| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| rabbeting | present participle & vb. noun | of Rabbet |
| rabbinism | noun | A rabbinic expression or phraseology; a peculiarity of the language of the rabbins., The teachings and traditions of the rabbins. |
| rabbinist | noun | 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 | noun | Same as Rabbinist. |
| rabbiting | noun | The hunting of rabbits. |
| rabdoidal | adjective | See Sagittal. |
| rabdology | noun | The method or art of performing arithmetical operations by means of Napier’s bones. See Napier’s bones. |
| rabidness | noun | The quality or state of being rabid. |
| rachidian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian. |
| rachitome | noun | A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal. |
| racketing | present participle & vb. noun | of Racket |
| rack-rent | noun | A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent., To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant. |
| racleness | noun | See Rakelness. |
| raconteur | noun | A relater; a storyteller. |
| radiantly | adverb | In a radiant manner; with glittering splendor. |
| radiating | present participle & vb. noun | of Radiate |
| radiately | adverb | In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a center. |
| radiation | noun | The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness., The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like the diverging rays of light; as, the radiation of heat. |
| radiative | adjective | Capable of radiating; acting by radiation. |
| radically | adverb | In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective., Without derivation; primitively; essentially. |
| radicated | imp. & past participle | of Radicate, Rooted, Having roots, or possessing a well-developed root., Having rootlike organs for attachment. |
| radicular | adjective | Of or pertaining to roots, or the root of a plant. |
| radiolite | noun | A hippurite. |
| raffinose | noun | A colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet. |
| rafflesia | noun | 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. |
| ragabrash | noun | An idle, ragged person. |
| ragpicker | noun | One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets. |
| railingly | adverb | With scoffing or insulting language. |
| rainbowed | adjective | Formed with or like a rainbow. |
| raininess | noun | The state of being rainy. |
| rajahship | noun | The office or dignity of a rajah. |
| rakehelly | adjective | Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. |
| rakeshame | noun | A vile, dissolute wretch. |
| rakestale | noun | The handle of a rake. |
| rake-vein | noun | See Rake, a mineral vein. |
| raku ware | A kind of earthenware made in Japan, resembling Satsuma ware, but having a paler color. | |
| ralliance | noun | The act of rallying. |
| ramagious | adjective | Wild; not tame. |
| ramifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Ramify |
| rampantly | adverb | In a rampant manner. |
| ramparted | imp. & past participle | of Rampart |
| ramuscule | noun | A small ramus, or branch. |
| rancheros | plural | of Ranchero |
| rancidity | noun | The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil. |
| rancorous | adjective | Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. |
| rangement | noun | Arrangement. |
| ransacked | imp. & past participle | of Ransack |
| ransoming | present participle & vb. noun | of Ransom |
| ranterism | noun | The practice or tenets of the Ranters. |
| rantingly | adverb | In a ranting manner. |
| rantipole | noun | A wild, romping young person., Wild; roving; rakish., To act like a rantipole. |
| ranunculi | plural | of Ranunculus |
| rapacious | adjective | Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force., Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird., Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. |
| rapidness | noun | Quality of being rapid; rapidity. |
| raptorial | adjective | Rapacious; living upon prey; — said especially of certain birds., Adapted for seizing prey; — said of the legs, claws, etc., of insects, birds, and other animals., Of or pertaining to the Raptores. See Illust. (f) of Aves. |
| rapturing | present participle & vb. noun | of Rapture |
| rapturist | noun | An enthusiast. |
| rapturize | verb t. & i. | To put, or be put, in a state of rapture. |
| rapturous | adjective | Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause. |
| rarefying | present participle & vb. noun | of Rarefy |
| rascaldom | noun | State of being a rascal; rascality; domain of rascals; rascals, collectively. |
| rascaless | noun | A female rascal. |
| rascality | noun | The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud., The poorer and lower classes of people. |
| raskolnik | noun | One of the separatists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia. |
| raspatory | verb | A surgeon’s rasp. |
| raspberry | noun | The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry., The shrub bearing this fruit. |
| ratepayer | noun | One who pays rates or taxes. |
| ratifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Ratify |
| rationale | adjective | An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles themselves. |
| ratsbaned | adjective | Poisoned by ratsbane. |
| rattlebox | noun | A toy that makes a rattling sound; a rattle., An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod., Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods. |
| rattlings | noun pl. | Ratlines. |
| rattooned | imp. & past participle | of Rattoon |
| ravelling | of Ravel | |
| ravishing | present participle & vb. noun | of Ravish, Rapturous; transporting. |
| ravissant | adjective | In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey. |
| ray grass | A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); — called also rye grass, and red darnel. See Darnel, and Grass. | |
| rayonnant | adjective | Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out. |
| razorable | adjective | Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved. |
| razorback | noun | The rorqual. |
| razorbill | noun | A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix., See Cutwater, 3. |