English words starting with red - page 16

Meanings of Reductant:

noun

A reducing agent.

Usage examples:

Some substances are capable of acting either as reductants or as oxidants, e.g., hydrogen peroxide …

Meanings of Reductase:

noun

An enzyme which promotes the chemical reduction of a specified substance.

Usage examples:

The enzymatic mechanism of detoxification involves dehydroascorbate reductase, glutathione reductas…

Meanings of Reductibility:

noun

Reducibility.

Meanings of Reduction:

noun

The action or fact of making something smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.

Usage examples:

Talks on arms reduction

Meanings of Reductional:

adjective

Relating to, of the nature of, or characterized by reduction.

Meanings of Reductionism:

noun

The practice of analysing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents, especially when this is said to provide a sufficient explanation.

Usage examples:

The main enemies are psychologism, reductionism, idealism, and the distortion of the phenomena by p…

Meanings of Reductionist:

noun

A person who analyses and describes a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents.

Usage examples:

A crude reductionist

adjective

Analysing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents.

Usage examples:

A reductionist approach that leads to stereotyping

Meanings of Reductions:

noun

The action or fact of making something smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.

Usage examples:

Talks on arms reduction

Meanings of Reductive:

adjective

Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude.

Usage examples:

Such a conclusion by itself would be reductive

Meanings of Reductivism:

noun

Another term for minimalism.

Meanings of Reduit:

noun

A keep or stronghold into which a garrison may retreat if the outworks are taken, thereby prolonging the defence of the place. compare "redoubt", reduct .

Meanings of Redundancies:

noun

The state of being not or no longer needed or useful.

Usage examples:

The redundancy of 19th-century heavy plant machinery

Meanings of Redundancy:

noun

The state of being not or no longer needed or useful.

Usage examples:

The redundancy of 19th-century heavy plant machinery

Meanings of Redundant:

adjective

Not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous.

Usage examples:

Many of the old skills had become redundant

Meanings of Reduplicate:

verb

Repeat or copy so as to form another of the same kind.

Usage examples:

The upper parts of the harmony may be reduplicated at the octave above

Meanings of Reduplicated:

verb

Repeat or copy so as to form another of the same kind.

Usage examples:

The upper parts of the harmony may be reduplicated at the octave above

Meanings of Reduplicating:

verb

Repeat or copy so as to form another of the same kind.

Usage examples:

The upper parts of the harmony may be reduplicated at the octave above

Meanings of Reduplicatory:

adjective

Reduplicative.

Meanings of Reduviid:

noun

An insect of the family reduviidae (order hemiptera: heteroptera), which comprises predatory and blood-sucking bugs, including the vectors of chagas' disease; an assassin bug, a kissing bug.

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of this family.

Meanings of Reduviids:

noun

An insect of the family reduviidae (order hemiptera: heteroptera), which comprises predatory and blood-sucking bugs, including the vectors of chagas' disease; an assassin bug, a kissing bug.

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of this family.

Meanings of Reduvioid:

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating heteropteran insects of the superfamily reduvioidea, which comprises the reduviid bugs and related families.

noun

A reduvioid insect.

Meanings of Redux:

adjective

Brought back; revived.

Usage examples:

Damian has the veneer of the angry young man redux

Meanings of Redward:

adjective

Situated towards the red end of the visible spectrum; occurring in the direction of the red end.

adverb

Towards the red end of the visible spectrum; in the direction of the red end.

Meanings of Redware:

noun

Any of various kinds of pottery made from red clay or given a red colour in firing; especially (a) boccaro as imported into europe from china in the 17th century, or european stoneware made in imitation of this; (b) a kind of coarse pottery made from red clay which fires at a low temperature.

Meanings of Redwares:

noun

Any of various kinds of pottery made from red clay or given a red colour in firing; especially (a) boccaro as imported into europe from china in the 17th century, or european stoneware made in imitation of this; (b) a kind of coarse pottery made from red clay which fires at a low temperature.