English Words: R

21,470 words · Page 305 of 430

ribuckadj

Alternative form of ryebuck.

ribwichnoun

A boneless rib sandwich, usually with BBQ sauce and deboned pork ribs.

ribworknoun

The use of ribs in architecture or construction.

ribwortnoun

ribgrass; Old World plantain, Plantago lanceolata.

Ricardiannoun

Someone who believes King Richard III was a just king, misrepresented by Tudor propaganda; a supporter of Richard III.

Ricardian equivalencenoun

The idea that consumers are forward-looking and so internalize the government's budget constraint when making their consumption decisions, so that, for a given pattern of government spending, the method of financing such spending does not affect agents' consumption decisions, and thus does not change aggregate demand.

Ricardianismnoun

The economic theories of David Ricardo (1772–1823), British political economist.

Ricardoname

A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish, equivalent to English Richard.

ricassonoun

The base of a sword or knife blade where it joins the tang.

Riccardiname

A surname from Italian.

Riccartonname

A village and parish in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4335).

Riccati equationnoun

Any first-order ordinary differential equation that is quadratic in the unknown function.

Ricci calculusnoun

A formal system in which index notation is used to define tensors and tensor fields and the rules for their manipulation; the theory of tensor calculus as developed by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, which formed the foundation of the modern theory.

Ricci flownoun

A process that deforms the metric of a Riemannian manifold in a way formally analogous to the diffusion of heat, smoothing out irregularities in the metric.

ricciaceousadj

Of or relating to the Ricciaceae.

Ricciardelliname

A surname from Italian.

Ricciardiname

A surname from Italian.

Ricciardoname

A surname from Italian.

Riccioname

A surname from Italian.

Riccitelliname

A surname from Italian.

Ricciutiname

A surname from Italian.

ricenoun

Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.

rice and peasnoun

A West Indian dish of rice and most commonly kidney beans

rice bagnoun

A Christian, especially one who has just embraced Christianity.

rice bowlnoun

A small bowl from which rice is typically eaten.

rice boxnoun

A cheap Asian-made electronic device.

Rice Bubblesname

Rice Krispies.

rice chasernoun

A white person with a strong inclination and attraction toward Asians.

rice crackernoun

Any of various types of cracker made from rice flour rather than wheat flour.

Rice distributionnoun

The probability distribution of the magnitude of a circular bivariate normal random variable with potentially non-zero mean.

rice fieldnoun

Alternative form of ricefield.

rice growingadj

rice-growing; which grows or is capable of growing rice.

Rice Krispiesname

A cereal manufactured by Kellogg Company that consists of puffed rice.

rice millnoun

A rice huller, a device for removing the outer husks of raw grains of rice.

rice noodlenoun

A noodle made of rice (usually from rice flour).

rice paddlenoun

A kitchen utensil used to stir and serve rice.

rice papernoun

A thin, fragile paper made from parts of the rice plant, used in artificial flowers and watercolour art.

rice queennoun

A non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.

rice rocketnoun

A Japanese high-performance sport motorcycle or street-racing car.

RICE tablenoun

An ICE table with the first row containing the reaction being labelled with R (but otherwise identical in function).

Rice's theoremname

A theorem stating that all nontrivial semantic properties of programs are undecidable.

Rice's whalenoun

Balaenoptera ricei, a species of rorqual.

rice-eaternoun

One whose diet uses rice as a staple, as opposed to wheat or some other grain.

rice-spiritnoun

An alcoholic drink distilled from fermented rice.

riceberrynoun

A variety of brown rice with a deep purple color that was created by Rice Science Center, Kasetsart University, Thailand.

ricebirdnoun

A Java sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora).

riceburgernoun

An Asian snack food based on the hamburger, with rice patties instead of a bun.

ricecelnoun

An incel of East Asian (especially Chinese) heritage.

ricecrackernoun

Alternative form of rice cracker.

ricedadj

Made into or consisting of finely minced pieces resembling rice

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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 305. 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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