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Ricinoleic
- - Pertaining to, or designating, a fatty acid analogous to oleic acid, obtained from castor oil as an oily substance, C18H34O3 with a harsh taste. Formerly written ricinolic and formerly referred to as palmic.
Ricinolein
- - The glycerin salt of ricinoleic acid, occuring as a characteristic constituent of castor oil; -- formerly called palmin.
Rickettsia
- noun - any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings
Ricocheted
- unknown - the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
Ridge Rope
- noun - either of a pair of lifelines running alongside the bowsprit of a ship
Ridge Tile
- noun - a decorative tile that is bent in cross section; used to cover the ridge of a roof
Ridgelines
- noun - a long narrow range of hills
Ridgelings
- noun - a colt with undescended testicles
Ridgepoles
- noun - a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters