RISA
First name RISA's origin is Europe. RISA means "czechoslovakian form of richard (strong ruler)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RISA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of risa.(Brown names are of the same origin (Europe) with RISA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming RISA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RÝSA AS A WHOLE:
drisana cha'risa amarisa beatrisa brisa carisa cherisa chrisanna chrisanne clarisa clarrisa crisann crisanna marisa marrisa morisa sonrisa trisa frisa irisa grisandole corisaNAMES RHYMING WITH RÝSA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (isa) - Names That Ends with isa:
mandisa tisa atisa liisa marphisa adalgisa luisa hisa adisa chafulumisa ailisa alisa annalisa annelisa charlisa delisa denisa dionisa elisa eloisa felisa genisa gisa idelisa isa jaisa jelisa jolisa lisa louisa lovisa maertisa marlisa marquisa nafisa nisa tylisa carlaisa maelisa eisa mellisa kaisa hlisa narcisa adelisaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (sa) - Names That Ends with sa:
kissa nagesa nigesa xetsa zinsa hessa melissa arrosa tasa welsa anassa arethusa charissa creusa inesa larissa marpessa medusa narkissa neysa nitsa nysa odessa phaethusa ritsa thalassa ursa venessa marcsa zsa angirasa kailasa khasa teresa awenasa kasa omusa idrissa issa kassa musa palassa wekesa ebissa forsa deorsa ailsa aldonsa alfonsa alissa allyssa alonsa alysa alyssa amarissaNAMES RHYMING WITH RÝSA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ris) - Names That Begins with ris:
rishim risley risteard risto ristonRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ri) - Names That Begins with ri:
ria riagan rian rica ricadene ricadonna ricard ricarda ricardo ricca riccardo rice rich richael richard richardo richelle richer richere richie richlynn richman richmond rick rickard ricker rickey rickie rickman rickward ricky ricman rico ricwea ricweard rida riddhi riddoc riddock rider ridere ridge ridgeiey ridgeley ridgely ridha ridhi ridley ridpath ridwan rigby rigel rigg riggs rigmor rihana riikka rikard rikka rikkard rikward ril riley rilla rille rilletta rillette rillia rillie rilynn rim rima rimona rina rinan rinat rinc ring rinji rinna rinnah rio riobard riocard rioghbhardan rioghnach rion riona riordain riordan ripley rique rita ritchie ritterNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RÝSA:
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':
radella radhiya radhwa radwa raedbora raena rafa rafela raimunda raina rainaa raissa raja rakanja raluca rama ramira ramla ramona rana ranica raniesha ranita raphaella rasha rasheeda rashida rashmika ratna rawdha rawiella rayya raziya reba rebecca rebecka rechavia reda reema reeya regina rehema reina reinha relia rena renata reta retta reva reveka reya rhaxma rhea rheanna rheda rhesa rheta rhianna rhoda rhonda ritza riva rivka roana robena roberta robertia robina robinetta roderica roderiga roderika rodica rodika roesia roka rolanda roldana roma romana romanitza romhilda romia romilda romina rona ronia rosa rosalia rosalinda rosamaria rosana rosemaria rosemunda rosetta rowa rowena roxana roxannaEnglish Words Rhyming RISA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RÝSA AS A WHOLE:
comprisal | noun (n.) The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. |
calorisator | noun (n.) An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. |
grisaille | noun (n.) Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass. |
noun (n.) A kind of French fancy dress goods. |
grisamber | noun (n.) Ambergris. |
irisated | adjective (a.) Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent. |
perisarc | noun (n.) The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids. |
pharisaic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Pharisaical |
pharisaical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees. |
adjective (a.) Addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a show of religion without the spirit of it; ceremonial; formal; hypocritical; self-righteous. |
pharisaism | noun (n.) The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect. |
noun (n.) Rigid observance of external forms of religion, without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion; a censorious, self-righteous spirit in matters of morals or manners. |
prisage | noun (n.) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this. |
noun (n.) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral. |
reprisal | noun (n.) The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. |
noun (n.) Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation. | |
noun (n.) The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity. | |
noun (n.) Any act of retaliation. |
surprisal | noun (n.) The act of surprising, or state of being surprised; surprise. |
trisacramentarian | noun (n.) One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament. |
trisagion | noun (n.) An ancient anthem, -- usually known by its Latin name tersanctus.See Tersanctus. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RÝSA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (isa) - English Words That Ends with isa:
visa | noun (n.) See Vis/. |
verb (v. t.) To indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RÝSA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ris) - Words That Begins with ris:
ris | noun (n.) A bough or branch; a twig. |
rising | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rise |
noun (n.) The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense). | |
noun (n.) That which rises; a tumor; a boil. | |
adjective (a.) Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon. | |
adjective (a.) Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character. | |
adjective (a.) Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation. | |
prep (prep.) More than; exceeding; upwards of; as, a horse rising six years of age. |
rise | noun (n.) The act of rising, or the state of being risen. |
noun (n.) The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step. | |
noun (n.) Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land. | |
noun (n.) Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream. | |
noun (n.) Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet. | |
noun (n.) Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like. | |
noun (n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice. | |
noun (n.) Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone. | |
noun (n.) The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water. | |
verb (v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait. | |
verb (v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like. | |
verb (v.) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air. | |
verb (v.) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet. | |
verb (v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer. | |
verb (v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall. | |
verb (v.) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early. | |
verb (v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea. | |
verb (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction. | |
verb (v.) To retire; to give up a siege. | |
verb (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like. | |
verb (v.) To have the aspect or the effect of rising. | |
verb (v.) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like. | |
verb (v.) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore. | |
verb (v.) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower. | |
verb (v.) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs. | |
verb (v.) To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax. | |
verb (v.) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion. | |
verb (v.) To become of higher value; to increase in price. | |
verb (v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like. | |
verb (v.) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat. | |
verb (v.) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice. | |
verb (v.) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations. | |
verb (v.) In various figurative senses. | |
verb (v.) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. | |
verb (v.) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed. | |
verb (v.) To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest. | |
verb (v.) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. | |
verb (v.) To come; to offer itself. | |
verb (v.) To ascend from the grave; to come to life. | |
verb (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report. | |
verb (v.) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone. | |
verb (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form. | |
verb (v. i.) To go up; to ascend; to climb; as, to rise a hill. | |
verb (v. i.) To cause to rise; as, to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water; to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it; to raise. |
risen | adjective (p. p. & a.) Obs. imp. pl. of Rise. |
(p. p.) of Rise | |
() p. p. & a. from Rise. |
riser | noun (n.) One who rises; as, an early riser. |
noun (n.) The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread. | |
noun (n.) Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like. | |
noun (n.) A shaft excavated from below upward. | |
noun (n.) A feed head. See under Feed, n. |
rish | noun (n.) A rush (the plant). |
risibility | noun (n.) The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species. |
risible | adjective (a.) Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. |
adjective (a.) Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing. | |
adjective (a.) Used in, or expressing, laughter; as, risible muscles. |
risk | noun (n.) Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction. |
noun (n.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property. | |
noun (n.) To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication. | |
noun (n.) To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle. |
risking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Risk |
risker | noun (n.) One who risks or hazards. |
riskful | adjective (a.) Risky. |
risky | adjective (a.) Attended with risk or danger; hazardous. |
risorial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles. |
risotto | noun (n.) A kind of pottage. |
rissoid | noun (n.) Any one of very numerous species of small spiral gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidae, found both in fresh and salt water. |
rissole | noun (n.) A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried. |
risque | adjective (a. fem.) Alt. of Risquee |
risquee | adjective (a. fem.) Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risque story. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RÝSA:
English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':
raca | adjective (a.) A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless." |
rachialgia | noun (n.) A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic. |
rachilla | noun (n.) Same as Rhachilla. |
racoonda | noun (n.) The coypu. |
radiata | noun (n. pl.) An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere. |
radiolaria | noun (n. pl.) Order of rhizopods, usually having a siliceous skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina. |
radula | noun (n.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore. |
raffia | noun (n.) A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia. |
rafflesia | noun (n.) A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet. |
raghuvansa | noun (n.) A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty. |
raia | noun (n.) A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate. |
raja | noun (n.) Same as Rajah. |
ramayana | noun (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita. |
ramenta | noun (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns. |
rana | noun (n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs. |
ranula | noun (n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland. |
rata | noun (n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs. |
ratafia | noun (n.) A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; -- a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, cura/ao, etc. |
ravenala | noun (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana. |
razzia | noun (n.) A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid. |
reata | noun (n.) A lariat. |
redia | noun (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix. |
redowa | noun (n.) A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use. |
regalia | noun (n. pl.) That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty. |
noun (n. pl.) Hence, decorations or insignia of an office or order, as of Freemasons, Odd Fellows,etc. | |
noun (n. pl.) Sumptuous food; delicacies. | |
noun (n.) A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed. |
regatta | noun (n.) Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races. |
regma | noun (n.) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle. |
regularia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins. |
rejectamenta | noun (n. pl.) Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism. |
remora | noun (n.) Delay; obstacle; hindrance. |
noun (n.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish. | |
noun (n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places. |
replica | noun (v. & n.) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original. |
noun (v. & n.) Repetition. |
reptantia | noun (n. pl.) A division of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata. |
reptilia | noun (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds. |
reseda | noun (n.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette. |
noun (n.) A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette. |
respondentia | noun (n.) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. |
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. |