Starting with R

A disorderly crowd

Having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something

A person skilled in relating stories and anecdotes

Vigorous, lively, spirited

Of or arranged like rays or the radii of a circle, diverging in lines from a common centre

Sending out light, shining or glowing brightly

Relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something

A straight line extending from the centre of a circle to the circumference

A source of origin of something

No rules at all

Unconventional and slightly disreputable, especially in an attractive way

A collection or set of items

A person, typically a child, in ragged dirty clothes

Good-humoured ridicule, banter

Clothing

The most important reason or purpose for someone or something's existence

A purely political reason for action on the part of a ruler or government, especially where a departure from openness, justice or honesty is involved

Having or displaying a dashing, jaunty or slightly disreputable quality or appearance

Walk or pleasure in the countryside, talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way

Uncontrollably exuberant, boisterous

A complex or unwelcome consequence of an action or event

Cause to branch out

Having branches; branched

Move through a place in a violent and uncontrollable manner

Flourishing or spreading unchecked

Anything serving as a bulwark or defence

Having many small branches

Having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste

Bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long standing

Aggressively greedy or grasping

The violent seizure of someone's property

A close and harmonious relationship

An establishment or resumption of harmonious relations

A mischievous person

Deeply engrossed or absorbed

Ecstatic joy or delight

To make rare

Ready, eager

Something rare, unusual or uncommon

Acting too hastily or without due consideration

Harsh

Able to be rated or estimated

Sign or give formal consent to

Form judgements by a process of logic, reason

Agreeable to reason, reasonable, sensible

A statement of reasons

Making or constituting a disturbing harsh and loud noise

Energetically earthy and sexually explicit

Cause severe and extensive damage to

Untangle something

Extremely hungry

Delightful, entrancing

A system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations

To gather, to get as a return

Having sound judgement, fair and reasonable

Say or do something to remove the doubts and fears of someone

Carry out raids in order to plunder

Unattractive and objectionable

Reject someone in an abrupt or ungracious manner

Express sharp disapproval or criticism of someone because of their behaviour or actions

To refute by evidence or argument

Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline

To become hot again

Say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief

Summarise and state again the main points of

Present or organize in a different form or style

Willing to consider or accept new suggestions and ideas

A dish of warmed up food left over from a previous meal

Rare, exotic or obscure

Repeated or habitual relapse into crime

The practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit

Utterly careless of the consequences of action

Establish by calculation

A person who lives in seclusion or apart from society

To make compensation to a person

Little known, abstruse

To change a number of parts, settings etc within a total structure

Make a military observation of a region

Cowardly

An accusation in response to one from someone else

Break out again, recur

To make, put, or set right

Morally correct behaviour or thinking, righteousness

Lying down

Recover from illness of exertion

Characterised by recurrence or repetition, permitting or relating to an operation that may be repeated indefinitely

When a judge or juror is excused because of a conflict of interest

A person who refuses to submit or to comply with regulation

Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of

Of a person, formidable, especially as an opponent

Contribute greatly to a person's credit or discredit

Remedy or set right an undesirable or unfair situation

Strong unpleasant smell

The thing in the world that a word or phrase denotes or stands for

Stubborn or unmanageable

Prove that something is wrong

The emblems or insignia of royalty

A prescribed course of medical treatment, diet or exercise for the promotion or restoration of health

Reigning, ruling, currently having the greatest influence, dominant

Return to a former or less developed state

To repeat

A reply, especially a sharp or witty one

Assign an inferior rank or position to

Considered in relation to or in proportion to something else

Unceasingly intense

Closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered

Voluntarily ceases to keep or claim

Great enjoyment, liking for or pleasurable anticipation of something

Giving or intended as a remedy or cure

Indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events

Lacking care or attention to duty, negligent

Cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting

A part or quantity that is left after the greater part has been used, removed or destroyed

Make a forcefully reproachful protest

Deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed

A revival or renewed interest in something

A person who deserts and betrays an organization, country or set of principles

Go back on a promise, undertaking or contract

Formally declare one's abandonment of a claim, right or possession

The condition of being known or talked about by many people, fame

The action of making amends for a wrong one has done

Conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies

Send someone back to their own country

A stock of skills or types of behaviour that a person habitually uses

Feel or express discontent, fret

Fill something up again

Filled or well-supplied with something

Please reply

A state of rest, sleep or tranquility

Deserving censure or condemnation

Subdue someone or something by force

Cancel or postpone the punishment of someone

A formal expression of disapproval

An act of retaliation

A repetition or further performance of something

Express to someone one's disapproval of or disappointment in their actions

An unprincipled person

Reprimand someone

Refuse to accept, reject

Extremely distasteful, unacceptable

Drive back an attack or attacker by force

A feeling of intense distaste or disgust

Arousing intense distaste or disgust

Having a good reputation

Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations

Make appropriate return for a favour, service or wrongdoing

Revoke, cancel or repeal

Admirably purposeful, determined and unwavering

Meet with agreement

Unmistakeable, emphatic

Attractive and impressive through being richly colourful or sumptuous

Recompense for injury or loss, the restoration of something to its original state

Delay or hold back in terms of progress or development

Effective in retaining facts and impressions

Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily

Divide or mark something in such a way as a to resemble a net or network

Say something in answer to a remark, typically in a sharp, angry or witty manner

Draw or be drawn back or back in

Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act

Especially of legislation, taking effect from a date in the past

Directed or moving backwards

Go back to an earlier state, typically a worse one

A survey or review of a past course of events or period of time

Looking back or dealing with past events or situations

A signal sounded especially on a bugle or drum to wake personnel in the armed forces

Enjoy oneself in a lively and noisy way, especially with drinking and dancing

A surprising and previously unknown fact that has been disclosed to others

Be repeated several times as an echo

Feel deep respect or admiration for something

Deep respect for someone or something

A state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts

Return to a previous state, practice, topic etc

Criticise in an abusive or angrily insulting manner

Capable of being revoked or cancelled

Officially cancel

A dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes or operation

A sense of disgust and loathing

An effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques

A question designed to produce an effect and not to draw an answer

Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way

The action of getting rid of a troublesome or unwanted person or thing

Of common occurrence, widespread

A crack, split or break in something

Morally right or justifiable

Unable to bend or be forced out of shape, not flexible

A lengthy and complicated procedure

The quality of being extremely thorough and careful

Make someone annoyed or irritated

A quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism

Slightly indecent and liable to shock, especially by being sexually suggestive

Split or tear apart violently

Enjoy oneself or celebrate in a noisy or boisterous way

Act or behave in a jovial and exhuberant fashion

Large and plump

A decisive defeat

A heading on a document

A disturbance or quarrel

Involving or limited to basic principles

Bitterly regret and wish it undone

A violent person

Boisterous or unruly

Think deeply about something

Search unsystematically and untidily through something

Break or burst suddenly

An action intended to deceive someone, a trick

Relating to the countryside, rural

Suspend a student from a university as a punishment

The action or fact of ruining someone or something

Wrinkled, corrugated

Expressing sorrow or regret, especially in a wry or humorous way

Noisy and disorderly

A group of advisers and assistants accompanying an important person

Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form