| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| rabatine | noun | A collar or cape. |
| rabbeted | imp. & past participle | of Rabbet |
| rabbinic | adjective | Alt. of Rabbinical, The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew. |
| rabbitry | noun | A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits. |
| rabbling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rabble |
| rabidity | noun | Rabidness; furiousness. |
| racahout | noun | A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids. |
| racemate | noun | A salt of racemic acid. |
| racemose | adjective | 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 | adjective | See Racemose. |
| racemule | noun | A little raceme. |
| rachilla | noun | Same as Rhachilla. |
| rachises | plural | of Rachis |
| rachides | plural | of Rachis |
| rachitic | adjective | Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis; rickety. |
| rachitis | noun | Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets., A disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds. |
| raciness | noun | The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor. |
| racketed | imp. & past participle | of Racket |
| racketer | noun | One who makes, or engages in, a racket. |
| racktail | noun | An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock. |
| rackwork | noun | Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion. |
| racoonda | noun | The coypu. |
| racovian | noun | One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland. |
| radialia | plural | of Radiale |
| radially | adverb | In a radial manner. |
| radiance | noun | Alt. of Radiancy |
| radiancy | noun | The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun. |
| radiated | imp. & past participle | of Radiate, Emitted, or sent forth, in rays or direct lines; as, radiated heat., Formed of, or arranged like, rays or radii; having parts or markings diverging, like radii, from a common center or axis; as, a radiated structure; a radiated group of crystals., Belonging to the Radiata. |
| radiator | noun | 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. |
| radicant | adjective | Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy. |
| radicate | adjective | Radicated., To take root; to become rooted., To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root. |
| radicule | noun | A radicle. |
| radiuses | plural | of Radius |
| raffling | present participle & vb. noun | of Raffle |
| raftsmen | plural | of Raftsman |
| raftsman | noun | A man engaged in rafting. |
| ragabash | noun | Alt. of Ragabrash |
| ragguled | adjective | Notched in regular diagonal breaks; — said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge. |
| raillery | noun | Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. |
| railleur | noun | A banterer; a jester; a mocker. |
| railroad | noun | Alt. of Railway |
| raindeer | noun | See Reindeer. |
| raindrop | noun | A drop of rain. |
| rainfall | noun | A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. |
| rainless | adjective | Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region. |
| raisable | adjective | Capable of being raised. |
| raisonne | adjective | Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue. |
| rakehell | noun | A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake., Alt. of Rakehelly |
| rakishly | adverb | In a rakish manner. |
| rallying | present participle & vb. noun | of Rally |
| ramayana | noun | The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita. |
| ramberge | noun | Formerly, a kind of large war galley. |
| rambling | present participle & vb. noun | of Ramble, Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building. |
| rambooze | noun | A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc. |
| rambutan | noun | 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. |
| ramequin | noun | A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread. |
| ramiform | adjective | Having the form of a branch. |
| ramified | imp. & past participle | of Ramify |
| rampancy | noun | The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance. |
| ramulose | adjective | Having many small branches, or ramuli. |
| ramulous | adjective | Ramulose. |
| ranchero | noun | A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho., The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho. |
| ranchmen | plural | of Ranchman |
| ranchman | noun | An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman. |
| rancidly | adverb | In a rancid manner. |
| randomly | adverb | In a random manner. |
| ranedeer | noun | See Reindeer. |
| ranforce | noun | See Re/nforce. |
| rankling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rankle |
| rankness | noun | The condition or quality of being rank. |
| ransomed | imp. & past participle | of Ransom |
| ransomer | noun | One who ransoms or redeems. |
| rapacity | noun | The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves., The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. |
| rapfully | adverb | Violently. |
| raphides | noun pl. | See Rhaphides. |
| rapidity | noun | The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement. |
| rapiered | adjective | Wearing a rapier. |
| rapinous | adjective | Given to rapine. |
| rapparee | noun | A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; — so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary. |
| raptores | noun pl. | Same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores. |
| raptured | imp. & past participle | of Rapture |
| rarefied | imp. & past participle | of Rarefy |
| rareness | noun | The state or quality of being rare. |
| rareripe | adjective | Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season., An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach. |
| rarities | plural | of Rarity |
| rascally | adjective | Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; — often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. |
| rashling | noun | A rash person. |
| rashness | noun | The quality or state of being rash. |
| rasorial | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like. |
| rataplan | noun | The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse. |
| rateable | adjective | See Ratable. |
| rathripe | adjective | Rareripe, or early ripe., A rareripe. |
| ratifier | noun | One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer. |
| ratified | imp. & past participle | of Ratify |
| rational | adjective | Relating to the reason; not physical; mental., Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning., Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man., Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; — said of formulae. See under Formula., A rational being. |
| ratitate | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Ratitae. |
| ratlines | noun pl. | Alt. of Ratlins |
| ratsbane | noun | Rat poison; white arsenic. |
| rat-tail | adjective | Like a rat’s tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File., An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse., The California chimaera. See Chimaera., Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2. |
| rattinet | noun | A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen. |
| rattling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rattle |
| raunsoun | noun | Ransom. |
| ravaging | present participle & vb. noun | of Ravage |
| ravehook | noun | A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum. |
| ravelled | of Ravel | |
| raveling | present participle & vb. noun | of Ravel, The act of untwisting or of disentangling., That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture. |
| ravening | present participle & vb. noun | of Raven, Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion., Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. |
| ravenala | noun | A genus of plants related to the banana. |
| ravenous | adjective | Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture., Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. |
| ravished | imp. & past participle | of Ravish |
| ravisher | noun | One who ravishes (in any sense). |
| rawboned | adjective | Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt. |
| razeeing | present participle & vb. noun | of Razee |