Name Report For First Name RIO:
RIO
First name RIO's origin is Spanish. RIO means "river". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RIO below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of rio.(Brown names are of the same origin (Spanish) with RIO and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with RIO - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming RIO
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RİO AS A WHOLE:
catriona marioara zorion criostoir arion cebriones dhimitrios eleutherios hyperion nectarios soterios morio torio alastriona arionna briona brione brioni brionna brionne briony charion marion rioghnach riona rosario adrion brion cesario dairion damario dario demario desiderio dorion gabrio gillecriosd gregorio grioghar griorgair gualterio gurion hilario jarion lamarion macario macerio mario oliverio oliverios porfirio priour riobard riocard rion riordain riordan silverio victorio ceasario baldassario azarious makarioa eleftherios rioghbhardan prior clarion orion garion torionNAMES RHYMING WITH RİO (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (io) - Names That Ends with io:
clio asentzio adio tapio guilio lidio anastagio antonio cecilio egidio michio mikio sachio yukio ngaio ohnicio rocio ambrosio anastasio aurelio basilio benicio bonifacio chochuschuvio choovio claudio connlaio cornelio cuartio curcio dacio darcio elvio emilio eugenio fabio favio flavio florinio gervasio heammawihio ignazio incendio inocencio julio lucio masichuvio mauricio natalio nemesio patricio rogelio rufio tavio tonio tulio virgilio lippio arsenio ambrocio sadioNAMES RHYMING WITH RİO (According to first letters):
Rhyming 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 rina rinan rinat rinc ring rinji rinna rinnah ripley rique risa rishim risley risteard risto riston rita ritchie ritsa ritter ritza riva rivalen rivalin rive rivka riyaazNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RİO:
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'o':
raimundo ramiro raulo raymundo reizo remo renaldo renato renjiro reno renzo reto reymundo reynaldo reynardo roano roberto roderigo rodolfo rodrigo rolando rollo romano romeo ronaldo rosco rudo rufo ryokoEnglish Words Rhyming RIO
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RİO AS A WHOLE:
acetarious | adjective (a.) Used in salads; as, acetarious plants. |
adversarious | adjective (a.) Hostile. |
aethrioscope | noun (n.) An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded. |
agriologist | noun (n.) One versed or engaged in agriology. |
agriology | noun (n.) Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes. |
alacrious | adjective (a.) Brisk; joyously active; lively. |
alacriousness | noun (n.) Alacrity. |
allerion | noun (n.) Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings. |
allotriophagy | noun (n.) A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food. |
amatorious | adjective (a.) Amatory. |
anterior | adjective (a.) Before in time; antecedent. |
adjective (a.) Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior. |
anteriority | noun (n.) The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. |
antiperiodic | noun (n.) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers. |
antivariolous | adjective (a.) Preventing the contagion of smallpox. |
apriorism | noun (n.) An a priori principle. |
apriority | noun (n.) The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning. |
arbitrarious | adjective (a.) Arbitrary; despotic. |
arenarious | adjective (a.) Sandy; as, arenarious soil. |
ariolation | noun (n.) A soothsaying; a foretelling. |
ariose | adjective (a.) Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony. |
arteriography | noun (n.) A systematic description of the arteries. |
arteriole | noun (n.) A small artery. |
arteriology | noun (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of arteries. |
arteriotomy | noun (n.) The opening of an artery, esp. for bloodletting. |
noun (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries. |
assyriological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Assyriology; as, Assyriological studies. |
assyriologist | noun (n.) One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archaeology. |
assyriology | noun (n.) The science or study of the antiquities, language, etc., of ancient Assyria. |
asterioidea | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Asteridea |
asterion | noun (n.) The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures. |
atrabilarious | adjective (a.) Affected with melancholy; atrabilious. |
atramentarious | adjective (a.) Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink. |
arteriosclerosis | noun (n.) Abnormal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, esp. of the intima, occurring mostly in old age. |
bacteriological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies. |
bacteriologist | noun (n.) One skilled in bacteriology. |
bacteriology | noun (n.) The science relating to bacteria. |
bacterioscopic | adjective (a.) Relating to bacterioscopy; as, a bacterioscopic examination. |
bacterioscopist | noun (n.) One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations. |
bacterioscopy | noun (n.) The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water. |
noun (n.) Microscopic examination or investigation of bacteria. |
bifarious | adjective (a.) Twofold; arranged in two rows. |
adjective (a.) Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows. |
briony | noun (n.) See Bryony. |
burglarious | adjective (a.) Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary. |
burion | noun (n.) The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch. |
bacteriolysis | noun (n.) Chemical decomposition brought about by bacteria without the addition of oxygen. |
noun (n.) The destruction or dissolution of bacterial cells. |
barrio | noun (n.) In Spain and countries colonized by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs. |
brioche | noun (n.) A light cake made with flour, butter, yeast, and eggs. |
noun (n.) A knitted foot cushion. |
briolette | noun (n.) An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets. |
cabriole | noun (n.) A curvet; a leap. See Capriole. |
cabriolet | noun (n.) A one-horse carriage with two seats and a calash top. |
cariole | noun (n.) A small, light, open one-horse carriage |
noun (n.) A covered cart | |
noun (n.) A kind of calash. See Carryall. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RİO (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (io) - English Words That Ends with io:
adagio | noun (n.) A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn. |
adverb (a. & adv.) Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow. |
agio | noun (n.) The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio. |
arpeggio | noun (n.) The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played. |
bagnio | noun (n.) A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. |
noun (n.) A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution. |
braggadocio | noun (n.) A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. |
noun (n.) Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension. |
bardiglio | noun (n.) An Italian marble of which the principal varieties occur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins. |
cariccio | noun (n.) A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice. |
noun (n.) A caprice; a freak; a fancy. |
capuccio | noun (n.) A capoch or hood. |
clio | noun (n.) The Muse who presided over history. |
comboloio | noun (n.) A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads. |
curculio | noun (n.) One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc. |
curio | noun (n.) Any curiosity or article of virtu. |
daimio | noun (n.) The title of the feudal nobles of Japan. |
derbio | noun (n.) A large European food fish (Lichia glauca). |
durio | noun (n.) A fruit tree (D. zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian. |
embroglio | noun (n.) See Imbroglio. |
escambio | noun (n.) A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea. |
eurasiatio | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the continents of Europe and Asia combined. |
finochio | noun (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable. |
folio | noun (n.) A leaf of a book or manuscript. |
noun (n.) A sheet of paper once folded. | |
noun (n.) A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper. | |
noun (n.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand. | |
noun (n.) A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number. | |
noun (n.) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words. |
fol'io | adjective (a.) Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3. |
verb (v. t.) To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page. |
genio | noun (n.) A man of a particular turn of mind. |
imbroglio | noun (n.) An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction. |
noun (n.) A complicated and embarrassing state of things; a serious misunderstanding. |
impresario | noun (n.) The projector, manager, or conductor, of an opera or concert company. |
intaglio | noun (n.) A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively. |
internuncio | noun (n.) A messenger between two parties. |
noun (n.) A representative, or charge d'affaires, of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, ranking next below a nuncio. |
lothario | noun (n.) A gay seducer of women; a libertine. |
manilio | noun (n.) See Manilla, 1. |
nuncio | noun (n.) A messenger. |
noun (n.) The permanent official representative of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government. Distinguished from a legate a latere, whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. Nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios. |
oglio | noun (n.) See Olio. |
olio | noun (n.) A dish of stewed meat of different kinds. |
noun (n.) A mixture; a medley. | |
noun (n.) A collection of miscellaneous pieces. |
oratorio | noun (n.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted. |
noun (n.) Performance or rendering of such a composition. |
quellio | noun (n.) A ruff for the neck. |
noun (n.) A ruff for the neck. |
papilio | noun (n.) A genus of butterflies. |
passacaglio | noun (n.) An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne. |
pasticcio | noun (n.) A medley; an olio. |
noun (n.) A work of art imitating directly the work of another artist, or of more artists than one. | |
noun (n.) A falsified work of art, as a vase or statue made up of parts of original works, with missing parts supplied. |
patio | noun (n.) A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation. |
noun (n.) In Spain, Spanish America, etc., a court or courtyard of a house or other building; esp., an inner court open to the sky. |
pernio | noun (n.) A chilblain. |
pistachio | noun (n.) The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiaceae, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily. |
noun (n.) The small anacardiaceous tree, of southern Europe and Asia Minor, which bears the pistachio nut. | |
noun (n.) The flavor of the pistachio nut, or an ice or confection flavored with it. | |
noun (n.) Pistachio green. |
portfolio | noun (n.) A portable case for holding loose papers, prints, drawings, etc. |
noun (n.) Hence: The office and functions of a minister of state or member of the cabinet; as, to receive the portfolio of war; to resign the portfolio. |
presidio | noun (n.) A place of defense; a fortress; a garrison; a fortress; a garrison or guardhouse. |
pulvillio | noun (n.) Alt. of Pulvillo |
punctilio | noun (n.) A nice point of exactness in conduct, ceremony, or proceeding; particularity or exactness in forms; as, the punctilios of a public ceremony. |
ratio | noun (n.) The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of the first by the second; thus, the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by / or /; of a to b by a/b; or (less commonly) the second term is made the dividend; as, a:b = b/a. |
noun (n.) Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate; proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress. |
radio | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or employing, or operated by, radiant energy, specifically that of electric waves; hence, pertaining to, or employed in, radiotelegraphy. |
scenario | noun (n.) A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera. |
scorpio | noun (n.) A scorpion. |
noun (n.) The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of October, marked thus [/] in almanacs. | |
noun (n.) A constellation of the zodiac containing the bright star Antares. It is drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a scorpion. |
senecio | noun (n.) A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort. |
septentrio | noun (n.) The constellation Ursa Major. |
seraglio | noun (n.) An inclosure; a place of separation. |
noun (n.) The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem. | |
noun (n.) A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RİO (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 RİO:
English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 'o':
rabato | noun (n.) A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato. |
rallentando | adjective (a.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando. |
ranchero | noun (n.) A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho. |
noun (n.) The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho. |
rancho | noun (n.) A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night. |
noun (n.) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation. |
rebato | noun (n.) Same as Rabato. |
recitativo | noun (n.) Recitative. |
recto | noun (n.) A writ of right. |
noun (n.) The right-hand page; -- opposed to verso. |
reecho | noun (n.) The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo. |
verb (v. t.) To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon. | |
verb (v. i.) To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant. |
relievo | noun (n.) See Relief, n., 5. |
renegado | noun (n.) See Renegade. |
repartimiento | noun (n.) A partition or distribution, especially of slaves; also, an assessment of taxes. |
rhino | noun (n.) Gold and silver, or money. |
ridotto | noun (n.) A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves. |
noun (n.) An arrangement or abridgment of a piece from the full score. | |
verb (v. i.) To hold ridottos. |
rilievo | noun (n.) Same as Relief, n., 5. |
rinforzando | adjective (a.) Increasing; strengthening; -- a direction indicating a sudden increase of force (abbreviated rf., rfz.) Cf. Forzando, and Sforzando. |
ripieno | adjective (a.) Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato. |
risotto | noun (n.) A kind of pottage. |
ritardando | adjective (a.) Retarding; -- a direction for slower time; rallentado. |
ritenuto | adjective (a.) Held back; holding back; ritardando. |
ritornello | noun (n.) A short return or repetition; a concluding symphony to an air, often consisting of the burden of the song. |
noun (n.) A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece; an interlude. |
ritratto | noun (n.) A picture. |
rococo | noun (n.) A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic. |
rodeo | noun (n.) A round-up. See Round-up. |
rodomontado | noun (n.) Rodomontade. |
ronco | noun (n.) See Croaker, n., 2. (a). |
rondo | noun (n.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. |
noun (n.) See Rondeau, 1. |
rotundo | noun (n.) See Rotunda. |
rubato | adjective (a.) Robbed; borrowed. |
rubigo | noun (n.) same as Rust, n., 2. |
rumbo | noun (n.) Grog. |
rebozo | noun (n.) A kind of mantilla worn by women over the head and shoulders, and sometimes over part of the face. |
reconcentrado | noun (n.) Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves. |
rifacimento | noun (n.) A remaking or recasting; an adaptation, esp. of a literary work or musical composition. |
robalo | noun (n.) Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracidae, esp. the largest species (Oxylabrax, syn. Centropomus, undecimalis), a valuable food fish called also snook, the smaller species being called Rob`a*li"to (/). |