Name Report For First Name RONA:
RONA
First name RONA's origin is Hebrew. RONA means "my joy". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RONA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of rona.(Brown names are of the same origin (Hebrew) with RONA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with RONA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming RONA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RONA AS A WHOLE:
avarona brona carona mairona cronan ronal ronald ronaldo ronan ronatNAMES RHYMING WITH RONA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ona) - Names That Ends with ona:
epona abellona cairistiona catriona desmona ilona kekona keona kona dona mona simona winona ivona napona alastriona aldona allona alona anemona briona caylona deona devona diona ejona fiona gliona halona kiona leona ona oona ramona riona saxona senona wenona wilona yona xylona solona iliona desdemona lona iona albiona rimona tivona tziyona yarkonaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (na) - Names That Ends with na:
abena adanna asmina ayana crispina fana hasana hasina makena tarana uchenna urenna zahina zena zwena alhena hana rihana sana' thana' aitana agana inina nena raina bozena jana jirina gelsomina fukayna levina jaakkina jaana katariina durandana falerina methena nanna ghleanna kyna armina johanna katharina luana aegina aetna akilina alcina aretinaNAMES RHYMING WITH RONA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ron) - Names That Begins with ron:
ron ronce rondalyn ronell ronelle roni ronia ronit ronli ronn ronnell ronnie ronny ronsonRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ro) - Names That Begins with ro:
roald roan roana roane roanne roano roark rob robb robbie robbin robby robena robert roberta robertia roberto robertson robin robina robinetta robinette roble robynne roch roche rochelle rocio rock rocke rockford rockland rockwell rocky rod rodas rodd roddric roddrick roddy rodel rodell roderic roderica roderick roderiga roderigo roderik roderika rodes rodger rodica rodika rodman rodney rodolfo rodor rodric rodrick rodrigo rodrik rodwell roe roel roesia rogan rogelio roger rohais rohan rohon roi roial roibeard roibin rois roka roland rolanda rolande rolando roldan roldana rolf rolfe rollanNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RONA:
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 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 ria rica ricadonna ricarda ricca ricwea rida ridha riikka rikka rilla rilletta rillia rima rina rinna risa rita ritsa ritza riva rivka roma romana romanitza romhilda romia romilda romina rosa rosalia rosalinda rosamaria rosana rosemaria rosemunda rosetta rowa rowena roxana roxannaEnglish Words Rhyming RONA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RONA AS A WHOLE:
| aeronaut | noun (n.) An aerial navigator; a balloonist. |
| aeronautic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Aeronautical |
| aeronautical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to aeronautics, or aerial sailing. |
| aeronautics | noun (n.) The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aerial navigation; ballooning. |
| aeronat | noun (n.) A dirigible balloon. |
| aleuronat | noun (n.) Flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons. |
| baronage | noun (n.) The whole body of barons or peers. |
| noun (n.) The dignity or rank of a baron. | |
| noun (n.) The land which gives title to a baron. |
| carronade | noun (n.) A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side. |
| chaperonage | noun (n.) Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon. |
| corona | noun (n.) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services. |
| noun (n.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column. | |
| noun (n.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown. | |
| noun (n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin. | |
| noun (n.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon. | |
| noun (n.) An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil. | |
| noun (n.) Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ. | |
| noun (n.) A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon. | |
| noun (n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle. | |
| noun (n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis. | |
| noun (n.) A character [/] called the pause or hold. |
| coronach | noun (n.) See Coranach. |
| coronal | noun (n.) A crown; wreath; garland. |
| noun (n.) The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses). | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin. |
| coronamen | noun (n.) The upper margin of a hoof; a coronet. |
| coronary | noun (n.) A small bone in the foot of a horse. |
| noun (n.) Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland. | |
| adjective (a.) Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart. |
| coronate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Coronated |
| coronated | adjective (a.) Having or wearing a crown. |
| adjective (a.) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds. | |
| adjective (a.) Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells. | |
| adjective (a.) Having a crest or a crownlike appendage. |
| coronation | noun (n.) The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty. |
| noun (n.) The pomp or assembly at a coronation. |
| fanfaronade | noun (n.) A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. |
| incoronate | adjective (a.) Crowned. |
| isochronal | adjective (a.) Uniform in time; of equal time; performed in equal times; recurring at regular intervals; isochronal vibrations or oscillations. |
| matronage | noun (n.) The state of a matron. |
| noun (n.) The collective body of matrons. |
| matronal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly. |
| mucronate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Mucronated |
| mucronated | adjective (a.) Ending abruptly in a sharp point; abruptly tipped with a short and sharp point; as, a mucronate leaf. |
| patronage | noun (n.) Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an author. |
| noun (n.) Business custom. | |
| noun (n.) Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care. | |
| noun (n.) The right of nomination to political office; also, the offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by favor. | |
| noun (n.) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson. | |
| verb (v. t.) To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend. |
| patronal | adjective (a.) Patron; protecting; favoring. |
| patronate | noun (n.) The right or duty of a patron; patronage. |
| peronate | adjective (a.) A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery. |
| piperonal | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde. |
| pronaos | noun (n.) The porch or vestibule of a temple. |
| pronate | adjective (a.) Somewhat prone; inclined; as, pronate trees. |
| pronation | noun (n.) The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward. |
| noun (n.) That motion of the forearm whereby the palm or palmar, surface is turned downward. | |
| noun (n.) The position of the limb resulting from the act of pronation. Opposed to supination. |
| pronator | noun (n.) A muscle which produces pronation. |
| saccharonate | noun (n.) A salt of saccharonic acid. |
| synchronal | noun (n.) A synchronal thing or event. |
| adjective (a.) Happening at, or belonging to, the same time; synchronous; simultaneous. |
| tartronate | noun (n.) A salt of tartronic acid. |
| trona | noun (n.) A native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.2HNaCO3.2H2O, occurring as a white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; -- called also urao, and by the ancients nitrum. |
| tronage | noun (n.) A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool. |
| tronator | noun (n.) An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool. |
| xeronate | noun (n.) A salt of xeronic acid. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RONA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ona) - English Words That Ends with ona:
| anona | noun (n.) A genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the natural order Anonaceae, including the soursop. |
| apneumona | noun (n. pl.) An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes. |
| bellona | noun (n.) The goddess of war. |
| cinchona | noun (n.) A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value. |
| noun (n.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark. |
| cremona | noun (n.) A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy. |
| dipneumona | noun (n. pl.) A group of spiders having only two lunglike organs. |
| gymnophiona | noun (n. pl.) An order of Amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body. See Ophiomorpha. |
| mona | noun (n.) A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches. |
| monopneumona | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Dipnoi, including the Ceratodus. |
| persona | noun (n.) Same as Person, n., 8. |
| pomona | noun (n.) The goddess of fruits and fruit trees. |
| tetraneumona | noun (n. pl.) A division of Arachnida including those spiders which have four lungs, or pulmonary sacs. It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders. See Mygale. |
| zircona | noun (n.) Zirconia. |
| zona | noun (n.) A zone or band; a layer. |
| wenona | noun (n.) A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidae. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RONA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ron) - Words That Begins with ron:
| roncador | noun (n.) Any one of several species of California sciaenoid food fishes, especially Roncador Stearnsi, which is an excellent market fish, and the red roncador (Corvina, / Johnius, saturna). |
| ronchil | noun (n.) An American marine food fish (Bathymaster signatus) of the North Pacific coast, allied to the tilefish. |
| ronco | noun (n.) See Croaker, n., 2. (a). |
| rondache | noun (n.) A circular shield carried by foot soldiers. |
| ronde | noun (n.) A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look. |
| rondeau | noun (n.) A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule. |
| noun (n.) See Rondo, 1. |
| rondel | noun (n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. |
| noun (n.) Same as Rondeau. | |
| noun (n.) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth. |
| rondeletia | noun (n.) A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers. |
| rondle | noun (n.) A rondeau. |
| noun (n.) A round mass, plate, or disk; especially (Metal.), the crust or scale which forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible. |
| 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. |
| rondure | noun (n.) A round; a circle. |
| noun (n.) Roundness; plumpness. |
| rong | noun (n.) Rung (of a ladder). |
| () imp. & p. p. of Ring. |
| rongeur | noun (n.) An instrument for removing small rough portions of bone. |
| ronion | noun (n.) Alt. of Ronyon |
| ronyon | noun (n.) A mangy or scabby creature. |
| ront | noun (n.) A runt. |
| ronin | noun (n.) In Japan, under the feudal system, a samurai who had renounced his clan or who had been discharged or ostracized and had become a wanderer without a lord; an outcast; an outlaw. |
| rontgen | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, or the rays discovered by him; as, Rontgen apparatus. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RONA:
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. |
| 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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