| rearing | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, upbringing |
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| (noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | Synonyms: nurture, raising |
| rearmament | (noun) the act of arming again | - |
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| rearrangement | (noun) changing an arrangement | - |
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| rearward | (noun) direction toward the rear | - |
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| reason | (noun) the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination | Synonyms: intellect, understanding |
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| (noun) a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion | - |
| (noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: cause, grounds |
| (noun) an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon | - |
| (noun) a rational motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: ground, occasion |
| (noun) the state of having good sense and sound judgment | Synonyms: rationality, reasonableness |
| reasonableness | (noun) goodness of reason and judgment | - |
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| (noun) moderation in expectations | - |
| (noun) the property of being moderate in price or expenditures | Synonyms: moderateness, modestness |
| (noun) the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person | Synonyms: tenability, tenableness |
| (noun) the state of having good sense and sound judgment | Synonyms: rationality, reason |
| reasoner | (noun) someone who reasons logically | Synonyms: ratiocinator |
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| reasoning | (noun) thinking that is coherent and logical | Synonyms: abstract thought, logical thinking |
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| reassembly | (noun) assembling again | Synonyms: refabrication |
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| reassertion | (noun) renewed affirmation | Synonyms: reaffirmation |
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| reassessment | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, revaluation, review |
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| reassignment | (noun) assignment to a different duty | - |
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| reassurance | (noun) the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence | - |
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| reata | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lariat, lasso, riata |
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| rebate | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rabbet |
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| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: discount |
| rebato | (noun) a wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century | Synonyms: rabato |
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| rebel | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist |
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| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: maverick |
| rebellion | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising |
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| (noun) refusal to accept some authority or code or convention | - |
| rebelliousness | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: insubordination |
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| (noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: defiance |
| rebirth | (noun) a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | Synonyms: conversion, spiritual rebirth |
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| (noun) the revival of learning and culture | Synonyms: Renaissance, Renascence |
| (noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: reincarnation, renascence |
| (noun) after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body | Synonyms: metempsychosis |
| rebound | (noun) the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot | - |
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| (noun) a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration | - |
| (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, recoil, repercussion |
| reboxetine | (noun) an antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine | Synonyms: Edronax |
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| rebozo | (noun) a long woolen or linen scarf covering the head and shoulders (also used as a sling for holding a baby); traditionally worn by Latin-American women | - |
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| rebroadcast | (noun) a broadcast that repeated at a later time | - |
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| rebuff | (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: slight |
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| (noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: repulse, snub |
| rebuilding | (noun) building again | - |
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| rebuke | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval |
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| rebuker | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: reproacher, reprover, upbraider |
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| reburial | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburying |
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| reburying | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburial |
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| rebus | (noun) a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words | - |
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| rebuttal | (noun) the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument | - |
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| (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebutter |
| rebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebuttal |
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| (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, disprover, refuter |
| recalcitrance | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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| recalcitrancy | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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| recalculation | (noun) the act of calculating again (usually to eliminate errors or to include additional data) | - |
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| recall | (noun) the act of removing an official by petition | - |
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| (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recollection, reminiscence |
| (noun) a call to return | - |
| (noun) a bugle call that signals troops to return | - |
| (noun) a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) | Synonyms: callback |
| recantation | (noun) a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion | Synonyms: abjuration, retraction |
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| recap | (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recapitulation, review |
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| (noun) a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads | Synonyms: retread |
| recapitulation | (noun) (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) | - |
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| (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, review |
| (noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated | - |
| (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: palingenesis |
| recapture | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: retaking |
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| (noun) a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount | - |
| recasting | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: rephrasing, rewording |
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| recce | (noun) reconnaissance (by shortening) | Synonyms: recco, reccy |
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| recco | (noun) reconnaissance (by shortening) | Synonyms: recce, reccy |
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| reccy | (noun) reconnaissance (by shortening) | Synonyms: recce, recco |
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| receding | (noun) the act of becoming more distant | Synonyms: recession |
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| (noun) a slow or gradual disappearance | Synonyms: fadeout |
| receipt | (noun) the act of receiving | Synonyms: reception |
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| (noun) an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made | - |
| receipts | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: gross, revenue |
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| receivables | (noun) money that you currently expect to receive from notes or accounts | - |
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| receiver | (noun) set that receives radio or tv signals | Synonyms: receiving system |
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| (noun) earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds | Synonyms: telephone receiver |
| (noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: recipient |
| (noun) (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties | Synonyms: liquidator |
| (noun) a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass | Synonyms: pass catcher, pass receiver |
| (noun) the tennis player who receives the serve | - |
| receivership | (noun) the office of a receiver | - |
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| (noun) a court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all | - |
| (noun) the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver | - |
| recency | (noun) a time immediately before the present | Synonyms: recentness |
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| (noun) the property of having happened or appeared not long ago | Synonyms: recentness |
| recentness | (noun) a time immediately before the present | Synonyms: recency |
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| (noun) the property of having happened or appeared not long ago | Synonyms: recency |
| receptacle | (noun) a container that is used to put or keep things in | - |
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| (noun) an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert | - |
| (noun) enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts | - |
| reception | (noun) the act of receiving | Synonyms: receipt |
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| (noun) (American football) the act of catching a pass in football | - |
| (noun) quality or fidelity of a received broadcast | - |
| (noun) the manner in which something is greeted | Synonyms: response |
| (noun) a formal party of people; as after a wedding | - |
| receptionist | (noun) a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors | - |
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| receptiveness | (noun) willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) | Synonyms: openness, receptivity |
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| receptivity | (noun) willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) | Synonyms: openness, receptiveness |
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| receptor | (noun) an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation | Synonyms: sense organ, sensory receptor |
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| (noun) a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response | - |
| recess | (noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: break, respite, time out |
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| (noun) an enclosure that is set back or indented | Synonyms: niche |
| (noun) an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) | Synonyms: inlet |
| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: corner, niche, recession |
| (noun) a state of abeyance or suspended business | Synonyms: deferral |
| recession | (noun) the act of becoming more distant | Synonyms: receding |
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| (noun) the act of ceding back | Synonyms: ceding back |
| (noun) the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | Synonyms: recessional |
| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: corner, niche, recess |
| (noun) the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year | - |
| recessional | (noun) a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw | - |
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| (noun) the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | Synonyms: recession |
| recessive | (noun) an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical | Synonyms: recessive allele |
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| rechauffe | (noun) warmed leftovers | - |
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| recidivism | (noun) habitual relapse into crime | - |
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| recidivist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, reversionist |
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| (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, repeater |
| recipe | (noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: formula |
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| recipient | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: recipient role |
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| (noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: receiver |
| reciprocal | (noun) hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype | Synonyms: reciprocal cross |
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| (noun) (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7 | Synonyms: multiplicative inverse |
| (noun) something (a term or expression or concept) that has an inverse relation to something else | - |
| reciprocality | (noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence | Synonyms: reciprocity |
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| reciprocation | (noun) the act of making or doing something in return | - |
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| (noun) alternating back-and-forth movement | - |
| (noun) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) | Synonyms: give-and-take, interchange |
| reciprocity | (noun) mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges | - |
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| (noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence | Synonyms: reciprocality |
| recirculation | (noun) circulation again | - |
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| recission | (noun) (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made | Synonyms: rescission |
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| recital | (noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: narration, yarn |
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| (noun) a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance | Synonyms: reading, recitation |
| (noun) performance of music or dance especially by soloists | - |
| (noun) a detailed account or description of something | - |
| recitalist | (noun) a musician who gives recitals | - |
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| recitation | (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice, practice session |
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| (noun) a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study | Synonyms: class period, course session |
| (noun) a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance | Synonyms: reading, recital |
| (noun) written matter that is recited from memory | - |
| recitative | (noun) a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech | - |
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| reciter | (noun) someone who recites from memory | - |
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| recklessness | (noun) the trait of giving little thought to danger | Synonyms: foolhardiness, rashness |
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| reckoner | (noun) a handbook of tables used to facilitate computation | Synonyms: ready reckoner |
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| (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, estimator, figurer |
| reckoning | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, numeration, tally |
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| (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, computation, figuring |
| (noun) a bill for an amount due | Synonyms: tally |
| reclamation | (noun) rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course | Synonyms: reformation |
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| (noun) the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation | Synonyms: rehabilitation, renewal |
| (noun) the recovery of useful substances from waste products | - |
| reclassification | (noun) classifying something again (usually in a new category) | - |
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| recliner | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: lounger, reclining chair |
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| reclining | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position | - |
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| recluse | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
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| reclusiveness | (noun) a disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation | - |
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| recoding | (noun) converting from one code to another | - |
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| recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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| recognition | (noun) designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body | - |
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| (noun) the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering | Synonyms: identification |
| (noun) an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid | - |
| (noun) coming to understand something clearly and distinctly | Synonyms: realisation, realization |
| (noun) approval | Synonyms: credit |
| (noun) the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country | - |
| (noun) (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape | - |
| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, acknowledgment |
| recognizance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognisance |
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| recoil | (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, rebound, repercussion |
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| (noun) the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired | Synonyms: kick |
| recollection | (noun) the ability to recall past occurrences | Synonyms: anamnesis, remembrance |
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| (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recall, reminiscence |
| (noun) something recalled to the mind | - |
| recombinant | (noun) a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred | - |
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| recombination | (noun) (genetics) a combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a combining of charges or transfer of electrons in a gas that results in the neutralization of ions; important for ions arising from the passage of high-energy particles | - |
| recommencement | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: resumption |
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| recommendation | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: passport |
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| (noun) something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable | - |
| (noun) something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable | Synonyms: good word, testimonial |
| recompense | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: compensation |
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| (noun) payment or reward (as for service rendered) | - |
| reconciler | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker |
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