Rife () Having power; active; nimble.

Riffle () A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.

Riffler () A curved file used in carving wool and marble.

Riffraff () Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.

Rifled () of Rifle

Rifling () of Rifle

Rifle () To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

Rifle () To strip; to rob; to pillage.

Rifle () To raffle.

Rifle () To commit robbery.

Rifle () A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.

Rifle () A body of soldiers armed with rifles.

Rifle () A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

Rifle () To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.

Rifle () To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.

Riflebird () Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds.

Rifleman () of Rifleman

Rifleman () A soldier armed with a rifle.

Rifler () One who rifles; a robber.

Rifling () The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

Rifling () The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.

Rift () p. p. of Rive.

Rift () An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.

Rift () A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

Rifted () of Rift

Rifting () of Rift

Rift () To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.

Rift () To burst open; to split.

Rift () To belch.

Rifter () A rafter.

Rig () A ridge.

Rigged () of Rig

Rigging () of Rig

Rig () To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.

Rig () To dress; to equip; to clothe, especially in an odd or fanciful manner; -- commonly followed by out.

Rig () The peculiar fitting in shape, number, and arrangement of sails and masts, by which different types of vessels are distinguished; as, schooner rig, ship rig, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

Rig () Dress; esp., odd or fanciful clothing.

Rig () A romp; a wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.

Rig () A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.

Rig () A blast of wind.

Rig () To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.

Rig () To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.

Rigadoon () A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France.

Riga fir () A species of pine (Pinus sylvestris), and its wood, which affords a valuable timber; -- called also Scotch pine, and red / yellow deal. It grows in all parts of Europe, in the Caucasus, and in Siberia.

Rigarion () See Irrigation.

Rigel () A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion.

Rigescent () Growing stiff or numb.

Rigger () One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.

Rigger () A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.

Dictionary

Featured Acronyms

Avery

Adam

Jason