RENTON
First name RENTON's origin is English. RENTON means "from the raven farm". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RENTON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of renton.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with RENTON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming RENTON
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RENTON AS A WHOLE:
trenton brentonNAMES RHYMING WITH RENTON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (enton) - Names That Ends with enton:
benton fenton kenton denton penton quentonRhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (nton) - Names That Ends with nton:
txanton stanton anton boynton branton buinton clinton danton staunton thornton winton wynton tanton swinton quinton linton manton brinton dunton santonRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ton) - Names That Ends with ton:
afton cihuaton antton alston alton burton carelton hamilton preston ralston remington rexton sexton weston biton euryton triton agoston ashton kerrington stayton wryeton aetheston aiston athelston beaton braxton brayton bretton brighton britton bryceton bryston carleton carlton charleston charlton chayton clayton clifton clyffton crayton creighton criston crofton daxton dayton delton deston duston easton elliston elston eston everton fulaton garton hampton harrington helton houston hsmilton hughston huntington johnston keaton kingston knoton kolton langston layton lifton litton macnaughtonNAMES RHYMING WITH RENTON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (rento) - Names That Begins with rento:
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (rent) - Names That Begins with rent:
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ren) - Names That Begins with ren:
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 renweard renzoRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (re) - Names That Begins with re:
re'uven re-harakhty read reade reading readman reagan reaghan reaghann reave reaves 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 remo remy reod reshef resi retaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RENTON:
First Names which starts with 're' and ends with 'on':
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'n':
raanan rabican radburn raedan raedanoran raedeman raegan raelynn rahman raidon raidyn rainan raison rajan rakin ramadan ramon ramsden ran randkin randon randson ranen rankin ranon raven ravin ravyn rawgon rawson rayburn raydon rayhan rayhurn raylen rayman raymon rayyan razvan reuben reuhen reyburn reyhurn reylynn rhearn rhiannon rhyannon riagan rian richlynn richman rickman ricman ridwan rilynn rinan rioghbhardan rion riordain riordan riston rivalen rivalin roan robbin robertson robin rodman rogan rohan rohon roibin roldan rollan romain roman ron ronan rondalyn ronn ronson rosaleen roselin roselyn roshan roshin rosiyn roslin roslyn rosselin rosselyn rosston rousskin rouvin rowan rowen roweson rowin rowson rowynEnglish Words Rhyming RENTON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RENTON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RENTON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (enton) - English Words That Ends with enton:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (nton) - English Words That Ends with nton:
badminton | noun (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks. |
noun (n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened. |
canton | noun (n.) A song or canto |
noun (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment. | |
noun (n.) A small community or clan. | |
noun (n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement. | |
noun (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side. | |
verb (v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. | |
verb (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops. |
fronton | noun (n.) Same as Frontal, 2. |
monton | noun (n.) A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation. |
panton | noun (n.) A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel. |
ponton | noun (n.) See Pontoon. |
santon | noun (n.) A Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit. |
wanton | noun (n.) A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment. |
noun (n.) One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet. | |
noun (n.) A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman. | |
verb (v. t.) Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. | |
verb (v. t.) Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute. | |
verb (v. t.) Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous. | |
verb (v. t.) Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief. | |
verb (v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic. | |
verb (v. i.) To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ton) - English Words That Ends with ton:
acton | noun (n.) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. |
aketon | noun (n.) See Acton. |
astrophyton | noun (n.) A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched. |
asyndeton | noun (n.) A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton. |
barbiton | noun (n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre. |
barton | noun (n.) The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself. |
noun (n.) A farmyard. |
baston | noun (n.) A staff or cudgel. |
noun (n.) See Baton. | |
noun (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court. |
baton | noun (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. |
noun (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister. |
batton | noun (n.) See Batten, and Baton. |
beton | noun (n.) The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion. |
boston | noun (n.) A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war. |
breton | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France; also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican. |
adjective (a.) Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France. |
briton | noun (n.) A native of Great Britain. |
adjective (a.) British. |
burton | noun (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part. |
button | noun (n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. |
noun (n.) A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament. | |
noun (n.) A bud; a germ of a plant. | |
noun (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door. | |
noun (n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. | |
noun (n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up. | |
noun (n.) To dress or clothe. | |
verb (v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button. | |
() Alt. of evil |
carton | noun (n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box. |
caxton | noun (n.) Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer. |
checklaton | noun (n.) Ciclatoun. |
noun (n.) Gilded leather. |
chiton | noun (n.) An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt. |
noun (n.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora. |
cotton | noun (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half. |
noun (n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below. | |
noun (n.) Cloth made of cotton. | |
verb (v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. | |
verb (v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed. | |
verb (v. i.) To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with. | |
verb (v. i.) To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to. |
croton | noun (n.) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries. |
crouton | noun (n.) Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc. |
dermoskeleton | noun (n.) See Exoskeleton. |
emplecton | noun (n.) A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders. |
endoskeleton | noun (n.) The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton. |
exoskeleton | noun (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton. |
feuilleton | noun (n.) A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed. |
glutton | noun (n.) One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer. |
noun (n.) Fig.: One who gluts himself. | |
noun (n.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. | |
adjective (a.) Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To glut; to eat voraciously. |
hacqueton | noun (n.) Same as Acton. |
haketon | noun (n.) Same as Acton. |
homoioptoton | noun (n.) A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally. |
hyperbaton | noun (n.) A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed." |
indobriton | noun (n.) A person born in India, of mixed Indian and British blood; a half-caste. |
jetton | noun (n.) A metal counter used in playing cards. |
karyomiton | noun (n.) The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell. |
kingston | noun (n.) Alt. of Kingstone |
kytomiton | noun (n.) See Karyomiton. |
krypton | noun (n.) An inert gaseous element of the argon group, occurring in air to the extent of about one volume in a million. It was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1898. Liquefying point, -- 152¡ C.; symbol, Kr; atomic weight, 83.0. |
laton | noun (n.) Alt. of Latoun |
megaphyton | noun (n.) An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds. |
melocoton | noun (n.) Alt. of Melocotoon |
melton | noun (n.) A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp. |
moton | noun (n.) A small plate covering the armpit in armor of the 14th century and later. |
mutton | noun (n.) A sheep. |
noun (n.) The flesh of a sheep. | |
noun (n.) A loose woman; a prostitute. |
mirliton | noun (n.) A kind of musical toy into which one sings, hums, or speaks, producing a coarse, reedy sound. |
neuroskeleton | noun (n.) The deep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are relation with the nervous axis and locomation. |
phaeton | noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses. |
noun (n.) See Phaethon. | |
noun (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore. |
phlogiston | noun (n.) The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element. |
phyton | noun (n.) One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer. |
piston | noun (n.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RENTON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (rento) - Words That Begins with rento:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (rent) - Words That Begins with rent:
rent | noun (n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear. |
noun (n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church. | |
noun (n.) Income; revenue. See Catel. | |
noun (n.) Pay; reward; share; toll. | |
noun (n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc. | |
noun (n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it. | |
noun (n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner. | |
noun (n.) That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the "original and indestructible powers of the soil;" the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the "margin of cultivation." Called also economic, / Ricardian, rent. Economic rent is due partly to differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or commercial rent less interest on improvements, and nearly equivalent to ground rent. | |
noun (n.) Loosely, a return or profit from a differential advantage for production, as in case of income or earnings due to rare natural gifts creating a natural monopoly. | |
verb (v. i.) To rant. | |
verb (v. t.) To tear. See Rend. | |
verb (v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Rend | |
() imp. & p. p. of Rend. |
renting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rent |
rentable | adjective (a.) Capable of being rented, or suitable for renting. |
rentage | noun (n.) Rent. |
rental | noun (n.) A schedule, account, or list of rents, with the names of the tenants, etc.; a rent roll. |
noun (n.) A sum total of rents; as, an estate that yields a rental of ten thousand dollars a year. |
rente | noun (n.) In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc., which represent government indebtedness. |
renter | noun (n.) One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant. |
verb (v. t.) To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw. | |
verb (v. t.) To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry. |
rentering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Renter |
renterer | noun (n.) One who renters. |
rentier | noun (n.) One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ren) - Words That Begins with ren:
ren | noun (n.) A run. |
verb (v. t. & i.) See Renne. |
renable | adjective (a.) Reasonable; also, loquacious. |
renaissance | noun (n.) A new birth, or revival. |
noun (n.) The transitional movement in Europe, marked by the revival of classical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, and the similar revival following in other countries. | |
noun (n.) The style of art which prevailed at this epoch. |
renaissant | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Renaissance. |
renal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys; in the region of the kidneys. |
renard | noun (n.) A fox; -- so called in fables or familiar tales, and in poetry. |
renardine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Renard, the fox, or the tales in which Renard is mentioned. |
renascence | noun (n.) The state of being renascent. |
noun (n.) Same as Renaissance. |
renascency | noun (n.) State of being renascent. |
renascent | adjective (a.) Springing or rising again into being; being born again, or reproduced. |
adjective (a.) See Renaissant. |
renascible | adjective (a.) Capable of being reproduced; ablle to spring again into being. |
renate | adjective (a.) Born again; regenerate; renewed. |
rencontre | noun (n.) Same as Rencounter, n. |
rencountering | noun (p. pr. & vb/ n.) of Rencounter |
rencounter | noun (n.) A meeting of two persons or bodies; a collision; especially, a meeting in opposition or contest; a combat, action, or engagement. |
noun (n.) A causal combat or action; a sudden contest or fight without premeditation, as between individuals or small parties. | |
verb (v. t.) To meet unexpectedly; to encounter. | |
verb (v. t.) To attack hand to hand. | |
verb (v. i.) To meet unexpectedly; to encounter in a hostile manner; to come in collision; to skirmish. |
rending | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rend |
render | noun (n.) One who rends. |
noun (n.) A surrender. | |
noun (n.) A return; a payment of rent. | |
noun (n.) An account given; a statement. | |
verb (v. t.) To return; to pay back; to restore. | |
verb (v. t.) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite. | |
verb (v. t.) To give up; to yield; to surrender. | |
verb (v. t.) Hence, to furnish; to contribute. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure. | |
verb (v. t.) To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English. | |
verb (v. t.) To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner. | |
verb (v. t.) To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow. | |
verb (v. t.) To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath. | |
verb (v. i.) To give an account; to make explanation or confession. | |
verb (v. i.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way. |
rendering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Render |
noun (n.) The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered. | |
noun (n.) A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text. | |
noun (n.) In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. | |
noun (n.) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework. | |
noun (n.) The coat of plaster thus laid on. | |
noun (n.) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat. |
renderable | adjective (a.) Capable of being rendered. |
renderer | noun (n.) One who renders. |
noun (n.) A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered. |
rendezvous | noun (n.) A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet. |
noun (n.) Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment. | |
noun (n.) A meeting by appointment. | |
noun (n.) Retreat; refuge. | |
verb (v. i.) To assemble or meet at a particular place. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled. |
rendezvousing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rendezvous |
rendible | adjective (a.) Capable of being rent or torn. |
adjective (a.) Capable, or admitting, of being rendered. |
rendition | noun (n.) The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war. |
noun (n.) Translation; rendering; version. |
rendrock | noun (n.) A kind of dynamite used in blasting. |
renegade | noun (n.) One faithless to principle or party. |
noun (n.) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. | |
noun (n.) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter. | |
noun (n.) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow. |
renegado | noun (n.) See Renegade. |
renegat | noun (n.) A renegade. |
renegation | noun (n.) A denial. |
renewing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Renew |
renewability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being renewable. |
renewable | adjective (a.) Capable of being renewed; as, a lease renewable at pleasure. |
renewal | noun (n.) The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty. |
renewedness | noun (n.) The state of being renewed. |
renewer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, renews. |
reng | noun (n.) A rank; a row. |
noun (n.) A rung or round of a ladder. |
renidification | noun (n.) The act of rebuilding a nest. |
reniform | adjective (a.) Having the form or shape of a kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf. |
renitence | noun (n.) Alt. of Renitency |
renitency | noun (n.) The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance. |
renitent | adjective (a.) Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force. |
adjective (a.) Persistently opposed. |
renner | noun (n.) A runner. |
rennet | noun (n.) A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette. |
verb (v.) The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk. |
renneted | adjective (a.) Provided or treated with rennet. |
renneting | noun (n.) Same as 1st Rennet. |
rennin | noun (n.) A milk-clotting enzyme obtained from the true stomach (abomasum) of a suckling calf. Mol. wt. about 31,000. Also called chymosin, rennase, and abomasal enzyme. |
renning | noun (n.) See 2d Rennet. |
renomee | noun (n.) Renown. |
renouncing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Renounce |
renounce | noun (n.) Act of renouncing. |
verb (v. t.) To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne. | |
verb (v. t.) To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear. | |
verb (v. t.) To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit. | |
verb (v. i.) To make renunciation. | |
verb (v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RENTON:
English Words which starts with 're' and ends with 'on':
reabsorption | noun (n.) The act or process of reabsorbing. |
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. |
readeption | noun (n.) A regaining; recovery of something lost. |
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. |
reaffirmation | noun (n.) A second affirmation. |
reafforestation | noun (n.) The act or process of converting again into a forest. |
reaggravation | noun (n.) The last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication. |
realization | noun (n.) The act of realizing, or the state of being realized. |
reamputation | noun (n.) The second of two amputations performed upon the same member. |
reanimation | noun (n.) The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival. |
reannexation | noun (n.) Act of reannexing. |
reapplication | noun (n.) The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. |
reascension | noun (n.) The act of reascending; a remounting. |
reason | noun (n.) A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument. |
noun (n.) The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty. | |
noun (n.) Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice. | |
noun (n.) Ratio; proportion. | |
noun (n.) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts. | |
noun (n.) Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue. | |
noun (n.) To converse; to compare opinions. | |
verb (v. t.) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend. | |
verb (v. t.) To support with reasons, as a request. | |
verb (v. t.) To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan. | |
verb (v. t.) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with down; as, to reason down a passion. | |
verb (v. t.) To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon. |
reassertion | noun (n.) A second or renewed assertion of the same thing. |
rebaptization | noun (n.) A second baptism. |
reboation | noun (n.) Repetition of a bellow. |
rebullition | noun (n.) The act of boiling up or effervescing. |
recalcitration | noun (n.) A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness. |
recantation | noun (n.) The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction. |
recapitulation | noun (n.) The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay. |
recaption | noun (n.) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. |
recension | noun (n.) The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration. |
noun (n.) Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment. | |
noun (n.) The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version. |
reception | noun (n.) The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence. |
noun (n.) The state of being received. | |
noun (n.) The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception. | |
noun (n.) Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine. | |
noun (n.) A retaking; a recovery. |
recession | noun (n.) The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. |
noun (n.) The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign. |
recidivation | noun (n.) A falling back; a backsliding. |
reciprocation | noun (n.) The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindnesses. |
noun (n.) Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides. |
recision | noun (n.) The act of cutting off. |
recitation | noun (n.) The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences. |
noun (n.) The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered. | |
noun (n.) The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor. |
reclamation | noun (n.) The act or process of reclaiming. |
noun (n.) Representation made in opposition; remonstrance. |
reclination | noun (n.) The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined. |
noun (n.) The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line. | |
noun (n.) The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one. |
reclusion | noun (n.) A state of retirement from the world; seclusion. |
recoction | noun (n.) A second coction or preparation; a vamping up. |
recognition | noun (n.) The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice. |
recognization | noun (n.) Recognition. |
recollection | noun (n.) The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. |
noun (n.) The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection. | |
noun (n.) That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence. | |
noun (n.) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control. |
recolonization | noun (n.) A second or renewed colonization. |
recombination | noun (n.) Combination a second or additional time. |
recommendation | noun (n.) The act of recommending. |
noun (n.) That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations. | |
noun (n.) The state of being recommended; esteem. |
recompensation | noun (n.) Recompense. |
noun (n.) Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff. |
recompilation | noun (n.) A new compilation. |
recomposition | noun (n.) The act of recomposing. |
reconciliation | noun (n.) The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship. |
noun (n.) Reduction to congruence or consistency; removal of inconsistency; harmony. |
recondensation | noun (n.) The act or process of recondensing. |
reconsecration | noun (n.) Renewed consecration. |
reconsideration | noun (n.) The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body. |
reconsolidation | noun (n.) The act or process of reconsolidating; the state of being reconsolidated. |
reconstruction | noun (n.) The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed. |
noun (n.) The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War. |
reconvention | noun (n.) A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge. |
reconversion | noun (n.) A second conversion. |
recorporification | noun (n.) The act of investing again with a body; the state of being furnished anew with a body. |
recreation | noun (n.) The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime. |
recrimination | noun (n.) The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation. |
recrystallization | noun (n.) The process or recrystallizing. |
rectification | noun (n.) The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits. |
noun (n.) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve. |
rection | noun (n.) See Government, n., 7. |
recubation | noun (n.) Recumbence. |
recuperation | noun (n..) Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength. |
recursion | noun (n.) The act of recurring; return. |
recurvation | noun (n.) The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward. |
recusation | noun (n.) Refusal. |
noun (n.) The act of refusing a judge or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality. |
recussion | noun (n.) The act of beating or striking back. |
redaction | noun (n.) The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest. |
redargution | noun (n.) The act of redarguing; refutation. |
reddition | noun (n.) Restoration: restitution: surrender. |
noun (n.) Explanation; representation. |
redhibition | noun (n.) The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect. |
redintegration | noun (n.) Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. |
noun (n.) Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state. | |
noun (n.) The law that objects which have been previously combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas. |
redition | noun (n.) Act of returning; return. |
reduction | noun (n.) The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province. |
noun (n.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t. | |
verb (v. t.) The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result. | |
verb (v. t.) The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions. | |
verb (v. t.) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure. | |
verb (v. t.) The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol. | |
verb (v. t.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place. |
reduplication | noun (n.) The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled. |
noun (n.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse. | |
noun (n.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci. |
reedification | noun (n.) The act reedifying; the state of being reedified. |
reelection | noun (n.) Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief. |
reembarkation | noun (n.) A putting, or going, on board a vessel again. |
reenaction | noun (n.) The act of reenacting; the state of being reenacted. |
reexamination | noun (n.) A repeated examination. See under Examination. |
reexportation | noun (n.) The act of reexporting, or of exporting an import. |
reexpulsion | noun (n.) Renewed or repeated expulsion. |
refaction | noun (n.) Recompense; atonement; retribution. |
refection | noun (n.) Refreshment after hunger or fatigue; a repast; a lunch. |
reflection | noun (n.) The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected. |
noun (n.) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below. | |
noun (n.) The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially in view of a moral rule or standard. | |
noun (n.) Shining; brightness, as of the sun. | |
noun (n.) That which is produced by reflection. | |
noun (n.) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart. | |
noun (n.) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane. | |
noun (n.) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts suggested by truth. | |
noun (n.) Censure; reproach cast. | |
noun (n.) The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex. |
reflexion | noun (n.) See Reflection. |
refluctuation | noun (n.) A flowing back; refluence. |
refocillation | noun (n.) Restoration of strength by refreshment. |
reforestization | noun (n.) The act or process of reforestizing. |
reformation | noun (n.) The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses. |
noun (n.) Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches. |
refortification | noun (n.) A fortifying anew, or a second time. |
refossion | noun (n.) The act of digging up again. |
refraction | noun (n.) The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted. |
noun (n.) The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved. | |
noun (n.) The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction. | |
noun (n.) The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude. |
refrication | noun (n.) A rubbing up afresh; a brightening. |
refrigeration | noun (n.) The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled. |
refusion | noun (n.) New or repeated melting, as of metals. |
noun (n.) Restoration. |
refutation | noun (n.) The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. |
regelation | noun (n.) The act or process of freezing anew, or together,as two pieces of ice. |
regeneration | noun (n.) The act of regenerating, or the state of being regenerated. |
noun (n.) The entering into a new spiritual life; the act of becoming, or of being made, Christian; that change by which holy affectations and purposes are substituted for the opposite motives in the heart. | |
noun (n.) The reproduction of a part which has been removed or destroyed; re-formation; -- a process especially characteristic of a many of the lower animals; as, the regeneration of lost feelers, limbs, and claws by spiders and crabs. | |
noun (n.) The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc., which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the body, or the regeneration of the contractile substance of muscle. | |
noun (n.) The union of parts which have been severed, so that they become anatomically perfect; as, the regeneration of a nerve. |
regermination | noun (n.) A germinating again or anew. |
region | noun (n.) One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract. |
noun (n.) Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere. | |
noun (n.) The upper air; the sky; the heavens. | |
noun (n.) The inhabitants of a district. | |
noun (n.) Place; rank; station. |
regression | noun (n.) The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation. |
regulation | noun (n.) The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. |
noun (n.) A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school. |
regurgitation | noun (n.) The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance |
noun (n.) the reversal of the natural direction in which the current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body. | |
noun (n.) The act of swallowing again; reabsorption. |
rehabilitation | noun (n.) The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated. |