Name Report For First Name REVA:
REVA
First name REVA's origin is Unknown. REVA means "rain". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with REVA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of reva.(Brown names are of the same origin (Unknown) with REVA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with REVA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming REVA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES REVA AS A WHOLE:
crevan trevanNAMES RHYMING WITH REVA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eva) - Names That Ends with eva:
eva zeva yeva daeva deva elisheva esteva geneva genoveva jeneva jenneva keva neva synneva teva eeva zenevieva clevaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (va) - Names That Ends with va:
sunniva krasava miroslava malva minerva ahava akiva lomahongva nova tiva adiva ahuva alva anuva ava belva elva gustava iva melva naava nediva neiva orva riva zehuva zinerva aviva edva viva tova kiva chaviva chava godiva ginerva diva chedva cochava mava tikva zivaNAMES RHYMING WITH REVA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (rev) - Names That Begins with rev:
reve revekaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (re) - Names That Begins with re:
re'uven re-harakhty read reade reading readman reagan reaghan reaghann reave reaves reba rebecca rebecka rebekah recene rechavia reda redamann redd redding redfor redford redley redman redmond redmund redwald reece reed reeford reem reema reese reeve reeves reeya regan regenfr regenfrithu regenweald reggie reghan regina reginald reginberaht reginhard reginheraht rehema rei reid reidhachadh reign reigne reileigh reilley reilly reina reine reiner reinh reinha reinhard reizo relia remedios remi remington remo remy ren rena renae renaldo renard renata renato rendall rendell rendor rene renee reneigh renenet renfield renfred renfrid renjiro renke renne renneil rennie renny reno renshaw renton renweard renzoNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH REVA:
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':
radella radhiya radhwa radwa raedbora raena rafa rafela raimunda raina rainaa raissa raja rakanja raluca rama ramira ramla ramona rana ranica raniesha ranita raphaella rasha rasheeda rashida rashmika ratna rawdha rawiella rayya raziya reta retta reya rhaxma rhea rheanna rheda rhesa rheta rhianna rhoda rhonda ria rica ricadonna ricarda ricca ricwea rida ridha rihana riikka rikka rilla rilletta rillia rima rimona rina rinna riona risa rita ritsa ritza rivka roana robena roberta robertia robina robinetta roderica roderiga roderika rodica rodika roesia roka rolanda roldana roma romana romanitza romhilda romia romilda romina rona ronia rosa rosalia rosalinda rosamaria rosana rosemaria rosemundaEnglish Words Rhyming REVA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES REVA AS A WHOLE:
| crevalle | noun (n.) The cavally or jurel. |
| noun (n.) The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus). |
| crevasse | noun (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided. |
| noun (n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi. |
| imprevalence | noun (n.) Alt. of Imprevalency |
| imprevalency | noun (n.) Want of prevalence. |
| omniprevalent | adjective (a.) Prevalent everywhere or in all things. |
| prevailing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prevail |
| adjective (a.) Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive. | |
| adjective (a.) Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion. |
| prevailment | noun (n.) Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy. |
| prevalence | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor. |
| prevalency | noun (n.) See Prevalence. |
| prevalent | adjective (a.) Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious. |
| adjective (a.) Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease. |
| prevaricating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prevaricate |
| prevarication | noun (n.) The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing. |
| noun (n.) A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office. | |
| noun (n.) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution. | |
| noun (n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it. |
| prevaricator | noun (n.) One who prevaricates. |
| noun (n.) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution. | |
| noun (n.) One who betrays or abuses a trust. |
| reprevable | adjective (a.) Reprovable. |
| revalescence | noun (n.) The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent. |
| revalescent | adjective (a.) Growing well; recovering strength. |
| revaluation | noun (n.) A second or new valuation. |
| trevat | noun (n.) A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH REVA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eva) - English Words That Ends with eva:
| deva | noun (n.) A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king. |
| geneva | noun (n.) The chief city of Switzerland. |
| noun (n.) A strongly alcoholic liquor, flavored with juniper berries; -- made in Holland; Holland gin; Hollands. |
| sieva | noun (n.) A small variety of the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus). |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH REVA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (rev) - Words That Begins with rev:
| reve | noun (n.) An officer, steward, or governor. |
| verb (v. t.) To reave. |
| revealing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reveal |
| reveal | noun (n.) A revealing; a disclosure. |
| noun (n.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show. | |
| verb (v. t.) Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency). |
| revealability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being revealable; revealableness. |
| revealable | adjective (a.) Capable of being revealed. |
| revealer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, reveals. |
| revealment | noun (n.) Act of revealing. |
| reveille | noun (n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. |
| revel | noun (n.) See Reveal. |
| verb (v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal. | |
| verb (v. i.) To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw back; to retract. |
| reveling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revel |
| revelation | noun (n.) The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. |
| noun (n.) That which is revealed. | |
| noun (n.) The act of revealing divine truth. | |
| noun (n.) That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. | |
| noun (n.) Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse. |
| revelator | noun (n.) One who makes a revelation; a revealer. |
| reveler | noun (n.) One who revels. |
| revellent | noun (n.) A revulsive medicine. |
| verb (v. t.) Causing revulsion; revulsive. |
| revelment | noun (n.) The act of reveling. |
| revelous | adjective (a.) Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling. |
| revelry | noun (n.) The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling. |
| revendicating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revendicate |
| revendication | noun (n.) The act of revendicating. |
| revenging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revenge |
| adjective (a.) Executing revenge; revengeful. |
| revenge | noun (n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil. |
| noun (n.) The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury. | |
| verb (v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer. | |
| verb (v. t.) To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take vengeance; -- with |
| revengeable | adjective (a.) Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. |
| revengeance | noun (n.) Vengeance; revenge. |
| revengeful | adjective (a.) Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. |
| revengeless | adjective (a.) Unrevenged. |
| revengement | noun (n.) Revenge. |
| revenger | noun (n.) One who revenges. |
| revenue | noun (n.) That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income. |
| noun (n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise. | |
| noun (n.) The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use. |
| reverberant | adjective (a.) Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating. |
| reverberate | adjective (a.) Reverberant. |
| adjective (a.) Driven back, as sound; reflected. | |
| verb (v. t.) To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace. | |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To resound; to echo. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound. |
| reverberating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reverberate |
| reverberation | noun (n.) The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace. |
| reverberative | adjective (a.) Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective. |
| reverberator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, produces reverberation. |
| reverberatory | noun (n.) A reverberatory furnace. |
| adjective (a.) Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative. |
| revering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revere |
| reverence | noun (n.) Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration. |
| noun (n.) The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance. | |
| noun (n.) That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state. | |
| noun (n.) A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father. | |
| verb (v. t.) To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate. |
| reverencing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reverence |
| reverencer | noun (n.) One who regards with reverence. |
| reverend | adjective (a.) Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable. |
| reverent | adjective (a.) Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples. |
| adjective (a.) Expressing reverence, veneration, devotion, or submission; as, reverent words; reverent behavior. |
| reverential | adjective (a.) Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe. |
| reverer | noun (n.) One who reveres. |
| reverie | noun (n.) Alt. of Revery |
| revery | noun (n.) A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. |
| noun (n.) An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Reverie. |
| reversal | noun (n.) The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens. |
| noun (n.) A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void. | |
| adjective (a.) Intended to reverse; implying reversal. |
| reverse | adjective (a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method. |
| adjective (a.) Turned upside down; greatly disturbed. | |
| adjective (a.) Reversed; as, a reverse shell. | |
| adjective (a.) That which appears or is presented when anything, as a lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned contrary to its natural direction. | |
| adjective (a.) That which is directly opposite or contrary to something else; a contrary; an opposite. | |
| adjective (a.) The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse. | |
| adjective (a.) The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse. See Obverse. | |
| adjective (a.) A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke. | |
| adjective (a.) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed. | |
| adjective (a.) To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart. | |
| adjective (a.) To cause to return; to recall. | |
| adjective (a.) To change totally; to alter to the opposite. | |
| adjective (a.) To turn upside down; to invert. | |
| adjective (a.) Hence, to overthrow; to subvert. | |
| adjective (a.) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree. | |
| verb (v. i.) To return; to revert. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become or be reversed. |
| reversing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reverse |
| adjective (a.) Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of being reversed. |
| reversed | adjective (a.) Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zool.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell. |
| adjective (a.) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Reverse |
| reverseless | adjective (a.) Irreversible. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH REVA:
English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':
| raca | adjective (a.) A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless." |
| rachialgia | noun (n.) A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic. |
| rachilla | noun (n.) Same as Rhachilla. |
| racoonda | noun (n.) The coypu. |
| radiata | noun (n. pl.) An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere. |
| radiolaria | noun (n. pl.) Order of rhizopods, usually having a siliceous skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina. |
| radula | noun (n.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore. |
| raffia | noun (n.) A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia. |
| rafflesia | noun (n.) 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. |
| raghuvansa | noun (n.) A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty. |
| raia | noun (n.) A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate. |
| raja | noun (n.) Same as Rajah. |
| ramayana | noun (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita. |
| ramenta | noun (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns. |
| rana | noun (n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs. |
| ranula | noun (n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland. |
| rata | noun (n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs. |
| ratafia | noun (n.) A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; -- a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, cura/ao, etc. |
| ravenala | noun (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana. |
| razzia | noun (n.) A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid. |
| reata | noun (n.) A lariat. |
| redia | noun (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| redowa | noun (n.) A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use. |
| regalia | noun (n. pl.) That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty. |
| noun (n. pl.) Hence, decorations or insignia of an office or order, as of Freemasons, Odd Fellows,etc. | |
| noun (n. pl.) Sumptuous food; delicacies. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed. |
| regatta | noun (n.) Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races. |
| regma | noun (n.) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle. |
| regularia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins. |
| rejectamenta | noun (n. pl.) Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism. |
| remora | noun (n.) Delay; obstacle; hindrance. |
| noun (n.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places. |
| replica | noun (v. & n.) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original. |
| noun (v. & n.) Repetition. |
| reptantia | noun (n. pl.) A division of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata. |
| reptilia | noun (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds. |
| reseda | noun (n.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette. |
| noun (n.) A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette. |
| respondentia | noun (n.) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. |
| reticularia | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell. |
| reticulosa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Reticularia. |
| retina | noun (n.) The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye. |
| retinophora | noun (n.) One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. See Illust. under Ommatidium. |
| retinula | noun (n.) One of the group of pigmented cells which surround the retinophorae of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium. |
| rhabdocoela | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine. |
| rhabdophora | noun (n. pl.) An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities. |
| rhabdopleura | noun (n.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata |
| rhachialgia | noun (n.) See Rachialgia. |
| rhachiglossa | noun (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append. |
| rhachilla | noun (n.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses. |
| rhamphotheca | noun (n.) The horny covering of the bill of birds. |
| rhea | noun (n.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass. |
| noun (n.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich. |
| rhinoscleroma | noun (n.) A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat. |
| rhinotheca | noun (n.) The sheath of the upper mandible of a bird. |
| rhipidoglossa | noun (n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| rhizocephala | noun (n. pl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix. |
| rhizoma | noun (n.) SAme as Rhizome. |
| rhizophaga | noun (n. pl.) A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type. |
| rhizophora | noun (n.) A genus of trees including the mangrove. See Mangrove. |
| rhizopoda | noun (n. pl.) An extensive class of Protozoa, including those which have pseudopodia, by means of which they move about and take their food. The principal groups are Lobosa (or Am/bea), Helizoa, Radiolaria, and Foraminifera (or Reticularia). See Protozoa. |
| rhizostomata | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Medusae which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| rhopalocera | noun (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennae. |
| rhusma | noun (n.) A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides. |
| rhynchobdellea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type. |
| rhynchocephala | noun (n. pl.) An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia. |
| rhynchocoela | noun (n. pl.) Same as Nemertina. |
| rhynchonella | noun (n.) A genus of brachiopods of which some species are still living, while many are found fossil. |
| rhynchophora | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the snout beetles, curculios, or weevils. |
| rhynchota | noun (n. pl.) Same as Hemiptera. |
| rhytina | noun (n.) See Rytina. |
| rima | noun (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure. |
| robinia | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia). |
| rocoa | noun (n.) The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto. |
| rodentia | adjective (a.) An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order. |
| romanza | noun (n.) See Romance, 5. |
| rondeletia | noun (n.) A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers. |
| rosalia | noun (n.) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence. |
| rosella | noun (n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow. |
| roseola | noun (n.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash. |
| rostra | noun (n. pl.) See Rostrum, 2. |
| (pl. ) of Rostrum |
| rostrifera | noun (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile. |
| rota | noun (n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members. |
| noun (n.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament. | |
| noun (n.) A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta. |
| rotatoria | noun (n. pl.) Same as Rotifera. |
| rotella | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotella, native of tropical seas. |
| rotifera | noun (n.) An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits. |
| rotta | noun (n.) See Rota. |
| rotula | noun (n.) The patella, or kneepan. |
| rotunda | adjective (a.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. |
| rubella | noun (n.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles. |
| rubeola | noun (n.) the measles. |
| noun (n.) Rubella. |
| ruga | noun (n.) A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugae of the stomach. |
| rugosa | noun (n. pl.) An extinct tribe of fossil corals, including numerous species, many of them of large size. They are characteristic of the Paleozoic formations. The radiating septs, when present, are usually in multiples of four. See Cyathophylloid. |
| ruminantia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies. |
| rupia | noun (n.) An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust. |
| rupicola | noun (n.) A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock. |
| rusma | noun (n.) A depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the Turks. See Rhusma. |
| russia | noun (n.) A country of Europe and Asia. |
| russophobia | noun (n.) Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence. |
| rytina | noun (n.) A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow. |
| rancheria | noun (n.) A dwelling place of a ranchero. |
| noun (n.) A small settlement or collection of ranchos, or rude huts, esp. for Indians. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, in the Philippines, a political division of the pagan tribes. |
| residencia | noun (n.) In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor. |
| rudbeckia | noun (n.) A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species, exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows. |
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