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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

road show
noun a show on tour

road surface
noun the paved surface of a paved roadway

road test
noun a test to insure that a vehicle is roadworthy

road to Damascus
noun a sudden turning point in a person`s life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians)

road(a)
adjective taking place over public roads; `road racing`

roadbed
noun a bed supporting a road

roadblock
barricade noun a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

roadbook
noun a guidebook describing the roads of a country; contains maps and (sometimes) a gazetteer

roadhouse
noun an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling

roadkill
noun the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle; `vultures usually feed on carrion or roadkill`

roadman
noun a workman who is employed to repair roads

roadrunner
chaparral cock noun speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas

roads
roadstead noun a partly sheltered anchorage

roadster
two-seater noun an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat

roadway
noun a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel

roadworthiness
noun (of motor vehicles) the quality of being fit to drive on the open road

roadworthy
adjective (of vehicles) fit to be driven on the open road; `a roadworthy truck`

roan
adjective (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey; `a roan horse`

Roanoke
noun a city in southwestern Virginia

roar
roaring noun a deep prolonged loud noise

roarer
bawler noun someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice

roaring
adverb extremely; `roaring drunk`

roast
roasted adjective (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

roaster
noun a special cooking pan for roasting

roasting
noun cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); `the slow roasting took several hours`

Rob Roy
noun a manhattan cocktail made with Scotch whiskey

robber fly
bee killer noun swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing

robbery
noun larceny by threat of violence

robbery conviction
noun conviction for robbery

robbery suspect
noun someone suspected of committing robbery

Robbins
Jerome Robbins noun United States choreographer who brought human emotion to classical ballet and spirited reality to Broadway musicals (1918-1998)

robe
noun any loose flowing garment

Robert
Henry M. Robert noun United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert`s Rules of Order (1837-1923)

Robert Adam
noun Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792)

Robert Bartlett
Robert Abram Bartlett noun United States explorer who accompanied Peary`s expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946)

Robert Brown
noun Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)

Robert Browning
noun English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)

Robert E Lee`s Birthday
Robert E Lee Day noun celebrated in southern United States

Robert Gray
noun American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson noun Scottish author (1850-1894)

Robert Lowell
Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr. noun United States poet (1917-1977)

Robert Morris
noun leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army (1734-1806)

Robert Owen
noun Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)

Robert Penn Warren
noun United States writer and poet (1905-1989)

Robert Robinson
Sir Robert Robinson noun English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)

Robert Scott
Robert Falcon Scott noun English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)

Robert Treat Paine
noun American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1731-1814)

Roberts
Bartholomew Roberts noun a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722)

Roberts
noun United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957)

Robeson
Paul Robeson noun United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976)

Robespierre
Maxmillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre noun French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d`etat (1758-1794)

robin
Turdus migratorius noun large American thrush having a rust-red breast and abdomen

Robin Hood
noun legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor

robin`s plantain
Erigeron pulchellus noun common perennial of eastern North America having flowers with usually violet-purple rays

Robinia
genus Robinia noun deciduous flowering trees and shrubs

Robinson
noun United States poet; author of narrative verse (1869-1935)

Robinson Crusoe
noun the hero of Daniel Defoe`s novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island

Robitussin
noun trade name of an expectorant that loosens phlegm and makes it easier to cough up

roble
noun large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods; grown as a specimen in parks and large gardens

roble beech
Nothofagus obliqua noun tall deciduous South American tree

robolo
noun a kind of percoid fish

robotic telesurgery
noun microsurgery in which the surgeon performs surgery by manipulating the hands of a robot

robotics
noun the area of AI concerned with the practical use of robots

robotics equipment
noun equipment used in robotics

robust
adjective rough and crude; `a robust tale`

robusta coffee
Rio Nunez coffee noun native to West Africa but grown in Java and elsewhere; resistant to coffee rust

robustly
adverb in a robust manner; `he was robustly built`

robustness
hardiness noun the property of being strong and healthy in constitution

roc
noun mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength

roccella
Roccella tinctoria noun a source of the dye archil and of litmus

Roccellaceae
family Roccellaceae noun a fungus family of division Lichenes

Roccus
genus Roccus noun a genus of Serranidae

Rochambeau
Comte de Rochambeau noun French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)

Rochelle salt
Rochelle salts noun a double salt used in Seidlitz powder; acts as a cathartic

Rochester
noun a city in western New York; a center of the photographic equipment industry

Rochon prism
Wollaston prism noun optical device that produces plane-polarized ultraviolet light

rock
careen noun pitching dangerously to one side

Rock
noun United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

rock `n` roll
rock`n`roll noun a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of Black rhythm-and-blues with White country-and-western; `rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock`n`roll.`

rock `n` roll musician
noun a performer or composer or fan of rock music

rock bass
Ambloplites rupestris noun game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes

rock beauty
Holocanthus tricolor noun gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil

rock bit
roller bit noun a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers

rock bottom
noun the absolute bottom

rock cake
noun a small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock

rock candy
noun hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)

rock climber
cragsman noun a climber of vertical rock faces

rock climbing
noun the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment)

rock concert
noun a performance of rock music

Rock Cornish
noun small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl

Rock Cornish hen
noun flesh of a small fowl bred for roasting

rock crab
Cancer irroratus noun crab of eastern coast of North America

rock cress
rockcress noun any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabis

rock crystal
transparent quartz noun a clear quartz used in making electronic and optical equipment

rock dove
rock pigeon noun pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended

rock elm
noun tall widely distributed elm of eastern North America

rock garden
rockery noun a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants

rock geranium
Heuchera americana noun plant with basal leaves mottled with white and flowers in lax panicles on erect stems

rock group
rock band noun a band of musicians who play rock`n`roll music

rock gunnel
butterfish 2 Pholis gunnellus noun slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters