English words from German
- ReesmanA surname from German.
- refunctionTo transform (a culture or institution, etc.) in order to promote social change.
- ReichskammergerichtThe imperial appellate court of the Holy Roman Empire, one of the two highest judicial authorities of the empire.
- RepsherA surname from German.
- ResidenzstadtA town which was the seat of a court, especially of a German prince.
- rheinberryOne of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica).
- Rhine FranconianOne of two main subgroups of the West Central German dialects; spoken in Hesse, the southeastern half of Rhineland-Palatinate, northernmost Baden-Württemberg, and traditionally in Lorraine (France); distinguished from Central Franconian by the use of das (“that”) and was (“what”), and the pronunciation of Germanic -β- as a stop [p] when now in coda position.
- RhinesmithA surname from German.
- RhoneyA surname from German.
- RhuleA surname from German.
- Richter scaleA value on the Richter scale.
- RidenerA surname from German.
- RidlonA surname from German.
- ringwallA circular rampart.
- RissmillerA surname from German.
- RittgersA surname from German.
- RivenburgA surname from German.
- r/K selection theoryA theory regarding the selection of combinations of traits in an organism that represent a trade-off between quantity and quality of offspring.
- RoadcapA surname from German.
- RodenbaughA surname from German.
- roentgenateA salt or derivative of roentgenic acid, similar in structure or composition to a gold salt due to the placement of roentgenium (Rg, element 111) in the periodic table.
- roggenbrotRye bread made from sourdough
- RohrbackA surname from German.
- RohrboughA surname.
- RollbockA bogie used to carry a railway carriage on a line of different gauge to the one it was built for, usually a narrower gauge.
- Roman monthA quantity of tax paid by electorates or other constituent states to the Holy Roman Empire. Abbreviated as RM.
- RomickA surname from German.
- RookardA surname.
- RookstoolA surname from German.
- rosanilineAn organic base, C₂₀H₁₉N₃, used to make the dye fuchsine
- RosebrookA surname from German.
- RosengrantA surname from German.
- RosensteelA surname from German.
- RotramelA surname from German.
- RubendallA surname from German.
- RudickA surname.
- ruin valueThe concept of designing a building such that it will leave behind aesthetically pleasing and long-lasting ruins.
- rutschblockA wide block of snow that is isolated from the rest of a slope and progressively loaded in order to judge stability and the risk of avalanche.
- RynerA surname from German.
- salicionalA labial pipe organ stop of eight-foot pitch.
- SappenfieldA surname from German.
- sastrugusSynonym of sastruga.
- SaterlandicThe Saterland Frisian language.
- SchachtmanA surname from German.
- SchappellA surname from German.
- SchexniderA surname from German.
- schlichThe finer portion of crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes.
- schmelzeA kind of glass originally made in Bohemia, often rub red in color.
- SchnipkeA surname from German.
- schrecklichkeitA military policy of terrorising an enemy, especially through its civilian population.
- SchuckmanA surname from German.
- SchwendemanA surname from German.
- sechsbeinSynonym of hexad.
- selen-moon
- selfsecureSecure in oneself; self-assured; self-confident.
- SelnerA surname from German.
- SelsorA surname from German.
- SettegastA surname from German.
- SettlemireA surname from German.
- SeyllerA surname from German.
- ShadleyA surname from German.
- ShanafeltA surname from German.
- ShartzerA surname from German.
- SheederA surname from German.
- ShelineA surname from German.
- ShelmanA surname from German.
- ShenefieldA surname from German.
- ShenemanA surname from German.
- ShetterA surname from German.
- shicerA worthless thing or person, especially a swindler.
- shilfstraw or reeds.
- ShillingburgA surname from German.
- ShingledeckerA surname from German.
- shizerScatological-type pornography, especially if it is produced in Germany.
- shock troopA military formation created to lead an attack.
- shoenA surname from German.
- ShollyA surname from German.
- ShonkwilerA surname from German.
- ShontzA surname from German.
- ShounA surname from German.
- ShupertA surname from German.
- ShupingA surname from German.
- SickafooseA surname from German.
- SidenerA surname from German.
- siebenbeinSynonym of heptad.
- Siebenbürgen SaxonA Transylvanian Saxon.
- SigleyA surname from German.
- sitzesA surname from German.
- sitzmarkAn indentation in the snow made by a fallen skier.
- skin wormA small worm or other parasite which infects the skin.
- SlappeyA surname from German.
- SlentzA surname from German.
- SlifeA surname from German.
- SonderwegThe supposed positively or negatively 'special' path German history took before 1945 (different from e.g. the democratic path of Western Europe and the autocracy of Eastern Europe), considered as a cause of the political structure that developed in Germany.
- soteriologicalPertaining to soteriology.
- SpaughA surname from German.
- SpaurA surname from German.
- SpegalA surname from German.
- speissA mixed arsenide of iron (and cobalt, nickel, and copper) produced during the smelting of lead
- SpitzleyA surname from German.