Name Report For First Name RUBY:
RUBY
First name RUBY's origin is Other. RUBY means "jewel". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RUBY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ruby.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with RUBY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with RUBY - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming RUBY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RUBY AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH RUBY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (uby) - Names That Ends with uby:
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (by) - Names That Ends with by:
trilby ashby rigby silsby wetherby ttoby abby colby debby gaby kolby libby aescby barnaby bobby darby kelby kirby koby oegelsby seleby shelby toby weatherby wethrby wiellaby wyligby willoughby welby selby ogelsby melby cadby denby hrocby hwitby rugby walby westby whitby joby coby corby robbyNAMES RHYMING WITH RUBY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (rub) - Names That Begins with rub:
ruben rubieRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ru) - Names That Begins with ru:
ruadhagan ruadhan ruadson ruaidhri ruairidh ruanaidh ruarc ruark ruck rudd ruddy rudella rudelle rudiger rudo rudrani rudy rudyard rueban ruelle rufa ruff ruffe rufford rufina rufio rufo ruford ruhdugeard ruhleah rui rukan rule ruma rumford rune runihura ruodrik ruomhildi rupert rupetta rupette ruprecht ruqaya ruqayyah rusalka rush rushe rushford rushkin russ russel russell russu rust rusty ruta rute rutger ruth rutherford ruthie rutledge rutley ruusu ruwaydah ruzaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RUBY:
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'y':
radley rafferty raley rally ramey ramsay ramsey ramy ramzey randy rangey rangley rangy ransey ransley ransy rawley ray re-harakhty redley reilley reilly remy renny rexley rey rickey ricky ridgeiey ridgeley ridgely ridley riley ripley risley rocky roddy rodney romney ronny rooney rorey rorry rory rosemary rowdy rowley roxbury roxy roy ryleyEnglish Words Rhyming RUBY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RUBY AS A WHOLE:
| ruby | noun (n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum. |
| noun (n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint. | |
| noun (n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle. | |
| noun (n.) See Agate, n., 2. | |
| noun (n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast. | |
| adjective (a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make red; to redden. |
| rubying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruby |
| rubytail | noun (n.) A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees. |
| rubythroat | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris). |
| rubywood | noun (n.) red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RUBY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (uby) - English Words That Ends with uby:
| dauby | adjective (a.) Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RUBY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (rub) - Words That Begins with rub:
| rubbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rub |
| () a. & n. from Rub, v. |
| rub | noun (n.) The act of rubbing; friction. |
| noun (n.) That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch. | |
| noun (n.) Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness. | |
| noun (n.) Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub. | |
| noun (n.) Imperfection; failing; fault. | |
| noun (n.) A chance. | |
| noun (n.) A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone. | |
| verb (v. t.) To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper. | |
| verb (v. t.) To move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body. | |
| verb (v. t.) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear. | |
| verb (v. t.) To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hinder; to cross; to thwart. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world. |
| rubato | adjective (a.) Robbed; borrowed. |
| rubbage | noun (n.) Rubbish. |
| rubber | noun (n.) One who, or that which, rubs. |
| noun (n.) An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning. | |
| noun (n.) A coarse file, or the rough part of a file. | |
| noun (n.) A whetstone; a rubstone. | |
| noun (n.) An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc. | |
| noun (n.) The cushion of an electrical machine. | |
| noun (n.) One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath. | |
| noun (n.) Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub. | |
| noun (n.) In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist. | |
| noun (n.) India rubber; caoutchouc. | |
| noun (n.) An overshoe made of India rubber. |
| rubbidge | noun (n.) Rubbish. |
| rubbish | noun (n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy. |
| rubble | noun (n.) Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls. |
| noun (n.) Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash. | |
| noun (n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. | |
| noun (n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. |
| rubblestone | noun (n.) See Rubble, 1 and 2. |
| rubblework | noun (n.) Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape. |
| rubbly | adjective (a.) Relating to, or containing, rubble. |
| rubedinous | adjective (a.) Reddish. |
| rubefacient | noun (n.) An external application which produces redness of the skin. |
| adjective (a.) Making red. |
| rubefaction | noun (n.) The act or process of making red. |
| rubelet | noun (n.) A little ruby. |
| rubella | noun (n.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles. |
| rubelle | noun (n.) A red color used in enameling. |
| rubellite | noun (n.) A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium. |
| rubeola | noun (n.) the measles. |
| noun (n.) Rubella. |
| ruberythrinic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained. |
| rubescence | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rubescent; a reddening; a flush. |
| rubescent | adjective (a.) Growing or becoming red; tending to redness. |
| rubiaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms. |
| rubiacin | noun (n.) A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid. |
| rubian | noun (n.) One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root. |
| rubianic | adjective (a.) pertaining to, or derived from, rubian; specifically, designating an acid called also ruberythrinic acid. |
| rubican | adjective (a.) Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses. |
| rubicelle | noun (n.) A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil. |
| rubicon | noun (n.) A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar. |
| rubicund | adjective (a.) Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. |
| rubicundity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness. |
| rubidic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to rubidium; containing rubidium. |
| rubidine | noun (n.) A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type. |
| rubidium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element. It occurs quite widely, but in small quantities, and always combined. It is isolated as a soft yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its properties. Symbol Rb. Atomic weight, 85.2. |
| rubific | adjective (a.) Making red; as, rubific rays. |
| rubification | noun (n.) The act of making red. |
| rubiform | adjective (a.) Having the nature or quality of red; as, the rubiform rays of the sun. |
| rubiginose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Rubiginous |
| rubiginous | adjective (a.) Having the appearance or color of iron rust; rusty-looking. |
| rubigo | noun (n.) same as Rust, n., 2. |
| rubin | noun (n.) A ruby. |
| rubious | adjective (a.) Red; ruddy. |
| rubiretin | noun (n.) One of the red dye products extracted from madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid. |
| ruble | noun (n.) The unit of monetary value in Russia. It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents. |
| rubric | noun (n.) That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions. |
| noun (n.) A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red. | |
| noun (n.) The title of a statute; -- so called as being anciently written in red letters. | |
| noun (n.) The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; -- usually in the plural. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, that which is established or settled, as by authority; a thing definitely settled or fixed. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Rubrical | |
| verb (v. t.) To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate. |
| rubrical | adjective (a.) Colored in, or marked with, red; placed in rubrics. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the rubric or rubrics. |
| rubricate | noun (n.) Marked with red. |
| verb (v. t.) To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form. |
| rubrician | noun (n.) Alt. of Rubricist |
| rubricist | noun (n.) One skilled in, or tenaciously adhering to, the rubric or rubrics. |
| rubricity | noun (n.) Redness. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RUBY:
English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 'y':
| rabbitry | noun (n.) A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits. |
| rabdology | noun (n.) The method or art of performing arithmetical operations by means of Napier's bones. See Napier's bones. |
| rabdomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of rods or wands. |
| rabidity | noun (n.) Rabidness; furiousness. |
| rackety | adjective (a.) Making a tumultuous noise. |
| radiancy | noun (n.) The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun. |
| radiary | noun (n.) A radiate. |
| radicality | noun (n.) Germinal principle; source; origination. |
| noun (n.) Radicalness; relation to a root in essential nature or principle. |
| radiophony | noun (n.) The art or practice of using the radiophone. |
| rafty | adjective (a.) Damp; musty. |
| ragery | noun (n.) Wantonness. |
| raggy | adjective (a.) Ragged; rough. |
| raillery | noun (n.) Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. |
| railway | noun (n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. |
| noun (n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver. |
| rainy | adjective (a.) Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season. |
| rakehelly | adjective (a.) Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. |
| rakery | noun (n.) Debauchery; lewdness. |
| rally | noun (n.) The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word). |
| noun (n.) A political mass meeting. | |
| noun (n.) Good-humored raillery. | |
| verb (v. t.) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite. | |
| verb (v. i.) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite. | |
| verb (v. i.) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment. |
| rammy | adjective (a.) Like a ram; rammish. |
| rampancy | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance. |
| rancidity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil. |
| ranny | noun (n.) The erd shrew. |
| ranty | adjective (a.) Wild; noisy; boisterous. |
| rapacity | noun (n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves. |
| noun (n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. |
| raphany | noun (n.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism. |
| rapidity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement. |
| rarity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases. |
| noun (n.) That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity. |
| rascality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. |
| noun (n.) The poorer and lower classes of people. |
| rascally | adjective (a.) Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. |
| raspberry | noun (n.) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry. |
| noun (n.) The shrub bearing this fruit. |
| raspy | adjective (a.) Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating. |
| ratability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being ratable. |
| ratany | noun (n.) Same as Rhatany. |
| ratify | noun (n.) To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination. |
| ratiocinatory | adjective (a.) Ratiocinative. |
| rationality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness. |
| raucity | noun (n.) Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice. |
| ray | noun (n.) Array; order; arrangement; dress. |
| noun (n.) One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays. | |
| noun (n.) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius. | |
| noun (n.) One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes. | |
| noun (n.) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran. | |
| noun (n.) A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray. | |
| noun (n.) One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. See Illust. under Light. | |
| noun (n.) Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen. | |
| noun (n.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray. | |
| noun (n.) To mark with long lines; to streak. | |
| noun (n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles. | |
| noun (n.) Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc. | |
| noun (n.) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To array. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile. | |
| verb (v. i.) To shine, as with rays. |
| 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. |
| readability | noun (n.) The state of being readable; readableness. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| reasty | adjective (a.) Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat. |
| recadency | noun (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse. |
| recapitulatory | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation. |
| receivability | noun (n.) The quality of being receivable; receivableness. |
| recency | noun (n.) The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc. |
| receptary | noun (n.) That which is received. |
| adjective (a.) Generally or popularly admitted or received. |
| receptibility | noun (n.) The quality or state of being receptible; receivableness. |
| noun (n.) A receptible thing. |
| receptivity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being receptive. |
| noun (n.) The power or capacity of receiving impressions, as those of the external senses. |
| receptory | noun (n.) Receptacle. |
| recipiency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being recipient; a receiving; reception; receptiveness. |
| reciprocality | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being reciprocal; reciprocalness. |
| reciprocity | noun (n.) Mutual action and reaction. |
| noun (n.) Reciprocal advantages, obligations, or rights; reciprocation. |
| reclusory | noun (n.) The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage. |
| recognitory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition. |
| recognizability | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being recognizable. |
| recommendatory | adjective (a.) Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. |
| reconciliatory | adjective (a.) Serving or tending to reconcile. |
| reconditory | noun (n.) A repository; a storehouse. |
| recovery | noun (n.) The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession. |
| noun (n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court. | |
| noun (n.) The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had. | |
| noun (n.) In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke. | |
| noun (n.) Act of regaining the natural position after curtseying. | |
| noun (n.) Act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack. |
| recreancy | noun (n.) The quality or state of being recreant. |
| recriminatory | adjective (a.) Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating. |
| recrudency | noun (n.) Recrudescence. |
| recrudescency | noun (n.) The state or condition of being recrudescent. |
| noun (n.) Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission. |
| rectangularity | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled. |
| rectilinearity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rectilinear. |
| rectory | noun (n.) The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes. |
| noun (n.) A rector's mansion; a parsonage house. |
| recumbency | noun (n.) Recumbence. |
| recuperatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery. |
| recurrency | noun (n.) The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. |
| recurvity | noun (n.) Recurvation. |
| recusancy | noun (n.) The state of being recusant; nonconformity. |
| redargutory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory. |
| redbelly | noun (n.) The char. |
| redeemability | noun (n.) Redeemableness. |
| redelivery | noun (n.) Act of delivering back. |
| noun (n.) A second or new delivery or liberation. |
| redemptionary | noun (n.) One who is, or may be, redeemed. |
| redemptory | adjective (a.) Paid for ransom; serving to redeem. |
| redhibitory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault. |
| redolency | noun (n.) The quality of being redolent; sweetness of scent; pleasant odor; fragrance. |
| reductibility | noun (n.) The quality of being reducible; reducibleness. |
| redundancy | noun (n.) The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess. |
| noun (n.) That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant. | |
| noun (n.) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains. |
| reechy | adjective (a.) Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt. |
| reedy | adjective (a.) Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds. |
| adjective (a.) Having the quality of reed in tone, that is, ///// and thin^ as some voices. |
| reefy | adjective (a.) Full of reefs or rocks. |
| reeky | adjective (a.) Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul. |
| adjective (a.) Emitting reek. |
| reentry | noun (n.) A second or new entry; as, a reentry into public life. |
| noun (n.) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease. |
| refectory | noun (n.) A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall in monasteries or convents. |
| referendary | noun (n.) One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee. |
| noun (n.) An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, an officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees. |
| refinery | noun (n.) The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar. |
| noun (n.) A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal. |
| reflexibility | noun (n.) The quality or capability of being reflexible; as, the reflexibility of the rays of light. |
| reflexity | noun (n.) The state or condition of being reflected. |
| refluency | noun (n.) The quality of being refluent; a flowing back. |
| reformatory | noun (n.) An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. |
| adjective (a.) Tending to produce reformation; reformative. |
| refractory | noun (n.) A refractory person. |
| noun (n.) Refractoriness. | |
| noun (n.) OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles. | |
| adjective (a.) Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast. | |
| adjective (a.) Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore. |
| refrangibility | noun (n.) The quality of being refrangible. |
| refrigeratory | noun (n.) That which refrigerates or cools. |
| noun (n.) In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, surrounding the worm, the vapor in which is thereby condensed. | |
| noun (n.) The chamber, or tank, in which ice is formed, in an ice machine. | |
| adjective (a.) Mitigating heat; cooling. |
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