English Words: R

21,470 words · Page 138 of 430

redstonernoun

A person who builds redstone contraptions in Minecraft.

redstreaknoun

A kind of apple with the skin streaked with red and yellow, a favourite English cider apple.

redtailnoun

The red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis.

redtapenoun

Archaic form of red tape.

redthroatnoun

A small Australian songbird, Pyrrholaemus brunneus, with a red central part of the throat.

redtopnoun

A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle.

redtwignoun

A plant of the species Cornus sericea, native throughout northern and western North America from Alaska east to Newfoundland, south to Durango and Nuevo León in the west, and Illinois and Virginia in the east.

redubverb

To give another name or title to; to dub again.

redubbernoun

One who buys stolen cloth and alters its appearance so that it will not be recognised.

redubbingnoun

The process by which video material is redubbed, or the resulting edited material.

reduceverb

To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.

reduceableadj

Alternative form of reducible.

reduceablenessnoun

Alternative form of reducibleness.

reducedverb

simple past and past participle of reduce

reduced ringnoun

A ring R that has no nonzero nilpotent elements; equivalently, such that, for x ∈ R, x² = 0 implies x = 0.

reduced vowelnoun

a vowel that occurs only, or at least disproportionately often, in unstressed syllables in a given language; usually one that is intermediate in both height and frontness/backness

reducementnoun

reduction

reducentadj

Tending to reduce.

reducernoun

Something or someone that reduces.

reducesverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of reduce

reducetariannoun

A person who for ethical reasons attempts to reduce the amount of meat in their diet.

reducetarianismnoun

The practice of following a reducetarian diet.

reducethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of reduce

reducibleadj

Capable of being reduced.

reduciblenessnoun

The quality or state of being reducible.

reduciblyadv

In a reducible manner.

reducingverb

present participle and gerund of reduce

reductnoun

A reducing agent.

reductantnoun

Synonym of reducing agent.

reductasenoun

An enzyme that chemically reduces its substrate.

reductasicadj

Relating to a reductase

reductio ad absurdumnoun

The method of disproving a statement by assuming the statement is true and, with that assumption, arriving at a blatant contradiction.

reductio ad Hitlerumnoun

An attempt to invalidate someone else's argument on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practiced by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.

reductionnoun

The act, process, or result of reducing.

reduction drivenoun

A device which reduces the input rotational speed to a lower output speed, and can also increase torque.

reduction in forcenoun

A layoff.

reductionaladj

Of, pertaining to, or producing reduction.

reductionismnoun

An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.

reductionistadj

Of, or relating to reductionism.

reductionisticadj

Of or pertaining to reductionism.

reductionisticallyadv

In a reductionistic manner.

reductiveadj

Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.

reductivelyadv

In a reductive manner.

reductivenessnoun

The quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components

reductivesnoun

plural of reductive

reductivismnoun

Extreme simplification; reduction to a minimum; use of the fewest essentials

reductivistnoun

One who follows the methods of reductivism; a minimalist.

reductivisticallyadv

In a reductivistic manner.

reductivitynoun

The condition of being reductive

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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 138. 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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