Nouns starting with R

• red-eyed vireo — Noun – English ～ of northern North America having red irises and an olive-grey body with white underparts
• respiratory syncytial virus — Noun – English ～ a paramyxovirus that forms syncytia in tissue culture and that is responsible for severe respiratory diseases such as bronchiolitis and bronchial pneumonia (especially in children)
• Robinia viscosa — Noun – English ～ small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds
• Rhododendron viscosum — Noun – English ～ shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle
• rima vocalis — Noun – English ～ the space between the two true vocal folds
• redback vole — Noun – English ～ any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America
• Richardson vole — Noun – English ～ of western North America
• Richard von Krafft-Ebing — Noun – English ～ German neurologist noted for his studies of sexual deviance (1840-1902)
• right to vote — Noun – English ～ a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920"
• rima vulvae — Noun – English ～ the fissure between the labia majora
• Richard Wagner — Noun – English ～ German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)
• Ralph Waldo Ellison — Noun – English ～ United States novelist who wrote about a young Black man and his struggles in American society (1914-1994)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson — Noun – English ～ United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882)
• random walk — Noun – English ～ a stochastic process consisting of a sequence of changes each of whose characteristics (as magnitude or direction) is determined by chance
• retaining wall — Noun – English ～ a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)
• rock wallaby — Noun – English ～ slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas
• Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace — Noun – English ～ English writer noted for his crime novels (1875-1932)
• Robert Walpole — Noun – English ～ Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745)
• Russo-Japanese War — Noun – English ～ Japanese victory in the war with Russia (1904-1905) gave Japan power over Korea and Manchuria
• rabbit warren — Noun – English ～ a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits

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