| 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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| reconciliation | (noun) getting two things to correspond | Synonyms: balancing |
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| (noun) the reestablishing of cordial relations | Synonyms: rapprochement |
| reconditeness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity |
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| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity |
| reconnaissance | (noun) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) | Synonyms: reconnaissance mission |
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| reconnoitering | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitring, scouting |
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| reconnoitring | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitering, scouting |
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| reconsideration | (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: afterthought, rethink, second thought |
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| (noun) a consideration of a topic (as in a meeting) with a view to changing an earlier decision | - |
| reconstruction | (noun) the activity of constructing something again | - |
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| (noun) recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall | Synonyms: reconstructive memory |
| (noun) an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence | - |
| record | (noun) an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport) | - |
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| (noun) the sum of recognized accomplishments | Synonyms: track record |
| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter |
| (noun) a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted | Synonyms: criminal record |
| (noun) a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone | Synonyms: book, record book |
| (noun) anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events | - |
| (noun) a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction | - |
| (noun) the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had | - |
| recorder | (noun) a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece | Synonyms: fipple flute, fipple pipe, vertical flute |
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| (noun) equipment for making records | Synonyms: recording equipment, recording machine |
| (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, registrar |
| (noun) a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs | - |
| recording | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: transcription |
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| (noun) a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded | - |
| (noun) a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded | - |
| recount | (noun) an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election | - |
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| recounting | (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: relation, telling |
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| recourse | (noun) act of turning to for assistance | Synonyms: refuge, resort |
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| (noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security | Synonyms: refuge, resort |
| recoverer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: rescuer, saver |
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| recovery | (noun) the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) | Synonyms: retrieval |
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| (noun) return to an original state | - |
| (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: convalescence, recuperation |
| recreant | (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: craven, poltroon |
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| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, renegade, turncoat |
| recreation | (noun) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates | Synonyms: diversion |
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| (noun) activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation | Synonyms: refreshment |
| recrimination | (noun) mutual accusations | - |
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| recrudescence | (noun) a return of something after a period of abatement | - |
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| recruit | (noun) any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) | Synonyms: enlistee |
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| (noun) a recently enlisted soldier | Synonyms: military recruit |
| recruiter | (noun) an official who enlists personnel for military service | - |
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| (noun) someone who supplies members or employees | - |
| recruitment | (noun) the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.) | Synonyms: enlisting |
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| rectangle | (noun) a parallelogram with four right angles | - |
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| rectangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: oblongness |
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| rectification | (noun) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right | Synonyms: correction |
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| (noun) determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve | - |
| (noun) the conversion of alternating current to direct current | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation | - |
| rectifier | (noun) electrical device that transforms alternating into direct current | - |
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| (noun) a person who corrects or sets right | - |
| rectilinearity | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that is rectilinear, straight. | - |
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| rectitude | (noun) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | Synonyms: uprightness |
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| recto | (noun) right-hand page | - |
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| rectocele | (noun) protrusion or herniation of the rectum into the vagina; can occur if pelvic muscles are weakened by childbirth | Synonyms: proctocele |
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| rectoplasty | (noun) reconstructive surgery of the anus or rectum | Synonyms: proctoplasty |
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| rector | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister, minister of religion, parson, pastor |
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| rectorate | (noun) the office or station of a rector | Synonyms: rectorship |
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