A lute-like stringed instrument played in Punjab · Hindi
Hebrew name meaning ewe · Hebrew
A melting cheese scraped over potatoes · French
Slavic name meaning glad · Russian
A red Italian leaf chicory · Italian
Bulgarian for joy · Bulgarian
Short form of Rachel, ewe · Hebrew
Spanish form of Raphaela, God has healed · Spanish
Norse name meaning counsel of the gods · Norse
Water falling from cloud, from the Old English regn
The arc of colour made when sun shines through rain
A beautiful snow peak above the Hunza valley · Burushaski
German for rocket, for a dog who never slows down · German
A Balkan fruit brandy · Bulgarian
Stewart Island, where kiwi wander the beaches; the name means glowing skies · Maori
Mother Wolf, the fierce protector of Mowgli in The Jungle Book
Spanish name meaning wise protector · Spanish
Norse goddess of the sea who gathered sailors in her net · Old Norse
A sweet smelling desert tree, in Arabic · Arabic
The buttercup family, Latin for little frog · Latin
Soft cheese patties in sweet saffron milk · Hindi
A spongy cheese ball in light syrup · Bengali · small dogs
Means young gazelle in Arabic · Arabic
A soft red berry · small dogs
A Provencal stew of summer vegetables · French
Finnish for peace · Finnish
A large glossy black crow, from the Old English hrafn
Italian city famous for its golden mosaics · Italian
A small, steep sided valley · French
Means meadow or garden in Arabic · Arabic
Hebrew for friend, or Arabic for flag · Hebrew
Razia Sultan, the first woman to rule the Delhi Sultanate · Arabic
Short form of Rebecca, to tie or bind · Hebrew
Hebrew name meaning to bind or join · Hebrew
A red tinted chocolate cake with cream cheese icing
The crown jewels and symbols of a monarch
A boat race meeting · Italian
Spanish for queen · Spanish
Greek pet form of Eirini · Greek
Spanish and Italian for reborn · Spanish
A Greek white wine flavoured with pine resin · Greek
A semolina sponge cake soaked in syrup · Turkish
The Rough Collie mascot of Texas A and M University
New Zealand honeysuckle, a tall tree with red velvet flowers · Maori
A free flowing piece of music
Greek titan and mother of the gods · Greek
Horse riding goddess of Welsh legend · Welsh
A sparkly fake gem on a country singer's jacket
Greek name meaning rose · Greek
A rare, precious silvery metal, from the Greek for rose
A rose pink stone veined with black · Greek
Possibly from the Hebridean isle of Rona, Norse for rough island · Scottish
Welsh name meaning fair and slender · Welsh
A small red rainforest berry with a hint of clove · small dogs
Soft white Italian whey cheese · Italian
Greek for oregano, the dried wild kind · Greek
Means fine rain or drizzle in Arabic · Arabic
The Rila Mountains of Bulgaria · Bulgarian
German for brook, also short for Marilla · German
Means white antelope in Arabic · Arabic
White frost that forms from freezing fog
Dignified, also the sound of a small bell · Japanese · small dogs
Means joy or singing in Hebrew · Hebrew
Irish name meaning queenly · Irish
Irish name meaning queenly · Irish
Also an English place name
Short form of Margarita, pearl · Spanish
A very small stream · small dogs
An ancient white Georgian grape · Georgian
Feminine of Robert, bright fame
Strong hardy coffee species used in espresso blends
Spanish for rock · Spanish
French for little rock · French
Spanish for morning dew · Spanish
Greek for pomegranate · Greek
Irish, little rose · Irish · small dogs
The Italian name for Rome, the eternal city · Italian
German pet form of Rosemarie · German
Means my joy in Hebrew · Hebrew
Dutch for little rose · Dutch
French form of Rosalia, the rose · French
Old German roots, used by Shakespeare in As You Like It
Romeo's first love in Romeo and Juliet
Germanic for horse protection, later read as rose of the world
An Argentine river city whose name means rosary · Spanish
The garden flower, one of the oldest English girls names
Roseberry Topping, a little peaked hill of North Yorkshire
A rose before it blooms, a classic film reference
The red fruit left behind by a wild rose
Australian hibiscus used for jam and cordial · Australian
Guide dog who led her owner down eighty flights of stairs
A blend of Rose and Marie · French
A woody Mediterranean herb, the name means dew of the sea
Italian for little rose · Italian · small dogs
A crisp fried flower shaped cookie · small dogs
Italian diminutive of Rosa, the heroine of The Barber of Seville · Italian
Spanish, little rose · Spanish · small dogs
A form of Rosalind, gentle horse
A New Zealand city of geysers, mud pools and hot springs · Maori
Greek pet form of Chrysoula · Greek
Old British name revived by Walter Scott · Welsh
The Bactrian wife of Alexander the Great · Persian
Persian roots, dawn · Persian
Means dream in Persian · Persian
Short form of Rosalind or Rosalyn
Russian for rose · Russian
The deep red variety of tourmaline · Latin
The youngest tribute of The Hunger Games · small dogs
Means happiness in Shona · Shona
A Cuban dance with a rolling rhythm · Spanish
Norse, secret lore · Norse
Water spirit of Slavic folklore · Slavic
Hebrew name meaning companion · Hebrew
Pet form of Ruth, Hebrew for friend · Hebrew
Czech for little rose · Czech
Ukrainian for little fish, a pet name · Ukrainian
Russian for lynx · Russian
Egyptian sun god, from the word for sun or day · Egyptian
The great mastiff of John Brown's Rab and his Friends · big dogs
Scots pet form of Robert, and what Scotland calls its poet Robert Burns · Scottish
Sergei Rachmaninoff, the Russian pianist and composer · Russian · big dogs
The system that picks up signals, for a dog with big ears
Spanish short form of Rafael, God has healed · Spanish
Italian form of Raphael · Italian
Short form of Rafael, or Arabic Rafi, exalted · Arabic
Means friend or companion in Arabic · Arabic
A New Zealand surf town with a famous left hand break
Norse, warrior of counsel · Norse
Stray terrier who ran messages for American troops in 1918
An Egyptian prince famed for his lifelike painted statue · Ancient Egyptian
Means thunder and lightning in Japanese, for a fast, fearless dog · Japanese
One who makes a sudden attack, from the Old English rad
Japanese god of thunder and drums · Japanese
The glaciated volcano south of Seattle · big dogs
Sanskrit for king · Sanskrit · big dogs
An Indian king or prince · Sanskrit
The mighty, loyal horse of the hero Rostam in the Shahnameh · Persian
Means scamp or rascal in Afrikaans · Afrikaans
The City of Oaks, capital of North Carolina
Old Norse name meaning wolf counsel · Norse
Pet form of Ralph, Old Norse for wolf counsel
The hero prince of the Ramayana · Sanskrit
Srinivasa Ramanujan, the self taught Indian mathematical genius · Tamil
Means archer in Arabic · Arabic
Means peace and joy in Persian · Persian
Spanish name meaning famous counsel · Spanish
Spanish form of Raymond, wise protector · Spanish
A spell of wild, reckless charging about · big dogs
A broad defensive wall around a fort · big dogs
Scottish surname from an Old English place name meaning garlic island · Scottish
The name of eleven pharaohs of Egypt · Egyptian · big dogs
English place name, wild garlic island
Medieval form of Randolph, shield wolf
Germanic rand and wulf, shield wolf
Pet form of Randall or Randolph, shield wolf
For the park and forest rangers
The island volcano that guards Auckland's harbour · Maori
French form of Radulf, meaning counsel wolf · French
Hebrew name meaning God has healed · Hebrew
Traditional name for a cheeky, mischievous dog
Scandinavian name meaning beloved · Scandinavian
Mexican shaved ice with syrup · Mexican Spanish
Squirrel who runs up and down the Norse world tree · Norse · small dogs
The gossiping squirrel who runs up and down the world tree · Old Norse · small dogs
A rattlesnake of the desert West
Spanish form of Ralph · Spanish
French composer of the famous Bolero · French
Italian stuffed pasta · Italian
Short form of Raymond, Germanic for wise protector, or a beam of light
Germanic Raginmund, wise protector
A sharp blade for shaving, from the Latin radere, scrape
The Grim Reaper, death with his scythe
The plain colour name, long used for red coated dogs
A mild orange English cheese
The racehorse who won the Grand National three times
English place name, red ford
Tall grass of the riverbank
An old English local official who looked after a lord's land
Germanic Raginald, counsel and rule
Bright star at the heart of Leo
Scottish surname, red haired · Scottish
Rembrandt van Rijn, the Dutch master of light and shadow · Dutch
Italian form of Remus, twin brother of Romulus · Italian
One of the twins who founded Rome, raised by a she wolf · Latin
French, from the Latin Remigius · French
Lotus, also love · Japanese
French word for fox · French
A slow cooked spicy coconut beef curry · Indonesian
A rebel who goes their own way
Short Italian form of Lorenzo · Italian
Finnish for fox · Finnish
A solemn choral work of remembrance · Latin
Hebrew name meaning behold, a son · Hebrew
A British Columbia mountain town known for deep powder
Paul Revere, the silversmith of the midnight ride
Joshua Reynolds, the first president of the Royal Academy
From the Dutch surname de Raedt, meaning counsel
Short for rhinoceros, Greek for nose horn · Greek · big dogs
A big shrub of spring flowers, Greek for rose tree · Greek
Welsh name meaning wheel ruler · Welsh
Welsh name meaning grand · Welsh
Welsh name meaning ford place · Welsh
Means gardens or meadows in Arabic · Arabic
The famous stone bridge over Venice's Grand Canal · Italian
Irish name meaning little king · Irish · small dogs
Spanish and Portuguese form of Richard, brave ruler · Spanish
Italian for hedgehog and for curly, perfect for a curly coat · Italian
Pet form of Richard, Germanic for brave ruler
Short form of Richard or Frederick, ruler
Welsh collie who cleared mines along a Dutch canal bank
Spanish, rich, and short for Ricardo · Spanish
A long narrow hilltop, from the Old English hrycg, back
German for giant · German · big dogs
A short repeated musical phrase
New Zealand's smallest bird · small dogs
Ridged tube pasta from central Italy · Italian
Brilliant blue white star in Orion
English and Irish surname, a form of Regan, little king
Rigil Kentaurus, the star we know as Alpha Centauri · Arabic
From Rikki Tikki Tavi, the brave mongoose of The Jungle Book · small dogs
Japanese for land, dry ground · Japanese
Rainer Maria Rilke, the poet of the Duino Elegies · German
Means jungle or forest in Indonesian and Malay · Indonesian
Arthur Rimbaud, the young French poet · French
Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov, the composer of Flight of the Bumblebee · Russian
The nickname of Rin Tin Tin, the German Shepherd film star rescued from a battlefield in 1918
Portuguese, river, and short for Rio de Janeiro
The big river along the border of Texas and Mexico · Spanish
Irish surname meaning royal poet · Irish
Stray who found survivors in the rubble of the London Blitz
A tiny Yorkshire cathedral city with a nightly hornblower
Aussie slang for excellent, as in you little ripper
A strong current pulling out from the shore
Creamy northern Italian rice dish · Italian
Short concentrated pull of espresso · Italian
Pet form of Richard, brave ruler · Scottish
German word for knight · German
Diego Rivera, the Mexican muralist · Spanish
A metal pin that holds a structure together
A desert cuckoo of the American South West that runs at speed
Collie said to have parachuted on wartime special operations
A Scotch whisky Manhattan named after the Highland outlaw
Pet form of Robert, Germanic for bright fame · Scottish
Dog whose tumble led boys to the Lascaux cave paintings
Mount Robson, the highest peak of the Canadian Rockies
Latin for oak strength · Latin · big dogs
An Italian saint often shown with a dog · Italian
Portuguese for rock · Portuguese
Brooding master of Thornfield in Jane Eyre · English
An exoplanet named after Don Quixote's old horse · Spanish
A fast flying craft, for a dog who launches off the line
The Rocky Mountains of North America · big dogs
After Knute Rockne, the famous Notre Dame football coach · Norwegian
A hot apple shaped chilli from the Andes · Quechua
A cowboy contest, from the Spanish rodear, to round up · Spanish
Germanic for famous ruler
Auguste Rodin, the French sculptor of The Thinker · French
Russian name from Greek, the hero of Crime and Punishment · Russian
Wilhelm Roentgen, the discoverer of X rays · German
Germanic for famous spear
Spanish for red · Spanish
German name meaning famous land · German
German name meaning famous wolf · German · big dogs
Pet form of Roland, famous land
Latinised form of Hrolfr, the Viking founder of Normandy · Old Norse
Short form of Roland, Germanic for famous land
Latin name meaning of Rome · Latin
Italian name meaning pilgrim to Rome · Italian
Legendary founder of Rome, raised with his twin by a she wolf · Latin
Short form of Ronald, ruler's counsel
Irish, little seal · Irish
Spanish for snorer · Spanish
A form where the main tune keeps returning · Italian
Japanese for a samurai without a master · Japanese
Pet form of Ronald, Old Norse for ruler's counsel
A sociable member of the crow family
Dutch surname, rose field · Dutch
A farmyard American classic
A famous blue sheep's milk cheese aged in caves · French
Irish name meaning red king · Irish
Norse derived name meaning deer wood · Norse
From Gaelic ros, a headland · Scottish
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Pre Raphaelite painter and poet · Italian
Gioachino Rossini, the composer of The Barber of Seville · Italian
Italian for red · Italian
The great hero of the Persian epic, the Shahnameh · Persian · big dogs
French writer and philosopher · French
Long used name for a boisterous, noisy dog
From Gaelic ruadh, red, as in the outlaw Rob Roy · Scottish
English surname from Rose, or meaning son of Roy
Scottish Gaelic for red · Scottish
The biggest active volcano in New Zealand, with ski fields on its slopes · Maori · big dogs
Scottish Gaelic name meaning red king · Scottish
Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish painter of the Baroque · Flemish
Spanish for fair or blond · Spanish
The contest over the ball in rugby · big dogs
German short form of Rudolf, famous wolf · German
The name of Habsburg emperors, including Rudolf II, patron of art and science · German
Germanic Hrodulf, famous wolf
The fierce form of Shiva · Sanskrit · big dogs
Italian and Spanish for reddish, red haired · Italian
A reddish brown, from the Latin for red · Latin
Latin, red haired · Latin
The ball game named after Rugby School in England
A spirit distilled from sugar cane molasses
A deep rolling sound, and a rough and tumble
The Viking founder of the first Russian royal line · Old Norse
Russian name from Turkic for lion · Russian
Old French name meaning little red one · French
The red brown colour of iron rust
A cattle thief of the Old West, for a dog who steals socks
The colour of rust, used for red and copper coats
A Scotch and honeyed whisky liqueur cocktail
A Border Collie who guarded his owner for eleven weeks in the Welsh mountains in 1990
Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealand physicist who split the atom
Dutch short form of Rudolf, meaning famous wolf · Dutch
Means wind in Turkish · Turkish
Irish surname from Rian, little king · Irish
English occupational surname for a mounted warrior
Refreshing and cool · Japanese
After Sakamoto Ryoma, a 19th century reformer · Japanese
Japanese, dragon · Japanese
Russian for ginger, a Soviet space dog who flew in 1951 · Russian
A soft long eared burrowing animal, for a bouncy dog · small dogs
A masked bandit of North America · Powhatan
One who races, used for fast and eager dogs
Shining bright with light or joy
Small peppery root eaten raw in salads · small dogs
A glowing element discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie
Swahili for friend · Swahili
A scruffy, mischievous little one
An early jazz style with a syncopated beat · English
A Japanese way of firing pottery that makes crackled, smoky glazes · Japanese
A long exchange in tennis
A red fruit with soft spines, from the Malay for hair · Malay
Japanese noodle soup · Japanese
A fizzy Japanese lemonade sealed with a glass marble · Japanese
Korean instant noodles · Korean
To abseil down a cliff on a rope · French
A New Zealand tree with bright red flowers · Maori
The water vole of The Wind in the Willows
A New Zealand bulrush that grows in wetlands · Maori
Means secret in Hebrew · Hebrew
Grabbing the ball after a missed shot
The card shown for a sending off in football
Drip coffee with a shot of espresso
A forked tailed bird of prey with rusty red plumage
A small tree that blooms pink along bare branches in spring
A tiny finch with a red cap · small dogs
A wader with bright red legs
A small songbird with a rusty red tail · small dogs
A small thrush with red patches under its wings · small dogs
The tallest tree on earth, native to California · big dogs
A ridge of rock or coral near the sea surface
A quick Scottish and Irish folk dance
Anglicised Rhys, Welsh for enthusiasm · Welsh
One who rules in place of a monarch
Japanese name that can mean bell or lovely · Japanese
The rule of a king or queen
Irish surname from Raghallach, an old Gaelic name · Irish
An Arctic deer that pulls Father Christmas's sleigh in folklore
Nevada city in the Sierra foothills
French painter of the impressionist school · French
To come back after being knocked out
French for dream · French
Great river of western Germany · German
Greek island city of the old colossus · Greek
A great river that runs from the Swiss Alps through France to the sea · French
Tart red stalks stewed with sugar for puddings
A canal and river in Ottawa that becomes a skating rink in winter · French
Aromatic white grape of the Rhine valley · German
A velvety black bird of paradise from Queensland
English surname, Old Norse for ridge farm · Old Norse
Means wind in Arabic, for a swift, free spirit · Arabic
A small fast running stream · small dogs
Means pomegranate in Hebrew · Hebrew
A tall red pine of New Zealand forests · Maori
Japanese for apple · Japanese
A small bandit faced animal of the American South West · small dogs
A noisy disturbance, also slang for something very funny
A quick return thrust in fencing · French
A small wave running across the surface of water · small dogs
The grey warbler, a tiny New Zealand songbird · Maori · small dogs
Sanskrit, a seer or sage · Sanskrit
A large natural stream of flowing water
A coat with white hairs mixed evenly through the colour
A small bird with a red breast, also a form of Robert · small dogs
Chocolate studded with marshmallows and nuts
The playful, ornate art style of 18th century France
A small graceful deer of European woods
One who breaks away and goes their own way
A fruit salad with a sweet spicy dressing · Malay
A bright blue bird that tumbles through the air in display flights
The last imperial dynasty of Russia · Russian
Capital city of Italy · Italian
South African red bush tea with no caffeine · Afrikaans
A first year player · small dogs
A rich reddish hardwood with a rose like scent
A round Indian flatbread · Hindi
A flaky Malaysian flatbread · Malay
The local nickname for Rottnest Island, home of the smiling quokka
A medieval city on the Seine in Normandy, famous for its Gothic cathedral · French
A British bat and ball game played in parks
Gathering the cattle together at the end of the season
French for russet red, also the butter and flour base of a sauce · French
What we call the robots that drive across Mars
Gaelic, the red berry tree
Belonging to a monarch, from the Latin regalis
Italian for robbed time, playing freely with the beat · Italian
A backpack for hiking · German
Means love in Shona · Shona
Small rolled crescent pastries with jam and nuts · Yiddish · small dogs
Means auspicious or lucky in Mandarin · Chinese
A small yeast cake soaked in rum syrup
Persian, after the 13th century poet; also Japanese for beauty and lapis lazuli · Persian
Means pomegranate in Arabic · Arabic
The little New Zealand owl, also called morepork · Maori · small dogs
A tall slender plant of wet ground
An old apple with rough reddish brown skin
The cereal grain, warm and brown
An asteroid visited by a Japanese probe, named for the dragon palace of folklore · Japanese