Words starting with r

Words and definitions

ries means: of Lachrymatory

Ra means: A roe; a deer.

Ra- means: A prefix, from the Latin re and ad combined, coming to us through the French and Italian. See Re-, and Ad-.

Raash means: The electric catfish.

Rab means: A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar.

Rabat means: A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

Rabate means: To recover to the fist, as a hawk.

Rabatine means: A collar or cape.

Rabato means: A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato.

Rabbate means: To abate or diminish.

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.