Name Report For First Name RINA:
RINA
First name RINA's origin is Hebrew. RINA means "joyous song". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RINA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of rina.(Brown names are of the same origin (Hebrew) with RINA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with RINA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming RINA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RƯNA AS A WHOLE:
jirina falerina katharina jarina trina catarina sabrina corina crina dorina marina alastrina alejandrina alexandrina audrina brina caprina carina cedrina cherina corrina drina karina katarina katherina kattrina lorrina maurina mrinalini patrina petrina rinat sarina tangerina tarina taurina verina victorina zabrina zavrina zorina zurina irina florina caterina sirina nerina ekaterina ecaterina larina erina sorina rinan katrinaNAMES RHYMING WITH RƯNA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ina) - Names That Ends with ina:
asmina crispina hasina zahina inina raina gelsomina levina jaakkina katariina armina aegina akilina alcina aretina filipina luigina kina mahina olina adamina ernesztina karolina krisztina dakshina balbina claudina rufina serafina akina shina citlalmina cha'kwaina migina catalina afina alexandreina augustina madalina fayina lukina tasina ilhicamina adelina adina aiglentina aina alaina albertina alexina alhertina alina almundina alpina alvina alzina amina ancelina antonina apollina aquilina araina arlina aubina avelina belina berdina bernadina bertina bidina blandina calvina capucina carmelina carolina chalina china christina chrystina clementina colina cristina cullodina cumina daina dantina darlina davina deina delfina delphina destina diamontina dina dulcina earlina edelina edina edwina egbertinaNAMES RHYMING WITH RƯNA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (rin) - Names That Begins with rin:
rinc ring rinji rinna rinnahRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ri) - Names That Begins with ri:
ria riagan rian 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 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 RƯNA:
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':
radella radhiya radhwa radwa raedbora raena rafa rafela raimunda 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 rosamaria rosana rosemaria rosemunda rosetta rowa rowena roxana roxanna roza rozaliaEnglish Words Rhyming RINA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RƯNA AS A WHOLE:
| acarina | noun (n. pl.) The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange. |
| bicarinate | adjective (a.) Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses. |
| carina | noun (n.) A keel |
| noun (n.) That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification | |
| noun (n.) A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat. | |
| noun (n.) The keel of the breastbone of birds. |
| carinaria | noun (n.) A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills. |
| carinatae | noun (n. pl.) A grand division of birds, including all existing flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone. |
| carinate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Carinated |
| carinated | adjective (a.) Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird). |
| casuarina | noun (n.) A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color. |
| chlorinating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chlorinate |
| chlorination | noun (n.) The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas. |
| citrination | noun (n.) The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color. |
| crinal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the hair. |
| crinated | adjective (a.) Having hair; hairy. |
| crinatory | adjective (a.) Crinitory. |
| czarina | noun (n.) The title of the empress of Russia. |
| defibrination | noun (n.) The act or process of depriving of fibrin. |
| doctrinable | adjective (a.) Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine. |
| doctrinaire | noun (n.) One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions. |
| doctrinal | noun (n.) A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching. |
| doctrinarian | noun (n.) A doctrinaire. |
| doctrinarianism | noun (n.) The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires. |
| encrinal | adjective (a.) Alt. of Encrinital |
| erinaceous | adjective (a.) Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog. |
| erythrina | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers. |
| farina | noun (n.) A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery. |
| noun (n.) Pollen. |
| farinaceous | adjective (a.) Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet. |
| adjective (a.) Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds. | |
| adjective (a.) Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance. |
| fibrination | noun (n.) The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin. |
| genitourinary | adjective (a.) See Urogenital. |
| globigerina | noun (n.) A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera. |
| hydrina | noun (n. pl.) The group of hydroids to which the fresh-water hydras belong. |
| indoctrinating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indoctrinate |
| indoctrination | noun (n.) The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated; instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or system of belief; information. |
| littorina | noun (n.) A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle. |
| madrina | noun (n.) An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules. |
| mandarinate | noun (n.) The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China. |
| marinade | noun (n.) A brine or pickle containing wine and spices, for enriching the flavor of meat and fish. |
| meandrina | noun (n.) A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals. |
| multicarinate | adjective (a.) Many-keeled. |
| ocarina | noun (n.) A kind of small simple wind instrument. |
| quirinal | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the hill Collis Quirinalis, now Monte Quirinale (one of the seven hills of Rome), or a modern royal place situated upon it. Also used substantively. |
| peregrinate | adjective (a.) Having traveled; foreign. |
| verb (v. i.) To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries. |
| peregrination | noun (n.) A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. |
| peregrinator | noun (n.) One who peregrinates; one who travels about. |
| perinaeum | noun (n.) See Perineum. |
| saccharinate | noun (n.) A salt of saccharinic acid. |
| noun (n.) A salt of saccharine. |
| salamandrina | noun (n.) A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders. |
| signorina | noun (n.) Miss; -- a title of address among the Italians. |
| trinal | adjective (a.) Threefold. |
| tsarina | noun (n.) Alt. of Tsaritsa |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RƯNA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ina) - English Words That Ends with ina:
| achatina | noun (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa. |
| alumina | noun (n.) One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3. |
| amphirhina | noun (n. pl.) A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double. |
| angina | noun (n.) Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. |
| araneina | noun (n. pl.) The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders. |
| cavatina | noun (n.) Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used. |
| china | noun (n.) A country in Eastern Asia. |
| noun (n.) China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain. |
| concertina | noun (n.) A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads. |
| coquina | noun (n.) A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida. |
| discina | noun (n.) A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle. |
| domina | noun (n.) Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. |
| glucina | noun (n.) A white or gray tasteless powder, the oxide of the element glucinum; -- formerly called glucine. |
| haematophlina | noun (n. pl.) A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire. |
| hemina | noun (n.) A measure of half a sextary. |
| noun (n.) A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces. |
| ianthina | noun (n.) Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail. |
| jaina | noun (n.) One of a numerous sect in British India, holding the tenets of Jainism. |
| jamacina | noun (n.) Jamaicine. |
| janthina | noun (n.) See Ianthina. |
| lamina | noun (n.) A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals. |
| noun (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower. | |
| noun (n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather. |
| limacina | noun (n.) A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales. |
| linguatulina | noun (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida. |
| marikina | noun (n.) A small marmoset (Midas rosalia); the silky tamarin. |
| mina | noun (n.) An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas. |
| noun (n.) See Myna. |
| monorhina | noun (n. pl.) The Marsipobranchiata. |
| nemertina | noun (n. pl.) An order of helminths usually having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; -- called also Nemertea, Nemertida, and Rhynchocoela. |
| neritina | noun (n.) A genus including numerous species of shells resembling Nerita in form. They mostly inhabit brackish water, and are often delicately tinted. |
| ngina | noun (n.) The gorilla. |
| oculina | noun (n.) A genus of tropical corals, usually branched, and having a very volid texture. |
| orbulina | noun (n.) A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell. |
| quinquina | noun (n.) Peruvian bark. |
| noun (n.) Peruvian bark. |
| pagina | noun (n.) The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus. |
| paludina | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond. |
| patina | noun (n.) A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella. |
| noun (n.) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals. |
| pedicellina | noun (n.) A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta. |
| pediculina | noun (n. pl.) A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| piscina | noun (n.) A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels. |
| platina | noun (n.) Platinum. |
| polycystina | noun (n. pl.) A division of Radiolaria including numerous minute marine species. The skeleton is composed of silica, and is often very elegant in form and sculpture. Many have been found in the fossil state. |
| 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. |
| rhytina | noun (n.) See Rytina. |
| 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. |
| salina | adjective (a.) A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea. |
| adjective (a.) Salt works. |
| sarcina | noun (n.) A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group. |
| scarlatina | noun (n.) Scarlet fever. |
| semolina | noun (n.) The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery. |
| seraphina | noun (n.) A seraphine. |
| sonatina | noun (n.) A short and simple sonata. |
| stamina | noun (n. pl.) See Stamen. |
| noun (n. pl.) The fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength. | |
| noun (n. pl.) Whatever constitutes the principal strength or support of anything; power of endurance; backbone; vigor; as, the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a State. | |
| (pl. ) of Stamen |
| strepsorhina | noun (n. pl.) Same as Lemuroidea. |
| sudamina | noun (n. pl) Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RƯNA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (rin) - Words That Begins with rin:
| rind | noun (n.) The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell. |
| verb (v. t.) To remove the rind of; to bark. |
| rinderpest | noun (n.) A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain. |
| rindle | noun (n.) A small water course or gutter. |
| rindless | adjective (a.) Destitute of a rind. |
| rindy | adjective (a.) Having a rind or skin. |
| rine | noun (n.) See Rind. |
| rined | adjective (a.) Having a rind |
| rinforzando | adjective (a.) Increasing; strengthening; -- a direction indicating a sudden increase of force (abbreviated rf., rfz.) Cf. Forzando, and Sforzando. |
| ringing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ring |
| noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ring | |
| () a & n. from Ring, v. |
| ring | noun (n.) A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell. |
| noun (n.) Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated. | |
| noun (n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned. | |
| noun (n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop. | |
| noun (n.) Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring. | |
| noun (n.) A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena. | |
| noun (n.) An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting. | |
| noun (n.) A circular group of persons. | |
| noun (n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles. | |
| noun (n.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite. | |
| noun (n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium. | |
| noun (n.) A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound. | |
| verb (v. t.) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one. | |
| verb (v. i.) To practice making music with bells. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound. | |
| verb (v. i.) To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame. | |
| verb (v. t.) To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout. | |
| verb (v. i.) To rise in the air spirally. |
| ringbill | noun (n.) The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup. |
| ringbird | noun (n.) The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Called also ring bunting. |
| ringbolt | noun (n.) An eyebolt having a ring through the eye. |
| ringbone | noun (n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. |
| ringdove | noun (n.) A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat. |
| ringed | adjective (a.) Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings. |
| adjective (a.) Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Ring |
| ringent | adjective (a.) Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla. |
| ringer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells. |
| noun (n.) A crowbar. | |
| noun (n.) A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it. |
| ringhead | noun (n.) An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth. |
| ringleader | noun (n.) The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. |
| noun (n.) Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like. |
| ringlestone | noun (n.) The ringed dotterel, or ring plover. |
| ringlet | noun (n.) A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring. |
| noun (n.) A curl; especially, a curl of hair. |
| ringman | noun (n.) The ring finger. |
| ringmaster | noun (n.) One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus. |
| ringneck | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Aegialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Ae. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Ae. meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover. |
| noun (n.) The ring-necked duck. |
| ringsail | noun (n.) See Ringtail, 2. |
| ringstraked | adjective (a.) Ring-streaked. |
| ringtail | noun (n.) A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier. |
| noun (n.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail. |
| ringtoss | noun (n.) A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick. |
| ringworm | noun (n.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton). |
| rink | noun (n.) The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling. |
| noun (n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor. |
| rinker | noun (n.) One who skates at a rink. |
| rinking | noun (n.) Skating in a rink. |
| rinsing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rinse |
| rinse | noun (n.) The act of rinsing. |
| verb (v. t.) To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle. |
| rinser | noun (n.) One who, or that which, rinses. |
| rincon | noun (n.) An interior corner; a nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, or the like. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RƯNA:
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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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