English Words: R

21,470 words · Page 127 of 430

red-throated divernoun

Gavia stellata, the smallest member of the loon or diver family, breeding in northern Eurasia and Arctic Canada, with grey head, red throat, white underparts and dark mantle.

red-toothedadj

Of an animal, having a reddish enamel at the tips of the teeth.

red-velvet cakenoun

Alternative form of red velvet cake.

redactverb

To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.

redactableadj

Capable of being redacted or censored.

redactedadj

Edited or censored.

redactionnoun

An edited or censored version of a document; a product resulting from the process of editing or censoring.

redactionaladj

Relating to redaction.

redactiveadj

Involving or relating to redaction.

redactornoun

A person who redacts: one who edits or compiles texts; one who censors portions of them.

redactor-in-chiefnoun

An editor-in-chief.

redaguerreotypeverb

To make a photograph of another photograph, where both photographs are produced with the daguerreotype photographic process.

redamverb

To dam again.

redamageverb

To damage again.

redamancynoun

The act of loving in return.

redameverb

To love in return.

redampenverb

To dampen again.

redannoun

A defensive fortification work in the shape of a V.

Redangename

A canton of Luxembourg, located in the west of the country.

redargueverb

To disprove or refute (someone) in an argument.

redargutionnoun

The act of redarguing; refutation.

redargutiveadj

That reproves false doctrine.

redargutoryadj

Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory.

redarkenverb

To darken again.

redarnverb

To darn again.

redateverb

To change the date assigned to (something); to date in a new way

redaubverb

To daub again.

redazzleverb

To dazzle again or anew.

redbacknoun

A venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia.

redbaitverb

To attack by denouncing as a Communist.

redbandnoun

One of several subspecies of rainbow trout (O. m. gairdneri, O. m. newberrii, O. m. stonei).

Redbeardname

The god Thor.

redbednoun

any clastic and sedimentary rock that is pigmented with red ferric oxide

redbellynoun

A char (fish of genus Salvelinus).

redberrynoun

The lingonberry or cowberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea.

redbillnoun

Synonym of sooty oystercatcher (“Haematopus fuliginosus”)

redbirdnoun

Any of several unrelated American songbirds having red plumage.

redbird cactusnoun

devil's backbone (Euphorbia tithymaloides)

redbonenoun

A dark-red or tan coonhound.

redbreastnoun

Any of several unrelated birds that have a red breast

redbrickadj

of, or relating to a red brick university

Redbridgename

A suburban area in the borough of Redbridge, Greater London, England, originally in Essex (OS grid ref TQ4288).

redbudnoun

Any of several small trees, of the genus Cercis, having purple-pink flowers that appear before the leaves; the Judas tree.

redbugnoun

Any member of the family Pyrrhocoridae of true bugs.

Redburnname

A village in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY775645).

redbushnoun

rooibos tea

redcanyonitenoun

A monoclinic yellow mineral containing nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, sulphur, uranium, and manganese.

redcapnoun

A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army.

redcappedadj

Alternative form of red-capped.

Redcarname

A coastal town in Redcar and Cleveland district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ6025).

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The English alphabetical index for the letter R contains 21,470 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 430 pages, and you are currently viewing page 127. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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