Riot

Definition: Riot

Riot

Noun

1. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.

2. A state of disorder involving group violence.

3. A joke that seems extremely funny.

4. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.

Verb

1. Take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot; "Students were rioting everywhere in 1968".

2. Engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making; "They were out carousing last night".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "riot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Satire

Dream Interpretation

Law

Literature

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Synonyms: Riot

Activity

Have one's fling, run the round of; go all lengths, stick at nothing, run riot.

Arrangement

Verb: derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder; muss; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.

Discord

Broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation; embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance; (disorder); commotion; (agitation); bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair.

Disobedience

Verb: disobey, violate, infringe; shirk; set at defiance; (defy); set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of; take the law into one's own hands; kick over the traces.

Revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute; riot, tumult; (disorder); strike;(resistance); barring out; defiance.

Disorder

Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.

Exaggeration

Out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random.

Excitability

Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.

Intemperance

Revel; rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats; slake one's thirst; swill; pamper.

Physical Pleasure

Verb: feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy, relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack the lips.

Redundancy

Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize.

Resistance

Kick, kick against; recalcitrate, kick against the pricks; oppose; fly in the face of; lift the hand against; (attack); rise up in arms; (war); strike, turn out; draw up a round robin; (remonstrate); revolt; (disobey); make a riot.

Insurrection; (disobedience); strike; turn out, lock out, barring out; levee en masse, Jacquerie; riot; (disorder).

Violence

Verb: be -violent; Adjective: run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage, go on a rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot; rough house; riot, storm; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod; spread like wildfire.

Noun: violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity; boisterousness; Adjective: effervescence, ebullition; turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump, riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire.

Crosswords: Riot

Touring the riot scene (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

I really don't want to cause a riot with this hearse (The Princess Diaries; writing credit: Gina Wendkos)

Unbiddable, ungovernable--like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard)

Yeah, you're hilarious, Richard, you're just a regular riot! (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

What began as a traditional soccer riot has escalated into a city-wide orgy of destruction (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Only in Cali where we riot now rallies are live and die. (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC)

Riot (1969)

Dragstrip Riot (1958)

Raising a Riot (1955)

Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

Radio Riot (1949)

Cum On Feel The Noize (performing artist: Quiet Riot)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day With the Clash (reference)

• Everything You Need to Know About the Riot Grrrl Movement: The Feminism of a New Generation (Need to Know Library) (reference)

• Slaughter In Cell House 3--The Anatomy Of A Riot (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bad Religion: The Riot (reference)

• Riot (reference)

• Riot in Cell Block 11 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Rhythm Riot (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Road Riot 4WD (reference)

• Rio Riot 20 GB Digital Audio Player (MP3/WMA) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Dreadful Riot on Negro Hill!. Credit: Library of Congress.

The would-be mayor preparing to quell a riot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pigmeat "Alamo" Markham [in] "House-rent party" with John "Rastus" Murray, Claude Demetri, Rudolph Toombs A riot of laffs! A pair of flat-foot floogies - Hot-dickety!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Title page of Boston slave riot, and trial of Anthony Burns with half-length portrait of Anthony Burns. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Riot in New Orleans - the Freedmen's procession marching to the institute - the struggle for the flag The riot in New Orleans - siege and assault of the convention by the police and citizens / / sketched by Theodore R. Davis. Credit: Library of Congress.

The riot on St. Patrick's Day - the attack on the police at the corner of Grand and Pitt Streets, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress.

Riot between Mexican Indians, Communists, and "Gold Shirts" in front of the National Palace in Mexico City. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Homestead riot / drawn by W.P. Snyder after a photograph by Dabbs, Pittsburg. Credit: Library of Congress.

Unemployed riot in Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Boston, riot drill at Brooklyn Navy Yard. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Only the morning pained him with its dim memory of dark orgiastic riot, its keen and humiliating sense of transgression

There is no stopping to read the riot act, no firing over the heads of the mob, in this case

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Business

The Commercial Service in Oslo has received requests from Norwegian agents for supplies of riot shields and other civil control equipment. (references)

Children

Congo

This provoked a riot during which police arrested dozens of street children. (references)

Pakistan

In the aftermath of a September 2000 prison riot in Hyderabad, military personnel discovered that adult prisoners abused sexually about 50 imprisoned minors. (references)

Civil Liberties

Zimbabwe

Riot police interceded to prevent a violent clash between the two groups. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

There also is a special supporting unit of 270 members trained in riot control. (references)

Poland

On December 12-13, the regime declared martial law, under which the army and special riot police were used to crush the union. (references)

St. Kitts and Nevis

In 1994, a controversy related to drug trafficking by two sons of the then-deputy prime minister was partially responsible for a prison riot which extensively damaged the prison. (references)

Human Rights

Cameroon

The prisoners threatened to go on hunger strikes or riot. (references)

Suriname

An army squad served as temporary guards following one riot. (references)

Jamaica

The Commissioner found that a planned riot occurred following cell searches. (references)

Minorities

India

This banning of SIMI in September triggered another riot in Uttar Pradesh that killed four persons in September. (references)

Sri Lanka

The Muslim community throughout the western portion of the country staged a number of protests claiming the police did nothing to prevent the riot. (references)

Ethiopia

On January 19 in Harar, a riot broke out between Muslims and Christians after several members of a Christian procession entered a mosque and disrupted Muslim services. (references)

Political Economy

Afghanistan

On November 25, Northern Alliance forces reportedly killed at least 120 prisoners in Mazar-e-Sharif, allegedly during the suppression of a riot. (references)

Sudan

On May 9, riot police and military police used tear gas and batons to disperse a demonstration by approximately 100 war veterans with disabilities and other retail venders selling cigarettes and newspapers, which resulted in injuries. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "riot": make a riot ♦ race riot ♦ read the riot act to ♦ riot act ♦ riot away ♦ riot control ♦ riot control agent ♦ riot control operations ♦ riot gear ♦ riot in ♦ riot of color ♦ riot of colors ♦ riot of colour ♦ riot of colours ♦ riot of flowers ♦ riot police ♦ riot shield ♦ run riot ♦ street riot ♦ To run riot. Additional references.

Beginning with "riot": riot-cladding, riot-control, riot-flics, riot-fomentation, riot-gear, riot-related, riot-shields, riot-tom, riot-torn, riot-trained, riot-training, riot-visors, riot-wrecked.

Ending with "riot": anti-riot.

Afrikaans

lawaai (ado, agitation, din, noise, tumult). (various references)

Albanian

rebelohem (rebel, revolt), rebelim (commotion, disorder, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, rebellion, sedition), trazirë (bewilderment, commotion, convulsion, disorder, dustup, fuss, hustle, outbreak, pother, qualm, queasiness, queasy, ruction, shindy, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval), shkelje e rregullit, orgji (bacchanal, bacchanalia, blast, debauch, high jinks, orgy, rouse), bëj zhurmë (barrack, clamor, clamour, jangle, make a noise, make noise). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عصيان (bawdiness, contempt, disobedience, insurgence, insurgency, rebel, rebellion, recalcitrance, revolt), ‏عربدة (revel, roistering), ‏إفراط (excess, exorbitance, extreme, intemperance, surfeit), ‏إخلال بالأمن, ‏أنفق المال بطيش, ‏أثار أعمال الشغب, ‏شىء ناجح نجاحا مثيرا للحماة, ‏شغب (disorder, disturbance, niggling, rout, rowdyism, tumult, turbulence), ‏شاغب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

ужасно смешен човек, разврат (debaucheries, debauchery, depravation, filth, filthiness, fornication, immorality, laxity, lechery, profligacy), размирица (convulsion, perturbation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest), шумна веселба (high jinks, rave, rave-up, razzle, razzle-dazzle, shindig, spree, whoop-de-do), комедия (act, comedy, farce, interlude, sock), веселя се шумно (make whoopee, whoop it up), нещо много смешно, нарушавам обществения ред, метеж (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, tumult), живея разюздано, бунтувам се (mutiny, rebel), бунт (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, outbreak, rebellion, revolt, uprising), буен растеж (luxuriance), богатство на цветове, изблик (access, accession, burst, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, exuberance, flare, flash, flood, flush, gale, gust, outbreak, outburst, outcrop, outflow, passion, rush, spasm, spate, spirt, spurt, surge, wave). (various references)

Chinese 

鬨 (have a hilarious time), 暴亂 (rebellion, revolt), 暴乱 (Rioted, rioting). (various references)

Czech

vzbouření (mutiny), výtržnost (affray, brawl, disturbance, disturbance of the peace, row), shluk (assembly, clump, cluster, conglomeration, huddle), povyk (ado, ballyhoo, clamor, clamour, din, fuss, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, rampage, row, rumpus, tussle, uproar), povstání (insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rise, rising, uprising), hýřit (racket, revel), bouřit se, bouře (burst, storm, tempest, thunderstorm). (various references)

Danish

udstyr til bekæmpelse af optøjer (riot control equipment), kemisk stof til kontrol af optøjer (riot control agent). (various references)

Dutch

roerigheid (agility, agitation, tumult), rel (agitation, tumult), herrie (ado, agitation, din, noise, quarrel, tumult), getier (agitation, tumult). (various references)

Esperanto

tumulto (tumult). (various references)

Farsi 

فتنه (Insurrection, Muitiny, Sedition), غوغا (Affray, Clamor, Din, Fray, Hubbub, Jangle, Melee, Mob, Pandemonium, Peal, Rave, Rumpus, Scrimmage, Scuffle, Tumult, Turmoil, Uproar), عیاشی کردن (Revel), اشوب (Alarm, Commotion, Convulsion, Misrule, Revolution, Ruckus, Sedition, Tumult, Turbulence, Unrest), شورش کردن , شورش (Insurgence, Insurgency, Insurrection, Muitiny, Mutation, Rebellion, Revolt, Revolution, Sedition, Uprising, Uproar), دادوبیداد (Brawl, Broil, Jangle, Rampage, Scrimmage, Squabble, Uproar, Wrangle), بلوا (Uprising, Uproar). (various references)

Finnish

mellakka (agitation, clash, disturbance, street violence, tumult). (various references)

French

émeute. (various references)

German

Aufruhr (agitation, confusion, convulsion, disorder, fracas, insurrection, mutiny, pandemonium, rebellion, revolt, sedition, seditions, stir, storm, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turmoll, upheaval, uprising, uproar), randalieren (be rampage, make a noise, rowdiness), Krawall (agitation, brawl, din, racket, rowdiness, ruction, rumpus, tumult), Ausschreitung (excess, outrage), Aufstand (agitation, fussbig, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, rising, tumult, uprising). (various references)

Greek 

ταραχή (agitation, apprehension, bustle, coil, commotion, consternation, disturbance, flurry, fluster, flutter, frenzy, fuss, outbreak, perturbation, pother, restlessness, row, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scrimmage, stir, trepidation, trouble, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter). (various references)

Hebrew 

מהומה (ado, bedlam, din, disturbance, fracas, mess, muss, pandemonium, rout, ruction, stir, trouble, tumble, turmoil), לפרוע (abandon, cause disturbance, reject), התפרעות (disturbance, going wild, turbulence). (various references)

Hungarian

lázadás (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, rioting, riotousness, sedition, uprising). (various references)

Indonesian

perusuhan, kerusuhan (distress, disturbance, turbulence, unrest), keonaran (rampage), huru-hara. (various references)

Italian

sommossa (insurrection, outbreak, rising, rout, ruction, rumpus, upheaval), rivolta (defection, fracas, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, rising, uprising). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

騒動 (rebellion, strife). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そうどう (humble abode, monks cell, rebellion, strife, temple meditation hall or certain other temple structures, thatched hut), そうらん (comprehensive bibliography, control, disturbance, disturbances, general survey, mayhem, rioting, superintendence), そうじょう (disturbance, high Buddhist priest, multiplication, report to the Emperor, stratified, synergism), ぼうどう (acting blindly, insurrection, rebellion, revolt, uprising), どうらん (agitation, case for botanical specimens, commotion, disturbance, upheaval), ろうぜき (confusion, disorder, outrage, violence). (various references)

Korean 

난동. (various references)

Manx

rouaney (rioting), rouan (civil disturbance, disturbance). (various references)

Pig Latin

iotray.(various references)

Portuguese

tumulto (affray, agitation, bluster, broil, bruit, clamor, clamour, clutter, colorwash, colourwash, combustion, commotion, confusion, disorder, distemper, donnybrook, faction, gale, hubbub, outcry, pandemonium, rampage, rout, ruction, rumpus, scuffle, shindy, stir, tempest, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar), motim (affray, row, rumpus). (various references)

Romanian

risipi (broadcast, cast away, chase, chuck away, clear, consume, crumble, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, quiet, remove, repel, scatter, settle, solve, spend, sprinkle, squander, strew, throw away, vanish, waste), rebeliune (mutiny, rebellion, revolt, rising), rãscoalã (mutiny, rebellion, revolt, rising, sedition, uprising), provoca dezordine, dezordine (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbance, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, misrule, motley, riots, rough, rout, topsy turvy, tumble, upset, welter), exces (abuse, excess, intemperance, nimiety, redundance, redundancy, riotousness, superfluity, surfeit, transgression, violence), face tãrãboi (make the dust fly, make the feathers fly, make the fur fly, racket, rampage), freamãt (bustle, commotion, hum, lisp, murmur, quiver, rioting, riotousness, roaring, rush, rustle, rustling, sough, stir, storm, thrill, tremor, tumult, uproar, vibration, whir), furtunã (agitation, blow, commotion, gale, hurricane, squall, storm, swell, tempest, thunder storm, thunderstorm, tumult), dezmãţ (anarchy, confusion, debauchery, disorder, dissipation, ordure), orgii, zbenguialã (fiskiness, Frisk, frolic, frolicking, gambol, gamboling), se revolta (revolt), tãrãboi (affray, brawl, broil, fuss, halloo, hullabaloo, hurly burly, kerfuffle, racket, rattle, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, splatter-dash, the devil among the tailors, to-do, uproar), zarvã (ado, affray, altercation, bobbery, brawling, bustle, clutter, din, dispute, dust, fuss, hubbub, kerfuffle, noise, pother, racket, row, rumpus, scandal, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), incita (abet, excite, incite, inflame, instigate, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up). (various references)

Russian 

бунт (mutiny, rebellion, revolt). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raskoš (fleshpot, flesh-pot, luxury, pageantry, pomp, profusion), pobuniti se (mutiny, rebel, revolt, turn against), pobuna (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, sedition), nemir (alarm, disturbance, inquietude, restlessness, turbulence, turmoil, unrest), lumpovanje (carouse), bančiti (carouse, go on the spree). (various references)

Spanish

alboroto (ballyhoo, brawl, commotion, disturbance, fracas, hubbub, hurly burly, mayhem, noise, rampage, rowdiness, turmoil). (various references)

Swedish

upplopp (tumult), tumult (affray, agitation, bobbery, commotion, disorder, disturbance, pandemonium, pother, scrimmage, scuffle, tumult, uproar). (various references)

Thai

สำมะเลเทเมา, ก่อการจลาจล (mob), การนำเสนอที่วิเศษงดงาม, การจลาจล, คนที่สนุกสนาน, ความสำมะเลเทเมา. (various references)

Turkish

velvele (ballyhoo, fuss, hoi polloi, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, kerfufle, noise, pucker, racket), patırtı (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, disorder, dustup, fracas, noise, plump, roughhouse, row, rumpus, sound and fury, stir, to-do, tumult, welter), mest olmak (be ecstased, be enchanted, go into raptures, regale, revel), kargaşaya yol açmak, kargaşa (anarchism, anarchy, Babel, broil, chaos, coil, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, earthquake, grab bag, hurly burly, moil, muss, pell mell, pellmell, rag bag, rough and tumble, roughhouse, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shemozzle, snarl, sound and fury, squall, storm, tailspin, tempest, tumult, turbulence, uproar, welter), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), isyan (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, rebellion, revolt, rising, sedition, uprising), cümbüş (bash, bender, binge, blast, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, saturnalia, spree), başkaldırmak (bridle, contravene, oppose, rebel, revolt, revolt against, rise against), azıtmak (go astray, lose, overflow, run riot), şamata (carrying-on, carryings on, conviviality, din, dustup, great noise, hell, hilarity, hoo-ha, hubbub, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, ripsnorter, row, shindy, uproar, whoopee), ayaklanmak (begin to walk, mutiny, protest against, rebel, revolt, revolt against, rise in rebellion), ayaklanma (breach of the peace, commotion, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, putsch, rebellion, revolt, rising, upheaval, uprising), alem (bat, bender, binge, blast, blind, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, class of beings, condition, creation, entertainment, jollification, junket, kingdom, nature, orgy, party, potation, potations, razzle-dazzle, realm, revel, revelry, rollicking time, spree, state, universe, whoopee, world). (various references)

Ukrainian

невгамовність (restlessness), заколот (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, tumult), бунтувати, безчинствувати (roister), безчинство. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự trác táng, sự náo loạn (disorderliness), sự náo động (excitement, ferment, fermentation, flurry, fluster, tumultuousness, turmoil), sự lộn xộn (chaos, confusedness, devil, disarray, messiness, shemozzle, untidiness), sự ăn chơi hoang toàng cuộc chè chén ầm ĩ, cuộc trác táng ầm ĩ, cuộc dấy loạn sự phóng đãng. (various references)

Welsh

reiat (row), terfysgu (brawl, rage, surge), terfysg (broil, tumult). (various references)

dalhamun. (various references)

bacchide, bacchidi, bacchidis, motabilem, motu, motum, motus, motuum, seditio, seditione, seditionem, seditiones, seditionibus, seditionis, tumultus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "riot": rioted, rioter, rioters, rioting, riotous, riotously, riotousness, riotousnesses, riots. (additional references)

Words ending with "riot": antiriot, chariot, compatriot, griot, heriot, patriot, postriot, preriot, superpatriot. (additional references)

Words containing "riot": charioted, charioteer, charioteers, charioting, chariots, compatriotic, compatriots, griots, heriots, nonrioter, nonrioters, nonrioting, ovariotomies, ovariotomy, patriotic, patriotically, patriotism, patriotisms, patriots, periotic, superpatriotic, superpatriotism, superpatriotisms, superpatriots, ultrapatriotic, unpatriotic. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Riot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ariot, Briot, Crito, eriot, eroit, Fiott, iogt, iot, iret, irio, irit, iroc, iroq, irot, kiot, raot, rato, rautt, reaut, renot, reot, Reto, rhot, riat, ribo, ribot, ribote, Ricot, rict, Riet, Rieti, Rigot, rihot, riht, riit, rilt, rinot, rint, riod, rioh, Riom, rion, rior, rios, riost, riota, riote, ript, rit, rito, riton, ritt, rivot, roi, roib, roic, roih, roij, roip, roir, roit, roity, Roti, rott, ruota, ruto, ryat, Rykov, ryo, viot, wi'oot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: roti, tiro, tori, trio.

-1 letter: ort, rot, tor.

-2 letters: it, or, ti, to.

+1 letter: droit, griot, intro, lirot, nitro, orbit, ratio, riots, rotis, tiros, toric, torii, torsi, trigo, triol, trios, trois.

+2 letters: adroit, aorist, aortic, aristo, aroint, bistro, citron, cortin, dotier, droits, editor, erotic, forint, forrit, fortis, goiter, goitre, griots, heriot, import, intort, intron, intros, lictor, liroth, loiter, nitros, norite, octroi, orbits, orient, probit, profit, prosit, protei, ration, ratios, rialto, righto, rioted, rioter, ripost, satori, sortie, suitor, tailor, thoria, thoric, toiler, tonier, tories, toroid, torpid, torrid, tricot, trigon, trigos, triode, triols, triose, tripod, tripos, triton, troika, tropic, tropin, tsoris, viator, victor, worrit.