Words That Start With RH

rhetoric

Noun : The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.

Adjective : Synonym of rhetorical.

Noun : (sometimes derogatory) Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.

rhapsodic

Adjective : highly emotional; rapturous

Adjective : Of or relating to rhapsody; consisting of rhapsody

Adjective : (by extension) confused, unconnected

rhapsody

Noun : (by extension) (sometimes with a negative connotation) An exaggeratedly enthusiastic or exalted expression of feeling in speech or writing.

Noun : (by extension) (music) An instrumental composition of irregular form, often incorporating improvisation.

Verb : (intransitive) Followed by about, on, over, or upon: to speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.

rhetorical

Adjective : Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.

Adjective : Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument.

Noun : (education, dated) A study or exercise in rhetoric.

rhythm

Noun : The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.

Noun : A specifically defined pattern of such variation.

Noun : The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.

rhythmic

Adjective : Of or relating to rhythm.

Adjective : Characterized by rhythm.

Adjective : With regular, repetitive motion or sound.

rhea

Noun : A large flightless bird of the order Rheiformes, native to South America.

Noun : Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a fiber-yielding plant.

Noun : (Greek mythology) A Titan, the daughter of Uranus and Gaia, the mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus.

rhetorician

Noun : An orator or eloquent public speaker.

Noun : An expert or student of rhetoric.

rheum

Noun : (uncountable) Thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease.

Noun : Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism.

Noun : (informal) Rheumatologist.

rhythmical

Adjective : rhythmic

rhyme

Noun : (countable) A word that rhymes with another.

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)

Noun : A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.

rhone

Noun : A major river in Switzerland and France that flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea.

Noun : (Scotland) A horizontal section of guttering, collecting rainwater from a roof.

rhapsode

Noun : One who performs the poetry of a poet for an audience; not necessarily a writer of poetry.

Noun : The interpreter of a poem.

rheme

Noun : (linguistics) The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.

Noun : (Peircean semiotics) Synonym of sumisign.

rhubarb

Noun : Any plant of the genus Rheum, especially Rheum rhabarbarum, having large leaves and long green or reddish acidic leafstalks that are edible, in particular when cooked (although the leaves are mildly poisonous).

Noun : (often attributive) The leafstalks of common rhubarb or garden rhubarb (usually known as Rheum × hybridum), which are long, fleshy, often pale red, and with a tart taste, used as a food ingredient; they are frequently stewed with sugar and made into jam or used in crumbles, pies, etc.

Noun : The dried rhizome and roots of Rheum palmatum (Chinese rhubarb) or Rheum officinale (Tibetan rhubarb), from China, used as a laxative and purgative.

rhumb

Noun : (navigation) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle.

Noun : (navigation) Any of the 32 points of the compass.

Noun : (navigation) A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32 of a circle or 11.25°.

rhapsodize

Verb : (intransitive) To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something).

Verb : (transitive) To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.

Verb : (transitive) To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody.

rheumatology

Noun : (medicine) The branch of medicine specializing in arthritis and other ailments of the joints.

rhetorical question

Noun : (colloquial) A question to which the asker does not expect an answer.

Noun : A question posed only for dramatic or persuasive effect.

rhodes

Noun : An island of the Dodecanese, Greece in the Aegean Sea.

Noun : A city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, and the capital of the Dodecanese.

Noun : An electric piano which produces soft, harmonic-like sounds; a Rhodes piano; named for inventor Harold Rhodes.

rhodian

Noun : Someone from the island of Rhodes

Adjective : From, or pertaining to, the Greek island of Rhodes or its people.

Adjective : (mineralogy) Containing rhodium.

rhizome

Noun : (botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.

Noun : (philosophy, critical theory) A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.

rhombus

Noun : (geometry) A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.

Noun : The rhombus diamond, as one of the suits seen in a deck of playing cards ( or ).

Noun : (zoology, now rare) Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus.

rheumatic

Adjective : Resembling or relating to rheumatism.

Adjective : Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.

Noun : (rare) A person suffering from rheumatism

rhine

Noun : A major river in western Europe, which flows through Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, France and the Netherlands, before emptying into the North Sea.

Noun : (UK, dialect) A watercourse; a ditch for water.

Noun : A running waterway that links a ditch or stream to a river.

rhinestone

Noun : An artificial diamond, strass.

Adjective : Made of or encrusted with rhinestones.

Verb : (transitive) To decorate with rhinestones.

rhabdomancy

Noun : Divination with wands or rods, especially to use a divining rod to find things below the ground.

rhomb

Noun : A rhombus.

Noun : A rhombohedron.

rhumba

Noun : Alternative spelling of rumba. [A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time.]

Verb : Alternative spelling of rumba. [To dance the rumba.]

rhetor

Noun : (archaic) A rhetorician.

rhyparography

Noun : (art) The painting, or literary description, of mean or sordid things; especially still-life or genre painting.

rhematic

Noun : (linguistics) The provision of new information regarding the current theme.

Adjective : (linguistics) Of a part of a sentence: providing new information regarding the current theme.

Adjective : Of or pertaining to a rheme.

rhapsoder

Noun : (obsolete) A rhapsodist.

rhema

Noun : (Christianity) A spiritual communication or inspiration from God to an individual, as opposed to the universal Logos.

rhyne

Noun : A kind of Russian hemp.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Alternative spelling of rhine. [(UK, dialect) A watercourse; a ditch for water.]

rheed

rhonchus

Noun : (medicine) A dry rattling sound heard during breathing, due to deposits in the bronchial tubes.

rheumy

Adjective : Producing rheum from the mucous membranes; (also figuratively) especially of the eyes: filled with rheum; watery.

Adjective : Of, relating to, or made of rheum (“thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum”); watery.

Adjective : (literary, poetic, obsolete) Especially of the air: damp, moist.

rhythm and blues

Noun : (music) A style of music combining elements of jazz and blues, with syncopated rhythms and a strong backbeat, originating among African Americans in the 1940s.

Noun : (Cockney rhyming slang) Shoes.

rhomboidal

Adjective : rhomboid, having a rhomboid shape

rhinology

Noun : The scientific study of the nose.

rhadamanthine

Adjective : Strictly and uncompromisingly just.

Adjective : Inflexibly rigorous or severe.

rhachis

Noun : Alternative spelling of rachis. [(obsolete, zoology, anatomy) The spinal column, or the vertebrae of the spine.]

rhodo

Noun : (informal) A rhododendron.

rhotic

Adjective : (linguistics, of an English accent) That allows the phoneme /ɹ/ even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and bard or barred (/bɑːɹd/); (of an English speaker) who speaks with such an accent.

Adjective : (linguistics, phonetics, of a phoneme) Having a sound quality associated with the letter R; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/ and /r/.

Noun : (phonetics) A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).

rhapsodizing

Noun : The act of one who rhapsodizes; lyrical expression.

rhode

Noun : (Greek mythology) In Greek mythology, the oldest Oceanid, a daughter of Tethys and Oceanus

Noun : for a person who either lived near a woodland clearing, or came from a place so named.

Noun : for a person who lived near a reed bed.

rhypophobia

Noun : The fear of defecation.

rhetorics

Noun : The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.

Adjective : Synonym of rhetorical.

Noun : (sometimes derogatory) Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.

rhene

Noun : (Greek mythology) Either of two nymphs:

Noun : the paramour of King Oïleus of Locris and the mother of either or neither of his sons Medon and Ajax.

Noun : an oread of Mount Cyllene, lover of Hermes and the mother by him of Saon of Samothrace.

rhachiotomy

Noun : (surgery) incision into the spinal canal

rhetorick

Noun : Obsolete form of rhetoric. [The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.]

rhizomyid

Noun : (zoology) Any rodent in the family Rhizomyidae, now considered to be the spalacid subfamily Rhizomyinae, comprising the bamboo rats and mole rats (as opposed to the naked mole rats in the subfamily Spalacinae).

rhombencephalosynapsis

Noun : (pathology) A hindbrain malformation characterised by vermian agenesis and fusion of the cerebellar hemispheres.

rhodophytic

Adjective : Relating to the rhodophytes

rhino

Noun : (colloquial) A rhinoceros.

Noun : (slang, now rare) Money.

rhododendron

Noun : Any of various flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron, especially

Noun : (UK) Pontic rhododendron, common rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum)

Noun : (obsolete) Oleander (Nerium oleander).

rhodium

Noun : A rare, hard, silvery-white, inert metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with an atomic number of 45.

Noun : (countable) A single atom of this element.

rhomboid

Noun : A parallelogram which is neither a rhombus nor a rectangle

Noun : Any of several muscles that control the shoulders

Adjective : resembling, or shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid

rheostat

Noun : (electronics, technology) An electrical resistor, with two terminals, whose resistance is continuously variable by moving a knob or slider.

rhythm method

Noun : A method of natural birth control that involves counting days of a woman's menstrual cycle in order to determine when sexual intercourse is most or least likely to result in pregnancy.

rhesus

Noun : A macaque monkey native to southern and southeastern Asia; Macaca mulatta.

Noun : (medicine, attributive, also without cap.) Denotes a system for categorising human blood types based on the presence or absence of various antigens, especially Rhesus factor D.

Noun : (medicine) Alternative form of Rhesus. [(medicine, attributive, also without cap.) Denotes a system for categorising human blood types based on the presence or absence of various antigens, especially Rhesus factor D.]

rhinencephalon

Noun : (anatomy) The part of the brain involved with olfaction.

rhizobium

Noun : (biology) Any of various bacteria, of the genus Rhizobium, that form nodules on the roots of legumes and fix nitrogen.

Noun : (biology, by extension) Any diazotrophic bacterium that can fix nitrogen and form root nodules in legumes.

rhotacism

Noun : (countable, phonology) A linguistic phenomenon in which a consonant changes into an R; rhotacization.

Noun : An exaggerated use of the sound of the letter R.

Noun : The inability to pronounce the letter R; derhotacization.

rhodesia

Noun : (historical) A former country in Southern Africa, in what is now Zimbabwe, originally called Southern Rhodesia, named after its founder, Cecil Rhodes.

Noun : (historical) A historical region of Southern Africa, the area now occupied by Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Noun : A village and civil parish in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5680).

rhymer

Noun : One who makes, composes, or recites rhymes or simple poems.

Noun : (archaic) A minstrel.

Noun : A surname.

rhombohedral

Adjective : (crystallography) Having three equal axes and oblique angles.

rhabdovirus

Noun : Any of the rod-shaped viruses belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae.

rhodolite

Noun : A purplish-red garnet.

rhapsodist

Noun : One who reads or interprets poetry aloud; one who rhapsodizes.

Noun : A rhapsode.

rhizomorph

Noun : A rootlike structure, consisting of a dense mass of hyphae, in many fungi

rheims

Noun : Dated spelling of Reims.

rheotaxis

Noun : (biology) movement in response to a current (of water or air)

rhodomontade

Noun : Dated spelling of rodomontade.

Verb : Dated spelling of rodomontade.

rhexis

Noun : (medicine, especially ophthalmology) The rupture of an organ.

rhizoidal

Adjective : Resembling the root of a plant.

rhyton

Noun : A container from which fluids are intended to be drunk, having one handle and usually a base in the form of a head.

Noun : A Thracian drinking horn.

rhondda

Noun : A former coal-mining valley in South Wales.

Noun : A river in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, South Wales with two main tributaries, Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach.

rhapsodies

Noun : (by extension) (sometimes with a negative connotation) An exaggeratedly enthusiastic or exalted expression of feeling in speech or writing.

Noun : (by extension) (music) An instrumental composition of irregular form, often incorporating improvisation.

Verb : (intransitive) Followed by about, on, over, or upon: to speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.

rheologic

Adjective : Of, or relating to, rheology: the deformation and flow of matter.

rhythmics

Noun : The study of rhythm.

rhapsodically

Verb : In a rhapsodic way.

rhinocerotic

Adjective : Of or pertaining to rhinoceros.

rhapsodomancy

Noun : Divination by reading a random passage from a poem.

rhetorize

Verb : (intransitive) To use rhetorical devices; to rhetoricate.

Verb : (transitive) To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification.

rhythms

Noun : The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.

Noun : A specifically defined pattern of such variation.

Noun : The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.

rhetic

Adjective : (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a rheme.

rhizoids

Noun : (botany) A rootlike structure in fungi and some plants that acts as support and/or aids the absorption of nutrients.

Adjective : Resembling the root of a plant.

rhizomes

Noun : (botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.

Noun : (philosophy, critical theory) A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.

rhime

Noun : Obsolete form of rhyme. [(countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)]

Verb : Obsolete form of rhyme. [(ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.]

rhodophane

Noun : (biochemistry) The red pigment in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals.

rhodope

Noun : Rhodopes

Noun : A woman in Greek mythology.

rhapsodical

Adjective : Rhapsodic.

rhizodont

Noun : Any of the Rhizodontida

Noun : (archaic, zoology) A reptile whose teeth are rooted in sockets, such as the crocodile.

rhizotaxis

Noun : (botany) The arrangement of the roots of plants.

rhymic

Adjective : Of or pertaining to rhyme.

Adjective : That rhymes

rhyolitic

Adjective : Pertaining to or composed of rhyolite, the lava form of granite.

rhadamanthys

Noun : Alternative form of Rhadamanthus. [(Greek mythology) A king of Crete, one of the three judges in Hades.]

rhapsodizes

Verb : (intransitive) To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something).

Verb : (transitive) To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.

Verb : (transitive) To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody.

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