1: syndrome resulting from infection by the herpes varicella zoster virus; characterized by vertigo and pain in the ears and facial nerve paralysis and sometimes hearing loss

1: any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC [syn: {Rameses}, {Ramesses}]

1: king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments [syn: {Rameses II}, {Ramesses II}, {Rameses the Great}, {Ramesses the Great}, {Ramses the Great}]

1: king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments [syn: {Rameses II}, {Ramesses II}, {Ramses II}, {Rameses the Great}, {Ramesses the Great}]

1: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack" [syn: {bedraggled}, {broken-down}, {dilapidated}, {tatterdemalion}...

1: pungent Old World weedy plant [syn: {wild garlic}, {wood garlic}, {Allium ursinum}]

1: the posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical [also: {rami} (pl)]

{run}

1: come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" [syn: {meet}, {encounter}, {run across}, {come across}, {see}]

1: type genus of the Ranidae [syn: {genus Rana}]

1: mountain frog found near water; of United States northwest to California [syn: {cascades frog}]

1: largest North American frog; highly aquatic with a deep-pitched voice [syn: {bullfrog}]

1: similar to bullfrog; found in or near marshes and ponds; of United States and Canada [syn: {green frog}, {spring frog}]

1: largest living frog; up to a foot and weighing up to 10 lbs; Africa [syn: {goliath frog}]

1: a meadow frog of eastern North America [syn: {pickerel frog}]

1: common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots [syn: {leopard frog}, {spring frog}]

1: wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce [syn: {wood-frog}, {wood frog}]

1: Mexican frog found within a jump of two or water [syn: {tarahumara frog}]

1: a common semiterrestrial European frog [syn: {grass frog}]

1: herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophy...

1: a group of families or trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families i...

1: elongate very slender water scorpions [syn: {genus Ranatra}]

1: farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) [syn: {spread}, {cattle ranch}, {cattle farm}] v : manage or run a ranch; "Her husband i...

1: a hired had on a ranch

1: a one story house with a low pitched roof

1: a person who owns or operates a ranch

1: farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle)

1: used of decomposing oils or fats; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon" 2: smelling of fermentation or staleness [syn: {sour}]

1: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn: {resentment}, {bitterness}, {gall}, {rancour}]

1: showing deep-seated resentment; "preserve...from rancourous envy of the rich"- Aldous Huxley

1: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn: {resentment}, {bitterness}, {gall}, {rancor}]

1: the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents 2: United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982) [syn: {Ayn Rand}] 3: a r...

1: United States poet (1914-1965) [syn: {Jarrell}]

{randy}

{randy}

1: lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance; "a random choice"; "bombs fell at random"; "random movements" [ant: {nonrandom}] 2: taken haphazardly; "a random c...

1: the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in a...

1: the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in a...

1: a routine designed to yield a random number

1: a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected 2: a sample grabbed at random

1: the selection of a random sample; each element of the population has an equal chance of been selected

1: a variable quantity that is random [syn: {variate}, {variant}, {stochastic variable}, {chance variable}]

1: a stochastic process consisting of a sequence of changes each of whose characteristics (as magnitude or direction) is determined by chance

1: the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in a...

1: a deliberately haphazard arrangement of observations so as to simulate chance [syn: {randomization}]

1: arrange in random order; "Randomize the order of the numbers" [syn: {randomize}]

1: set up or distributed in a deliberately random way [syn: {randomized}]

1: a deliberately haphazard arrangement of observations so as to simulate chance [syn: {randomisation}]

1: arrange in random order; "Randomize the order of the numbers" [syn: {randomise}]

1: set up or distributed in a deliberately random way [syn: {randomised}]

1: in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random" [syn: {indiscriminately}, {haphazardly}, {willy-nilly}, {arbitrarily}, {at random}, {every wh...

1: (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work; "entropy increases as matter and energy in the univers...

1: feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny" [syn: {aroused}, {horny}, {ruttish}, {turned on(p)}] [also: {randiest}, {randier}]

1: (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja [syn: {rani}]

{ring}

1: an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope o...

1: any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep)

1: a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object [syn: {rangefinder}]

1: exhaust hood over a kitchen range

1: direct onto a point or target, especially by automatic navigational aids [syn: {home in}, {zero in}]

1: a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range" [syn: {range}, {mountain range}, {chain}, {mountain chain}, {chain of m...

1: surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors [syn: {ranging pole}, {flagpole}]

1: a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object [syn: {range finder}]

1: lan suitable for grazing livestock

1: a member of the Texas state highway patrol; formerly a mounted lawman who maintained order on the frontier [syn: {Texas Ranger}] 2: an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an are...

{rangy}

{rangy}

1: reindeer or caribou [syn: {genus Rangifer}]

1: of tundra of northern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus [syn: {barren ground caribou}]

1: any of several large caribou living in coniferous forests of southern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus [syn: {woodland caribou}]

1: arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called reindeer in Eurasia and caribou in North America [syn: {caribou}, {reindeer}, {Greenland caribou}]

1: wandering freely; "at night in bed...his slowly ranging thoughts...encountered her"

1: surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors [syn: {range pole}, {flagpole}]

1: the capital and largest city of Myanmar; located in the south near the Irrawaddy river delta [syn: {Yangon}]

1: hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel [syn: {rangpur lime}, {lemanderin}, {Citrus limonia}]

1: hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel [syn: {rangpur}, {lemanderin}, {Citrus limonia}]

1: tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man" [syn: {gangling}, {gangly}, {lanky}] 2: adapted to wandering...

1: (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja [syn: {ranee}]

1: insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs [syn: {true frog}]

1: a family nearly cosmopolitan in distribution: true frogs [syn: {family Ranidae}]

1: a mountain peak in central Washington; highest peak in the Cascade Range; (14,410 feet high) [syn: {Mount Ranier}, {Mt. Ranier}, {Mount Tacoma}]

1: a histamine blocker and antacid (trade name Zantac) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux [syn: {Zantac}]

1: very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth" 2: very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar" 3: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"...

1: the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army); "the strike was supported by the union rank and file"; "he rose from the ranks to become a colonel" [syn: {rank}]...

1: an arrangement according to rank

1: the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables [syn: {rank-order correlation coefficient}, {rank-order correlation}, {rank-differe...

1: the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables [syn: {rank-order correlation coefficient}, {rank-order correlation}, {rank-differe...

1: the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables [syn: {rank-order correlation coefficient}, {rank-difference correlation coefficien...

1: the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables [syn: {rank-order correlation}, {rank-difference correlation coefficient}, {rank-di...

1: arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks; "stratified areas of the distribution" [syn: {graded}, {stratified}]

1: a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status 2: an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces

1: leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973) [syn: {Jeannette Rankin}]

1: a unit of temperature on the Rankine scale

1: a scale of absolute temperature in Fahrenheit degrees; the freezing point of water is 491.69 degrees and the boiling point of water is 671.69 degrees

1: of the highest rank; used of persons; "the commanding officer" [syn: {commanding}, {top-level}, {top-ranking}] 2: having a higher rank; "superior officer" [syn: {ranking(a)}, {superior}, {higher-ra...

1: gnaw into; make resentful or angry; "The unjustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered" [syn: {eat into}, {fret}, {grate}]

1: the attribute of having a strong offensive smell [syn: {malodorousness}, {stinkiness}, {foulness}]

1: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: {plunder}, {despoil}, {loot}, {reave}, {strip}, {rifle}, {pillage}, {foray}] 2...

1: wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village" [syn: {looted}, {pillaged}, {plundered}]

1: a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion); "he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis" [syn: {rummage}]

1: money demanded for the return of a captured person [syn: {ransom money}] 2: payment for the release of someone 3: the act of freeing from captivity or punishment v : exchange or buy back for money;...

1: money demanded for the return of a captured person [syn: {ransom}]

1: saved from the bondage of sin [syn: {redeemed}] 2: reclaimed by payment of a ransom

1: a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion [syn: {harangue}, {ranting}] 2: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: {bombast}, {fustian}, {claptrap}, {blah}] v : talk in a noisy...

1: someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner [syn: {raver}]

1: a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion [syn: {harangue}, {rant}]

1: a cyst on the underside of the tongue [also: {ranulae} (pl)]

{ranula}

1: a family of Ranunculaceae [syn: {family Ranunculaceae}, {buttercup family}, {crowfoot family}]

1: herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophy...

{ranunculus}

1: annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfoot [syn: {genus Ranunculus}]

1: perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America [syn: {meadow buttercup}, {tall buttercup}, {tall crowfoot}, {tall field buttercup}]

1: plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers; Europe and North America [syn: {water crowfoot}, {water buttercup}]

1: perennial Old World buttercup with golden to sulphur yellow flowers in late spring to early summer; naturalized in North America [syn: {common buttercup}]

1: perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles [syn:...

1: semi-aquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with spear-shaped leaves; naturalized in New Zealand [syn: {lesser spearwort}]

1: small early-flowering buttercup with shiny yellow flowers of western North America [syn: {sagebrush buttercup}]

1: semi-aquatic European crowfoot with spear-shaped leaves [syn: {greater spearwort}]

1: showy white-flowered perennial of New Zealand [syn: {mountain lily}, {Mount Cook lily}]

1: perennial of western North America [syn: {western buttercup}]

1: perennial European herb with long creeping stolons [syn: {creeping buttercup}, {creeping crowfoot}]

1: annual herb growing in marshy places [syn: {cursed crowfoot}, {celery-leaved buttercup}]

1: small gaps in the myelin sheath of medullated axons [syn: {nodes of Ranvier}]

1: French painter noted for brightly colored scenes (1877-1953) [syn: {Dufy}]

1: genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants; in some classifications includes species placed in genus Haastia [syn: {genus Raoulia}]

1: perennial prostrate mat-forming herb with hoary woolly foliage [syn: {sheep plant}, {vegetable sheep}, {Raoulia lutescens}]

1: perennial prostrate mat-forming herb with hoary woolly foliage [syn: {sheep plant}, {vegetable sheep}, {Raoulia australis}]

1: a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: {blame}] 2: a gentle blow [syn: {strike}, {tap}] 3: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: {pat}, {tap}] 4:...

1: a gathering of people holding a rap session

1: genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged [syn: {rap}, {hip-hop}]

1: conversation in a situation where feelings can be expressed and criticized or supported

1: the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station [syn: {blotter}, {day book}, {police blotter}, {charge sheet}]

1: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: {predatory...

1: in a rapacious manner

1: extreme gluttony [syn: {edacity}, {esurience}, {rapacity}, {voracity}, {voraciousness}]

1: extreme gluttony [syn: {edacity}, {esurience}, {rapaciousness}, {voracity}, {voraciousness}] 2: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) [...

1: South American herbs somewhat resembling members of the Juncaceae [syn: {family Rapateaceae}]

1: Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop [syn: {colza}, {Brassica napus}] 2: the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: {rapine}] 3: the crime of forcing a woman to submit ...

1: conviction for rape

1: edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant [syn: {rapeseed oil}, {colza oil}]

1: someone who is suspected of committing rape

1: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside" [syn: {despoiled}, {pillaged}, {ravaged}, {sacked}] 2: sexually abused [syn: {assaulted}, {molested}]

1: someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse [syn: {rapist}]

1: seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil

1: edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant [syn: {rape oil}, {colza oil}]

{raphe}

1: Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520) [syn: {Raffaello Santi}, {Raffaello Sanzio}] 2: an archangel of the Hebrew tradition

1: radish [syn: {genus raphanus}]

1: Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits [syn: {jointed charlock}, {wild radish}, {wild rape}, {runch}]

1: Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw [syn: {radish}]

1: radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked [syn: {daikon}, {Japanese radish}]

1: a ridge that forms a seam between two parts [syn: {rhaphe}] [also: {raphae} (pl)]

1: leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc. [syn: {raffia}] 2: feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial p...

1: African antelopes: steenboks [syn: {genus Raphicerus}]

1: small plains antelope of southeastern Africa [syn: {steenbok}, {steinbok}]

1: extinct dodos and solitaires [syn: {family Raphidae}]

{raphide}

1: a family of arthropods of the suborder Megaloptera, including snakeflies [syn: {family Raphidiidae}]

1: type genus of the Raphidae: dodos [syn: {genus Raphus}]

1: extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons [syn: {dodo}]

1: done or occurring in a brief period of time; "a rapid rise through the ranks" 2: characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed; "a rapid movment"; "a speedy car"; "a spee...

1: a town in southwestern South Dakota in the eastern part of the Black Hills

1: a rapid rise [syn: {rapid growth}, {zoom}]

1: a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of Rapid Eye Movements during sleep [syn: {paradoxical sleep}, {rapid eye movement sleep}, {REM sleep}, {REM}]

1: a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of Rapid Eye Movements during sleep [syn: {paradoxical sleep}, {REM sleep}, {rapid eye movement}, {REM}]

1: a rapid rise [syn: {rapid climb}, {zoom}]

1: an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains [syn: {mass rapid transit}]

1: a rate that is rapid [syn: {celerity}, {quickness}]

1: with rapid movements; "he works quickly" [syn: {quickly}, {speedily}, {chop-chop}, {apace}] [ant: {slowly}]

1: a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges [syn: {tuck}]

1: the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: {rape}]

1: someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse [syn: {raper}]

{rap}

1: strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco

1: lower oneself with a double rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to ab...

{rappel}

{rappel}

1: someone who performs rap music 2: a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door [syn: {knocker}, {doorknocker}]

{rap}

1: relation of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people [syn: {resonance}] 2: a feeling of sympathetic understanding [syn: {compatibility}] 3: sympathetic compatibility [syn: {accord...

1: a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings

1: the reestablishing of cordial relations [syn: {reconciliation}]

1: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: {rogue}, {knave}, {rascal}, {scalawag}, {scallywag}, {varlet}] 2: one who is playfully mischievous [syn: {imp}, {scamp}, {monkey}, {rascal}, {scalawag}, {...

1: deeply moved; "sat completely still, enraptured by the music"; "listened with rapt admiration"; "rapt in reverie" [syn: {enraptured}, {captive}] 2: wholly absorbed as in thought; "deep in thought";...

1: any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals [syn: {bird of prey}, {raptorial bird}]

1: term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes [syn: {order Raptores}]

1: relating to or characteristic of birds of prey; "raptorial claws and bill for seizing prey" 2: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapaci...

1: any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals [syn: {bird of prey}, {raptor}]

1: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: {ecstasy}, {transport}, {exaltation}, {raptus}] 2: a state of elated bl...

1: feeling great rapture or delight [syn: {ecstatic}, {enraptured}, {rhapsodic}]

1: in an ecstatic manner; "he reacted ecstatically to my plan to travel to Africa" [syn: {ecstatically}, {rhapsodically}]

1: a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; "he suffered an epileptic seizure" [syn: {seizure}, {ictus}] 2: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in...

1: seizure caused by a sudden profuse hemorrhage

1: a rare or unique person [syn: {rare bird}]

1: not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness; "a rare word"; "rare books" 2: recurring only at long intervals; "a rare appearance"; "total eclipses are rare events" 3: not widely distri...

1: a rare or unique person [syn: {rara avis}]

1: any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71) [syn: {rare-earth element}, {lanthanoid}, {lanthanide}, {lanthanon}]

1: any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71) [syn: {rare earth}, {lanthanoid}, {lanthanide}, {lanthanon}]

1: cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast [syn: {Welsh rarebit}, {Welsh rabbit}]