Words in english starting with R

• reed instrument — Noun – English ～ a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
• reed — Noun – English ～ a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it; "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"
• reed mace — Noun – English ～ tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa
• reed meadow grass — Noun – English ～ a pasture grass of moist places throughout North America
• reed canary grass — Noun – English ～ perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America
• Reed — Noun – English ～ United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
• Reed — Noun – English ～ United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
• reed — Noun – English ～ tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
• reed grass — Noun – English ～ any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere
• reed organ — Noun – English ～ a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
• reed pipe — Noun – English ～ organ pipe with a vibrating reed
• reedbird — Noun – English ～ migratory American songbird
• reedbird — Noun – English ～ small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa
• reedlike — Adjective – English ～ resembling a reed in being upright and slender
• reedmace — Noun – English ～ tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa
• reedy — Adjective – English ～ having a tone of a reed instrument
• reedy — Adjective – English ～ resembling a reed in being upright and slender
• reef knot — Noun – English ～ a square knot used in a reef line
• Reef — Noun – English ～ a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese
• reef — Noun – English ～ a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water

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