| polybutylene | (noun) a polymer of butylene; used in lubricants and synthetic rubber | Synonyms: polybutene |
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| rambutan | (noun) pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines | Synonyms: rambotan |
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| (noun) Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit | Synonyms: Nephelium lappaceum, rambotan, rambutan tree |
| reattribute | (verb) attribute to another source | - |
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| rebut | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: controvert, refute |
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| (verb) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof | Synonyms: refute |
| 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 |
| redistribute | (verb) distribute anew | - |
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| redistributed | (adjective) having population and industries relocated from urban to outlying areas | - |
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| redistribution | (noun) distributing again | - |
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| retribution | (noun) the act of correcting for your wrongdoing | - |
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| (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: payback, vengeance |
| (noun) a justly deserved penalty | Synonyms: requital |
| retributive | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributory, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributory, vindicatory |
| retributory | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, vindicatory |
| sackbut | (noun) a medieval musical instrument resembling a trombone | - |
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| scorbutic | (adjective) of or relating to or having or resembling scurvy | - |
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| scorbutus | (noun) a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) | Synonyms: scurvy |
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| scuttlebutt | (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, gossip |
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| surrebuttal | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebutter |
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| surrebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebuttal |
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| tolbutamide | (noun) sulfonylurea; an oral antidiabetic drug (trade name Orinase) used in the treatment of adult-onset diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: Orinase |
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| tributary | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory |
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| (adjective) paying tribute | - |
| (adjective) (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream | - |
| (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, confluent, feeder |
| tribute | (noun) payment by one nation for protection by another | - |
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| (noun) payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence | Synonyms: protection |
| (noun) something given or done as an expression of esteem | Synonyms: testimonial |
| tributyrin | (noun) a bitter oily triglyceride of butyric acid; a form of butyrin | - |
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| unattributable | (adjective) not attributable | Synonyms: unascribable |
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| unbutton | (verb) undo the buttons of | - |
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| unbuttoned | (adjective) not buttoned | Synonyms: unfastened |
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| (adjective) not under constraint in action or expression | Synonyms: unlaced |
| undistributed | (adjective) (of investments) not distributed among a variety of securities | - |
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