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Ramtil
- - A tropical African asteraceous shrub (Guizotia abyssinica) cultivated for its seeds (called ramtil seeds or niger seeds) which yield a valuable oil used for food and as an illuminant.
Rappel
- noun - (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body
- lower oneself with a 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 abseil when you want to do technical climbing"
Rascal
- noun - a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- one who is playfully mischievous
Reboil
- - To boil, or to cause to boil, again.
Recall
- noun - a bugle call that signals troops to return
- a call to return; "the recall of our ambassador"
- a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"
- cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression; "She was recalled by a loud laugh"
- cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"
- go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
- make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty"
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection;
- summon to return; "The ambassador was recalled to his country"; "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession"
- the act of removing an
Recoil
- noun - a movement back from an impact
- come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"
- draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
- spring back, as from a forceful thrust; "The gun kicked back into my shoulder"
- spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
- the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
Rectal
- adjective - of or involving the rectum; "rectal cancer"