| abbreviation | (noun) shortening something by omitting parts of it | - |
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| (noun) a shortened form of a word or phrase | - |
| abbreviator | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abridger |
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| breve | (noun) a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound | - |
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| brevet | (noun) a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay) | - |
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| breviary | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily by certain priests and members of religious orders | - |
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| brevity | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: briefness, transience |
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| (noun) the use of brief expressions | - |
| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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| counterrevolution | (noun) a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
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| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| crevasse | (noun) a deep fissure | - |
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| crevice | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, fissure, scissure |
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| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, fissure |
| ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
| grevillea | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea | - |
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| irreverence | (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: violation |
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| (noun) an irreverent mental attitude | - |
| irreversibility | (noun) the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed) | - |
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| irrevocability | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to retract or reverse; finality. | - |
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| prevalence | (noun) the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread | - |
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| (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: preponderance |
| (noun) (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population | - |
| prevarication | (noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | Synonyms: fabrication, lying |
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| (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, evasiveness |
| (noun) a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth | Synonyms: lie |
| prevaricator | (noun) a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly | Synonyms: liar |
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| preventative | (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
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| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventive, prophylactic device |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventive |
| prevention | (noun) the act of preventing | Synonyms: bar |
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| preventive | (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
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| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventative, prophylactic device |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative |
| preventiveness | (noun) The property of preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to something. | - |
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| preview | (noun) a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public | - |
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| (noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future | Synonyms: prevue, trailer |
| prevision | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prescience |
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| (noun) a prophetic vision (as in a dream) | - |
| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prospicience |
| (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prediction |
| prevue | (noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future | Synonyms: preview, trailer |
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| rev | (noun) rate of revolution of a motor | Synonyms: revolutions per minute, rpm |
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| revaluation | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, reassessment, review |
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| revealing | (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: disclosure, revelation |
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| reveille | (noun) a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise | - |
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| (noun) (military) signal to wake up | Synonyms: wake-up signal |
| revel | (noun) unrestrained merrymaking | Synonyms: revelry |
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| revelation | (noun) an enlightening or astonishing disclosure | - |
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| (noun) communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency | Synonyms: divine revelation |
| (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: disclosure, revealing |
| reveler | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveller |
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| reveller | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveler |
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| revelry | (noun) unrestrained merrymaking | Synonyms: revel |
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| revenant | (noun) someone who has returned from the dead | - |
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| (noun) a person who returns after a lengthy absence | - |
| revenge | (noun) action taken in return for an injury or offense | Synonyms: retaliation |
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| revenue | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: gross, receipts |
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| (noun) government income due to taxation | Synonyms: tax income, tax revenue, taxation |
| revenuer | (noun) a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging) | - |
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| reverberance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| reverberation | (noun) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves | Synonyms: echo, replication, sound reflection |
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| (noun) a remote or indirect consequence of some action | Synonyms: repercussion |
| revere | (noun) a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side | Synonyms: revers |
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| reverence | (noun) an act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy) | - |
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| (noun) a reverent mental attitude | - |
| (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, fear, veneration |
| reverend | (noun) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | Synonyms: clergyman, man of the cloth |
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| reverie | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: revery |
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| (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, revery |
| revers | (noun) a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side | Synonyms: revere |
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| reversal | (noun) a change from one state to the opposite state | - |
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| (noun) the act of reversing the order or place of | Synonyms: transposition |
| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reverse, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) a major change in attitude or principle or point of view | Synonyms: about-face, policy change, volte-face |
| (noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside | - |
| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) turning in an opposite direction or position | Synonyms: turn around |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reverse, setback |
| reverse | (noun) (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction | - |
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| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed | Synonyms: reverse gear |
| (noun) the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design | Synonyms: verso |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, setback |
| (noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, opposite |
| reversibility | (noun) the quality of being reversible in either direction | - |
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| reversible | (noun) a garment (especially a coat) that can be worn inside out (with either side of the cloth showing) | - |
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| reversion | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting |
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| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, retroversion |
| (noun) (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) | - |
| (noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, throwback |
| (noun) (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee) | - |
| reversioner | (noun) (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion | - |
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| reversionist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, recidivist |
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| reverting | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion |
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| revery | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: reverie |
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| (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie |
| revetement | (noun) a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment | Synonyms: revetment, stone facing |
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| revetment | (noun) a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment | Synonyms: revetement, stone facing |
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| (noun) a barrier against explosives | - |
| review | (noun) a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment | Synonyms: follow-up, followup, reexamination |
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| (noun) practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory | Synonyms: brushup |
| (noun) a formal or official examination | Synonyms: inspection |
| (noun) (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court) | - |
| (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, reassessment, revaluation |
| (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, recapitulation |
| (noun) an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) | Synonyms: critical review, critique, review article |
| (noun) a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians | Synonyms: revue |
| (noun) a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art | - |
| (noun) (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data | Synonyms: limited review |
| reviewer | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: commentator |
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| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: reader, referee |
| revilement | (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, vilification |
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| revisal | (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revise, revision |
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| revise | (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revision |
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| reviser | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, redactor, rewrite man, rewriter |
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| revising | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: rewriting |
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| revision | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: alteration |
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| (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: rescript, rewrite |
| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revise |
| revisionism | (noun) a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism | - |
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| (noun) any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx | - |
| revisionist | (noun) a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position | - |
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| revitalisation | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalization, revival, revivification |
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| revitalization | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revival, revivification |
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| revival | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revivification |
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| (noun) an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion | Synonyms: revival meeting |
| revivalism | (noun) an attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith | - |
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| revivalist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, gospeller |
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| revivification | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revival |
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| revocation | (noun) the act (by someone having the authority) of annulling something previously done | - |
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| (noun) the state of being cancelled or annulled | Synonyms: annulment |
| revoke | (noun) the mistake of not following suit when able to do so | Synonyms: renege |
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| revolt | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, rising, uprising |
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| revolution | (noun) the overthrow of a government by those who are governed | - |
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| (noun) a single complete turn (axial or orbital) | Synonyms: gyration, rotation |
| (noun) a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving | - |
| revolutionariness | (noun) The state or quality of being revolutionary. | - |
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| revolutionary | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionist, subversive, subverter |
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| revolutionism | (noun) a belief in the spread of revolutionary principles | - |
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| revolutionist | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, subversive, subverter |
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| revolver | (noun) a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) | Synonyms: six-gun, six-shooter |
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| (noun) a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings | Synonyms: revolving door |
| revue | (noun) a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians | Synonyms: review |
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| revulsion | (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repugnance, repulsion |
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| semibreve | (noun) a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time) | Synonyms: whole note |
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| underevaluation | (noun) an appraisal that underestimates the value of something | - |
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