| recognized | (adjective) generally approved or compelling recognition | Synonyms: accepted, recognised |
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| (adjective) provided with a secure reputation | Synonyms: recognised |
| 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 |
| (verb) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | Synonyms: kick, kick back |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, shrink, squinch, wince |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, backlash |
| recoilless | (adjective) of or being a weapon that is designed to minimize recoil | - |
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| recollect | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, remember, retrieve, think |
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| 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 | - |
| recollective | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, retentive, tenacious |
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| recombinant | (adjective) of or relating to recombinant DNA | - |
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| (noun) a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred | - |
| 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 | - |
| recombine | (verb) undergo genetic recombination | - |
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| (verb) cause genetic recombination | - |
| (verb) to combine or put together again | - |
| recommence | (verb) begin again | - |
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| (verb) cause to start anew | - |
| recommencement | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: resumption |
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| recommend | (verb) make attractive or acceptable | - |
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| (verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: commend |
| (verb) push for something | Synonyms: advocate, urge |
| 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 |
| recommit | (verb) send back to a committee | - |
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| (verb) commit again | - |
| (verb) commit once again, as of a crime | - |
| 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) | - |
| (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, remunerate |
| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, repair |
| reconcilable | (adjective) capable of being reconciled | - |
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| reconcile | (verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonise, harmonize |
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| (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: accommodate, conciliate |
| (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: resign, submit |
| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, settle |
| reconciled | (adjective) made compatible or consistent | - |
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| 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 |
| reconciling | (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| recondite | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: abstruse, deep |
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| 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 |
| recondition | (verb) bring into an improved condition | - |
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| reconfirm | (verb) confirm again | - |
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| reconnaissance | (noun) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) | Synonyms: reconnaissance mission |
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| reconnoiter | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoitre, scout |
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| reconnoitering | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitring, scouting |
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| reconnoitre | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoiter, scout |
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| reconnoitring | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitering, scouting |
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| reconquer | (verb) conquer anew | - |
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| reconsecrate | (verb) consecrate anew, as after a desecration | - |
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| reconsider | (verb) consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing | - |
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| (verb) consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it | - |
| 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 | - |
| reconstitute | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: restructure |
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| reconstruct | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: redo, remodel |
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| (verb) cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically | - |
| (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: construct, retrace |
| (verb) build again | Synonyms: rebuild |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: restore |
| reconstructed | (adjective) adapted to social or economic change | - |
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| 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 | - |
| reconstructive | (adjective) helping to restore to good condition | Synonyms: rehabilitative |
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| reconvene | (verb) meet again | - |
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| reconvert | (verb) convert back | - |
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| reconvict | (verb) convict anew | - |
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| recopy | (verb) copy again | - |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) make a record of; set down in permanent form | Synonyms: enter, put down |
| (verb) register electronically | Synonyms: tape |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, register, show |
| (verb) be aware of | Synonyms: register |
| recorded | (adjective) set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction | - |
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| (adjective) (of securities) having the owner's name entered in a register | - |
| 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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| (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recite, tell |
| (verb) count again | - |
| recounting | (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: relation, telling |
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| recoup | (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: deduct, withhold |
| (verb) reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | Synonyms: reimburse |
| 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 |
| recover | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recuperate |
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| (verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recuperate |
| (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, regain, retrieve |
| (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recuperate |
| (verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: reclaim |
| (verb) cover anew | - |
| recoverable | (adjective) capable of being recovered or regained | - |
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| recovered | (adjective) found after being lost | - |
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| (adjective) freed from illness or injury | Synonyms: cured, healed |
| recoverer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: rescuer, saver |
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| recovering | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: convalescent |
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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 | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: craven |
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| (adjective) having deserted a cause or principle | Synonyms: renegade |
| (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: craven, poltroon |
| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, renegade, turncoat |
| recreate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind | Synonyms: re-create |
| (verb) produce or make another of | Synonyms: re-create |
| (verb) make a replica of | Synonyms: copy, re-create |
| (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, hearten |
| (verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: play |
| 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 |
| recreational | (adjective) of or relating to recreation | - |
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| (adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: amateur, unpaid |
| recriminate | (verb) return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return | - |
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| recrimination | (noun) mutual accusations | - |
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| recriminative | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminatory |
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| recriminatory | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminative |
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| recrudesce | (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, erupt |
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| (verb) happen | Synonyms: break, develop |
| recrudescence | (noun) a return of something after a period of abatement | - |
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| recrudescent | (adjective) the revival of an unfortunate situation 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 |
| (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: levy, raise |
| (verb) seek to employ | - |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, inscribe, raise |
| 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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| rectal | (adjective) of or involving the rectum | - |
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| rectangle | (noun) a parallelogram with four right angles | - |
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| rectangular | (adjective) having four right angles | - |
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| (adjective) having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles | Synonyms: orthogonal |
| rectangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: oblongness |
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| rectifiable | (adjective) capable of being repaired or rectified | Synonyms: reparable |
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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 | - |
| rectified | (adjective) having been put right | - |
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| rectifier | (noun) electrical device that transforms alternating into direct current | - |
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| (noun) a person who corrects or sets right | - |
| rectify | (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, remediate, remedy, repair |
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| (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: correct, right |
| (verb) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities | Synonyms: refine |
| (verb) convert into direct current | - |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, reform, regenerate |
| (verb) determine the length of | - |
| rectilineal | (adjective) characterized by a straight line or lines | Synonyms: rectilinear |
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| rectilinear | (adjective) characterized by a straight line or lines | Synonyms: rectilineal |
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| 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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| rectorship | (noun) the office or station of a rector | Synonyms: rectorate |
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| rectory | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: parsonage, vicarage |
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| rectosigmoid | (adjective) of or related to or near the sigmoid colon and the upper part of the rectum | - |
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| rectum | (noun) the terminal section of the alimentary canal; from the sigmoid flexure to the anus | - |
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| rectus | (noun) any of various straight muscles | - |
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| recumb | (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recline, repose |
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| recumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: accumbent, decumbent |
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| recuperate | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recover |
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| (verb) restore to good health or strength | - |
| (verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recover |
| (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recover |
| recuperation | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: convalescence, recovery |
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| recuperative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: restorative |
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| recur | (verb) happen or occur again | Synonyms: repeat |
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| (verb) return in thought or speech to something | Synonyms: go back |
| (verb) have recourse to | Synonyms: fall back, resort |