| Russian roulette | a stunt in which you spin the cylinder of a revolver that is loaded with only one bullet and then point the muzzle at your head and pull the trigger |
Russian bank
crapette | solitaire with two players using separate packs |
| Russian Revolution February Revolution | the revolution against the czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March |
| Russian Revolution October Revolution | the coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in |
borzoi
Russian wolfhound | tall fast-moving dog breed |
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Seven Wonders of the World | impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe |
| ancient history | knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence |
| ancient history | a history of the ancient world |
| Russian | the Slavic language that is the official language of Russia |
Belarusian
Byelorussian
White Russian | the Slavic language spoken in Belarus |
| Ancient Greek | the Greek language prior to the Roman Empire |
Russian dressing
Russian mayonnaise | mayonnaise with horseradish grated onion and chili sauce or catsup, sometimes with caviar added |
| White Russian | a cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueur, and milk or cream |
| Russian Orthodox Church | an independent church with its own Patriarch, until it was the established church or Russia |
| Russian agency | an administrative agency of the Russian government |
Moscow
capital of the Russian Federation
Russian capital | a city of central European Russia, formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia, since the capital of the Russian Federation |
| Russia Russian Federation | a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia, formerly Soviet Russia, since an independent state |
Soviet Russia
Russia Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic | formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia |
| Russian River | a river in northern California |
Byelorussian
Belorussian
White Russian | a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia |
| Russian | a native or inhabitant of Russia |
| Great Russian | a member of the chief stock of Russian people living in European Russia, used to distinguish ethnic Russians from other peoples incorporated into Russia |
| ancient | a person who lived in ancient times |
| ancient antediluvian | a very old person |
ancient pine
Pinus longaeva | small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine, chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of , crown conic but becoming rough and twisted, oldest plant in the world growing to years in cold semidesert mountain tops |
Russian thistle
Russian tumbleweed
Russian cactus
tumbleweed Salsola kali tenuifolia | prickly bushy Eurasian plant, a troublesome weed in central and western United States |
Russian dandelion
kok-saghyz
kok-sagyz
Taraxacum kok-saghyz | perennial dandelion native to Kazakhstan cultivated for its fleshy roots that have high rubber content |
Russian olive
silver berry Elaeagnus augustifolia | deciduous shrubby tree of Europe and western Asia having grey leaves and small yellow fruits covered in silvery scales, sometimes spiny |
silver lace vine
China fleece vine
Russian vine
Polygonum aubertii | twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers, western China to Russia |
Russian almond
dwarf Russian almond
Prunus tenella | Asiatic shrub cultivated for its rosy red flowers |
| Russian monetary unit | monetary unit in Russia |
| Russian-speaking | able to communicate in Russian |
| ancient | very old, an ancient mariner |
| ancient | belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire, ancient history, ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians, ancient Greece |
Orthodox Eastern Orthodox
Russian Orthodox
Greek Orthodox | of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Russian | of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language, Russian dancing |