Crossword-Solution: RULE 4 letters, 540 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Rule	a.	That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket.
Rule	a.	Uniform or established course of things.
Rule	a.	Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.
Rule	a.	Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions.
Rule	a.	Conduct in general; behavior.
Rule	a.	The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
Rule	a.	An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
Rule	a.	A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.
Rule	a.	A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and is an exception to the rule.
Rule	a.	A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler.
Rule	a.	A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.
Rule	a.	A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
Rule	a.	A composing rule. See under Conposing.
Rule	n.	To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to govern; to manage.
Rule	n.	To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.
Rule	n.	To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
Rule	n.	To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.
Rule	n.	To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
Rule	v. i.	To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over.
Rule	v. i.	To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.
Rule	v. i.	To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
RULE	anagram	LEUR, LURE, RLEU, RUEL

We have 540 clues for the answer “RULE”

Clue	Answers
"Better no ___ than cruel ___."—Aesop.	1 answer
"Collect $200 after passing Go," e.g.	1 answer
"Do not open my dressing room door," e.g.	1 answer
"Don't ask, don't tell," e.g.	1 answer
"Don't run in the house," e.g.	1 answer
"Don't talk about Fight Club," for one	1 answer
"Employees must wash hands before returning to work," e.g.	1 answer
"Everybody Wants to ___ the World"	1 answer
"First in, first out," e.g.	1 answer
"Golden" or "ground" follower	1 answer
"Golden" principle	1 answer
"I ___!" (shout of exultation)	1 answer
"I before E except after C," e.g.	1 answer
"Look both ways before crossing," e.g.	1 answer
"Look twice before crossing," e.g.	1 answer
"Masks required," e.g.	1 answer
"No TV during dinner," maybe	1 answer
"No cellphone at dinner," say	1 answer
"No cellphones at dinner," say	1 answer
"No diagonal words," in Scrabble	1 answer
"No double bouncing" at a trampoline park, say	1 answer
"No double dribbling," for one	1 answer
"No jumping on the couch," e.g.	1 answer
"No offensive player may trip an opponent," e.g.	1 answer
"No outside food," for example	1 answer
"No peeking" in hide-and-seek, e.g.	1 answer
"No phones during dinner," maybe	1 answer
"No phones in class," e.g.	1 answer
"No running," e.g.	1 answer
"No shirt, no shoes, no service," e.g.	1 answer
"No shoes in the house," for example	1 answer
"No shoes, no shirt, no service," e.g.	1 answer
"No sliding" in senior softball, e.g.	1 answer
"One move per turn," for example	1 answer
"One ring to ___ them all"	1 answer
"Only one hotel may be erected on any one property," e.g.	1 answer
"Pass Go and collect $200," e.g.	1 answer
"Roll doubles to get out of jail" or "You do not talk about Fight Club"	1 answer
"The ___ of Four" (2004 bestseller)	1 answer
"Three strikes and you're out," e.g.	1 answer
"Whoever gets tagged becomes it," for example	1 answer
"___ Britannia" (Thomas Arne classic)	1 answer
*To govern	1 answer
A "golden" one is an especially good thing to follow	1 answer
A do or a don't	1 answer
A famous one is golden	1 answer
A popular one is golden	1 answer
A well-known one is golden	1 answer
Act as an arbiter	1 answer
Actress Janice.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETRAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble RULE 4-letter words that start with R 4-letter words that end in E 4-letter words containing UL 4-letter words containing LE 4-letter words with R and U

Sentences with RULE (5)

Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln 1979

All wanted blood except the boys, who liked it as a rule, but to-night were out to greet their captain.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

The hasty multitude Admiring enter’d, and the work some praise And some the Architect: his hand was known In Heav’n by many a Towred structure high, Where Scepter’d Angels held thir residence, And sat as Princes, whom the supreme King Exalted to such power, and gave to rule, Each in his Herarchie, the Orders bright.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The Wolf therefore, thinking that he had a capital opportunity, accused the Fox to the Lion of not paying any respect to him who had the rule over them all and of not coming to visit him.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

State control of economic affairs is unusually tight even for a Communist country because of the small size and homogeneity of the society and the strict one-man rule of Kim.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

Quotes with RULE (3)

I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.

Greg Behrendt

It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...""You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?""No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.""Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."…

Douglas Adams So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of potato chips in one hand and the TV remote in the other. He was wearing a black T-shirt that said I BLOGGED YOUR MOM and a pair of jeans that were ripped in one knee. "Never screw with a blind monk.

Cassandra Clare City of Bones

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 628 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).