REDA
First name REDA's origin is Arabic. REDA means "in god's favor; contentment; satisfaction". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with REDA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of reda.(Brown names are of the same origin (Arabic) with REDA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming REDA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES REDA AS A WHOLE:
afreda albreda loredana aethelreda alfreda eathellreda eldreda elfreda freda winifreda redamann sigfreda ethelreda tredan soredamorsNAMES RHYMING WITH REDA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eda) - Names That Ends with eda:
makeda seda andromeda halimeda leda alameda aleda breeda eda elfrieda frieda gleda jaeda meda meeda sigfrieda rasheeda odeda bethseda theda oleda beda altheda nadeeda mufeeda majeeda hameeda fareeda rheda neda ganieda aguedaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (da) - Names That Ends with da:
balinda dada makda nehanda rashida saida sauda sroda ghayda huda mas'ouda nashida nida rida warda zada daghda oppida milada arvada belisarda clarimunda yolanda ciarda donalda alda arnalda magnilda marelda mathilda romilda serilda dorinda elpida phillida rhoda varda darda chamunda chanda sharada clorinda elda geltruda alida orenda wakanda wihakayda adelajda nadezhda sanda adelinda muenda penda alwalda dar-al-baida abda fida ferda jarda standa tonda mudada balisarda abida shoda ada adalheidaNAMES RHYMING WITH REDA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (red) - Names That Begins with red:
redd redding redfor redford redley redman redmond redmund redwaldRhyming 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 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 renzo reod reshef resi retaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH REDA:
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 rashmika ratna rawdha rawiella rayya raziya retta reva reveka reya rhaxma rhea rheanna rhesa rheta rhianna rhonda ria rica ricadonna ricarda ricca ricwea 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 romina rona ronia rosa rosalia rosalinda rosamaria rosana rosemaria rosemunda rosetta rowa rowena roxanaEnglish Words Rhyming REDA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES REDA AS A WHOLE:
contredanse | noun (n.) A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines. |
noun (n.) The quadrille. | |
noun (n.) A piece of music in the rhythm of such a dance. |
depredable | adjective (a.) Liable to depredation. |
depredating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depredate |
depredation | noun (n.) The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land. |
depredator | noun (n.) One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber. |
depredatory | adjective (a.) Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion. |
exheredation | noun (n.) A disinheriting; disherisor. |
predacean | noun (n.) A carnivorous animal. |
predaceous | adjective (a.) Living by prey; predatory. |
predal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to prey; plundering; predatory. |
predation | noun (n.) The act of pillaging. |
predatory | adjective (a.) Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party. |
adjective (a.) Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. | |
adjective (a.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous. |
redacteur | noun (n.) See Redactor. |
redaction | noun (n.) The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest. |
redactor | noun (n.) One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. |
redan | noun (n.) A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy. |
noun (n.) A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level. |
redarguing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redargue |
redargution | noun (n.) The act of redarguing; refutation. |
redargutory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH REDA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eda) - English Words That Ends with eda:
acraspeda | noun (n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora. |
andromeda | noun (n.) A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda. |
noun (n.) A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water. |
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. |
veda | noun (n.) The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, constituting the most ancient portions of that literature. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH REDA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (red) - Words That Begins with red:
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. |
redback | noun (n.) The dunlin. |
redbelly | noun (n.) The char. |
redbird | noun (n.) The cardinal bird. |
noun (n.) The summer redbird (Piranga rubra). | |
noun (n.) The scarlet tanager. See Tanager. |
redbreast | noun (n.) The European robin. |
noun (n.) The American robin. See Robin. | |
noun (n.) The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot. | |
noun (n.) The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish. |
redbud | noun (n.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas. |
redcap | noun (n.) The European goldfinch. |
noun (n.) A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland. |
redcoat | noun (n.) One who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated British soldier. |
reddening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redden |
redden | adjective (a.) To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to. |
verb (v. i.) To grow or become red; to blush. |
reddendum | noun (n.) A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease. |
reddish | adjective (a.) Somewhat red; moderately red. |
reddition | noun (n.) Restoration: restitution: surrender. |
noun (n.) Explanation; representation. |
redditive | adjective (a.) Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply; as, redditive words. |
reddle | noun (n.) Red chalk. See under Chalk. |
reddour | noun (n.) Rigor; violence. |
rede | noun (n.) Advice; counsel; suggestion. |
noun (n.) A word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw. | |
verb (v. t.) To advise or counsel. | |
verb (v. t.) To interpret; to explain. |
redeeming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redeem |
redeemability | noun (n.) Redeemableness. |
redeemable | adjective (a.) Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable. |
adjective (a.) Subject to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon a promise of redemtion; payable; due; as, bonds, promissory notes, etc. , redeemabble in gold, or in current money, or four months after date. |
redeemableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability. |
redeemer | noun (n.) One who redeems. |
noun (n.) Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ. |
redeless | adjective (a.) Without rede or counsel. |
redeliverance | noun (n.) A second deliverance. |
redelivery | noun (n.) Act of delivering back. |
noun (n.) A second or new delivery or liberation. |
redemand | noun (n.) A demanding back; a second or renewed demand. |
verb (v. t.) To demand back; to demand again. |
redemise | noun (n.) The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See under Demise. |
verb (v. t.) To demise back; to convey or transfer back, as an estate. |
redemptible | adjective (a.) Redeemable. |
redemptionary | noun (n.) One who is, or may be, redeemed. |
redemptioner | noun (n.) One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. |
noun (n.) Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage. |
redemptionist | noun (n.) A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian. |
redemptive | adjective (a.) Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ. |
redemptorist | noun (n.) One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth. |
redemptory | adjective (a.) Paid for ransom; serving to redeem. |
redempture | noun (n.) Redemption. |
redented | adjective (a.) Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented. |
redeye | noun (n.) The rudd. |
noun (n.) Same as Redfish (d). | |
noun (n.) The goggle-eye, or fresh-water rock bass. |
redfin | noun (n.) A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley. |
redfinch | noun (n.) The European linnet. |
redfish | noun (n.) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b). |
noun (n.) The rosefish. | |
noun (n.) A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead. | |
noun (n.) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish. |
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. |
redhibition | noun (n.) The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect. |
redhibitory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault. |
redhoop | noun (n.) The male of the European bullfinch. |
redhorn | noun (n.) Any species of a tribe of butterflies (Fugacia) including the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. The antennae are usually red. |
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. |
redient | adjective (a.) Returning. |
redingote | noun (n.) A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women. |
redintegrate | adjective (a.) Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed. |
verb (v. t.) To make whole again; a renew; to restore to integrity or soundness. |
redintegration | noun (n.) Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. |
noun (n.) Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state. | |
noun (n.) The law that objects which have been previously combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH REDA:
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. |
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. |
respondentia | noun (n.) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. |
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. |
reticulosa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Reticularia. |
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. |
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. |
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. |