Name Report For First Name RIA:
RIA
First name RIA's origin is Spanish. RIA means "from the river's mouth". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RIA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ria.(Brown names are of the same origin (Spanish) with RIA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with RIA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming RIA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RƯA AS A WHOLE:
kamaria mariama berengaria cambria ingria allyriane ariadne demetria egeria elefteria erianthe hesperia viktoria oria tiberia adriana mariana victoria kaaria korian kadyriath briareus cyprian priam priapus urian adriano horia zaharia burian abriana abrianna adairia adriane adrianna adrianne alegria alexandria amariah andria andrianna annamaria ansariah aphria aria ariadna ariana ariane arianell arianna arianrod audria audriana audrianna auriar ayriauna azaria azmariah azzaria bria briana brianna brianne briaunna caffaria calandria ceria cipriana daria deandria desideria devoria erendiria fearcharia floria floriana garia gloriane glorianna gregoria honbria jerianne kambria katriane kendria keriana keriann kerianna kerianne kerrianne kiandria laria lorian loriana loriann lorianne mairia mariabella mariam marian mariane marianne merial miriam moria moriah myriam oliveria orianna rosamaria rosemaria sabria shemariah teriana teriann toriana tyrianne vittoria xavieria xeveria yanamaria zimria adriaan adrial adrian aidrian andrian brian briant briar cipriano derrian dorian eldrian gabrian jadarian jeriah jorian laurian lauriano mariano moriarty o'brian padriac riagan rian victoriano zacarias zacharia zachariah zacharias zackariah zechariah zemariam uriah andswarian oriana chandria niria mariamne mirias gregoriana erian eriantha elepheteria doria cytheria cloria maria keriam zuria gloriana auria neria naiaria bariah arian astyrian derian gaderian nerian warian werian hadrian berangaria mariadok beruriah aubriana aubrianne briann briannah briannon coriann corianne corrianna corrianne loria mariah torrian honoriaNAMES RHYMING WITH RƯA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ia) - Names That Ends with ia:
afia aminia ashia efia fowsia safia tawia beornia bernia odelia alaia badi'a dummonia amaia donia erensia kamia melodia saskia nubia tabia bethia abelia adalia aloysia agalaia agalia aglaia alesia ambrosia anthia anysia artemia aspasia athanasia basilia callia calligenia cassiopeia castalia celosia cosimia cynthia dionysia eileithyia erytheia eulallia eunomia euphemia eurycleia filia gelasia georgia harmonia hedia helia hestia hippodamia hygeia hypatia idalia iphegenia lamia lampetia laodamia lelia lethia obelia oleisia orithyia ortygia parthenia pelagia pelicia pelopia polyhymnia pythia sinovia sophia sophronia stasia terentia thalia theophania theophilia titania urania xenia xylia zelia zenia zenobia halia kaiolohia melia anasztaizia rozalia zsofia albinia beatriciaNAMES RHYMING WITH RƯA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ri) - Names That Begins with ri:
rica ricadene ricadonna ricard ricarda ricardo ricca riccardo rice rich richael richard richardo richelle richer richere richie richlynn richman richmond rick rickard ricker rickey rickie rickman rickward ricky ricman rico ricwea ricweard rida riddhi riddoc riddock rider ridere ridge ridgeiey ridgeley ridgely ridha ridhi ridley ridpath ridwan rigby rigel rigg riggs rigmor rihana riikka rikard rikka rikkard rikward ril riley rilla rille rilletta rillette rillia rillie rilynn rim rima rimona rina rinan rinat rinc ring rinji rinna rinnah rio riobard riocard rioghbhardan rioghnach rion riona riordain riordan ripley rique risa rishim risley risteard risto riston rita ritchie ritsa ritter ritzaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RƯA:
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 reba rebecca rebecka rechavia reda reema reeya regina rehema reina reinha relia rena renata reta retta reva reveka reya rhaxma rhea rheanna rheda rhesa rheta rhianna rhoda rhonda riva 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 rosana rosemunda rosetta rowa rowena roxana roxanna roza rozmonda rudellaEnglish Words Rhyming RIA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RƯA AS A WHOLE:
| abderian | adjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment. |
| abecedarian | noun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro. |
| noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary |
| accessorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt. |
| accusatorial | adjective (a.) Accusatory. |
| acroterial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an acroterium; as, acroterial ornaments. |
| actinaria | noun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
| actuarial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity. |
| adaptorial | adjective (a.) Adaptive. |
| adessenarian | noun (n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. |
| administerial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government. |
| admonitorial | adjective (a.) Admonitory. |
| adrian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows. |
| adriatic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice. |
| adularia | noun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. |
| adversaria | noun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
| aerial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aerial regions or currents. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal. | |
| adjective (a.) Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires. | |
| adjective (a.) Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, aerial plants. | |
| adjective (a.) Light as air; ethereal. |
| aeriality | noun (n.) The state of being aerial; unsubstantiality. |
| agrarian | noun (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property. |
| noun (n.) An agrarian law. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. | |
| adjective (a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields. |
| agrarianism | noun (n.) An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land. |
| alabastrian | adjective (a.) Alabastrine. |
| albuminuria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. |
| alcyonaria | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
| alexandrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library. |
| adjective (a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n. |
| alfilaria | noun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. |
| algerian | noun (n.) A native of Algeria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria. |
| alphabetarian | noun (n.) A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian. |
| altitudinarian | adjective (a.) Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. |
| amatorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses. |
| amatorian | adjective (a.) Amatory. |
| ambassadorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an ambassador. |
| ambulatorial | adjective (a.) Ambulatory; fitted for walking. |
| ancestorial | adjective (a.) Ancestral. |
| angariation | noun (n.) Exaction of forced service; compulsion. |
| anthypochondriac | noun (a. & n.) See Antihypochondriac. |
| antihypochondriac | noun (n.) A remedy for hypochondria. |
| adjective (a.) Counteractive of hypochondria. |
| antimalarial | adjective (a.) Good against malaria. |
| antiquarian | noun (n.) An antiquary. |
| noun (n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature. |
| antiquarianism | noun (n.) Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities. |
| antiquitarian | noun (n.) An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.] |
| antisabbatarian | noun (n.) One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath. |
| anythingarian | noun (n.) One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. |
| apiarian | adjective (a.) Of or relating to bees. |
| apollinarian | noun (n.) A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ. |
| adjective (a.) In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games. |
| aporia | noun (n.) A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc. |
| appendicularia | noun (n.) A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvae of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| appropriable | adjective (a.) Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use. |
| appropriament | noun (n.) What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification. |
| appropriate | noun (n.) A property; attribute. |
| adjective (a.) Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit. | |
| verb (v. t.) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make suitable; to suit. | |
| verb (v. t.) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. |
| appropriating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appropriate |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RƯA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ia) - English Words That Ends with ia:
| abdominalia | noun (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. |
| acacia | noun (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals. |
| noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates. | |
| noun (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic. |
| acholia | noun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile. |
| acinesia | noun (n.) Same as Akinesia. |
| aconitia | noun (n.) Same as Aconitine. |
| acontia | noun (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated. |
| acrania | noun (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull. |
| noun (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists. |
| acrasia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrasy |
| acrisia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrisy |
| actinia | noun (n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.]. |
| noun (n.) A genus in the family Actinidae. |
| adansonia | noun (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. |
| adelphia | noun (n.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc. |
| adenalgia | noun (n.) Alt. of Adenalgy |
| adynamia | noun (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. |
| aegicrania | noun (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls. |
| aerophobia | noun (n.) Alt. of Aerophoby |
| aesthesia | noun (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia. |
| agalactia | noun (n.) Alt. of Agalaxy |
| agraphia | noun (n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia. |
| akinesia | noun (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement. |
| alleluia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alleluiah |
| almadia | noun (n.) Alt. of Almadie |
| alopecia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alopecy |
| alpia | noun (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds. |
| amblyopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Amblyopy |
| ambrosia | noun (n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. |
| noun (n.) An unguent of the gods. | |
| noun (n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidae believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows. |
| amentia | noun (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding. |
| ametropia | noun (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. |
| amia | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin. |
| ammonia | noun (n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn. |
| amnesia | noun (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. |
| amphibia | noun (n. pl.) One of the classes of vertebrates. |
| (pl. ) of Amphibium |
| anaemia | adjective (a.) A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity. |
| anaesthesia | noun (n.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic. |
| analgesia | noun (n.) Absence of sensibility to pain. |
| anaphrodisia | noun (n.) Absence of sexual appetite. |
| anesthesia | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anesthetic |
| anglomania | noun (n.) A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc. |
| anglophobia | noun (n.) Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. |
| anomia | noun (n.) A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment. |
| anopsia | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anopsy |
| anorexia | noun (n.) Alt. of Anorexy |
| anosmia | noun (n.) Loss of the sense of smell. |
| anthobranchia | noun (n. pl.) A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris. |
| anthomania | noun (n.) A extravagant fondness for flowers. |
| antlia | noun (n.) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera. |
| antonomasia | noun (n.) The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero. |
| aphakia | noun (n.) An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. |
| aphasia | noun (n.) Alt. of Aphasy |
| aphemia | noun (n.) Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RƯA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ri) - Words That Begins with ri:
| rial | noun (n.) A Spanish coin. See Real. |
| noun (n.) A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth. | |
| adjective (a.) Royal. |
| riant | adjective (a.) Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape. |
| rib | noun (n.) One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax. |
| noun (n.) That which resembles a rib in form or use. | |
| noun (n.) One of the timbers, or bars of iron or steel, that branch outward and upward from the keel, to support the skin or planking, and give shape and strength to the vessel. | |
| noun (n.) A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it. | |
| noun (n.) One of the rods on which the cover of an umbrella is extended. | |
| noun (n.) A prominent line or ridge, as in cloth. | |
| noun (n.) A longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun. | |
| noun (n.) The chief nerve, or one of the chief nerves, of a leaf. | |
| noun (n.) Any longitudinal ridge in a plant. | |
| noun (n.) In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like. | |
| noun (n.) A projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like. | |
| noun (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein. | |
| noun (n.) An elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support. | |
| noun (n.) A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth. | |
| verb (v. t.) To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in. |
| ribbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rib |
| noun (n.) An assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like. |
| ribald | noun (n./) A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow. |
| adjective (a.) Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene. |
| ribaldish | adjective (a.) Like a ribald. |
| ribaldrous | adjective (a.) Of a ribald quality. |
| ribaldry | noun (n.) The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct. |
| riban | noun (n.) See Ribbon. |
| riband | noun (n.) See Ribbon. |
| noun (n.) See Rib-band. |
| ribanded | adjective (a.) Ribboned. |
| ribaud | noun (n.) A ribald. |
| ribaudequin | noun (n.) An engine of war used in the Middle Ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with small cannon. |
| noun (n.) A huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins. |
| ribaudred | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ribaudrous |
| ribaudrous | adjective (a.) Filthy; obscene; ribald. |
| ribaudry | noun (n.) Ribaldry. |
| ribaudy | noun (n.) Ribaldry. |
| ribauld | noun (n.) A ribald. |
| ribband | noun (n.) A ribbon. |
| noun (n.) A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and give rigidity to the framework. |
| ribbed | adjective (a.) Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth. |
| adjective (a.) Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Rib |
| ribbon | noun (n.) A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes. |
| noun (n.) A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Rib-band. | |
| noun (n.) Driving reins. | |
| noun (n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide. | |
| noun (n.) A silver. | |
| verb (v. t.) To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons. |
| ribboning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ribbon |
| ribbonism | noun (n.) The principles and practices of the Ribbonmen. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon. |
| ribbonman | noun (n.) A member of the Ribbon Society. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon. |
| ribbonwood | noun (n.) A malvaceous tree (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage. |
| ribes | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds. |
| ribibe | noun (n.) A sort of stringed instrument; a rebec. |
| noun (n.) An old woman; -- in contempt. | |
| noun (n.) A bawd; a prostitute. |
| ribible | noun (n.) A small threestringed viol; a rebec. |
| ribless | adjective (a.) Having no ribs. |
| ribwort | noun (n.) A species of plantain (Plantago lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain. |
| rice | noun (n.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed. |
| ricebird | noun (n.) The Java sparrow. |
| noun (n.) The bobolink. |
| riches | adjective (a.) That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence. |
| adjective (a.) That which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like. |
| richesse | noun (n.) Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches. |
| richness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rich (in any sense of the adjective). |
| richweed | noun (n.) An herb (Pilea pumila) of the Nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; -- called also clearweed. |
| ricinelaidic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric modification of ricinoleic acid obtained as a white crystalline solid. |
| ricinelaidin | noun (n.) The glycerin salt of ricinelaidic acid, obtained as a white crystalline waxy substance by treating castor oil with nitrous acid. |
| ricinic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, castor oil; formerly, designating an acid now called ricinoleic acid. |
| ricinine | noun (n.) A bitter white crystalline alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant. |
| ricinoleate | noun (n.) A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate. |
| ricinoleic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a fatty acid analogous to oleic acid, obtained from castor oil as an oily substance, C/H/O/ with a harsh taste. Formerly written ricinolic. |
| ricinolein | noun (n.) The glycerin salt of ricinoleic acid, occuring as a characteristic constituent of castor oil; -- formerly called palmin. |
| ricinolic | adjective (a.) Ricinoleic. |
| ricinus | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi. |
| rick | noun (n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching. |
| verb (v. t.) To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc. |
| ricker | noun (n.) A stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat. |
| ricketish | adjective (a.) Rickety. |
| rickets | noun (n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis. |
| rickety | adjective (a.) Affected with rickets. |
| adjective (a.) Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RƯA:
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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