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- rabid
- adj. Affected with rabies or hydrophobia.
- racy
- adj. Exciting or exhilarating to the mind.
- radiance
- n. Brilliant or sparkling luster.
- radiate
- v. To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus.
- radical
- n. One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures.
- radix
- n. That from or on which something is developed.
- raillery
- n. Good-humored satire.
- ramify
- v. To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions.
- ramose
- adj. Branch-like.
- rampant
- adj. Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint.
- rampart
- n. A bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry.
- rancor
- n. Malice.
- rankle
- v. To produce irritation or festering.
- rapacious
- adj. Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
- rapid
- adj. Having great speed.
- rapine
- n. The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war.
- rapt
- adj. Enraptured.
- raptorial
- adj. Seizing and devouring living prey.
- ration
- v. To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food.
- rationalism
- n. The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority.
- raucous
- adj. Harsh.
- ravage
- v. To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
- ravenous
- adj. Furiously voracious or hungry.
- ravine
- n. A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water.
- reaction
- n. Tendency towards a former, or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution, or inflation.
- reactionary
- adj. Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction.
- readily
- adv. Without objection or reluctance.
- readjust
- v. To put in order after disarrangement.
- ready
- adj. In a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion.
- realism
- n. The principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist.
- rearrange
- v. To arrange again or in a different order.
- reassure
- v. To give new confidence.
- rebellious
- adj. Insubordinate.
- rebuff
- n. A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
- rebuild
- v. To build again or anew.
- rebut
- v. To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer.
- recant
- v. To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
- recapitulate
- v. To repeat again the principal points of.
- recapture
- v. To capture again.
- recede
- v. To move back or away.
- receivable
- adj. Capable of being or fit to be received - often money.
- receptive
- adj. Having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions.
- recessive
- adj. Having a tendency to go back.
- recidivist
- n. A confirmed criminal.
- reciprocal
- adj. Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
- reciprocate
- v. To give and take mutually.
- reciprocity
- n. Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed.
- recitation
- n. The act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory.
- reck
- v. To have a care or thought for.
- reckless
- adj. Foolishly headless of danger.
- reclaim
- v. To demand or to obtain the return or restoration of.
- recline
- v. To cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position.
- recluse
- n. One who lives in retirement or seclusion.
- reclusory
- n. A hermitage.
- recognizance
- n. An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act.
- recognize
- v. To recall the identity of (a person or thing).
- recoil
- v. To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread.
- recollect
- v. To recall the knowledge of.
- reconcilable
- adj. Capable of being adjusted or harmonized.
- reconnoiter
- v. To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geological purposes.
- reconsider
- v. To review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action.
- reconstruct
- v. To rebuild.
- recourse
- n. Resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble.
- recover
- v. To regain.
- recreant
- n. A cowardly or faithless person.
- recreate
- v. To refresh after labor.
- recrudescence
- n. The state of becoming raw or sore again.
- recrudescent
- adj. Becoming raw or sore again.
- recruit
- v. To enlist men for military or naval service.
- rectify
- v. To correct.
- rectitude
- n. The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.
- recuperate
- v. To recover.
- recur
- v. To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
- recure
- v. To cure again.
- recurrent
- adj. Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals.
- redemption
- n. The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt.
- redolent
- adj. Smelling sweet and agreeable.
- redolence
- n. Smelling sweet and agreeable.
- redoubtable
- adj. Formidable.
- redound
- n. Rebound.
- redress
- v. To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
- reducible
- adj. That may be reduced.
- redundance
- n. Excess.
- redundant
- adj. Constituting an excess.
- reestablish
- v. To restore.
- refer
- v. To direct or send for information or other purpose.
- referrer
- n. One who refers.
- referable
- adj. Ascribable.
- referee
- n. An umpire.
- refinery
- n. A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
- reflectible
- adj. Capable of being turned back.
- reflection
- n. The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves.
- reflector
- n. A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular direction.
- reflexible
- adj. Capable of being reflected.
- reform
- n. Change for the better.
- reformer
- n. One who carries out a reform.
- refract
- v. To bend or turn from a direct course.
- refractory
- adj. Not amenable to control.
- refragable
- adj. Capable of being refuted.
- refringency
- n. Power to refract.
- refringent
- adj. Having the power to refract.
- refusal
- n. Denial of what is asked.
- refute
- v. To prove to be wrong.
- regale
- v. To give unusual pleasure.
- regalia
- n. pl. The emblems of royalty.
- regality
- n. Royalty.
- regenerate
- v. To reproduce.
- regent
- n. One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler.
- regicide
- n. The killing of a king or sovereign.
- regime
- n. Particular conduct or administration of affairs.
- regimen
- n. A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits.
- regiment
- n. A body of soldiers.
- regnant
- adj. Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
- regress
- v. To return to a former place or condition.
- regretful
- adj. Feeling, expressive of, or full of regret.
- rehabilitate
- v. To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege.
- reign
- v. To hold and exercise sovereign power.
- reimburse
- v. To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended.
- rein
- n. A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal.
- reinstate
- v. To restore to a former state, station, or authority.
- reiterate
- v. To say or do again and again.
- rejoin
- v. To reunite after separation.
- rejuvenate
- v. To restore to youth.
- rejuvenescence
- n. A renewal of youth.
- relapse
- v. To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.
- relegate
- v. To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination.
- relent
- v. To yield.
- relevant
- adj. Bearing upon the matter in hand.
- reliance
- n. Dependence.
- reliant
- adj. Having confidence.
- relinquish
- v. To give up using or having.
- reliquary
- n. A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
- relish
- v. To like the taste or savor of.
- reluctance
- n. Unwillingness.
- reluctant
- adj. Unwilling.
- remembrance
- n. Recollection.
- reminiscence
- n. The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience.
- reminiscent
- adj. Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest.
- remiss
- adj. Negligent.
- remission
- n. Temporary diminution of a disease.
- remodel
- v. Reconstruct.
- remonstrance
- n. Reproof.
- remonstrant
- adj. Having the character of a reproof.
- remonstrate
- v. To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
- remunerate
- v. To pay or pay for.
- remuneration
- n. Compensation.
- Renaissance
- n. The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
- rendezvous
- n. A prearranged place of meeting.
- rendition
- n. Interpretation.
- renovate
- v. To restore after deterioration, as a building.
- renunciation
- n. An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege.
- reorganize
- v. To change to a more satisfactory form of organization.
- reparable
- adj. Capable of repair.
- reparation
- n. The act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong.
- repartee
- n. A ready, witty, or apt reply.
- repeal
- v. To render of no further effect.
- repel
- v. To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally.
- repellent
- adj. Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.
- repentance
- n. Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong.
- repertory
- n. A place where things are stored or gathered together.
- repetition
- n. The act of repeating.
- repine
- v. To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding.
- replenish
- v. To fill again, as something that has been emptied.
- replete
- adj. Full to the uttermost.
- replica
- n. A duplicate executed by the artist himself, and regarded, equally with the first, as an original.
- repository
- n. A place in which goods are stored.
- reprehend
- v. To find fault with.
- reprehensible
- adj. Censurable.
- reprehension
- n. Expression of blame.
- repress
- v. To keep under restraint or control.
- repressible
- adj. Able to be kept under restraint or control.
- reprieve
- v. To grant a respite from punishment to.
- reprimand
- v. To chide or rebuke for a fault.
- reprisal
- n. Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy.
- reprobate
- n. One abandoned to depravity and sin.
- reproduce
- v. To make a copy of.
- reproduction
- n. The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind.
- reproof
- n. An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
- repudiate
- v. To refuse to have anything to do with.
- repugnance
- n. Thorough dislike.
- repugnant
- adj. Offensive to taste and feeling.
- repulse
- n. The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy.
- repulsive
- adj. Grossly offensive.
- repute
- v. To hold in general opinion.
- requiem
- n. A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
- requisite
- adj. Necessary.
- requital
- n. Adequate return for good or ill.
- requite
- v. To repay either good or evil to, as to a person.
- rescind
- v. To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
- reseat
- v. To place in position of office again.
- resemblance
- n. Similarity in quality or form.
- resent
- v. To be indignant at, as an injury or insult.
- reservoir
- n. A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept.
- residue
- n. A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated.
- resilience
- n. The power of springing back to a former position
- resilient
- adj. Having the quality of springing back to a former position.
- resistance
- n. The exertion of opposite effort or effect.
- resistant
- adj. Offering or tending to produce resistance.
- resistive
- adj. Having or exercising the power of resistance.
- resistless
- adj. Powerless.
- resonance
- n. The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
- resonance
- adj. Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
- resonate
- v. To have or produce resonance.
- resource
- n. That which is restored to, relied upon, or made available for aid or support.
- respite
- n. Interval of rest.
- resplendent
- adj. Very bright.
- respondent
- adj. Answering.
- restitution
- n. Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
- resumption
- n. The act of taking back, or taking again.
- resurgent
- adj. Surging back or again.
- resurrection
- n. A return from death to life
- resuscitate
- v. To restore from apparent death.
- retaliate
- v. To repay evil with a similar evil.
- retch
- v. To make an effort to vomit.
- retention
- n. The keeping of a thing within one's power or possession.
- reticence
- n. The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
- reticent
- adj. Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
- retinue
- n. The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance.
- retort
- n. A retaliatory speech.
- retouch
- v. To modify the details of.
- retrace
- v. To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking.
- retract
- v. To recall or take back (something that one has said).
- retrench
- v. To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity.
- retrieve
- v. To recover something by searching.
- retroactive
- adj. Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities.
- retrograde
- v. To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
- retrogression
- n. A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction.
- retrospect
- n. A view or contemplation of something past.
- retrospective
- adj. Looking back on the past.
- reunite
- v. To unite or join again, as after separation.
- revelation
- n. A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown.
- revere
- v. To regard with worshipful veneration.
- reverent
- adj. Humble.
- reversion
- n. A return to or toward some former state or condition.
- revert
- v. To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like.
- revile
- v. To heap approach or abuse upon.
- revisal
- n. Revision.
- revise
- v. To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes.
- revocation
- n. Repeal.
- revoke
- v. To rescind.
- rhapsody
- n. Rapt or rapturous utterance.
- rhetoric
- n. The art of discourse.
- rhetorician
- n. A showy writer or speaker.
- ribald
- adj. Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity.
- riddance
- n. The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable.
- ridicule
- n. Looks or acts expressing amused contempt.
- ridiculous
- adj. Laughable and contemptible.
- rife
- adj. Abundant.
- righteousness
- n. Rectitude.
- rightful
- adj. Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
- rigmarole
- n. Nonsense.
- rigor
- n. Inflexibility.
- rigorous
- adj. Uncompromising.
- ripplet
- n. A small ripple, as of water.
- risible
- adj. capable of exciting laughter.
- rivulet
- n. A small stream or brook.
- robust
- adj. Characterized by great strength or power of endurance.
- rondo
- n. A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times.
- rookery
- n. A place where crows congregate to breed.
- rotary
- adj. Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
- rotate
- v. To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel.
- rote
- n. Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention.
- rotund
- adj. Round from fullness or plumpness.
- rudimentary
- adj. Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development.
- rue
- v. To regret extremely.
- ruffian
- adj. A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow.
- ruminant
- adj. Chewing the cud.
- ruminate
- v. To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated.
- rupture
- v. To separate the parts of by violence.
- rustic
- adj. Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
- ruth
- n. Sorrow for another's misery.