| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| recadency | noun | A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse. |
| recanting | present participle & vb. noun | of Recant |
| recaption | noun | The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one’s own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. |
| recapture | noun | The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor., That which is captured back; a prize retaken., To capture again; to retake. |
| recarnify | verb t. | To convert again into flesh. |
| reccheles | adjective | Reckless. |
| receipted | imp. & past participle | of Receipt |
| receiptor | noun | One who receipts; specifically (Law), one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff. |
| receiving | present participle & vb. noun | of Receive |
| recension | noun | The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration., Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment., The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version. |
| receptary | adjective | Generally or popularly admitted or received., That which is received. |
| reception | noun | The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence., The state of being received., The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception., Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine., A retaking; a recovery. |
| receptive | adjective | Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind. |
| receptory | noun | Receptacle. |
| recessing | present participle & vb. noun | of Recess |
| recession | noun | The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand., The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign. |
| recessive | adjective | Going back; receding. |
| rechabite | noun | One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors. |
| recharter | noun | A second charter; a renewal of a charter., To charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to. |
| recherche | adjective | Sought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind. |
| recipient | noun | A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still., Receiving; receptive. |
| reckoning | present participle & vb. noun | of Reckon, The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation., An account of time, Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc., The charge or account made by a host at an inn., Esteem; account; estimation., The calculation of a ship’s position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, — in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); — also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation., The position of a ship as determined by calculation. |
| reclaimed | imp. & past participle | of Reclaim |
| reclaimer | noun | One who reclaims. |
| reclinant | adjective | Bending or leaning backward. |
| reclinate | adjective | Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base. |
| reclining | present participle & vb. noun | of Recline, Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular., Recumbent. |
| reclusely | adverb | In a recluse or solitary manner. |
| reclusion | noun | A state of retirement from the world; seclusion. |
| reclusive | adjective | Affording retirement from society. |
| reclusory | noun | The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage. |
| recoction | noun | A second coction or preparation; a vamping up. |
| recognize | verb t. | To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of., To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul., To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like., To show appreciation of; as, to recognize services by a testimonial., To review; to reexamine., To reconnoiter., To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as, A B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars. |
| recoiling | present participle & vb. noun | of Recoil |
| recoinage | noun | The act of coining anew., That which is coined anew. |
| recollect | verb t. | To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember., Reflexively, to compose one’s self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one’s self after a burst of anger; — sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle., A friar of the Strict Observance, — an order of Franciscans. |
| recombine | verb t. | To combine again. |
| recomfort | verb t. | To comfort again; to console anew; to give new strength to. |
| recommend | verb t. | To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another’s care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body., To make acceptable; to attract favor to., To commit; to give in charge; to commend. |
| recompact | verb t. | To compact or join anew. |
| recompile | verb t. | To compile anew. |
| recompose | verb t. | To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly., To restore to composure; to quiet anew; to tranquilize; as, to recompose the mind. |
| reconcile | verb t. | To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled., To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one’s self to affictions., To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; — followed by with or to., To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences., To become reconciled. |
| recondite | adjective | Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things., Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies. |
| reconduct | verb t. | To conduct back or again. |
| reconfirm | verb t. | To confirm anew. |
| reconfort | verb t. | To recomfort; to comfort. |
| reconjoin | verb t. | To join or conjoin anew. |
| reconquer | verb t. | To conquer again; to recover by conquest; as, to reconquer a revolted province. |
| reconvene | verb t. & i. | To convene or assemble again; to call or come together again. |
| reconvert | verb t. | To convert again., A person who has been reconverted. |
| recording | present participle & vb. noun | of Record, Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; — applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph. |
| recovered | imp. & past participle | of Recover |
| recoveree | noun | The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery. |
| recoverer | noun | One who recovers. |
| recoveror | noun | The demandant in a common recovery after judgment. |
| recreance | noun | Recreancy. |
| recreancy | noun | The quality or state of being recreant. |
| recreated | imp. & past participle | of Recreate |
| recrement | noun | Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore., Excrement., A substance secreted from the blood and again absorbed by it. |
| recruited | imp. & past participle | of Recruit |
| recruiter | noun | One who, or that which, recruits. |
| rectangle | noun | A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram., Rectangular. |
| rectifier | noun | One who, or that which, rectifies., Specifically: (a) (Naut.) An instrument used for determining and rectifying the variations of the compass on board ship. (b) (Chem.) A rectificator. |
| rectified | imp. & past participle | of Rectify |
| rectitude | noun | Straightness., Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice., Right judgment. |
| rectorate | noun | The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship. |
| rectoress | noun | A governess; a rectrix., The wife of a rector. |
| rectorial | adjective | Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral. |
| rectories | plural | of Rectory |
| rectrices | plural | of Rectrix |
| recumbent | adjective | Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle. |
| recurring | present participle & vb. noun | of Recur |
| recurrent | adjective | Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains., Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery. |
| recursant | adjective | Displayed with the back toward the spectator; — said especially of an eagle. |
| recursion | noun | The act of recurring; return. |
| recurvate | adjective | Recurved., To bend or curve back; to recurve. |
| recurvity | noun | Recurvation. |
| recurvous | adjective | Recurved. |
| recusancy | noun | The state of being recusant; nonconformity. |
| recussion | noun | The act of beating or striking back. |