English Words: R

21,470 words · Page 70 of 430

rawstocknoun

Hides or skins that have been preserved to be tanned later.

rawstylenoun

a hardstyle subgenre which features a distinctly harsh, simplistic, raw, and dark sound, with fast bpm.

Rawtenstallname

A town in Rossendale borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD8123).

raxverb

To stretch; stretch out.

raxibacumabnoun

A human monoclonal antibody intended for the prophylaxis and treatment of inhaled anthrax.

raxleverb

To stretch oneself; rouse up from sleep.

raynoun

A beam of light or radiation.

ray castingnoun

The calculation of intersections between a ray and a surface.

ray grassnoun

A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); ryegrass; red darnel.

ray gunnoun

A weapon that shoots harmful rays.

ray of hopenoun

Synonym of glimmer of hope.

ray of lightnoun

A path that a photon or a group of photons takes through space, visible as a column of light.

ray of sunshinenoun

sunbeam, sunray

Ray-Bannedadj

Wearing Ray-Ban sunglasses or eyeglasses.

Ray-Bansnoun

Luxury sunglasses of the Ray-Ban brand.

ray-woonnoun

A Burmese port officer or collector of sea customs.

Rayanoun

Ellipsis of Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival that marks the end of the Ramadan fast.

rayaditonoun

Either of the two species of ovenbirds in the genus Aphrastura, native to southern South America.

rayahnoun

A member of the tax-paying lower class of Ottoman society.

Rayalaseemaname

a region in the west of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Rayanname

A male given name from Arabic.

Rayaproluname

A surname from Telugu.

Rayasname

A surname from Spanish.

Raybaudname

A surname from French [in turn from Occitan].

Raybuckname

A surname from German.

Rayburnname

A surname from Scots.

raycasternoun

A program or algorithm that performs ray casting.

raycizzumnoun

A deliberate misspelling of racism

Raydenname

An English habitational surname from Old English.

rayedverb

simple past and past participle of ray

Rayfieldname

A surname originating as a patronymic.

rayfuladj

Full of rays.

raygneverb

Obsolete spelling of reign.

Raygozaname

A surname from Spanish.

raygrantitenoun

A colourless triclinic mineral containing lead, hydrogen, oxygen, zinc, silicon, and sulphur.

rayitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing antimony, lead, silver, sulfur, and thallium.

Raylanname

A male given name originating as a coinage.

rayleighnoun

A unit of brightness (of the sky at night) equal to 10¹⁰/4π quanta per square meter per second per steradian

Rayleigh quotientnoun

A formula used in the min-max theorem to find exact eigenvalues, and in eigenvalue algorithms to obtain an eigenvalue approximation from an eigenvector approximation; it has applications in quantum mechanics.

Rayleigh scatteringnoun

The elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light.

Rayleigh-Bénard convectionnoun

A type of natural convection, occurring in a planar horizontal layer of fluid heated from below, in which the fluid develops a regular pattern of convection cells known as Bénard cells.

Rayleigh-Jeans lawname

An approximation to the spectral radiance of electromagnetic radiation as a function of wavelength from a black body at a given temperature through classical arguments.

Rayleigh-Taylor instabilitynoun

An instability of an interface between two fluids of different densities which occurs when the lighter fluid is pushing the heavier fluid.

raylessadj

Lacking rays.

raylessnessnoun

Utter darkness, without any ray of light.

rayletnoun

A little ray or beam.

raylikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a ray (beam).

Raymenname

A surname.

Raymondname

A male given name from the Germanic languages.

Raymond-Céstan syndromenoun

A disorder caused by blockage of the long circumferential branches of the basilar artery, leading to ataxia, tremors, paralysis, etc.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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 70. 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.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

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