4-Letter Words Starting: R

• a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• ostentatious display of elegance

• Swiss hotelier who created a chain of elegant hotels (1850-1918)

• an ostentatiously elegant hotel

• tear down so as to make flat with the ground

• type genus of the family Rajidae

• a prince or king in India

• a mixture of fat and flour heated and used as a basis for sauces

• a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

• United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

• material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

• (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable

• hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)

• a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western

• pitching dangerously to one side

• move back and forth or sideways

• cause to move back and forth

• a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

• a stack of hay

• pile in ricks

• twist suddenly so as to sprain

• rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton

• the destruction or collapse of something

• an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims

• a support for displaying ot holding various articles

• a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body

• a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately

• go at a rack

• stretch to the limits

• put on a rack and pinion

• obtain by coercion or intimidation

• run before a gale

• fly in high wind

• draw off from the lees

• torment emotionally or mentally

• work on a rack

• seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block

• place in a rack

• torture on the rack

• a jazz ostinato; usually provides a background for a solo improvisation

• a Berber living in northern Morocco

• look through a book or other written material

• play riffs