Index of English words, starting with "ru"

(1) - Runic (a.) Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.

(1) - Runlet (n.) Same as Rundlet.
(2) - Runlet (n.) A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook.

(1) - Runnel (n.) A rivulet or small brook.

(1) - Runner (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
(2) - Runner (n.) A detective.
(3) - Runner (n.) A messenger.
(4) - Runner (n.) A smuggler.
(5) - Runner (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
(6) - Runner (n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
(7) - Runner (n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
(8) - Runner (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
(9) - Runner (n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
(10) - Runner (n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
(11) - Runner (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
(12) - Runner (n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
(13) - Runner (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
(14) - Runner (n.) Any cursorial bird.
(15) - Runner (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
(16) - Runner (n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.