| royal road | an auspicious way or means to achieve something, the royal road to success |
royal tennis
real tennis
court tennis | an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court |
| royal casino | a form of casino in which face cards have extra point values |
| Royal National Eisteddfod | an eisteddfod with competitions in music and drama and poetry and the fine arts |
melee
scrimmage
battle royal | a noisy riotous fight |
royal
royal stag | stag with antlers of or more branches |
| royal | a sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast |
| royal brace | a brace to secure the royal mast |
| royal mast | topmast immediately above the topgallant mast |
purplish blue
royal blue | a shade of blue tinged with purple |
reddish purple
royal purple | a shade of purple tinged with red |
| royal charter | a charter granted by the sovereign (especially in Great Britain) |
| rhyme royal | a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter, introduced by Chaucer |
cafe royale
coffee royal | black coffee with Cognac and lemon peel and sugar |
| royal flush | a poker hand with the ace, king, queen, jack, andall in the same suit |
| court royal court | the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state |
royalty
royal family
royal line
royal house | royal persons collectively, the wedding was attended by royalty |
Royal Air Force
RAF | the airforce of Great Britain |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RCMP
Mounties | the federal police force of Canada |
Royal Academy
Royal Academy of Arts | an honorary academy in London (founded in ) intended to cultivate painting and sculpture and architecture in Britain |
Royal Society
Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge | an honorary English society (formalized inand given a royal charter by Charles II in ) through which the British government has supported science |
| court royal court | the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince |
| Isle Royal National Park | a national park on an island in Michigan, includes prehistoric iron mines |
| princess royal | the eldest daughter of a British sovereign |
velvet plant purple velvet plant
royal velvet plant
Gynura aurantiaca | Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs |
royal poinciana
flamboyant
flame tree peacock flower
Delonix regia
Poinciana regia | showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar, widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers, sometimes placed in genus Poinciana |
royal palm
Roystonea regia | tall feather palm of southern Florida and Cuba |
royal fern
royal osmund
king fern ditch fern
French bracken
Osmunda regalis | large deeply rooted fern of worldwide distribution with upright bipinnate compound tufted fronds |
royal agaric
Caesar's agaric
Amanita caesarea | widely distributed edible mushroom resembling the fly agaric |
| royal jelly | a secretion of the pharyngeal glands of bees that is fed to very young larvae and to bees destined to be queens |
| royal | invested with royal power as symbolized by a crown, the royal (or crowned) heads of Europe |
| quasi-royal | having the power but not the rank or title of a king, one of the quasi-royal rulers of Africa |
imperial
majestic
purple
regal
royal | belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler, golden age of imperial splendor, purple tyrant, regal attire, treated with royal acclaim, the royal carriage of a stag's head |
| royal | being of the rank of a monarch, of royal ancestry, princes of the blood royal |
| royal | of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch, the royal party, the royal crest, by royal decree, a royal visit |
| royal | established or chartered or authorized by royalty, the Royal Society |