| regain | (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, recover, retrieve |
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| (verb) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost | Synonyms: find |
| regaining | (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: restitution, restoration, return |
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| regal | (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, majestic, purple, royal |
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| regale | (verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Synonyms: treat |
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| regalia | (noun) paraphernalia indicative of royalty (or other high office) | - |
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| (noun) especially fine or decorative clothing | Synonyms: array, raiment |
| regally | (adverb) in a regal manner | - |
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| regard | (noun) a long fixed look | Synonyms: gaze |
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| (noun) (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point | Synonyms: respect |
| (noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: attentiveness, heed, paying attention |
| (noun) an attitude of admiration or esteem | Synonyms: esteem, respect |
| (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: compliments, wish |
| (noun) a feeling of friendship and esteem | Synonyms: respect |
| (noun) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) | Synonyms: esteem, respect |
| (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, reckon, see, view |
| (verb) look at attentively | Synonyms: consider |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: affect, involve |
| regardant | (adjective) looking backward | - |
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| regardful | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferent, deferential |
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| regardless | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration | Synonyms: careless |
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| (adverb) in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | Synonyms: disregarding, disregardless, irrespective, no matter |
| regatta | (noun) a meeting for boat races | - |
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| regency | (noun) the office of a regent | - |
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| (noun) the period of time during which a regent governs | - |
| regenerate | (adjective) reformed spiritually or morally | - |
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| (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: revitalize |
| (verb) undergo regeneration | - |
| (verb) form or produce anew | - |
| (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: rejuvenate, restore |
| (verb) replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue | - |
| (verb) be formed or shaped anew | - |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, reform |
| (verb) amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit | - |
| (verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: renew |
| regenerating | (adjective) that are generating anew | - |
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| regeneration | (noun) the activity of spiritual or physical renewal | - |
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| (noun) forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting | Synonyms: re-formation |
| (noun) (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs | - |
| (noun) feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input | Synonyms: positive feedback |
| regent | (adjective) acting or functioning as a regent or ruler | - |
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| (noun) someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch | - |
| (noun) members of a governing board | Synonyms: trustee |
| regest | (noun) (archaic, obsolete) A register. | - |
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| reggae | (noun) popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar | - |
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| regicide | (noun) the act of killing a king | - |
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| (noun) someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king | - |
| regift | (verb) give a present that one has received to someone else | - |
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| regime | (noun) (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) | Synonyms: regimen |
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| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, government |
| regimen | (noun) (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) | Synonyms: regime |
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| regiment | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, which can be divided into several companies, squadrons, or batteries and often into two battalions. | - |
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| (verb) assign to a regiment | - |
| (verb) form (military personnel) into a regiment | - |
| (verb) subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization | - |
| regimental | (adjective) belonging to or concerning a regiment | - |
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| regimentally | (adverb) in a regimental manner or by regiments | - |
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| regimentals | (noun) the military uniform and insignia of a regiment | - |
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| regimentation | (noun) the imposition of order or discipline | - |
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| regimented | (adjective) strictly controlled | - |
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| region | (noun) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve | Synonyms: area |
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| (noun) a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about | Synonyms: realm |
| (noun) the extended spatial location of something | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth | - |
| (noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: neighborhood |
| regional | (adjective) characteristic of a region | - |
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| (adjective) related or limited to a particular region | - |
| regionalism | (noun) loyalty to the interests of a particular region | - |
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| (noun) a feature (as a pronunciation or expression or custom) that is characteristic of a particular region | - |
| (noun) a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas | - |
| regionality | (noun) The property of being of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district. | - |
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| (noun) The property of being of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region. | - |
| regionally | (adverb) in a regional manner | - |
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| register | (noun) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device | - |
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| (noun) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room | - |
| (noun) a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill | Synonyms: cash register |
| (noun) (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind | - |
| (noun) (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments | - |
| (noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: registry |
| (noun) a book in which names and transactions are listed | - |
| (verb) enter into someone's consciousness | - |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, show |
| (verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: file |
| (verb) send by registered mail | - |
| (verb) manipulate the registers of an organ | - |
| (verb) be aware of | Synonyms: record |
| (verb) show in one's face | - |
| (verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions | - |
| (verb) enroll to vote | - |
| (verb) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties | Synonyms: cross-file |
| registered | (adjective) listed or recorded officially | - |
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| (adjective) (of animals) officially recorded with or certified by a recognized breed association; especially in a stud book | - |
| (adjective) (of a boat or vessel) furnished with necessary official documents specifying ownership etc | - |
| registrant | (noun) a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby) | - |
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| registrar | (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, recorder |
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| (noun) the administrator responsible for student records | - |
| (noun) a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company | - |
| registration | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrollment, enrolment |
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| (noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: adjustment, readjustment |
| (noun) (music) the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music; the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stops | - |
| (noun) a document certifying an act of registering | - |
| (noun) the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time | Synonyms: enrollment |
| registry | (noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: register |
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| regnant | (adjective) exercising power or authority | Synonyms: reigning, ruling |
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| regnellidium | (noun) small latex-containing aquatic fern of southern Brazil | Synonyms: Regnellidium diphyllum |
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| regorge | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| regosol | (noun) a type of soil consisting of unconsolidated material from freshly deposited alluvium or sand | - |
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| regram | (verb) To repost on Instagram | - |
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| regress | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regression, retrogression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence | Synonyms: reasoning backward |
| (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress |
| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress |
| (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: retrovert, return, revert, turn back |
| (verb) go back to a statistical means | - |
| regression | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, retrogression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x) | Synonyms: regression toward the mean, simple regression, statistical regression |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state | - |
| (noun) an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely | Synonyms: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation |
| regressive | (adjective) opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases | - |
| regret | (noun) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment | Synonyms: rue, ruefulness, sorrow |
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| (verb) decline formally or politely | - |
| (verb) express with regret | - |
| (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: repent, rue |
| (verb) feel sad about the loss or absence of | - |
| regretful | (adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: bad, sorry |
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| regretfully | (adverb) with regret (used in polite formulas) | - |
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| regrets | (noun) a polite refusal of an invitation | Synonyms: declination |
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| regrettable | (adjective) deserving regret | Synonyms: too bad |
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| regrettably | (adverb) by bad luck | Synonyms: alas, unfortunately, unluckily |
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| regroup | (verb) reorganize into new groups | - |
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| (verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: reorganise, reorganize |
| regrow | (verb) grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption | - |
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| regular | (adjective) in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle | - |
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| (adjective) (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula | - |
| (adjective) (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces | - |
| (adjective) not constipated | Synonyms: unconstipated |
| (adjective) relating to a person who does something regularly | Synonyms: steady |
| (adjective) officially full-time | - |
| (adjective) not deviating from what is normal | - |
| (adjective) regularly scheduled for fixed times | - |
| (adjective) conforming to a standard or pattern | - |
| (adjective) occurring at fixed intervals | Synonyms: even |
| (adjective) symmetrically arranged | Synonyms: even |
| (adjective) often used as intensifiers | Synonyms: veritable |
| (adjective) in accord with regular practice or procedure | - |
| (noun) a garment size for persons of average height and weight | - |
| (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, habitue |
| (noun) a dependable follower (especially in party politics) | - |
| (noun) a soldier in the regular army | - |
| regularisation | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularization, regulation |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularization |
| regularise | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularize |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularize, regulate |
| regularity | (noun) the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate | - |
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| (noun) a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles | Synonyms: geometrical regularity |
| regularization | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularisation, regulation |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularisation |
| regularize | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularise |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regulate |
| regularly | (adverb) in a regular manner | Synonyms: on a regular basis |
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| (adverb) in a regular way without variation | - |
| (adverb) having a regular form | - |
| regulate | (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: modulate |
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| (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: baffle |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, mould, shape |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regularize |
| regulated | (adjective) controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law | - |
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| regulating | (noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule | Synonyms: regulation |
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| regulation | (adjective) prescribed by or according to regulation | - |
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| (noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule | Synonyms: regulating |
| (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularisation, regularization |
| (noun) a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: ordinance |
| (noun) (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered | - |
| (noun) the state of being controlled or governed | - |
| regulative | (adjective) restricting according to rules or principles | Synonyms: regulatory |
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| regulator | (noun) any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc. | - |
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| (noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: governor |
| (noun) an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest | - |
| regulatory | (adjective) restricting according to rules or principles | Synonyms: regulative |
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| regur | (noun) a rich black loam of India | Synonyms: regur soil |
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| regurgitate | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: reproduce |
| (verb) feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food | - |
| (verb) pour or rush back | - |
| regurgitation | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, puking, vomit, vomiting |
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| (noun) recall after rote memorization | - |
| (noun) backflow of blood through a defective heart valve | - |