Word origins

• recognitiveConnected with recognition.
• recognitorOne of a jury impaneled on an assize.
• recognosceTo recognise.
• reconciliatoryThat reconciles.
• recondTo put away; to set apart.
• reconditoryA repository; a storehouse
• recriminateTo accuse in return, state an accusation in return, make a countercharge.
• recrudescentBreaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression.
• recteUsed parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it)
• recti-straight
• rectificateTo rectify.
• rectitudinalCharacterized by rectitude.
• rectitudinarianA person who has a high standard of rectitude
• rectitudinousrighteous or correct or upright
• rectus muscleA rectus, any of several straight muscles in the body.
• recubationrecumbence; a state of lying down
• recumbTo lean; to recline; to repose.
• recursantHaving its back towards the observer.
• recurvousrecurved
• recussionThe act of beating or striking back.
• redargutionThe act of redarguing; refutation.
• redditiveAnswering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply.
• redhibitionThe annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect.
• redientreturning
• redintegrateTo renew, restore to wholeness.
• redintegrationRestoration to a whole or sound state.
• reditionThe act of returning; a return.
• reducentTending to reduce.
• refelTo refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).
• referendaryOne to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee.
• referriblereferable
• reflorescenceA new blossoming of a plant during the season.
• reflorescentThat flowers again.
• refluentFlowing back.
• refluousFlowing backwards; refluent.
• refocillateTo revive or refresh.
• refocillationThe restoration of strength by means of refreshment.
• refragableCapable of being refuted; refutable.
• refrangibleThat may be refracted.
• refricationA rubbing up afresh; a brightening.
• refringencerefractive power; refraction
• refulgeTo shine brightly; to be refulgent.
• refulgentResplendent, or shining brightly and radiantly.
• refutandumSomething that is to be refuted.
• refutatoryTending to refute.
• regerminationGermination again or anew; the act of regerminating.
• regestA register.
• regianA monarchist; a royalist.
• regibleThat may be ruled; governable, tractable.
• RegifugiumAn annual festival on February 24 in Ancient Rome, commemorating the expulsion of the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, in 510 BC.
• reginacideOne who kills a queen.
• regredeTo go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit.
• regulizeTo make or become regular; regularize.
• re infectaWith the matter unfinished or incomplete.
• reinfundTo flow in again.
• reintegrantSomething that has been reintegrated.
• reismA form of concretism stating that (i) every object is a body and (ii) no object is a state or relation, or property.
• rejectamentaThings that are thrown away or rejected; items with little or no value waste, rubbish, garbage, refuse, ejecta
• relatumA term that is related to the referent.
• relictedLeft uncovered, as land by recession of water
• religiophobiaA fear or hatred of religion, religious faith, religious people or religious organizations.
• reluctancyResistance, opposition.
• reluctorA toothed ring or wheel that rotates past a variable reluctance sensor.
• remanationThe act of returning; reabsorption.
• remeantComing back; returning.
• rememorateTo remember or recall
• remiformShaped like an oar or paddle.
• remissiveRemitting; forgiving; abating.
• remittentAlternately increasing and decreasing in severity or intensity.
• RemobothSynonym of Sarabaite.
• remollientmollifying; softening; soft
• remorateTo hinder; to delay.
• remotionBackward motion.
• remugientResounding, echoing.
• renascibleAble to be reproduced.
• renitenceThe state or quality of being renitent; resistance to physical pressure or constraint
• renitentresistant to physical pressure; unyielding
• renuleA small kidney.
• renunciantA person who renounces something; especially, someone who renounces worldly life for spiritual reasons, or a person who renounces their citizenship.
• renunciateThat renounces.
• repandHaving a slightly undulating margin.
• repercussTo drive or beat back.
• repertitiousFound by chance.
• repet.Let it be repeated.
• reprehendTo criticize, to reprove.
• representamenA representation; a thing serving to represent something.
• reptantCreeping along the ground.
• repugnTo oppose or resist
• repugnatorialDefensive or repulsive, particularly as applied to glands of certain invertebrates, with which they produce poisonous or repugnant secretions when under threat.
• repulsoryRepulsive; acting to repel; driving back.
• requiescenceQuiescence, repose, quiet.
• requietoryA sepulchre.
• resaluteTo greet in return.
• rescissoryTending to rescind; pertaining to rescission.
• res cogitansA nonphysical substance of which minds are composed, separate from res extensa, according to Cartesian dualism and idealism.
• rescribeTo write back; to write in reply.
• rescriptA copy, or act of rewriting something; a rewrite.
• reservatoryA place in which things are reserved or kept.
• res extensaIn Cartesian ontology, corporeal substance, distinguished from the res cogitans from which the mind or soul is made.
• resianceresidence; abode