English words starting with rim

Meanings of Rim:

noun

The upper or outer edge of an object, typically something circular or approximately circular.

Usage examples:

A china egg cup with a gold rim

verb

Form or act as an outer edge or rim for.

Usage examples:

A huge lake rimmed by glaciers

abbreviation

Mauritania (international vehicle registration).

Meanings of Rimate:

adjective

Of the nature of a fissure or cleft; cleft-like; compare rimiform .

Meanings of Rimbase:

noun

Each of the two bodies of metal (originally cylindrical) forming a junction between the trunnions and the main shaft of a cannon, field gun, etc.

Meanings of Rime:

noun

Frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapour in cloud or fog.

Usage examples:

A mix of clear ice and rime ice is formed when droplets vary in size or when snow, various-sized dr…

verb

Cover (an object) with hoar frost.

Usage examples:

He does not brush away the frost that rimes his beard

Meanings of Rimed:

verb

Cover (an object) with hoar frost.

Usage examples:

He does not brush away the frost that rimes his beard

noun

Frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapour in cloud or fog.

Usage examples:

A mix of clear ice and rime ice is formed when droplets vary in size or when snow, various-sized dr…

Meanings of Rimer:

noun

A tool for enlarging holes; = "reamer".

Meanings of Rimers:

noun

A tool for enlarging holes; = "reamer".

Meanings of Rimes:

verb

Cover (an object) with hoar frost.

Usage examples:

He does not brush away the frost that rimes his beard

noun

Frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapour in cloud or fog.

Usage examples:

A mix of clear ice and rime ice is formed when droplets vary in size or when snow, various-sized dr…

Meanings of Rimfire:

adjective

Relating to or denoting guns whose cartridges have the primer around the edge of the base.

Usage examples:

A modern .22 rimfire rifle

Meanings of Rimier:

adjective

Covered with frost.

Usage examples:

But a certain bitter aura also hung about the flower; the last in bloom among sere grasses, fallen …

Meanings of Rimiest:

adjective

Covered with frost.

Usage examples:

But a certain bitter aura also hung about the flower; the last in bloom among sere grasses, fallen …

Meanings of Rimiform:

adjective

Resembling a cleft or narrow channel; cleft-like, slit-like.

Meanings of Riming:

verb

Cover (an object) with hoar frost.

Usage examples:

He does not brush away the frost that rimes his beard

noun

Frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapour in cloud or fog.

Usage examples:

A mix of clear ice and rime ice is formed when droplets vary in size or when snow, various-sized dr…

Meanings of Rimland:

noun

A peripheral region, especially one with political or strategic significance.

Usage examples:

A maritime power, able to project power more easily than before all around the rimland

Meanings of Rimlands:

noun

A peripheral region, especially one with political or strategic significance.

Usage examples:

A maritime power, able to project power more easily than before all around the rimland

Meanings of Rimless:

adjective

Rimless glasses do not have a rim (= an outer edge made from a different material)

Usage examples:

He's got new rimless reading glasses., rimless spectacles

Meanings of Rimmed:

verb

Form or act as an outer edge or rim for.

Usage examples:

A huge lake rimmed by glaciers

noun

The upper or outer edge of an object, typically something circular or approximately circular.

Usage examples:

A china egg cup with a gold rim

abbreviation

Mauritania (international vehicle registration).

suffix

With a rim (= an outer, often curved or circular, edge) of the specified type

Usage examples:

Gold-rimmed glasses, at the bottom of the garden was a rock-rimmed pool.

Meanings of Rimmer:

noun

A tool for enlarging holes; = "reamer".

Meanings of Rimming:

verb

Form or act as an outer edge or rim for.

Usage examples:

A huge lake rimmed by glaciers

noun

The upper or outer edge of an object, typically something circular or approximately circular.

Usage examples:

A china egg cup with a gold rim

abbreviation

Mauritania (international vehicle registration).

Meanings of Rimous:

adjective

Cracked; fissured.

Meanings of Rimple:

verb

To form into small folds or undulations; to wrinkle; especially (of water) to ripple.

Meanings of Rimpled:

adjective

Wrinkled, crumpled, puckered.

Meanings of Rimples:

verb

To form into small folds or undulations; to wrinkle; especially (of water) to ripple.

Meanings of Rimpling:

noun

The action of rimple ; wrinkling; rippling.

Meanings of Rimrock:

noun

An outcrop of resistant rock forming a margin to a gravel deposit, especially one forming a cliff at the edge of a plateau.

Usage examples:

Archetypal cowboy terrain—tableland, rimrock, canyons