Name Report For First Name RULE:
RULE
First name RULE's origin is Other. RULE means "famous wolf". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RULE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of rule.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with RULE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with RULE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming RULE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RULE AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH RULE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ule) - Names That Ends with ule:
sule jule akule reule yule sprouleRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (le) - Names That Ends with le:
kifle njemile udele naile nile tale adele crocale cybele eriphyle eurayle helle hypsipyle myrtle nephele odele omphale semele kiele rachele akinwole bekele kelile roble tekle stille bankole chibale kafele tearle michelle neville scoville maoltuile murthuile somhairle aristotle ercole theophile zale kale daniele emmanuele gamble vasile abbigale abegayle adelle afrodille anabelle angelle annabelle aprille ardelle areille ariele arielle arnelle audrielle belle bernelle bonnibelle brielle camile camille carole cecile cecille chamyle chanelle channelle chantalle chantelle chavelle chenelle cherelle cherrelle chevelle dale danele danelle danielle dannelle danrelle darelle dawnelle dawnielle denelle donelle elle emele francille gabriele gabrielleNAMES RHYMING WITH RULE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (rul) - Names That Begins with rul:
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ru) - Names That Begins with ru:
ruadhagan ruadhan ruadson ruaidhri ruairidh ruanaidh ruarc ruark ruben rubie ruby ruck rudd ruddy rudella rudelle rudiger rudo rudrani rudy rudyard rueban ruelle rufa ruff ruffe rufford rufina rufio rufo ruford rugby ruhdugeard ruhleah rui rukan 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 RULE:
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'e':
rachelle radbourne radbyrne radcliffe radeliffe radite rae raedburne rafe raighne ramone randale rane ranice rapere rayce rayhourne rayne reade reave recene reece reese reeve reggie reigne reine renae rene renee renke renne rennie reve rhete rhodanthe ricadene rice richelle richere richie rickie ridere ridge rille rillette rillie rique ritchie rive roane roanne robbie robinette robynne roche rochelle rocke roe rolande rolfe rollie romaine romhilde romilde ronce ronelle ronnie roque rorke rosalie rosalinde rosamonde rosanne roschelle roscoe rose rosemarie rosemonde rourke rousse rovere rowe roxane roxanne royale royce royse rozene ryce rydge rye ryence ryenne rylee rylieEnglish Words Rhyming RULE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RULE AS A WHOLE:
| barrulet | noun (n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width. |
| cerule | adjective (a.) Blue; cerulean. |
| cerulean | adjective (a.) Sky-colored; blue; azure. |
| ceruleous | adjective (a.) Cerulean. |
| chondrule | noun (n.) A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites. |
| cinerulent | adjective (a.) Full of ashes. |
| curule | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official. |
| cerulein | noun (n.) A fast dyestuff, C20H8O6, made by heating gallein with strong sulphuric acid. It dyes mordanted fabrics green. |
| cerulescent | adjective (a.) Tending to cerulean; light bluish. |
| ceruleum | noun (n.) A greenish blue pigment prepared in various ways, consisting essentially of cobalt stannate. Unlike other cobalt blues, it does not change color by gaslight. |
| fenestrule | noun (n.) One of the openings in a fenestrated structure. |
| ferrule | noun (n.) A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing. |
| noun (n.) A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth. |
| ferule | noun (n.) A flat piece of wood, used for striking, children, esp. on the hand, in punishment. |
| verb (v. t.) To punish with a ferule. |
| florulent | adjective (a.) Flowery; blossoming. |
| glomerule | noun (n.) A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood. |
| noun (n.) A glomerulus. |
| hemispherule | noun (n.) A half spherule. |
| misrule | noun (n.) The act, or the result, of misruling. |
| noun (n.) Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To rule badly; to misgovern. |
| mucopurulent | adjective (a.) Having the character or appearance of both mucus and pus. |
| overruler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, controls, governs, or determines. |
| querulential | adjective (a.) Querulous. |
| adjective (a.) Querulous. |
| perule | noun (n.) Same as Perula. |
| puberulent | adjective (a.) Very minutely downy. |
| pulverulence | noun (n.) The state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or powder; dustiness. |
| pulverulent | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty. |
| purrulence | noun (n.) Alt. of Purulency |
| purulency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. |
| purulent | adjective (a.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation. |
| rorulent | adjective (a.) Full of, or abounding in, dew. |
| adjective (a.) Having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew. |
| rule | noun (n.) To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to govern; to manage. |
| noun (n.) To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive. | |
| noun (n.) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice. | |
| noun (n.) To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court. | |
| noun (n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book. | |
| adjective (a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket. | |
| adjective (a.) Uniform or established course of things. | |
| adjective (a.) Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock. | |
| adjective (a.) Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions. | |
| adjective (a.) Conduct in general; behavior. | |
| adjective (a.) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control. | |
| adjective (a.) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit. | |
| adjective (a.) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root. | |
| adjective (a.) A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and is an exception to the rule. | |
| adjective (a.) A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler. | |
| adjective (a.) A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly. | |
| adjective (a.) A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work. | |
| adjective (a.) A composing rule. See under Conposing. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule. | |
| verb (v. i.) To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before. |
| ruleless | adjective (a.) Destitute of rule; lawless. |
| ruler | noun (n.) One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor. |
| noun (n.) A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a). |
| spherule | noun (n.) A little sphere or spherical body; as, quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules. |
| spinnerule | noun (n.) One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders. |
| sporule | noun (n.) A small spore; a spore. |
| unruled | adjective (a.) Not governed or controlled. |
| adjective (a.) Not ruled or marked with lines; as, unruled paper. |
| virulence | noun (n.) Alt. of Virulency |
| virulency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy. |
| noun (n.) Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. |
| virulent | adjective (a.) Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury. |
| adjective (a.) Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective. |
| virulented | adjective (a.) Made virulent; poisoned. |
| zebrule | noun (n.) A cross between a male zebra and a female horse. |
| noun (n.) A cross between a male zebra and a female horse. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RULE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ule) - English Words That Ends with ule:
| animalcule | noun (n.) A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc. |
| noun (n.) An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. |
| antennule | noun (n.) A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennae or feelers of Crustacea. |
| bacule | noun (n.) See Bascule. |
| barbule | noun (n.) A very minute barb or beard. |
| noun (n.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather. |
| bascule | noun (n.) In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls. |
| batule | noun (n.) A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board. |
| blastule | noun (n.) Same as Blastula. |
| boule | noun (n.) Alt. of Boulework |
| noun (n.) A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate. | |
| noun (n.) Legislature of modern Greece. See Legislature. |
| bulbule | noun (n.) A small bulb; a bulblet. |
| calcule | noun (n.) Reckoning; computation. |
| verb (v. i.) To calculate |
| canicule | noun (n.) Canicula. |
| capitule | noun (n.) A summary. |
| capsule | noun (n.) a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc. |
| noun (n.) A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier. | |
| noun (n.) a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain. | |
| noun (n.) A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed. | |
| noun (n.) A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ. | |
| noun (n.) A metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle. | |
| noun (n.) A small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc. |
| cedule | noun (n.) A scroll; a writing; a schedule. |
| cellule | noun (n.) A small cell. |
| choule | noun (n.) See Jowl. |
| chromule | noun (n.) A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals. |
| conciliabule | noun (n.) An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable. |
| corcule | noun (n.) The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ. |
| corneule | noun (n.) One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates. |
| coronule | noun (n.) A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus. |
| corpuscule | noun (n.) A corpuscle. |
| crapule | noun (n.) Same as Crapulence. |
| crepuscule | noun (n.) Twilight. |
| cupule | noun (n.) A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc. |
| noun (n.) A sucker or acetabulum. |
| cymule | noun (n.) A small cyme, or one of very few flowers. |
| cysticule | noun (n.) An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes. |
| digitule | noun (n.) A little finger or toe, or something resembling one. |
| dobule | noun (n.) The European dace. |
| endoplastule | noun (n.) See Nucleolus. |
| epaule | noun (n.) The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder. |
| faule | noun (n.) A fall or falling band. |
| fistule | noun (n.) A fistula. |
| floscule | noun (n.) A floret. |
| formule | noun (n.) A set or prescribed model; a formula. |
| frustule | noun (n.) The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover. |
| fascicule | noun (n.) A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as, a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines. |
| floccule | noun (n.) A detached mass of loosely fibrous structure like a shredded tuft of wool. |
| noun (n.) Specif.: A small particle of an insoluble substance formed in a liquid by the union of smaller particles. |
| gallinule | noun (n.) One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule (Gallinula galeata). |
| gemmule | noun (n.) A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons. |
| noun (n.) One of the buds of mosses. | |
| noun (n.) One of the reproductive spores of algae. | |
| noun (n.) An ovule. | |
| noun (n.) A bud produced in generation by gemmation. | |
| noun (n.) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. See Pangenesis. |
| germule | noun (n.) A small germ. |
| glandule | noun (n.) A small gland or secreting vessel. |
| globule | noun (n.) A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form. |
| noun (n.) A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists. |
| granule | noun (n.) A little grain a small particle; a pellet. |
| graticule | noun (n.) A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions. |
| gule | noun (n.) The throat; the gullet. |
| verb (v. t.) To give the color of gules to. |
| hamule | noun (n.) A little hook. |
| iconodule | noun (n.) Alt. of Iconodulist |
| joule | noun (n.) A unit of work which is equal to 107 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds. |
| ligule | noun (n.) The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass. |
| noun (n.) A strap-shaped corolla of flowers of Compositae. | |
| noun (n.) A band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of the brain. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RULE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (rul) - Words That Begins with rul:
| rulable | adjective (a.) That may be ruled; subject to rule; accordant or conformable to rule. |
| ruling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rule |
| noun (n.) The act of one who rules; ruled lines. | |
| noun (n.) A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an oral decision, as in excluding evidence. | |
| adjective (a.) Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign. | |
| adjective (a.) Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen. |
| rullichies | noun (n. pl.) Chopped meat stuffed into small bags of tripe. They are cut in slices and fried. |
| ruly | adjective (a.) Orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to unruly. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RULE:
English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 'e':
| rabatine | noun (n.) A collar or cape. |
| rabbate | noun (n.) Abatement. |
| verb (v. t.) To abate or diminish. |
| rabbinite | noun (n.) Same as Rabbinist. |
| rabble | noun (n.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar. | |
| verb (v. t.) To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron. | |
| verb (v. i.) To speak in a confused manner. | |
| verb (v. i.) A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng. | |
| verb (v. i.) A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence. | |
| verb (v. t.) To rumple; to crumple. |
| race | noun (n.) A root. |
| noun (n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed. | |
| noun (n.) Company; herd; breed. | |
| noun (n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed. | |
| noun (n.) Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, characteristic quality or disposition. | |
| noun (n.) A progress; a course; a movement or progression. | |
| noun (n.) Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running. | |
| noun (n.) Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races. | |
| noun (n.) Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life. | |
| noun (n.) A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney. | |
| noun (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race. | |
| noun (n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raze. | |
| verb (v. i.) To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port. | |
| verb (v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses. | |
| verb (v. t.) To run a race with. | |
| () A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests. |
| racemate | noun (n.) A salt of racemic acid. |
| raceme | noun (n.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry. |
| racemose | adjective (a.) Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme. |
| racemule | noun (n.) A little raceme. |
| racemulose | adjective (a.) Growing in very small racemes. |
| rache | noun (n.) A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound. |
| rachitome | noun (n.) A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal. |
| racle | adjective (a.) See Rakel. |
| raddle | noun (n.) A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence. |
| noun (n.) A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom. | |
| noun (n.) A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To interweave or twist together. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle. |
| rade | noun (n.) A raid. |
| radiale | noun (n.) The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man. |
| noun (n.) Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid. |
| radiance | noun (n.) Alt. of Radiancy |
| radiate | noun (n.) One of the Radiata. |
| adjective (a.) Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated; as, a radiate crystal. | |
| adjective (a.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc. | |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the Radiata. | |
| verb (v. i.) To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine. | |
| verb (v. i.) To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points; as, to radiate heat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate. |
| radiative | adjective (a.) Capable of radiating; acting by radiation. |
| radicate | adjective (a.) Radicated. |
| verb (v. i.) To take root; to become rooted. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root. |
| radicle | noun (n.) The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle. |
| noun (n.) A rootlet; a radicel. |
| radicule | noun (n.) A radicle. |
| radiculose | adjective (a.) Producing numerous radicles, or rootlets. |
| radiolite | noun (n.) A hippurite. |
| radiophone | noun (n.) An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of luminous or thermal rays. It is essentially the same as the photophone. |
| raffaelesque | adjective (a.) Raphaelesque. |
| raffinose | noun (n.) A colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet. |
| rage | noun (n.) Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. |
| noun (n.) Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury. | |
| noun (n.) A violent or raging wind. | |
| noun (n.) The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage. | |
| noun (n.) To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. | |
| noun (n.) To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. | |
| noun (n.) To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo. | |
| noun (n.) To toy or act wantonly; to sport. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enrage. |
| raggie | adjective (a.) Alt. of Raggy |
| raiae | noun (n. pl.) The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajae, and Rajii. |
| raisable | adjective (a.) Capable of being raised. |
| raisonne | adjective (a.) Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue. |
| rake | noun (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth. |
| noun (n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake. | |
| noun (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein. | |
| noun (n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc. | |
| noun (n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel. | |
| noun (n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue. | |
| verb (v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves. | |
| verb (v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack. | |
| verb (v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely. | |
| verb (v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along. | |
| verb (v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft. | |
| verb (v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life. |
| rakeshame | noun (n.) A vile, dissolute wretch. |
| rakestale | noun (n.) The handle of a rake. |
| rale | noun (n.) An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus. |
| ralliance | noun (n.) The act of rallying. |
| ralline | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the rails. |
| ralstonite | noun (n.) A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals. |
| ramage | noun (n.) Boughs or branches. |
| noun (n.) Warbling of birds in trees. | |
| adjective (a.) Wild; untamed. |
| ramberge | noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of large war galley. |
| ramble | noun (n.) A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation. |
| noun (n.) A bed of shale over the seam. | |
| verb (v. i.) To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. | |
| verb (v. i.) To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way. | |
| verb (v. i.) To extend or grow at random. |
| rambooze | noun (n.) A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc. |
| ramee | noun (n.) See Ramie. |
| ramie | noun (n.) The grass-cloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass. |
| ramline | noun (n.) A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel. |
| ramollescence | noun (n.) A softening or mollifying. |
| ramose | adjective (a.) Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy. |
| rampe | noun (n.) The cuckoopint. |
| rampire | noun (n.) A rampart. |
| verb (v. t.) To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire. |
| ramshackle | adjective (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. |
| verb (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage. |
| ramulose | adjective (a.) Having many small branches, or ramuli. |
| ramuscule | noun (n.) A small ramus, or branch. |
| rance | noun (n.) A prop or shore. |
| noun (n.) A round between the legs of a chair. |
| ranee | noun (n.) Same as Rani. |
| ranforce | noun (n.) See Re/nforce. |
| range | noun (n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line. |
| noun (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc. | |
| noun (n.) To separate into parts; to sift. | |
| noun (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species. | |
| noun (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields. | |
| noun (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast. | |
| noun (n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent. | |
| verb (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay. | |
| verb (v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains. | |
| verb (v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class. | |
| verb (v.) The step of a ladder; a rung. | |
| verb (v.) A kitchen grate. | |
| verb (v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove. | |
| verb (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal. | |
| verb (v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition. | |
| verb (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture. | |
| verb (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority. | |
| verb (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives. | |
| verb (v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried. | |
| verb (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile. | |
| verb (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced. | |
| verb (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart. | |
| verb (v.) See Range of cable, below. |
| ranine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein. |
| rankle | adjective (a.) To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively. |
| adjective (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame. |
| ransomable | adjective (a.) Such as can be ransomed. |
| rantipole | noun (n.) A wild, romping young person. |
| adjective (a.) Wild; roving; rakish. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act like a rantipole. |
| raparee | noun (n.) See Rapparee. |
| rape | noun (n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. |
| noun (n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making. | |
| noun (n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery. | |
| noun (n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n. | |
| noun (n.) That which is snatched away. | |
| noun (n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. | |
| noun (n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire. | |
| noun (n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds. | |
| verb (v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish. | |
| verb (v. i.) To rob; to pillage. |
| raphaelesque | adjective (a.) Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting. |
| raphaelite | noun (n.) One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism. |
| raphe | noun (n.) A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue. |
| noun (n.) Same as Rhaphe. |
| rapine | noun (n.) The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder. |
| noun (n.) Ravishment; rape. | |
| verb (v. t.) To plunder. |
| rappage | noun (n.) The enlargement of a mold caused by rapping the pattern. |
| rapparee | noun (n.) A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary. |
| rapture | noun (n.) A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. |
| noun (n.) The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy. | |
| noun (n.) A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. | |
| verb (v. t.) To transport with excitement; to enrapture. |
| rare | adjective (a.) Early. |
| superlative (superl.) Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event. | |
| superlative (superl.) Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found. | |
| superlative (superl.) Thinly scattered; dispersed. | |
| superlative (superl.) Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations. |
| rarefiable | adjective (a.) Capable of being rarefied. |
| rareripe | noun (n.) An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach. |
| adjective (a.) Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season. |
| rasante | adjective (a.) Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them. |
| rase | noun (n.) A scratching out, or erasure. |
| noun (n.) A slight wound; a scratch. | |
| noun (n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it. | |
| verb (v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze. | |
| verb (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase. | |
| verb (v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow. |
| rasse | noun (n.) A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet. |
| ratable | adjective (a.) Capable of being rated, or set at a certain value. |
| adjective (a.) Liable to, or subjected by law to, taxation; as, ratable estate. | |
| adjective (a.) Made at a proportionate rate; as, ratable payments. |
| rate | noun (n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance. |
| noun (n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum. | |
| noun (n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation. | |
| noun (n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates. | |
| noun (n.) Order; arrangement. | |
| noun (n.) Ratification; approval. | |
| noun (n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc. | |
| noun (n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently. | |
| verb (v. t.) To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree. | |
| verb (v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax. | |
| verb (v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension. | |
| verb (v. t.) To ratify. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make an estimate. |
| rateable | adjective (a.) See Ratable. |
| rathe | adjective (a.) Coming before others, or before the usual time; early. |
| adverb (adv.) Early; soon; betimes. |
| rathripe | noun (n.) A rareripe. |
| adjective (a.) Rareripe, or early ripe. |
| ratiocinative | adjective (a.) Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination; consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a ratiocinative process. |
| rationale | adjective (a.) An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles themselves. |
| ratitae | noun (n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples. |
| ratitate | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ratitae. |
| ratite | noun (n.) One of the Ratitae. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ratitae. |
| ratsbane | noun (n.) Rat poison; white arsenic. |
| rattle | noun (n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum. |
| noun (n.) Noisy, rapid talk. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken. | |
| noun (n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. | |
| noun (n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke. | |
| noun (n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound. | |
| noun (n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. | |
| verb (v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise. | |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game. | |
| verb (v. t.) To scold; to rail at. |
| rattlemouse | noun (n.) A bat. |
| rattlepate | noun (n.) A rattlehead. |
| rattlesnake | noun (n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang. |
| ravage | noun (n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. |
| noun (n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume. |
| rave | noun (n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh. |
| verb (v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman. | |
| verb (v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously. | |
| verb (v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense. | |
| () imp. of Rive. |
| ravine | noun (n.) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. |
| noun (n.) A torrent of water. | |
| noun (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) See Raven, v. t. & i. |
| rawbone | adjective (a.) Rawboned. |
| rawhide | noun (n.) A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted. |
| raze | noun (n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root. |
| verb (v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish. |
| razorable | adjective (a.) Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved. |
| razure | noun (n.) The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure. |
| noun (n.) An erasure; a change made by erasing. |
| reachable | adjective (a.) Being within reach. |
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