| 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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