| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| recall | verb t. | To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador., To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree., To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days., A calling back; a revocation., A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc. |
| recant | verb t. | To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall., To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant. |
| recast | verb t. | To throw again., To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play., To compute, or cast up, a second time. |
| recche | verb i. | To reck. |
| recede | verb i. | To move back; to retreat; to withdraw., To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition., To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory. |
| receit | noun | Receipt. |
| recent | adjective | Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news., Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells. |
| recess | noun | A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides., The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy., Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school., Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc., A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion., Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science., A sinus., To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall., A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. |
| recipe | noun | A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine. |
| recite | verb t. | To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant., To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage., To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor., To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5., To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned., A recital. |
| recked | imp. & past participle | of Reck |
| reckon | verb t. | To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate., To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute., To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value., To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; — followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won’t try that again., To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing., To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty. |
| recoct | verb t. | To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct. |
| recoil | verb i. | To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return., To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink., To turn or go back; to withdraw one’s self; to retire., To draw or go back., A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood., The state or condition of having recoiled., Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged. |
| recoin | verb t. | To coin anew or again. |
| recopy | verb t. | To copy again. |
| record | verb t. | To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate., To repeat; to recite; to sing or play., To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events., To reflect; to ponder., To sing or repeat a tune., A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record., An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes., An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law., An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record., The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record., Testimony; witness; attestation., That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial., That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record., That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race. |
| recoup | verb t. | Alt. of Recoupe |
| rectal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the rectum; in the region of the rectum. |
| recti- | A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight lines; rectinerved. | |
| recto- | A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, the rectum; as, recto-vesical. | |
| rector | noun | A ruler or governor., A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar., A clergyman in charge of a parish., The head master of a public school., The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford., The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college. |
| rectum | noun | The terminal part of the large intestine; — so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive. |
| rectus | noun | A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye. |
| recule | verb i. | To recoil., Alt. of Reculement |
| recumb | verb i. | To lean; to recline; to repose. |
| recure | verb t. | To arrive at; to reach; to attain., To recover; to regain; to repossess., To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair., To be a cure for; to remedy., Cure; remedy; recovery. |
| recuse | verb t. | To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause. |