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Rhyolite
- noun - very acid volcanic rock
Rib Cage
- noun - the bony enclosing wall of the chest
Ribosome
- noun - an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell; "the ribosome is the site of protein synthesis"
Richesse
- - Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches.
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.
Riddance
- noun - the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"
- the act of removing or getting rid of something
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
Rim-Fire
- - Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-fire; -- said of cartridges; also, using rim-fire cartridges; as, a rim-fire gun. Such cartridges are now little used.
Ringbone
- - A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones.
Ringdove
- noun - Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck
- greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged