Name Report For First Name RETA:
RETA
First name RETA's origin is Other. RETA means "speaker". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RETA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of reta.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with RETA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with RETA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming RETA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RETA AS A WHOLE:
margareta ameretat areta clareta greta loreta nireta gretal tretanNAMES RHYMING WITH RETA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eta) - Names That Ends with eta:
leta nasheeta alzbeta agneta almeta admeta aleta kineta rheta zeta vineeta amayeta peta antoaneta elisabeta georgeta nicoleta voileta beta marjeta aneta antonieta arleta cocheta coleta dorbeta eleta elisaveta elizaveta enriqueta julieta laqueta loleta neta oleta seleta veta waneta yelysaveta zaneta akecheta meleta melleta voleta fleta metaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ta) - Names That Ends with ta:
aminata binata binta fanta ismitta nashita bixenta adsaluta bricta nantosuelta amista paharita serenata vlasta gjerta gusta alberta elberta hrothbeorhta fusberta atalanta baptista delta errita giancinta irta jocasta minta panagiota zyta gitta amrita anahita jaganmata jarita jivanta samvarta shanta sita vinata aletta annuziata antonietta battista benedetta brunetta concetta donata edita elisabetta enrichetta esta guiditta lunettaNAMES RHYMING WITH RETA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ret) - Names That Begins with ret:
reto rettaRhyming 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 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 renzoNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RETA:
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':
radella radhiya radhwa radwa raedbora raena rafa rafela raimunda raina rainaa raissa raja rakanja raluca rama ramira ramla ramona rana ranica raniesha ranita raphaella rasha rasheeda rashida rashmika ratna rawdha rawiella rayya raziya reva reveka reya rhaxma rhea rheanna rheda rhesa rhianna rhoda rhonda ria rica ricadonna ricarda ricca ricwea rida ridha rihana riikka rikka rilla rilletta rillia rima rimona rina rinna riona risa rita ritsa ritza riva rivka roana robena roberta robertia robina robinetta roderica roderiga roderika rodica rodika roesia roka rolanda roldana roma romana romanitza romhilda romia romilda romina rona ronia rosa rosalia rosalinda rosamaria rosana rosemaria rosemundaEnglish Words Rhyming RETA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RETA AS A WHOLE:
| aretaics | noun (n.) The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics. |
| carburetant | noun (n.) Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases. |
| countretaille | noun (n.) A counter tally; correspondence (in sound). |
| cretaceous | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk. |
| () Alt. of Cretacic |
| cretan | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Crete, or Candia. |
| decretal | adjective (a.) Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle. |
| adjective (a.) An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law. | |
| adjective (a.) The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort. |
| eretation | noun (n.) A creeping forth. |
| excreta | noun (n. pl.) Matters to be excreted. |
| firetail | noun (n.) The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt. |
| foretaste | noun (n.) A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation. |
| verb (v. t.) To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To taste before another. |
| foretaster | noun (n.) One who tastes beforehand, or before another. |
| hyperotreta | noun (n. pl.) An order of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between the nasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish. |
| interpretable | adjective (a.) Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained. |
| interpretament | noun (n.) Interpretation. |
| interpretation | noun (n.) The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma. |
| noun (n.) The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture. | |
| noun (n.) The power or explaining. | |
| noun (n.) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature. | |
| noun (n.) The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases. |
| interpretative | adjective (a.) Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory. |
| adjective (a.) According to interpretation; constructive. |
| misinterpretable | adjective (a.) Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood. |
| misinterpretation | noun (n.) The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation. |
| retable | noun (n.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc. |
| retail | noun (n.) To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries. |
| noun (n.) To sell at second hand. | |
| noun (n.) To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander. | |
| adjective (a.) Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer. | |
| verb (v.) The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand. |
| retailing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retail |
| retailer | noun (n.) One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip. |
| retailment | noun (n.) The act of retailing. |
| retaining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retain |
| retainable | adjective (a.) Capable of being retained. |
| retainal | noun (n.) The act of retaining; retention. |
| retainer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, retains. |
| noun (n.) One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. | |
| noun (n.) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause. | |
| noun (n.) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right. | |
| noun (n.) A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee. | |
| noun (n.) The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence. |
| retainment | noun (n.) The act of retaining; retention. |
| retaker | noun (n.) One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor. |
| retaliating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retaliate |
| retaliation | noun (n.) The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. |
| retaliative | adjective (a.) Same as Retaliatory. |
| retaliatory | adjective (a.) Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures. |
| retarding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retard |
| 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. |
| retardation | noun (n.) The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration. |
| noun (n.) That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction. | |
| noun (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards. | |
| noun (n.) The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay. |
| retardative | adjective (a.) Tending, or serving, to retard. |
| retarder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, retards. |
| noun (n.) Any of various devices, as a helix of flat metal strip, introduced into a boiler tube to increase the heating effect of the fire. | |
| noun (n.) A substance, as potassium bromide, added to a developer to retard its action. |
| retardment | noun (n.) The act of retarding; retardation. |
| sabretasche | noun (n.) A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt. |
| secretage | noun (n.) A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs. |
| secretarial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a secretary; befitting a secretary. |
| secretariat | noun (n.) Alt. of Secretariate |
| secretariate | noun (n.) The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc. |
| secretary | noun (n.) One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. |
| noun (n.) A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual. | |
| noun (n.) An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire. | |
| noun (n.) The secretary bird. |
| secretaryship | noun (n.) The office, or the term of office, of a secretary. |
| supercretaceous | adjective (a.) Same as Supracretaceous. |
| supracretaceous | adjective (a.) Lying above the chalk; Supercretaceous. |
| transfretation | noun (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RETA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eta) - English Words That Ends with eta:
| beta | noun (n.) The second letter of the Greek alphabet, B, /. See B, and cf. etymology of Alphabet. |
| keta | noun (n.) A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of inferior value, which in the autumn runs up all the larger rivers between San Francisco and Kamchatka. |
| martineta | noun (n.) A species of tinamou (Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest. |
| nepeta | noun (n.) A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy. |
| oligochaeta | noun (n. pl.) An order of Annelida which includes the earthworms and related species. |
| pallometa | noun (n.) A pompano. |
| peseta | noun (n.) A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos. |
| pieta | noun (n.) A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels. |
| polychaeta | noun (n. pl.) One of the two principal groups of Chaetopoda. It includes those that have prominent parapodia and fascicles of setae. See Illust. under Parapodia. |
| seta | noun (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss. |
| noun (n.) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form. | |
| noun (n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds. |
| spirochaeta | noun (n.) Alt. of Spirochaete |
| taffeta | noun (n.) Alt. of Taffety |
| theta | noun (n.) A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death. |
| zeta | noun (n.) A Greek letter corresponding to our z. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RETA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ret) - Words That Begins with ret:
| retching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retch |
| retchless | adjective (a.) Careless; reckless. |
| rete | noun (n.) A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network. |
| retecious | adjective (a.) Resembling network; retiform. |
| retection | noun (n.) Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed. |
| retene | noun (n.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins. |
| retent | noun (n.) That which is retained. |
| retention | noun (n.) The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined. |
| noun (n.) The power of retaining; retentiveness. | |
| noun (n.) That which contains something, as a tablet; a //// of preserving impressions. | |
| noun (n.) The act of withholding; retraint; reserve. | |
| noun (n.) Place of custody or confinement. | |
| noun (n.) The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien. |
| retentive | noun (n.) That which retains or confines; a restraint. |
| adjective (a.) Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory. |
| retentiveness | noun (n.) The quality of being retentive. |
| retentivity | noun (n.) The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet. |
| retentor | noun (n.) A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata. |
| retepore | noun (n.) Any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds. |
| retexture | noun (n.) The act of weaving or forming again. |
| rethor | noun (n.) A rhetorician; a careful writer. |
| rethoryke | noun (n.) Rhetoric. |
| retiarius | noun (n.) A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him. |
| retiary | noun (n.) Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey. |
| noun (n.) A retiarius. | |
| adjective (a.) Netlike. | |
| adjective (a.) Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders. | |
| adjective (a.) Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle. |
| reticence | noun (n.) The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness. |
| noun (n.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject. |
| reticency | noun (n.) Reticence. |
| reticent | adjective (a.) Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative. |
| reticle | noun (n.) A small net. |
| noun (n.) A reticule. See Reticule, 2. |
| reticular | adjective (a.) Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a reticulum. |
| reticularia | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell. |
| reticularian | noun (n.) One of the Reticularia. |
| reticulate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Reticulated |
| 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. |
| reticulation | noun (n.) The quality or state of being reticulated, or netlike; that which is reticulated; network; an organization resembling a net. |
| reticule | noun (n..) A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand. |
| noun (n..) A system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope or other instrument; a reticle. |
| reticulosa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Reticularia. |
| reticulose | adjective (a.) Forming a network; characterized by a reticulated sructure. |
| reticulum | noun (n.) The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach. |
| noun (n.) The neuroglia. |
| retiform | adjective (a.) Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye. |
| retina | noun (n.) The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye. |
| retinaculum | noun (n.) A connecting band; a fraenum; as, the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves. |
| noun (n.) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle. | |
| noun (n.) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms. | |
| noun (n.) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants. |
| retinal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the retina. |
| retinalite | noun (n.) A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster. |
| retinasphalt | noun (n.) Alt. of Retinasphaltum |
| retinasphaltum | noun (n.) Retinite. |
| retinerved | adjective (a.) Having reticulated veins. |
| retineum | noun (n.) That part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with the retina of a vertebrate. |
| retinic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to resin; derived from resin; specifically, designating an acid found in certain fossil resins and hydrocarbons. |
| retinite | noun (n.) An inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal. |
| retinitis | noun (n.) Inflammation of the retina. |
| retinoid | adjective (a.) Resinlike, or resinform; resembling a resin without being such. |
| retinol | noun (n.) A hydrocarbon oil obtained by the distillation of resin, -- used in printer's ink. |
| retinophora | noun (n.) One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. See Illust. under Ommatidium. |
| retinophoral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to retinophorae. |
| retinoscopy | noun (n.) The study of the retina of the eye by means of the ophthalmoscope. |
| retinue | noun (n.) The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RETA:
English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':
| raca | adjective (a.) A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless." |
| rachialgia | noun (n.) A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic. |
| rachilla | noun (n.) Same as Rhachilla. |
| racoonda | noun (n.) The coypu. |
| radiata | noun (n. pl.) An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere. |
| radiolaria | noun (n. pl.) Order of rhizopods, usually having a siliceous skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina. |
| radula | noun (n.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore. |
| raffia | noun (n.) A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia. |
| rafflesia | noun (n.) A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet. |
| raghuvansa | noun (n.) A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty. |
| raia | noun (n.) A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate. |
| raja | noun (n.) Same as Rajah. |
| ramayana | noun (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita. |
| ramenta | noun (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns. |
| rana | noun (n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs. |
| ranula | noun (n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland. |
| rata | noun (n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs. |
| ratafia | noun (n.) A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; -- a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, cura/ao, etc. |
| ravenala | noun (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana. |
| razzia | noun (n.) A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid. |
| reata | noun (n.) A lariat. |
| redia | noun (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| redowa | noun (n.) A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use. |
| regalia | noun (n. pl.) That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty. |
| noun (n. pl.) Hence, decorations or insignia of an office or order, as of Freemasons, Odd Fellows,etc. | |
| noun (n. pl.) Sumptuous food; delicacies. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed. |
| regatta | noun (n.) Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races. |
| regma | noun (n.) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle. |
| regularia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins. |
| rejectamenta | noun (n. pl.) Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism. |
| remora | noun (n.) Delay; obstacle; hindrance. |
| noun (n.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places. |
| replica | noun (v. & n.) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original. |
| noun (v. & n.) Repetition. |
| reptantia | noun (n. pl.) A division of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata. |
| reptilia | noun (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds. |
| reseda | noun (n.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette. |
| noun (n.) A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette. |
| respondentia | noun (n.) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. |
| retinula | noun (n.) One of the group of pigmented cells which surround the retinophorae of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium. |
| rhabdocoela | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine. |
| rhabdophora | noun (n. pl.) An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities. |
| rhabdopleura | noun (n.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata |
| rhachialgia | noun (n.) See Rachialgia. |
| rhachiglossa | noun (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append. |
| rhachilla | noun (n.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses. |
| rhamphotheca | noun (n.) The horny covering of the bill of birds. |
| rhea | noun (n.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass. |
| noun (n.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich. |
| rhinoscleroma | noun (n.) A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat. |
| rhinotheca | noun (n.) The sheath of the upper mandible of a bird. |
| rhipidoglossa | noun (n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| rhizocephala | noun (n. pl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix. |
| rhizoma | noun (n.) SAme as Rhizome. |
| rhizophaga | noun (n. pl.) A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type. |
| rhizophora | noun (n.) A genus of trees including the mangrove. See Mangrove. |
| rhizopoda | noun (n. pl.) An extensive class of Protozoa, including those which have pseudopodia, by means of which they move about and take their food. The principal groups are Lobosa (or Am/bea), Helizoa, Radiolaria, and Foraminifera (or Reticularia). See Protozoa. |
| rhizostomata | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Medusae which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| rhopalocera | noun (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennae. |
| rhusma | noun (n.) A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides. |
| rhynchobdellea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type. |
| rhynchocephala | noun (n. pl.) An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia. |
| rhynchocoela | noun (n. pl.) Same as Nemertina. |
| rhynchonella | noun (n.) A genus of brachiopods of which some species are still living, while many are found fossil. |
| rhynchophora | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the snout beetles, curculios, or weevils. |
| rhynchota | noun (n. pl.) Same as Hemiptera. |
| rhytina | noun (n.) See Rytina. |
| rima | noun (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure. |
| robinia | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia). |
| rocoa | noun (n.) The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto. |
| rodentia | adjective (a.) An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order. |
| romanza | noun (n.) See Romance, 5. |
| rondeletia | noun (n.) A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers. |
| rosalia | noun (n.) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence. |
| rosella | noun (n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow. |
| roseola | noun (n.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash. |
| rostra | noun (n. pl.) See Rostrum, 2. |
| (pl. ) of Rostrum |
| rostrifera | noun (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile. |
| rota | noun (n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members. |
| noun (n.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament. | |
| noun (n.) A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta. |
| rotatoria | noun (n. pl.) Same as Rotifera. |
| rotella | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotella, native of tropical seas. |
| rotifera | noun (n.) An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits. |
| rotta | noun (n.) See Rota. |
| rotula | noun (n.) The patella, or kneepan. |
| rotunda | adjective (a.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. |
| rubella | noun (n.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles. |
| rubeola | noun (n.) the measles. |
| noun (n.) Rubella. |
| ruga | noun (n.) A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugae of the stomach. |
| rugosa | noun (n. pl.) An extinct tribe of fossil corals, including numerous species, many of them of large size. They are characteristic of the Paleozoic formations. The radiating septs, when present, are usually in multiples of four. See Cyathophylloid. |
| ruminantia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies. |
| rupia | noun (n.) An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust. |
| rupicola | noun (n.) A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock. |
| rusma | noun (n.) A depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the Turks. See Rhusma. |
| russia | noun (n.) A country of Europe and Asia. |
| russophobia | noun (n.) Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence. |
| rytina | noun (n.) A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow. |
| rancheria | noun (n.) A dwelling place of a ranchero. |
| noun (n.) A small settlement or collection of ranchos, or rude huts, esp. for Indians. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, in the Philippines, a political division of the pagan tribes. |
| residencia | noun (n.) In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor. |
| rudbeckia | noun (n.) A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species, exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows. |
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