RANS
First name RANS's origin is English. RANS means "raven". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RANS below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of rans.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with RANS and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming RANS
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RANS AS A WHOLE:
frans ransey ransford ransley bransan branson cranstun torrans ransom ransy cranstonNAMES RHYMING WITH RANS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ans) - Names That Ends with ans:
mordrayans jans hansRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ns) - Names That Ends with ns:
sheshebens nafiens jens mogens akins khons saxons attkins fitzsimmons fitzsimons higgins karlens nodons royns ryons thomkins wattkins nevins watkins rawlins perkins parkins burns adkins uriens nodens beaumains collinsNAMES RHYMING WITH RANS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ran) - Names That Begins with ran:
ran rana ranait ranald ranalt rand randal randale randall randel randell randi randkin randolph randon randson randy rane ranell ranen ranfield rang ranger rangey rangford rangley rangy rani ranica ranice ranier raniesha ranit ranita raniyah rankin ranonRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ra) - Names That Begins with ra:
ra'idah raad raanan raananah rabab rabah rabbani rabhartach rabi rabiah rabican rachael rachel rachele rachelle rachid rad radbert radbou radbourne radburn radburt radbyrne radcliff radcliffe radclyf radeliffe radella radeyah radford radhiya radhwa radi radite radley radmund radnor radolf radolph radu radwa rae raed raedan raedanoran raedbora raedburne raedc raedclyf raedeman raedford raedleah raedmund raedpath raedself raedwald raedwolf raegan raelynn raena rafa rafael rafalNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RANS:
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 's':
rafas rais rakkas ramos ramses rares rasmus rawls reaves reeves remedios reyes reynolds rhadamanthus rhesus rhodes rhoecus rhys riggs rodas rodes rohais rois ros ross russEnglish Words Rhyming RANS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RANS AS A WHOLE:
autotransformer | noun (n.) A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil. |
bransle | noun (n.) A brawl or dance. |
cadrans | noun (n.) An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing. |
impertransibility | noun (n.) The quality or state of being impertransible. |
impertransible | adjective (a.) Incapable of being passed through. |
intertranspicuous | adjective (a.) Transpicuous within or between. |
intertransverse | adjective (a.) Between the transverse processes of the vertebrae. |
intranscalent | adjective (a.) Impervious to heat; adiathermic. |
intransgressible | adjective (a.) Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed. |
intranssient | adjective (a.) Not transient; remaining; permanent. |
intransigent | adjective (a.) Refusing compromise; uncompromising; irreconcilable. |
intransigentes | noun (n. pl.) The extreme radicals; the party of the irreconcilables. |
intransitive | adjective (a.) Not passing farther; kept; detained. |
adjective (a.) Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs. |
intransmissible | adjective (a.) Not capable of being transmitted. |
intransmutability | noun (n.) The quality of being intransmutable. |
intransmutable | adjective (a.) Not capable of being transmuted or changed into another substance. |
mistranslation | noun (n.) Wrong translation. |
quadrans | noun (n.) A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2. |
noun (n.) The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur. | |
noun (n.) A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2. | |
noun (n.) The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur. |
pertransient | adjective (a.) Passing through or over. |
ransacking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ransack |
ransack | noun (n.) The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. |
verb (v. t.) To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house. | |
verb (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage completely. | |
verb (v. t.) To violate; to ravish; to defiour. | |
verb (v. i.) To make a thorough search. |
ransom | noun (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom. |
noun (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit. | |
noun (n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment. | |
noun (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy. | |
noun (n.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on. |
ransoming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ransom |
ransomable | adjective (a.) Such as can be ransomed. |
ransomer | noun (n.) One who ransoms or redeems. |
ransomless | adjective (a.) Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom. |
semitransept | noun (n.) The half of a transept; as, the north semitransept of a church. |
semitranslucent | adjective (a.) Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree. |
semitransparency | noun (n.) Imperfect or partial transparency. |
semitransparent | adjective (a.) Half or imperfectly transparent. |
subtranslucent | adjective (a.) Not perfectly translucent. |
subtransparent | adjective (a.) Not perfectly transparent. |
transacting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transact |
transaction | noun (n.) The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance. |
noun (n.) That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange. | |
noun (n.) An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement. |
transactor | noun (n.) One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. |
transalpine | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, that is, out of Italy. |
adjective (a.) Being on the farther side of the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west side of the Alps; of or pertaining to the region or the people beyond the Alps; as, transalpine Gaul; -- opposed to cisalpine. |
transanimating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transanimate |
transanimation | noun (n.) The conveyance of a soul from one body to another. |
transatlantic | adjective (a.) Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean. |
adjective (a.) Crossing the Atlantic Ocean. |
transaudient | adjective (a.) Permitting the passage of sound. |
transcalency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being transcalent. |
transcalent | adjective (a.) Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat. |
transcending | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transcend |
transcendent | adjective (a.) Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor. |
adjective (a.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect. |
transcendental | noun (n.) A transcendentalist. |
transcendentalism | noun (n.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge. |
noun (n.) Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction. |
transcendentalist | noun (n.) One who believes in transcendentalism. |
transcendentality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being transcendental. |
transcendentness | noun (n.) Same as Transcendence. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RANS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ans) - English Words That Ends with ans:
amphiscians | noun (n. pl.) The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith. |
antecians | noun (n. pl.) See Ant/cians. |
antiscians | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Antiscii |
antoecians | noun (n. pl) Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator. |
ascians | noun (n. pl.) Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun. |
dedans | noun (n.) A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators. |
glans | noun (n.) The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris. |
noun (n.) The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits. | |
noun (n.) Goiter. | |
noun (n.) A pessary. |
halvans | noun (n. pl.) Impure ore; dirty ore. |
juglans | noun (n.) A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut. |
lipans | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians, inhabiting the northern part of Mexico. They belong to the Tinneh stock, and are closely related to the Apaches. |
micronesians | noun (n. pl.) A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans. |
mohicans | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of Lenni-Lenape Indians who formerly inhabited Western Connecticut and Eastern New York. |
mongolians | noun (n. pl.) One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks. |
orleans | noun (n.) A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel. |
noun (n.) A variety of the plum. See under Plum. |
periecians | noun (n. pl.) See Perioecians. |
perioecians | noun (n. pl.) Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other. Compare Antoeci. |
periscians | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Periscii |
permians | noun (n. pl.) A tribe belonging to the Finnic race, and inhabiting a portion of Russia. |
polynesians | noun (n. pl.) The race of men native in Polynesia. |
sextans | noun (n.) A Roman coin, the sixth part of an as. |
noun (n.) A constellation on the equator south of Leo; the Sextant. |
sowans | noun (n. pl.) See Sowens. |
spelicans | noun (n. pl.) See Spilikin. |
turanians | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of mankind including the Mongols and allied races of Asia, together with the Malays and Polynesians. |
noun (n. pl.) A group of races or tribes inhabiting Asia and closely related to the Mongols. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RANS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ran) - Words That Begins with ran:
ran | noun (n.) Open robbery. |
noun (n.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch. | |
() imp. of Run. | |
(imp.) of Run |
rana | noun (n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs. |
ranal | adjective (a.) Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants. |
rance | noun (n.) A prop or shore. |
noun (n.) A round between the legs of a chair. |
rancescent | adjective (a.) Becoming rancid or sour. |
ranch | noun (n.) A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2. |
verb (v. t.) To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion. |
ranchero | noun (n.) A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho. |
noun (n.) The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho. |
ranchman | noun (n.) An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman. |
rancho | noun (n.) A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night. |
noun (n.) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation. |
rancid | adjective (a.) Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter. |
rancidity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil. |
rancidness | noun (n.) The quality of being rancid. |
rancor | noun (n.) The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred. |
rancorous | adjective (a.) Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. |
rand | noun (n.) A border; edge; margin. |
noun (n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak. | |
noun (n.) A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel. | |
noun (n.) Rim; egde; border. | |
verb (v. i.) To rant; to storm. |
randan | noun (n.) The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran. |
noun (n.) A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two. |
randing | noun (n.) The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes. |
noun (n.) A kind of basket work used in gabions. |
random | noun (n.) Force; violence. |
noun (n.) A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard. | |
noun (n.) Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball. | |
noun (n.) The direction of a rake-vein. | |
adjective (a.) Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess. |
randon | noun (n.) Random. |
verb (v. i.) To go or stray at random. |
ranedeer | noun (n.) See Reindeer. |
ranee | noun (n.) Same as Rani. |
ranforce | noun (n.) See Re/nforce. |
ranging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Range |
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. |
rangement | noun (n.) Arrangement. |
ranger | noun (n.) One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber. |
noun (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve. | |
noun (n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game. | |
noun (n.) One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot. | |
noun (n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc. |
rangership | noun (n.) The office of the keeper of a forest or park. |
rani | noun (n.) A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah. |
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. |
rank | noun (n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers. |
noun (n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a). | |
noun (n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral. | |
noun (n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings. | |
noun (n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank. | |
noun (n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank. | |
superlative (superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds. | |
superlative (superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy. | |
superlative (superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land. | |
superlative (superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue. | |
superlative (superl.) Strong to the taste. | |
superlative (superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite. | |
adverb (adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently. | |
verb (v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line. | |
verb (v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify. | |
verb (v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank. | |
verb (v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division. | |
verb (v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation. |
ranking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rank |
ranker | noun (n.) One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges. |
rankling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rankle |
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. |
rankness | noun (n.) The condition or quality of being rank. |
rannel | noun (n.) A prostitute. |
ranny | noun (n.) The erd shrew. |
ranting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rant |
rant | noun (n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics. |
verb (v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher. |
ranter | noun (n.) A noisy talker; a raving declaimer. |
noun (n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker. | |
noun (n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt. |
ranterism | noun (n.) The practice or tenets of the Ranters. |
rantipole | noun (n.) A wild, romping young person. |
adjective (a.) Wild; roving; rakish. | |
verb (v. i.) To act like a rantipole. |
rantism | noun (n.) Ranterism. |
ranty | adjective (a.) Wild; noisy; boisterous. |
ranula | noun (n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland. |
ranunculaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony. |
ranunculus | noun (n.) A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R. aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors. |
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. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RANS:
English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 's':
rabidness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rabid. |
rabies | noun (n.) Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness. |
rabious | adjective (a.) Fierce. |
racemiferous | adjective (a.) Bearing racemes, as the currant. |
racemous | adjective (a.) See Racemose. |
rachis | noun (n.) The spine; the vertebral column. |
noun (n.) Same as Rhachis. |
rachitis | noun (n.) Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets. |
noun (n.) A disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds. |
raciness | noun (n.) The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor. |
rackabones | noun (n.) A very lean animal, esp. a horse. |
racleness | noun (n.) See Rakelness. |
radicalness | noun (n.) Quality or state of being radical. |
radiciflorous | adjective (a.) Rhizanthous. |
radious | adjective (a.) Consisting of rays, as light. |
adjective (a.) Radiating; radiant. |
radius | noun (n.) A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere. |
noun (n.) The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla. | |
noun (n.) A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2. | |
noun (n.) The barbs of a perfect feather. | |
noun (n.) Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates. | |
noun (n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument. |
ragious | adjective (a.) Raging; furious; rageful. |
raininess | noun (n.) The state of being rainy. |
rainless | adjective (a.) Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region. |
rais | noun (n.) Same as 2d Reis. |
rakishness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rakish. |
ramagious | adjective (a.) Wild; not tame. |
ramentaceous | adjective (a.) Covered with ramenta. |
rameous | adjective (a.) Ramal. |
ramiflorous | adjective (a.) Flowering on the branches. |
ramigerous | adjective (a.) Bearing branches; branched. |
ramiparous | adjective (a.) Producing branches; ramigerous. |
rammishness | noun (n.) The quality of being rammish. |
ramous | adjective (a.) Ramose. |
rampacious | adjective (a.) High-spirited; rampageous. |
rampageous | adjective (a.) Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant. |
ramulous | adjective (a.) Ramulose. |
ramulus | noun (n.) A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms. |
ramus | noun (n.) A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification. |
rapaces | noun (n. pl.) Same as Accipitres. |
rapacious | adjective (a.) Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. |
adjective (a.) Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird. | |
adjective (a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. |
raphides | noun (n. pl.) See Rhaphides. |
rapidness | noun (n.) Quality of being rapid; rapidity. |
rapinous | adjective (a.) Given to rapine. |
raptores | noun (n. pl.) Same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores. |
raptorious | adjective (a.) Raptorial. |
rapturous | adjective (a.) Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause. |
rareness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being rare. |
ras | noun (n.) See 2d Reis. |
rascaless | noun (n.) A female rascal. |
rashness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rash. |
raspis | noun (n.) The raspberry. |
rationalness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rational; rationality. |
ratlines | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Ratlins |
ratlins | noun (n. pl.) The small transverse ropes attached to the shrouds and forming the steps of a rope ladder. |
rattlewings | noun (n.) The golden-eye. |
rattlings | noun (n. pl.) Ratlines. |
raucous | adjective (a.) Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone. |
ravenous | adjective (a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. |
adjective (a.) Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. |
rawness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being raw. |
rayless | adjective (a.) Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes. |
reaccess | noun (n.) A second access or approach; a return. |
reachless | adjective (a.) Being beyond reach; lofty. |
readiness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness. |
realmless | adjective (a.) Destitute of a realm. |
realness | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being real; reality. |
reardoss | noun (n.) A reredos. |
reasonableness | noun (n.) Quality of being reasonable. |
reasonless | adjective (a.) Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. |
adjective (a.) Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. |
rebellious | adjective (a.) Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force. |
rebucous | adjective (a.) Rebuking. |
rebus | noun (n.) A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations. |
noun (n.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting. | |
verb (v. t.) To mark or indicate by a rebus. |
reccheles | adjective (a.) Reckless. |
receivedness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion. |
recentness | noun (n.) Quality or state of being recent. |
receptiveness | noun (n.) The quality of being receptive. |
recess | noun (n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. |
noun (n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy. | |
noun (n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school. | |
noun (n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc. | |
noun (n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. | |
noun (n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science. | |
noun (n.) A sinus. | |
noun (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. | |
verb (v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall. |
rechless | adjective (a.) Reckless. |
recidivous | adjective (a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit. |
reciprocalness | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness. |
reciprocornous | adjective (a.) Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram. |
reciprocous | adjective (a.) Reciprocal. |
reckless | adjective (a.) Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent. |
adjective (a.) Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. |
reclaimless | adjective (a.) That can not be reclaimed. |
recluseness | noun (n.) Quality or state of being recluse. |
recomfortless | adjective (a.) Without comfort. |
recrementitious | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross. |
rectilineous | adjective (a.) Rectilinear. |
rectitis | noun (n.) Proctitis. |
rectoress | noun (n.) A governess; a rectrix. |
noun (n.) The wife of a rector. |
rectress | noun (n.) A rectoress. |
rectus | noun (n.) A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye. |
recureless | adjective (a.) Incapable of cure. |
recurvous | adjective (a.) Recurved. |
redeemableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability. |
redeless | adjective (a.) Without rede or counsel. |
redlegs | noun (n.) The redshank. |
noun (n.) The turnstone. |
redness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being red; red color. |
redress | noun (n.) The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. |
noun (n.) A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification. | |
noun (n.) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. | |
verb (v. t.) To dress again. | |
verb (v. t.) To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. | |
verb (v. t.) To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. | |
verb (v. t.) To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. |
redressless | adjective (a.) Not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable. |
reducibleness | noun (n.) Quality of being reducible. |
reedless | adjective (a.) Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks. |
reflueus | adjective (a.) Refluent. |
refractiveness | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being refractive. |
refractoriness | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being refractory. |
regardless | adjective (a.) Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. |
adjective (a.) Not regarded; slighted. |
regenerateness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being rgenerate. |