Name Report For First Name RANA:

RANA

First name RANA's origin is Indian. RANA means "roayl". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RANA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of rana.(Brown names are of the same origin (Indian) with RANA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with RANA - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming RANA

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RANA AS A WHOLE:

tarana laurana ranait ranalt pranav pranay ranald

NAMES RHYMING WITH RANA (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ana) - Names That Ends with ana:

ayana fana hasana hana rihana sana' thana' aitana agana jana jaana durandana luana philana stephana iolana kaimana malana mana moana oliana ivana dhana zigana drisana pithasthana andreana fabiana liliana sebastiana chu'mana huyana lenmana nahimana adriana ileana ioana loredana mariana oana roxana stefana tatiana bohdana bwana hakizimana mukhwana kana kohana abriana adana ahana aileana aiyana alana alhana aliyana allana ana andeana ariana arlana arleana aryana assana audreana audriana aureliana aviana ayiana bibiana blyana bradana braiana breana bree-ana brezziana briana caliana caroliana cavana chana chiana christana christiana cipriana corazana daiana damiana dana daviana deana deeana diana duana dyana edana elana eliana eramana

NAMES RHYMING WITH RANA (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ran) - Names That Begins with ran:

ran rand randal randale randall randel randell randi randkin randolph randon randson randy rane ranell ranen ranfield rang ranger rangey rangford rangley rangy rani ranica ranice ranier raniesha ranit ranita raniyah rankin ranon rans ransey ransford ransley ransom ransy

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ra) - Names That Begins with ra:

ra'idah raad raanan raananah rabab rabah rabbani rabhartach rabi rabiah rabican rachael rachel rachele rachelle rachid rad radbert radbou radbourne radburn radburt radbyrne radcliff radcliffe radclyf radeliffe radella radeyah radford radhiya radhwa radi radite radley radmund radnor radolf radolph radu radwa rae raed raedan raedanoran raedbora raedburne raedc raedclyf raedeman raedford raedleah raedmund raedpath raedself raedwald raedwolf raegan raelynn raena rafa

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RANA:

First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':

rafela raimunda raina rainaa raissa raja rakanja raluca rama ramira ramla ramona raphaella rasha rasheeda rashida rashmika ratna rawdha rawiella rayya raziya reba rebecca rebecka rechavia reda reema reeya regina rehema reina reinha relia rena renata reta retta reva reveka reya rhaxma rhea rheanna rheda rhesa rheta rhianna rhoda rhonda ria rica ricadonna ricarda ricca ricwea rida ridha riikka rikka rilla rilletta rillia rima rimona rina rinna riona risa rita ritsa ritza riva rivka roana robena roberta robertia robina robinetta roderica roderiga roderika rodica rodika roesia roka rolanda roldana roma romana romanitza romhilda romia romilda romina rona ronia rosa rosalia

English Words Rhyming RANA

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RANA AS A WHOLE:

andranatomynoun (n.) The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy.

contranaturaladjective (a.) Opposed to or against nature; unnatural.

coranachnoun (n.) A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.

cranagenoun (n.) The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.
 noun (n.) The money or price paid for the use of a crane.

granadenoun (n.) Alt. of Granado

granadonoun (n.) See Grenade.

granadillanoun (n.) The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the West Indies. It is as large as a child's head, and is a good dessert fruit. The fruit of Passiflora edulis is used for flavoring ices.

granarynoun (n.) A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain.

granatenoun (n.) See Garnet.

granatinnoun (n.) Mannite; -- so called because found in the pomegranate.

granatitenoun (n.) See Staurolite.

guarananoun (n.) A preparation from the seeds of Paullinia sorbilis, a woody climber of Brazil, used in making an astringent drink, and also in the cure of headache.

kerananoun (n.) A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians.

maranathanoun (n.) "Our Lord cometh;" -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.

membranaceousadjective (a.) Same as Membranous.
 adjective (a.) Thin and rather soft or pliable, as the leaves of the rose, peach tree, and aspen poplar.

olecranaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the olecranon.

paranaphthalenenoun (n.) Anthracene; -- called also paranaphthaline.

pomegranatenoun (n.) The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately covered with crimson, acid pulp.
 noun (n.) A carved or embroidered ornament resembling a pomegranate.

purananoun (n.) One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.

rananoun (n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.

ranaladjective (a.) Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants.

supranaturalismnoun (n.) The state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism.

supranaturalistnoun (n.) A supernaturalist.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Supranaturalistic

supranaturalisticadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to supernaturalism; supernaturalistic.

tranationnoun (n.) The act of swimming over.

torananoun (n.) A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.

uranatenoun (n.) A salt of uranic acid.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RANA (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ana) - English Words That Ends with ana:


banananoun (n.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

bandananoun (n.) A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.
 noun (n.) A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.

bimananoun (n. pl.) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

campananoun (n.) A church bell.
 noun (n.) The pasque flower.
 noun (n.) Same as Gutta.

curtananoun (n.) The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.

damiananoun (n.) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.

diananoun (n.) The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis.

dulciananoun (n.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ.

guananoun (n.) See Iguana.

gitananoun (n. masc.) Alt. of Gitano

havananoun (n.) An Havana cigar.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar

iguananoun (n.) Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanidae. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits.

jacananoun (n.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird.

jambolananoun (n.) A myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America (Calyptranthes Jambolana), with astringent bark, used for dyeing. It bears an edible fruit.

levananoun (n.) A goddess who protected newborn infants.

liananoun (n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.

nicotiananoun (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco.

nirvananoun (n.) In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.

nagananoun (n.) The disease caused by the tsetse fly.

quadrumananoun (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone.
 noun (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone.

pedimananoun (n. pl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums.

poinciananoun (n.) A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.

pozzuolananoun (n.) Alt. of Pozzolana

pozzolananoun (n.) Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.

puzzolananoun (n.) See Pozzuolana.

ramayananoun (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.

salangananoun (n.) The salagane.

sultananoun (n.) The wife of a sultan; a sultaness.
 noun (n.) A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey.

tananoun (n.) Same as Banxring.

thananoun (n.) A police station.

tramontananoun (n.) A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.

zenananoun (n.) The part of a dwelling appropriated to women.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RANA (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ran) - Words That Begins with ran:


rannoun (n.) Open robbery.
 noun (n.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
  () imp. of Run.
  (imp.) of Run

rancenoun (n.) A prop or shore.
 noun (n.) A round between the legs of a chair.

rancescentadjective (a.) Becoming rancid or sour.

ranchnoun (n.) A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.
 verb (v. t.) To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.

rancheronoun (n.) A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.
 noun (n.) The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho.

ranchmannoun (n.) An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman.

ranchonoun (n.) A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.
 noun (n.) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.

rancidadjective (a.) Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.

ranciditynoun (n.) The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil.

rancidnessnoun (n.) The quality of being rancid.

rancornoun (n.) The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.

rancorousadjective (a.) Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.

randnoun (n.) A border; edge; margin.
 noun (n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
 noun (n.) A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.
 noun (n.) Rim; egde; border.
 verb (v. i.) To rant; to storm.

randannoun (n.) The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran.
 noun (n.) A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.

randingnoun (n.) The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.
 noun (n.) A kind of basket work used in gabions.

randomnoun (n.) Force; violence.
 noun (n.) A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.
 noun (n.) Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.
 noun (n.) The direction of a rake-vein.
 adjective (a.) Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.

randonnoun (n.) Random.
 verb (v. i.) To go or stray at random.

ranedeernoun (n.) See Reindeer.

raneenoun (n.) Same as Rani.

ranforcenoun (n.) See Re/nforce.

rangingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Range

rangenoun (n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
 noun (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
 noun (n.) To separate into parts; to sift.
 noun (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
 noun (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
 noun (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
 noun (n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
 verb (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
 verb (v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
 verb (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
 verb (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
 verb (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
 verb (v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
 verb (v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
 verb (v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
 verb (v.) A kitchen grate.
 verb (v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
 verb (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
 verb (v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
 verb (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
 verb (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
 verb (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
 verb (v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
 verb (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
 verb (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
 verb (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
 verb (v.) See Range of cable, below.

rangementnoun (n.) Arrangement.

rangernoun (n.) One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.
 noun (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve.
 noun (n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
 noun (n.) One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.
 noun (n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc.

rangershipnoun (n.) The office of the keeper of a forest or park.

raninoun (n.) A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.

ranineadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.

ranknoun (n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
 noun (n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
 noun (n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
 noun (n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.
 noun (n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
 noun (n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
 superlative (superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
 superlative (superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
 superlative (superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
 superlative (superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
 superlative (superl.) Strong to the taste.
 superlative (superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
 adverb (adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently.
 verb (v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line.
 verb (v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
 verb (v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank.
 verb (v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
 verb (v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.

rankingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rank

rankernoun (n.) One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.

ranklingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rankle

rankleadjective (a.) To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
 adjective (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.

ranknessnoun (n.) The condition or quality of being rank.

rannelnoun (n.) A prostitute.

rannynoun (n.) The erd shrew.

ransackingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ransack

ransacknoun (n.) The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
 verb (v. t.) To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.
 verb (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage completely.
 verb (v. t.) To violate; to ravish; to defiour.
 verb (v. i.) To make a thorough search.

ransomnoun (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
 noun (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
 noun (n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
 noun (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
 noun (n.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.

ransomingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ransom

ransomableadjective (a.) Such as can be ransomed.

ransomernoun (n.) One who ransoms or redeems.

ransomlessadjective (a.) Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.

rantingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rant

rantnoun (n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
 verb (v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.

ranternoun (n.) A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
 noun (n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
 noun (n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.

ranterismnoun (n.) The practice or tenets of the Ranters.

rantipolenoun (n.) A wild, romping young person.
 adjective (a.) Wild; roving; rakish.
 verb (v. i.) To act like a rantipole.

rantismnoun (n.) Ranterism.

rantyadjective (a.) Wild; noisy; boisterous.

ranulanoun (n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RANA:

English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 'a':

racaadjective (a.) A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless."

rachialgianoun (n.) A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic.

rachillanoun (n.) Same as Rhachilla.

racoondanoun (n.) The coypu.

radiatanoun (n. pl.) An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere.

radiolarianoun (n. pl.) Order of rhizopods, usually having a siliceous skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina.

radulanoun (n.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.

raffianoun (n.) A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia.

rafflesianoun (n.) A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet.

raghuvansanoun (n.) A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.

raianoun (n.) A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate.

rajanoun (n.) Same as Rajah.

ramentanoun (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.

ratanoun (n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.

ratafianoun (n.) A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; -- a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, cura/ao, etc.

ravenalanoun (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana.

razzianoun (n.) A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.

reatanoun (n.) A lariat.

redianoun (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.

redowanoun (n.) A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use.

regalianoun (n. pl.) That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty.
 noun (n. pl.) Hence, decorations or insignia of an office or order, as of Freemasons, Odd Fellows,etc.
 noun (n. pl.) Sumptuous food; delicacies.
 noun (n.) A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed.

regattanoun (n.) Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races.

regmanoun (n.) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle.

regularianoun (n. pl.) A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.

rejectamentanoun (n. pl.) Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism.

remoranoun (n.) Delay; obstacle; hindrance.
 noun (n.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.
 noun (n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.

replicanoun (v. & n.) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original.
 noun (v. & n.) Repetition.

reptantianoun (n. pl.) A division of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata.

reptilianoun (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.

resedanoun (n.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.
 noun (n.) A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette.

respondentianoun (n.) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself.

reticularianoun (n. pl.) An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell.

reticulosanoun (n. pl.) Same as Reticularia.

retinanoun (n.) The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye.

retinophoranoun (n.) One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

retinulanoun (n.) One of the group of pigmented cells which surround the retinophorae of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

rhabdocoelanoun (n. pl.) A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine.

rhabdophoranoun (n. pl.) An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities.

rhabdopleuranoun (n.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata

rhachialgianoun (n.) See Rachialgia.

rhachiglossanoun (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.

rhachillanoun (n.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.

rhamphothecanoun (n.) The horny covering of the bill of birds.

rheanoun (n.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.
 noun (n.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich.

rhinoscleromanoun (n.) A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat.

rhinothecanoun (n.) The sheath of the upper mandible of a bird.

rhipidoglossanoun (n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.

rhizocephalanoun (n. pl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix.

rhizomanoun (n.) SAme as Rhizome.

rhizophaganoun (n. pl.) A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type.

rhizophoranoun (n.) A genus of trees including the mangrove. See Mangrove.

rhizopodanoun (n. pl.) An extensive class of Protozoa, including those which have pseudopodia, by means of which they move about and take their food. The principal groups are Lobosa (or Am/bea), Helizoa, Radiolaria, and Foraminifera (or Reticularia). See Protozoa.

rhizostomatanoun (n. pl.) A suborder of Medusae which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix.

rhopaloceranoun (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennae.

rhusmanoun (n.) A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides.

rhynchobdelleanoun (n. pl.) A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type.

rhynchocephalanoun (n. pl.) An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia.

rhynchocoelanoun (n. pl.) Same as Nemertina.

rhynchonellanoun (n.) A genus of brachiopods of which some species are still living, while many are found fossil.

rhynchophoranoun (n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the snout beetles, curculios, or weevils.

rhynchotanoun (n. pl.) Same as Hemiptera.

rhytinanoun (n.) See Rytina.

rimanoun (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

robinianoun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia).

rocoanoun (n.) The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto.

rodentiaadjective (a.) An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.

romanzanoun (n.) See Romance, 5.

rondeletianoun (n.) A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.

rosalianoun (n.) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.

rosellanoun (n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.

roseolanoun (n.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash.

rostranoun (n. pl.) See Rostrum, 2.
  (pl. ) of Rostrum

rostriferanoun (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.

rotanoun (n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
 noun (n.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.
 noun (n.) A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.

rotatorianoun (n. pl.) Same as Rotifera.

rotellanoun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotella, native of tropical seas.

rotiferanoun (n.) An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits.

rottanoun (n.) See Rota.

rotulanoun (n.) The patella, or kneepan.

rotundaadjective (a.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.

rubellanoun (n.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.

rubeolanoun (n.) the measles.
 noun (n.) Rubella.

ruganoun (n.) A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugae of the stomach.

rugosanoun (n. pl.) An extinct tribe of fossil corals, including numerous species, many of them of large size. They are characteristic of the Paleozoic formations. The radiating septs, when present, are usually in multiples of four. See Cyathophylloid.

ruminantianoun (n. pl.) A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies.

rupianoun (n.) An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.

rupicolanoun (n.) A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.

rusmanoun (n.) A depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the Turks. See Rhusma.

russianoun (n.) A country of Europe and Asia.

russophobianoun (n.) Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.

rytinanoun (n.) A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow.

rancherianoun (n.) A dwelling place of a ranchero.
 noun (n.) A small settlement or collection of ranchos, or rude huts, esp. for Indians.
 noun (n.) Formerly, in the Philippines, a political division of the pagan tribes.

residencianoun (n.) In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.

rudbeckianoun (n.) A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species, exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows.