Name Report For First Name REED:
REED
First name REED's origin is Other. REED means "red-haired". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with REED below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of reed.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with REED and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with REED - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming REED
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES REED AS A WHOLE:
fareed breeda creed creedon fareedaNAMES RHYMING WITH REED (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eed) - Names That Ends with eed:
at'eed majeed sa'eed waleed rasheed speed yazeed mufeedRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ed) - Names That Ends with ed:
alred ai-wahed fassed wahed mohammed muhanned garabed dyfed allred jared aethelflaed alhraed beortbtraed mildraed mildred vared aelfraed ahmed aldred bemossed birkhed blaed eldred fred gared garred gerred gofried gottfried hunfried jarred jed jered jerred joed khaled maed manfried modraed modred mohamed muhammed ned osraed raed slaed sped ted waed wilfred zared oved walfred siegfried godfried somerled winfred renfred osred manfred alfred bred mordred winifred elfried beorthtraed luned aethelred ancenned edred ethelred rheged ulfred jochebed yocheved jocheved odedNAMES RHYMING WITH REED (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ree) - Names That Begins with ree:
reece reeford reem reema reese reeve reeves reeyaRhyming 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 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 renfrid renjiro renke renne renneil rennie renny reno renshaw renton renweard renzo reod reshef resi retaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH REED:
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'd':
raad rachid rad radford radmund raedford raedmund raedwald raghd raid raimond rainhard rald ramond ranald rand ranfield rangford ransford raonaid raonaild rashaad rashad rashid ravid rayford raymond raymund raynard raynord rexford rexlord reymond reynald reynard reynold ricard richard richmond rickard rickward ricweard rikard rikkard rikward riobard riocard risteard riyad roald rockford rockland rod rodd roibeard roland rolland romhild ronald rosalind rosamund rosswald roswald rowland rozamond rozomund rudd rudyard rufford ruford ruhdugeard rumford rushford rutherford rygeland ryland ryscford ryszardEnglish Words Rhyming REED
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES REED AS A WHOLE:
| breede | noun (n.) Breadth. |
| breeding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breed |
| noun (n.) The act or process of generating or bearing. | |
| noun (n.) The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. | |
| noun (n.) Nurture; education; formation of manners. | |
| noun (n.) Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. | |
| noun (n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction. |
| breed | noun (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance. |
| noun (n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities. | |
| noun (n.) A number produced at once; a brood. | |
| verb (v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. | |
| verb (v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. | |
| verb (v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock. | |
| verb (v. t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process. | |
| verb (v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. | |
| verb (v. i.) To raise a breed; to get progeny. |
| breedbate | noun (n.) One who breeds or originates quarrels. |
| breeder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. |
| noun (n.) A cause. |
| creedless | adjective (a.) Without a creed. |
| crossbreed | noun (n.) A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks. |
| noun (n.) Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. |
| djereed | noun (n.) Alt. of Djerrid |
| filigreed | adjective (a.) Adorned with filigree. |
| freedman | noun (n.) A man who has been a slave, and has been set free. |
| freedom | noun (n.) The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence. |
| noun (n.) Privileges; franchises; immunities. | |
| noun (n.) Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will. | |
| noun (n.) Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom. | |
| noun (n.) Frankness; openness; unreservedness. | |
| noun (n.) Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license. | |
| noun (n.) Generosity; liberality. |
| freedstool | noun (n.) See Fridstol. |
| greed | noun (n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain. |
| greediness | noun (n.) The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire. |
| inbreeding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inbreed |
| jereed | noun (n.) A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights. |
| overgreedy | adjective (a.) Excessively greedy. |
| reed | noun (v. & n.) Same as Rede. |
| noun (n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. | |
| noun (n.) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis). | |
| noun (n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe. | |
| noun (n.) An arrow, as made of a reed. | |
| noun (n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof. | |
| noun (n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube. | |
| noun (n.) One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ. | |
| noun (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten. | |
| noun (n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Reeding. | |
| adjective (a.) Red. |
| reedbird | noun (n.) The bobolink. |
| noun (n.) One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Sch/nicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler. |
| reedbuck | noun (n.) See Rietboc. |
| reeded | adjective (a.) Civered with reeds; reedy. |
| adjective (a.) Formed with channels and ridges like reeds. |
| reeden | adjective (a.) Consisting of a reed or reeds. |
| reedification | noun (n.) The act reedifying; the state of being reedified. |
| reeding | noun (n.) A small convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting. |
| noun (n.) The nurling on the edge of a coin; -- commonly called milling. |
| reedless | adjective (a.) Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks. |
| reedling | noun (n.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird. |
| reedwork | noun (n.) A collective name for the reed stops of an organ. |
| 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. |
| screed | noun (n.) A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide. |
| noun (n.) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat. | |
| noun (n.) A fragment; a portion; a shred. | |
| noun (n.) A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds. | |
| noun (n.) An harangue; a long tirade on any subject. |
| subbreed | noun (n.) A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed. |
| undecreed | adjective (a.) Not decreed. |
| adjective (a.) Reversed or nullified by decree, as something previously decreed. |
| unpedigreed | adjective (a.) Not distinguished by a pedigree. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH REED (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eed) - English Words That Ends with eed:
| almsdeed | noun (n.) An act of charity. |
| aniseed | noun (n.) The seed of the anise; also, a cordial prepared from it. |
| ashweed | noun (n.) Goutweed. |
| bindweed | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. |
| birdseed | noun (n.) Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds. |
| bitterweed | noun (n.) A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood. |
| brookweed | noun (n.) A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel. |
| bugleweed | noun (n.) A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage. |
| bullweed | noun (n.) Knapweed. |
| butterweed | noun (n.) An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus). |
| buttonweed | noun (n.) The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family. |
| catchweed | noun (n.) See Cleavers. |
| chafeweed | noun (n.) The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing. |
| chickweed | noun (n.) The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds. |
| clotweed | noun (n.) Cocklebur. |
| cockweed | noun (n.) Peppergrass. |
| coleseed | noun (n.) The common rape or cole. |
| cottonweed | noun (n.) See Cudweed. |
| cowweed | noun (n.) Same as Cow parsley. |
| cudweed | noun (n.) A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed. |
| cotton seed | noun (n.) Alt. of Cottonseed |
| cottonseed | noun (n.) The seed of the cotton plant. |
| deed | adjective (a.) Dead. |
| verb (v. t.) That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small. | |
| verb (v. t.) Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. | |
| verb (v. t.) Power of action; agency; efficiency. | |
| verb (v. t.) Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed. | |
| verb (v. t.) A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract. | |
| verb (v. t.) Performance; -- followed by of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son. |
| downweed | noun (n.) Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium. |
| driftweed | noun (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. |
| duckweed | noun (n.) A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat. |
| feed | noun (n.) That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep. |
| noun (n.) A grazing or pasture ground. | |
| noun (n.) An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats. | |
| noun (n.) A meal, or the act of eating. | |
| noun (n.) The water supplied to steam boilers. | |
| noun (n.) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work. | |
| noun (n.) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones. | |
| noun (n.) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal. | |
| verb (v. t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard. | |
| verb (v. t.) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler. | |
| verb (v. t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press. | |
| verb (v. t.) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work). | |
| verb (v. i.) To take food; to eat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food. | |
| verb (v. i.) To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Fee |
| fireweed | noun (n.) An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned. |
| noun (n.) The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum). |
| fitweed | noun (n.) A plant (Eryngium foetidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits. |
| flaxseed | noun (n.) The seed of the flax; linseed. |
| flaxweed | noun (n.) See Toadflax. |
| frostweed | noun (n.) An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic. |
| gapeseed | noun (n.) Any strange sight. |
| noun (n.) A person who looks or stares gapingly. |
| godspeed | noun (n.) Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you." |
| goldseed | noun (n.) Dog's-tail grass. |
| goutweed | noun (n.) Alt. of Goutwort |
| greenweed | noun (n.) See Greenbroom. |
| hagseed | noun (n.) The offspring of a hag. |
| hawkweed | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision. |
| noun (n.) A plant of the genus Senecio (S. hieracifolius). |
| heartseed | noun (n.) A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart. |
| heed | noun (n.) Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take. |
| noun (n.) Careful consideration; obedient regard. | |
| noun (n.) A look or expression of heading. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. | |
| verb (v. i.) To mind; to consider. |
| hogweed | noun (n.) A common weed (Ambrosia artemisiaege). See Ambrosia, 3. |
| noun (n.) In England, the Heracleum Sphondylium. |
| horseweed | noun (n.) A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed. |
| inkneed | adjective (a.) See Knock-kneed. |
| ironweed | noun (n.) A tall weed with purplish flowers (Vernonia Noveboracensis). The name is also applied to other plants of the same genus. |
| jewelweed | noun (n.) See Impatiens. |
| jointweed | noun (n.) A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers. |
| knapweed | noun (n.) The black centaury (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the knoblike heads of flowers. Called also bullweed. |
| kneed | adjective (a.) Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out-kneed; weak-kneed. |
| adjective (a.) Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass. |
| knopweed | noun (n.) Same as Knapweed. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH REED (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ree) - Words That Begins with ree:
| ree | noun (n.) See Rei. |
| verb (v. t.) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off. |
| reebok | noun (n.) The peele. |
| reecho | noun (n.) The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo. |
| verb (v. t.) To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon. | |
| verb (v. i.) To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant. |
| reechy | adjective (a.) Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt. |
| reef | noun (n.) A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral. |
| noun (n.) A large vein of auriferous quartz; -- so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore. | |
| verb (v. t.) That part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind. | |
| verb (v. t.) To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar. |
| reefing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reef |
| noun (n.) The process of taking in a reef. |
| reefer | noun (n.) One who reefs; -- a name often given to midshipmen. |
| noun (n.) A close-fitting lacket or short coat of thick cloth. |
| reefy | adjective (a.) Full of reefs or rocks. |
| reek | noun (n.) A rick. |
| noun (n.) Vapor; steam; smoke; fume. | |
| verb (v. i.) To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale. |
| reeking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reek |
| reeky | adjective (a.) Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul. |
| adjective (a.) Emitting reek. |
| reel | noun (n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. |
| noun (n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel. | |
| noun (n.) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches. | |
| noun (n.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives. | |
| noun (n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel. | |
| verb (v. t.) To roll. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread. | |
| verb (v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy. |
| reeling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reel |
| reelection | noun (n.) Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief. |
| reeler | noun (n.) One who reels. |
| noun (n.) The grasshopper warbler; -- so called from its note. |
| reeligible | adjective (a.) Eligible again; capable of reelection; as, reeligible to the same office. |
| reem | noun (n.) The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus. |
| verb (v. t.) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them. |
| reembarkation | noun (n.) A putting, or going, on board a vessel again. |
| reemergence | noun (n.) Act of reemerging. |
| reenaction | noun (n.) The act of reenacting; the state of being reenacted. |
| reenactment | noun (n.) The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law. |
| reenforcement | noun (n.) The act of reenforcing, or the state of being reenforced. |
| noun (n.) That which reenforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet. |
| reengagement | noun (n.) A renewed or repeated engagement. |
| reenjoyment | noun (n.) Renewed enjoyment. |
| reenlistment | noun (n.) A renewed enlistment. |
| reentering | noun (n.) The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored. |
| reenthronement | noun (n.) A second enthroning. |
| reentrance | noun (n.) The act entereing again; re/ntry. |
| reentrant | adjective (a.) Reentering; pointing or directed inwardds; as, a re/ntrant angle. |
| 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. |
| reermouse | noun (n.) See Rearmouse. |
| reestablisher | noun (n.) One who establishes again. |
| reestablishment | noun (n.) The act reestablishing; the state of being reestablished. |
| reeve | noun (n.) The female of the ruff. |
| noun (n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like. |
| reeving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reeve |
| reexaminable | adjective (a.) Admitting of being reexamined or reconsidered. |
| reexamination | noun (n.) A repeated examination. See under Examination. |
| reexchange | noun (n.) A renewed exchange; a reversal of an exchange. |
| noun (n.) The expense chargeable on a bill of exchange or draft which has been dishonored in a foreign country, and returned to the country in which it was made or indorsed, and then taken up. | |
| verb (v. t.) To exchange anew; to reverse (a previous exchange). |
| reexperience | noun (n.) A renewed or repeated experience. |
| reexport | noun (n.) Any commodity reexported; -- chiefly in the plural. |
| verb (v. t.) To export again, as what has been imported. |
| reexportation | noun (n.) The act of reexporting, or of exporting an import. |
| reexpulsion | noun (n.) Renewed or repeated expulsion. |
| reezed | adjective (a.) Grown rank; rancid; rusty. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH REED:
English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 'd':
| rabid | noun (n.) Furious; raging; extremely violent. |
| noun (n.) Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist. | |
| noun (n.) Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid dog or fox. | |
| noun (n.) Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus. |
| racemed | adjective (a.) Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes. |
| radiated | adjective (a.) Emitted, or sent forth, in rays or direct lines; as, radiated heat. |
| adjective (a.) Formed of, or arranged like, rays or radii; having parts or markings diverging, like radii, from a common center or axis; as, a radiated structure; a radiated group of crystals. | |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the Radiata. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Radiate |
| radicated | adjective (a.) Rooted |
| adjective (a.) Having roots, or possessing a well-developed root. | |
| adjective (a.) Having rootlike organs for attachment. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Radicate |
| ragged | noun (n.) Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail. |
| noun (n.) Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. | |
| noun (n.) Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow. | |
| noun (n.) Rough; shaggy; rugged. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Rag |
| raguled | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ragguled |
| ragguled | adjective (a.) Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge. |
| ragweed | noun (n.) A common American composite weed (Ambrosia artemisiaefolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed. |
| raid | noun (n.) A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray. |
| noun (n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties. |
| railroad | noun (n.) Alt. of Railway |
| verb (v. t.) To carry or send by railroad; usually fig., to send or put through at high speed or in great haste; to hurry or rush unduly; as, to railroad a bill through Condress. |
| rainbowed | adjective (a.) Formed with or like a rainbow. |
| raised | adjective (a.) Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. |
| adjective (a.) Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Raise |
| ramed | adjective (a.) Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks. |
| ramrod | noun (n.) The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm. |
| ramsted | noun (n.) A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted weed. |
| rancid | adjective (a.) Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter. |
| rand | noun (n.) A border; edge; margin. |
| noun (n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak. | |
| noun (n.) A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel. | |
| noun (n.) Rim; egde; border. | |
| verb (v. i.) To rant; to storm. |
| rapid | adjective (a.) Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. |
| adjective (a.) Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession. | |
| adjective (a.) Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman. | |
| adjective (a.) The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence. |
| rapiered | adjective (a.) Wearing a rapier. |
| ratsbaned | adjective (a.) Poisoned by ratsbane. |
| rattlehead | noun (n.) An empty, noisy talker. |
| rattleweed | noun (n.) Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch. |
| raucid | adjective (a.) Hoarse; raucous. |
| rawboned | adjective (a.) Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt. |
| rawhead | noun (n.) A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones. |
| razed | adjective (a.) Slashed or striped in patterns. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Raze |
| read | noun (n.) Rennet. See 3d Reed. |
| adjective (a.) Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. | |
| verb (v. t.) To advise; to counsel. | |
| verb (v. t.) To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tell; to declare; to recite. | |
| verb (v. t.) To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book. | |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. | |
| verb (v. t.) To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law. | |
| verb (v. i.) To give advice or counsel. | |
| verb (v. i.) To tell; to declare. | |
| verb (v. i.) To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document. | |
| verb (v. i.) To study by reading; as, he read for the bar. | |
| verb (v. i.) To learn by reading. | |
| verb (v. i.) To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts. | |
| verb (v. i.) To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly. | |
| verb (v. t.) Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. | |
| verb (v.) Reading. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Read | |
| () imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i. |
| rearward | noun (n.) The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively. |
| adverb (a. & adv.) At or toward the rear. |
| rebound | noun (n.) The act of rebounding; resilience. |
| verb (v. i.) To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. | |
| verb (v. i.) To give back an echo. | |
| verb (v. i.) To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse. | |
| verb (v. t.) To send back; to reverberate. |
| recessed | adjective (a.) Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. |
| adjective (a.) Withdrawn; secluded. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Recess |
| reclined | adjective (a.) Falling or turned downward; reclinate. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Recline |
| rectangled | adjective (a.) Rectangular. |
| rectinerved | adjective (a.) Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves. |
| recurved | adjective (a.) Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals. |
| red | noun (n.) The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these. |
| noun (n.) A red pigment. | |
| noun (n.) An abbreviation for Red Republican. See under Red, a. | |
| adjective (a.) The menses. | |
| superlative (superl.) Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house. | |
| () . imp. & p. p. of Read. |
| redbird | noun (n.) The cardinal bird. |
| noun (n.) The summer redbird (Piranga rubra). | |
| noun (n.) The scarlet tanager. See Tanager. |
| redbud | noun (n.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas. |
| redemand | noun (n.) A demanding back; a second or renewed demand. |
| verb (v. t.) To demand back; to demand again. |
| redented | adjective (a.) Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented. |
| redhead | noun (n.) A person having red hair. |
| noun (n.) An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard. | |
| noun (n.) The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine. |
| redoubted | adjective (a.) Formidable; dread. |
| redound | noun (n.) The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital. |
| noun (n.) Rebound; reverberation. | |
| verb (v. i.) To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow. |
| reduvid | noun (n.) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man. |
| redweed | noun (n.) The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas). |
| redwood | noun (n.) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia. |
| noun (n.) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees. |
| refined | adjective (a.) Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Refine |
| reflected | adjective (a.) Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc. |
| adjective (a.) Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory was reflected glory. | |
| adjective (a.) Bent backward or outward; reflexed. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Reflect |
| reflexed | adjective (a.) Bent backward or outward. |
| reformed | adjective (a.) Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches. |
| adjective (a.) Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard. | |
| adjective (a.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer. |
| refracted | adjective (a.) Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf. |
| adjective (a.) Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Refract |
| reichsstand | noun (n.) A free city of the former German empire. |
| related | adjective (p. p. & a.) Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. |
| adjective (p. p. & a.) Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric and magnetic forcec are closely related. | |
| adjective (p. p. & a.) Narrated; told. | |
| adjective (p. p. & a.) Same as Relative, 4. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Relate |
| relicted | adjective (a.) Left uncovered, as land by recession of water. |
| remand | noun (n.) The act of remanding; the order for recommitment. |
| verb (v. t.) To recommit; to send back. |
| remiped | noun (n.) An animal having limbs like oars, especially one of certain crustaceans. |
| noun (n.) One of a group of aquatic beetles having tarsi adapted for swimming. See Water beetle. | |
| adjective (a.) Having feet or legs that are used as oars; -- said of certain crustaceans and insects. |
| remoulad | noun (n.) A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise. |
| remorsed | adjective (a.) Feeling remorse. |
| removed | adjective (a.) Changed in place. |
| adjective (a.) Dismissed from office. | |
| adjective (a.) Distant in location; remote. | |
| adjective (a.) Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Remove |
| renard | noun (n.) A fox; -- so called in fables or familiar tales, and in poetry. |
| renneted | adjective (a.) Provided or treated with rennet. |
| renowmed | adjective (a.) Renowned. |
| renowned | adjective (a.) Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. |
| repand | adjective (a.) Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves. |
| repetend | noun (n.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7/8/), the repetend is 283. |
| replicated | adjective (a.) Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell. |
| reposed | adjective (a.) Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Repose |
| reprimand | noun (n.) Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. |
| noun (n.) To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally. | |
| noun (n.) To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded. |
| rereward | noun (n.) The rear guard of an army. |
| reserved | adjective (a.) Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater. |
| adjective (a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Reserve |
| resigned | adjective (a.) Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Resign |
| resinoid | adjective (a.) Somewhat like resin. |
| resolved | adjective (p. p. & a.) Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Resolve |
| resound | noun (n.) Return of sound; echo. |
| verb (v. i.) To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be mentioned much and loudly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of. |
| respond | noun (n.) An answer; a response. |
| noun (n.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter. | |
| noun (n.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch. | |
| verb (v. i.) To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument. | |
| verb (v. i.) To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. | |
| verb (v. i.) To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. | |
| verb (v. t.) To answer; to reply. | |
| verb (v. t.) To suit or accord with; to correspond to. |
| resupinated | adjective (a.) Resupinate. |
| retard | noun (n.) Retardation; delay. |
| verb (v. t.) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations. | |
| verb (v. i.) To stay back. |
| reticulated | adjective (a.) Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure. |
| adjective (a.) Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect. |
| retinerved | adjective (a.) Having reticulated veins. |
| retinoid | adjective (a.) Resinlike, or resinform; resembling a resin without being such. |
| retiped | noun (n.) A bird having small polygonal scales covering the tarsi. |
| retired | adjective (a.) Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. |
| adjective (a.) Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Retire |
| retroflexed | adjective (a.) Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward. |
| retrofracted | adjective (a.) Refracted; as, a retrofract stem. |
| retroverted | adjective (a.) In a state of retroversion. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Retrovert |
| reverend | adjective (a.) Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable. |
| reversed | adjective (a.) Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zool.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell. |
| adjective (a.) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Reverse |
| reverted | adjective (a.) Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Revert |
| reward | noun (n.) Regard; respect; consideration. |
| noun (n.) That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works. | |
| noun (n.) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. |
| reynard | noun (n.) An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as Renard. |
| rheochord | noun (n.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit. |
| rheumatismoid | adjective (a.) Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism. |
| rhinolophid | noun (n.) Any species of the genus Rhinilophus, or family Rhinolophidae, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat. |
| rhizoid | noun (n.) A rootlike appendage. |
| rhizopod | noun (n.) One of the Rhizopoda. |
| rhomboganoid | noun (n.) A ganoid fish having rhombic enameled scales; one of the Rhomboganoidei. |
| rhomboid | noun (n.) An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different. |
| adjective (a.) Same as Rhomboidal. |
| ribald | noun (n./) A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow. |
| adjective (a.) Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene. |
| riband | noun (n.) See Ribbon. |
| noun (n.) See Rib-band. |
| ribanded | adjective (a.) Ribboned. |
| ribaud | noun (n.) A ribald. |
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