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Rewiring
- verb - provide with new wiring; "the university rewired the dormitories when most students brought computers and television sets"
Ricinine
- - A bitter white crystalline alkaloid (C8H8N2O2) extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communalis). Called also ricidine. Ingestion may cause vomiting and various other toxic reactions, including liver and kidney damage, convulsions, hypotension, and death.
Ridicule
- noun - Derided
- language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
- subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
- the act of deriding or treating with contempt
Rigidify
- verb - become rigid; "The body rigidified"
- make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
Rigidity
- noun - the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
- the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
Robinson
- noun - English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)
- Irish playwright and theater manager in Dublin (1886-1958)
- United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972)
- United States film actor noted for playing gangster roles (1893-1973)
- United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)
- United States poet; author of narrative verse (1869-1935)
- United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989)
Ropiness
- noun - the property of being cohesive and sticky
Roridula
- noun - either of 2 species of the genus Roridula; South African viscid perennial low-growing woody shrubs
Rosillas
- noun - a sneezeweed of southwestern United States especially southern California
Rosiness
- noun - a dusty pink color
- a healthy reddish complexion
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health