| rice | (noun) grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished | - |
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| (noun) annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper | - |
| (verb) sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice | - |
| ricebird | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird |
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| (noun) small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields | Synonyms: Java finch, Java sparrow, Padda oryzivora |
| ricegrass | (noun) any grass of the genus Oryzopsis | Synonyms: rice grass |
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| ricer | (noun) a kitchen utensil used for ricing soft foods by extruding them through small holes | - |
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| rich | (adjective) possessing material wealth | - |
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| (adjective) having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources) | - |
| (adjective) suggestive of or characterized by great expense | - |
| (adjective) high in mineral content; having a high proportion of fuel to air | - |
| (adjective) causing indignation due to hypocrisy | - |
| (adjective) affording an abundant supply | Synonyms: ample, copious, plenteous, plentiful |
| (adjective) strong; intense | Synonyms: deep |
| (adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, fertile, productive |
| (adjective) pleasantly full and mellow | - |
| (adjective) marked by richness and fullness of flavor | Synonyms: full-bodied, racy, robust |
| (adjective) containing plenty of fat, or eggs, or sugar | - |
| (adjective) of great worth or quality | - |
| (adjective) very productive | - |
| (noun) people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group) | Synonyms: rich people |
| riches | (noun) an abundance of material possessions and resources | Synonyms: wealth |
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| richly | (adverb) in a rich and lavish manner | Synonyms: extravagantly, lavishly |
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| (adverb) in a rich manner | Synonyms: high, luxuriously |
| (adverb) to an ample degree or in an ample manner | Synonyms: amply |
| richness | (noun) a strong deep vividness of hue | - |
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| (noun) the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing | Synonyms: fullness, mellowness |
| (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, prolificacy, rankness |
| (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: cornucopia, profuseness, profusion |
| (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, magnificence |
| (noun) the quality of having high intrinsic value | - |
| (noun) abundant wealth | Synonyms: affluence |
| richweed | (noun) a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves | Synonyms: clearweed, dead nettle, Pilea pumilla |
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| (noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, horseweed, stone-root, stone root, stoneroot |
| ricin | (noun) a toxic protein extracted from castor beans; used as a chemical reagent; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: ricin toxin |
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| rick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, haystack |
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| (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, wrick |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: sprain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
| (verb) pile in ricks | - |
| ricketiness | (noun) the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place | Synonyms: unsteadiness |
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| rickets | (noun) childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus | Synonyms: rachitis |
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| rickettsia | (noun) any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings | - |
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| rickettsial | (adjective) relating to or caused by rickettsias | - |
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| rickettsialpox | (noun) mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox | - |
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| rickettsiosis | (noun) infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria | Synonyms: rickettsial disease |
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| rickety | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, sapless, weak, weakly |
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| (adjective) affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets | Synonyms: rachitic |
| (adjective) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect | Synonyms: shaky, wobbly, wonky |
| rickey | (noun) a mixed drink made of sweetened lime juice and soda water usually with liquor | - |
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| rickrack | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: ricrac |
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| ricksha | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: jinrikisha, rickshaw |
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| rickshaw | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: jinrikisha, ricksha |
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| ricochet | (noun) a glancing rebound | Synonyms: carom |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, spring, take a hop |
| ricotta | (noun) soft Italian cheese like cottage cheese | - |
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| ricrac | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: rickrack |
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| rictus | (noun) a gaping grimace | - |
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