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  • redactional — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
  • reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
  • reeducation — to educate again, as for new purposes.
  • refactoring — (object-oriented, programming)   Improving a computer program by reorganising its internal structure without altering its external behaviour. When software developers add new features to a program, the code degrades because the original program was not designed with the extra features in mind. This problem could be solved by either rewriting the existing code or working around the problems which arise when adding the new features. Redesigning a program is extra work, but not doing so would create a program which is more complicated than it needs to be. Refactoring is a collection of techniques which have been designed to provide an alternative to the two situations mentioned above. The techniques enable programmers to restructure code so that the design of a program is clearer. It also allows programmers to extract reusable components, streamline a program, and make additions to the program easier to implement. Refactoring is usually done by renaming methods, moving fields from one class to another, and moving code into a separate method. Although it is done using small and simple steps, refactoring a program will vastly improve its design and structure, making it easier to maintain and leading to more robust code.
  • reification — to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
  • reinoculate — to inoculate again
  • reluctation — opposition, struggle, resistance
  • renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
  • replication — a reply; answer.
  • retroaction — action that is opposed or contrary to the preceding action.
  • rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
  • rhizoctonia — any of various soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Rhizoctonia, some species of which are destructive to cultivated plants, causing damping off of seedlings, foliage blight, root and stem cankers, and rot of storage organs.
  • rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
  • road racing — a competitive event of racing in automobiles, motorcycles, or bicycles over public roads or a twisting course simulating a public road, as opposed to a closed, banked track or a drag strip.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
  • roman curia — the judicial and executive organizations of the papal see comprising the government of the Catholic Church.
  • romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
  • romanticist — an adherent of romanticism in literature or art (contrasted with classicist).
  • romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
  • rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
  • rouen lilac — a shrub, Syringa chinensis, of France, having clusters of fragrant, lilac-purple flowers.
  • royal icing — a hard white icing made from egg whites and icing sugar, used for coating and decorating cakes, esp fruit cakes
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
  • sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
  • saint croix — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
  • saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
  • salon music — music of a simple, agreeable, frequently sentimental character, played usually by a small orchestra.
  • saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
  • san jacinto — a river in E Texas, flowing SE to Galveston Bay: Texans defeated Mexicans near the mouth of this river 1836.
  • sanctioneer — a person who advocates the imposition of sanctions
  • sanctioning — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • sao vicente — an island city in SE Brazil.
  • sarcodinian — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
  • sardonicism — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
  • scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
  • scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
  • scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
  • secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • secretional — of or relating to secretion
  • seminomadic — belonging or relating to an ethnic group or people who migrate seasonally and cultivate crops during periods of settlement
  • semiotician — the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
  • slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
  • smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
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