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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

recording system
noun audio system for recoding sound

recount
noun an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election

recounting
noun an act of narration; `he was the hero according to his own relation`; `his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable`

recoup
recuperate verb regain or make up for; `recuperate one`s losses`

recourse
resort noun act of turning to for assistance; `have recourse to the courts`; `an appeal to his uncle was his last resort`

recover
recuperate verb regain or make up for; `recuperate one`s losses`

recoverable
adjective capable of being recovered or regained; `recoverable truth of a past event`

recovered(p)
adjective found after being lost

recovery
retrieval noun the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)

recovery room
noun a hospital room for the care of patients immediately after surgery

recreant
renegade adjective having deserted a cause or principle; `some provinces had proved recreant`; `renegade supporters of the usurper`

recreation room
rec room noun a room equipped for informal entertaining

recreational
adjective of or relating to recreation; `a recreational area with a pool and ball fields`

recreational drug
noun a narcotic drug that is used only occasionally and is claimed to be nonaddictive

recreational facility
recreation facility noun a public facility for recreation

recreational vehicle
RV noun a motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities

recrimination
noun mutual accusations

recriminative
recriminatory adjective countering one charge with another; `recriminatory arguments`

recrudesce
break out verb become raw or open; `He broke out in hives`; `My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries`; `Such boils tend to recrudesce`

recrudescence
noun a return of something after a period of abatement; `a recrudescence of racism`; `a recrudescence of the symptoms`

recrudescent
adjective the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement; `the patient presented with a case of recrudescent gastralgia`

recruit
enlistee noun any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces)

recruit
noun a recently enlisted soldier

recruiter
noun an official who enlists personnel for military service

recruiting-sergeant
noun a sergeant deputized to enlist recruits

recruitment
enlisting noun the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.)

rectal
adjective of or involving the rectum; `rectal cancer`

rectal artery
arteria rectalis noun one of the arteries supplying the rectal area

rectangle
noun a parallelogram with four right angles

rectangular
adjective having four right angles; `a rectangular figure twice as long as it is wide`

rectangularity
oblongness noun the property of being shaped like a rectangle

rectification
noun the conversion of alternating current to direct current

rectified
adjective having been put right

rectifier
noun electrical device that transforms alternating into direct current

rectifying tube
rectifying valve noun a thermionic tube having two electrodes; used as a rectifier

rectilinear
rectilineal adjective characterized by a straight line or lines; `rectilinear patterns in wallpaper`; `the rectilinear propagation of light`

rectitude
noun righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest

recto
noun right-hand page

rectocele
proctocele noun protrusion or herniation of the rectum into the vagina; can occur if pelvic muscles are weakened by childbirth

rectorship
rectorate noun the office or station of a rector

rectosigmoid
adjective of or related to or near the sigmoid colon and the upper part of the rectum

rectum
noun the terminal section of the alimentary canal; from the sigmoid flexure to the anus

rectus
noun any of various straight muscles

recuperative
restorative adjective promoting recuperation; `recuperative powers`; `strongly recuperative remedies`; `restorative effects of exercise`

recurrence
noun happening again (especially at regular intervals); `the return of spring`

recurrently
adverb in a recurrent manner

recurring
revenant adjective coming back; `a revenant ghost`

recursion
noun (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation

recursive
adjective of or relating to a recursion

recursive definition
noun (mathematics) a definition of a function from which values of the function can be calculated in a finite number of steps

recursive routine
noun a routine that can call itself

recurved
recurvate adjective curved backward or inward

Recurvirostra
genus Recurvirostra noun type genus of the Recurvirostridae: avocets

Recurvirostridae
family Recurvirostridae noun long-legged shorebirds

recusancy
noun refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England

recusant
adjective refusing to submit to authority; `the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate`- Mary W.Williams

recusation
recusal noun (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves

recycling
noun the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products

recycling bin
noun a bin for depositing things to be recycled

recycling plant
noun a plant for reprocessing used or abandoned materials

red
adjective red with or characterized by blood; `waving our red weapons o`er our heads`- Shakespeare; `The Red Badge of Courage`; `the red rules of tooth and claw`- P.B.Sears

red
ruddy adjective of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

red admiral
Vanessa atalanta noun of temperate Europe and Asia; having black wings with red and white markings

red alder
Oregon alder noun large tree of Pacific coast of North America having hard red wood much used for furniture

red alert
noun the highest level of alert when an attack by the enemy seems immanent (or more generally a state of alert resulting from immanent danger)

red algae
noun marine algae in which the chlorophyll is masked by a red or purplish pigment; source of agar and carrageenan

red angel`s trumpet
Brugmansia sanguinea noun arborescent South American shrub having very large orange-red flowers

Red Army Faction
noun a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe`s most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998

red ash
downy ash noun smallish American tree with velvety branchlets and lower leaf surfaces

red baneberry
redberry 2 red-berry 2 snakeberry noun North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries

red bat
Lasiurus borealis noun North American bat of a brick or rusty red color with hairs tipped with white

red beech
booyong noun large tree of Australasia

red blood cell
RBC noun a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus

red brass
guinea gold noun brass with enough copper to give it a reddish tint; used for plumbing pipe and other brass hardware and in cheap jewelry

Red Brigades
Brigate Rosse noun a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive since 1989

red bryony
wild hop noun bryony having fleshy roots pale green flowers and very small red berries; Europe; North Africa; western Asia

red buckeye
noun a shrub buckeye of southern United States

red cabbage
noun compact head of purplish-red leaves

red campion
red bird`s eye noun biennial European catchfly having red or pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis

red carpet
noun a strip of red carpeting laid down for dignitaries to walk on

red carpet(a)
red-carpet(a) adjective special treatment or hospitality; `the maitre d` gave them the red-carpet treatment`

red cedar
Libocedrus decurrens noun tall tree of the Pacific coast of North America having foliage like cypress and cinnamon-red bark

red clay
noun clay whose redness results from iron oxide

red Clintonia
Andrew`s clintonia noun plant with nearly leafless stalk topped by a cluster of red or reddish lavender flowers; California to Oregon

Red Cloud
noun leader of the Oglala who resisted the development of a trail through Wyoming and Montana by the United States government (1822-1909)

red clover
purple clover noun erect to decumbent short-lived perennial having red-purple to pink flowers; the most commonly grown forage clover

red coral
noun corals of especially the Mediterranean having pink or red color used for ornaments and jewelry

Red Cross
noun an international organization that cares for the sick or wounded or homeless in wartime

red currant
noun small red berries used primarily in jams and jellies

red deer
Cervus elaphus noun common deer of temperate Europe and Asia

Red Delicious
noun a sweet eating apple with bright red skin; most widely grown apple worldwide

red drum
channel bass noun large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico

red dwarf
red dwarf star noun a small cool star; approximately 100 times the mass of Jupiter

red eft
Notophthalmus viridescens noun red terrestrial form of a common North American newt

red fire
noun combustible material (usually salts of lithium or strontium) that burns bright red; used in flares and fireworks

red flag
noun something that irritates or demands immediate action; `doing that is like waving a red flag in front of a bull`

red fox
Vulpes vulpes noun the common Old World fox; having reddish-brown fur; commonly considered a single circumpolar species

red fox
noun New World fox; often considered the same species las the Old World fox

red giant
red giant star noun a large cool star; has a relatively low surface temperature and a diameter large relative to the sun

red ginger
Alpinia purpurata noun an ornamental ginger native to Pacific islands