RIOTS

"RIOTS" is a plural of: riot.

Date "RIOTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Health

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

Synonym: RIOTS

Crosswords: RIOTS

Floods in Pakistan, riots in Paris, and a plane crash in California. (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky. (Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer; writing credit: Denis Leary)

Riots by the people for the people (I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band); performing artist: The Moody Blues)

Republic Steel Strike Riots Newsreel Footage (1937)

Reel Riots (1921)

Lieutenant Daring and the Labour Riots (1913)

The Zoot Suit Riots (2002)

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

Books

• Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots (reference)

• Generation Q: Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals Born Around 1969's Stonewall Riots Tell Their Stories of Growing Up in the Age of Information (reference)

• Love After the Riots (reference)

• The Birthday Riots (reference)

• The Complete Book of Survival: How to Protect Yourself Against Revolution, Riots, Hurricanes, Famines and Other Natural and Man-Made Disasters (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Investigative Reports:L.A. Riots (reference)

• LA Burning - The Riots of '92 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Rebecca Riots (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Ship's Battalion paraded for the camera, while stationed at Shanghai, China, during the riots there, Christmas 1905. The men are armed with Krag rifles, four Colt machine guns and a small artillery piece. Credit: NAVY.

Well -- we won't have to worry about riots on our beaches!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Silent protest parade in New York [City] against the East St. Louis riots, 1917. Credit: Library of Congress.

Shop window showing bullet hole, riots of July 1917, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Riots at New York--the rioters burning and sacking the colored orphan asylum. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rubble of houses in African American neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla. after race riots. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two members of the Ku-Klux Klan in their disguises The riots at the election in Blackburn, England. Credit: Library of Congress.

The New York draft riots. Credit: Library of Congress.

Demonstrator runs police gantlet[sic] in Chester, Pa., riots. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Here and there the contest breaks out into riots. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He bore cynically with the shameful details of his secret riots in which he exulted to defile with patience whatever image had attracted his eyes.

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Business

According to a study conducted by the CNDH, from March 1994 to March 1996, over 50 prison riots occurred. (references)

Children

Bosnia and Herzegovina

After anti-integration riots, often instigated by parents or outside political actors, disrupted the 2000-01 academic year, the District government insisted on starting the 2001-02 school year with integrated schools. (references)

Civil Liberties

Burma

The riots followed the same pattern as those in Sittwe. (references)

Burma

In March seven Arakanese politicians were sentenced to between 7 and 12 years in prison for allegedly inciting the riots. (references)

Economic History

Guinea

Riots in March lasted for two days and were contained to the demolished suburb. (references)

Macau

Riots broke out in 1966 when the procommunist Chinese elements and the Macau police clashed. (references)

Togo

On October 5, 1990, the trial of students who handed out antigovernment tracts sparked riots in Lome. (references)

Human Rights

Macedonia

This incident sparked riots in Bitola. (references)

Brazil

Prison riots were frequent occurrences. (references)

Zimbabwe

Police killed eight persons during the 1998 food riots. (references)

Minorities

Kenya

At least one person was killed and numerous persons were injured in the riots. (references)

Mauritius

In 2000 the Government released a report on the riots compiled by a judicial commission. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Protests in Bosniak majority areas in response to the Trebinje and Banja Luka riots were largely peaceful. (references)

Political Economy

Nepal

Anti-India riots in December 2000 again shook relations just as they were starting to recover. (references)

Guinea

Over 50 people were arrested following the riots, including three members of the National Assembly. (references)

Algeria

Security forces also committed serious abuses in connection with riots and demonstrations in the Kabylie region during the spring and summer. (references)

Political Rights

Haiti

During the 5 days of riots, the police were largely absent. (references)

Haiti

Pro-FL militants arrived in government-owned vehicles and appeared well-organized, giving rise to the general perception that the Government organized the riots. (references)

Malaysia

After the 1969 intercommunal riots, the Government abolished elected local government in favor of municipal committees and village chiefs appointed by state governments. (references)

Worker Rights

Korea

A government official described the labor force to an audience of foreign business executives by noting that "there are no riots, no strikes, and no differences of opinion" with management. (references)

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

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

Ending with "RIOTS": mini-riots, scorch-riots.

Danish

oproer og uroligheder (riots and civil commotion). (various references)

Dutch

oproer en binnenlandse onlusten (riots and civil commotion). (various references)

French

perturbations civiles (riots and civil commotions), grèves (riots and civil commotions), émeutes (riots and civil commotions), émeute et troubles (riots and civil commotion). (various references)

German

Tumulte (tumults), Ausschreitungen. (various references)

Greek 

στάσεις και εμφύλιες ταραχές (riots and civil commotion), ξέσπασαν (riots broke out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

米�'動 (rice riots). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"めそうどう (rice riots). (various references)

Pig Latin

iotsray

Romanian

dezordine (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbance, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, misrule, motley, riot, rough, rout, topsy turvy, tumble, upset, welter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nemiri. (various references)

Swedish

kravaller. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "RIOTS": chariots, compatriots, griots, heriots, patriots, superpatriots. (additional references)

Misspellings

"RIOTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: droites, eriot, griots, iots, irot, irts, ratos, rautsi, riartes, Ricot, ricots, ricts, Rieti, Rigot, rigots, rihot, riit, rinot, rints, Rioms, rios, riost, riota, riote, Rioutts, rists, rito, riton, ritons, rits, Ritts, ritz, ritzs, rois, roit, roits, roity, rootsy, roth, rotis, rotiss, rotsl, rotts, rrost, ryots. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rotis, tiros, torsi, trios, trois.

-1 letter: orts, riot, roti, rots, sori, sort, stir, tiro, tori, tors, trio.

-2 letters: its, ors, ort, rot, sir, sit, sot, sri, tis, tor.

-3 letters: is, it, or, os, si, so, ti, to.

+1 letter: aorist, aristo, bistro, droits, fortis, griots, intros, nitros, orbits, prosit, ratios, ripost, satori, sortie, suitor, tories, trigos, triols, triose, tripos, tsoris.

+2 letters: airpost, amorist, aorists, aristos, aroints, bistort, bistros, bristol, cistron, citrons, citrous, cortins, disport, disroot, distort, editors, erotics, erotism, estriol, florist, forints, forties, goiters, goitres, goriest, heriots, history, hoister, hornist, imports, intorts, introns, ironist, lictors, loiters, missort, moister, mortise, nitroso, nitrous, norites, nostril, octrois, oestrin, oralist, orbiest, orients, ostiary, ostrich, probits, profits, prostie, protist, rations, reposit, rialtos, rioters, riotous, riposte, riposts, ripstop, risotto, roister, ropiest, rosiest, satoris, sautoir, shortia, shortie, sootier, sorites, soritic, sortied, sorties, sorting, sportif, steroid, stonier, storied, stories, storing, stourie, stridor, strobic, strobil, suitors, tailors, thorias, toilers, toroids, torpids, torsion, tourism, tourist, travois, tricots, trigons, triodes, trioses, tripods, trisome, trisomy, tritons, troikas, troilus, tropics, tropins, tropism, tsooris, tsouris, turkois, viators, victors, visitor, worrits.