English words: recramp to recurvebill
300 English words, part 27 of 97 of the words starting with R, A to Z. 46 have a page of their own.
English words recramp to recurvebill
- recramp verb: To cramp again.
- recraniotomy noun: A second or subsequent craniotomy
- recrank verb: To crank again.
- recrate verb: To crate again; to pack back into a crate.
- recrater noun: A machine for loading goods into crates.
- recrawl verb: To crawl again.
- recrayed adjective: Cowardly, recreant.
- recreance noun: Dated form of recreancy.
- recreancy noun /ˈɹɛkɹiənsi/: The quality or state of being recreant; shameful cowardice; perfidy.
- recreant adjective, noun /ˈɹɛkɹɪənt/: Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
- recreantly adverb: In a recreant manner.
- recrease verb: To crease again.
- recreate verb /ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt/: To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
- recreation noun /(ˌ)ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/: Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.
- recreation ground noun: A public park designed for recreation purposes
- recreation hall noun: Synonym of recreation room.
- recreation room noun: A room used for a variety of purposes, such as parties, games and other everyday or casual use.
- recreational adjective: For, or relating to, recreation.
- recreational diving noun: underwater diving in open water
- recreational drug noun: A psychoactive drug taken deliberately for the effect it has on the mind rather than for its medicinal effects.
- recreational mathematics noun: Any use of mathematics or logic whose primary purpose is recreation, though often with more serious characteristics.
- recreational medicine noun: Recreational drugs.
- recreational pharmaceutical noun: A medication or similar controlled substance which is consumed outside the context of normal medical treatment for the sole purpose of inducing pleasant...
- recreational vehicle noun: A self-propelled vehicle (motor home), or trailer designed for use as living quarters on overnight recreational activities and travel.
- recreationalist noun: Someone taking part in recreational activities
- recreationally adverb: In a recreational manner, for recreation, for fun or entertainment.
- recreationism noun: The concept that the world may be conceived as being created anew at every instant in time.
- recreationist noun: One who takes part in recreation.
- recreative adjective, noun: Being, or pertaining to, recreation.
- recreatively adverb: In a recreative manner; so as to amuse or divert.
- recreativeness noun: The quality of being recreative.
- recreator noun: One who recreates.
- recreatory adjective: recreational
- recredential verb: To credential again or anew.
- recredit verb: To credit again.
- recrement noun: Waste matter or dross.
- recremental adjective: recrementitious
- recrementitial adjective: Of the nature of a recrement.
- recrementitious adjective: Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross.
- recreolization noun: The process of recreolizing.
- recreolize verb: To modify a language by introducing additional elements of the matrilect.
- recreosote verb: To creosote again.
- recreotourism noun: Recreational tourism.
- recrew verb: To crew (a vessel) again or anew.
- recriminalisation noun: Alternative form of recriminalization.
- recriminalization noun: The act of recriminalizing.
- recriminalize verb: To criminalize again; to make (something previously decriminalized) illegal again.
- recriminate verb /ɹɪˈkɹɪmɪneɪt/: To accuse in return, state an accusation in return, make a countercharge.
- recriminatingly adverb: In a recriminating manner.
- recrimination noun /ɹiˌkɹɪməˈneɪʃən/: The act of recriminating.
- recriminative adjective: recriminatory
- recriminator noun: Someone who recriminates.
- recriminatory adjective: In the way of recriminations.
- recriticality noun: A return to a point at which a nuclear reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- recriticize verb: To criticize again.
- recritique verb: To critique again.
- recrop verb: To crop again.
- recross noun, verb: An examination of a witness, following redirect, by the opposing party.
- recross examination noun: Questioning of a witness after a cross-examination.
- recrossed adjective, verb: Crossed a second time.
- recrossing noun, verb: The motion or position of things that recross; an interweaving.
- recrowd verb: To crowd again.
- recrown verb: To crown again; to provide with another crown.
- recrucifixion noun: crucifixion again
- recrucify verb: To crucify again.
- recrudency noun: recrudescence
- recrudesce verb /ˌɹɛkɹu(ː)ˈdɛs/: To recur, or break out anew after a quiescence or dormant period.
- recrudescence noun /ˌɹiːkɹuːˈdɛs(ə)ns/: The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or...
- recrudescency noun: Dated form of recrudescence.
- recrudescent adjective /ˌɹɛkɹu(ː)ˈdɛsənt/: Breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression.
- recruit noun, verb /ɹɪˈkɹut/: A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
- recruitability noun: The condition of being recruitable
- recruitable adjective: Able to be recruited.
- recruitage noun: The act of recruiting, as for the military; recruitment.
- recruital noun: The act of recruiting; recruitment.
- recruitee noun: A person who is recruited.
- recruithood noun: The role or status of a recruit.
- recruiting noun, verb: The process by which a person is recruited; recruitment.
- recruitment noun /rɪˈkruːt.mənt /: The process or art of finding candidates for a post in an organization, or recruits for the armed forces.
- recruitship noun: The rank or period of being a recruit.
- recruity noun: A military recruit.
- recrumple verb: To crumple again.
- recrush verb: To crush again.
- recrusher noun: A device for further crushing material that has already been through a larger crusher.
- recrystallisation noun: Alternative spelling of recrystallization.
- recrystallise verb: Alternative spelling of recrystallize.
- recrystallised adjective, verb: Alternative spelling of recrystallized.
- recrystallizable adjective: Capable of being recrystallized.
- recrystallization noun: A technique for the purification of chemical compounds in which the compound is dissolved in a solvent and slowly cooled to form crystals.
- recrystallize verb: To crystallize again; especially as a means of purification.
- recrystallometer noun: A device that measures the level of recrystallization
- recrystallometry noun: The measurement of the level of recrystallization
- rect noun, prefix: Clipping of rectangle.
- recta ratio noun /ˈɹɛktə ˈɹeɪʃɪəʊ/: “Right reason”, which regards virtue as desirable in itself.
- rectagonal adjective: Synonym of rectangular.
- rectagraph noun: A triangle-free connected graph where any two vertices have 0 or 2 common neighbors.
- rectahedral adjective: Having the form of a rectahedron
- rectahedron noun: A six-sided polyhedron whose faces are all rectangular (like a brick, shoe box or matchbox)
- rectal adjective, noun /ˈrɛk.təl/: Of, via or related to the rectum.
- rectal sex noun: Anal sex.
- rectal varicosity noun: haemorrhoid (UK), hemorrhoid (US)
- rectalgia noun: Pain in the rectum.
- rectally adverb: Through the rectum.
- rectangle adjective, noun /ˈrɛktæŋɡl̩/: Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.
- rectangled adjective: rectangular
- rectanglelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a rectangle.
- rectangular adjective /ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjəlɚ/: Having a shape like a rectangle.
- rectangular coordinates noun: Cartesian coordinates.
- rectangular cuboid noun: A special case of a cuboid with rectangular faces in which all of its dihedral angles are right angles.
- rectangular hyperbola noun: A hyperbola where the two asymptotes intersect at a right angle.
- rectangular number noun: A number which is the product of two consecutive integers.
- rectangularise verb: Alternative form of rectangularize.
- rectangularised adjective, verb: Alternative form of rectangularized.
- rectangularity noun: The condition of being rectangular
- rectangularization noun: The conversion of a graph (typically of life expectancy) into a more rectangular form (with a sudden diminution to zero at the upper end)
- rectangularize verb: To convert by means of rectangularization
- rectangularized adjective, verb: Modified by rectangularization
- rectangularly adverb: In a rectangular manner.
- rectangularness noun: The quality of being rectangular.
- rectangularwise adverb: In a rectangular orientation.
- rectangulation noun: The subdivision of a rectangle into rectangles.
- rectanguloid noun: A rectangular object; A three-dimensional form related to the rectangle
- recte adverb: Used parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it)
- rectectomy noun: Resection of the rectum.
- rectenna noun /ɹɛkˈtɛn.ə/: A special type of antenna that converts microwave energy into direct current electricity.
- recti noun, prefix /ˈɹɛkˌtaɪ/: straight
- rectifiability noun: The quality or state of being rectifiable.
- rectifiable adjective: Able to be rectified; correctable; fixable.
- rectificate verb: To rectify.
- rectification noun /ˌɹɛktɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/: The action or process of rectifying.
- rectificational adjective: Relating to rectification.
- rectificator noun: Someone or something that rectifies or refines
- rectificatory adjective: That rectifies
- rectified linear unit noun: A unit (artificial neuron) in an artificial neural network that employs a rectifier.
- rectified spirit noun: An alcoholic spirit that has been purified to or close to the maximum concentration obtainable by using conventional distillation processes, i.e. about 96%...
- rectified spirits noun: Alternative form of rectified spirit
- rectifier noun /ˈɹɛktɪfaɪɚ/: Something that rectifies.
- rectiflexible adjective: Being straight spore chains consisting of rod-shaped spores.
- rectiformer noun: A combined electrical rectifier and transformer, typically used in electrochemical cells or to supply high-voltage static electricity
- rectify verb /ˈɹɛktəˌfaɪ/: To heal (an organ or part of the body).
- rectigradation noun: A qualitative change or the genesis of a new characteristic.
- rectigrade adjective: Walking straight forward.
- Rectigraph noun: An early photographic copying machine.
- rectilineal adjective: Alternative form of rectilinear.
- rectilineally adverb: Synonym of rectilinearly, in a rectilineal fashion.
- rectilinear adjective /ˌɹɛktɪˈlɪniɚ/: In a straight line.
- rectilinear orbit noun: A theoretical type of orbit which goes in a straight-line, up and down; with 100% orbital eccentricity (eccentricity=1.0); the orbital path passing through...
- rectilinearism noun: The use of straight lines.
- rectilinearity noun: The condition of being rectilinear
- rectilinearization noun: Conversion to rectilinear form.
- rectilinearize verb: To make rectilinear.
- rectilinearly adverb: In a rectilinear fashion.
- rectilinearness noun: The condition of being rectilinear.
- rectimarginate adjective: Having a straight margin / edge
- rectinerved adjective: Having straight veins or nerves.
- rection noun: regimen; government; the rules governing the syntax, rules of agreement of a language.
- rectipetal adjective: Exhibiting rectipetality.
- rectipetality noun: The natural tendency of stems to grow in a straight line.
- rectiradiate adjective: Straight (not inclined forward or backward).
- rectiserial adjective: Arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as leaves on stems.
- rectitis noun: Synonym of proctitis (“rectum inflamation”)
- rectitude noun /ˈɹɛk.tɪ.tjuːd/: Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.
- rectitudinal adjective: Characterized by rectitude.
- rectitudinarian noun: A person who has a high standard of rectitude
- rectitudinous adjective: righteous or correct or upright
- recto noun, prefix /ˈɹɛk.toʊ/: The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal.
- rectoabdominal adjective: Relating to the rectum and abdomen.
- rectoanal adjective: Of or pertaining to the rectum and anus.
- rectocele noun: A hernia of the rectum into the vagina.
- rectoclysis noun: proctoclysis
- rectococcygeal adjective: Relating to the rectum and coccyx.
- rectocoele noun: Alternative form of rectocele.
- rectocolitic adjective: Relating to rectocolitis.
- rectocolitis noun: inflammation of the rectum and colon
- rectocolonic adjective: Relating to the rectum and colon
- rectocutaneous adjective: Relating to the rectum and skin, as (usually, more specifically) a fistula between the rectum and the perirectal skin.
- rectogenital adjective: Of or pertaining to the rectum and the genitals.
- rectoneovaginal adjective: Relating to the rectum and neovagina.
- rectoperineal adjective: Relating to the rectum and perineum, as (usually, more specifically) a fistula of rectocutaneous type whose cutaneous opening is in the perineal skin.
- rectopexy noun: surgical fixation of the bowel
- rectophobia noun: The fear of rectal disease.
- rector noun /ˈɹɛktɚ/: In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
- rector magnificus noun: The male head of a German university.
- rectoral adjective: Pertaining to a rector or governor.
- rectorate noun: Synonym of rectorship.
- rectorectal adjective: Relating to two parts of the rectum, as, for example, in a rectorectal intussusception, in which the two parts telescope together.
- rectoress noun: A governess; a rectrix.
- rectorial adjective, noun: Relating to a rector.
- rectorite noun: A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.
- rectorrhagia noun: rectal bleeding.
- rectorship noun: The office or rank of a rector.
- rectory noun /ˈɹɛktəɹi/: The residence of Roman Catholic priest(s) associated with a parish church.
- rectosacral adjective: Relating to the rectum and the sacrum
- rectoscope noun: A proctoscope.
- rectoscopy noun: Synonym of proctoscopy.
- rectosigmoid adjective, noun: Of the rectum and the sigmoid colon; especially, of the junction between them.
- rectosigmoidal adjective: Alternative form of rectosigmoid.
- rectosigmoidectomy noun: A rectal sigmoidectomy
- rectosigmoiditis noun: The inflammation of the rectum and sigmoid colon, typically as a limited form of ulcerative colitis.
- rectosigmoidoscopy noun: Internal examination of the rectum and sigmoid colon
- rectosonography noun: Rectal ultrasonography.
- rectosphincteric adjective: Involving the rectum and sphincter.
- rectotomy noun: The operation for dividing a rectal stricture.
- rectourethral adjective: Relating to the rectum and urethra.
- rectouterine adjective: Located between the rectum and uterus.
- rectovaginal adjective: Of or pertaining to the rectum and the vagina, as (usually, more specifically) a fistula between the two.
- rectovaginally adverb: In a rectovaginal manner
- rectovesical adjective: Synonym of vesicorectal.
- rectovestibular adjective: Relating to the rectum and the vestibule.
- rectovulvar adjective: Relating to the rectum and vulva.
- rectress noun: Alternative form of rectoress.
- rectricial adjective: Relating to a rectrix.
- rectrix noun: A governess; a rectoress.
- rectum noun /ˈɹɛktəm/: The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon, but before leaving the body through the anus or cloaca.
- rectus noun /ˈɹɛk.təs/: Ellipsis of rectus abdominis.
- rectus abdominis noun: A paired muscle running vertically on each side of the anterior wall of the abdomen in humans and some other mammals.
- rectus abdominis muscle noun: A pair of segmented skeletal muscle on the ventral aspect of a person's abdomen.
- rectus casus noun: Alternative form of casus rectus.
- rectus femoris noun: A fusiform muscle, one of the four quadriceps muscles, situated in the middle of the front of the thigh.
- rectus muscle noun: A rectus, any of several straight muscles in the body.
- Recuay proper noun: A pre-Columbian culture of highland Peru that flourished from 200 BCE to 600 CE and was related to the Moche culture of the north coast.
- recubant adjective: Reclining; recumbent.
- recubation noun: recumbence; a state of lying down
- recueil noun: compendium, literary compilation
- recuff verb: To handcuff again
- recule verb /ɹɪˈkjuːl/: To recoil or retreat; to draw back.
- recultivate verb /ɹɪˈkʌltɪˌveɪt/: To cultivate again; to make productive once again
- recultivation noun: cultivation again or anew
- reculturalization noun: The process of reculturalizing.
- reculturalize verb: To adapt to the norms of a different culture.
- reculture verb: To change the culture of (a social institution).
- Reculver proper noun: A small coastal settlement and ward in Canterbury district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2269).
- recumb verb: To lean; to recline; to repose.
- recumbence noun: The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.
- recumbency noun: recumbence
- recumbent adjective, noun: Lying down.
- recumbent bicycle noun: A bicycle that places the rider in a laid-back reclining position.
- recumbent stone circle noun: A type of stone circle that incorporates at least one large monolith, known as a recumbent, lying on its side, typically flanked by two large upright...
- recumbently adverb: In a recumbent manner; while lying down.
- recumbirostran noun: Any extinct amphibian of the clade †Recumbirostra
- recup verb: To cup again; to supply with cups an additional time.
- recupe verb: To recuperate.
- recuperability noun: The condition of being recuperable
- recuperable adjective: recoverable
- recuperance noun: recuperation
- recuperate verb /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/: To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
- recuperation noun: Gradual restoration to health.
- recuperative adjective, noun: In the way of recuperation.
- recuperative thermal oxidizer noun: A type of thermal oxidizer for treating air pollutants of all types, especially VOCs and odours, by burning the gases in an oven at about 800ºC for about 1...
- recuperatively adverb: In a recuperative fashion.
- recuperativeness noun: The quality of being recuperative.
- recuperator noun: A person who recuperates, or regains their health.
- recuperatory adjective: Of or relating to recuperation; tending to recovery.
- recur verb /ɹɪˈkɜː/: Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.
- recurable adjective: Curable, restorable.
- recurarization noun: Repeat curarization
- recurate verb: To curate again or differently.
- recuration noun: The process of recurating.
- recure noun, verb /ɹɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)/: To cure, heal.
- recureless adjective: Incapable of cure.
- recurl verb: To curl again.
- recurrence noun /rəˈkɝ.əns/: Return or reversion to a certain state.
- recurrence relation noun: an equation that recursively defines a sequence; each term of the sequence is defined as a function of the preceding terms.
- recurrence time noun: The moment in time between two successive occurrences in which a Markov process enters any given state.
- recurrency noun: The act or process of recurring; recurrence.
- recurrent adjective /ɹɪˈkʌɹənt/: Recurring; happening time after time.
- recurrent aborter noun: A person who has had three or more consecutive miscarriages due to an underlying condition.
- recurrent laryngeal nerve noun: One of two branches of the vagus nerve that arises below the larynx, loops under the subclavian artery on the right side and under the arch of the aorta on...
- recurrent neural network noun: An artificial neural network where the connections between units give them a kind of internal memory useful for processing arbitrary sequences of inputs as...
- recurrent nova noun: A type of nova in which the sudden brightening and gradual diminishing is repeated (for any of several reasons)
- recurrent slope linea noun: An ephemeral dark linear feature found on slopes that recurs seasonally.
- recurrently adverb: In a recurrent manner.
- recurrer noun: One who or that which recurs.
- recurring adjective, noun, verb /ɹɪˈkɜːɹɪŋ/: Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.
- recurringly adverb: In a recurring manner; recurrently.
- recursant adjective: Having its back towards the observer.
- recurse verb /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)s/: To execute a procedure recursively.
- recursion noun /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/: The act of recurring.
- recursion theory noun: A branch of mathematical logic studying computable functions and Turing degrees, concerned with questions such as "What does it mean for a function on the...
- recursive adjective /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/: Drawing upon, invoking, or referring back to itself.
- recursive acronym noun: An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase represented by the acronym is the acronym itself.
- recursive compound word noun: Compound word composed of at least one other compound word.
- recursive definition noun: A definition of a term within which the term itself appears, and that is well-founded, avoiding an infinite regress.
- recursive descent noun: A kind of top-down parsing involving a set of mutually recursive procedures, each of which implements one of the non-terminals of the grammar, so that the...
- recursive function noun: Any function that uses recursion and can call itself until a certain condition is met.
- recursive neural network noun: A kind of deep neural network created by applying the same set of weights recursively over a structured input, to produce a structured prediction over...
- recursive self-improvement noun: A process whereby an artificial intelligence system iteratively improves its capabilities, with each iteration thus enabling more effective self-improvement.
- recursively adverb: In a recursive way or manner.
- recursively enumerable adjective: Of a set, such that there exists a deterministic algorithm which will list all the items in the set and no others.
- recursiveness noun: The quality of being recursive.
- recursivity noun: The quality of being recursive.
- recurtain verb: To fit with new curtains.
- recurvant adjective: That recurves or bends back on itself.
- recurvate adjective, verb /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)veɪt/: To bend or curve back; to recurve.
- recurvation noun: A backwards bending or flexure backwards.
- recurvature noun: recurvation
- recurve noun, verb /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)v/: A type of knife blade shape that involves several curves including a concave curve on a portion of the edge, resulting in a belly that is lower than the...
- recurve-billed bushbird noun: Clytoctantes alixii, a species of antbirds.
- recurve bow noun: A bow whose two tips curve away from the archer when drawn, which gives the shot greater power and speed.
- recurvebill noun: A bird of the genus Syndactyla, native to Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.
Part 26 · Part 28 · English words: R
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under R: 28,843 words, in 97 parts.