| relace | (verb) lace again | - |
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| relapse | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress |
| (verb) deteriorate in health | Synonyms: get worse |
| relapsing | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, reversion, reverting |
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| relatable | (adjective) having a manner or nature that is easy to relate to | - |
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| relate | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, tie in |
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| (verb) give an account of; narrate | - |
| (verb) have or establish a relationship to | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, touch, touch on |
| (verb) be in a relationship with | Synonyms: interrelate |
| related | (adjective) connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage | - |
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| (adjective) being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics | Synonyms: related to |
| relatedness | (noun) a particular manner of connectedness | - |
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| relation | (noun) an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups | - |
| (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, intercourse, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
| (noun) (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time | Synonyms: relation back |
| (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: recounting, telling |
| (noun) a person related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: relative |
| relational | (adjective) having a relation or being related | - |
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| relations | (noun) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | Synonyms: dealings |
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| relationship | (noun) a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness) | Synonyms: human relationship |
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| (noun) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption | Synonyms: family relationship, kinship |
| (noun) a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection) | - |
| (noun) a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries | - |
| relative | (adjective) estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete | Synonyms: comparative |
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| (adjective) properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to' | Synonyms: proportional |
| (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congener, congeneric |
| (noun) a person related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: relation |
| relatively | (adverb) in a relative manner; by comparison to something else | Synonyms: comparatively |
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| relativisation | (noun) the act or result of making relative or regarding as relative rather than absolute. | Synonyms: relativization |
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| relativise | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativize |
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| relativism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved | - |
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| relativistic | (adjective) relating or subject to the special or the general theory of relativity | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of relativism | - |
| relativistically | (adverb) by the theory of relativity | - |
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| relativity | (noun) the quality of being relative and having significance only in relation to something else | - |
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| (noun) (physics) the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts | Synonyms: Einstein's theory of relativity, relativity theory, theory of relativity |
| relativization | (noun) the act or result of making relative or regarding as relative rather than absolute. | Synonyms: relativisation |
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| relativize | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativise |
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| relatum | (noun) a term in a proposition that is related to the referent of the proposition | - |
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| relax | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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| (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, unlax, unstrain, unwind |
| (verb) make less taut | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, loosen |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: slack, slack up, slacken |
| (verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner | Synonyms: loosen up |
| relaxant | (adjective) tending to relax or relieve muscular or nervous tension | - |
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| (noun) a drug that relaxes and relieves tension | - |
| relaxation | (noun) freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) | Synonyms: ease, repose, rest |
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| (noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalisation, liberalization |
| (noun) a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount | Synonyms: relaxation method |
| (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: loosening, slackening |
| (noun) a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry | Synonyms: easiness |
| (noun) (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance | Synonyms: relaxation behavior |
| (noun) (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers | - |
| relaxed | (adjective) without strain or anxiety | - |
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| relaxedness | (noun) The quality of being eased or loosened, or of having an easy-going mood or temperament. | - |
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| relaxer | (noun) any agent that produces relaxation | - |
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| relaxin | (noun) hormone secreted by the corpus luteum during the last days of pregnancy; relaxes the pelvic ligaments and prepares the uterus for labor | - |
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| relaxing | (adjective) affording physical or mental rest | Synonyms: reposeful, restful |
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| relay | (noun) the act of passing something along from one person or group to another | - |
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| (noun) electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit | Synonyms: electrical relay |
| (noun) a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance | Synonyms: relay race |
| (noun) a crew of workers who relieve another crew | - |
| (noun) a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals | - |
| (verb) pass along | - |
| (verb) control or operate by relay | - |