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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

  1. recramp verb: To cramp again.
  2. recraniotomy noun: A second or subsequent craniotomy
  3. recrank verb: To crank again.
  4. recrate verb: To crate again; to pack back into a crate.
  5. recrater noun: A machine for loading goods into crates.
  6. recrawl verb: To crawl again.
  7. recrayed adjective: Cowardly, recreant.
  8. recreance noun: Dated form of recreancy.
  9. recreancy noun /ˈɹɛkɹiənsi/: The quality or state of being recreant; shameful cowardice; perfidy.
  10. recreant adjective, noun /ˈɹɛkɹɪənt/: Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
  11. recreantly adverb: In a recreant manner.
  12. recrease verb: To crease again.
  13. recreate verb /ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt/: To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
  14. recreation noun /(ˌ)ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/: Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.
  15. recreation ground noun: A public park designed for recreation purposes
  16. recreation hall noun: Synonym of recreation room.
  17. recreation room noun: A room used for a variety of purposes, such as parties, games and other everyday or casual use.
  18. recreational adjective: For, or relating to, recreation.
  19. recreational diving noun: underwater diving in open water
  20. recreational drug noun: A psychoactive drug taken deliberately for the effect it has on the mind rather than for its medicinal effects.
  21. recreational mathematics noun: Any use of mathematics or logic whose primary purpose is recreation, though often with more serious characteristics.
  22. recreational medicine noun: Recreational drugs.
  23. 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...
  24. recreational vehicle noun: A self-propelled vehicle (motor home), or trailer designed for use as living quarters on overnight recreational activities and travel.
  25. recreationalist noun: Someone taking part in recreational activities
  26. recreationally adverb: In a recreational manner, for recreation, for fun or entertainment.
  27. recreationism noun: The concept that the world may be conceived as being created anew at every instant in time.
  28. recreationist noun: One who takes part in recreation.
  29. recreative adjective, noun: Being, or pertaining to, recreation.
  30. recreatively adverb: In a recreative manner; so as to amuse or divert.
  31. recreativeness noun: The quality of being recreative.
  32. recreator noun: One who recreates.
  33. recreatory adjective: recreational
  34. recredential verb: To credential again or anew.
  35. recredit verb: To credit again.
  36. recrement noun: Waste matter or dross.
  37. recremental adjective: recrementitious
  38. recrementitial adjective: Of the nature of a recrement.
  39. recrementitious adjective: Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross.
  40. recreolization noun: The process of recreolizing.
  41. recreolize verb: To modify a language by introducing additional elements of the matrilect.
  42. recreosote verb: To creosote again.
  43. recreotourism noun: Recreational tourism.
  44. recrew verb: To crew (a vessel) again or anew.
  45. recriminalisation noun: Alternative form of recriminalization.
  46. recriminalization noun: The act of recriminalizing.
  47. recriminalize verb: To criminalize again; to make (something previously decriminalized) illegal again.
  48. recriminate verb /ɹɪˈkɹɪmɪneɪt/: To accuse in return, state an accusation in return, make a countercharge.
  49. recriminatingly adverb: In a recriminating manner.
  50. recrimination noun /ɹiˌkɹɪməˈneɪʃən/: The act of recriminating.
  51. recriminative adjective: recriminatory
  52. recriminator noun: Someone who recriminates.
  53. recriminatory adjective: In the way of recriminations.
  54. recriticality noun: A return to a point at which a nuclear reaction becomes self-sustaining.
  55. recriticize verb: To criticize again.
  56. recritique verb: To critique again.
  57. recrop verb: To crop again.
  58. recross noun, verb: An examination of a witness, following redirect, by the opposing party.
  59. recross examination noun: Questioning of a witness after a cross-examination.
  60. recrossed adjective, verb: Crossed a second time.
  61. recrossing noun, verb: The motion or position of things that recross; an interweaving.
  62. recrowd verb: To crowd again.
  63. recrown verb: To crown again; to provide with another crown.
  64. recrucifixion noun: crucifixion again
  65. recrucify verb: To crucify again.
  66. recrudency noun: recrudescence
  67. recrudesce verb /ˌɹɛkɹu(ː)ˈdɛs/: To recur, or break out anew after a quiescence or dormant period.
  68. 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...
  69. recrudescency noun: Dated form of recrudescence.
  70. recrudescent adjective /ˌɹɛkɹu(ː)ˈdɛsənt/: Breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression.
  71. recruit noun, verb /ɹɪˈkɹut/: A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
  72. recruitability noun: The condition of being recruitable
  73. recruitable adjective: Able to be recruited.
  74. recruitage noun: The act of recruiting, as for the military; recruitment.
  75. recruital noun: The act of recruiting; recruitment.
  76. recruitee noun: A person who is recruited.
  77. recruithood noun: The role or status of a recruit.
  78. recruiting noun, verb: The process by which a person is recruited; recruitment.
  79. recruitment noun /rɪˈkruːt.mənt /: The process or art of finding candidates for a post in an organization, or recruits for the armed forces.
  80. recruitship noun: The rank or period of being a recruit.
  81. recruity noun: A military recruit.
  82. recrumple verb: To crumple again.
  83. recrush verb: To crush again.
  84. recrusher noun: A device for further crushing material that has already been through a larger crusher.
  85. recrystallisation noun: Alternative spelling of recrystallization.
  86. recrystallise verb: Alternative spelling of recrystallize.
  87. recrystallised adjective, verb: Alternative spelling of recrystallized.
  88. recrystallizable adjective: Capable of being recrystallized.
  89. 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.
  90. recrystallize verb: To crystallize again; especially as a means of purification.
  91. recrystallometer noun: A device that measures the level of recrystallization
  92. recrystallometry noun: The measurement of the level of recrystallization
  93. rect noun, prefix: Clipping of rectangle.
  94. recta ratio noun /ˈɹɛktə ˈɹeɪʃɪəʊ/: “Right reason”, which regards virtue as desirable in itself.
  95. rectagonal adjective: Synonym of rectangular.
  96. rectagraph noun: A triangle-free connected graph where any two vertices have 0 or 2 common neighbors.
  97. rectahedral adjective: Having the form of a rectahedron
  98. rectahedron noun: A six-sided polyhedron whose faces are all rectangular (like a brick, shoe box or matchbox)
  99. rectal adjective, noun /ˈrɛk.təl/: Of, via or related to the rectum.
  100. rectal sex noun: Anal sex.
  101. rectal varicosity noun: haemorrhoid (UK), hemorrhoid (US)
  102. rectalgia noun: Pain in the rectum.
  103. rectally adverb: Through the rectum.
  104. rectangle adjective, noun /ˈrɛktæŋɡl̩/: Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.
  105. rectangled adjective: rectangular
  106. rectanglelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a rectangle.
  107. rectangular adjective /ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjəlɚ/: Having a shape like a rectangle.
  108. rectangular coordinates noun: Cartesian coordinates.
  109. rectangular cuboid noun: A special case of a cuboid with rectangular faces in which all of its dihedral angles are right angles.
  110. rectangular hyperbola noun: A hyperbola where the two asymptotes intersect at a right angle.
  111. rectangular number noun: A number which is the product of two consecutive integers.
  112. rectangularise verb: Alternative form of rectangularize.
  113. rectangularised adjective, verb: Alternative form of rectangularized.
  114. rectangularity noun: The condition of being rectangular
  115. 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)
  116. rectangularize verb: To convert by means of rectangularization
  117. rectangularized adjective, verb: Modified by rectangularization
  118. rectangularly adverb: In a rectangular manner.
  119. rectangularness noun: The quality of being rectangular.
  120. rectangularwise adverb: In a rectangular orientation.
  121. rectangulation noun: The subdivision of a rectangle into rectangles.
  122. rectanguloid noun: A rectangular object; A three-dimensional form related to the rectangle
  123. recte adverb: Used parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it)
  124. rectectomy noun: Resection of the rectum.
  125. rectenna noun /ɹɛkˈtɛn.ə/: A special type of antenna that converts microwave energy into direct current electricity.
  126. recti noun, prefix /ˈɹɛkˌtaɪ/: straight
  127. rectifiability noun: The quality or state of being rectifiable.
  128. rectifiable adjective: Able to be rectified; correctable; fixable.
  129. rectificate verb: To rectify.
  130. rectification noun /ˌɹɛktɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/: The action or process of rectifying.
  131. rectificational adjective: Relating to rectification.
  132. rectificator noun: Someone or something that rectifies or refines
  133. rectificatory adjective: That rectifies
  134. rectified linear unit noun: A unit (artificial neuron) in an artificial neural network that employs a rectifier.
  135. 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%...
  136. rectified spirits noun: Alternative form of rectified spirit
  137. rectifier noun /ˈɹɛktɪfaɪɚ/: Something that rectifies.
  138. rectiflexible adjective: Being straight spore chains consisting of rod-shaped spores.
  139. rectiformer noun: A combined electrical rectifier and transformer, typically used in electrochemical cells or to supply high-voltage static electricity
  140. rectify verb /ˈɹɛktəˌfaɪ/: To heal (an organ or part of the body).
  141. rectigradation noun: A qualitative change or the genesis of a new characteristic.
  142. rectigrade adjective: Walking straight forward.
  143. Rectigraph noun: An early photographic copying machine.
  144. rectilineal adjective: Alternative form of rectilinear.
  145. rectilineally adverb: Synonym of rectilinearly, in a rectilineal fashion.
  146. rectilinear adjective /ˌɹɛktɪˈlɪniɚ/: In a straight line.
  147. 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...
  148. rectilinearism noun: The use of straight lines.
  149. rectilinearity noun: The condition of being rectilinear
  150. rectilinearization noun: Conversion to rectilinear form.
  151. rectilinearize verb: To make rectilinear.
  152. rectilinearly adverb: In a rectilinear fashion.
  153. rectilinearness noun: The condition of being rectilinear.
  154. rectimarginate adjective: Having a straight margin / edge
  155. rectinerved adjective: Having straight veins or nerves.
  156. rection noun: regimen; government; the rules governing the syntax, rules of agreement of a language.
  157. rectipetal adjective: Exhibiting rectipetality.
  158. rectipetality noun: The natural tendency of stems to grow in a straight line.
  159. rectiradiate adjective: Straight (not inclined forward or backward).
  160. rectiserial adjective: Arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as leaves on stems.
  161. rectitis noun: Synonym of proctitis (“rectum inflamation”)
  162. rectitude noun /ˈɹɛk.tɪ.tjuːd/: Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.
  163. rectitudinal adjective: Characterized by rectitude.
  164. rectitudinarian noun: A person who has a high standard of rectitude
  165. rectitudinous adjective: righteous or correct or upright
  166. 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.
  167. rectoabdominal adjective: Relating to the rectum and abdomen.
  168. rectoanal adjective: Of or pertaining to the rectum and anus.
  169. rectocele noun: A hernia of the rectum into the vagina.
  170. rectoclysis noun: proctoclysis
  171. rectococcygeal adjective: Relating to the rectum and coccyx.
  172. rectocoele noun: Alternative form of rectocele.
  173. rectocolitic adjective: Relating to rectocolitis.
  174. rectocolitis noun: inflammation of the rectum and colon
  175. rectocolonic adjective: Relating to the rectum and colon
  176. rectocutaneous adjective: Relating to the rectum and skin, as (usually, more specifically) a fistula between the rectum and the perirectal skin.
  177. rectogenital adjective: Of or pertaining to the rectum and the genitals.
  178. rectoneovaginal adjective: Relating to the rectum and neovagina.
  179. 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.
  180. rectopexy noun: surgical fixation of the bowel
  181. rectophobia noun: The fear of rectal disease.
  182. rector noun /ˈɹɛktɚ/: In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
  183. rector magnificus noun: The male head of a German university.
  184. rectoral adjective: Pertaining to a rector or governor.
  185. rectorate noun: Synonym of rectorship.
  186. rectorectal adjective: Relating to two parts of the rectum, as, for example, in a rectorectal intussusception, in which the two parts telescope together.
  187. rectoress noun: A governess; a rectrix.
  188. rectorial adjective, noun: Relating to a rector.
  189. rectorite noun: A monoclinic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.
  190. rectorrhagia noun: rectal bleeding.
  191. rectorship noun: The office or rank of a rector.
  192. rectory noun /ˈɹɛktəɹi/: The residence of Roman Catholic priest(s) associated with a parish church.
  193. rectosacral adjective: Relating to the rectum and the sacrum
  194. rectoscope noun: A proctoscope.
  195. rectoscopy noun: Synonym of proctoscopy.
  196. rectosigmoid adjective, noun: Of the rectum and the sigmoid colon; especially, of the junction between them.
  197. rectosigmoidal adjective: Alternative form of rectosigmoid.
  198. rectosigmoidectomy noun: A rectal sigmoidectomy
  199. rectosigmoiditis noun: The inflammation of the rectum and sigmoid colon, typically as a limited form of ulcerative colitis.
  200. rectosigmoidoscopy noun: Internal examination of the rectum and sigmoid colon
  201. rectosonography noun: Rectal ultrasonography.
  202. rectosphincteric adjective: Involving the rectum and sphincter.
  203. rectotomy noun: The operation for dividing a rectal stricture.
  204. rectourethral adjective: Relating to the rectum and urethra.
  205. rectouterine adjective: Located between the rectum and uterus.
  206. rectovaginal adjective: Of or pertaining to the rectum and the vagina, as (usually, more specifically) a fistula between the two.
  207. rectovaginally adverb: In a rectovaginal manner
  208. rectovesical adjective: Synonym of vesicorectal.
  209. rectovestibular adjective: Relating to the rectum and the vestibule.
  210. rectovulvar adjective: Relating to the rectum and vulva.
  211. rectress noun: Alternative form of rectoress.
  212. rectricial adjective: Relating to a rectrix.
  213. rectrix noun: A governess; a rectoress.
  214. 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.
  215. rectus noun /ˈɹɛk.təs/: Ellipsis of rectus abdominis.
  216. rectus abdominis noun: A paired muscle running vertically on each side of the anterior wall of the abdomen in humans and some other mammals.
  217. rectus abdominis muscle noun: A pair of segmented skeletal muscle on the ventral aspect of a person's abdomen.
  218. rectus casus noun: Alternative form of casus rectus.
  219. rectus femoris noun: A fusiform muscle, one of the four quadriceps muscles, situated in the middle of the front of the thigh.
  220. rectus muscle noun: A rectus, any of several straight muscles in the body.
  221. 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.
  222. recubant adjective: Reclining; recumbent.
  223. recubation noun: recumbence; a state of lying down
  224. recueil noun: compendium, literary compilation
  225. recuff verb: To handcuff again
  226. recule verb /ɹɪˈkjuːl/: To recoil or retreat; to draw back.
  227. recultivate verb /ɹɪˈkʌltɪˌveɪt/: To cultivate again; to make productive once again
  228. recultivation noun: cultivation again or anew
  229. reculturalization noun: The process of reculturalizing.
  230. reculturalize verb: To adapt to the norms of a different culture.
  231. reculture verb: To change the culture of (a social institution).
  232. Reculver proper noun: A small coastal settlement and ward in Canterbury district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2269).
  233. recumb verb: To lean; to recline; to repose.
  234. recumbence noun: The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.
  235. recumbency noun: recumbence
  236. recumbent adjective, noun: Lying down.
  237. recumbent bicycle noun: A bicycle that places the rider in a laid-back reclining position.
  238. 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...
  239. recumbently adverb: In a recumbent manner; while lying down.
  240. recumbirostran noun: Any extinct amphibian of the clade †Recumbirostra
  241. recup verb: To cup again; to supply with cups an additional time.
  242. recupe verb: To recuperate.
  243. recuperability noun: The condition of being recuperable
  244. recuperable adjective: recoverable
  245. recuperance noun: recuperation
  246. 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).
  247. recuperation noun: Gradual restoration to health.
  248. recuperative adjective, noun: In the way of recuperation.
  249. 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...
  250. recuperatively adverb: In a recuperative fashion.
  251. recuperativeness noun: The quality of being recuperative.
  252. recuperator noun: A person who recuperates, or regains their health.
  253. recuperatory adjective: Of or relating to recuperation; tending to recovery.
  254. recur verb /ɹɪˈkɜː/: Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.
  255. recurable adjective: Curable, restorable.
  256. recurarization noun: Repeat curarization
  257. recurate verb: To curate again or differently.
  258. recuration noun: The process of recurating.
  259. recure noun, verb /ɹɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)/: To cure, heal.
  260. recureless adjective: Incapable of cure.
  261. recurl verb: To curl again.
  262. recurrence noun /rəˈkɝ.əns/: Return or reversion to a certain state.
  263. recurrence relation noun: an equation that recursively defines a sequence; each term of the sequence is defined as a function of the preceding terms.
  264. recurrence time noun: The moment in time between two successive occurrences in which a Markov process enters any given state.
  265. recurrency noun: The act or process of recurring; recurrence.
  266. recurrent adjective /ɹɪˈkʌɹənt/: Recurring; happening time after time.
  267. recurrent aborter noun: A person who has had three or more consecutive miscarriages due to an underlying condition.
  268. 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...
  269. 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...
  270. recurrent nova noun: A type of nova in which the sudden brightening and gradual diminishing is repeated (for any of several reasons)
  271. recurrent slope linea noun: An ephemeral dark linear feature found on slopes that recurs seasonally.
  272. recurrently adverb: In a recurrent manner.
  273. recurrer noun: One who or that which recurs.
  274. recurring adjective, noun, verb /ɹɪˈkɜːɹɪŋ/: Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.
  275. recurringly adverb: In a recurring manner; recurrently.
  276. recursant adjective: Having its back towards the observer.
  277. recurse verb /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)s/: To execute a procedure recursively.
  278. recursion noun /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/: The act of recurring.
  279. 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...
  280. recursive adjective /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/: Drawing upon, invoking, or referring back to itself.
  281. recursive acronym noun: An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase represented by the acronym is the acronym itself.
  282. recursive compound word noun: Compound word composed of at least one other compound word.
  283. recursive definition noun: A definition of a term within which the term itself appears, and that is well-founded, avoiding an infinite regress.
  284. 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...
  285. recursive function noun: Any function that uses recursion and can call itself until a certain condition is met.
  286. 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...
  287. recursive self-improvement noun: A process whereby an artificial intelligence system iteratively improves its capabilities, with each iteration thus enabling more effective self-improvement.
  288. recursively adverb: In a recursive way or manner.
  289. 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.
  290. recursiveness noun: The quality of being recursive.
  291. recursivity noun: The quality of being recursive.
  292. recurtain verb: To fit with new curtains.
  293. recurvant adjective: That recurves or bends back on itself.
  294. recurvate adjective, verb /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)veɪt/: To bend or curve back; to recurve.
  295. recurvation noun: A backwards bending or flexure backwards.
  296. recurvature noun: recurvation
  297. 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...
  298. recurve-billed bushbird noun: Clytoctantes alixii, a species of antbirds.
  299. recurve bow noun: A bow whose two tips curve away from the archer when drawn, which gives the shot greater power and speed.
  300. 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.