Words in english starting with R

• Ruth — Noun – English ～ the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
• Ruth Fulton — Noun – English ～ United States anthropologist (1887-1948)
• ruth — Noun – English ～ a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"
• Ruth Benedict — Noun – English ～ United States anthropologist (1887-1948)
• Ruth — Noun – English ～ a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
• ruthenium — Noun – English ～ a rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinum
• Rutherford B. Hayes — Noun – English ～ 19th President of the United States; his administration removed federal troops from the South and so ended the Reconstruction Period (1822-1893)
• Rutherford — Noun – English ～ British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819)
• Rutherford — Noun – English ～ British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)
• Rutherford atom — Noun – English ～ first modern concept of atomic structure; all of the positive charge and most of the mass of the atom are contained in a compact nucleus; a number of electrons (equal to the atomic number) occupy the rest of the volume of the atom and neutralize the positive charge
• rutherford — Noun – English ～ a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second
• Rutherford Birchard Hayes — Noun – English ～ 19th President of the United States; his administration removed federal troops from the South and so ended the Reconstruction Period (1822-1893)
• rutherfordium — Noun – English ～ a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized
• ruthful — Adjective – English ～ feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
• ruthfulness — Noun – English ～ a state of gloomy sorrow
• ruthless — Adjective – English ～ without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty"
• ruthlessly — Adverb – English ～ in a ruthless manner; "the government has been urged to take immediate action to deal ruthlessly with the strikers"
• ruthlessness — Noun – English ～ mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity
• ruthlessness — Noun – English ～ feelings of extreme heartlessness
• rutile — Noun – English ～ a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic and plutonic rocks and is a major source of titanium

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