Index of English words, starting with "ro"

(1) - Roan (n.) A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
(2) - Roan (n.) A roan horse.
(3) - Roan (n.) The color of a roan horse; a roan color.
(4) - Roan (a.) Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.
(5) - Roan (a.) Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.

(1) - Roar (n.) A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.
(2) - Roar (n.) A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.
(3) - Roar (n.) The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.
(4) - Roar (n.) The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.
(5) - Roar (n.) The sound of roaring.
(6) - Roar (v. t.) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
(7) - Roar (v. i.) To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.
(8) - Roar (v. i.) To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.
(9) - Roar (v. i.) To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
(10) - Roar (v. i.) To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.
(11) - Roar (v. i.) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.
(12) - Roar (v. i.) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.
(13) - Roar (v. i.) To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.

(1) - Roarer (n.) The barn owl.
(2) - Roarer (n.) A horse subject to roaring. See Roaring, 2.
(3) - Roarer (n.) A riotous fellow; a roaring boy.
(4) - Roarer (n.) One who, or that which, roars.

(1) - Roaring (n.) An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5.
(2) - Roaring (n.) A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation.
(3) - Roaring (p. pr. & vvb. n.) of Roar

(1) - Roast (a.) Roasted; as, roast beef.
(2) - Roast (n.) That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
(3) - Roast (v. i.) To undergo the process of being roasted.
(4) - Roast (v. i.) To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
(5) - Roast (v. t.) To banter severely.
(6) - Roast (v. t.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
(7) - Roast (v. t.) Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
(8) - Roast (v. t.) To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
(9) - Roast (v. t.) To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
(10) - Roast (v. t.) To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.