| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| reactionary | adjective | Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements., One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution. |
| reactionist | noun | A reactionary. |
| readability | noun | The state of being readable; readableness. |
| readmission | noun | The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary. |
| realization | noun | The act of realizing, or the state of being realized. |
| reanimation | noun | The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival. |
| reapportion | verb t. | To apportion again. |
| reascension | noun | The act of reascending; a remounting. |
| reassertion | noun | A second or renewed assertion of the same thing. |
| reassociate | verb t. & i. | To associate again; to bring again into close relations. |
| reassurance | noun | Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated., Same as Reinsurance. |
| rebarbarize | verb t. | To reduce again to barbarism. |
| rebullition | noun | The act of boiling up or effervescing. |
| recantation | noun | The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction. |
| recarbonize | verb t. | To restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel. |
| receiptment | noun | The receiving or harboring a felon knowingly, after the commission of a felony. |
| recelebrate | verb t. | To celebrate again, or anew. |
| receptacula | plural | of Receptaculum |
| receptivity | noun | The state or quality of being receptive., The power or capacity of receiving impressions, as those of the external senses. |
| recessional | adjective | Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. |
| recipiangle | noun | An instrument with two arms that are pivoted together at one end, and a graduated arc, — used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications. |
| reciprocate | verb i. | To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate., To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors. |
| reciprocity | noun | Mutual action and reaction., Reciprocal advantages, obligations, or rights; reciprocation. |
| reciprocous | adjective | Reciprocal. |
| reclaimable | adjective | That may be reclaimed. |
| reclaimless | adjective | That can not be reclaimed. |
| reclamation | noun | The act or process of reclaiming., Representation made in opposition; remonstrance. |
| reclination | noun | The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined., The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line., The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one. |
| recluseness | noun | Quality or state of being recluse. |
| recognition | noun | The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice. |
| recognitory | adjective | Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition. |
| recognizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Recognize |
| recoilingly | adverb | In the manner of a recoil. |
| recollected | imp. & past participle | of Recollect |
| recommended | imp. & past participle | of Recommend |
| recommender | noun | One who recommends. |
| recommittal | noun | A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee. |
| recompensed | imp. & past participle | of Recompense |
| recompenser | noun | One who recompenses. |
| recomposing | present participle & vb. noun | of Recompose |
| reconciling | present participle & vb. noun | of Reconcile |
| reconditory | noun | A repository; a storehouse. |
| reconnoiter | verb t. | Alt. of Reconnoitre |
| reconnoitre | verb t. | To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations., To recognize. |
| reconsolate | verb t. | To console or comfort again. |
| reconstruct | verb t. | To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew. |
| recordation | verb t. | Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. |
| recountment | noun | Recital. |
| recourseful | adjective | Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. |
| recoverable | adjective | Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable. |
| re-creation | noun | A forming anew; a new creation or formation. |
| re-creative | adjective | Creating anew; as, re-creative power. |
| recremental | adjective | Recrementitious. |
| recriminate | verb i. | To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser., To accuse in return. |
| recruitment | noun | The act or process of recruiting; especially, the enlistment of men for an army. |
| rectangular | adjective | Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees. |
| rectifiable | adjective | Capable of being rectified; as, a rectifiable mistake., Admitting, as a curve, of the construction of a straight l//e equal in length to any definite portion of the curve. |
| rectilineal | adjective | Alt. of Rectilinear |
| rectilinear | adjective | Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. |
| rectinerved | adjective | Having the veins or nerves straight; — said of leaves. |
| rectiserial | adjective | Arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as the leaves on stems of many kinds; — opposed to curviserial. |
| recuperable | adjective | Recoverable. |
| recuperated | imp. &. past participle | of Recuperate |
| recuperator | noun | Same as Regenerator. |
| recurvation | noun | The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward. |
| redargution | noun | The act of redarguing; refutation. |
| redargutory | adjective | Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory. |
| redemptible | adjective | Redeemable. |
| re-demption | noun | The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo., The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or the taking back of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms or conditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming and reentering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemption, under Equity., Performance of the obligation stated in a note, bill, bond, or other evidence of debt, by making payment to the holder., The procuring of God’s favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God’s violated law. |
| redhibition | noun | The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect. |
| redhibitory | adjective | Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault. |
| redisseizin | noun | A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case. |
| redisseizor | noun | One who redisseizes. |
| redoubtable | adjective | Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; — often in contempt or burlesque. |
| redressible | adjective | Such as may be redressed. |
| redressless | adjective | Not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable. |
| redressment | noun | The act of redressing; redress. |
| reductively | adverb | By reduction; by consequence. |
| redundantly | adverb | In a refundant manner. |
| reduplicate | adjective | Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated., Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; — said of the /stivation of certain flowers., To redouble; to multiply; to repeat., To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3. |
| reemergence | noun | Act of reemerging. |
| reenactment | noun | The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law. |
| reencourage | verb t. | To encourage again. |
| reenjoyment | noun | Renewed enjoyment. |
| reestablish | verb t. | To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reestablish a covenant; to reestablish health. |
| reexpulsion | noun | Renewed or repeated expulsion. |
| refectories | plural | of Refectory |
| referendary | noun | One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee., An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions., Formerly, an officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees. |
| referential | adjective | Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. |
| reflectible | adjective | Capable of being reflected, or thrown back; reflexible. |
| refocillate | verb t. | To refresh; to revive. |
| reforestize | verb t. | To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees. |
| reformalize | verb i. | To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. |
| reformation | noun | The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses., Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches. |
| reformative | adjective | Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. |
| reformatory | adjective | Tending to produce reformation; reformative., An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. |
| refractable | adjective | Capable of being refracted. |
| refrainment | noun | Act of refraining. |
| refrangible | adjective | Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light. |
| refrenation | verb t. | The act of refraining. |
| refreshment | noun | The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression., That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation; especially, an article of food or drink. |
| refrication | noun | A rubbing up afresh; a brightening. |
| refrigerant | adjective | Cooling; allaying heat or fever., That which makes to be cool or cold; specifically, a medicine or an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of fever; — used also figuratively. |
| refrigerate | verb t. | To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool. |
| refrigerium | noun | Cooling refreshment; refrigeration. |
| refringency | noun | The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray; as, different substances have different refringencies. |
| regenerator | noun | One who, or that which, regenerates., A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or gas. |
| regerminate | verb i. | To germinate again. |
| regimenting | present participle & vb. noun | of Regiment |
| regimentals | noun pl. | The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; — formerly used in the singular in the same sense. |
| registering | present participle & vb. noun | of Register, Recording; — applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording. |
| regredience | noun | A going back; a retrogression; a return. |
| regularness | noun | Regularity. |
| regurgitate | verb t. | To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity., To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back. |
| reichsstand | noun | A free city of the former German empire. |
| reimbursing | present participle & vb. noun | of Reimburse |
| reimportune | verb t. | To importune again. |
| reinsertion | noun | The act of reinserting. |
| reinstation | noun | Reinstatement. |
| reinsurance | noun | Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance., A contract by which an insurer is insured wholly or in part against the risk he has incurred in insuring somebody else. See Reassurance. |
| reintegrate | verb t. | To renew with regard to any state or quality; to restore; to bring again together into a whole, as the parts off anything; to reestablish; as, to reintegrate a nation. |
| reintroduce | verb t. | To introduce again. |
| reiterating | present participle & vb. noun | of Reiterate |
| reiteration | noun | The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated. |
| reiterative | noun | A word expressing repeated or reiterated action., A word formed from another, or used to form another, by repetition; as, dillydally. |
| rejoicement | noun | Rejoicing. |
| rejoicingly | adverb | With joi or exultation. |
| rejournment | noun | Adjournment. |
| relatedness | noun | The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. |
| relationist | noun | A relative; a relation. |
| releasement | noun | The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. |
| reliability | noun | The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness. |
| relievement | noun | The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release. |
| religionary | adjective | Relating to religion; pious; as, religionary professions., Alt. of Religioner |
| religionism | noun | The practice of, or devotion to, religion., Affectation or pretense of religion. |
| religionist | noun | One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot. |
| religionize | verb t. | To bring under the influence of religion. |
| religiosity | noun | The quality of being religious; religious feeling or sentiment; religiousness. |
| religiously | adverb | In a religious manner. |
| reliquidate | verb t. | To liquidate anew; to adjust a second time. |
| reluctantly | adverb | In a reluctant manner. |
| reluctation | noun | Repugnance; resistance; reluctance. |
| remasticate | verb t. | To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as the cud. |
| remembering | present participle & vb. noun | of Remember |
| remembrance | noun | The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection., The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection., Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory., That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered., Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni//on; instruction., Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one’s memory extends. |
| remigration | noun | Migration back to the place from which one came. |
| reminiscent | adjective | Recalling to mind, or capable of recalling to mind; having remembrance; reminding one of something., One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences. |
| remonstrant | adjective | Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something., One who remonstrates, one of the Arminians who remonstrated against the attacks of the Calvinists in 1610, but were subsequently condemned by the decisions of the Synod of Dort in 1618. See Arminian. |
| remonstrate | verb t. | To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate., To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation. |
| remorseless | adjective | Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. |
| remunerable | adjective | Admitting, or worthy, of remuneration. |
| remunerated | imp. & past participle | of Remunerate |
| renaissance | noun | A new birth, or revival., The transitional movement in Europe, marked by the revival of classical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, and the similar revival following in other countries., The style of art which prevailed at this epoch. |
| renewedness | noun | The state of being renewed. |
| renovelance | noun | Renewal. |
| reparteeing | present participle & vb. noun | of Repartee |
| repartotion | noun | Another, or an additional, separation into parts. |
| repentantly | adverb | In a repentant manner. |
| repentingly | adverb | With repentance; penitently. |
| repercussed | imp. & past participle | of Repercuss |
| repetitious | adjective | Repeating; containing repetition. |
| replaceable | adjective | Capable or admitting of being put back into a place., Admitting of having its place supplied by a like thing or an equivalent; as, the lost book is replaceable., Capable of being replaced (by), or of being exchanged (for); as, the hydrogen of acids is replaceable by metals or by basic radicals. |
| replacement | noun | The act of replacing., The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. |
| replantable | adjective | That may be planted again. |
| replenished | imp. & past participle | of Replenish |
| replenisher | noun | One who replenishes. |
| repleteness | noun | The state of being replete. |
| repleviable | adjective | Capable of being replevied. |
| replication | noun | An answer; a reply., The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant’s plea., Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo., A repetition; a copy. |
| reportingly | adverb | By report or common fame. |
| reportorial | adjective | Of or pertaining to a reporter or reporters; as, the reportorial staff of a newspaper. |
| reprehended | imp. & past participle | of Reprehend |
| reprehender | noun | One who reprehends. |
| representer | noun | One who shows, exhibits, or describes., A representative. |
| repressible | adjective | Capable of being repressed. |
| reprimanded | imp. & past participle | of Reprimand |
| reprimander | noun | One who reprimands. |
| reproaching | present participle & vb. noun | of Reproach |
| reproachful | adjective | Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive., Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. |
| reprobating | present participle & vb. noun | of Reprobate |
| reprobation | noun | The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure., The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment. |
| reprobative | adjective | Of or pertaining to reprobation; expressing reprobation. |
| reprobatory | adjective | Reprobative. |
| reprovingly | adverb | In a reproving manner. |
| republicate | verb t. | To make public again; to republish. |
| republished | imp. & past participle | of Republish |
| republisher | noun | One who republishes. |
| repudiating | present participle & vb. noun | of Repudiate |
| repudiation | noun | The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc., One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt. |
| repugnantly | adverb | In a repugnant manner. |
| repullulate | verb i. | To bud again. |
| repulseless | adjective | Not capable of being repulsed. |
| requirement | noun | The act of requiring; demand; requisition., That which is required; an imperative or authoritative command; an essential condition; something needed or necessary; a need. |
| requisition | noun | The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority., A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice., A notarial demand of a debt., A demand by the invader upon the people of an invaded country for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, etc., A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service; as, a requisition for clothing, troops, or money., That which is required by authority; especially, a quota of supplies or necessaries., A written or normal call; an invitation; a summons; as, a reqisition for a public meeting., To make a reqisition on or for; as, to requisition a district for forage; to requisition troops., To present a requisition to; to summon request; as, to requisition a person to be a candidate. |
| requisitive | adjective | Expressing or implying demand., One who, or that which, makes requisition; a requisitionist. |
| requisitory | adjective | Sought for; demanded. |
| requitement | noun | Requital |
| rescindable | adjective | Capable of being rescinded. |
| rescindment | noun | The act of rescinding; rescission. |
| rescription | noun | A writing back; the answering of a letter. |
| rescriptive | adjective | Pertaining to, or answering the purpose of, a rescript; hence, deciding; settling; determining. |
| researchful | adjective | Making researches; inquisitive. |
| resemblable | adjective | Admitting of being compared; like. |
| resemblance | noun | The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity., That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness., A comparison; a simile., Probability; verisimilitude. |
| resentiment | noun | Resentment. |
| resentingly | adverb | With deep sense or strong perception., With a sense of wrong or affront; with resentment. |
| reservation | noun | The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve., Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward., A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc., The state of being reserved, or kept in store., A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before., A proviso., The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick., A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices. |
| reservative | adjective | Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving. |
| reservatory | verb t. | A place in which things are reserved or kept. |
| residential | adjective | Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade., Residing; residentiary. |
| resignation | noun | The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission., The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as, resignation to the will and providence of God. |
| resinaceous | adjective | Having the quality of resin; resinous. |
| resourceful | adjective | Full of resources. |
| respectable | adjective | Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen., Moderate in degree of excellence or in number; as, a respectable performance; a respectable audience. |
| respectless | adjective | Having no respect; without regard; regardless. |
| respectuous | adjective | Respectful; as, a respectuous silence., Respectable. |
| respiration | noun | The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one’s breath., Relief from toil or suffering: rest., Interval; intermission., The act of resping or breathing; the act of taking in and giving out air; the aggregate of those processes bu which oxygen is introduced into the system, and carbon dioxide, or carbonic acid, removed. |
| respirative | adjective | Of or pertaining to respiration; as, respirative organs. |
| respiratory | adjective | Of or pertaining to respiration; serving for respiration; as, the respiratory organs; respiratory nerves; the respiratory function; respiratory changes. |
| respiteless | adjective | Without respite. |
| resplendent | adjective | Shining with brilliant luster; very bright. |
| respondence | noun | Alt. of Respondency |
| respondency | noun | The act of responding; the state of being respondent; an answering. |
| responsible | adjective | Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office., Able to respond or answer for one’s conduct and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise; as, to have a responsible man for surety., Involving responsibility; involving a degree of accountability on the part of the person concerned; as, a responsible office. |
| rest-harrow | noun | A European leguminous plant (Ononis arvensis) with long, tough roots. |
| restiffness | noun | Restiveness. |
| restinction | noun | Act of quenching or extingishing. |
| restinguish | verb t. | To quench or extinguish. |
| restitution | verb | The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification., That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation., The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body., The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor. |
| restoration | noun | The act of restoring or bringing back to a former place, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reestablishment; as, the restoration of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace after war., The state of being restored; recovery of health, strength, etc.; as, restoration from sickness., That which is restored or renewed. |
| restorative | adjective | Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore., Something which serves to restore; especially, a restorative medicine. |
| restoratory | adjective | Restorative. |
| restorement | noun | Restoration. |
| restraining | present participle & vb. noun | of Restrain |
| restricting | present participle & vb. noun | of Restrict |
| restriction | noun | The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds., That which restricts; limitation; restraint; as, restrictions on trade. |
| restrictive | adjective | Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade., Astringent or styptic in effect. |
| restringing | present participle & vb. noun | of Restringe |
| restringent | adjective | Restringing; astringent; styptic., A restringent medicine. |
| resupinated | adjective | Resupinate. |
| resuscitant | noun | One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively. |
| resuscitate | adjective | Restored to life., To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants., To come to life again; to revive. |
| retaliating | present participle & vb. noun | of Retaliate |
| retaliation | noun | The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. |
| retaliative | adjective | Same as Retaliatory. |
| retaliatory | adjective | Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures. |
| retardation | noun | The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; — opposed to acceleration., That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction., The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; — differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards., The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay. |
| retardative | adjective | Tending, or serving, to retard. |
| retentively | adverb | In a retentive manner. |
| retentivity | noun | The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet. |
| reticularia | noun pl. | An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell. |
| reticularly | adverb | In a reticular manner. |
| reticulated | adjective | Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure., Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect. |
| retinaculum | noun | A connecting band; a fraenum; as, the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves., One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle., One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms., A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants. |
| retinophora | noun | One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. See Illust. under Ommatidium. |
| retinoscopy | noun | The study of the retina of the eye by means of the ophthalmoscope. |
| retractable | adjective | Capable of being retracted; retractile. |
| retractible | adjective | Retractable. |
| retransform | verb t. | To transform anew or back. |
| retranslate | verb t. | To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language. |
| retreatment | noun | The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. |
| retrenching | present participle & vb. noun | of Retrench |
| retribution | noun | The act of retributing; repayment., That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong., Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment. |
| retributive | adjective | Alt. of Retributory |
| retributory | adjective | Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts. |
| retrievable | adjective | That may be retrieved or recovered; admitting of retrieval. |
| retroaction | noun | Action returned, or action backward., Operation on something past or preceding. |
| retroactive | adjective | Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. |
| retrocedent | adjective | Disposed or likely to retrocede; — said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout. |
| retroflexed | adjective | Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward. |
| retrograded | imp. & past participle | of Retrograde |
| retroverted | imp. & past participle | of Retrovert, In a state of retroversion. |
| revaccinate | verb t. | To vaccinate a second time or again. |
| revalescent | adjective | Growing well; recovering strength. |
| revaluation | noun | A second or new valuation. |
| revendicate | verb t. | To reclaim; to demand the restoration of. |
| revengeable | adjective | Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. |
| revengeance | noun | Vengeance; revenge. |
| revengeless | adjective | Unrevenged. |
| revengement | noun | Revenge. |
| reverberant | adjective | Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating. |
| reverberate | adjective | Reverberant., Driven back, as sound; reflected., To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat., To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace., Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat., To resound; to echo., To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound. |
| reverencing | present participle & vb. noun | of Reverence |
| reverential | adjective | Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe. |
| reverseless | adjective | Irreversible. |
| reversioner | noun | One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. |
| revindicate | verb t. | To vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back. |
| revisionary | adjective | Of or pertaining to revision; revisory. |
| reviviscent | adjective | Able or disposed to revive; reviving. |
| revolvement | noun | Act of revolving. |