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Name Report For First Name READ:

First name READ's origin is English. READ means "red haired". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with READ below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of read.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with READ and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with READ - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming READ

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES READ AS A WHOLE:

mildread mairead muireadhach readman seireadan treadway reading mairghread reade macmaureadhaigh

NAMES RHYMING WITH READ (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ead) - Names That Ends with ead:

sinead birkhead mead halstead ead scead

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ad) - Names That Ends with ad:

shahrazad widad mairearad asad boulad raad sayad abdul-samad ahmad amjad awad ayyad fouad hadad imad jawad jihad maudad mu'ayyad mus'ad rashad saad ziyad artaxiad cathbad ferdiad konrad arpad glad angharad brimlad natividad soledad verdad amad ashaad bhraghad brad chad clustfeinad conrad gad garrad hammad jarrad jerad jerrad kiarad koenraad lad mohamad mohammad muhammad muhunnad niichaad rashaad shad tad zarad vlad rad riyad fahad mad su'ad souad aswad haddad meinrad galahad arvad elrad

NAMES RHYMING WITH READ (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (rea) - Names That Begins with rea:

reagan reaghan reaghann reave reaves

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (re) - Names That Begins with re:

re'uven re-harakhty reba rebecca rebecka rebekah recene rechavia reda redamann redd redding redfor redford redley redman redmond redmund redwald reece reed reeford reem reema reese reeve reeves reeya regan regenfr regenfrithu regenweald reggie reghan regina reginald reginberaht reginhard reginheraht rehema rei reid reidhachadh reign reigne reileigh reilley reilly reina reine reiner reinh reinha reinhard reizo relia remedios remi remington remo remy ren rena renae renaldo renard renata renato rendall rendell rendor rene renee reneigh renenet renfield renfred renfrid renjiro renke renne renneil rennie renny reno renshaw renton renweard renzo reod reshef resi reta reto retta

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH READ:

First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'd':

rachid radford radmund raed raedford raedmund raedwald raghd raid raimond rainhard rald ramond ranald rand ranfield rangford ransford raonaid raonaild rasheed rashid ravid rayford raymond raymund raynard raynord rexford rexlord reymond reynald reynard reynold rheged ricard richard richmond rickard rickward ricweard rikard rikkard rikward riobard riocard risteard roald rockford rockland rod rodd roibeard roland rolland romhild ronald rosalind rosamund rosswald roswald rowland rozamond rozomund rudd rudyard rufford ruford ruhdugeard rumford rushford rutherford rygeland ryland ryscford ryszard

English Words Rhyming READ

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES READ AS A WHOLE:

bedspread

noun (n.) A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.

beebread

noun (n.) A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

bespreading

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bespread

bread	noun (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
	noun (n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
	adjective (a.) To spread.
	verb (v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

breadbasket

noun (n.) The stomach.

breaded

adjective (a.) Braided

breaden

adjective (a.) Made of bread.

breadfruit	noun (n.) The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.
	noun (n.) The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree.

breadless

adjective (a.) Without bread; destitute of food.

breadroot

noun (n.) The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

breadstuff

noun (n.) Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.

breadth

adjective (a.) Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

breadthless

adjective (a.) Without breadth.

breadthwinner

noun (n.) The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living.

broadspread

adjective (a.) Widespread.

broadspreading

adjective (a.) Spreading widely.

clapbread

noun (n.) Alt. of Clapcake

dispreader

noun (n.) One who spreads abroad.

doublethreaded	adjective (a.) Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
	adjective (a.) Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.

dreading

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dread

dread	noun (n.) Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
	noun (n.) Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
	noun (n.) An object of terrified apprehension.
	noun (n.) A person highly revered.
	noun (n.) Fury; dreadfulness.
	noun (n.) Doubt; as, out of dread.
	adjective (a.) Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
	adjective (a.) Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
	verb (v. t.) To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
	verb (v. i.) To be in dread, or great fear.

dreadable

adjective (a.) Worthy of being dreaded.

dreader

noun (n.) One who fears, or lives in fear.

dreadful	adjective (a.) Full of dread or terror; fearful.
	adjective (a.) Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.
	adjective (a.) Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.

dreadfulness

noun (n.) The quality of being dreadful.

dreadless	adjective (a.) Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart.
	adjective (a.) Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure.
	adverb (adv.) Without doubt.

dreadlessness

noun (n.) Freedom from dread.

dreadly	adjective (a.) Dreadful.
	adverb (adv.) With dread.

dreadnaught	noun (n.) A fearless person.
	noun (n.) Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.

dreadnought

noun (n.) A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour.

noun (n.) Any battleship having its main armament entirely of big guns all of one caliber. Since the Dreadnought was built, the caliber of the heaviest guns has increased from 12 in. to 13/ in., 14 in., and 15 in., and the displacement of the largest batteships from 18,000 tons to 30,000 tons and upwards. The term superdreadnought is popularly applied to battleships with such increased displacement and gun caliber.

footbreadth

noun (n.) The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure.

gingerbread

noun (n.) A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.

hairbreadth	adjective (a.) Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.
	() Alt. of Hair'sbreadth

handbreadth

noun (n.) A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm.

misdread

noun (n.) Dread of evil.

misreading

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misread

mistreading

noun (n.) Misstep; misbehavior.

oread

noun (n.) One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.

oreades

noun (n. pl.) A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.

overready

adjective (a.) Too ready.

overspreading

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overspread

preadamic

adjective (a.) Prior to Adam.

preadamite	noun (n.) An inhabitant of the earth before Adam.
	noun (n.) One who holds that men existed before Adam.

preadamitic

adjective (a.) Existing or occurring before Adam; preadamic; as, preadamitic periods.

preadjustment

noun (n.) Previous adjustment.

preadministration

noun (n.) Previous administration.

preadmonition

noun (n.) Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.

preadmission	noun (n.) Lit., previous admission;
	noun (n.) admission, as of steam, to the engine cylinder before the back stroke is completed, thus increasing the cushioning.

read	noun (n.) Rennet. See 3d Reed.
	adjective (a.) Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
	verb (v. t.) To advise; to counsel.
	verb (v. t.) To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
	verb (v. t.) To tell; to declare; to recite.
	verb (v. t.) To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
	verb (v. t.) Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
	verb (v. t.) To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
	verb (v. t.) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
	verb (v. i.) To give advice or counsel.
	verb (v. i.) To tell; to declare.
	verb (v. i.) To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
	verb (v. i.) To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
	verb (v. i.) To learn by reading.
	verb (v. i.) To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.
	verb (v. i.) To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
	verb (v. t.) Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
	verb (v.) Reading.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Read
	() imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH READ (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ead) - English Words That Ends with ead:

arrowhead	noun (n.) The head of an arrow.
	noun (n.) An aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. S. sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves.

baldhead	noun (n.) A person whose head is bald.
	noun (n.) A white-headed variety of pigeon.

bead	noun (n.) A prayer.
	noun (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
	noun (n.) Any small globular body
	noun (n.) A bubble in spirits.
	noun (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid.
	noun (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
	noun (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
	noun (n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.
	verb (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.

beakhead	noun (n.) An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
	noun (n.) A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.
	noun (n.) Same as Beak, 3.

beastlihead

noun (n.) Beastliness.

bedstead

noun (n.) A framework for supporting a bed.

beetlehead	noun (n.) A stupid fellow; a blockhead.
	noun (n.) The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover.

billethead

noun (n.) A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.

billhead

noun (n.) A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.

blackhead

noun (n.) The scaup duck.

blockhead

noun (n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

blunderhead

noun (n.) A stupid, blundering fellow.

bolthead	noun (n.) A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.
	noun (n.) The head of a bolt.

boroughhead

noun (n.) See Headborough.

bottlehead

noun (n.) A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.

bountihead

noun (n.) Alt. of Bountyhood

bowhead

noun (n.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.

bridgehead

noun (n.) A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont.

bufferhead

noun (n.) The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.

bufflehead	noun (n.) One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.
	noun (n.) The buffel duck. See Buffel duck.

bulkhead	noun (n.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.
	noun (n.) A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front.

bullhead	noun (n.) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb.
	noun (n.) In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout.
	noun (n.) A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin.
	noun (n.) The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead.
	noun (n.) The golden plover.
	noun (n.) A stupid fellow; a lubber.
	noun (n.) A small black water insect.

cathead

noun (n.) A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.

centrolinead

noun (n.) An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center.

chucklehead

noun (n.) A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce.

cockhead

noun (n.) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.

cockshead

noun (n.) A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.

copperhead	noun (n.) A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.
	noun (n.) A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.

crosshead

noun (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.

curvilinead

noun (n.) An instrument for drawing curved lines.

dead	noun (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
	noun (n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
	adjective (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
	adjective (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
	adjective (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
	adjective (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
	adjective (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
	adjective (a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
	adjective (a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
	adjective (a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
	adjective (a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
	adjective (a.) Bringing death; deadly.
	adjective (a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
	adjective (a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
	adjective (a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
	adjective (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
	adjective (a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
	adjective (a.) Carrying no current, or producing no useful effect; -- said of a conductor in a dynamo or motor, also of a telegraph wire which has no instrument attached and, therefore, is not in use.
	adjective (a.) Out of play; regarded as out of the game; -- said of a ball, a piece, or a player under certain conditions in cricket, baseball, checkers, and some other games.
	adverb (adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
	verb (v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
	verb (v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.

deadhead	noun (n.) One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc.
	noun (n.) A buoy. See under Dead, a.

doorstead

noun (n.) Entrance or place of a door.

dotehead

noun (n.) A dotard.

drawhead

noun (n.) The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.

drearihead

noun (n.) Alt. of Drearihood

drowsihead

noun (n.) Drowsiness.

drumhead	noun (n.) The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.
	noun (n.) The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.

drunkenhead

noun (n.) Drunkenness.

dullhead

noun (n.) A blockhead; a dolt.

dunderhead

noun (n.) A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.

ennead

noun (n.) The number nine or a group of nine.

farmstead

noun (n.) A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.

fathead	noun (n.) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.
	noun (n.) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.

figurehead	noun (n.) The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.
	noun (n.) A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.

flathead	noun (n.) A Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1.
	adjective (a.) Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.

forehead	noun (n.) The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
	noun (n.) The aspect or countenance; assurance.
	noun (n.) The front or fore part of anything.

gilthead	noun (n.) A marine fish.
	noun (n.) The Pagrus, / Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.
	noun (n.) The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.

girdlestead	noun (n.) That part of the body where the girdle is worn.
	noun (n.) The lap.

glead

noun (n.) A live coal. See Gleed.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH READ (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (rea) - Words That Begins with rea:

reabsorption

noun (n.) The act or process of reabsorbing.

reaccess

noun (n.) A second access or approach; a return.

reach	noun (n.) An effort to vomit.
	noun (n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.
	noun (n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
	noun (n.) Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
	noun (n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.
	noun (n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage.
	noun (n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
	verb (v. i.) To retch.
	verb (v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.
	verb (v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.
	verb (v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.
	verb (v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.
	verb (v. t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.
	verb (v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.
	verb (v. t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.
	verb (v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
	verb (v. t.) To understand; to comprehend.
	verb (v. t.) To overreach; to deceive.
	verb (v. i.) To stretch out the hand.
	verb (v. i.) To strain after something; to make efforts.
	verb (v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.
	verb (v. i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.

reaching

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reach

reachable

adjective (a.) Being within reach.

reacher	noun (n.) One who reaches.
	noun (n.) An exaggeration.

reachless

adjective (a.) Being beyond reach; lofty.

reaction	noun (n.) Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.
	noun (n.) The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.
	noun (n.) An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.
	noun (n.) The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction.
	noun (n.) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction.
	noun (n.) A regular or characteristic response to a stimulation of the nerves.
	() A test for typhoid fever based on the fact that blood serum of one affected, in a bouillon culture of typhoid bacilli, causes the bacilli to agglutinate and lose their motility.

reactionary	noun (n.) One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
	adjective (a.) Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.

reactionist

noun (n.) A reactionary.

reactive

adjective (a.) Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction.

reading	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Read
	noun (n.) The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
	noun (n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
	noun (n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital.
	noun (n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
	noun (n.) Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.
	noun (n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
	adjective (a.) Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

readability

noun (n.) The state of being readable; readableness.

readable

adjective (a.) Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting.

readeption

noun (n.) A regaining; recovery of something lost.

reader	noun (n.) One who reads.
	noun (n.) One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church.
	noun (n.) One who reads lectures on scientific subjects.
	noun (n.) A proof reader.
	noun (n.) One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.
	noun (n.) One who reads much; one who is studious.
	noun (n.) A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.

readership

noun (n.) The office of reader.

readiness

noun (n.) The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness.

readjournment

noun (n.) The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.

readjuster

noun (n.) One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent of the State's creditors.

readjustment

noun (n.) A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.

readmission

noun (n.) The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.

readmittance

noun (n.) Allowance to enter again; a second admission.

readvertency

noun (n.) The act of adverting to again, or of reviewing.

ready	noun (n.) Ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was well supplied with the ready.
	superlative (superl.) Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey.
	superlative (superl.) Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished.
	superlative (superl.) Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing; free; inclined; disposed.
	superlative (superl.) Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman.
	superlative (superl.) Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient; near; easy.
	superlative (superl.) On the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a following infinitive.
	superlative (superl.) A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim.
	adverb (adv.) In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay.
	verb (v. t.) To dispose in order.

reaffirmance

noun (n.) Alt. of Reaffirmation

reaffirmation

noun (n.) A second affirmation.

reafforestation

noun (n.) The act or process of converting again into a forest.

reagent

noun (n.) A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.

reaggravation

noun (n.) The last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication.

reak	noun (n.) A rush.
	noun (n.) A prank.

real	noun (n.) A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.
	noun (n.) A realist.
	adjective (a.) Royal; regal; kingly.
	adjective (a.) Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.
	adjective (a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.
	adjective (a.) Relating to things, not to persons.
	adjective (a.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.

realgar

noun (n.) Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.

realism	noun (n.) As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).
	noun (n.) As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.
	noun (n.) Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.

realist	noun (n.) One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.
	noun (n.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.

realistic

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

reality	noun (n.) The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
	noun (n.) That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.
	noun (n.) Loyalty; devotion.
	noun (n.) See 2d Realty, 2.

realizable

adjective (a.) Capable of being realized.

realization

noun (n.) The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

realizing	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Realize
	adjective (a.) Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality; as, a realizing view of the danger incurred.

realizer

noun (n.) One who realizes.

realliance

noun (n.) A renewed alliance.

realm	noun (n.) A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.
	noun (n.) Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy.

realmless

adjective (a.) Destitute of a realm.

realness

noun (n.) The quality or condition of being real; reality.

realty	noun (n.) Royalty.
	noun (n.) Loyalty; faithfulness.
	noun (n.) Reality.
	noun (n.) Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; -- so written in legal language for reality.
	noun (n.) Real estate; a piece of real property.

ream	noun (n.) Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
	noun (n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
	verb (v. i.) To cream; to mantle.
	verb (v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.
	verb (v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

reaming

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ream

reame

noun (n.) Realm.

reamer

noun (n.) One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH READ:

English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 'd':

rabid	noun (n.) Furious; raging; extremely violent.
	noun (n.) Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist.
	noun (n.) Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid dog or fox.
	noun (n.) Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus.

racemed

adjective (a.) Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes.

radiated	adjective (a.) Emitted, or sent forth, in rays or direct lines; as, radiated heat.
	adjective (a.) Formed of, or arranged like, rays or radii; having parts or markings diverging, like radii, from a common center or axis; as, a radiated structure; a radiated group of crystals.
	adjective (a.) Belonging to the Radiata.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Radiate

radicated	adjective (a.) Rooted
	adjective (a.) Having roots, or possessing a well-developed root.
	adjective (a.) Having rootlike organs for attachment.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Radicate

ragged	noun (n.) Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.
	noun (n.) Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.
	noun (n.) Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
	noun (n.) Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.
	noun (n.) Rough; shaggy; rugged.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Rag

raguled

adjective (a.) Alt. of Ragguled

ragguled

adjective (a.) Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.

ragweed

noun (n.) A common American composite weed (Ambrosia artemisiaefolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed.

raid	noun (n.) A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
	noun (n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
	verb (v. t.) To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.

railroad	noun (n.) Alt. of Railway
	verb (v. t.) To carry or send by railroad; usually fig., to send or put through at high speed or in great haste; to hurry or rush unduly; as, to railroad a bill through Condress.

rainbowed

adjective (a.) Formed with or like a rainbow.

raised	adjective (a.) Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work.
	adjective (a.) Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Raise

ramed

adjective (a.) Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.

ramrod

noun (n.) The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.

ramsted

noun (n.) A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted weed.

rancid

adjective (a.) Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.

rand	noun (n.) A border; edge; margin.
	noun (n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
	noun (n.) A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.
	noun (n.) Rim; egde; border.
	verb (v. i.) To rant; to storm.

rapid	adjective (a.) Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
	adjective (a.) Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.
	adjective (a.) Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.
	adjective (a.) The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.

rapiered

adjective (a.) Wearing a rapier.

ratsbaned

adjective (a.) Poisoned by ratsbane.

rattlehead

noun (n.) An empty, noisy talker.

rattleweed

noun (n.) Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.

raucid

adjective (a.) Hoarse; raucous.

rawboned

adjective (a.) Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt.

rawhead

noun (n.) A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones.

razed	adjective (a.) Slashed or striped in patterns.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Raze

rearward	noun (n.) The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively.
	adverb (a. & adv.) At or toward the rear.

rebound	noun (n.) The act of rebounding; resilience.
	verb (v. i.) To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.
	verb (v. i.) To give back an echo.
	verb (v. i.) To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse.
	verb (v. t.) To send back; to reverberate.

recessed	adjective (a.) Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.
	adjective (a.) Withdrawn; secluded.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Recess

reclined	adjective (a.) Falling or turned downward; reclinate.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Recline

rectangled

adjective (a.) Rectangular.

rectinerved

adjective (a.) Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves.

recurved

adjective (a.) Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.

red	noun (n.) The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.
	noun (n.) A red pigment.
	noun (n.) An abbreviation for Red Republican. See under Red, a.
	adjective (a.) The menses.
	superlative (superl.) Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part.
	verb (v. t.) To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house.
	() . imp. & p. p. of Read.

redbird	noun (n.) The cardinal bird.
	noun (n.) The summer redbird (Piranga rubra).
	noun (n.) The scarlet tanager. See Tanager.

redbud

noun (n.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.

redemand	noun (n.) A demanding back; a second or renewed demand.
	verb (v. t.) To demand back; to demand again.

redented

adjective (a.) Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.

redhead	noun (n.) A person having red hair.
	noun (n.) An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard.
	noun (n.) The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.
	noun (n.) A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.

redoubted

adjective (a.) Formidable; dread.

redound	noun (n.) The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.
	noun (n.) Rebound; reverberation.
	verb (v. i.) To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.
	verb (v. i.) To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.

reduvid

noun (n.) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.

redweed

noun (n.) The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas).

redwood	noun (n.) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
	noun (n.) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.

reed	noun (v. & n.) Same as Rede.
	noun (n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
	noun (n.) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).
	noun (n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
	noun (n.) An arrow, as made of a reed.
	noun (n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
	noun (n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
	noun (n.) One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.
	noun (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.
	noun (n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
	noun (n.) Same as Reeding.
	adjective (a.) Red.

reedbird	noun (n.) The bobolink.
	noun (n.) One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Sch/nicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.

reeded	adjective (a.) Civered with reeds; reedy.
	adjective (a.) Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.

reezed

adjective (a.) Grown rank; rancid; rusty.

refined	adjective (a.) Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Refine

reflected	adjective (a.) Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc.
	adjective (a.) Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory was reflected glory.
	adjective (a.) Bent backward or outward; reflexed.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Reflect

reflexed

adjective (a.) Bent backward or outward.

reformed	adjective (a.) Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches.
	adjective (a.) Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.
	adjective (a.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.

refracted	adjective (a.) Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf.
	adjective (a.) Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Refract

reichsstand

noun (n.) A free city of the former German empire.

related	adjective (p. p. & a.) Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree.
	adjective (p. p. & a.) Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric and magnetic forcec are closely related.
	adjective (p. p. & a.) Narrated; told.
	adjective (p. p. & a.) Same as Relative, 4.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Relate

relicted

adjective (a.) Left uncovered, as land by recession of water.

remand	noun (n.) The act of remanding; the order for recommitment.
	verb (v. t.) To recommit; to send back.

remiped	noun (n.) An animal having limbs like oars, especially one of certain crustaceans.
	noun (n.) One of a group of aquatic beetles having tarsi adapted for swimming. See Water beetle.
	adjective (a.) Having feet or legs that are used as oars; -- said of certain crustaceans and insects.

remoulad

noun (n.) A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.

remorsed

adjective (a.) Feeling remorse.

removed	adjective (a.) Changed in place.
	adjective (a.) Dismissed from office.
	adjective (a.) Distant in location; remote.
	adjective (a.) Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Remove

renard

noun (n.) A fox; -- so called in fables or familiar tales, and in poetry.

renneted

adjective (a.) Provided or treated with rennet.

renowmed

adjective (a.) Renowned.

renowned

adjective (a.) Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king.

repand

adjective (a.) Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.

repetend

noun (n.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7/8/), the repetend is 283.

replicated

adjective (a.) Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.

reposed	adjective (a.) Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Repose

reprimand	noun (n.) Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
	noun (n.) To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally.
	noun (n.) To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.

rereward

noun (n.) The rear guard of an army.

reserved	adjective (a.) Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.
	adjective (a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Reserve

resigned	adjective (a.) Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Resign

resinoid

adjective (a.) Somewhat like resin.

resolved	adjective (p. p. & a.) Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Resolve

resound	noun (n.) Return of sound; echo.
	verb (v. i.) To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
	verb (v. i.) To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.
	verb (v. i.) To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound.
	verb (v. i.) To be mentioned much and loudly.
	verb (v. i.) To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.
	verb (v. t.) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate.
	verb (v. t.) To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.

respond	noun (n.) An answer; a response.
	noun (n.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
	noun (n.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.
	verb (v. i.) To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.
	verb (v. i.) To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
	verb (v. i.) To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages.
	verb (v. t.) To answer; to reply.
	verb (v. t.) To suit or accord with; to correspond to.

resupinated

adjective (a.) Resupinate.

retard	noun (n.) Retardation; delay.
	verb (v. t.) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.
	verb (v. t.) To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
	verb (v. i.) To stay back.

reticulated	adjective (a.) Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure.
	adjective (a.) Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect.

retinerved

adjective (a.) Having reticulated veins.

retinoid

adjective (a.) Resinlike, or resinform; resembling a resin without being such.

retiped

noun (n.) A bird having small polygonal scales covering the tarsi.

retired	adjective (a.) Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits.
	adjective (a.) Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Retire

retroflexed

adjective (a.) Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.

retrofracted

adjective (a.) Refracted; as, a retrofract stem.

retroverted	adjective (a.) In a state of retroversion.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Retrovert

reverend

adjective (a.) Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.

reversed	adjective (a.) Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zool.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.
	adjective (a.) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Reverse

reverted	adjective (a.) Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Revert

reward	noun (n.) Regard; respect; consideration.
	noun (n.) That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.
	noun (n.) Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.
	noun (n.) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.
	verb (v. t.) To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.

reynard

noun (n.) An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as Renard.

rheochord

noun (n.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.

rheumatismoid

adjective (a.) Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism.

rhinolophid

noun (n.) Any species of the genus Rhinilophus, or family Rhinolophidae, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat.

rhizoid

noun (n.) A rootlike appendage.

rhizopod

noun (n.) One of the Rhizopoda.

rhomboganoid

noun (n.) A ganoid fish having rhombic enameled scales; one of the Rhomboganoidei.

rhomboid	noun (n.) An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different.
	adjective (a.) Same as Rhomboidal.

ribald	noun (n./) A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow.
	adjective (a.) Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene.

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