| reflexiveness | (noun) the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent | Synonyms: reflexivity |
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| (noun) (logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself | Synonyms: reflexivity |
| reflexivity | (noun) the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent | Synonyms: reflexiveness |
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| (noun) (logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself | Synonyms: reflexiveness |
| reflexly | (adverb) in a reflexive manner; by means of reflexes | Synonyms: reflexively |
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| reflexology | (noun) massage to relieve tension by finger pressure; based on the belief that there are reflex points on the feet, hands, and head that are connected to every part of the body | - |
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| (noun) the study of reflex action as it relates to the behavior of organisms | - |
| reshuffle | (noun) shuffling again | Synonyms: reshuffling |
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| (noun) a redistribution of something | - |
| (verb) reorganize and assign posts to different people | - |
| (verb) shuffle again | - |
| retroflection | (noun) the act of bending backward | Synonyms: retroflexion |
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| (noun) an articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth | Synonyms: retroflexion |
| (noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflexion, retroversion |
| retroflex | (adjective) bent or curved backward | Synonyms: retroflexed |
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| (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: cacuminal |
| (verb) articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate | - |
| (verb) bend or turn backward | Synonyms: replicate |
| retroflexed | (adjective) bent or curved backward | Synonyms: retroflex |
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| retroflexion | (noun) the act of bending backward | Synonyms: retroflection |
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| (noun) an articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth | Synonyms: retroflection |
| (noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflection, retroversion |
| riffle | (noun) shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners | - |
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| (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: ripple, rippling, wavelet |
| (verb) shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix | - |
| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, ruffle |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, thumb |
| rifle | (noun) a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore | - |
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| (verb) go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, strip |
| riflebird | (noun) velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail | Synonyms: Ptloris paradisea |
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| rifled | (adjective) of a firearm; having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel | - |
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| rifleman | (noun) a soldier whose weapon is a rifle | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in the use of a rifle | - |
| roofless | (adjective) not having a roof | - |
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| (adjective) physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security | Synonyms: dispossessed, homeless |
| ruffle | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, disturbance, fray |
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| (noun) a high tight collar | Synonyms: choker, neck ruff, ruff |
| (noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: flounce, frill, furbelow |
| (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: pleat |
| (verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: fluff |
| (verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle up, rumple |
| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, riffle |
| (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, shuffle |
| (verb) trouble or vex | - |
| (verb) discompose | - |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| ruffled | (adjective) having decorative ruffles or frills | Synonyms: frilled, frilly |
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| (adjective) shaken into waves or undulations as by wind | Synonyms: rippled |
| scuffle | (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: dogfight, hassle, rough-and-tumble, tussle |
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| (noun) an unceremonious and disorganized struggle | Synonyms: scramble |
| (noun) a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling | Synonyms: Dutch hoe, scuffle hoe |
| (verb) fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters | Synonyms: tussle |
| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle |
| selfless | (adjective) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: altruistic |
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| selflessly | (adverb) in an altruistic manner | Synonyms: altruistically |
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| selflessness | (noun) acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity | Synonyms: self-sacrifice |
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| (noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: altruism |
| shuffle | (noun) the act of mixing cards haphazardly | Synonyms: make, shuffling |
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| (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shamble, shambling, shuffling |
| (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, ruffle |
| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shamble |
| (verb) move about, move back and forth | - |
| shuffleboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shovelboard |
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| shuffler | (noun) someone who walks without raising the feet | - |
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| (noun) the card player who shuffles the cards | - |
| skiffle | (noun) a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments | - |
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| snaffle | (noun) a simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb | Synonyms: snaffle bit |
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| (verb) fit or restrain with a snaffle | - |
| (verb) get hold of or seize quickly and easily | Synonyms: grab, snap up |
| sniffle | (noun) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) | Synonyms: snivel, snuffle |
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| (verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, snivel, snuffle |
| sniffler | (noun) a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose | Synonyms: sniveler |
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| snuffle | (noun) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) | Synonyms: sniffle, snivel |
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| (verb) snuff up mucus through the nose | Synonyms: snivel |
| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, sniffle, snivel |
| (verb) sniff or smell inquiringly | Synonyms: snuff |
| snuffler | (noun) a person who breathes noisily (as through a nose blocked by mucus) | - |
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| souffle | (noun) light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit | - |
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| stifle | (noun) joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee | Synonyms: knee |
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| (verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: dampen |
| (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, strangle |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, suffocate |
| stifled | (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, strangled, suppressed |
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| stifler | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: smotherer |
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| trifle | (noun) something of small importance | Synonyms: small beer, trivia, triviality |
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| (noun) a detail that is considered insignificant | Synonyms: triviality |
| (noun) a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate | - |
| (verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, play |
| (verb) act frivolously | Synonyms: frivol |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, wanton, wanton away |
| trifler | (noun) one who behaves lightly or not seriously | - |
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| truffle | (noun) edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber | Synonyms: earthnut |
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| (noun) creamy chocolate candy | Synonyms: chocolate truffle |
| (noun) any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe | Synonyms: earth-ball, earthnut |
| unbaffled | (adjective) not perplexed by conflicting situations or statements | Synonyms: unconfused |
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| unfledged | (adjective) (of birds) not yet having developed feathers | Synonyms: immature |
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| (adjective) young and inexperienced | Synonyms: callow, fledgling |
| (adjective) (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers | Synonyms: fledgeless, unvaned |
| uninflected | (adjective) (of the voice) not inflected | - |
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| (adjective) not inflected | - |
| (adjective) expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection | Synonyms: analytic |
| unreflected | (adjective) (especially of incident sound or light) not turned back by physical reflection | - |
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| unreflective | (adjective) not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought | Synonyms: unthinking, unthoughtful |
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| unrifled | (adjective) of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel | Synonyms: smoothbore |
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| unruffled | (adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: placid, quiet, smooth, still, tranquil |
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| (adjective) free from emotional agitation or nervous tension | Synonyms: unflurried, unflustered, unperturbed |
| waffle | (noun) pancake batter baked in a waffle iron | - |
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| (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waver |
| waffler | (noun) someone who speaks or writes in a vague and evasive manner | - |
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| whiffletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: swingletree, whippletree |
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