Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
rh/tic |
adjective |
Pertaining to, or of the same horizon as, certain Mesozoic strata of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the Triassic period. See the Chart of Geology. |
rhaphe |
noun |
The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam. |
rhesus |
noun |
A monkey; the bhunder. |
rhetic |
adjective |
Same as Rhaetic. |
rhetor |
noun |
A rhetorician. |
rheumy |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum. |
rhinal |
adjective |
Og or pertaining to the nose or olfactory organs. |
rhino- |
|
A combining form from Greek //, ///, the nose, as in rhinolith, rhinology. |
rhodic |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to rhodium; containing rhodium. |
rhusma |
noun |
A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, — used in the depilation of hides. |
rhymed |
imp. & past participle |
of Rhyme |
rhymer |
noun |
One who makes rhymes; a versifier; — generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster. |
rhymic |
adjective |
Pertaining to rhyme. |
rhythm |
noun |
In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like., Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent., A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables., The harmonious flow of vocal sounds. |