| R: | R the eighteenth letter of the English alphabet is a vocal consonant It is sometimes called a semivowel and a liquid See Guide to Pronunciation sectsect 178 179 and 250254 |
| RD: | research and development used mostly to refer to the division of a corporation responsible for performing research and developing new products a commonly used abbreviation |
| Ra: | A roe a deer |
| Ra: | A prefix from the Latin re and ad combined coming to us through the French and Italian See Re and Ad |
| Raash: | The electric catfish |
| Rab: | A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar |
| Rabat: | A polishing material made of potters clay that has failed in baking |
| dRabat: | A clerical linen collar |
| Rabate: | To recover to the fist as a hawk |
| Rabatine: | A collar or cape |
| Rabato: | A kind of ruff for the neck a turneddown collar a rebato |
| Rabbate: | To abate or diminish |
| Rabbet: | To cut a rabbet in to furnish with a rabbet |
| Rabbi: | Master lord teacher a Jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law |
| Rabbin: | Same as Rabbi |
| Rabbinic: | Of or pertaining to the rabbins or rabbis or pertaining to the opinions learning or language of the rabbins |
| Rabbinic: | The language or dialect of the rabbins the later Hebrew |
| Rabbinically: | In a rabbinical manner after the manner of the rabbins |
| Rabbinism: | A rabbinic expression or phraseology a peculiarity of the language of the rabbins |
| Rabbinist: | One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins in opposition to the Karaites who rejected the traditions |
| Rabbinite: | Same as Rabbinist |
| Rabbit: | Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus especially the common European species Lepus cuniculus which is often kept as a pet and has been introduced into many countries It is remarkably prolific and has become a pest in some parts of Australia and New Zealand |
| Rabbiting: | The hunting of rabbits |
| Rabbitry: | A place where rabbits are kept especially a collection of hutches for tame rabbits |
| Rabble: | An iron bar with the end bent used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling |
| Rabble: | To stir or skim with a rabble as molten iron |
| Rabble: | To speak in a confused manner |
| Rabble: | A tumultuous crowd of vulgar noisy people a mob a confused disorderly throng |
| Rabble: | Of or pertaining to a rabble like or suited to a rabble disorderly vulgar |
| Rabble: | To insult or assault by a mob to mob as to rabble a curate |
| Rabblement: | A tumultuous crowd of low people a rabble |
| Rabbler: | A scraping tool for smoothing metal |
| Rabblerout: | A tumultuous crowd a rabble a noisy throng |
| Rabdoidal: | See Sagittal |
| Rabdology: | The method or art of performing arithmetical operations by means of Napiers bones See Napiers bones |
| Rabdomancy: | Divination by means of rods or wands |
| Rabid: | Furious raging extremely violent |
| Rabidity: | Rabidness furiousness |
| Rabidly: | In a rabid manner with extreme violence |
| Rabidness: | The quality or state of being rabid |
| dRabies: | Same as Hydrophobia b canine madness |
| Rabinet: | A kind of small ordnance formerly in use |
| Rabious: | Fierce |
| Rabot: | A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished |
| dRaca: | A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Saviors time meaning bdworthlessb8 |
| dRacahout: | A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate and also as a beverage for invalids |
| Raccoon: | A North American nocturnal carnivore Procyon lotor allied to the bears but much smaller and having a long full tail banded with black and gray Its body is gray varied with black and white Called also coon and mapach |
| Race: | To raze |
| Race: | A root |
| Race: | A progress a course a movement or progression |
| Race: | To run swiftly to contend in a race as the animals raced over the ground the ships raced from port to port |
| Race: | To cause to contend in a race to drive at high speed as to race horses |
| Raceabout: | A small slooprigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit |
| Racemate: | A salt of racemic acid |
| Racemation: | A cluster or bunch as of grapes |
| Raceme: | A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many oneflowered lateral pedicels as in the currant and chokecherry |
| Racemed: | Arranged in a raceme or in racemes |
| Racemic: | Pertaining to or designating an acid found in many kinds of grapes It is also obtained from tartaric acid with which it is isomeric and from sugar gum etc by oxidation It is a sour white crystalline substance consisting of a combination of dextrorotatory and levorotatory tartaric acids |
| Racemiferous: | Bearing racemes as the currant |
| Racemiform: | Having the form of a raceme |
| Racemose: | Resembling a raceme growing in the form of a raceme as Bot racemose berries or flowers Anat the racemose glands in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme |
| Racemous: | See Racemose |
| Racemule: | A little raceme |
| Racemulose: | Growing in very small racemes |
| Racer: | One who or that which races or contends in a race esp a race horse |
| Racesuicide: | The voluntary failure of the members of a race or people to have a number of children sufficient to keep the birth rate equal to the death rate |
| Rach: | A dog that pursued his prey by scent as distinguished from the greyhound |
| dRachialgia: | A painful affection of the spine especially Potts disease also formerly lead colic |
| Rachidian: | Of or pertaining to the rachis spinal vertebral Same as Rhachidian |
| dRachilla: | Same as Rhachilla |
| Rachiodont: | Same as Rhachiodont |
| dRachis: | The spine the vertebral column |
| Rachitic: | Of or pertaining to rachitis affected by rachitis rickety |
| dRachitis: | Literally inflammation of the spine but commonly applied to the rickets See Rickets |
| Rachitome: | A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal |
| Racial: | Of or pertaining to a race or family of men as the racial complexion |
| Racily: | In a racy manner |
| Raciness: | The quality of being racy peculiar and piquant flavor |
| Racing: | a n from Race v t i |
| Rack: | Same as Arrack |
| Rack: | The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton |
| Rack: | A wreck destruction |
| Rack: | Thin flying broken clouds or any portion of floating vapor in the sky |
| Rack: | To fly as vapor or broken clouds |
| Rack: | To amble fast causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body to pace said of a horse |
| Rack: | A fast amble |
| Rack: | To draw off from the lees or sediment as wine |
| Rack: | An instrument or frame used for stretching extending retaining or displaying something |
| Rack: | To extend by the application of force to stretch or strain specifically to stretch on the rack or wheel to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints |
| Rackabones: | A very lean animal esp a horse |
| Rackarock: | A Sprengel explosive consisting of potassium chlorate and mononitrobenzene |
| Racker: | One who racks |
| Racket: | A thin strip of wood having the ends brought together forming a somewhat elliptical hoop across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched It is furnished with a handle and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games |
| Racket: | To strike with or as with a racket |
| Racket: | confused clattering noise din noisy talk or sport |
| Racket: | A scheme dodge trick or the like something taking place considered as exciting trying unusual or the like also such occurrence considered as an ordeal as to work a racket to stand upon the racket |
| Racket: | To make a confused noise or racket |
| Racketer: | One who makes or engages in a racket |
| Rackett: | An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind having ventages but not keys |
| Rackettail: | Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura having two of the tail feathers very long and racketshaped |
| Rackettailed: | Having long and spatulate or racketshaped tail feathers |
| Rackety: | Making a tumultuous noise |
| Racking: | Spun yarn used in racking ropes |
| Rackrent: | A rent of the full annual value of the tenement or near it an excessive or unreasonably high rent |
| Rackrent: | To subject to rackrent as a farm or tenant |
| Rackrenter: | One who is subjected to paying rackrent |
| Racktail: | An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock |
| Rackwork: | Any mechanism having a rack as a rack and pinion |
| Racle: | See Rakel |
| Racleness: | See Rakelness |
| dRaconteur: | A relater a storyteller |
| dRacoonda: | The coypu |
| Racovian: | One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland |
| Racquet: | See Racket |
| Racy: | Having a strong flavor indicating origin of distinct characteristic taste tasting of the soil hence fresh rich |
| Rad: | a unit of measurement of the amount of ionizing radiation absorbed by an object equal to an energy of 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material equal to 001 gray |
| Rad: | imp p p of Read Rede |
| Radde: | imp of Read Rede |
| Raddle: | A long flexible stick rod or branch which is interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes in making a kind of hedge or fence |
| Raddle: | To interweave or twist together |
| Raddle: | A red pigment used in marking sheep and in some mechanical processes ruddle |
| Raddle: | To mark or paint with or as with raddle |
| Raddock: | The ruddock |
| Rade: | A raid |
| dRadeau: | A float a raft |
| Radial: | Of or pertaining to a radius or ray consisting of or like radii or rays radiated as Bot radial projections Zo94l radial vessels or canals Anat the radial artery |
| dRadiale: | The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man |
| Radialengine: | An engine usually an internalcombustion engine of a certain type the radial type having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft |
| Radially: | In a radial manner |
| Radialtire: | a motor vehicle tire in which the cords run at right angles to the plane of the tire considered as a disk |
| Radian: | An arc of a circle which is equal to the radius or the angle measured by such an arc |
| Radiance: | The quality of being radiant brilliancy effulgence vivid brightness as the radiance of the sun |
| Radiant: | Emitting or proceeding as from a center resembling rays radiating radiate |
| Radiant: | The luminous point or object from which light emanates also a body radiating light brightly |
| Radiantengine: | A semiradial engine See Radial engine above |
| Radiantly: | In a radiant manner with glittering splendor |
| Radiary: | A radiate |
| dRadiata: | An extensive artificial group of invertebrates having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere |
| Radiate: | To emit rays to be radiant to shine |
| Radiate: | To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points as to radiate heat |
| Radiate: | Having rays or parts diverging from a center radiated as a radiate crystal |
| Radiate: | One of the Radiata |
| Radiated: | Emitted or sent forth in rays or direct lines as radiated heat |
| Radiately: | In a radiate manner with radiation or divergence from a center |
| Radiateveined: | Having the principal veins radiating or diverging from the apex of the petiole said of such leaves as those of the grapevine most maples and the castoroil plant |
| Radiatiform: | Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower |
| Radiation: | The act of radiating or the state of being radiated emission and diffusion of rays of light beamy brightness |
| Radiative: | Capable of radiating acting by radiation |
| Radiator: | That which radiates or emits rays whether of light or heat especially that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused as a steam radiator |
| Radical: | Of or pertaining to the root proceeding directly from the root |
| Radical: | A primitive word a radix root or simple underived uncompounded word an etymon |
| Radicalism: | The quality or state of being radical specifically the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform |
| Radicality: | Germinal principle source origination |
| Radically: | In a radical manner at or from the origin or root fundamentally as a scheme or system radically wrong or defective |
| Radicalness: | Quality or state of being radical |
| Radicant: | Taking root on or above the ground rooting from the stem as the trumpet creeper and the ivy |
| Radicate: | Radicated |
| Radicate: | To take root to become rooted |
| Radicate: | To cause to take root to plant deeply and firmly to root |
| Radicated: | Rooted |
| Radication: | The process of taking root or state of being rooted as the radication of habits |
| Radicel: | A small branch of a root a rootlet |
| Radiciflorous: | Rhizanthous |
| Radiciform: | Having the nature or appearance of a radix or root |
| Radicle: | The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed and from which the root is developed downward the stem of the embryo the caulicle |
| Radicular: | Of or pertaining to roots or the root of a plant |
| Radicule: | A radicle |
| Radiculose: | Producing numerous radicles or rootlets |
| Radii: | pl of Radius |
| Radio: | Of or pertaining to or employing or operated by radiant energy specifically that of electromagnetic waves with frequencies between those of infrared radiation and Xrays hence pertaining to or employed in broadcast radio or television microwaves radiotelephones etc as radio waves |
| Radio: | A combining form indicating connection with or relation to a radius or ray specifically Anat with the radius of the forearm as radioulnar radiomuscular radiocarpal |
| radioactive: | Capable of luminescence under the action of cathode rays X rays or any of the allied forms of radiation |
| radioactivity: | a form of instability which is a property of the atomic nuclei of certain isotopes which causes a spontaneous change in the structure of the nucleus accompanied by emission of energetic radiation The radiation emitted is usually sufficient to cause ionization in matter through which it passes and is therefore called ionizing radiation The radiation emitted by most radioactive substances is one of three types alpha rays beta rays or gamma rays Some chemical elements have no stable isotopes and these are referred to as radioactive elements and the element itself is said to possess radioactivity |
| Radioconductor: | A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves as a coherer |
| dRadioflagellata: | A group of Protozoa having both flagella and pseudopodia |
| radiograph: | An instrument for measuring and recording solar radiation |
| radiograph: | To make a radiograph of |
| radiography: | Art or process of making radiographs radiograms or autoradiograms |
| dRadiolaria: | Order of rhizopods usually having a siliceous skeleton or shell and sometimes radiating spicules The pseudopodia project from the body like rays It includes the polycystines See Polycystina |
| Radiolarian: | Of or pertaining to the Radiolaria |
| dRadioli: | The barbs of the radii of a feather barbules |
| Radiolite: | A hippurite |
| Radiometer: | A forestaff |
| Radiometry: | The use of the radiometer or the measurement of radiation |
| Radiomicrometer: | A very sensitive modification or application of the thermopile used for indicating minute changes of radiant heat or temperature |
| Radiophare: | A radiotelegraphic station serving solely for determining the position of ships The radius of operation of such stations was restricted by the International Radiotelegraphic Convention 1912 to 30 nautical miles |
| Radiophone: | An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of luminous or thermal rays It is essentially the same as the photophone |
| Radiophony: | The art or practice of using the radiophone |
| Radiopticon: | See Projector above |
| Radioscopy: | Direct observation of objects opaque to light by means of some other form of radiant energy as xrays |
| Radiotelegram: | A message transmitted by radiotelegraph |
| Radiotelegraph: | A wireless telegraph |
| Radiotelegraphic: | Of or pertaining to radiotelegraphy employing or used or employed in radiotelegraphy |
| Radiotelegraphy: | Telegraphy using the radiant energy of radio waves wireless telegraphy the term adopted for use by the Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912 |
| Radiotelephone: | A wireless telephone in which the signal is conveyed by radio waves |
| Radiotherapy: | Treatment of disease by means of xrays or radioactivity Radiotherapy of cancer is based on the fact that cancer cells are more sensitive to radiation than most other cells in the body |
| radiothorium: | an earlier name for the thorium isotope thorium228 given by its discoverer Otto Hahn It is a radioactive substance formed as one of series of products in the chain of radioactive decay of thorium Its immediate predecessor in the chain is Actinium228 and it decays by alpha emission to radium224 with a halflife of 191 years The name radiothorium was given prior to the full understanding of the nature of isotopes of elements |
| radious: | Consisting of rays as light |
| Radish: | The pungent fleshy root of a wellknown cruciferous plant Raphanus sativus also the whole plant |
| Radium: | An intensely radioactive metallic element found combined in minute quantities in pitchblende and various other uranium minerals Symbol Ra atomic weight 2264 Radium was discovered by M and Mme Curie of Paris who in 1902 separated compounds of it by a tedious process from pitchblende Its compounds color flames carmine and give a characteristic spectrum It is divalent resembling barium chemically The main isotope of radium found in pitchblende radium226 has a halflife of 1620 years decaying first by alpha emission to radon |
| Radius: | A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery the semidiameter of a circle or sphere |
| dRadiusvector: | A straight line or the length of such line connecting any point as of a curve with a fixed point or pole round which the straight line turns and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve in a system of polar co94rdinates See Co94rdinate n |
| Radix: | A primitive word from which spring other words a radical a root an etymon |
| Radon: | An intensely radioactive gaseous element produced by the radioactive decay of radium226 which is the main isotope of radium found in pitchblende Chemically it is an inert noble gas Its atomic symbol is Rn It has an atomic number of 86 The radon isotope produced by decay of radium has an atomic weight of 222017 and this isotope decays by alpha emission with a halflife of 382 days Numerous other isotopes have been observed all radioactive and all having halflives shorter than that of radon222 Radon was discovered by M and Mme Curie of Paris in their studies of the radioactive substances in pitchblende Radon was originally called radium emanation or exradio |
| dRadula: | The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks called also lingual ribbon and tongue See Odontophore |
| Raduliform: | Rasplike as raduliform teeth |
| Raff: | To sweep snatch draw or huddle together to take by a promiscuous sweep |
| Raff: | A promiscuous heap a jumble a large quantity lumber refuse |
| Raffaelesque: | Raphaelesque |
| Raffia: | A fibrous material used for tying plants said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia |
| Raffiapalm: | A pinnateleaved palm Raphia ruffia native of Madagascar and of considerable economic importance on account of the strong fiber raffia obtained from its leafstalks |
| Raffinose: | A colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet |
| Raffish: | Resembling or having the character of raff or a raff worthless low |
| Raffle: | A kind of lottery in which several persons pay in shares the value of something put up as a stake and then determine by chance as by casting dice which one of them shall become the sole possessor |
| Raffle: | Refuse rubbish raff |
| Raffle: | To engage in a raffle as to raffle for a watch |
| Raffle: | To dispose of by means of a raffle often followed by off as to raffle off a horse |
| Raffler: | One who raffles |
| dRafflesia: | A genus of stemless leafless plants living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia The flowers have a carrionlike odor and are very large in one species Rafflesia Arnoldi having a diameter of two or three feet |
| Raft: | imp p p of Reave |
| Raft: | A collection of logs boards pieces of timber or the like fastened together either for their own collective conveyance on the water or to serve as a support in conveying other things a float |
| Raft: | To transport on a raft or in the form of a raft to make into a raft as to raft timber |
| Rafte: | imp of Reave |
| Rafter: | A raftsman |
| Rafter: | Originally any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber Now commonly one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping according to the inclination of the roof See Illust of Queenpost |
| Rafter: | To make into rafters as timber |
| Rafting: | The business of making or managing rafts |
| Raftsman: | A man engaged in rafting |
| Rafty: | Damp musty |
| Rag: | To scold or rail at to rate to tease to torment to banter |
| Rag: | A piece of cloth torn off a tattered piece of cloth a shred a tatter a fragment |
| Rag: | To become tattered |
| Rag: | To break ore into lumps for sorting |
| Rag: | To play or compose a piece melody etc in syncopated time |
| Ragabash: | An idle ragged person |
| Ragamuffin: | A paltry or disreputable fellow a mean wretch |
| Rage: | Violent excitement eager passion extreme vehemence of desire emotion or suffering mastering the will |
| Rage: | To be furious with anger to be exasperated to fury to be violently agitated with passion |
| Rage: | To enrage |
| Rageful: | Full of rage expressing rage |
| Ragery: | Wantonness |
| Ragged: | Rent or worn into tatters or till the texture is broken as a ragged coat a ragged sail |
| Raggie: | Ragged rough |
| dRaghuvansa: | A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty |
| Raging: | a n from Rage v i |
| Ragious: | Raging furious rageful |
| Raglan: | A loose overcoat with large sleeves named after Lord Raglan an English general who was an aidedecamp to Wellington at Waterlooo |
| raglansleeve: | A sleeve joined to the body of a garment by a long slanting seam starting at the neck and continuing around the armhole Contrasted to a setin sleeve |
| Ragman: | A man who collects or deals in rags |
| Ragman: | A document having many names or numerous seals as a papal bull |
| Ragmansroll: | The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I of England A D 1296 |
| Ragnarok: | The socalled bdTwilight of the Godsb8 called in German G94tterd84mmerung the final destruction of the world in the great conflict between the 92sir gods on the one hand and on the other the giants and the powers of Hel under the leadership of Loki who is escaped from bondage |
| Ragout: | A dish made of pieces of meat stewed and highly seasoned as a ragout of mutton |
| Ragpicker: | One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets |
| Ragtime: | a rhythm with a regular accompaniment in twofour time and a melody characterized by syncopation first recognized in many negro melodies also a style of American music in this rhythm |
| Raguled: | Notched in regular diagonal breaks said of a line or a bearing having such an edge |
| Ragweed: | A common American composite weed Ambrosia artemisifolia with finely divided leaves hogweed |
| Ragwork: | A kind of rubblework In the United States any rubblework of thin and small stones |
| Ragwort: | A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio |
| dRaia: | A genus of rays which includes the skates See Skate |
| dRai: | The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes skates and rays called also Raj and Rajii |
| Raid: | A hostile or predatory incursion an inroad or incursion of mounted men a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force a foray |
| Raid: | To make a raid upon or into as two regiments raided the border counties |
| Raider: | One who engages in a raid |
| Raiffeisen: | Designating or pertaining to a form of co94perative bank founded among the German agrarian population by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen 181888 as Raiffeisen banks the Raiffeisen system etc The banks are unlimitedliability institutions making small loans at a low rate of interest for a designated purpose to worthy members only |
| Rail: | An outer cloak or covering a neckerchief for women |
| Rail: | To flow forth to roll out to course |
| Rail: | A bar of timber or metal usually horizontal or nearly so extending from one post or support to another as in fences balustrades staircases etc |
| Rail: | To inclose with rails or a railing |
| Rail: | Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallid especially those of the genus Rallus and of closely allied genera They are prized as game birds |
| Rail: | To use insolent and reproachful language to utter reproaches to scoff followed by at or against formerly by on |
| Rail: | To rail at |
| Railer: | One who rails one who scoffs insults censures or reproaches with opprobrious language |
| Railing: | Expressing reproach insulting |
| Railing: | A barrier made of a rail or of rails together with vertical supports The typical railing in the interior of structures or on porches has a horizontal rail near waist height and multiple vertical supports Its function is usually to provide a safety barrier at the edge of a verticle drop to prevent falls |
| Railingly: | With scoffing or insulting language |
| Raillery: | Pleasantry or slight satire banter jesting language satirical merriment |
| dRailleur: | A banterer a jester a mocker |
| Railroad: | A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles and suitably supported on a bed or substructure |
| Railroad: | To carry or send by railroad usually fig to send or put through at high speed or in great haste to hurry or rush unduly as to railroad a bill through Condress |
| Railroading: | The construction of a railroad the business of managing or operating a railroad |
| Raiment: | Clothing in general vesture garments usually singular in form with a collective sense |
| Rain: | Reign |
| Rain: | Water falling in drops from the clouds the descent of water from the clouds in drops |
| Rain: | To fall in drops from the clouds as water used mostly with it for a nominative as it rains |
| Rain: | To pour or shower down from above like rain from the clouds |
| Rainbow: | A bow or arch exhibiting in concentric bands the several colors of the spectrum and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the suns rays in drops of falling rain |
| Rainbowed: | Formed with or like a rainbow |
| Raindeer: | See Reindeer |
| Raindrop: | A drop of rain |
| Rainfall: | A fall or descent of rain the water or amount of water that falls in rain as the average annual rainfall of a region |
| Raininess: | The state of being rainy |
| Rainless: | Destitute of rain as a rainless region |
| Raintight: | So tight as to exclude rain as a raintight roof |
| Rainy: | Abounding with rain wet showery as rainy weather a rainy day or season |
| Raip: | A rope also a measure equal to a rod |
| Rais: | Same as 2d Reis |
| Raisable: | Capable of being raised |
| Raised: | Lifted up showing above the surroundings as raised or embossed metal work |
| Raiser: | One who or that which raises in various senses of the verb |
| Raisin: | A grape or a bunch of grapes |
| Raising: | The act of lifting setting up elevating exalting producing or restoring to life |
| dRaisonn: | Arranged systematically or according to classes or subjects as a catalogue raisonn See under Catalogue |
| Raivel: | A separator |
| dRaj: | Reign rule |
| dRaja: | Same as Rajah |
| Rajah: | A native prince or king also a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts |
| Rajahship: | The office or dignity of a rajah |
| dRajpoot: | A Hindoo of the second or royal and military caste a Kshatriya especially an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana in northern central India |
| Rake: | An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth and a long handle at right angles to it used for collecting hay or other light things which are spread over a large surface or for breaking and smoothing the earth |
| Rake: | To collect with a rake as to rake hay often with up as he raked up the fallen leaves |
| Rake: | To use a rake as for searching or for collecting to scrape to search minutely |
| Rake: | The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction as the rake of a roof a staircase etc |
| Rake: | To incline from a perpendicular direction as a mast rakes aft |
| Rake: | A loose disorderly vicious man a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices a debauchee a rou |
| Rake: | To walk about to gad or ramble idly |
| Rakehell: | A lewd dissolute fellow a debauchee a rake |
| Rakehell: | Dissolute wild lewd rakish |
| Rakel: | Hasty reckless rash |
| Raker: | One who or that which rakes |
| Rakery: | Debauchery lewdness |
| Rakeshame: | A vile dissolute wretch |
| Rakestale: | The handle of a rake |
| Rakevein: | See Rake a mineral vein |
| dRaki: | A kind of ardent spirits used in southern Europe and the East distilled from grape juice grain etc |
| Raking: | The act or process of using a rake the going over a space with a rake |
| Rakish: | Dissolute lewd debauched |
| Rakish: | Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash |
| Rakishly: | In a rakish manner |
| Rakishness: | The quality or state of being rakish |
| dRakuware: | A kind of earthenware made in Japan resembling Satsuma ware but having a paler color |
| dRle: | An adventitious sound usually of morbid origin accompanying the normal respiratory sounds See Rhonchus |
| dRallentando: | Slackening a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force ritardando |
| Ralliance: | The act of rallying |
| Rallier: | One who rallies |
| dRallis: | A French political group also known as the Constitutional Right from its position in the Chambers mainly monarchists who rallied to the support of the Republic in obedience to the encyclical put forth by Pope Leo XIII in Feb 1892 |
| Ralline: | Pertaining to the rails |
| Rally: | To collect and reduce to order as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion to gather again to reunite |
| Rally: | To come into orderly arrangement to renew order or united effort as troops scattered or put to flight to assemble to unite |
| Rally: | The act or process of rallying in any of the senses of that word |
| Rally: | To attack with raillery either in good humor and pleasantry or with slight contempt or satire |
| Rally: | To use pleasantry or satirical merriment |
| Rally: | Goodhumored raillery |
| Ralph: | A name sometimes given to the raven |
| Ralstonite: | A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals |
| Ram: | The male of the sheep and allied animals In some parts of England a ram is called a tup |
| Ram: | To butt or strike against to drive a ram against or through to thrust or drive with violence to force in to drive together to cram as to ram an enemys vessel to ram piles cartridges etc |
| dRamadan: | The ninth Mohammedan month |
| Ramage: | Boughs or branches |
| Ramage: | Wild untamed |
| Ramagious: | Wild not tame |
| Ramal: | Of or pertaining to a ramus or branch rameal |
| dRamayana: | The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita |
| Ramberge: | Formerly a kind of large war galley |
| Ramble: | To walk ride or sail from place to place without any determinate object in view to roam carelessly or irregularly to rove to wander as to ramble about the city to ramble over the world |
| Ramble: | A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object an excursion or stroll merely for recreation |
| Rambler: | One who rambles a rover a wanderer |
| Rambling: | Roving wandering discursive as a rambling fellow talk or building |
| Ramblingly: | In a rambling manner |
| Rambooze: | A beverage made of wine ale or milk sugar etc |
| Rambutan: | A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum and closely related to the litchi nut It is bright red oval in shape covered with coarse hairs whence the name and contains a pleasant acid pulp Called also ramboostan |
| Rameal: | Same as Ramal |
| Ramean: | A Ramist |
| Ramed: | Having the frames stem and sternpost adjusted said of a ship on the stocks |
| Ramee: | See Ramie |
| Ramekin: | same as Ramequin |
| Rament: | A scraping a shaving |
| dRamenta: | Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns |
| Ramentaceous: | Covered with ramenta |
| Rameous: | Ramal |
| Ramequin: | A mixture of cheese eggs etc formed in a mold or served on bread |
| Ramie: | The grasscloth plant B also its fiber which is very fine and exceedingly strong called also China grass and rhea See Grasscloth plant under Grass |
| Ramification: | The process of branching or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem also the mode of their arrangement |
| Ramiflorous: | Flowering on the branches |
| Ramiform: | Having the form of a branch |
| Ramify: | To divide into branches or subdivisions as to ramify an art subject scheme |
| Ramify: | To shoot or divide into branches or subdivisions as the stem of a plant |
| Ramigerous: | Bearing branches branched |
| Ramiparous: | Producing branches ramigerous |
| Ramist: | A follower of Pierre Ram better known as Ramus a celebrated French scholar who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II and opposed the Aristotelians |
| Ramline: | A line used to get a straight middle line as on a spar or from stem to stern in building a vessel |
| Rammel: | Refuse matter |
| Rammer: | One who or that which rams or drives |
| Rammish: | Like a ram hence rank lascivious |
| Rammishness: | The quality of being rammish |
| Rammy: | Like a ram rammish |
| Ramollescence: | A softening or mollifying |
| Ramoon: | A small West Indian tree Trophis Americana of the Mulberry family whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle |
| Ramose: | Branched as the stem or root of a plant having lateral divisions consisting of or having branches full of branches ramifying branching branchy |
| Ramous: | Ramose |
| Ramp: | A leap a spring a hostile advance |
| Rampacious: | Highspirited rampageous |
| Rampage: | Violent or riotous behavior a state of excitement passion or debauchery as to be on the rampage |
| Rampage: | To leap or prance about as an animal to be violent to rage |
| Rampageous: | Characterized by violence and passion unruly rampant |
| Rampallian: | A mean wretch |
| Rampancy: | The quality or state of being rampant excessive action or development exuberance extravagance |
| Rampant: | Ramping leaping springing rearing upon the hind legs hence raging furious |
| Rampantly: | In a rampant manner |
| Rampart: | To surround or protect with or as with a rampart or ramparts |
| Rampe: | The cuckoopint |
| Rampier: | See Rampart |
| Rampion: | A plant Campanula Rapunculus of the Bellflower family with a tuberous esculent root also called ramps |
| Rampire: | A rampart |
| Rampire: | To fortify with a rampire to form into a rampire |
| Rampler: | A rambler |
| Rampler: | Roving rambling |
| Ramrod: | The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzleloading firearm |
| Ramshackle: | Loose disjointed falling to pieces out of repair |
| Ramshackle: | To search or ransack to rummage |
| Ramson: | A broadleaved species of garlic Allium ursinum common in European gardens called also buckram |
| Ramsted: | A yellowflowered weed so named from a Mr Ramsted who introduced it into Pennsylvania See Toad flax Called also Ramsted weed |
| Ramtil: | A tropical African asteraceous shrub Guizotia abyssinica cultivated for its seeds called ramtil seeds or niger seeds which yield a valuable oil used for food and as an illuminant |
| Ramulose: | Having many small branches or ramuli |
| Ramulous: | Ramulose |
| dRamulus: | A small branch or branchlet of corals hydroids and similar organisms |
| dRamus: | A branch a projecting part or prominent process a ramification |
| Ramuscule: | A small ramus or branch |
| Ran: | imp of Run |
| Ran: | Open robbery |
| Ran: | Yarns coiled on a spunyarn winch |
| dRana: | A genus of anurous batrachians including the common frogs |
| Ranal: | Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants |
| Rance: | A prop or shore |
| Rancescent: | Becoming rancid or sour |
| Ranch: | To wrench to tear to sprain to injure by violent straining or contortion |
| Ranch: | A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses cattle or sheep See Rancho 2 |
| dRancheria: | A dwelling place of a ranchero |
| dRanchero: | A herdsman a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho |
| Ranchman: | An owner or occupant of or laborer on a ranch a herdsman |
| dRancho: | A rude hut as of posts covered with branches or thatch where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night |
| Rancid: | Having a rank smell or taste from chemical change or decomposition musty as rancid oil or butter |
| Rancidity: | The quality or state of being rancid a rancid scent or flavor as of old oil |
| Rancidly: | In a rancid manner |
| Rancidness: | The quality of being rancid |
| Rancor: | The deepest malignity or spite deepseated enmity or malice inveterate hatred |
| Rancorous: | Full of rancor evincing or caused by rancor deeply malignant implacably spiteful or malicious intensely virulent |
| Rancorously: | In a rancorous manner |
| Rand: | A border edge margin |
| Rand: | Rim edge border |
| Rand: | To rant to storm |
| RandD: | research and development used mostly to refer to the division of a corporation responsible for performing research and developing new products a commonly used abbreviation |
| Randallgrass: | The meadow fescue Festuca elatior See under Grass |
| Randan: | The product of a second sifting of meal the finest part of the bran |
| Randan: | A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars the middle rower pulling two |
| Randing: | The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes |
| Random: | Force violence |
| Random: | Going at random or by chance done or made at hazard or without settled direction aim or purpose hazarded without previous calculation left to chance haphazard as a random guess |
| Randomize: | to arrange or rearrange so that there is no predetermined order to select by a random process to assign members of a group into subgroups by a random process |
| Randomly: | In a random manner |
| Randon: | Random |
| Randon: | To go or stray at random |
| Ranedeer: | See Reindeer |
| dRanee: | Same as Rani |
| Ranforce: | See Re |
| Rang: | imp of Ring v t i |
| Range: | To set in a row or in rows to place in a regular line or lines or in ranks to dispose in the proper order to rank as to range soldiers in line |
| Range: | To rove at large to wander without restraint or direction to roam |
| Range: | A series of things in a line a row a rank as a range of buildings a range of mountains |
| Rangement: | Arrangement |
| Ranger: | One who ranges a rover sometimes one who ranges for plunder a roving robber |
| Rangership: | The office of the keeper of a forest or park |
| Rangle: | To range about in an irregular manner |
| Rangy: | Inclined or able to range or rove about for considerable distances apt or suited for much roving chiefly used of cattle |
| dRani: | A queen or princess the wife of a rajah |
| Ranine: | Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads |
| Rank: | Luxuriant in growth of vigorous growth exuberant grown to immoderate height as rank grass rank weeds |
| Rank: | Rankly stoutly violently |
| Rank: | A row or line a range an order a tier as a rank of osiers |
| Rank: | To place abreast or in a line |
| Rank: | To be ranged to be set or disposed as in a particular degree class order or division |
| Ranker: | One who ranks or disposes in ranks one who arranges |
| Rankle: | To become or be rank to grow rank or strong to be inflamed to fester used literally and figuratively |
| Rankle: | To cause to fester to make sore to inflame |
| Rankly: | With rank or vigorous growth luxuriantly hence coarsely grossly as weeds grow rankly |
| Rankness: | The condition or quality of being rank |
| Rannel: | A prostitute |
| Ranny: | The erd shrew |
| Ransack: | To search thoroughly to search every place or part of as to ransack a house |
| Ransack: | To make a thorough search |
| Ransack: | The act of ransacking or state of being ransacked pillage |
| Ransom: | The release of a captive or of captured property by payment of a consideration redemption as prisoners hopeless of ransom |
| Ransom: | To redeem from captivity servitude punishment or forfeit by paying a price to buy out of servitude or penalty to rescue to deliver as to ransom prisoners from an enemy |
| Ransomable: | Such as can be ransomed |
| Ransomer: | One who ransoms or redeems |
| Ransomless: | Incapable of being ransomed without ransom |
| Rant: | To rave in violent highsounding or extravagant language without dignity of thought to be noisy boisterous and bombastic in talk or declamation as a ranting preacher |
| Rant: | Highsounding language without importance or dignity of thought boisterous empty declamation bombast as the rant of fanatics |
| Ranter: | A noisy talker a raving declaimer |
| Ranterism: | The practice or tenets of the Ranters |
| Rantingly: | In a ranting manner |
| Rantipole: | A wild romping young person |
| Rantipole: | Wild roving rakish |
| Rantipole: | To act like a rantipole |
| Rantism: | Ranterism |
| Ranty: | Wild noisy boisterous |
| dRanula: | A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland |
| Ranunculaceous: | Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants Ranunculace of which the buttercup is the type and which includes also the virgins bower the monkshood larkspur anemone meadow rue and peony |
| Ranunculus: | A genus of herbs mostly with yellow flowers including crowfoot buttercups and the cultivated ranunculi Ranunculus Asiaticus Ranunculus aconitifolius etc in which the flowers are double and of various colors |
| dRanzdesvaches: | The name for numerous simple but very irregular melodies of the Swiss mountaineers blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn and sometimes sung |
| Rap: | A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn |
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