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Rivaling
- verb - be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
- be the rival of, be in competition with; "we are rivaling for first place in the race"
Rockling
- - Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.
Roebling
- noun - United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869)
Rootling
- verb - dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles"
Ruckling
- verb - make a hoarse, rattling sound
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"
Ruddling
- verb - redden as if with a red ocher color
- twist or braid together, interlace
Ruffling
- verb - discompose; "This play is going to ruffle some people"; "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"
- disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"
- erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers"
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards"
- pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric"
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
- trouble or vex; "ruffle somebody's composure"
- twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked"
Rumbling
- verb - a loud low dull continuous noise; "they heard the rumbling of thunder"
- continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound; "the rumbling rolling sound of thunder"
- make a low noise; "rumbling thunder"
- to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds; "he grumbled a rude response"; "Stones grumbled down the cliff"
Rumpling
- verb - become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"
- disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
Rustling
- verb - a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
- characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren
- forage food
- make a dry crackling sound; "rustling silk"; "the dry leaves were rustling in the breeze"
- take illegally; "rustle cattle"
- the stealing of cattle