9-Letter Words Starting with R

Contrapuntal composition; race crier (anagram)

Version of Circe in rare form of fugue

English word

Ricercar

Rickrack

Man-powered transporters

Means of transportation.

Oriental taxis

Riddance

Rifampin

Disreputable groups

Two-couple quickstep dances

Rigatoni

Rigaudon

Just having a part of hospital to one side

Dress Mum for part? What a performance!

Long, complex stuff

Complicated procedure, nonsense

Ringbark

Down Under oppossums

Possums' call, the reverse call

Riprap

Devotion to ceremony

Fixation on fixed routines

I must rail about undue emphasis on ceremony

High churchman's trial - suit failed

One performing rites

Lover of high ceremony

Ingrain, as a pattern of behavior

Establish a custom

Rival

Siblings may engage in them

Conference teams often have them

They may be between schools

Loving competition

Competitive

Slope along the Truckee, say

Land along the Mississippi, for example

Where artists like to paint.

Robt. E. Lee, for one.

A paddlewheel may propel one

Where Mark Twain got his name.

Toward a river.

Cause of a detour, maybe

Highway police procedure.

Jam is for The Cars at the bar

Place for the inn crowd (wordplay)

By the way it's an inn

Patrick Swayze movie w/Jeff Healey

Roadkill

Roadshow

Places to make a stand (wordplay)

Impromptu picnic locales

Locales for rest stops

Where ships are at odds (wordplay)

Anchorage arranged as date in bar

There's no street there - just water for anchorage

Sporty two-seaters

Sporty old cars

Duesenberg A's, for example

Jam makers (wordplay)

Street repairs

M25, say, has mechanism for carriageway repairs

In a roaring manner.

Invigorating insects

Rocaille

Rockaby

Rockabye

Rockaway

Shipping area's retaining force: results of coastal erosion (wordplay)

""A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.""

Rogation

Rolamite

Restorations of previous government spending levels, perhaps

Liars Cameron's right about

Novelists get right into novels

Swains

Indulging in fanciful tales

Talking extravagantly

Daydreaming.

Romanise

Romanise

Wrote Japanese with English characters, for example

Romanize

Lovers of love

Italian jerks are dreamy types

Ian Van Dahl's successful attempt

English word

Neighboring bunkers (wordplay)

Mark and Jez in "Peep Show", for example

Bert and Ernie, for example

Roorbach

Roorback

Ropewalk

Like a flower

Ruddy.

Rosarian

Rosarium

ROSEATE rose-coloured

Billy's "Aquacade" pool?

The scent when the tide came in perhaps

Billy's "Aquacade" pool (wordplay)

Pertaining to a rostellum.

ROSTRAL pertaining to a {rostrum=n}

""(Physics / General Physics)™ a device used for measuring the flow of a fluid. It consists of a small float supported in a tapering glass by the flow of the fluid, the height of the float indicating the rate of flow""

Two lists can be alternated

Capable of going round register on board

Possible to turn

Starter sets (wordplay)

Star Wars time measurements

Crop-varying processes

Rotator

""Pl. rotaviruses Any of a group of wheel-shaped, RNA-contained viruses that cause gastroenteritis, especially in infants and newborn animals.""

Roughage

Disorderly actors appearing plastered

Thug chucked coat

Rude players get plastered

Song is loud - yearn for change

Slow, circling medieval dance

Circle dance; simple song

Does he deliver the circulars (wordplay)

One who delivers goods

Daily deliverer of milk, papers, etc

Rousseau

Paths to follow, to Brits

Royalism

Reading players, perhaps

Reading rather than Palace players!

Foes of the Revolution

King's demand (wordplay)

Neckwear for princes (wordplay)

Payments to composers, in reality so bad

Rubbaboo

Put headings on mss.

Out of order, but racier - to provide with headings

Packs for bikers and hikers

Wrinkle on fires for camping types

Hikers' gear

American growth perhaps irked Cuba

I back rude movement producing bloomer

Thuggish female unfairly treated

Ruinate

Are you one people? That'll spoil it all

Complete destruction or collapse

One race after sport's collapse

Cows spirit in workers

Cows and giraffes

Cud-chewing animals.

Backed protest about Brown, I thought

Pondered at length

Pondered about the drink in a boy

Chews the cud

Considers a terminus needs renovation

Chews the cud and ponders

Cud chewer

What's odd in a politician, almost the thinker (wordplay)

They search odd planet gathering geranium

Ransacker's action

Relatives of "karts."

Little cars and autos burn-damaged

Cheap, economical cars

Fugitives: Archaic.

Fugitives Archaic.

More than one old vagabond manages to pinch precious material

Evasive treatment Slang.

Rush about to manage a period of boxing

Evasion of a sort.

""Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.""

Laird rues moving, though settled in the country

Makes like country rises around the Europe and Asia divide

Aw shucks and "Gee whillikers," for example

Caught dodging racist slur about countrymen

Ruralite

Ruralize

Ruralize

Rustical

Suspend (from university)

Suspend curate? It's ridiculous!

Banish to countryside

They taste like turnips

Swedes, gastronomically speaking

They may fall off a turnip truck