Words in english starting with R

• roll of tobacco — Noun – English ～ tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
• rattle-top — Noun – English ～ North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia
• round top — Noun – English ～ a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance; "he was afraid of a fire in the circus tent"; "they had the big top up in less than an hour"
• racetrack tout — Noun – English ～ someone who offers advice about betting on horses (either to influence the odds or in the hope of sharing some of the winnings)
• rope tow — Noun – English ～ a ski tow offering only a moving rope to hold onto
• regression toward the mean — Noun – English ～ the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
• roller towel — Noun – English ～ a towel with the ends sewn together, hung on a roller
• Rhus toxicodenedron — Noun – English ～ poisonous shrub of southeastern United States causing a rash on contact
• ricin toxin — Noun – English ～ a toxic protein extracted from castor beans; used as a chemical reagent; can be used as a bioweapon; "one milligram of ricin can kill an adult"
• railroad track — Noun – English ～ a line of track providing a runway for wheels; "he walked along the railroad track"
• respiratory tract — Noun – English ～ the passages through which air enters and leaves the body
• respiratory tract infection — Noun – English ～ any infection of the respiratory tract
• rag trade — Noun – English ～ makers and sellers of fashionable clothing
• restraint of trade — Noun – English ～ any act that tends to prevent free competition in business
• Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr. — Noun – English ～ United States poet (1917-1977)
• railroad train — Noun – English ～ public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive; "express trains don't stop at Princeton Junction"
• Reserve Officers Training Corps — Noun – English ～ a training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers
• religious trance — Noun – English ～ a trance induced by intense religious devotion; does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances
• reverse transcriptase inhibitor — Noun – English ～ an antiviral drug that inhibits the action of reverse transcriptase in retroviruses such as HIV
• reverse transcriptase — Noun – English ～ a polymerase that catalyzes the formation of DNA using RNA as a template; found especially in retroviruses

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