, slang) money; ready money.

redux

Adjective : (attributive, postpositive) Of a topic, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

Noun : A theme or topic that is redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

razed

Adjective : (obsolete) Slashed or striped in patterns.

runty

Adjective : Having the characteristics of a runt; small and stunted; diminutive.

relay

Noun : (sports) A competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action.

Noun : (athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. The most common events are 4×100 meter and 4×400 meter competitions.

Noun : (electronics) An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.

rigor

Noun : (medicine) A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.

Noun : A surname from Spanish.

Noun : US spelling of rigour. [Severity or strictness.]

ready

Adjective : Prepared for immediate action or use.

Adjective : Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind.

Adjective : Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.

recur

Verb : Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.

Verb : (medicine) Of a disease or symptom: to happen again, especially repeatedly or after a remission or an apparent recovery.

Verb : Of a memory, thought, etc.: to come to the mind again.

rover

Noun : A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.

Noun : A remotely-operated vehicle.

Noun : One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.

risky

Adjective : Dangerous, involving risks.

Adjective : Misspelling of risqué. [Slightly sexually suggestive; bordering on indelicate.]

rutty

Adjective : Imprinted with ruts.

Adjective : (US, dated) In a rut (dull routine).

Adjective : Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal.

riled

Adjective : aroused to impatience or ange

reeve

Noun : (Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.

Noun : (historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.

Noun : A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.

royal

Adjective : Of or relating to a monarch or his (or her) family.

Adjective : Having the air or demeanour of a monarch; illustrious; magnanimous; of more than common size or excellence.

Adjective : (nautical) In large sailing ships, of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails.

rival

Noun : A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.

Noun : Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.

Adjective : Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.

radio

Noun : (countable) A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.

Noun : (uncountable) The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.

Noun : (countable) Any audio playing device, such as the on-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media; see also car radio.

robot

Noun : A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.

Noun : (chiefly science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.

Noun : (computing) A bot, software designed to perform a task.

retro

Adjective : Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were.

Noun : (uncountable) Past fashions or trends.

Adjective : Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto.

retch

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive, loosely) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.

Noun : An unsuccessful effort to vomit.

roots

Noun : Ancestry.

Noun : Beginnings; origin.

Noun : (of hair) Grown-out hair, often of a grey or natural colour.

rompy

Adjective : Tending to romp; playfully adventurous.

river

Noun : A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.

Noun : Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

Noun : (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.

razor

Noun : A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.

Noun : Any tool or instrument designed for shaving.

Verb : (transitive) To shave with a razor.

react

Verb : (intransitive) To act in response.

Verb : (Internet, intransitive) To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).

Noun : (Internet) An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.

rheum

Noun : (uncountable) Thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease.

Noun : Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism.

Noun : (informal) Rheumatologist.

roger

Verb : (radio telecommunications, transitive) To acknowledge by saying "roger".

Verb : (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.

Verb : (transitive) Of a man, to have sexual intercourse with (someone), especially in a rough manner.

rayon

Noun : A manufactured regenerated cellulosic fiber.

Noun : A circular area whose extent is measured by the length of the radius of the circle which bounds it.

Noun : (obsolete, rare) A ray or beam of light.

reify

Verb : (transitive) To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.

roust

Verb : (transitive) to rout out of bed; to rouse.

Verb : (transitive, informal) To harass, to treat in a rough way.

Verb : (transitive) To drive strongly.

raped

Adjective : sexually abuse

Adjective : having been robbed and destroyed by force and violenc

rathe

Adjective : (poetic) Ripening or blooming early.

Verb : (poetic) Early in the morning.

Verb : (obsolete) Quickly.

revie

Verb : (obsolete) To vie with, or rival, in return.

Verb : (obsolete) To exceed an adversary's wager in a card game.

Verb : (obsolete) To make a retort; to bandy words.

rigol

Noun : (nautical) A ridge or channel above a porthole to redirect water flow from dripping inside the vessel.

Noun : (obsolete) A circle.

Noun : (obsolete) A diadem, crown (ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty).

recit

Noun : (music) A recitative.

Noun : A narration.

Noun : A short story.

raign

Noun : Obsolete spelling of rain. [(meteorology) Condensed water falling from a cloud.]

Verb : Obsolete spelling of rain. [(impersonal, meteorology) To have rain fall from the sky.]

Noun : Obsolete spelling of reign. [The exercise of sovereign power.]

riser

Noun : Someone or something which rises.

Noun : A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.

Noun : (carpentry) A vertical part of a step on a staircase.

ruler

Noun : A person who rules or governs; someone or something that exercises dominion or controlling power over others.

Noun : A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a straightedge with markings.

Verb : (transitive) To beat with a ruler (as a traditional school punishment).

renew

Verb : (transitive) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.

Verb : (transitive) To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of.

Verb : (transitive) To begin again; to recommence.

rocky

Adjective : Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.

Adjective : (figuratively) Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.

Adjective : Like a rock; rigid, solid.

rebus

Noun : An arrangement of pictures, symbols, or words representing phrases or words, especially as a word puzzle.

Noun : (crosswording) A type of crossword puzzle in which some squares contain entire words, or symbols representing words, instead of single letters.

Verb : To represent (a phrase or word) as a rebus.

ripen

Verb : (intransitive) to grow ripe; to become mature (said of grain, fruit, flowers etc.)

Verb : (transitive) To cause (something) to mature; to make ripe

Verb : (intransitive) To approach or come to perfection.

recap

Noun : A recapitulation.

Verb : To recapitulate.

Verb : To seal (something) again with a cap.

ralph

Verb : (slang) To vomit.

Noun : (UK, regional, obsolete) A raven.

Noun : A male given name from the Germanic languages.

rabat

Noun : (countable) A piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt-front worn by Catholic and Anglican clergy.

Noun : (countable) The clerical linen collar itself.

Noun : A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

rules

Noun : (informal) Australian rules football.

rev up

Verb : (by extension, transitive) To make (someone or something) more active.

Verb : (by extension, intransitive) To become more active.

Verb : (idiomatic) To increase the speed of an engine, especially that of a stationary motor car.

raced

Adjective : (social studies) Belonging to a certain race of people.

raita

Noun : A condiment made from seasoned yogurt used as a dip or sauce in the cuisine of southern Asia.

Noun : (India, derogatory, politics, online slang) A Hindu who does not support Hindutva, a liberal Hindu, especially (highly derogatory) as considered a traitor to India or race traitor towards Indians.

resto

Noun : (informal) A restaurant.

Noun : (informal) A restoration (of an old car or building, etc.).

Noun : A surname.

reule

Noun : Obsolete form of rule. [A regulation, law, guideline.]

Verb : Obsolete form of rule. [(transitive, stative) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.]

rithe

Noun : Alternative form of rith (“small stream”). [(obsolete) A small stream or channel.]

rhyme

Noun : (countable) A word that rhymes with another.

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)

Noun : A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.

recto

Noun : The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal.

Noun : (printing) The right-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an odd page number.

Noun : (law) A writ of right.

rusty

Adjective : Marked or corroded by rust.

Adjective : Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.

Adjective : Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.

rowan

Noun : Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus Sorbus, belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries.

Noun : Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.

Noun : (obsolete) wych-elm, Ulmus glabra.

refit

Verb : (transitive) To prepare for use again; to repair or restore.

Noun : The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.

Verb : (transitive) To fit again; to put back into its place.

reuse

Noun : The act of using again, or in another place.

Verb : To use again, or in another place.

Verb : To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else).

ritzy

Adjective : Elegant and luxurious.

Trending On The Word Mixer