A roll was originally a list containing the names of persons belonging to a public body (as Parliament, etc.), which was rolled up and laid aside among its archives. A catalogue is a list of persons or things arranged in order, and usually containing some description of the same, more or less extended.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Example sentences

table I want some beautiful flowers to put on the table.
index The stock price index was off 200 points yesterday.
calendar Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar.
inventory Ali's grandfather was a funeral inventory trader.
roster There's no one on the roster who can play defense.
catalog He sent me a catalog so I would correct it for him.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
list		steady
table		steady
index		falling
calendar		falling
inventory		falling
roster		steady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: tip¹
4 letters: like¹, name¹, roll¹, lean¹, heel¹, tilt¹
5 letters: table², index², bound¹, strip¹, enrol
6 letters: number², record², listen², roster², enroll², enlist²
7 letters: leaning², catalog³
8 letters: schedule², register³, calendar³, tabulate³
9 letters: inventory⁴, catalogue³
11 letters: inclination⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (table² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: liste
Italiano: lista
Español: lista
Deutsch: Liste
Català: llista