| resale | (noun) the selling of something purchased | - |
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| rescale | (verb) establish on a new scale | - |
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| reschedule | (verb) assign a new time and place for an event | - |
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| rescind | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| rescindable | (adjective) capable of being rescinded or voided | Synonyms: voidable |
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| rescission | (noun) (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made | Synonyms: recission |
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| rescript | (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: revision, rewrite |
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| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: revisal, revise, revision |
| (noun) a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality | - |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, order |
| rescue | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, saving |
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| (verb) take forcibly from legal custody | - |
| (verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: deliver |
| rescued | (adjective) delivered from danger | Synonyms: reclaimed |
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| rescuer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, saver |
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| (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, savior, saviour |
| reseal | (verb) seal again | - |
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| research | (noun) systematic investigation to establish facts | - |
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| (noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry |
| (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, search |
| (verb) attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner | - |
| researcher | (noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: investigator, research worker |
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| reseat | (verb) show to a different seat | - |
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| (verb) provide with new seats | - |
| (verb) provide with a new seat | - |
| reseau | (noun) a network of fine lines used by astronomers as a reference for measurements on star photographs | - |
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| (noun) a net or mesh foundation for lace | - |
| resect | (verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: eviscerate |
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| resection | (noun) surgical removal of part of a structure or organ | - |
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| reseda | (noun) any plant of the genus Reseda | - |
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| reseed | (verb) maintain by seeding without human intervention | - |
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| (verb) seed again or anew | - |
| resell | (verb) sell (something) again after having bought it | - |
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| resemblance | (noun) similarity in appearance or external or superficial details | - |
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| resemble | (verb) appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to | - |
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| resent | (verb) feel bitter or indignant about | - |
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| (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: begrudge |
| resentful | (adjective) full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will | - |
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| resentfully | (adverb) with resentment; in a resentful manner | - |
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| resentment | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour |
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| reserpine | (noun) antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil) | Synonyms: Rau-Sed, Raudixin, Sandril, Serpasil |
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| reservation | (noun) the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion | - |
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| (noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) | Synonyms: booking |
| (noun) an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly | Synonyms: arriere pensee, mental reservation |
| (noun) something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.) | - |
| (noun) a statement that limits or restricts some claim | Synonyms: qualification |
| (noun) the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance | - |
| (noun) a district that is reserved for particular purpose | Synonyms: reserve |
| reserve | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reticence, taciturnity |
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| (noun) formality and propriety of manner | Synonyms: modesty |
| (noun) armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency | Synonyms: military reserve |
| (noun) a district that is reserved for particular purpose | Synonyms: reservation |
| (noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced | Synonyms: second-stringer, substitute |
| (noun) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose | Synonyms: backlog, stockpile |
| (noun) (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions | - |
| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside |
| (verb) obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance | - |
| (verb) hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency | - |
| (verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: book, hold |
| reserved | (adjective) marked by self-restraint and reticence | - |
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| (adjective) set aside for the use of a particular person or party | - |
| reservedly | (adverb) with reserve; in a reserved manner | - |
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| reserves | (noun) civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army | Synonyms: militia |
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| reservist | (noun) a member of a military reserve | - |
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| reservoir | (noun) tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil) | - |
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| (noun) lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water | Synonyms: artificial lake, man-made lake |
| (noun) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | Synonyms: source |
| (noun) a large or extra supply of something | - |
| reset | (noun) device for resetting instruments or controls | - |
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| (verb) set to zero | - |
| (verb) adjust again after an initial failure | Synonyms: readjust |
| (verb) set anew | - |
| resettle | (verb) settle in a new place | - |
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| resettled | (adjective) settled in a new location | Synonyms: relocated |
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| resettlement | (noun) the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) | Synonyms: relocation |
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| resew | (verb) sew again | - |
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| resh | (noun) the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| reshape | (verb) shape anew or differently | - |
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| (verb) shape again or shape differently | Synonyms: remold |
| reship | (verb) place on a ship again or transfer to another ship | - |
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| reshipment | (noun) the act of shipping again (especially by transferring to another ship) | - |
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| reshoot | (verb) shoot again | - |
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| 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 | - |
| reshuffling | (noun) shuffling again | Synonyms: reshuffle |
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| resid | (noun) oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled | Synonyms: residual oil |
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| reside | (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, shack |
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| (verb) live (in a certain place) | Synonyms: lodge in, occupy |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: repose, rest |
| residence | (noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: abidance, residency |
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| (noun) the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president) | - |
| (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: hall, manse, mansion, mansion house |
| (noun) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | Synonyms: abode |
| residency | (noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: abidance, residence |
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| (noun) the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship) | - |
| resident | (adjective) living in a particular place | - |
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| (adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: nonmigratory |
| (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupant, occupier |
| (noun) a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital | Synonyms: house physician, resident physician |
| residential | (adjective) used or designed for residence or limited to residences | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or connected with residence | - |
| residentially | (adverb) used as a residence | - |
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| residual | (adjective) relating to or indicating a remainder | Synonyms: residuary |
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| (noun) (often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing | - |
| (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, remainder, residue, residuum, rest |
| residuary | (adjective) relating to or indicating a remainder | Synonyms: residual |
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| (adjective) entitled to the residue of an estate (after payment of debts and specific gifts) | - |
| residue | (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, remainder, residual, residuum, rest |
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| (noun) matter that remains after something has been removed | - |
| residuum | (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, remainder, residual, residue, rest |
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| resift | (verb) sift anew | - |
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| resign | (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: reconcile, submit |
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| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, relinquish |
| (verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, renounce, vacate |
| (verb) give up or retire from a position | Synonyms: leave office, quit, step down |
| resignation | (noun) the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.) | - |
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| (noun) a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign | - |
| (noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: surrender |
| resignedly | (adverb) with resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a hopeless resigned manner | Synonyms: abjectly |
| resile | (verb) return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed | - |
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| (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, recant, retract |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc. | - |
| resilience | (noun) the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit | Synonyms: resiliency |
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| (noun) an occurrence of rebounding or springing back | Synonyms: resiliency |
| resiliency | (noun) the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit | Synonyms: resilience |
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| (noun) an occurrence of rebounding or springing back | Synonyms: resilience |
| resilient | (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, springy |
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| (adjective) recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like | - |
| resin | (noun) any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules | Synonyms: rosin |
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| resinate | (verb) impregnate with resin to give a special flavor to | - |
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| resinated | (adjective) impregnated or flavored with resin | - |
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| resinlike | (adjective) resembling resin in properties or texture | - |
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| resinoid | (noun) a plastic containing resins | - |
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| resinous | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resiny, tarry |
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| resiny | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resinous, tarry |
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| resist | (verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | Synonyms: hold out, stand firm, withstand |
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| (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: fend, stand |
| (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, baulk, jib |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, protest |
| (verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: defy, refuse |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, reject |
| resistance | (noun) group action in opposition to those in power | - |
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| (noun) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance | - |
| (noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: opposition |
| (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistor |
| (noun) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness | - |
| (noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force | Synonyms: underground |
| (noun) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion | - |
| (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity |
| (noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: immunity |
| (noun) the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents | - |
| resistant | (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: insubordinate, resistive |
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| (adjective) impervious to being affected | - |
| (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: repellent |
| (adjective) able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress | Synonyms: tolerant |
| (adjective) relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) | Synonyms: immune |
| resister | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, thwarter |
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| (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer |
| resistible | (adjective) capable of being resisted or withstood or frustrated | - |
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| resistive | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to electrical resistance | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: insubordinate, resistant |
| resistivity | (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistance |
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| resistless | (adjective) impossible to resist; overpowering | Synonyms: irresistible |
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| (adjective) offering no resistance, passively accepting of a situation | Synonyms: unresisting |
| resistor | (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistance |
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| resize | (verb) change the size of; make the size more appropriate | - |
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| resmudge | (verb) smudge again | - |
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| resole | (verb) put a new sole on | Synonyms: sole |
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| resolute | (adjective) firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by quickness and firmness | Synonyms: unhesitating |
| resolutely | (adverb) showing firm determination or purpose | - |
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| (adverb) with firmness of purpose | Synonyms: decisively |
| resoluteness | (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resolution, resolve |
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| resolution | (noun) a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner | - |
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| (noun) finding a solution to a problem | Synonyms: solving |
| (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolve |
| (noun) analysis into clear-cut components | Synonyms: resolving |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: closure, settlement |
| (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, result, solution, solvent |
| (noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: declaration, resolve |
| (noun) (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord | - |
| (noun) the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung) | - |
| (noun) the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together | Synonyms: resolving power |
| (noun) (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture | - |
| resolvable | (adjective) capable of being settled or resolved | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being solved | Synonyms: solvable |
| resolve | (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution |
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| (noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: declaration, resolution |
| (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, dissolve |
| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, settle |
| (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: purpose |
| (verb) find the solution | Synonyms: solve |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: answer |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: conclude |
| (verb) make clearly visible | - |
| resolved | (adjective) explained or answered | Synonyms: solved |
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| (adjective) determined | Synonyms: single-minded |
| resolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, solvent |
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| resolving | (noun) analysis into clear-cut components | Synonyms: resolution |
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| resonance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| (noun) the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities | - |
| (noun) a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system | - |
| (noun) an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation | - |
| (noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: rapport |
| resonant | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent |
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| (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative |
| resonate | (verb) be received or understood | Synonyms: come across |
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| (verb) sound with resonance | Synonyms: vibrate |
| resonating | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resounding, reverberating, reverberative |
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| resonator | (noun) any system that resonates | - |
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| (noun) an electrical circuit that combines capacitance and inductance in such a way that a periodic electric oscillation will reach maximum amplitude | Synonyms: resonant circuit |
| (noun) a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves | Synonyms: cavity resonator, resonating chamber |
| resorb | (verb) undergo resorption | Synonyms: reabsorb |
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| resorcinol | (noun) a crystalline phenol obtained from various resins; used in ointments for acne and in dandruff shampoos | - |
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