Words in english starting with R

• reduce — Verb – English ～ lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
• reduce — Verb – English ～ cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
• reduce — Verb – English ～ destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
• reduce — Verb – English ～ bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
• reduce — Verb – English ～ to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
• reduce — Verb – English ～ undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
• reduce — Verb – English ～ reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
• reduced — Adjective – English ～ well below normal (especially in price)
• reduced — Adjective – English ～ made less in size or amount or degree
• reducer — Noun – English ～ pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter
• reducer — Noun – English ～ a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
• reducible — Adjective – English ～ capable of being reduced; "reducible to a set of principles of human nature"- Edmund Wilson
• reducing — Noun – English ～ loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer; "a doctor supervised her reducing"
• reducing diet — Noun – English ～ a diet designed to help you lose weight (especially fat)
• reducing — Noun – English ～ any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
• reducing agent — Noun – English ～ a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
• reductant — Noun – English ～ a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
• reductase — Noun – English ～ an enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance
• reductio ad absurdum — Noun – English ～ (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction
• reductio — Noun – English ～ (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction

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